Open Floor Dance and Yoga Retreat
at Mana Retreat Centre
with Sacha Paddy and Neal Ghoshal
28th-30th August 2026
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When we give ourselves the opportunity to connect with and trust our body in movement, we create space for a sweet yet wild grace to emerge. From here we can meet life in all it’s fierceness with more responsiveness and openness.
We invite you to join us for this nearly Spring weekend of enriching and creative Open Floor Dance, Yoga and nature meditations to bring a deeper sense of aliveness and embodiment into your life.
There is a lightness of being, a soulful way of inhabiting the body, which deepens our connection with life.
During this retreat with the guiding lights of Yoga and Open Floor Dance we will move, dance, connect, rest and reflect supported by the beauty of the land at Mana Retreat.
No experience of yoga or dance is needed to join the retreat. We welcome everyone with a curiosity to move and explore.
Schedule
Arrive at Mana from 4pm on the Friday, with dinner at 6pm, followed by the evening session.
We finish with lunch at 1pm on the Sunday.
Sacha Paddy
When Sacha discovered conscious dance through Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms in 2000, she loved the sense of freedom as well as the potential of this practice to be a guiding light through life.
Sacha is now a certified teacher of both 5Rhythms dance and Open Floor movement practices and has been teaching hundreds of classes and workshops since 2008.
She has also been a holistic massage therapist for nearly 20 years and is a certified yoga teacher.
She is endlessly inspired by the simple joy of embodiment and the depth of experience that movement and dance offers us. These practices can be such a profoundly supportive resource in our lives.
Neal Ghoshal
Neal has been practicing yoga for almost 30 years and teaching since 2003. He sees yoga as a guide to restoring our place and understanding of who we are and how we can live peacefully, happily and completely fulfilled.
Neal’s teaching focuses on exploring and refining natural movement and alignment principles – learning to embody these principles in a way that takes our spiritual practice into our everyday lives.
“My aim in teaching is to create a safe and inviting space in which to learn and discover Yoga as a balance between effort and effortlessness, structural alignment and organic fluidity, mindfulness and spontaneity.
“Ultimately, the practice of yoga leads us to a place where we may respond to life’s challenges with ease in our breath and body, with wise choices, and with kindness and an open heart.”
He has taught on teacher training programs in Australia and New Zealand, has been senior faculty on Donna Farhi’s Advanced Teacher Training Program, and is a founder member of the Contemporary Yoga Teacher Training programme, based out of Auckland.
Neal is also an experienced Holistic and Thai massage therapist, an accomplished musician and kirtan chant leader, and absolutely loves to dance!
Neal and Sacha have such a beautiful, calm presence about them and doing an amazing job of slowly encouraging the body to move and the mind to explore. Such a joyous experience – thank you!
For relaxing, for nurture, for soul Mana is the place to go. The sanctuary is such a beautiful space and setting for meditation.
Sacha and Neal make a beautiful team and the love and kindness between them resonates out into the group. Loving-kindness throughout the weekend with permission and encouragement to allow yourself to be yourself, and find the joy of being alive in your body, in this place, now. Beautiful.
I am very grateful for the experience and leave feeling more loving towards myself.
Coming to this retreat has brought me so much closer to who I am.
Thank you so much Sacha and Neal – I loved it and really felt deeply the softening of my doing and connecting with my being.
What a gift to be invited to listen carefully and to be led in different ways to find the connection to my own sensing. For me it was a very softening tender experience of love.
The retreat helped allow myself to tap into the wisdom held inside my cells. It allowed me to move my body with wisdom and flow.
Admiration and gratitude to Neal and Sacha for offering their skill and wisdom. A treat of a retreat.