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How to Cultivate Abundance on the Yoga Mat Part 1 {video}

November 11, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

Abundance comes from the way we're connected to what nourishes us and the way in which we open ourselves to give & receive

by Kara-Leah Grant Welcome to the second Creative Sun Salutation flow here on The Yoga Lunchbox. As with the last six-part series, the first two episodes in this series are free for anybody to access, and the final four are for Insiders only. (You can become a member of Inside the Box here.) When I teach and practice yoga, my tendency is to work with different energies on the mat, cultivating those energies as required, depending what's going on in my life at that time. This particular … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Home Yoga Practice Video Tagged With: abundance, Lotus Mudra, online yoga video, shakti, Sun Salutation, uttanasana

On the Dilution of the Genuine Transmission of Yoga

November 8, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 7 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant I was recently in a yoga class with yet another teacher who's not present, not teaching to the room, and not really teaching yoga. Oh, there were postures, and alignment cues, and by the end of the class as she'd come more into herself and some presence, offering some lovely phrases and suggestions. Other people enjoyed the class. They left feeling like they'd done a "good yoga class". They were happy. Content. And they'll keep coming back. Me, I was watching my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: bad yoga teachers, heart, presence, wisdom

The Conundrum of the Inflexible Yoga Teacher

October 29, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 14 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat One Sunday recently I retired to the beach for 90 minutes to work my way through a set yoga sequence a friend had posted on their Facebook page. It was total luxury. My son was with his uncle, I had no-where to  be and nothing to do, but soak up the sun, the salty breeze, and washing sound of the waves while immersing myself in a yoga sequence. I hated it. Oh, not the scene, or the setting, or the child-free time but the sequence. From the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: failure, flexible, good enough, success, yoga teacher

How Yoga Trance Dance™ Destroys World Weariness and Opens Up Creative Flow

October 20, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 4 Comments

yoga trance dance in action

by Kara-Leah Grant If you know me, you know I love dancing. Always have, ever since I saw Flashdance at age 8, and got hooked on the original Fame TV series. That was me... always dancing. But there was never any chance I could become a professional dancer because I had zero flexibility, plus at age 16 I had a spinal fusion. (I still remember the first day I danced again after that operation... the doctor said three months, I gave it two.) However... life moves in mysterious ways and in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga Styles Tagged With: dance, Prana Flow, shiva rea, yoga trance dance

J. Brown on the Three Sensibilities that Shape Our Yoga Practice {video interview}

October 3, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant I've been following J. Brown for a few years now, inspired and impressed by the consistent and constant magnifying glass he applies to the yoga world. J. has no qualms about challenging the accepted flow with his articles, calling into question elements of yoga teaching and practice that he finds problematic. But then, J. Brown is an upstart who has always gone against the grain right from the beginning of his career, deliberately taking a different approach from the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teacher Interviews, Video Interviews Tagged With: Gentle, j. brown, mark whitwell, video interview, yoga DVD

The Yoga Body Myth & My Late-30s Body

September 29, 2014 by Guest Author 7 Comments

By Roseanne Harvey, It's All Yoga Baby Recently I was having brunch with my granny and she said; “You’ve gained weight. With all the yoga that you do, you should be skinny!” There’s nothing like being fat-shamed by your grandmother. But she was echoing a common misperception about the “yoga body,” something that has been presented by the dominant culture, a way of understanding the effects that yoga has upon a woman’s body. Reflections On A Changing Body Of course, my 84-year-old granny didn’t … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga & Body Image Tagged With: Acceptance, aging, body image, changing bodies, conscious aging, hatha yoga, mindful aging, self-love, seven-minute workout, yoga, yoga body, yoga butt

Why Yoga Studios Are Not Enough: The Community Yoga Project

September 15, 2014 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

Maya teaching at her Community Yoga Project

My book The No-More-Excuses Guide to Yoga got me thinking about all the ways in which people are excluded from yoga - reasons like social class, race, money, incarceration or general access. Much as we like to think yoga is accessible for all and inclusive, the reality is that there are many barriers which prevent large numbers of our populations from benefiting from it's practice. I wanted to highlight the work that is being done to bring yoga to all the people and hopefully inspire other yoga … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights, Yoga & Community Tagged With: access, accessible, community, diverse, marginalized, privilege, social justice, yoga

The Well-Seasoned Yogi: Eleven Tips for Older People on Getting Started with Yoga

September 12, 2014 by Guest Author 2 Comments

Eve, forty three years of yoga practice and nearing her 70th year.

by guest author Eve Grzybowski, Yoga Suits Her A colleague of mine says; "If you can breathe, you can do yoga." Is that really so? Given that there are hundreds and probably thousands of yoga postures and practices, how do you go about choosing classes? In today’s climate with its infinity of yoga styles, what is the best choice for you? “Well," ... as the great Indian teacher, T.K.V. Desikachar was fond of saying; “It depends.” The class you choose or the practice you do depends on variables … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Foundations Tagged With: Elderly, Eve Grzybowski, inclusive, Older Yoga

Five Ways Yoga Improved My Body Image

August 29, 2014 by Guest Author 3 Comments

Anna Guest-Jelley

By guest author Anna Guest-Jelley, Curvy Yoga When I began practicing yoga in the late '90s, it didn’t occur to me that yoga would have any impact on my body image. In fact, I wouldn’t have wanted that at the time because I was spending my days bouncing between diets, waiting for the day I’d finally have the perfect body I’d always wanted. Who needs a positive body image when they have the body of their dreams, right? Ha! What I got instead, much to my initial chagrin and later delight, was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me, Yoga & Body Image Tagged With: anna guest-jelley, body image, curvy yoga, yoga

How Al Gore Shocked Me & What He’s Got to do with Yoga

August 18, 2014 by Guest Author 1 Comment

Is Al Gore talking to you?

by Lisa Wade I turned up to be transformed. To give my all to Al Gore’s Climate Reality leader’s training program that promised to take me from being a leader to an exceptional leader, all in the name of the environment. I was expecting slogans, fanfares and maybe a few cheerleaders. When Al Gore mentioned Ghandi I yawned, yep here comes the cliché machine, tick. Then he spoke of Satyagraha, truth force; “Ghandi said the greatest power in the world is truth”. I sat up because I’d … [Read more...]

Filed Under: What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: al gore, climate reality project, environment, ghandi, green yoga, seva, sustainability

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