Online Classes
with Sacha and Neal
Sacha and Neal are offering online Yoga and dance classes to keep us moving and connected with our communities during these challenging times.
These practices can nourish us so deeply, soften the edges of anxiety and provide a valuable ground of support as we all learn to navigate the weeks ahead.
Please join us online – we will make it as accessible as possible. In the meantime, we wish you all to be safe and very well, to find times of ease and kindness.
Payment for online courses
If you find yourself in real financial difficulties during this time, please pay what you can, if anything, to join us.
Wednesday Evening
Dance with Sacha
Wednesdays online,
7.45pm – 9pm
Registration via Zoom
Wednesday class is back on Sept 9th
All session times are New Zealand time
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5Rhythms Sunday Dance Class with Sacha
10-45am-12.45pm
Sunday classes with Sacha have now resumed at Viva Dance Studio, Auckland.
More details here >>
Yoga Classes with Neal
Online Yoga Class Series
Six Wednesdays from 22nd July, 9-10am
A series of classes exploring the centre of the body. The fluid, breathing centre, moving from centre, balancing centre, core support and more.
Join the Zoom classes here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89156167164
Wild Grace
5Rhythms and Yoga Retreat
4-6th September 2020
with Sacha Paddy and Neal Ghoshal
Mana Retreat, Coromandel
Building Resilience
Renewing our Capacity for Regeneration
25-27th September 2020
2½ Day Yoga Intensive with Donna Farhi
Takapuna, Auckland
iRest Yoga Nidra Immersion
Auckland, New Zealand
19-21st February 2021
with Fuyuko Toyota
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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
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?
What Moves You? A cute little video
I recently came across this cute little video ... it beautifully touches on what may be our original motivations for moving out into the world. The beginnings of our movement intelligence may be traced back to our time spent in the womb and our first years post birth....
I breathe In
This wonderful poem by Anne Powell was recently shown to me by a lovely Yoga student. Feels good to share it. Enjoy! I breathe inI am landI breath outI am listening I breathe inI am riverI breath outI am flowing I breathe inI am kauriI breath outI am strong I breathe...
The Eight Essentials of Restorative Yoga
A few years ago I enrolled on my second Yoga Teacher Training course for a year at the Yoga Academy Auckland - I was on a mission to learn more about this practice and to equip myself with as much knowledge as I could. If I was going to teach Yoga, then I wanted to be...