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‘Tuning In’ with Karla Brodie

October 9, 2020 by Cara Butler Leave a Comment

By Cara Butler, An interview with Karla Brodie Karla is a teacher worth getting to know. Talking with Karla gives you the sense that she deeply considers her thoughts, her words, her decisions and actions. An example of how to really 'live' yoga in the everyday world. This capacity she demonstrates is undoubtedly born out of the deeply internal experience she has explored, and also taught, for over 20 years. I begin with the final question I asked, as I found her answer particularly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teacher Interviews, Teaching Insights, Yoga & Community Tagged With: donna farhi, Hauora Yoga Conference, Karla Brodie, Vital Organs, yoga

The Teacher’s Contract

March 7, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Donna Farhi, Beyond Methods: Yoga as Self-Inquiry Relationships with yoga students can take many forms: from a clear cut and dried professional boundary between teacher and student that has never extended beyond the perimeters of time spent together in a class, intensive, retreat or teacher training; to the less distinct delineation that happens when a student also happens to be a personal friend; to that of a peer exchange that takes place at a collegial level in which there may be a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights, Uncategorized Tagged With: boundaries, donna farhi, teacher conduct, teacher relationship, yoga ethics

A Review of Pathways To A Centered Body by Donna Farhi and Leila Stuart

December 12, 2017 by Guest Author 1 Comment

by Neal Ghoshal, Sacred Moves In a nutshell: an exceptionally clear and extremely practical guide to core integration, stability and support I first came across Donna Farhi’s books back in 2004 and was immediately hooked by her accessible, relevant and inspiring writing and teachings. Since then Donna has become my primary Yoga teacher and I have regularly attended her workshops and teacher trainings, eventually moving on to assisting her on events and intensives. I met and studied with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: donna farhi, Neal Ghoshal, Pathways to a Centered Body, Psoas, yoga

Donna Farhi on Why Success in Yoga is About Opening Our Hearts, Not Our Hips

September 14, 2017 by Guest Author 3 Comments

Donna Farhi Befriending the Body

By Donna Farhi First published in the March/April 1997 Yoga Journal USA, reprinted here by permission of Donna Farhi. It’s late afternoon and one of my long-time students has come to visit.  After a few minutes of chitchat, Sarah relates how inadequate she felt at the Yoga workshop she attended over the weekend.  Just about everyone could do the advanced postures except her, and she left feeling that her practice was inferior.  I asked Sarah what her life was like when she began practicing Yoga … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Living Your Yoga Tagged With: donna farhi, heart opening, Hip opening, posture, Sucess, yoga

9 Questions To Ask Before You Host a Travelling Yoga Teacher

August 4, 2017 by Kara-Leah Grant 1 Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant Hosting a travelling yoga teacher can be a successful and profitable venture for a yoga studio - if done right! It can use up "dead time" in the studio. It opens up an additional income stream. It can bring in students that don't usually come to the studio, some of whom may come back. It can increase the exposure and awareness of the host studio in the marketplace. It can educate and inspire the studio's student base. And it can be the beginning of an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teacher Training, Teaching Insights, The Business of Yoga Tagged With: Amy Ippoliti, Briohny Smith, donna farhi, Hosting Yoga Teacher, Lucas Miles, Travelling Yoga Teacher, workshop, yoga teacher training

Donna Farhi on How to Release the Psoas & Resolve Back Pain

May 25, 2017 by Guest Author 5 Comments

Pathways to a Centered Body: Gentle Yoga Therapy for Core Stability, Healing Back Pain and Moving with Ease by Donna Farhi and Leila Stuart

by Donna Farhi, co-author of Pathways to a Centered Body: Gentle Yoga Therapy for Core Stability, Healing Back Pain, and Moving with Ease. A recent collation of several back pain studies in America revealed that 8 out of every 10 Americans will have back problems at some point during their lifetimes, yet only one in ten people find out the primary cause of their pain. A further 54 percent of Americans who experience low back pain spend the majority of their workday sitting, a position that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Practices Tagged With: back pain, Constructive Rest Position, donna farhi, Pathways to a Centered Body, Psoas

How to Maximize Your Potential as a Yoga Teacher

May 30, 2016 by Guest Author 2 Comments

by Neal Ghoshal When I started teaching Yoga thirteen years ago I thought I'd be showing anybody who turned up to class a few Yoga postures and hopefully they'd enjoy themselves. Yet Yoga seems to have its own plans and it's own drive. Teaching Yoga has lead me on unexpected journeys and to unforeseen places. And it appears to be the same with many who come to Yoga - at first, we do not realise the power and the beauty of the practice to transform our lives. A few years down the line we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights Tagged With: donna farhi, inquiry, karma yoga, Neal Ghoshal, service, teaching yoga

Donna Farhi on Why Your Yoga Teacher is Not Your Friend

May 26, 2015 by Guest Author 20 Comments

Editor's Note: Since this article was published, several accounts of sexual harassment and assault have been made public by Mark Whitwell's female students. We do not in any way condone Mark's behaviour. You can read more about the accounts here. Donna Farhi, author and yoga teacher, as interviewed by Kara-Leah Grant Donna Farhi is a world renowned yoga teacher who has been practicing yoga for thirty nine years, and teaching it since 1982. She lives here in New Zealand but teaches intensives … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teacher Interviews, Teaching Insights, Yoga & Community Tagged With: donna farhi, Teacher Student Relationship, teaching ethics, yoga teacher, yoga teacher ethics, yoga texts

The Definition of a Yoga Teacher: Nothing More than a Friend, Nothing Less than a Friend

March 20, 2015 by Kara-Leah Grant 12 Comments

Mark Whitwell Yoga Teacher Training

Editor's Note: Since this article was published, several accounts of sexual harassment and assault have been made public by Mark Whitwell's female students. We do not in any way condone Mark's behaviour. You can read more about the accounts here. by Kara-Leah Grant I was fortunate enough to attend one of Mark Whitwell’s classes at Wanderlust Great Lake Taupo 2015. Mark is teacher of considerable standing who spent many years with Desikachar and studied directly with Krishnamacharya, the teacher … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights Tagged With: donna farhi, Krishnamacharya, mark whitwell, scandal, Teacher Student Relationship

The Eight Essentials of Restorative Yoga

April 23, 2014 by Guest Author 15 Comments

by guest author Neal Ghoshal, Sacred Moves A few years ago I enrolled on my second Yoga Teacher Training course for a year at the Yoga Academy Auckland - I was on a mission to learn more about this practice and to equip myself with as much knowledge as I could. If I was going to teach Yoga, then I wanted to be good at it. About half way through the year, course tutor Jude Hynes gave us a new practice, brought out some Yoga bolsters from the cupboard and introduced us to the wonderful world of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Yoga Styles Tagged With: donna farhi, Judith Lasater, loving-kindness Yoga, rejuvenation, relaxation, responsive restful Yoga, restorative yoga, Yoga for stress and anxiety, Yoga props

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