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Kristina Cavit

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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.

The Sunday Essay: 11 years of waiting

The Sunday Essay: 11 years of waiting

I assumed I would be better the next or the next week. I wasn't.

By Kristina Cavit | 27th March, 2022

Teaching at risk children yoga and mindfulness has helped them find a sense of calm.

Getting Your Shit Together: how to decompress the stress

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.

By Kristina Cavit | 10th November, 2017

Teaching at risk children yoga and mindfulness has helped them find a sense of calm.

Getting your shit together: yoga as a survival tool

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 effects yoga has had on her life, and the lives of the prisoners and children she has taught.

By Kristina Cavit | 16th August, 2017

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

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

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.

By Kristina Cavit | 4th July, 2017

Photo: Getty Images

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

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.

By Kristina Cavit | 25th May, 2017

Getting your shit together… in the workplace

Getting your shit together… in the workplace

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.

By Kristina Cavit | 2nd May, 2017

Haiven Spence, age 6, during morning meditation with other first graders at the Robert W Coleman Elementary School in Baltimore, MD on November 2, 2016. The school replaced detention and instead is using mindfulness and meditation as an alternative to discipline. They say it helps children find calmness and control in the chaos of their lives. Last year school officials said they had no suspensions.The meditation room at the school was created by a partnership with the Holistic Life Foundation. (Photo by Linda Davidson / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Introducing our new mental health column, Getting Your Shit Together

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.

By Kristina Cavit | 31st March, 2017