New Beginnings, starting over and getting into the groove. This is my first recording while I travel overseas, a nice gentle hatha yoga class that works your legs, hips, spine and shoulders. About 70 minutes of yoga, breathing and relaxation.
Category: 2. Nina’s Musings
So what do you do on a Yoga cruise you may ask? Well, firstly you check in to your cabin which we found
Thank Goodness I’m not a Yoga Octopus! People often think that Yoga teachers are these really chilled, relaxed, unfazed, unfrazzled and enlightened beings… Needless to say, they couldn’t be further from the truth if they tried. So, sorry to break your image of your Yoga teacher and friend, but I would just like to tell […]
3 Vital questions all teachers should ask new students. If my Cape Town phone doesn’t get at least one phone call a week with someone asking me what Yoga should they should practice in South Africa, I would call it a quiet week! Nearly on a daily basis I get an influx of emails in […]
“With the lightest of rain new growth appears..” With the earth scorched after the Cape Town fires, I thought about the role the amount of water and the way in which it arrives, plays in keeping the mountain, fynbos and all the little creatures who live there, alive. If we had a sudden downpour of […]
“Mother Earth I honour you, I bare my soul and pray for rain.” For those living in Cape Town, we have been heaved, flung, flown and thrown through so many emotions over the last few days that life feels confusing, unstable, helpless and very emotional. The beauty of it? The community has come together as […]
It was 7 years to the day when a very young and nervous Nina, was standing in front of a group of local yogis introducing the very first edition of Yoga Awakening Africa. How things have changed since that morning. Like they say, time flies, but it really does feel like it was just the […]
I love this time of year as it’s when I take a step back from teaching, take time out to relax a little and get into some good novels. So I decided to start this holiday with the new book by Redi Tlhabi, (in my mind still Direko), “Endings & Beginnings” a story of Healing. […]
Albert Einstein must have been a yogi, because he knew what he was talking about. If we take the time out of our hectic schedule and just pause for a moment, look out the window and see the world as it is, we would be in a much better space. The mountain is just […]
Awakening the Puppy Love. Thanks to Celeste for undertaking this huge initiative of trying to get at least 100 Santa Pawz gift bags for puppies and dogs donated so that they can be handed out in our underprivileged communities for Christmas this year. So why not meet Wally and see what he has to say […]