Kristina CavitKristina Cavit

Kristina Cavit is the director of The Kindness Institute. She teaches mindfulness, yoga and stress management to private clients, marginalised youth and women in prison.

Getting Your Shit Together: how to decompress the stress

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Getting Your Shit Together is a monthly column on everyday mental health from Auckland mindfulness educator Kristina Cavit. In her final column of the series she’s talking to Sheryn Gieck about how to find clarity in a world full of stress and anxiety.  I’ve just returned from teaching yoga and mindfulness at the NPH orphanage in … Read more

Getting your shit together: yoga as a survival tool

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Getting Your Shit Together is a monthly column on everyday mental health from Auckland mindfulness educator Kristina Cavit. This month she’s talking about the effect yoga has had on her own life, and on those of the prisoners and children she works with. Growing up in New Zealand’s ‘toughen-up’, rugby-dominated sports culture, our school P.E … Read more

Sleep makes you healthier and happier. Here’s how to get more of it

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Getting Your Shit Together is a monthly column on everyday mental health from Auckland mindfulness educator Kristina Cavit. This month she’s talking about the life-changing magic of getting enough sleep. When I don’t get a good night’s sleep, I can turn into a monster. Or at least the worst version of myself – a short … Read more

Getting Your Shit Together: How two 15 year olds deal with bullying

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Getting Your Shit Together is a new monthly column on everyday mental health from Auckland mindfulness educator Kristina Cavit. Ahead of Pink Shirt Day tomorrow, Cavit talks to two teenage friends about their experience of bullying – and the techniques they’ve developed to fight back. I was lucky enough to work with 15 year old … Read more

Getting your shit together… in the workplace

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Getting Your Shit Together is a new monthly column on everyday mental health from Auckland mindfulness educator Kristina Cavit. Here Kristina looks at simple ways to cope with workplace stress. A couple of years ago I was disorientated and hooked up to a drip at Auckland hospital, using my free arm to email my new … Read more

Introducing our new mental health column, Getting Your Shit Together

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In a community known for murder, gangs and drug abuse, yoga and mindfulness is becoming cool. For her first Spinoff column, Auckland mindfulness educator Kristina Cavit explains what we can learn from the experience of kids in inner-city Baltimore. If you’ve watched The Wire, you’ll know that Baltimore is one of the most dangerous cities … Read more