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How to Turn Self-Hatred into Self-Love

June 29, 2017 by Kara-Leah Grant 1 Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant I had a moment on Sunday when I hated myself. Or at least, hated an aspect of myself, for I recognise that it is not the Self I am hating, but a shadow that lives within. This particular shadow is the controlling, wrathful, angry, tense, uptight aspect of me. Here's how this unfolded on Sunday. I felt amazing in the early morning, dancing to my favourite music in the kitchen while washing dishes. Housework + epic music + dancing is one of my favourite household … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Musings from the Mat Tagged With: hate, Heart of Self-Love, kara-leah grant, self-love

How I Reconnected with My Inner Goddess at The Great Emptying Out Retreat

October 5, 2016 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

By Victoria Bruce I first stumbled across the 2016 Great Emptying Out Yoga Retreat on Facebook and after reading the theme of the retreat – Self-Love – I knew I needed to attend. Why? Because I had a shitload of stuff to empty out and filling that void with some self-love sounded like a brilliant idea. At thirty one years of age, as a journalist and solo mummy to an amazing little soul called Emilie, I often feel like I should have my shit together by now. Yet despite being equipped with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me, Reviews, Yoga & Community Tagged With: goddess, Great Emptying Out, Inner Goddess, retreat, sacred feminine, self-love, women, yoga retreat

Why I’m Bringing Yoga & Meditation to Teenagers with The Soul Laundry

September 24, 2015 by Guest Author 1 Comment

By Nina Rogocki, The Soul Laundry About three years ago I was new to Auckland from the UK, and embarking on a new journey that was unexpected but welcome. To settle into my new environment, I found myself a gym, as you do, and I started to attend classes and set my routine. One afternoon in a daze, I got in the lift and ended up on the wrong floor. The doors of the lift opened up to reveal a welcoming, warm environment that was quiet and felt like total calm. Upon investigation I realised … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga & Community Tagged With: care, confidence, education, health, kindness, meditation, mental health, mindfulness, self-love, teens, The Heart, yoga

Am I Endorsing Obesity by Telling Bigger- Bodied Yogis to Love Themselves?

August 20, 2015 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

By guest author Nityda Bhakti "I am so interested in trying yoga- I just need to wait until I lose this last fifteen pounds." "Yoga? Me?! Do you see my size? I could never lift myself off the ground like that!" I’ve heard comments like these for the past decade that I’ve been teaching. I’ve made it my mission to make friends, family, acquaintances, even strangers for that matter, see that you don’t have to be a certain weight, body-type, gender, age or race to begin a yoga practice. I’ve … [Read more...]

Filed Under: What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi?, Yoga & Body Image Tagged With: ahimsa, attachment, bigger-bodied yogis, body image, body positivity, eating disorders, fat-shaming, healing, health and yoga, non-violence, obesity and yoga, recovery, self-acceptance, self-compassion, self-hatred, self-love, wellness, yoga, yoga therapy

The Yoga Body Myth & My Late-30s Body

September 29, 2014 by Guest Author 7 Comments

By Roseanne Harvey, It's All Yoga Baby Recently I was having brunch with my granny and she said; “You’ve gained weight. With all the yoga that you do, you should be skinny!” There’s nothing like being fat-shamed by your grandmother. But she was echoing a common misperception about the “yoga body,” something that has been presented by the dominant culture, a way of understanding the effects that yoga has upon a woman’s body. Reflections On A Changing Body Of course, my 84-year-old granny didn’t … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga & Body Image Tagged With: Acceptance, aging, body image, changing bodies, conscious aging, hatha yoga, mindful aging, self-love, seven-minute workout, yoga, yoga body, yoga butt

The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Yoga, weight, body image and weightlessness

July 1, 2013 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

By guest author Nanditha Ram, author of Blissful Mom, Blissful Baby I have borrowed the title of one of my favourite novels to serve as title of this article. It's a post modern philosophical product of the 1980s, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. I've borrowed it because it brought to my mind, in a round-about sort of way, a connection with yoga and weight... and our modern day crisis of how we view the self. Yoga is a great weight busting practice. A truly reliable way to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga & Body Image Tagged With: body image, body. acceptance, Milan Kundera, nanditha ram, self confidence, self-esteem, self-love, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Yoga Lunchbox, weight, weight loss, wellbeing, yoga, yoga for weight loss

How Yoga helped me… to see my body in a different light.

May 17, 2013 by Guest Author 2 Comments

by guest author Anna Coventry, Anna Coventry Yoga When you look in the mirror, what do you see? A unique and beautiful person inside and out? Or someone who needs to lose weight, tone up and get some more sleep? A lot of women - and more guys than you would think - suffer from body image issues. It’s unfortunately very common and it is very destructive to a person’s wellbeing and happiness. For a long time I suffered from poor body image that led me to see myself in a distorted and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me, Yoga & Body Image Tagged With: Anna Coventry, body image, eating disorder, self confidence, self-esteem, self-love, The Yoga Lunchbox, weight, wellbeing, yoga

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