The Kindness Institute

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

Kindness in action: effecting change in youth through yoga and meditation

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A new initiative to teach yoga and mindfulness to troubled youth is effecting remarkable change. Don Rowe visits with Atawhai, a new initiative from Kristina Cavit and The Kindness Institute, ahead of their inaugural end-of-programme event this Sunday.  In a small room off the Point Chevalier Community Centre in Auckland, miracles are taking place. One … Read more