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Conversations with Carlos – Part 2

October 7, 2021 by Cara Butler Leave a Comment

By Cara Butler. Carlos does not shy away from challenging topics and in fact considers it a part of his yoga practice to stay engaged, educated and involved in societal and global issues. Even when it would be easier to turn inward and ignore the external chaos.  This is one of the reasons I hold Carlos in such high regard.  I have observed all too often in the yoga world that the teachings and practices are used by some to border on what I would call self-obsession. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Activism Tagged With: global issues, metaphysical, philosophy, spirituality, yoga philosophy

The Gifts of Applying Ahimsa to Daily Life

October 15, 2015 by Guest Author 1 Comment

By guest author Mike Kuplevatsky The fundamental nature of happiness and our relationship between our inner world and the external world most often intertwine. Without realizing it, our happiness is often governed by the external world. For example, if someone frowns at us, honks a horn at us, calls us crazy, disagrees with with some of our viewpoints or thinks badly of us, our happiness most often instantly becomes interrupted. That can play out into violence towards ourselves or to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Living Your Yoga, What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: Adversity, ahimsa, change, happiness, hope, life, positivity, spirituality, The Heart, yoga

The meanings we give to work

July 11, 2013 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

The Meaning of Work

By guest author Brook McCarthy, 30 Steps I was your typical baby hippie. I grew my armpit hair, ate lentils, chanted Hari Krisna, and choose my university subjects by how I perceive they’d help with the old “meaning of life” conundrum. My late teens and early 20s were spent meditating, chanting, teaching yoga and travelling. I became a tour leader because I didn’t like having to return home in between travels to make more money to travel again. For two years, I took small groups … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Business of Yoga Tagged With: business, meaning, money, self-development, spirituality, The Yoga Lunchbox, tour leading, travelling, wellbeing, work, yoga, yoga teaching

The great debate – Which is better, Yoga or Pilates?

June 12, 2013 by Guest Author 3 Comments

by guest author Jude Mahood, Suburban Yoga, Dunedin I recently heard someone describe Yoga/Pilates fusion (or Yogalates as it is often called) as the coming together of natural soul mates. I couldn’t agree more. But there are still many people out there who think that bringing Pilates principles into their Yoga is somehow tainting or contaminating. There is nothing wrong with being purist in our thinking, but it’s also important to maintain an open mind. When we close our minds, we close … [Read more...]

Filed Under: What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: alignment, choice, core, flexibility, jude mahood, mindfulness, pilates, purist, spirituality, strength, The Yoga Lunchbox, yoga, yogalates

I’m actually quite a spiritual guy. Oh really?

May 22, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 11 Comments

By Kara-Leah Grant Can we, like, ban the word spirituality already? And spiritual. Like, if someone says, I'm actually quite a spiritual guy, I just want to gag. What the hell does that mean anyway? What does spiritual and spirituality mean?   I turned to that font of all modern knowledge to find out. Wikipedia. The term spirituality lacks a definitive definition, although social scientists have defined spirituality as the search for "the sacred," where "the sacred" is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice, Home Yoga Practice Video, What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: enlightenment, forget, let go, satsang, spiritual, spirituality, surrender, teachings, waking up

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