A Grateful Life Podcast: On Celebrating Yoga with Merridy Woodroffe
Podcast Host: Dr Lauren Tober This podcast episode is to celebrate our sponsor, Yoga Australia’s 25th year anniversary. And joining us is their Vice President,…
Category: Advocacy
Exploring the Yin of Yoga
Back in the 2010s Yin Yoga made a huge splash on the scene. It seemed to offer a counter-point to the fast and hot repetitive…
Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) Confident On List
For 25 years Yoga Australia has been the shining light in this nation for the promotion of yoga to the public and the development of…
Understanding Detachment
To want or not to want, that is the question. Earlier this morning, as usual, I went for an ocean swim followed by a cold…
Susan’s Bikram Yoga Journey
My yoga journey began relatively late in life, I was 56 years old. In 2002 I took my first class at Yoga Tree, Elsternwick, the…
Ayurveda and Yoga on Holotropic Breathwork
Let us explore the ancient links found in Ayurveda to what we now call “holotropic breathwork” and how we use breathwork to awaken kundalini via…
The Mountains Can Teach Us
A fresh look at Reconciliation In a recent post, Sissy Austin [via Clothing the Gaps] said “I challenge white Australia, to challenge Reconciliation Week. I am…
Modern Yoga: Interview with Duncan Peak
Understanding the unconscious thought patterns that run your life Is pain and tragedy a prerequisite for spiritual progress? Probably not, but there are so many…
Stigma and Silence: Menopause out of the shadows
There’s remarkably little awareness in society around menopause, let alone the equally important leadup period known as perimenopause. It’s odd, because Australian culture has become…
Seclusion and the City
A core teaching of yoga is the idea that each person possesses a series of layers, sheaths, or bodies, varying in subtlety. Our senses can…
