By Kara-Leah Grant & Lucinda Staniland The last few years have been awash with yoga scandals as well-known yoga teachers and gurus have fallen from grace. I'm not going to add any commentary to this article, it's simple a list of scandals that have happened over the years. If you know of any that I've missed, please let me know in the comments and I'll add it to the list. This list is in no particular order except that of my mind and my research. Bikram's on the top, because he was … [Read more...]
November – December 2013: Anahata Yoga Retreat, Yoga Wisdom Series, Yogic Lifestyle Retreats with Swami Neelmani
Discover different aspects of your personality expressed through the five elements and chakras within each of us! During the month of November and December we are again celebrating with Yoga Wisdom Series - a special theme for each week based on the 5 elements and chakras. Using mindfulness, experience yogic lifestyle and learn how to apply these practical applications to everyday life. All Weeks Include: Hatha Yoga classes Satyananda Yoga Nidra™ (deep relaxation) Kirtan … [Read more...]
June 1-3: Auckland, Sacred Feminine Yoga Retreat with Swami Karma Karuna
Through nurturing sessions of yoga, creativity and music learn to awaken and channel the feminine force (shakti) to its creative potential. In this special retreat honouring the divine feminine energy, experience the special bond shared between women and join together to reignite our connection with Mother Earth and one another. Through nurturing sessions of yoga, creativity and music learn to awaken and channel the feminine force (shakti) to its creative potential. Join us in this safe and … [Read more...]
Ongoing: Explore Your ‘Self’ Yogic Lifestyle Retreats with Anahata Swamis and residents
Learn all aspects and benefits of yoga whilst discovering the depths of your 'Self' in the breathtaking environment at Anahata Yoga Retreat. Explore your 'Self' all year round at AnahataThe Explore Your ‘Self’ retreat is one of the best ways to come to Anahata for someone who is interested in learning about yoga and all its facets. This interactive retreat provides you with a broad range of yogic tools to enhance balance and harmony in your life. Immersing yourself in the daily life of … [Read more...]
March 5 – 10: Prana Vidya – Awaken, Expand and Heal with Swami Muktidharma
Learn this ancient science practiced by yogis and healers of early times to increase your vitality and overall health at Anahata Yoga Retreat Prana Vidya is the science of accessing and directing our vital energy. The human body is a storehouse of pranic energy. This technique opens up your awareness to these stores of energy within the body and mind, and teaches you how to consciously direct this energy for improving your health and creating balance on all levels. Prana is the … [Read more...]
March 1 – 3: Yogic Cleansing Weekend with Swami Muktidharma
Increase your vitality and energy using yoga purification practices for body and mind at Anahata Retreat Centre In the same way a car needs a tune up to run smoothly, from time to time our bodies too need an internal cleanse so that the systems in our body are flowing and working optimally. The mind as the most perfect super computer has an inbox where it stores all the information received through the senses. The inbox is overloaded with all kinds of impressions. Mental purification … [Read more...]
An interview with Kalikamurti on living the life you choose.
Supplied by Anahata Yoga Retreat Anahata Yoga Retreat, just outside of Nelson, warmly welcomes Kalikamurti Suich from Alice Springs, Australia over the Labour Day Weekend to share with us her experience, insights and knowledge. She is leading “Life of Choice”, a retreat offering a fusion of traditional yoga and modern psychology aimed at helping participants choose their lives. We asked her a few questions to gain a deeper understanding of what she offers and how it can benefit us. This … [Read more...]
Help Yoga Education in Prisons Trust fund a free yoga manual for prisoners
By guest author Adhyatama of Kalpa Taru, Wellington Some of you may know I have been teaching Yoga up at Rimutaka prison for the last year and Waikeria and Springhill for the four years before that. I drive up to Rimutaka every Tuesday and spend a couple of hours in a Unit with serious violent offenders teaching asana (postures), breathing techniques to calm and relax them and Yoga Nidra. All I can say is that I just love it, and I love them! That may sound weird but honestly what magic … [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...]
Nov or Dec: India Travel with Sannyasi Yogamani, two options
Option A: The Ashram Experience: 4 – 19 Nov 2012. Option A. NZ$2300 Excluding Air Fares. This year Yogamani will be leading a group to Bihar School of Yoga in Munger for the November Yoga Drishti Satsang Series conducted by Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati at Ganga Darshan, Munger. Please bear in mind that the program is not a yoga training program, but an opportunity to spend time with Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati. There is the possibility to receive Diksha during your stay, with Swami … [Read more...]