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Search Results for: Ashtanga yoga

Peering into the Darkness with Ashtanga Yoga

August 6, 2014 by Guest Author 2 Comments

The Goddess Kali, who looks dark and scary but who removes the ego and liberates the soul.

by guest author Pip Bennett I’ve had some dark, dark clouds following me around these past couple of weeks. One day at a work lunch I found myself judging everyone for how happy they were. I was thinking, they are only happy because they have such-and-such. If I had those things, I would be happy. They don’t understand what it is like to not have choice, be in a difficult situation. Oh dear. I’ve listened to enough Buddhist teachings to know that these thoughts are not true. Things … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga & Community Tagged With: Acceptance, ashtanga, cleansing, compassion, dark spaces, ego, guilt, hard times, healing, judgement, Pema Chodron, wounds

Love Yoga

200-hour Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga teacher training with Debi Hendra The LoveYogaNewZealand Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga RYT 200-hour teacher training is a highly reputable, comprehensive course that provides a rite of passage of insight, self discovery and growth. It is a wonderful journey to embark upon that integrates not just into your practice and teaching, but into your life. Sign up in the knowledge that you will emerge from the experience with greater knowledge, … [Read more...]

Asia Pacific Yoga

300 Hour Hatha Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training, led by Steve Hall, Joleen Lunjew & Guest Teachers If you feel that you are ready to take that next step and become a RYT500 certified yoga teacher, then this course is for you! This Yoga Alliance accredited and internationally recognised 300 Hour Hatha Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training is for teachers ready to embrace a more profound understanding of the power of Yoga practices. It is for those who are looking to immerse themselves in … [Read more...]

Love Yoga

February 3, 2023 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

250hr Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga teacher training with, Debi Hendra The LoveYogaNewZealand Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga RYT 200-hour teacher training is a highly reputable, comprehensive course that provides a rite of passage of insight, self discovery and growth. It is a wonderful journey to embark upon that integrates not just into your practice and teaching, but into your life. Sign up in the knowledge that you will emerge from the experience with greater knowledge, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best Guides, Paid Tagged With: Ashtanga Yoga, guide, hatha yoga, yoga teacher training

Note to a Younger Self: Systemic Abuse & Individual Response in Yoga

November 5, 2018 by Guest Author

by Donna Farhi, On December 16, 2017, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse delivered a landmark report; the conclusion of an extraordinary five year investigation into systemic and decades long abuse within the Catholic Church. The upshot of this broad sweeping report is the conclusion that the Catholic Church can no longer continue to operate within the protective insularity of it’s own institution and may soon be forced through new government … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights

Health & Healing Through Yoga Therapy: An Interview with Mark Stephens

January 25, 2018 by Lucinda Staniland Leave a Comment

Mark Stephens Yoga Therapy

by Lucinda Staniland I love getting things for free. And I have a voracious and life-long love of books. So the first time I was offered a free review copy of a Yoga book (as part of my Yoga Lunchbox role) I was fairly swept off my feet. You mean, you really want to send me a free book? About Yoga? Now that's an offer I can't refuse. However, I'm now at a point where I do in fact refuse some of these offers. I've learnt that just because a book is free and about yoga, doesn't mean that it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Mark Stephens, yoga therapy

How The 8 Limbs of Yoga Help Us to Touch the Deepest Self

November 2, 2017 by Guest Author 2 Comments

Courage My Love legskins

by Meera Watts, Siddhi Yoga Yoga has become a mainstream activity in all parts of the world. The discipline has a lot to teach us but we are failing the practice itself. It’s great that we’ve all been introduced to this phenomenal multi-faceted means of helping ourselves, but to take it apart and use what we’re comfortable with isn’t exactly the point of yoga. One can master poses and look the part but when yoga doesn’t capture your soul, teach you how to be still, or alter how you live your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Foundations Tagged With: 8 Limbs, ashtanga, Meera Watts, niyama, yama

Deepening • The Yoga of Life

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Shiva Rea on the Evolution of Prana Vinyasa Yoga {video interview}

May 6, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant She's sometimes referred to as "the Madonna of Yoga" - at least, that's what Vanity Fair called Shiva Rea when she did a desert photo shoot for them in 2007. But magazines love catchy monikers and as someone who grew up idolising Madonna and has studied with Shiva... the two women are nothing alike. "I'm not sure what exactly what they were referring to, whether it was my boldness, but I'm not into being a yoga celebrity at all. At all! Humility for me is a really important … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Video Interview, Teacher Interviews Tagged With: B.K.S. Iyengar, consciousness, cultural change, desikachar, evolution of yoga, Pattabhi Jois, shiva rea, wanderlust

The Truth on Drinking Coffee and Teaching or Practicing Yoga

March 8, 2016 by Kara-Leah Grant 33 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant Since stopping regular coffee drinking back in 2013, I have become fastidious about never drinking coffee before practicing or teaching yoga. Since I practice every day, and teach often, there are very rare windows when caffeine is an option for me. At a recent summer festival, I realised how deeply this belief I have about the importance of not having caffeine in the system when practicing and teaching was ingrained. A couple of hours before I was teaching a class, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Foundations Tagged With: addiction, coffee, intoxicants, teaching yoga, Yoga Sutras

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