by Mike Berghan | May 11, 2015 | Events, News
Martina is looking forward to teaching again in Wellington, over the long Queen’s Birthday holiday weekend. Saturday 30th May 9am-11am LED COUNTED PRIMARY -A beautiful flow and breath focused class where students are led through the Primary Series together with every...
by Mike Berghan | May 11, 2015 | Mike's Blog
Years ago in the Shala in Lakshmipurram one of the students asked Guruji which God they should worship. Guruji replied “Pick a God, any God, it doesn’t matter”. Of course as a Brahman Indian, Guruji meant any god in the Hindu pantheon, but he went on to say that...
by Mike Berghan | Apr 25, 2015 | Mike's Blog
What is Ashtanga Yoga? We all know that “Ashtanga” is the 8 limbs of Yoga and that the first 4 limbs- Yama, Niyama, Asana, and Pranayama, are the external limbs. Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, and Samadhi are the internal limbs. I like to think of the first 4 limbs as...
by Mike Berghan | Sep 30, 2014 | Mike's Blog
I have blogged about this subject before, but this is the time of the year when I seem to get a lot of people mentioning areas of pain they are experiencing in their practice, so I don’t think it will hurt to address the issue of pain in the yoga practice again....
