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Is It Good to Go Deeper in a Yoga Pose?

January 11, 2018 by Lucinda Staniland 1 Comment

by Lucinda Staniland For all the years I’ve been practicing yoga, I’ve always strived to ‘go deeper’ into the poses. In fact, I thought this was the point of asana. In the name of depth, I’ve pursued an ‘open heart’, and ‘release’ in the hips. Whatever the pose—lunges, backbends, twists—I’ve had an image in my mind of precisely how the pose should look, and the depth that I need to reach to achieve the perfect alignment. I’ve stretched my hands to my toes in standing forward bends, sunk deep … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Foundations Tagged With: Yin Therapy, Yin Yoga, Yoga anatomy, yoga injury, yoga teacher training

How I Finally Found the Perfect Yoga Teacher Training For Me

November 16, 2017 by Lucinda Staniland 1 Comment

Yin Therapy Yoga Teacher Training

by Lucinda Staniland I’ve had a serious home yoga practice for over 8 years and I’ve been working at The Yoga Lunchbox for almost as long. Over that time, I’ve been exposed to a wide range of Yoga Teacher Training programmes. I’ve interviewed many of the teachers behind the programmes, promoted their trainings on social media, and created Guides to help potential yogis find the perfect Yoga Teacher Training for them in NZ and Australia. I know what’s out there when it comes to NZ Yoga Teacher … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Paid, Teacher Training Tagged With: Yin Therapy, Yin Yoga, yoga teacher training

The Best Guide to NZ Yoga Teacher Trainings 2016

November 20, 2015 by Lucinda Staniland

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...]

Filed Under: Teacher Training Tagged With: Apollo Power Yoga, donna farhi, Jayayoga, jennifer allen, John Guthrie, Karin Michelle Sang, kawai purapura, Markus Henning Giess, Nianna Bray, Power Living, svastha yoga, Teacher training, Vincent Bolleta, Yin Therapy, yoga teacher training

How Bone Compression Prevents Me from Doing Bhujapidasana

July 21, 2015 by Kara-Leah Grant 7 Comments

My natural wrist extension, with internal force only.

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...]

Filed Under: Physical Practices, Practices Tagged With: bone compression, Karin Sang, Markus Henning Giess, Utkatasana, wrist extension, Yin Therapy, Yin Yoga

What Does it Really Take to Teach Yin Yoga? {Video Interview}

April 10, 2015 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

Yin Yoga caterpillar

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...]

Filed Under: Teacher Interviews, Video Interviews Tagged With: Karin Sang, Markus Henning Giess, yin teacher training, Yin Therapy, yin workshops

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