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e-zine ISSN 2422-9105 New Zealand Yoga Scene - Summer 2016-2017 1 Yoga Scene New Zealand - Summer 2016-2017 New Zealand Yoga Scene - Summer 2016-2017 ॐ Morning, afternoon and evening yoga classes ॐ 60 minute Reiki healing session ॐ Delicious organic vegetarian cuisine ॐ Plenty of free time to enjoy the salt water pool, sauna and spa ॐ 2 nights accommodation at Vartamana Retreat in the spectacular Waitakere Ranges 10th-­‐12th February 2017 Bookings and Info: 021 2521660 2 www.shantitaleta.com/yogaretreats/ 3 Yoga Scene New Zealand - Summer 2016-2017 New Zealand Yoga Scene - Summer 2016-2017 Contents Part 2 - Sacred Feminine and Yoga 6 Sanskrit Lesson - ‘Vayu’ 9 Inspired by Nature 10 A Yogalicious Revolution 14 Yoga Safari At Wanaka 17 Inner and Outer Ecology 24 Amaranthus - Wild About Weeds 30 Dancing in the Sun with Le Rire and Gaia Tribe 34 Asana De-constructed - Camel Pose 40 Little Bird Raw Cacao & Macadamia Nut Butter 43 Natural Beauty - Burns, Bites, After Sun, Rashes 45 Heal Your Body With The Help of Bees 47 Anatomy of Yoga - A Space for Your Heart 48 A Mindful Choice - Ascention Meditation 54 Asana Class - Sun Salutations for Summer 58 Invitation to Six with Shanti Taleta 64 Whangarei Heads Healthful Ways 67 Suess by Aum 71 Summer Skin Care 74 Janet Balcombes Latest Literary News 78 Book Reviews 79 Diary This 80 Editorial Yoga 101 ‘Sitting at the Feet of The Gurus’ 81 Namaste, Aligning Head and Heart in Unsettled Times 82 Teachers Corner 87 The inspiration of nature, our spectacu- The Yoga Lounge 92 larly beautiful outdoors and the balance Yoga Directory 94 and harmony this restores in our lives About New Zealand Yoga Scene 98 is presented in our Summer 2016-2017 edition. Cover Story: Dancing in the Sun - Wai- Inspiration - Nature heke Style! Le Rire, Franko Heke and Motivation - Being one with nature Gaia Triube put on a welcome to Wai- Take Away Lesson - Yoga is simply about heke and dance Yoga Rhythms at Mati- ‘Being’ anywhere, anytime, by following atia the island gateway Photography by the breath on a journey that leads you Graham Hooper- Page 34 to movement and stillness, from infinity outward to infinity inwards. Our beautiful Earth is our Studio - our breath and the Vayu’s our guide, our being, our teacher. In Peace, Love & Joy ‘I Am’ Om shanti shanti shanti, Susan 4 5 Yoga Scene New Zealand - Summer 2016-2017 New Zealand Yoga Scene - Summer 2016-2017 Sacred Feminine and Yoga Part 2 It’s all about Balance! By Swarmi Karma Karuna The Tantric view of creation is that there are two forces called Shiva and Shakti representing the male and female aspects of creation, which exist within each and every person. Shiva also called Purusha is the masculine force and is pure ‘consciousness’. Shakti or Prakriti is the feminine force that is pure ‘energy’. They cannot exist without the other and both are within each of us. This duality is also described in the word Ha Tha Yoga. Originally Hatha Yoga was not just twisting oneself into knots and standing on the head, but signifies the two great forces within every human being. The purpose is to balance theses forces and awaken a third force, the spiritual energy or Kundalini Shakti. The Ha represents the sun energy flow or Pingala Nadi; active, hot, logical and external in nature related to the sympathetic (fight and flight) nervous system. The Tha signifies the moon energy; internal, cool, creative, intuitive and connected to the para-sympathetic (relax and digest) nervous system. This duality is seen in the Yin and the Yang of Chinese philosophy, the two poles of a battery that make our car drive and out flashlight work. The positive and negative, winter and summer, day and night, sun and moon, hot and cold are a part of everyday experience. It is expressed in the way we think through the left and right brain, which have predominate expressions considered more masculine or feminine. Each of us contains both of these masculine and feminine principles within us and they underlie all of creation. However, one or the other dominates the majority of people limiting our expressions and functioning. They masculine dominated express is aggressive, logical and active but lacks the ability to go inwards and connect to the intuition and creativity. On the other hand, the expression may be more feminine in which qualities such as creativity and intuition dominate but perhaps the person is unable to speak up or rationally approach a problem. In either case an imbalance exists. Sometimes, people are able to access both types of qualities, but not usually simultaneously, so there is still a limitation. Many women have had to override the softer qualities to get ahead in a business setting and equally many women feel trapped in a lack of ability to assert themselves. The ultimate purpose of yoga or “union” is to balance these two forces, so that we are operating with the whole brain, not dominated by one expression or another. In yoga, the aim is to operate equally with attention to external and internal, with logic yet creativity, to be able to run when needed, but likewise relax. In exploring the sacred feminine, it starts by observing the self. Ask yourself which expressions feel more natural for you. For example, is your nature more extroverted or introverted? Do you put more attention on creativity or is it about logic. Is the sympathetic nervous system, stress and anger, over activated? Or are you sleeping your life away rarely acting or expressing. Is there enough energy to do your tasks or lacking in energy? How is your health reflecting the different types of qualities you are expressing? There is not a right or wrong, but simply honesty analyzing the self. When thinking about mental and physical health as women, look for what we seldom express or acknowledge and bring it into the light for review. Also, analyze that which may be over expressed. Many health issues are related to repressed or overexpressed thoughts or energy. For example, if there is not the ability to express ourselves freely, the blocked energy can be the root of depression or anxiety. If there is resentment, it can come out, as anger, which over an extended times, puts pressure on the adrenal glands and the cardiovascular system and can be a seed of high blood pressure and heart conditions. If there is a sense of insecurity, extra weight may be held on the body to protect the self or unhealthy relationships may be sought out as the attention temporally creates a sense of security. If there is a long-term habit of body or mind, for example holding the shoulders curved inwards which protect the heart, there is a physical and energetic affect on the body. In this case, the lungs are not getting proper expansion; the breath becomes limited, which creates oxygen deficiency, so that the cells and brain are not properly nourished. Also the thymus gland situated in the centre of the chest does not get adequate blood supply, which has an affect on the thymus function that is related to the immune system. 6 Ü Ü 7 Yoga Scene New Zealand - Summer 2016-2017 New Zealand Yoga Scene - Summer 2016-2017 Each and every habit and expression has a positive or negative influence on the mind and body and over time the ways in which we act, speak and think begin to create the reality we experience. In order to create good health Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्)Lesson and positive experiences, the first step is starting to understand ourselves, our ways of relating to life, family, work and gradually put positive habits in our lives and drop those which hinder the balance. VAYU - वायु It’s all about finding the balance in life. See Vayu ~ We are a spiral and tidal flow of pulsing energy upcoming articles for practices to enhance in the cosmic oceans. Yogi experience these subtle energies balance at the physical, mental and energetic as quite distinct from each other differentiating the unique levels. types of energy, and the term vayu simply means – subtle Upcoming articles energy. Sacred Feminine and Yoga Part 3-Honouring the forces within In a childlike way we can think of a vayu as the sky, with its Sacred Feminine and Yoga Part 4-Practical chemical cocktail of gaes that enbable us to breathe, thrive tools and inhabit this cosmic planet earth. Bio: Swami Karma Karuna can be found at - , yogi know this to be far broader and much Anahata Yoga Retreat, Golden Bay, she shares However her wisdoms through retreats and workshops at deeper than simply the sky. Yogi talk of ‘prana’ and know Anahata and through the practices of yoga, that the ‘life-force’ that is prana is carried in thart which is meditation and living in harmony and balance component to our sky but more than simply the sky or air. with nature and the land. For more information go to www.anahata-retreat.org.nz The yogi term this as prana vayu and apana vayu. There are many more than two ‘vayu’s’ or ‘winds’. But these are the main two. The intake or inhale or uptake of pranic energy and the eliminatatory or exhale or release of those energies which we have no use for - this can simply be surplus or re- sidual energy or the energy that needs to be re-charged or re-cycled by being returned to the ‘vayu’ - sky or wind. Once we understand the effects of ‘vayu’ whether to in- hale or exhale - we can see this is advetageous or beneficial to us - the subtle energies therefore are desirable or desirous and ‘vayu’ means in its simplest form - desirable energy or Bio: Susan Pryor – Language movement.

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