
Weekend Retreat with Sacha Paddy
Weekend Dance Retreat
at stunning Mana Retreat
11th-13th November 2022
For the Love of Rest
Restorative Yoga Retreat, 17-19th June
Mana Retreat Centre, Coromandel
with Neal Ghoshal and Karla Brodie
Restorative Yoga Teacher Training
pt 1: 17th - 20th Sept 2022
pt 2: 29th Oct - 1st Nov 2022
St Heliers, Auckland
with Neal Ghoshal and Karla Brodie
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with Sacha Paddy
Auckland, Waiheke and New Zealand
Yoga with Neal
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Yoga Teacher Training
on Waiheke, Auckland and New Zealand
Yoga Teacher Training
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In-person and Online
with Contemporary Yoga
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!
Blog Posts / Articles / News
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...
A Year of Yoga
Last year I taught a lot of Yoga! So much so that by November I was rather tired, exhausted even. I found that I was way out of balance, working late to keep up with the workload, waking up early when our daughter Tula wakes up. The sleep deprivation was certainly not helping re-gain my vitality.
I felt that my regular classes on Waiheke were suffering somewhat from my tiredness.
I turned up to each class of course but often with only a vague idea of what I would teach. Part of this was actually useful and interesting … how do I teach when I’m under this amount of pressure? Can I improvise class after class?
It was in fact engaging simply to turn up to class and meet whoever walked through the classroom door, and create on-the-fly classes and sequences geared right to these students exactly as they were in that moment.
Moving Towards Our True Nature
I have been studying the the iRest approach to Yoga Nidra recently and in the teaching manual, founder and teacher Richard Miller talks about the qualities of our true nature:
Loving, Kindness, Presence, Unconditional, Peaceful, Friendliness, Unattached, Happy, Joyfulness, Faith, Trusting, Transparency, Mindfulness, Responsive, Purity, Truthfulness, Contentment, Luminous, Powerful, Knowing, Full, Empty, Tender, Spontaneous, Authentic, Creative, Intimate, Complete, Aware (and more).
Supported Reclined Bound Angle Posture
Once experienced there is little doubt of the benefits of Restorative Yoga. There are many Restorative postures, but often my students' favourite is Supported Reclined Bound Angle Posture (in Sanskrit, Salamba Supta Baddha Konasana). In this posture we lie back onto a...
What is Restorative Yoga?
Read The Eight Essentials Of Restorative Yoga >> A few years ago I enrolled on a Yoga Teacher Training course for a year at the Yoga Academy Auckland - I was on a mission to learn more and more about this practice and to equip myself with as much knowledge as I...
Chinese Symbol For Presence
I recently took an early morning private group for yoga here on Waiheke at the Marae. It was a very beautiful start to a few days ... practicing as the sun was rising, casting a beautiful light on the ocean shore just down from where we were. We're blessed on Waiheke...
Feeding and looking after India’s homeless and destitute … inspirational
Narayanan Krishnan brings hot meals daily to India's homeless and destitute. Since 2002, the chef has served more than 1.2 million meals through his nonprofit organization, Akshaya Trust. For me, this is an example of yoga in action ... enjoy and be inspired ......
Inspiring Books and Music
Here are some of our favourite books music and and other media - ones that have radically altered what we do, how we move, and our approach to life. We highly recommend you checking them out...enjoy! Everything listed here is available from Amazon or The UK Book...