Classes will still be held over the long weekends but on a revised schedule, on Saturday, Sunday and Monday with one class per day from 9:00 – 10:30 am.
Open to all levels of students.
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This course is a great introduction for those who are just starting Yoga. With individual instruction from an experienced teacher and a focus on learning the starting poses in Iyengar Yoga, this beginners course gives new students an insight and understanding into the basics of Yoga.
In addition you will experience how correct alignment in simple postures have a powerful effect of freeing up tightness and unnecessary pain and tension in the body through various muscles and joints lacking symmetry.
Course runs ...
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Saturday 23rd Dec – Last day of normal timetable
Sun 24th Dec – Sun 7th Jan – One class daily – suitable for all levels;
- Sunday 24th Dec 9.00 -10.30 am
- Monday 25th Xmas day – Closed
- Tuesday 26th 9.00 -10.30 am
- Wednesday 27th 9.00 -10.30 am
- Thursday 28th 9.00 -10.30 am
- Friday 29th 9.00 -10.30 am
- Saturday 30th 9.00 -10.30 am
- Sunday 31st 9.00 -10.30 am
- Monday 1st New Year’s Day – Closed
- Tuesday 2nd 9.00 -10.30 am
- Wednesday 3rd 9.00 -10.30 am
- Thursday 4th 9.00 ...
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Exciting news – We have recently moved to a brand new studio space (in the same building)
It is a great open and sunny yoga space with plenty of room for more students, rope walls and a range of yoga props to support the asana’s.
Come and check it out.
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We will be open for one class a day over Labour weekend
Sat, Sun and Mon 23rd Oct
Start time: 9:00am – 10:30am
All levels welcome.
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Yoga, once the pastime of contemplative types, now comes in more varieties than ice-cream. All yoga has postures, relaxation and controlled breathing as core ingredients. But some schools emphasise power and strength and can include exercises that verge on the unnatural. Headstands, which you tell your children not to do, are a favourite of some yoga devotees, as are shoulder stands (not good for all the major nerve junction in your armpit) ...
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In this video, Iyengar, who descendants, students, and admirers fondly called “Guruji,” demonstrates and expresses his purest intentions in the form of asana, with nothing but the floor, space, gravity, and himself as tools.
Many of us weren’t around or into yoga early enough to witness how Guruji himself practiced, so this barebones, unembellished rendering of long, single takes of the yoga guru during his moving meditation is both a privilege and delight to see
Courtesy of www.doyouyoga.com
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Lower back pain is a common occurrence as we age and become less physically active. Over the years at North Shore Yoga we have worked with hundreds of students with various levels of pain and with regular yoga practice combined with specific guidance on postures and yoga poses we seen some amazing outcomes.
Below is a very informative article that was published in the International Journal of Yoga Therapy.;
Abstract
Low back pain is a significant public health problem that has reached ...
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Yoga: it’s never too late to reap the benefits
Courtesy of Josephine Fairley – www.theguardian.com
Yoga can help fight stiffness, hardening of the arteries, hormonal fluctuations, depression and loss of bone density. And, says Josephine Fairley, you can start at any age,
Looking at the famous photographs of BKS Iyengar – the grey-haired, bendy-bodied yoga guru (born, so we’re told, in 1918) – might have one of two effects. First, to inspire awe at how ...
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North Shore Yoga Gift Vouchers are now available as the perfect Christmas gift or birthday present.
Vouchers come in 5, 6 or 10 classes and can be purchased directly from the Yoga studio in Takapuna.
Talk to Joy to find out more.
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