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Winter Ashtanga Yoga — What’s Happening?

Winter Ashtanga Yoga — What’s Happening?

It is Winter in Aotearoa/NZ at the moment and this can be a difficult season for practice. We often have more time but experience the resistance in the body and the challenge to be motivated that are hallmarks of the colder months. Next year, 2022, I will have been...

When Am I Ready For The Next Asana? – Ashtanga Yoga

When Am I Ready For The Next Asana? – Ashtanga Yoga

I have written before about the “slowly, slowly, Ashtanga Yoga” method but want to emphasise it again in the light of a couple of recent examples I have had. We all know that the method is that you can comfortably do an asana in the Ashtanga sequence before you move...

Pandemics and Politics 2020

Pandemics and Politics 2020

An Aotearoa/NZ Ashtanga Perspective: Now that we have finally got to 2021, I thought I'd do a review of 2020 given that it was such a momentous year. It started for us with the Australian bush fires and the smoke haze that made it all the way across the Tasman sea and...