by Kara-Leah Grant It's that time of year again... the run-up to Wanderlust, which means I get to interview all kinds of amazing yoga teachers. First up in the series is Suzanne Sterling, in part because she's also a founder of Off the Mat Into the World which is running some events in New Zealand and Australia this October (just been) and December. Interviewing Suzanne meant finding out the low-down both about Off the Mat and how awesome it is, and about her and how awesome she is. I … [Read more...]
How Yoga Helped Me… Lose Four Dress Sizes {video}
by Kara-Leah Grant OK, that headline is somewhat sensationalist - not because it's untrue. It is true. Between Hariata starting yoga and now, she's lost four dress sizes. But because it's not really the most important thing about Hariata's yoga journey. It's just the easiest to capture in a short headline. What is the most important aspect of Hariata's yoga journey? Difficult to encapsulate, but watch her on video, and you'll see it. She's an absolute delight. There's a joy about her and … [Read more...]
Treading water on the void – an interview with Zoë Wild
by guest author Peter Fernando, A Month of Mindfulness This interview is part of a one hour conversation I had with Zoë, a former Buddhist nun, in April 2012. You can the rest of her insightful and heartfelt reflections on the Month of Mindfulness blog, here. Peter: You seem to have a fluidity in terms of your relationship to spiritual forms. Looking at your path so far, there seems to be a real sense of an understanding of the transparency of forms, as well as a great respect for them. … [Read more...]
A video interview with Swami Shantimurti of Ashram Yoga
by Kara-Leah Grant It's just three weeks until the International Yoga Conference and Festival at Kawai Purapura so I took the opportunity to have a chat to one of the many highly respected yoga teachers who will be at the festival - Swami Shantimurti. Swami Shantimurti is the senior teacher at Auckland's Ashram Yoga. He's been teaching since 1978 and has seen the growth and change of yoga in the West. According to the bio on Ashram Yoga's website, Shantimurti has spent extend periods … [Read more...]
Walking the Path with Peter Fernando, The Meditation Guy
Born? Scotland Grew up? Wanganui Wanted to be? An Artist Social clique at school? Didn't really have any 'clique' I belonged to. I've never really felt like I belonged to anything exclusively. Hardest thing about being a teenager? Testosterone :) Greatest disappointment hitting adulthood? ... Greatest challenge or hardship to date? Monastic life during my twenties, and the challenges that brought up. In that environment I met, for the first time, the rawness of the heart and … [Read more...]