Breathe Easy - A Covid Update
Breathe Easy without a Mask The Health Minister has announced that we no longer need to wear masks while we are on our yoga mats. Please...
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Our Letter to ANZ
Recently, we sent a letter to ANZ as a customer... asking them to also withdraw their financial support of oil and gas.
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No More Stretching in Yoga
if we describe ourselves as "being a bit stretched at the moment" we mean that we are overdoing things
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Keeping Good Mental Health
Keeping the timetable means you can keep your routine.
When so much has changed in such a short space of time...
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Setting Up Your Home Practice Space
As we move to more online classes and prepare ourselves for the possibility of the studio being fully online for a period of time, it is...
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Facing Fear
How do we move from inwardly focused and centred around the self to an outward practice of compassionate work in the community?
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Difficult Discussions within the Iyengar Community
Our blog this time covers an issue that we feel needs to be discussed openly. We have talked several times about recent events within the...
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Yoga Sequencing
Have you ever noticed that in a yoga class, we generally start with something quiet, then some standing poses? We always end with...
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Creating a Yoga Space
I have been looking through the teachers' notes from the Home Practice Workshop recently. In the Home Practice Workshop, we conduct an...
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Why Am I Here?
We're all part of a yoga community in some form or another, whether you're reading this just because you like reading this type of...
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Self Soothing
My partner and I certainly can’t claim to be young Dads, but we are new Dads. And we’re six weeks into a different phase in our lives –...
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Perception is Reality?
This morning in class I showed Kate how, because she hyperextends her knee, when she bends the knee (just slightly), her leg is straight....
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Yoga vs. Defqon.1
The Defqon.1 Festival hit Penrith over the weekend and drew a huge crowd to the International Regatta Centre. The event even made its...
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In Our Bodies
"... seeing a healthy body as one that is vital, sensual, at ease, regardless of its size and shape."
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Yoga for Women
I looked around the group of usually vibrant, fresh-faced women in my class, and on this day I saw bags under eyes, pale skin, a dullness...
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Can I do yoga if I don’t fit in?
“Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn’t require...
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What Is Iyengar Yoga? A Personal Perspective
We recently added the phrase “An Iyengar Yoga School” to our website. As certified Iyengar Yoga teachers we have permission to use this...
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Is Looking Inward the Same as Naval Gazing?
Just recently, I went to a talk by Hugh Mackay on “community”. I was nodding my head as he talked about rampant consumerism and how it...
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Why Standing Poses? Answer 3
This blog is the last in our series on standing poses. In this discussion, Bruce looks at his own experience of how standing poses have...
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In Search of the Perfect Pose
I read an article recently that described Iyengar yoga as being in search of the "perfect" pose. My first reaction was defensive: That's...
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