South Africa Yoga

Cassandra Collins runs the Yoga Odyssey studio in Byanston, Johannesburg. Yoga Odyssey offers Hatha, Vinyasa and Kundalini yoga classes throughout the week. Here Cassandra tells us how she got into yoga and why she loves Kundalini yoga.   1. How did you get into yoga? During my childhood instinct led me to use my breath [...]

This month fellow yogi, Nzinga Qunta, founder of new media company JucyAfrica and co-owner of boutique model agency, Ayana Africa, tells us why she loves Bikram yoga and shares her secrets on how to de-stress and reenergise.   How did you get into Yoga? I’ve been doing yoga for 2 years now. My mother has [...]

Lisa Heath is a  Sivananda qualified yoga instructor who founded ‘The Heart of Yoga‘ studio in Fairland, Johannesburg after completing teacher training at an Ashram in France. Here Lisa tells us how yoga helped her through a difficult time and her journey of self-discovery.   How did you get into yoga? I had reached a [...]

The SAY team were honoured to recently talk to Swami Yogasagar, founder of the Satyam School of Yoga in Johannesburg and student of the famous Swami Satyananda. Swami Satyananda founded Satyananda Yoga and setup the Bihar School of Yoga. Having lived in India with guru Satyananda between 1978 and taught yoga throughout Australia, Greece and Europe, Swami Yogasagar moved [...]

This month the SAY team had the honour of talking to South African based Sivananda Yoga Instructor Christene Francis. Christene has been practicing Yoga for 40 years and gives us a great insight into the early days of Yoga in South Africa. Christene currently teaches at various Virgin Active Health Clubs, at a Wellness Centre [...]

Our latest interview with Cape Town based Yoga instructor Georgia Schumann, who was kind enough to share her views with us on a broad range of topics – from moments of insight in the Sinai Desert to the link between handstands and ego-based fears! We hope you enjoy this fun, fascinating and insightful interview… How [...]

SA Yoga recently chatted to South African Yoga instructor Cherryl Duncan. Cherryl runs Joburg-based yoga studio Living Yoga and founded Naked Yoga for which she posed for a series of Naked Yoga posters in an attempt to raise money for her Animal Liberation cause. How did you get into Yoga? I was working in advertising [...]