Managing life and acceptance
Saturday, June 26th, 2010 Posted in Yoga Teacher Perspectives, Yoga Teacher Trainee Perspectives | No Comments »Have you ever known anyone faced with a life threatening illness? Have you or someone you know been confronted with an unexpected and potentially life threatening situation where everything normal went 'into a spin'? How did you, or they react? ...
Volcanoes and Yoga
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 Posted in AFTER Yoga Teacher Training, Yoga Teacher Perspectives, Yoga in the World | 1 Comment »If you’re a keen observer of daily events, it would be hard not to rate the recent turmoil affecting air travelers in northern Europe right up there with the major stories of the year. Who would have thought an active ...
Forget the science, save the planet!
Friday, March 26th, 2010 Posted in Yoga Teacher Perspectives, Yoga in the World | No Comments »Like you, I like to live a life which shows my passion about the environment. Like you, I recycle paper and glass waste at home. I try and buy locally produced food and goods from my neighbourhood greengrocer or weekly ...
Senior Teacher Bettina shares from India
Thursday, December 31st, 2009 Posted in Yoga Teacher Perspectives | 1 Comment »I am now in Tiruvannamalai a town in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu famous for its holy mountain Arunachala, a place of pilgrimage, and the Ashram of the great Sage Ramana Maharshi. I'm with Christine (Byron Yoga Centre ...
Celebrating the season with Yoga
Monday, December 7th, 2009 Posted in Yoga Teacher Perspectives, Yoga in the World | No Comments »It’s December and there’s high tension in the air. It’s not just the ever bubbling and changing political landscape which has dominated recent time here in Australia. Rather, it’s that feeling of extra demands on our time and yet not ...
Continual Learning
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 Posted in AFTER Yoga Teacher Training, Yoga Teacher Perspectives | No Comments »The teaching staff at Byron Yoga regularly attend other courses and workshops to continue their learning and share this new experience with their students. Gitam Garden, who looks after course enrollments at the Byron Yoga Centre, recently completed the ten day ...
Managing crisis through yoga
Friday, November 6th, 2009 Posted in Yoga Teacher Perspectives | 2 Comments »Even the most casual of us who follow the news would know that the South Pacific and Indonesia were recently rocked by major earthquakes and tsunamis. The death toll in American Samoa, Samoa and Tonga-the worst hit regions-was as high ...
Yoga, Japan and Women’s Health
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 Posted in Yoga Teacher Perspectives | No Comments »It’s amazing how circular one’s life can be. I find myself, after some 14 years have elapsed since I shelved my ‘previous life’ as an academic, specializing in Japanese feminism, inadvertently exploring elements of this same subject area, in my ...
Understanding myself through Yoga and Meditation
Thursday, September 17th, 2009 Posted in BEFORE Yoga Teacher Training, Why enrol in Yoga Teacher Training?, Yoga Teacher Perspectives | No Comments »Yoga, to me, means focusing on the self. Gaining a better understanding of ourselves and our actions through meditation and reflection. I believe we have lost the ability to look deep within ourselves for answers - in the world we ...
Making time for class
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 Posted in BEFORE Yoga Teacher Training, Yoga Teacher Perspectives | 2 Comments »We live in a time hungry world. Each day filled with time dependent activity starting from the moment we wake to the second we retire, each event pushing into the next with monotonous regularity. It’s said that despite the onset ...
