by Kara-Leah Grant Hosting a travelling yoga teacher can be a successful and profitable venture for a yoga studio - if done right! It can use up "dead time" in the studio. It opens up an additional income stream. It can bring in students that don't usually come to the studio, some of whom may come back. It can increase the exposure and awareness of the host studio in the marketplace. It can educate and inspire the studio's student base. And it can be the beginning of an … [Read more...]
Donna Farhi on How to Find True Alignment in Your Yoga Practice
By Donna Farhi, Yoga teacher and author When I first began formal Yoga Teaching Training, yoga postures were taught as a series of check-lists, with a point-by-point focus on each and every body part. While this Simon-Says approach of monkey see, monkey do led to a pretty successful replication of a picture, it seemed to bypass the internal process of feeling one’s own body experience and learning how to find one’s alignment from that felt experience. As the years went on I began to feel inc … [Read more...]
How to Prevent the Practicalities Getting in the Way of Your Dreams
by Kara-Leah Grant Over the past decade I've become skilled at working with the unconscious and that which holds us back from realising our dreams. I'm adept at identifying something I would like to experience, and then making it happen. I wanted to write and publish a book. I've now written and published two. I had a dream of teaching Yoga Trance Dance with a live DJ rocking it behind me, and I'm now part of Yoga Rhythms with fellow yoga teacher, DJ and Goddess Rire. I dreamt of … [Read more...]
Have You Given Up Reaching for Your Dreams?
by Kara-Leah Grant Never before in human history have we known so much. We have unlimited information at our fingertips, and that information is constantly being updated. We know how to maintain optimum health including how to eat, how to exercise and how to practice yoga. We can learn any new skill for free - a new language, a musical instrument, we can even get a degree for free. No matter what dream we want to pursue, the information required to do so is available to us. Yet … [Read more...]
Embody Your Purpose: Insights from an Off the Mat Workshop
by guest author Jen Wilson, Off the Mat, Into the World I had never been to a ‘proper’ yoga workshop before despite I’ve practiced on and off since my teens. To start with I guess I thought yoga was cool, a bit hippy – I dug that. As life went on I wanted and needed more yoga, but I wasn’t sure where to find it. I was often overwhelmed, prone to the black dog, and scared of everyday life. I started to realise yoga was always there when I fell down. I committed to my yoga practice and someh … [Read more...]
November 17: Queenstown, Feel Energised & Alive – Make Yoga a Part of Your Daily Life
Want to Feel Energised and Alive Every Single Day? You Need a Regular Home Yoga Practice! Join Kara-Leah Grant, author of Forty Days of Yoga - Breaking down the barriers to a home yoga practice on this day-long workshop in Queenstown. In this hands-on practical workshop you’ll find out why you’re not practicing yoga regularly and you’ll design strategies to make regular practice a part of your life. It’s not about will power - it’s about understanding your psyche & how we often self-sabo … [Read more...]
January 17 – February 2: Dunedin, Auckland & Taupo, Matthew Sweeney NZ Tour
Join yoga teacher Matthew Sweeney for his 2014 tour of NZ with workshops exploring Ashtanga Yoga and Vinyasa Krama. These methods can support practitioners of any level. To find out more about the workshops and to register: Auckland: email Martina or visit the Stillness in Movement website Dunedin:email Tiffany or visit the Yoga Jai website Taupo: email Anandi or visit the Yoga Tree Taupo website … [Read more...]
November to December: Auckland, 20% off STOTT PILATES Mat and Reformer Instructor Training Courses
Core Pilates Studio is New Zealand's only STOTT PILATES training centre, offering full certification in the STOTT PILATES method. Our courses are globally recognised and provide a qualification that will equip you with the skills to compliment your Yoga practice with Pilates instructing. We're offering 20% off Mat & Reformer courses in Auckland from November to December 1 2013 while spaces last. See the Core Pilates website for more details - you can find out course dates here. … [Read more...]
September 27 & 28: Te Anau, Committing to Daily Yoga Practice Workshop
We know that daily home yoga practice makes us feel great physically, mentally and emotionally. Yet despite our best efforts, we still struggle to get on our yoga mat. In this hands-on practical workshop you’ll find out why you’re not practicing yoga every day and you’ll design strategies to make daily practice a part of your life. We’ll practice yoga, we'll talk about yoga, & we'll write about yoga... using practice, talking and writing to get to the core of why we're not practicing and … [Read more...]
September 21 & 22: Tauranga Yoga Centre Spring Yoga Workshops
Click on the PDF to view it at a larger size. Join us at the Tauranga Yoga Centre for a smorgasborg of yoga workshops tauught by a variety of teachers including Tony ter Ellen, Curly West, Karen Johnston, Brigid Macalister, Christine Terry & Sue Furey, Brigid Macalister and Tania Hanna. Workshops include sessions on the ropes, yoga nidra, restorative yoga and opportunities to go deeper into alignment and transitions. Book for individual workshops, or for the entire … [Read more...]