by Mike Berghan | Jun 14, 2024 | Mike's Blog, Uncategorized
In late Sept./early Oct. of 2023 we went on our second Yoga Pilgrimage in India. We started with 7 nights in the holy city of Rishikesh doing and Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga workshop. Our venue was on the banks of the Ganges and the river certainly worked her magic. All the...
by Mike Berghan | Nov 3, 2023 | Mike's Blog
Yoga and Cultural Appropriation A little while ago a good friend was telling me that he’d been listening to a pod cast in which they were discussing yoga and cultural appropriation. He felt that they were basically accusing most New Zealand yoga studios of...
by Mike Berghan | Feb 17, 2023 | Mike's Blog
(With apologies to Robert M Pirsig) Ashtanga Yoga and the Art of Motorcyle Riding Those of you who know me well also know how much I love riding my motorcycle, so I thought I’d write about Ashtanga Yoga and the art of Riding. I own a Honda NC750X and it makes a...
by Mike Berghan | Sep 19, 2022 | Mike's Blog, Uncategorized
It is starting to feel as if we are finally coming out the other side of the Covid pandemic and I’ve been thinking about how it has changed things and how I am dealing with those changes. Our response to the pandemic and our government’s handling of it has...
by Mike Berghan | Jul 18, 2022 | Mike's Blog
It is Winter here in Aotearoa/New Zealand and it’s cold, wet and windy in Wellington. This makes the Yoga āsana practice more challenging. When you get to my age (mid sixties) its like pick-a-part of the body to be sore this week. All these little aches and...
by Mike Berghan | Apr 12, 2022 | Mike's Blog
On my first few trips to Mysore in the ‘nineties I would study Sanskrit chanting with a beautiful man called Professor Nairayanācarya (please forgive me if I have spelt that incorrectly as I knew him as “The Professor”). A small group of us Western yoga students...
