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...]
Unity, change and fresh memory: The precipitation of change for yoga in uncertain times
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...]
Tantra and Purpose in the Time of the Pandemic
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...]
Taking your yoga classes online: the challenge and the reward
by Erica Viedma “What can we do when fear comes up for us or for our students during the practice?”. Geeta Iyengar replied, “When fear arises, you must lift your chest. You must lift your heart.”A Posture of Courage by Christina Sell The third week of our national lockdown and many yoga teachers around New Zealand, and the world, have started teaching online. Some teachers are on Facebook Live or pre-recorded classes. I even attended a yoga class based in New York with 60 people from … [Read more...]