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Something New for You!

Posted on August 12, 2012 | Leave a comment

YA website

Wearing my other hat, purveyor of yoga practice cards, I want to announce that our new website has gone live.  You can find it at the same address www.YogaAnywhere.net that you used to find our old site.

On the new site you’ll find:

  • Full-screen images of every practice card in the YogaAnywhere range
  • Beautiful designs from Gretta Kool
  • A  Savasana video (plus an MP3 version to download for your iPod or iPhone)
  • My new blog
  • And, lots more….

We’ve done this website entirely in-house (just Gretta and me, with the invaluable – read unpaid! – help of Daniel, my husband).  We’re planning more videos, more articles, more interaction with you all and we’re planning to have a lot of fun with it.

Please visit and bookmark our new site.  And give us feedback.  We’re on a really steep learning curve and could use lots of help.  Namaste and enjoy. :-)

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Sharing or Shmoozing?

Posted on July 1, 2012 | Leave a comment

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I’m taking a little break from the 196 threads of Patanjali’s sutra tapestry, of which to date I’ve teased out forty-one.

The spirit of this particular post is all about caring, sharing, and networking. Have you noticed that’s what makes the world go ’round these days? I jumped on this bandwagon some time ago in becoming a blogger. Since then, I’ve learned about tweeting, posting to Facebook, LinkedIn, Google plus, tumblr, and lots more.

Some of my social media education has come through my computer guru, Daniel, and other of it through Brook McCarthy. She’s a smart cookie in many ways and has been helpful in increasing my exposure in the yoga world and developing marketing strategies.

Here’s a link to info on the seminars she is doing in Byron Bay and Brisbane in late July and August in Melbourne.

If you are unschooled in the realm of marketing and promotion and know you need to educate yourself, Brook’s workshops could be just the thing to help ground your understanding.

One other bit of sharing, I’ve just heard on the grapevine that Simply Yoga, the yoga studio I founded in Crows Nest and is now owned by John Norris, is moving along to a new home at the beginning of August – after 13 years in the same place!

It’s only a little move - 1st floor, Suite 101/4 Clarke Street, Crows Nest.

This leaves a beautiful space available at the old location on Willoughby Rd. If you know of anyone who is interested in having a look at a big, sunny (natural light), carpeted room, full of good vibrations from yoga practice over the years, then call Denise Cook on 94607091.

 

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Vote for Me in the Best Australian Blogs 2012 Competition

Posted on April 14, 2012 | 5 Comments

Bhujangasana

To my kindly “Yoga Suits Her” subscribers and other readers – you will see a big button when you go to my site, until May 9th, that is. It will be immediately to right of where you are reading – upper right corner – can’t miss it.

Clicking on the big button will magically take you somewhere I believe you can vote for my blog in the Sydney Writer’s Centre Competition. This People’s Choice round of voting is very competitive; there are approximately 1,000 entrants in various categories.

If you choose not to vote, no worries, I’ll still be here!

 

 

 

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Blogging award. A kind of peer recognition.

Posted on March 11, 2012 | 4 Comments

(Click to visit the Versatile Blogger site)

I (or more accurately Yoga Suits Her) have been nominated for a Versatile Blogger Award by yogaleigh from bluegrassnotes.  Thank you Leigh. These awards are a kind of mutual admiration society amongst bloggers.  Click on the image above and you can find out more about them.

These are the “rules”

  1. In a post on your blog, nominate 15 fellow bloggers for The Versatile Blogger Award.
  2. In the same post, add the Versatile Blogger Award.
  3. In the same post, thank the blogger who nominated you in a post with a link back to their blog.
  4. In the same post, share 7 completely random pieces of information about yourself.
  5. In the same post, include this set of rules.
  6. Inform each nominated blogger of their nomination by posting a comment on each of their blogs.

Here are 15 blogs that I like.

Five-Minute Yoga – myfiveminuteyoga.com
Yoga Dawg – yogadawg.blogspot.com.au
Yoga Dork – www.yogadork.com
Kelly Fisher – kellyfisheryoga.com
Marianne Elliott – maryanne-elliott.com
ShinyYoga – shinyyoga.blogspot.com
Adore Yoga – www.adore-yoga.com/blog.html
Body Mind Life Blog – www.bodymindlife.com/Blog
The Everything Yoga Blog – www.itsallaboutyoga.com
Cowgirl Yoga – bigskyyogaretreats.blogspot.com
Namaste Bitches – namaste-bitches.blogspot.com.au
Damn Good Yoga – www.damngoodyoga.com
Om Gal – www.omgal.com
Yogic Muse – brookshall.blogspot.com
Y is for yogini - www.yisforyogini.com

This is my random information

1. I do Yoga in the Shed in my pyjamas.
2. Australian is my second language. (American was my first, but now I can hardly speak it at all.)
3. My favourite music is country, especially the sad songs which sometime make me laugh.
4. I went to High School with Linda Ronstadt.
5. I love playing games and am fiercely competitive.
6. I love being intimate.
7. I set off the metal detectors at airport security every time.

This is all a bit of fun, and I’ve had fun putting this post together.  Please check out a few of those blogs.  They’re all great in one way or another.

Namaste,

Eve

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Yoga Conference – Don’t Miss!

Posted on March 10, 2012 | 1 Comment

 

Flame of Yoga

Here’s a heads-up for you, if you enjoy the experience of learning and sharing in community with your fellow yoga teachers.

Yoga Australia is presenting a conference in Sydney April 28-29 with a great line-up of speakers and workshop presenters.

I know that in the life of a yoga teacher, sometimes the expenses of insurance and keeping up with professional development can be financially taxing. But, until the end of March, you can save about $50 by being an early bird. I’ve heard that there are already 150 enrolees, so the conference promises to be well-subscribed and exciting.

I’ll be presenting a session on yoga teacher burn-out, or what I prefer to call “Self-Care for the Yoga Teacher: Sourcing Yourself”. The opposite of burning out is having the flame of yoga passion burn brightly and I’ll be offering some tools and experiential exercises to allow the flame to stay lit.

So please consider coming along. I’d love to see you there.

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Looking at Yoga Practice – “Through the Keyhole”

Posted on March 6, 2012 | 1 Comment

Near the end of last year, I was out in the Yoga Shed, all by my lonesome, practising yoga, and my mind drifted. (I think I was doing supta baddha konasana or some such very relaxing pose.)

I was thinking about what other people might be doing in their yoga practices these days – old cronies of mine, like Peter Thomson, Pixie Lillas, Shandor Remete. Did they still do a mainly asana-based practice? Or, had they adopted more of a pranayama/meditation orientation? I thought, wouldn’t it be interesting to be able to look through a keyhole and see what people were doing in the private of their yoga practice that might be interesting, inspiring, surprising….

That day, I called up Colin Clements from Australian Yoga Life magazine and suggested a column called “Through the Keyhole”, which would feature interviews with practitioners describing their yoga practices. The contributors could be yoga teachers, beginners just learning to do home practice, or experienced students willing to share struggles they might have with their practice. And, they might come from any tradition or style of yoga.

With this March-May issue of the magazine, my suggestion has been launched. And, Colin has kindly let my own interview introduce what I hope will be a popular series.

Here’s a little excerpt…when I was asked, “Why do you practice?”

It’s partly a habit. It’s my path to being the person who I am intrinsically….

[Yoga] helps me be true to myself in the real world (off the mat), and that becomes a habit by itself, the habit of being me.

Please have a look at Issue 34, not just for my piece, but also for all the great encouragement that that the articles of Australian Yoga Life provide.

AYLCover

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N.Y.Times Yoga Talk About Sex

Posted on February 28, 2012 | 2 Comments

Maybe it had to happen. Yoga has been on such a great roll. In recent weeks, though, the N.Y.Times has published a couple of articles, both by the same writer, that have stirred the opinions, angst, and ire of worldwide yogis.

The first yoga article by William Broad added promotional currency to his newly-ly published book, The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards. The piece was titled “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body.” There was a storm of activity on blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and on the New York newspaper’s on-line forum. Some yoga teachers felt they had to defend themselves to their students and even on YouTube videos.

That might have been enough brouhaha for this calendar year, but, no….

John Friend, creator and leader of the Anasura yoga movement, has messed up pretty badly. Friend’s personal ethics have been called into question, and it’s given the journo an opportunity to zoom in on sexual peccadillos of several other yoga gurus in his article, “Yoga and Sex Scandals: No Surprise Here”.

Broad takes the position of “what can you expect?” He claims that yoga, from its Tantric origins, was always going to be about arousing sexual energy. This explains why there are so many “sexual philanderers.” He even cites research being done that indicates yoga creates states not unlike those of orgasms: “Over the decades, many have discovered from personal experience that the practice can fan the sexual flames. Pelvic regions can feel more sensitive and orgasms more intense. Gee, I just want to say, “I’ll have what’s she’s having.”

If that were absolutely true, the global popularity of yoga would certainly be off the charts by now, and only ascetics and celibates would choose to stay off the bandwagon.

Kama Sutra

 

 

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Science of Yoga

Posted on February 14, 2012 | 2 Comments

There’s been trouble in the yoga world. First with Lululemon, the swish yoga gear outfitters. Then along came the stories of how yoga can wreck your body in the NY Times. And recently, we’ve read of scandalous tales sticking to the founder of Anasura Yoga,  dubbed “the fastest growing style of yoga in the world.”

Who’s to know the full extent of all these stories? We do love a little goss to complement our post-yoga practice chai lattes, though, don’t we?

If there were a huge scale – picture Lady Justice’s – to weigh the good stuff people say about yoga against the negative things that are said, it would have to tip heavily to the positive side. There’s scarcely a day that goes by that I don’t feel grateful for my yoga practice and hear or read similar comments from people I know.

So, no doubt yoga will survive the recent storms and will probably continue to thrive. If you want to know what all the fuss is about regarding “how yoga will wreck you”, check out the first reviews coming out about William J. Broad’s, The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards, featured on the YogaDork website.

Yoga Dork is worth a look in anyway with plenty of well-written articles and a sense of humour. They define themselves as…

anyone who spends enough time thinking about yoga. It’s like being multilingual. But with yoga. We brush our teeth in tree pose. It’s pretty dorky.

Vrksasana

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Not to Be Missed

Posted on February 10, 2012 | Leave a comment

I’d like to give a plug to the very deserving work of Yoga Australia, and encourage you to meet an extraordinary person who will be presenting YA’s conference in April.

Yoga Australia, formerly the Yoga Teachers Association of Australia, has done amazing work in this country to create a high standard of teaching for experienced and new teachers’ compliance. The organisation has helped build a nationwide community, holds meetings in the various states, includes members and officers from all states and now will soon hold its second conference.

I was privileged to meet Swami Satyadharma Saraswati while attending the Divine Feminine conference last year and heard her speak cogently and passionately on some aspects of yoga that might ordinarily be deemed esoteric. In her manner of explaining, abstract concepts became alive for me and accessible.

Swami Satyadharma Saraswati was born in the USA, and resided in India continuously for 35 years as a Sannyasin, spiritual renunciate, and teacher of Yogic Science. She is a highly experienced practitioner and teacher of the classical yogic systems within Satyananda Yoga. She has spent many years under the direct tutelage of Paramahamsa Satyananda, and his chief successor Swami Niranjanananda. During this time she has played a key role in the development of the Bihar School of Yoga as well as the Bihar Yoga Bharati, the world’s first Yogic University.

Since the year 2000, in accordance with her guru’s mandate, she spends part of each year, touring overseas, delivering workshops and seminars. She has been personally chosen by Swami Niranjanananda as the official Yoga Ambassador to formally represent Satyananda/Bihar Yoga internationally and specifically in South East Asia and Australasia.

Certain individuals are the real deal in yoga, mainly because they are steeped in personal practice over many years. Swami Satyadharma Saraswati is one of these, and happens to be very beautiful besides. Come to the conference and meet her, and the many other worthwhile yoga teachers at Yoga Australia 2012.
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