Injuries can be our best medicine

I first came to ashtanga yoga quite broken although I didn’t realise it. I was 22 when I decided to try yoga. I had been training in the gym, swimming, running, paddling canoes – you name it I was doing it and I felt really fit and strong. I walked into my first ashtanga yoga … Read more

Samskaras : you can change your storyline

‘Yoga is the process of replacing old patterns with new more appropriate patterns’      Sri Krishnamacharya ‘And then it dawned on me that I didn’t have to put up with this shit anymore’    Penel McNally (one of our regulars at Live and Breathe Yoga) I heard these two quotes this last week and … Read more

Learn the finishing postures

The last three postures of the ashtanga yoga practice are just as important and the Sun salutations in the beginning. When we start practising ashtanga yoga we often just learn the sun salutations and then these three finishing postures.  Yep that’s it to begin with. And if you are time poor, this is also a … Read more

Why I love asana

When I was in my first year at university, I was in a serious car accident. I was thrown out the back window and finished up out in the dirt about 10 metres from the car.  I’d broken both my arms in multiple places, dislocated my wrists, and had damage to my back.  I was … Read more

Learn to Headstand

A headstand is one of those postures that everyone wants to be able to do.  It’s majestic and quite magical and seems so impossible when you first give it a try. When I first started practicing yoga, I remember seeing other folk in my class doing headstand, with ease, thinking I would never ever be able … Read more

Live and Breathe Yoga’s Instagram challenge

Yoga Instagram challenge starting on October 1st 10 days… 1 drishti per day and one day of turning our gaze inward to our heart in meditation… We are so excited to announce the first Live and Breathe Yoga Instagram challenge to help you inwardly focus. ALL levels are welcome to join this challenge. This is … Read more