by Mike Berghan | Jun 21, 2021 | Mike's Blog, News
It is Winter in Aotearoa/NZ at the moment and this can be a difficult season for practice. We often have more time but experience the resistance in the body and the challenge to be motivated that are hallmarks of the colder months. Next year, 2022, I will have been...
by Mike Berghan | Mar 12, 2021 | Mike's Blog, News
I have written before about the “slowly, slowly, Ashtanga Yoga” method but want to emphasise it again in the light of a couple of recent examples I have had. We all know that the method is that you can comfortably do an asana in the Ashtanga sequence before you move...
by Mike Berghan | Jan 14, 2021 | Mike's Blog, News
An Aotearoa/NZ Ashtanga Perspective: Now that we have finally got to 2021, I thought I’d do a review of 2020 given that it was such a momentous year. It started for us with the Australian bush fires and the smoke haze that made it all the way across the Tasman...
by Mike Berghan | Aug 19, 2020 | Mike's Blog, News
Random Thoughts on Practicing and Teaching through a Global Pandemic: Time is a fluid thing. It wasn’t that long ago, back in February, when I, like many people was saying, “It’s just a bad strain of the flu. Nothing to worry about”. The next thing you...
by Mike Berghan | Jun 24, 2020 | Events, Mike's Blog, News
Peter missed his March workshop with us due to the Covid rahui. We are pleased to announce that he will be doing this workshop in July instead. If you are interested in experiencing Traditional “Mysore Style” Ashtanga Yoga, delivered in Peter’s unique, gentle and...
by Mike Berghan | Mar 13, 2020 | Mike's Blog, News
Guruji was always a big supporter of families. He said that Ashtanga is “householder” yoga and that family was “Seventh Series”. I have mentioned this in passing in many of these musings but thought I might take this opportunity to explore it in more detail....
