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Yoga Teacher Interview: Magenta Smythe.

1. Name: Magenta Smythe 2. DOB: 21/11/1979. 3. What style of yoga do you teach? My style is Hatha and I specialize in pre and post-natal yoga. 4. Where do you teach? I teach from my studio at home, Blossoming Bellys in Pretoria. 5. How long have you been practicing yoga? 10 years. 6. How […]

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Yoga Teacher Interview: Tine Robinson

1. Name: Tine Robinson. 2. DOB: 15 February 1960. 3. What style of yoga do you teach? Sivananda. 4. Where do you teach? At Lotus Studio and in our local township. 5. How long have you been practicing yoga? About 11 years. 6. How long have you been teaching yoga? 8 years. 7. Who have you trained with and […]

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Yoga Teacher Interview: Brett Wearne

 1. Name: Brett Wearne 2. DOB: 29 June 1969 3. What style of yoga do you teach? Vijnana Yoga with a mix of exercises to release the fascia and borrowing from my experience as a physiotherapist. 4. Where do you teach? From my small pyramid home studio on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada. 5. How long […]

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Yoga Teacher Interview: Nina Saacks

1.       Name: Nina Saacks. 2.       DOB: 13 October 1981. 3.       What style of yoga do you teach? Integral Hatha Yoga, (Sivananda trained). 4.       Where do you teach? At the Yoga Ayana Studio in Tokai, Cape Town. www.saacks.com 5.       How long have you been practicing yoga? Since 2001. 6.       How long have you been teaching yoga? Since […]

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Yoga Teacher Interview: Juanita Caprari.

1. Name: Juanita Caprari. 2. DOB: 29 July. 3. What style of yoga do you teach? Hatha Vinyasa. 4. Where do you teach? I teach group classes at a studio at Renaissance Body Science Institute, 183 Bree Street, Cape Town, corporate yoga classes at the client’s work premises and private sessions in the privacy of […]

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YAA Book Review: “Follow the Sun” by Sharni Quinn.

As some of you may already know. Sharni is an Australian born South African from Joburg, now living in Cape Town. She started off in the advertising and media world, transitioned into yoga, got married and after a downward spiralling marriage to her bipolar husband, Sharni herself started suffering from depression. The book takes us […]

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