My Joy Body

The Joy Body – Find Your Joy

  • T’s & C’s

    Hi there, Just a few bits and pieces to cover my gluteus and to keep you safe. Warm regards Anneliese Joybody terms and conditions for individuals and group leader of corporate and business held yoga classes. YOGA TEACHER LIABILITY STUDENT WAIVER AGREEMENT By reading this you understand and agree to the terms. I  understand that Continue reading

  • The medicine of curiosity.

    Once whilst menstruating and teaching ‘Medicine Yoga’ I became open to the full power of this practice and the tool of curiosity.  I had started  feeling and seeing the effects on myself and students, but it wasn’t until this day that I felt the absolute power of this medicinal practice and its profound effect on Continue reading

  • Best Practice – Personal Practice Workshops

      Tracey Murphy is an Art Therapist and movement facilitator who passionately for over 15 years now, works alongside all ages, genders, and in all manner of organisations, to help facilitate new pathways along life’s journey for others.   Yogasarita is the director of Yoga in Life, Auckland, New Zealand and a sincere intuitive yoga Continue reading

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  • Injury and Golden Rule.

    This is the, or should be the biggest topic in Asana dialogue or maybe in all of yoga. My first expression must be one of warning. Please if you are injured stop and listen. Why, how, where and what? Like moving into Asana, treat this injury like a journey, the answers clarify the more you Continue reading

  • Private set up.

    Blocks, sand bags, bolsters and plenty of blankets… delicious. I am available for private classes, please follow the ‘contact’ details. Continue reading

  • Journey into the spine.

    Roll downs and the journey into the spine and the spaces in between. Spinal rolls – Rolling down the spine from a well constructed Tadasana is one of the most important journeys to take into the body.   Standing in Tadasana, feet hip width apart, knees over feet, stacked under the hips.   Drop the Continue reading

  • Moving into the space…

    created by the breath. As the breath moves into the body a space is created, as the breath moves out there is room for the body to move into that space.  We choose the quality of movement by our intention.  Do we chose to introduce work into that space, thus using  gentle force to sculpt Continue reading

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  • YOGA VERBS

    Yoga verbs: An introduction to the principles that support safe Asana practice. Align, Activate, Stack, Yield, Push, Reach, Breath, Lengthen, Broaden, Release, Tone, Support, Lift. These words I hear myself say over and over again. In fact each and every verb can be applied to almost every transition and asana. These relate to fundamental principles Continue reading

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  • WHAT IS YOGA?

    What is Yoga? Yoga is about meeting yourself, on the mat in this very moment of time.  Contrary to the majority of western thinking it is not about the ‘glory of the pose’.  There is a very real hangover from the decades when yoga become fashionable in western societies.  Yoga came through in a very Continue reading

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  • SURYANA MASKARA

    Suryana Maskara – Sun Salutaion “I rise to the call of the son of eastern suns, inevitably the day has began, its quarter to just right o’clock…” I find my own sunsalutaion is a beautiful way to start any day, it should be fluid, kind and juicy.  Allow each round to be different, allow the body Continue reading

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