Body, Breath and Being
A Yoga and iRest Yoga Nidra workshop
with Neal Ghoshal
Saturday, 31st May 2025
at Yoga Ground Studio, Auckland
The Joy of Rest
Restorative Yoga Retreat
at Mana Retreat, Coromandel
with Neal Ghoshal and Karla Brodie
13-15th June 2025
Tending The Flame
an Open Floor Dance Workshop
with Sacha Paddy
19th-20th July 2025
Christchurch
ALIVE
a Conscious Dance and Yoga Retreat
with Sacha Paddy and Neal Ghoshal
at Mana Retreat, Coromandel
29th - 31st August 2025
iRest Yoga Nidra Level 1 Training
Palm Beach, Waiheke Island
31st Oct to 5th Nov 2025
with Fuyuko Toyota
Yoga Teacher Training
In-person and Online
with Contemporary Yoga
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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...
Links to our favourite sites round the web
Surfing the web for inspiration? Here are our favourite online websites, resources and teachings and we hope you may enjoy them too…
iRest Yoga Nidra coming to New Zealand
Back in 2005 when I had already been teaching Yoga for a couple of years but was scouting around for further studies and looking for potent teachers, I came across Donna Farhi's books and was immediately hooked in to her approach ... mindful, detailed, precise and...
Your Shining Vulnerability
Last month I attended a wonderful seven day iRest Yoga Nidra retreat in Melbourne with Anne Douglas and Fuyuko Toyota. They are such wonderful teachers indeed – a beautiful experience. About half way through there was rich discussion on being vulnerable …
The Ayur Mantra
On a recent Yoga intensive with Donna Farhi, she taught us a beautiful chant, the Ayur Mantra. This is a mantra for health and nourishment. It can also be practiced with the ancient art of nyasa, a type of mudra practice, where the placing of the mantra on or around the body is said to be beneficial to the nourishment and protection of the psyche.
Each line from The Ayur Mantra maybe accompanied by a Mudra. Donna recently posted this video on YouTube – a great chant to learn …
PRESS RELEASE: Introducing Our New Yoga Teacher Training
Four highly experienced yoga teachers have joined together to create the Centre for Contemporary Yoga Studies, based in Remuera. With over 80 years of yoga practice and teaching experience between them, Dyana, Karla, Neal and Vincent co-founded the centre with one key...
Donna Farhi on Yoga Nidra
From our Yoga teacher, Donna Farhi ..."Recently I taught a weekend workshop on the practice of Yoga Nidra in Hobart, Tasmania. After reading the evaluations from the fifty people who attended, I was struck by how many of the participants commented on their desire to...
The Pilgrimage To My Self
This morning a poem arrived …
In my childhood somebody suggested,
“Just be yourself.”
What a wonderful notion!
But what did it mean?