Seems like the issue of integrity in yoga is being asked a lot.
Has yoga in the west lost its meaning? Is it just a physical practice to lose weight, or a trend?
Very interesting questions, I hope this video helps to elucidate some of those issues.

First of all, wishing all the people affected by the bushfires all the best, there is a forum here to share fundraising events for the yoga community Secondly, FindYoga has a new simplified searching system, thanks to Akash in India for spending 5 months developing the google maps system, I think it is pretty cool. please have a look on the findyoga homepage: www.findyoga.com.au you can now search via postcode for schools, teachers and events or for classes near you. Lots of stuff going on in the Australian Yoga World! In April, there are 2 great events in Sydney. The 2nd Australian Yoga and Ayurveda Conference is being held on the 3rd to 5th of April and Yoga09 is on the 17th -19th of April. In addition there are hundreds of Workshops, retreats and special events around Australia and also internationally. we have also been busy launching the new Global Yoga Directory at www.findyoga.com please have a peak and let us know what you think. This format is going to be coming to Australia as well, so any feedback would be much appreciated. May you all be happy Blessings, Alex FindYoga

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Just wanted to mention a wonderful event that was held on on the 1st of Feb at the Sydney Botanical Gardens. Kate Peterson who helps with Yoga Pass and is a NSW state rep on the YTAA put together a wonderful discussion and lunch to bring the yoga teaching community of Sydney together.

It was a lovely day sitting under a fabulous day, as we came together to talk about interesting subjects related to yoga.

We had 5 questions that we were given to think about and we all discussed them in earnest.

1. You often hear that the popularity of yoga has become the new aerobics in Australia...the implication that it is a fitness fad that will pass like the rest. Do you think this is so?


2. Abby Ellin in her article in the Sydney Morning Herald last weekend “ Chakra, rattle and roll” posed the question : “Must the road to enlightenment be paved in sincerity? Can only the super-earnest attain spiritual salvation?”


3. Osho has said” Ecstasy is the greatest revolution. I repeat it – ecstasy is the greatest revolution. If people become ecstatic, the whole of society will have to change because society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war; you cannot make them obsessed with money” Is Yoga more than just helping ourselves “feel” a little better. Do we want to create a significant shift in human consciousness and culture—a revolution that can help change the world?


4. Are there points of focus or techniques , particular sutras we can use to ease our participant’s minds into the concept that yoga is about bringing this world into a healthier happier space.


5. What is your grandest vision for the role of yoga in Australia now and in the future?

The answers all were quite interesting and provoked a deep thought as to what we are all trying to do in the yoga world. How are trying to make changes and increase peoples health happiness and connectedness.