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Chakras – Our Centres for Transformation to Truth

June 11, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

Chakras

by Nisha Kumar Joon, YogaOra A chakra is an energy structure, a whirling vortex of energy that acts a bit like a spiral pulling energy through the body’s central vertical electrical current aligned with the spine. Whilst the spine curves, the main energy feeder, line of light, that draws energy into the body system’s energy line, is straight. In our human body we tend to work with seven main chakras but there are many, many more. Chakras are also known psychic centers in the subtle body, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, The Process of Kundalini, Yoga & Ayurveda Tagged With: Ayurveda, chakras, energetic centre, transformation, truth and yoga

Our Habits Are a Path to Deep Transformation

June 7, 2018 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

Tara Fowler Habits

by Tara Fowler, Tara Spice Creative Habits are our regular and repeating behaviours which are done unconsciously. For me, this is picking my skin. For as long as I can remember I’ve picked my skin. As a small child any itchy bite I would scratch and scratch, tearing it apart. Then when it formed a scab I would pick that off also, leaving my skin covered in scars. I remember when I was around nine years old, a friend noticed the scabs and scars on my legs and said to me. “Gross, do you still … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Living Your Yoga Tagged With: change, growth, habits, picking skin, tara fowler, transformation

In the presence of Seane Corn: A Workshop With a Potent Yoga Teacher

June 3, 2015 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

Seane Corn

By Michelle Jayne, Yoga Facilitator/Therapist/Coach I love teaching yoga but like any job, there are pros and cons. On the pro side, I go to ‘work’ everyday and do what I love. I usually see the best in people and the essence of possibility and growth, all interwoven into a well themed yoga class. I have freedom during my week, and there is a sense of irresponsibility that goes along with it. I feel like I never managed to ‘grow up’ get a ‘real job’ and ‘settle down’. This is a good … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teacher Training, Teaching Insights Tagged With: affirming, breath, chakras, clarity, energy healing, inspiration, powerful women, realisation, sacred, traditional yoga, transformation, vinyasa, women in yoga, Yoga training

But First The Giant Must Dissolve in a Puddle of Tears on the Yoga Mat. Again

July 7, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant 7 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat It's post-Bali yoga teacher training with the crew from Power Living and I am totally spaced out. I don't know whether I'm coming or going. One minute I was in conversation with Duncan & the PLAY crew poolside at Potatohead in Seminyak, then I was in a taxi and off to the airport, flying for eight hours overnight, arriving the next day in Auckland, driving 2.5 hours to Tauranga to pick up Samuel, sleeping some more, and driving four hours to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: duncan peak, Emotional breakthrough, Keenan Crisp, Power Living Retreat, tears, transformation

Getting on the man mat for Forty Days of Yoga

July 29, 2013 by Guest Author 2 Comments

Yogi John

By guest author John Falepau, Yogi John My yoga journey has very much been a progression of listening, learning, watching, inquiring, listening more, learning more, experiencing and assimilating the effects from yoga into my life and being. A lot of what seemed daunting at first - asanas that felt uncomfortable, Kirtan (pronounced keer-tahn, with a slight rolling of the rrrrs), words that I couldn’t pronounce or remember - I am now mastering. I feel the expansion of my ribcage as I inhale … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home Yoga Practice Tagged With: benefits, discipline, experiences, Forty days, kara-leah grant, Man mat, open heart, practise, routine, transformation, voice, Yogijohn

March 16: Tauranga Yoga Centre presents a workshop with Lance Schuler

February 8, 2013 by Lucinda Staniland Leave a Comment

  Tauranga Yoga Centre Presents a three hour workshop with Lance Schuler: Explore the Theory,Practice and Transformation of Asana Sequencing. Date: Saturday 16/03/2013; Time: 11:30am—2:30pm. Please contact Tauranga Yoga Centre for more information. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Events Archive Tagged With: lance schuler, sequencing, tauranga yoga centre, transformation, workshop

Mind-food: Cultivating Sattva through food

February 7, 2013 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

One aspect of Ayurveda is about using food to find balance

By guest author Carmen Howell of The Sadhana Studio These days meditation and yoga are my vices - positive habits which have evolved and have slowly woven into my bodily intelligence. When I find myself transforming and experienceing the discomfort that can often be present with transformation, rather than slipping back into the grip of unsupportive habits - such as enslaving myself to a diet, convincing myself that vitamins are the cure for my lack of energy, punishing my body by over … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Living Your Yoga, Yoga & Ayurveda Tagged With: bodily intelligence, gmo, gunas, meditation, rajas, sattva, self healing, tamas, transformation, wholesome food, yoga

March 1 – 3: Yogic Cleansing Weekend with Swami Muktidharma

February 4, 2013 by Devangi Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Events Archive Tagged With: Anahata, cleanse, fire ceremony, food, havan, kirtan, meditation, purification, satyananda, transformation, yoga

Is Reference Point Therapy a Healing Modality That Truly Works?

June 9, 2012 by Kara-Leah Grant 6 Comments

Ben Ralston

by Kara-Leah Grant Late last year, Sivananda Yoga Teacher and Reference Point Therapy Healer Ben Ralston published a short article on Elephant Journal enthusiastically sharing the story of one of his clients, Profound Healing: Depression and Thyroid Function. Eighteen months after he'd seen her for one Reference Point Therapy healing session, this client was still experiencing total transformation from long-lasting depression, plus she'd never needed the thyroid surgery she'd had … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Video Interviews Tagged With: ben ralston, depression, healing, reference point therapy, transformation

How yoga helped me to… become curiouser and curiouser

May 23, 2010 by Guest Author 2 Comments

This is the fourth post in a series of yoga stories from readers. Tell us how yoga changed your life and go in the draw to win a yoga prize package. Submitted by AF of the North Island I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then. - Lewis Carroll,  Alice in Wonderland I was newly single and reeling from my first ever broken heart. I was over-worked and highly stressed.  I was in my third year of business (owner/operator) and trying desperately to not fail at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me Tagged With: transformation

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