This is an opportunity to learn from an exceptional teacher. Initiate Master of Meditation and Realised Master Swami Durgananda will be returning to Auckland to conduct workshops following her guest presentations and involvement with the recent Kawai Purapura International Yoga Conference and Festival. Swami Durgananda is the Spiritual Leader of Samata Samashti Dharma and has brought ancient knowledge to the west, primarily as a healing balancing yoga of mind and body. For over 40 years … [Read more...]
On-Going from Jan 23 – May 27: Anahata Yoga Retreat, Explore Your ‘Self’ Interactive Lifestyle Retreats
Experience a 1 week Intro to a 1 month In Depth retreat, “living” yoga through active immersion into the daily life of Anahata. Receive support and a daily focus in guided intimate group sessions. Learn yogic principles to increase harmony and productivity in daily life. Enjoy regular yoga and meditation classes as well as ancient ceremonies and a mountain top view that will imprint your heart for lifetimes. The Explore Your ‘Self’ retreat is the best way to come to Anahata for … [Read more...]
May 11 – 13: Anahata Yoga Retreat, Yoga and Sacred Feminine Weekend Retreat
Yoga and Sacred Feminine – Weekend Retreat During this sacred and powerful weekend we share from the heart, shedding light into the spaces that are often hidden and pushed aside in the hustle and bustle of daily life. Exploring music, dance, yoga and creativity to expand, liberate and unite. Feel the force of an all women’s gathering, the energy behind creation and existence. Join us in this safe and supported space, opening to transformation, surrendering to the moment and igniting the … [Read more...]
March 23 – April 1: Anahata Yoga Retreat, Mantra, Meditation and Reflection – Navaratri Sadhana Retreat
Mantra, Meditation and Reflection – Navaratri Sadhana Retreat Expand your consciousness with an intensive period of mantra chanting (specific sound vibration), intended to purify, energise and awaken. This powerful 9 day period of astrological significance, is deemed most auspicious to do any spiritual practice (sadhana). It is said one hour of sadhana during this time is equal to 100 hours of sadhana any other time of the year. Ancient fire ceremonies (havan) daily, mantra meditation, … [Read more...]
March 9 – 11: Anahata Yoga Retreat,The Art of Living and Dying with Yoga
Enter into the joy and clarity of the present moment! Gain liberating techniques to help face your fears, phobias and challenges of life. How could one know the art of dying if they have not experienced the art of living? Life and death together are a continuation of each other and this is called existence. As we travel through life, we are paving the way and determining the quality of our departure. Death is not the end of existence but a face of it; just as the moon has two faces. Rather … [Read more...]
February 24 – 26: Anahata Yoga Retreat, Yoga Nidra – The Total Personality
The practice of Satyananda Yoga Nidra™ crosses all the layers of the human experience, supporting integration, relaxation and health on all levels. This retreat is open to all to receive the relaxing benefits of Yoga Nidra. It will also give yoga teachers, health care professionals, social workers and educators an insight into a very powerful and ancient practice that is highly applicable to the challenges of modern life. Satyananda Yoga Nidra™ has a profound impact on the mind and these … [Read more...]
December 10 & 11: Auckland, Body Mind Centering with Olive Bieringa & Otto Ramstad
Body-Mind Centering© Somatic movement education incorporating embodied anatomy and developmental movement through the systems of the body (e.g. bones, organs, ligaments, fluids, endocrine, nervous system, senses and perception, reflexes). This class holographically explores the human body through movement and hands on study to understand self and increase physical potential. Body-Mind Centering® explores the body through movement re-education and hands on re-patterning to understand self … [Read more...]
How dropping my story helped me change my yoga practice
I've been practicing yoga for over a decade now, and I'm still tight and inflexible. That's not quite true of course, but when I compare my flexibility to that of the images of yoga we see in the media, or the popular teachers on DVDs... I fall well short. And I find it perplexing. It doesn't make me feel less than in anyway, and I'm well aware that the point of yoga is not flexibility, rather flexibility is a by-product of practice. But how long does it take to lengthen the … [Read more...]
A curious approach to sitting and back-bending
By guest author Oli Wiles, Free to Move Find sthira sukham at your desk and on the mat A friend recently posted a pic on Facebook of his 3-month-old boy sitting propped up on a sofa. The caption read: "Propped up at 3 months, eventually he toppled." It got me thinking about sitting and back-bending … Now, as you sit at your desk, it is likely that the muscles of your back are stopping you from toppling into the keyboard. In playing this important role, however, parts of your back … [Read more...]
An interview with Donna Farhi
I first discovered Donna Farhi in my local library in Queenstown. Her book Yoga Mind, Body and Spirit: A Return to Wholeness was liberating, informative and challenging. She taught not asana by asana, this body part in that body place, but through universal principles that underlay every asana. It was a watershed moment in my Yoga journey as my home practice had begun to diverge from anything resembling a standard hatha class. With Donna's book within easy reach, I felt able to honour the … [Read more...]