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Conversations with Carlos – Part 1

September 25, 2021 by Cara Butler Leave a Comment

by Cara Butler, Once upon a time in Christchurch…. actually quite a long time ago….way before any earthquakes, way before I had kids, while I was still very much figuring out what I was doing back in New Zealand after a decade trying my best to stay away…. I somehow found myself a very novice yoga student attending classes in a very cold church hall with a very capable and intelligent teacher from the USA, Katie Lane.  Anyone who has had the pleasure of studying with Katie will know … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Living Your Yoga, Teacher Interviews Tagged With: bhagavad gita, Carlos Pomeda, meditation, pandemic, philosophy, yoga

Journeys in Mindfulness – Part one

July 29, 2021 by Guest Author 1 Comment

by Erica Viedma, Yoga with Erica As a yoga teacher, I am aware of the delicate somatic connection between our physical sensations, thoughts and emotions. In yoga we often instruct people to stand tall and broaden the chest - opening the heart area. We ask people to open into areas that may have been guarded and held tight. At times I have observed myself and others struggle with the emotions that this kind of movement can evoke. With this in mind, I have chosen to study towards a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Awakening • Creating a More Beautiful World, Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Meditation Practices, Teaching Insights Tagged With: emotions, meditation, mindfulness, sensations, suffering, yoga

Unity, change and fresh memory: The precipitation of change for yoga in uncertain times

December 23, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Felicity Molloy : PhD I MEd I GDHE I MNZ RMT I YogaNZ Council Senior Level 4 1000h I BodyStill massage & yoga clinic  I must be honest – although I love the world of thinking, I have not yet fully thought through a framework that accommodates our future for yoga. Yoga that responds to a pandemic, keeping in mind the urgency, the devastation, remembrance, and the next wave of hope. I offer these thoughts as theoretical embryony, not to cut across anyone’s experience … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights Tagged With: change, meditation, Memory, pandemic, yoga

Building Resilience with Yoga and Meditation

October 22, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

By Swami Karma Karuna, Anahata Yoga Retreat What is Resilience? No matter who we are, the state of the bank balance, or which country we live in; the twists and turns of life, deaths, jobs, relationship stresses, natural disasters, and trauma can affect us all. Change influences each of us differently, altering our biochemistry, thoughts, and emotions. Resilience is our ability to come back to our centre, to rebound from adversity, and to respond to a challenge in a creative … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Meditation Practices Tagged With: meditation, resilience, stress management, swami karma karuna, yoga, yoga nidra

The Yoga of Self-Enquiry

September 30, 2020 by Guest Author 1 Comment

Exploring Witnessing, Strengths, Weaknesses, Aims and Needs By Swami Karma Karuna, Anahata Yoga Retreat Recently, we have been living through a time that has thrown the ‘norm’ out the door and, despite the challenges for many, it is also a wakeup call - an opportunity to think about our lives and take stock. Jnana yoga is a process of sincere self-inquiry with the aim of finding true inner wisdom. Whilst the physical practices of yoga continue to be important, looking in and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Meditation Practices Tagged With: jnana, meditation, witness, yoga

Spring Equinox Rising

September 29, 2020 by Guest Author 1 Comment

by Sonya Simpson, SSY Sonya Simpson Yoga Have you felt a slow rising of energy over the past few weeks or days? A gentle nudge from within encouraging you to start creating and building? Spring equinox is upon us and with it, the light is brightening and the blanket of winter is becoming easier to throw off. The natural slowing down that occurs in winter, those quiet months when the light is low and the weather cooler, is starting to feel less necessary. Nature is reflecting back to us … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life Tagged With: equinox, meditation, nature, seasons, spring, yoga

Tantra and Purpose in the Time of the Pandemic

September 10, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Una Hubbard, Meditation and Yoga with Una As I write this we’re over halfway into the “Year of the Pandemic”, or what boils down to the “Year of Great Upheaval and Uncertainty”. If you’ve been on Facebook you’ve no doubt seen the many memes declaring 2020 the year we all would just as soon forget. It’s as though we’re all holding our breath until this Covid thing is over. We’re biding our time, waiting it out. And at some point in the future, there will be a fix …. and then we’ll be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Meditation Practices Tagged With: meditation, pandemic, purpose, tantra, yoga nidra

Mindfulness and the Prefrontal Cortex

July 16, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Dyana Wells A lot of us have heard about mindfulness and its possible benefits. Recently I have learned a few interesting things about the brain that have made the benefits of mindfulness meditation even clearer to me. Meditation produces a thickening of the prefrontal cortex – the part of the cerebral hemispheres above and behind the eyes. The prefrontal cortex increased in size massively during our evolution into human beings and it may hold the key to our human potential. Bodywork … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Meditation Practices Tagged With: freedom, meditation, mindfulness, prefrontal cortex, Somatics

Mastering Your Mind With Raja Yoga & Pratyahara

April 2, 2020 by Guest Author 3 Comments

by Swami Karma Karuna, Anahata Yoga Retreat The depth of yoga that is understood and shared in our modern times is primarily touching the tip of the iceberg.  In a goal-oriented, pleasure-mad world, the dynamic postures of Hatha Yoga have captured many and become synonymous with the word 'yoga'. While postures are an important base, often the greater expanse of yoga remains like hidden gems in the ocean of wisdom. As yoga teachers and practitioners living in times of incredible … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Practices Tagged With: meditation, pratyahara, Raja Yoga, swami karma karuna

Journey to Wellbeing : How Yoga & Meditation helped me find the way

March 25, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

Ta Moko

by Matt Calman, The Longest Day I regard it as a minor miracle I became a yogi. For as long as I can remember, in the four-decade-long pre-yoga phase of my life I was horribly inflexible, and unable to get within a foot of touching my toes. My main pastimes in my 20s included playing rugby and drinking beer with my teammates. In my mind, activities such as yoga and ballet dwelt at the opposite end of the spectrum from my modus operandi. If anyone had suggested to the younger me that I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me Tagged With: anxiety, depression, meditation, wellness, yoga

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