Autumn Workshop with Peter Sanson 5 Mysore Mornings — Wed. 13th to Sun. 17th March 2024 COST:   $150 for all 5 Days      or:   $35 per session. All levels from Beginners to Advanced welcome. Booking Essential:  Click HERE to book. The post Autumn Workshop with Peter Sanson appeared first on Wellington Te Aro Astanga Yoga ..read more

Holiday Hours Xmas/New Year 2023/24 Last Class 2023: Friday 22nd Dec. Led Full Primary Series (Sanskrit count). 6:30 am start. All Welcome. Class also available via Zoom First Class 2024: Sunday 14th Jan. Led Class. 10:00 am start. TAAY, Mike & family wish you all a happy and safe Christmas and New Year celebration The post Xmas/New Year 2023/24 Holiday Hours. appeared first on Wellington Te Aro Astanga Yoga ..read more

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 cultural appropriation. It seems like I’ve heard the phrase “yoga and cultural appropriation” a bit this year. I’ve read a few articles about this recently. There’s one in “The Guardian” here, and another in “Stuff” here. Of course, this got me paranoid that I’m guilty of yoga and cultural appropriation. Then I ask myself what actually is i ..read more

New Moon Workshop with Peter Sanson 5 Mysore Mornings — Wed. 15th to Sun. 19th November 2023 COST:   $150 for all 5 Days      or:   $35 per session. All levels from Beginners to Advanced welcome. Booking Essential:  Click HERE to book. The post New Moon Workshop with Peter Sanson appeared first on Wellington Te Aro Astanga Yoga ..read more

Yoga Workshop in Rishikesh & Yātrā/Pilgrimmage: I will be away in Sept. teaching a 6 day (7 night) Yoga Workshop in Rishikesh and leading a Yātrā/Pilgrimmage to some of the most holy and beautiful temples in the Himalayan foothills. I am leaving early morning Sunday 17th Sept. and returning late Friday 13th Oct. For more details of the trip click HERE. While I’m away Te Aro Astanga Yoga is OPEN for self-practice. I have a fantastic crew of people who will open up so do support them by coming in for self-practice. The room will be warm and the vibe will be great. Philip has also agreed to ..read more

Peter Sanson Workshop 5 “Mysore” Mornings Wed. 16th to Sun. 20th Nov. 2022 Cost: $135 for all 5 sessions — $30 per session Booking Essential: info@astanga.co.nz All levels welcome — from absolute Beginner to Advanced practitioners The post Peter Sanson Workshop — Wed. 16th to Sun. 20th Nov. 2022 appeared first on Wellington Te Aro Astanga Yoga ..read more

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 been interesting to track. It all started with the first lock down. We were a “team of 5 million” and we seemed to beat it. This brought us together and showed the best in us. We took on the “be kind” message and were nicer to each other. Covid is trickier than we thought though because it mutated and then it mutated again. We had more lock ..read more

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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 pains arise seemingly from nowhere. My way to manage this is to take it back to the basics. The KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid, theory of Yoga that is a good rule no matter what the season or what your age. It seems to be a thing with many people that they want to complicate things. For myself, the simpler I can keep things the happier I am ..read more

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 would gather at his house twic a week and he would teach us to chant the “Bhagavad Gita”. Though I was a poor student, these sessions were one of the highlights of those early trips. Not only was the Professor an erudite and learned man, he was also very funny. He had been a performing magician earlier in his life but was now retired ..read more