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August 23 – 26: Wellington, Weekend Yoga Retreat with Helen Guissane

July 21, 2013 by Lucinda Staniland Leave a Comment

This retreat is an opportunity to immerse yourself in a weekend of yoga and community to deepen your awareness of self. Various styles of yoga are taught during each day, including mudra work and pranayama, and are combined with discussions and opportunities for self-enquiry. The retreats are accessible for yogis of any level. Each weekend retreat commences on a Friday evening, finishing on the Sunday afternoon. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Events Archive Tagged With: august, helen guissane, The Yoga Lunchbox, Weekend Yoga Retreat, wellington, winter, yoga

E=MC2 for Yogic Inspiration

July 16, 2013 by Guest Author 1 Comment

Einstein had words of wisdom for yogis

by guest author KateMcLeay, Flow Yoga What has the most influential scientist of the 20th century got to do with yoga? Albert Einstein, the German physicist who revolutionized scientific thought, developed the Theory of Relativity and opened the gateway for the creation of the atomic bomb, remains prolifically quoted and what he says totally speaks to my yogic psyche. When I think of Albert Einstein I think of crazy hair, a towering intellect and wise words. Many of those wise words sound … [Read more...]

Filed Under: What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: Albert Einstein, Kate McLeay, mysticism, quotes, rationality, science, The Yoga Lunchbox, yoga

A review of Yoga for Women: Awaken the Inner Shakti with Swami Karma Karuna

July 13, 2013 by Lucinda Staniland 1 Comment

By regular columnist Lucinda Staniland, Off The Mat When Kara-Leah asked me if I would like to review a Yoga for Women CD I knew there was no way I could turn down the offer. I thought to myself: You want to give me a free CD of guided yoga practices for women made by the lovely Karma Karuna of Anahata retreat? And then: Hell yes! I’m a women, I love yoga, I have great respect for Karma Karuna, and I have (almost) no disposable income to spend on yoga, so I leapt at the chance for some … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: anahata yoga retreat, cd, Lucinda Staniland, review, swami karma karuna, The Yoga Lunchbox, yoga, Yoga for Women: Awaken the Inner Shakti, yoga home practice

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 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

A young man, a desire to meditate, and India circa 1979

June 16, 2013 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

By guest author John Guthrie April 1979, Kundabodha, a Meditation hermitage in Sri Lanka. This young man had been travelling for some time. Having already begun to learn the disciplines of Hatha Yoga, he now had a burning desire to learn meditation. In particular Buddhist meditation had an appeal to him. What drugs could not do, then no doubt meditation would succeed. After all, in much of what he had read in those recent times, the authors wrote that the illusory nature of mind … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meditation Practices, Practices Tagged With: age, Buddhism, buddhist meditation, drugs, expectations, experience, meditation, retreat, silence, sri lanka, The Yoga Lunchbox, yoga, youth

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe – 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 … [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

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

Sublime sound meets true love in modern Australian kirtan duo

April 19, 2013 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by guest author Kate Southward, A Yogafied Life Husband and wife team Mischka Prem and Lulu Hogg are two motivated Australian kirtan artists who are so clearly in love, you might wonder if they’ve been fed a love potion. I recently met the pair to discuss their current project, their first self-funded studio album. A grand under taking which they are promoting through Pozible.com to help fundraise the $10,000 needed to get their album on the record and in to a yoga studio near you. Most … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Kirtan, Practices, Reviews Tagged With: A Yogafied Life, Australia, first album, Kate Southward, Lulu and Mischka, modern kirtan, Pozible.com, The Heart, The Yoga Lunchbox, yoga

I’m only woman when there should be man as well

April 5, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 16 Comments

By Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Cut wide open. Seems a potent time to write. Learning to not make drama out of the drama. I'm up. I'm down. It's all just a ride. Hang on, stay centered, don't forget to take in the view. It's relentless. Designed that way I guess. No time to come up for air, except the time you make. There's always time. I know that. Talk about it in my book. Yoga. That's the time we make. God knows how single parents survive without yoga. Yoga's my secret … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: conscious relationship, kara-leah grant, Relationship, single parent, The Heart, The Yoga Lunchbox

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