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Yoga Nidra for Sobriety – A journey to wholeness.

February 10, 2021 by Guest Author 1 Comment

A new outlook for 2021

By Veronica King, Grassroots Yoga & Health As a tantric yogi I have always enjoyed saying yes to life, all of it! For years I’ve had boundless energy to work, play, practice and party. All in equal measure. But over the last few years I noticed a significant shift, my tank that was always full, was not topping up and suddenly I had a completely empty tank. I was depleted, exhausted, facing a health crisis. So I sat with the question, what depletes me and what nourishes me?  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Energetic Practices, How Yoga Helped Me, Meditation Practices Tagged With: Integrative Amrit Method, Sobriety, tantra, yoga nidra, yoga practice

Top 10 Best Yoga Articles of 2020

January 26, 2021 by Cara Butler Leave a Comment

by Cara Butler Let's be honest..... many of us were quite happy to see 2020 come to an end. A year that exposed us to not only a global pandemic and its devastating knock-on effects, but a huge range of worldwide injustice and social chaos. Despite the understandable urge to move on and put 2020 well behind us, I believe in the need for reflection. Reflection on both the challenging times AND the amazing moments that were present in-between. Here at the Yoga Lunchbox, we have been revisiting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Starting • The Foundations of Yoga Tagged With: 2020, meditation, top ten, yoga, yoga nidra

Building Resilience with Yoga and Meditation

October 22, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

By Swami Karma Karuna, Anahata Yoga Retreat What is Resilience? No matter who we are, the state of the bank balance, or which country we live in; the twists and turns of life, deaths, jobs, relationship stresses, natural disasters, and trauma can affect us all. Change influences each of us differently, altering our biochemistry, thoughts, and emotions. Resilience is our ability to come back to our centre, to rebound from adversity, and to respond to a challenge in a creative … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Meditation Practices Tagged With: meditation, resilience, stress management, swami karma karuna, yoga, yoga nidra

Tantra and Purpose in the Time of the Pandemic

September 10, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Una Hubbard, Meditation and Yoga with Una As I write this we’re over halfway into the “Year of the Pandemic”, or what boils down to the “Year of Great Upheaval and Uncertainty”. If you’ve been on Facebook you’ve no doubt seen the many memes declaring 2020 the year we all would just as soon forget. It’s as though we’re all holding our breath until this Covid thing is over. We’re biding our time, waiting it out. And at some point in the future, there will be a fix …. and then we’ll be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Meditation Practices Tagged With: meditation, pandemic, purpose, tantra, yoga nidra

Meeting Life As It Is: iRest Yoga Nidra & The Practice of Opposites

March 19, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Una Hubbard, Meditation and Yoga with Una I used to be a perfectionist living life in black and white, ‘either/or’. My understanding of the depression I experienced, for instance, was to find a way to be happy. If sad, be happy. I mean, simple really. I also had a real beef with anger. And that beef was simply this: I really didn’t like it. I didn't like it when someone raised their voice or showed displeasure. I wanted it all to go away. I wanted calm instead. If angry, be calm. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meditation Practices Tagged With: Dr Richard Miller, iRest, meditation, Opposites, Una Hubbard, yoga nidra

Cultivating Unshakeable Peace & Wellbeing with iRest Yoga Nidra: An Interview with Fuyuko Toyota

February 6, 2020 by Guest Author 1 Comment

by Neal Ghoshal Ten years ago I had the great pleasure to meet Fuyuko Toyota. We were both assisting our teacher Donna Farhi on a long 21-day training and I was immediately drawn to Fuyuko for her warmth, her humility and humour and her deep, compassionate wisdom.  Over the three weeks, we developed a beautiful appreciation for each others' teachings, and a delightful friendship which has only deepened through the years. Now we are like brother and sister on the Yoga path! It has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga Styles Tagged With: iRest, iRest Yoga Nidra, Neal Ghoshal, yoga nidra

Life, Before and After iRest

September 12, 2019 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Una Hubbard, I'll never forget my first encounter with iRest® founder - Richard Miller. I was in the Gold Coast at the first wave of teacher trainings to come to this part of the world, feeling very much out of my depth and wondering if I should even be there - I mean, who was I to think I could teach people to meditate? But there I was, and so was Richard Miller. I wasn't at all sure what to make of him, but I walked over and, with all my nervousness, the first thing I said was, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Living Your Yoga Tagged With: iRest, yoga nidra

8 Reasons Why Yoga Nidra is the Hottest New Yoga Trend

February 5, 2018 by Lucinda Staniland Leave a Comment

Anahata Yoga Nidra Training

By Lucinda Staniland By now you've probably come across Yoga Nidra, one of the hottest trends to hit the Yoga scene in recent years. Everyone is doing it, from your trend-setting Instagram-loving best friend to your old-school internet-free great Aunt. But what is Yoga Nidra exactly, and does it deserve its sudden popularity? To the latter, I answer with an emphatic YES, which I trust will quickly become clear in the eight points below. And for an answer to the former, I turned to Swami … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Paid, The Foundations, Yoga Styles Tagged With: anahata yoga retreat, restorative yoga, swami karma karuna, yoga nidra, Yoga trend

The Inside Story on Yoga Nidra & Restorative Yoga Instructor Training at Anahata Yoga Retreat

September 20, 2017 by Lucinda Staniland Leave a Comment

by Lucinda Staniland When you’re contemplating which Yoga Teacher Training is right for you, one of the best resources can be speaking to someone who has already done that training. Of course, it can be hard to track down former trainees, so we’ve done that hard work for you. In today's world, there is a great need for restorative practices like Yoga Nidra and Restorative Yoga, so I was delighted to hear that Anahata Yoga Retreat is offering a Yoga Nidra and Restorative Yoga Instructors … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Paid, Teacher Training Tagged With: Anahta Yoga Retreat, Yoga ashram, yoga nidra, yoga teacher training

Swami Karma Karuna on Yoga Nidra Training & Our Great Need For Restorative Practices

March 9, 2017 by Lucinda Staniland Leave a Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant Yoga Nidra has long been an important and regular part of my yoga practice. I found it invaluable when I had a newborn baby, as a way to rest and restore in less than twenty minutes. And, even more interesting, after doing it consistently for over a decade, I'm starting to reap some of the more esoteric benefits of the practice that Swami Karma Karuna describes below. For these reasons, I'm delighted to see that Anahata Yoga Retreat is holding a Yoga Nidra Instructor … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energetic Practices, Meditation Practices, Practices, Teacher Training Tagged With: Anahata, Kawaipurapura, restorative yoga, swami karma karuna, yoga nidra

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