by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat I'm on a 500hr Yoga Teacher Training with the Power Living Crew called Allow the Giant to Emerge. I'm triggered, massively, and have spent four days of mired deep in my shit. This Thursday evening I'm exhausted and I'm sitting in a Core Belief session with Keenan Crisp and Kristi Clark leading. (Which is really all about working with vasanas.) I'm sick of hearing about core beliefs, I'm sick of hearing about people's childhood memories, I'm even … [Read more...]
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But First The Giant Must Dissolve in a Puddle of Tears on the Yoga Mat. Again
by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat It's post-Bali yoga teacher training with the crew from Power Living and I am totally spaced out. I don't know whether I'm coming or going. One minute I was in conversation with Duncan & the PLAY crew poolside at Potatohead in Seminyak, then I was in a taxi and off to the airport, flying for eight hours overnight, arriving the next day in Auckland, driving 2.5 hours to Tauranga to pick up Samuel, sleeping some more, and driving four hours to … [Read more...]
Forty Days of Meditation and Manifestation – Did It Work?
by Kara-Leah Grant I've just finished a Forty Day Meditation and Manifestation practice. It's something I completely made up. I'd been wondering for many months about combining daily meditation with a conscious manifestation process because I'd observed in my own life that the first key step for creating anything new is always getting clear. Usually, before I write, I meditate or walk first. This helps to shift me into the ground of being, and out of my head. Out of this space, creativity and … [Read more...]
What are Vasanas and How Do They Affect Your Yoga Practice?
by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Earlier this year I took a short workshop with Duncan Peak from Power Living. In the workshop he mentioned the term 'vasana', defining it as character traits or tendencies and he talked about how our practice stirs up these tendencies and brings them into consciousness. Now I'd never heard of vasanas, and struggled to remember the term after the workshop, which happened the day before Wanderlust. The day after Wanderlust, I was driving from … [Read more...]
The Gratitude Project – a week of practices to manifest your dreams
By Joleen Lunjew, of Asia Pacific Yoga Gratitude. What a simple practice. Yet, so powerful. My partner Steve and I have always practiced gratitude. If you’ve been on one of Asia Pacific Yoga Teacher Trainings or dinners with us, you know that we’ll always practice ‘joyasana’ before eating – our way of saying thank you for our meal and all the things that we are grateful for. I recently came across a book The Magic by Rhonda Byrne (author of The Secret) at a book fair at our … [Read more...]
Asia Pacific Yoga
200-hour Hatha Vinyasa Teacher Training, led by Steve Hall, Joleen Lunjew & Guest Teachers You’ve got a great passion for yoga and you’re ready to take your practice to the next level. Maybe it’s time to take the next step to becoming a certified yoga teacher so that you can fulfill your dream of doing what you love for a living. This Yoga Alliance accredited and internationally recognised 200-Hour Hatha Vinyasa New Zealand Yoga Teacher Training is designed not … [Read more...]
Kai is Core – how we can nourish our future communities, now
By Michael Reynolds, of Roimata Food Commons and Toha KaiI have been working at the intersection of community development, food justice & sovereignty, and long term systems thinking for nearly 10 years.I am a big picture thinker, a creator, a doer and a companion within ecologies. I love seeing life thrive…Our food system is broken, which may not come as a surprise to anyone here. While we’re in a cost of living crisis, supermarkets are reportedly making in excess of $1,000,000 profit per … [Read more...]
Asia Pacific Yoga
200-hour Hatha Vinyasa Teacher Training, led by Steve Hall, Joleen Lunjew & Guest Teachers You’ve got a great passion for yoga and you’re ready to take your practice to the next level. Maybe it’s time to take the next step to becoming a certified yoga teacher so that you can fulfill your dream of doing what you love for a living. This Yoga Alliance accredited and internationally recognised 200-Hour Hatha Vinyasa New Zealand Yoga Teacher Training is designed not … [Read more...]
From Pain to Peace – How a Somatic Yoga Practice can Heal
By Alice Cammock At the start of 2020, I did a training, Somatic Stress Release, with Scott Lyons. Every part of this training made total sense to me and changed the way I see and practice yoga. Let me explain. ‘Somatic’ is a word that refers to the body, the sense of your flesh and bone. The International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association refer to somatic practices as those with a “focus on the body both as an objective process and as a subjective process of … [Read more...]
Yoga for [that thing we utter in hushed tones because, you know, women’s stuff]
By Fi Riley As I came into a deep forward fold, the teacher’s voice invited us to let go of anything we were holding onto, and within seconds my mat was wet with a flood of tears. You could have offered me $1,000 to stop and I wouldn’t have been able to. This thing was bigger than me and I was tired of it. What I had been holding onto was my diagnosis of menopause before the age of 40 and after a challenging few weeks of rollercoaster hormones I was done. I felt flat, broken and I utterly … [Read more...]