Yoga
From celebrity to serenity - Elandra and Antion Meredith
Elandra and Antion Meredith are yoga experts and host wellbeing workshops around the world. Their lives now are a far cry from their beginnings with Elandra acting alongside some of the biggest stars… Audio
Leigh Hopkinson: stripping and empathy
Kim Hill talks to Leigh Hopkinson, a New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based writer and editor, whose first book is a memoir about her years working in striptease - Two Decades Naked. Audio
Ashleigh Young: essays and exercise
Ashleigh Young is a poet, essayist and editor, and teaches creative science writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters. Her first collection of personal essays is Can You Tolerate This… Audio
Andy Bearpark: Iraq, Thatcher and yoga
Kim Hill talks to Andy Bearpark arrived in New Zealand in 2013 after a 40-year career as a war zone reconstruction expert. He was one of Margaret Thatcher's five Private Secretaries for three years… Audio
Yoga in Prison
Adhyatma is the director of The Yoga Education in Prisons Trust, a registered charitable trust providing yoga and meditation education in New Zealand prisons. Audio
Yoga - for every body?
When you think yoga do you picture a slim young white middle-class woman? Yoga teacher Dianne Bondy is part of a movement to reclaim yoga for everybody. Audio
Arli - Fata Morgana
Arli Liberman, once known as the "Israeli Shredder" has released his second album Fata Morgana, a collection of songs to accompany yoga and meditation practice. Yadana Saw asks him about playing his… Audio
Temples of Perfection
A History of the Gym, historian and yoga teacher Eric Chaline explains the influence of 'exercise spaces' throughout Western society. Audio
Selling Yoga
Over the last few decades, yoga has exploded in popularity, especially in the west. But as it did so and also adapted to suit the needs of consumer culture, has it lost its connection to its ancient… Audio
Spiritual Outlook for 5 April 2015
What happens when the faith that we are born into doesn't align with who we are on the inside? We meet two young women who go on an exploration of self-discovery to find a path to freedom and… Audio
Girls on board: Wellington ladies learning to surf
"Exhilarating and addictive…" that's how UK-born, New Zealand-based Francesca D'Oriano describes the feeling of riding a wave. Based out in Lyall Bay, the yoga instructor and founder of Wellington… Audio
Shoba Narayan
Our correspondent in the second-most populated nation of the world, India, pop. 1,210,193,422 (census. 2011) is Bangalore-based Shoba Narayan. The Rajasthan government has made the yoga practice of… Audio
Wanderlust
Pitched as a 'transformational festival' Wanderlust brings together yoga and music to open hearts, minds, and hip flexors. Started in the United States in 2009, the Wanderlust experience has reached… Audio
Yoga on the Water
Amelia Nurse heads out onto Wellington Harbour to find out about quite a novel water activity - stand up paddle board (SUP) yoga with instructor Megan Sety. Audio
Smart yoga mat
The SmartMat is a hi tech yoga mat with built-in sensors and pressure pads that can measure your poses. Neyma Jahan developed it. Audio
Yoga Joes
Dan Abramson's started hacking classic plastic toy soldiers to adopt yoga poses. Audio
Playing Favourites with Toa Fraser
Playwright, screenwriter, and director of theatre and film, whose pre-European Maori action movie The Dead Lands opens this coming week, and new play, Pure and Deep, will be staged in Auckland later… Audio
Yoga for Grumpy Men
How do you turn stressed middle aged men into happier individuals? An Auckland yoga teacher has come up with an idea. Audio
