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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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!
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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?
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...