Posts tagged 'Yoga'
Friday, April 1st, 2011
Portrait by Susannah Conway Sometimes, like now, life turns out to be a bit trickier than I expected. These are the times when I find myself blinking like a mole in the daylight. When I’m tired. And unsure what my own bright future holds. When my sure places are shaky. And my steady hands are […]
Tags: joy, kindness, Yoga
Posted in Good things, Practices: Yoga, self care, Yoga | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
Over the past 18 months I’ve developed the curriculum for my 30 days of yoga course based on my personal experience and the feedback I’ve received from hundreds of participants. My questions were simple: – what gets in the way of us doing yoga? – what helps us overcome those barriers? In all your responses, […]
Tags: kindness, research, well-being, Yoga
Posted in Practices: Yoga | 3 Comments »
Saturday, March 5th, 2011
Guest post by Kara-Leah Grant, creator of The Yoga Lunchbox In conversations with friends and family up and down the country over the last two weeks, there’s a palpable feeling of change in the air. As owner of Dunedin Yoga Studio Emma Furness emailed to me yesterday: This awakening thing is getting closer – someone […]
Tags: eqnz, guest post, Yoga
Posted in Being the change, Yoga | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
As promised, I made a video today of a simple yoga practice for difficult time. Now, some of you might know of yoga only as those difficult looking bendy poses that people do on the cover of magazines like Yoga Journal. That is, indeed, yoga. But that’s not all there is to yoga. Yoga is […]
Tags: eqnz, healing, recovery, trauma, Yoga
Posted in Yoga | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
Free 30 minute very gentle (you can do it in a chair if you like) yoga class to help you get calm, centred and grounded these holidays
Tags: easy, self care, Yoga
Posted in self care, Yoga | 13 Comments »
Sunday, May 30th, 2010
The 30 days of yoga course beginning on 12 June is now full. The next course will begin on 10 August (new moon) and registrations will open in July. If you’d like early notice and a chance to secure your place, then you can sign up to my back-stage access mailing list either here or […]
Tags: Practices: Yoga, Yoga
Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Following on from last weeks post about my ‘shaming’ experience with a new yoga teacher, I reflect on whether it might all have been a positive learning experience after all. Maybe the teacher knew exactly what he was doing?
Tags: body-image, shame, Yoga
Posted in Practices: Yoga, Yoga | 12 Comments »
Friday, March 26th, 2010
Although yoga is a wonderful opportunity to find harmony between our body, mind and spirit, many of us experience body-shame as we approach yoga. What could yoga teachers be doing to reduce the presence of shame on the yoga mat?
Tags: body-image, shame, Yoga
Posted in Featured Articles, Practices: Yoga, Yoga | 34 Comments »