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Parampara- The Importance of Lineage in Yoga

By Mike | Published: May 14, 2012
Later this year I will celebrate 20 years of Ashtanga Yoga practice. My first year of practice was like most people, attending a class 2 evenings a week, but from Nov. 1993 I have maintained a daily Ashtanga practice. In this time I have learned many things. One of the most important being the concept [...]
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Disintegration

By Mike | Published: June 10, 2011
I had an interesting experience in Padmasana and Savasana today. Quite suddenly in Padmasana I observed the breath as completely separate from my body. In fact, it seemed to me there were 3 distinct entities; my body, my breath, and the me that was observing both. The separation was strongly defined. This experience was repeated [...]
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Why I am not Worried About the Current State of Yoga

By admin | Published: March 3, 2011
There seems to be some concern being expressed in the “Yoga Media” about the current state of Yoga in the West. I have read several articles of late questioning whether the asana oriented practice we do is really Yoga. Most of these articles use Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga as a typical example of this and of [...]
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Simple New Years Message

By admin | Published: January 20, 2011
Remember that your first practice of the New Year does not set the tone for the rest of the year, just as your first Suryanamaskar does not set the tone for the rest of your practice.
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Queen’s Birthday Weekend

By admin | Published: May 28, 2010
[ June 5, 2010 to June 7, 2010. ] There will be no classes on Sunday 6th or Monday 7th June in celebration of Queen's Birthday. Classes resume as normal on Tuesday 8th. Enjoy the long weekend.
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For All You Hardcore Cyclists

By admin | Published: February 8, 2010
Here is a link a student of mine who does a lot of cycling sent to me.  He assures me that under all the medical jargon, the message is, “yoga is good”.  http://www.cyclingnews.com./features/feature-marginal-gains-and-hypermyotonia. Interesting that modern science is catching up with what the ancient Rishis understood thousands of years ago.
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Hello world!

By admin | Published: February 1, 2010
Woohoo!!  We are up and running in WordPress.  I can tell it is going to take a little bit of time for me to really get the best out of this, but look out for exciting changes to our web site. If you need to get hold of us then email; info@astanga.co.nz or ph: 04 [...]
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Meet the teachers

By admin | Published: January 27, 2010
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New Ashtanga Beginners Course

By admin | Published: December 3, 2009
A new 6 week Intro course begins on the 20th of Jan. 2010. For more information email us or call Mike.
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Hello world!

By admin | Published: November 24, 2009
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! (Hey Mike. Type stuff in here and do whatever you like – you can’t really break anything). Mike at Te Aro Astanga Yoga is very excited about getting started on WordPress.  He can’t wait to get a new modern looking site up [...]
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