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
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with Contemporary Yoga
Open Floor Movement | 5Rhythms
with Sacha Paddy
Auckland, Waiheke and New Zealand
Yoga with Neal
Yoga Teacher Training
on Waiheke, Auckland and New Zealand
Inspired by Yoga, 5Rhythms dance, Open Floor, somatic and functional movement … and sometimes just pure simple kindness 🙂
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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...
The Heart Moving
Each morning, awakening fresh and vibrant
And the night, not a collapse in a heap, exhausted,
but a presence to the wonderful art of resting.
Liquid pouring onto the earth,
Meeting the end with a breathing, beating heart,
And be held with great love
And turn and wonder, “My beloved, how does kindness move here?
Tapas – The Fire For Your Practice
In the Yoga Sutras, the sage Patanjali gave us the eight limbs of yoga - practices which support us in our spiritual development. The second limb, called The Niyamas, guide us in ways to look after our personal well-being. They are - Saucha (purity), Santosha...
Two great videos introducing the 5Rhythms practice
Perfect introductions to the 5Rhythms practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYMdlKWaEEY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyhs2mNLgyA&feature=youtu.be
How babies learn to move
Two wonderful videos, created by Feldenkrais teachers, showing how babies learn to move. These patterns of movement are foundations for how we move as adults. Great to explore these in a yoga and dance practice....
Donna Farhi on video
Wonderful to see Donna practice ... inspiring to see the fluid movement, the integrity of the movement, the breath and stillness ... all present in the practice. Enjoy and be inspired! Lovely music too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QQEhsHv6hg ...
All About Yoga Mats
I recently bought ten new mats for my classes here on Waiheke and did what practically every other yoga studio and school does which was buy pvc based mats ... they are relatively cheap and last a while, quite sticky and not hard to clean. I noticed a rather...
The Blessings of John O’Donohue
Over the last few months I have very much been enjoying the writings and poetry of John O'Donohue. A writer of unique power to me (and many others), John captured a great sense of wonder of the natural world and a deep wisdom and kindness born from a life of studying...
Live The Questions Now, by Rainer Maria Rilke
Have patience with everything unresolved in your heartand try to love the questions themselves …Don't search for the answers,which could not be given to you now,because you would not be able to live them.And the point is, to live everything.Live the questions...