Namaste and welcome to The Yoga Lunchbox, New Zealand’s most popular yoga website.

Here is where you’ll find nourishment for your yoga journey.

I’m Kara-Leah Grant, founder and editor, and passionate about yoga.

Yoga can profoundly transform our lives – physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. It can take us from a place of utter despair to a place of complete joy.

The process and journey of yoga is not always easy though, and it always helps to have someone to walk the path with.

That’s where The Yoga Lunchbox comes in – here you will help you find support for your journey, wherever you might be along the path – shiny, fresh, novice student, or decades-long, dedicated practitioner.

We offer an online meeting place for yoga teachers and students to come together to share their experiences with each other, creating a platform for community learning where everyone’s contribution is valued.

To this end The Yoga Lunchbox doesn’t just support community – it is a community!

Founded in 2008 as my personal blog, the site has morphed and grown and stretched to its present state: a vibrant, cooperative writing team working together to bring you a wide array of articles steeped in practice of yoga on and off the mat.

Classic texts explain that a yogi is one who, through direct observation of their own mind and body, experientially comes to know something.

And over the thousands of years that yogis have been practicing, there is much that has been learned!

The writings you’ll find here are reflections of what we have learned, and are learning, through our personal yoga journeys as students and teachers.

Which is one reason why The Yoga Lunchbox exists.

It’s here to reassure us that whatever we encounter along the path of yoga, is just part of the process.
It’s here to encourage us to try more than just asana, to try more than just going to class.
And it’s here to celebrate the joyful aspects of making yoga a part of your daily life.
We at The Yoga Lunchbox believe that:

Yoga transforms lives by healing mind, body and spirit.
Yoga isn’t just something that we do, yoga is the quality of presence that we bring to everything we do.
Yoga has the power to transform our society from the inside out.
So in our articles you’ll find masses of ideas and suggestion to practice, promote, and advocate those very things.

You will see how bringing yoga to your life can provide experiences of joy in discovery, courage in exploration, and unifying connection within individual healing.

There is no doubt that somewhere on this site, there will be something you’re looking for about yoga.