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iRest Yoga Nidra Level 1, 9-14th April 2024, Auckland

iRest Yoga Nidra Level 1 Training
Takapuna, Auckland
9th-14th April 2024
with Fuyuko Toyota

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Yoga Teacher Training with Neal Ghoshal and Contemporary Yoga Faculty

Yoga Teacher Training, Auckland
200 YTT hour training
January 2024 Intensive
with Contemporary Yoga Faculty

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Open Floor Movement | 5Rhythms

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with Sacha Paddy
Auckland, Waiheke and New Zealand

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Yoga Teacher Training
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Morning Gratitude

Poetry

Awakening into warmth and quiet stillness
I wander through the soft dawn
Then rest within our loving presence

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

General, Meditation, Somatic Movement, Yoga, Yoga Off The Mat

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

Meditation, News and Events, Yoga

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

General, Meditation, Poetry, Yoga Off The Mat

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

Chants, Yoga

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

General, Meditation, News and Events, Somatic Movement, Yoga

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

Chants, Meditation, News and Events, Yoga

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...