moontime sunshine
Women’s Open Floor Dance Retreat
with Sacha Paddy, at Mana Retreat
14-16th May 2021
The Joy of Rest
Restorative Yoga Retreat, 11-13th June
Mana Retreat Centre, Coromandel
with Neal Ghoshal and Karla Brodie
Restorative Yoga Teacher Training
26th to 29th June, 31st July to 3rd August
St Heliers, Auckland
with Neal Ghoshal and Karla Brodie
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5Rhythms | Open Floor Movement
Workshops, Retreats and Classes in Auckland, Waiheke and New Zealand, with Sacha Paddy
Yoga Teacher Training
with Contemporary Yoga.
Programmes run throughout the year.
More Upcoming Events
Hauora Yoga Conference
23-25th November, Auckland
IYTA Yoga Convention, Dunedin
17-20th January 2019
Neal Ghoshal will be the keynote presenter
Donna Farhi 2019
TWO workshops, Auckland
12-18th April 2019
Full details to be released soon – save the dates in your diary!
Inspired by Yoga, 5Rhythms dance, Open Floor, somatic and functional movement … and sometimes just pure simple kindness 🙂
These are our passions and they fill our lives. Our vision is to share what we love out to our community and out into the world.
Blog Posts / Articles / News
Building Resilience – an interview with Donna Farhi
In November 2020, in preparation for her January 2021 workshop in Auckland, Donna Farhi and I talked about resilience. We share the highlights of this interview below in a few shorter extracts.
What is resilience?
Resilience, self-love and care
Resilience and vulnerability
Resilience tools
Kindness, an iRest® Meditation
We hope you enjoy listening to and practicing this iRest Meditation on Kindness.
For many years, simple yet meaningful Kindness has been completely central to my Yoga practice and my life. It has been at the very heart of my practice, guiding me in my Yoga practice and teaching, and in how I live with my family and friends and community.
Kindness has so many facets – generosity, love, friendship, healthy boundaries and much more. It is the great connector. It is what will help us survive and what will help us thrive … and ultimately, it is who we are.
Mindful Self-Compassion, a course review
From August to October, over eight 3-hour sessions, every Wednesday evening, including a day retreat, I attended a course on Mindful Self-Compassion, led by Mara Elwood.
This is a review of the course. And let me say right up front that I absolutely loved the course – all the material and the skilled, compassionate facilitation from Mara too.
Stepping Over
This poem speaks to the unknown pathways which at times in my life I must take. Anxiety often arises as I face the hidden journeys ahead - sometimes when I step into a teaching space, in my relationships, parenting, and also in my life as I come to certain thresholds....
The Friend Arrives
It's strange the way a poem arrives - I can never know when the writing muse will come, and then I need to remember or be awake enough to write some ideas down. On Christmas night this year I woke around 3am, some words started arriving, something about friendship and...
Half Moon to Child’s Pose Flow
We’re gearing up for playing more with video – it’s a great medium for showing movement as opposed to a static photo of a posture. There is so much that may be explored in the transitions between postures, in how we flow, in how we move.
Sun Salutation, Yielding and Sequencing Through Movement
I was just hanging out at the studio with my friend and teacher Karla Brodie and we had time to play with shooting a quick movement video - just a couple of minutes. So exploring fluidity and the movement principle of Yielding within a Sun Salutation sequence. Each...
Morning Gratitude
Awakening into warmth and quiet stillness
I wander through the soft dawn
Then rest within our loving presence
Yoga Education in Prisons
Read Helen Elscot's Report on her experience of teaching yoga in prison 'Accepting life's circumstances and making positive change' We're inspired by the work of The Yoga Education in Prisons Trust, a registered charitable trust providing yoga and meditation...