Inner Peace through Sound and Positive Expression with Swami Muktidharma When we leave the periphery and come closer to the centre, we experience calmness and gain access to an inner source of joy and deep peace. Sometimes life shakes and challenges us and ripples are created in our lives. When we learn to look within, we can connect to a place of strength, balance and unwavering peace. Leave the intellect at home and connect to this innate depth and wisdom. Explore the ancient sciences … [Read more...]
December 29 – Jan 1: Creating Change, A New Year’s Retreat
Relaxation, reflection and reconnection with nature. Focus on resolutions and learn practical tools for creating positive change in the year to come. Anahata Yoga Retreat provides a supportive yogic environment allowing you the opportunity for clarity, transformation and identifying with the deeper aspects of your personality. Set your New Year’s positive resolution into motion utilizing powerful yogic techniques such as SWAN, Havan (fire ceremony), yoga classes, meditation and deep … [Read more...]
January 11 – 14: Nurturing Positivity through Yoga, Weekend Retreat
Celebrate life and experience the power of positivity through yoga. “Separating the negative from the positive and selecting and holding onto the positive is the purpose of yoga” ~ Swami Niranjanananda A positive mind is the key to peace, contentment and harmony. Learn the art of cultivating positivity and expressing it in all life situations. Discover how to celebrate life and experience the power of positivity through yoga in a stunning and natural … [Read more...]
Take everything as it comes, discomfort and comfort alike
by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat The day we arrived at Anahata Yoga Retreat, nature and God were both sodden, and the retreat was wrapped in the clouds. I hadn’t thought to check the driving conditions before arriving at Anahata, and Samuel and I were traveling in my long, low, loaded-up station wagon. I made it round the first muddy gravel corner and thought. “Nope, there’s no way I’m going up there.” There was a sense of defeat in letting the road stop me now, after I’d got … [Read more...]
Hope for the world – Swami Muktidharma speaks
by Kara-Leah Grant The last time we had Swami Muktidharma on YLB, he shared the story of dreaming about his guru before meeting him. To our western minds, it sounds magical and mystical. But in the world of yoga, and yogis, it's commonplace. Yoga deals with many different layers of reality, and indeed, is a way of seeing clearly what reality actually is, beyond our limited sense of the material world. It's that ability to see deeper, and wider, that makes sitting in the presence of Swamis … [Read more...]
Oct 19-22 Labour Day Weekend: Anahata Yoga Retreat, A Life of Choice, Yoga Retreat
A Life of Choice, a Yoga Workshop with Sannyasin Kalikamurti Suich & Swami Gyan Dharma Are you living the life you choose? Are you taking an active role in creating your own present and future? Learn how to fine tune this internal world and integrate it into your everyday life. Gain insight into realising your goals to make choices that will enable you to live your life fully and with balance. Creating your own success Gain awareness as to your goals and aims in … [Read more...]
A video interview with Swami Karma Karuna from Anahata Yoga Retreat
Yes, we here at YLB have snagged the lovely Swami Karma Karuna for our next video interview. (See below) In this interview we talk about: How Swami Karma Karuna became a swami The Satyananda yoga tradition and it's role in her life The role of women in the spiritual evolution of humanity, and the sacred feminine The relationship of tantra and yoga How we get trapped living within our senses, and how yoga helps us to get beyond that What life is like at Anahata retreat A … [Read more...]
An interview with Swami Satsangi on her visit to New Zealand
Kindly provided by Satyananda Yoga New Zealand In all the challenges of the modern world, it would be fair to say, that Yoga plays a large part in keeping many of us sane. It brings a little light and balance in what can sometimes appear as darkness. The New Zealand yoga community welcomes Swami Satyasangananda Saraswati (fondly known as Swami Satsangi) to its shores this Easter to receive the torch of light, which she brings in the form of inspiration, knowledge and simple practices … [Read more...]
An interview with Swami Muktimurti about the power of sound to transform
There is a rich Satyananda Yoga tradition in New Zealand, which means we are fortunate to often play host to traveling Satyananda Swamis from around the world. Next month (March 2010), Anahata Retreat just outside of Nelson is hosting Swami Muktimurti from Mangrove Mountain near Mountain. An expert in Mantra and ancient Sanskrit, she is hosting a nine day/ten night retreat focused on Nada Yoga, or the yoga of sound. Swami Muktimurti is well known for her singing. She has pursued a deep … [Read more...]
It's time to think about which yoga retreats you're going to do this coming year
New Zealand yogis are blessed to have a stunning yoga retreat located down in the Marlborough Sounds, easily accessible from any part of the country. Every year, Anahata Retreat hosts a variety of retreats, workshops and events. They're already got an extensive list of options out for 2010, so now is the perfect time to read through and decide which event you're going to attend. Swami Muktidharma also leads retreats in India, and there are a couple scheduled for the end of the year - … [Read more...]