Catch the New Zealand Guide to Yoga Teacher Trainings 2017 here. Catch the Australian Guide to Yoga Teacher Trainings 2017 here. ----- Welcome to the YLB's comprehensive guide* to New Zealand-based Yoga Teacher Trainings available in 2016 and early 2017. Although we can't claim to feature every Teacher Training on offer, we are amazed at the number and diversity of the trainings that we are able to cover. It's a good time to be a yoga practitioner in this country!Note that many of these … [Read more...]
How Bone Compression Prevents Me from Doing Bhujapidasana
by Kara-Leah Grant I've been aware of the role that bone compression plays in our range of movement since watching a series of Paul Grilley videos on YouTube.Yet despite knowing this intellectually, it wasn't until I attended a Yin Yoga Workshop with Karin Sang and Markus Henning Giess of Yin Therapy that I realised how bone compression was impacting my yoga practice. Over the course of the day, Markus lead us through several bone compression tests so we could determine our natural range … [Read more...]
What Does it Really Take to Teach Yin Yoga? {Video Interview}
by Kara-Leah Grant Yin Yoga has been around for a couple of decades now. Actually, that's not quite true. Yin is not so much a style of yoga as a way of practicing yoga. It's likely that yoga has been practiced in a yin manner for thousands of years. But it's only come to prominence in the West in the last two decades, largely (but not only) due to the influence of Paul Grilley.Paul's passion for and spread of Yin Yoga comes from combining three main threads of inquiry - an in-depth study … [Read more...]