‘A Night in The Heart – SOLD OUT’
Friday 19th April, 2024
from 6.30-9.30pm with Sarah & Rosa
If you’d like to be on our waitlist please send us an email info@spaceyoga.nz
$57
Join us for an evening cultivating & strengthening heart practices. We explore the sacred space within, where pure love, intuition and courage resides. A love that is ultimately who we are. In the yoga tradition we call it, “spanda” – the sacred tremor of the heart: a vibration that makes us available to see & experience joy. To move through challenges from a sacred centre, the heart.
We will share cacao medicine together, enjoying the heart warming magic of this plant. We’ll move through some nourishing and meditative shapes, that will invite the energy of Anahata chakra to arise, the energy of love, compassion, forgiveness and abundance. The devotional practice of mantras will join us, with the sounds of the guitar, drum & harmonium. Mantra is a unique combination of syllables that bring a particular energy, ease & harmony, inviting us to shift from the mind into the heart.This is an invitation to tap into your inner wisdom and reconnect with your beautiful self, your constant companion.
You can bring your own mat or use a studio mat. We have bolsters + blankets and eye pillows for everyone.
To maximise the benefits of cacao it’s ideal to avoid eating heavily before our night together – a lighter meal is usually good.Please make sure you bring your favourite mug & a journal for sacred reflections.
Harmonic Sound Journey
Claudio Escutia
Saturday 11th May from 6.30-8.30pm
$55
Join Claudio in Space for this special evening of Sacred Harmonic Sounds. Claudio plays many instruments – Gong, Tibetan Bowls, Crystal bowls, Native American Flutes, and other traditional ancient instruments and amplifies them with high quality audio equipment.
Come and experience a journey of deep relaxation, exploration and connection.
By being exposed to harmonic sounds & vibrations like this, we offer the nervous system an opportunity to relax. We can then find connection with citta -heart-mind- and find a paradoxical inner silence by settling into sound.
You can bring your own mat or borrow a studio mat.
We have bolsters + blankets and eye pillows for everyone.
No previous meditation or yoga experience is necessary for this journey.
About Claudio: Claudio is a multi-instrumentalist Musician from Mexico City now based in Wellington. He was born into a family of musicians & he started playing music from a very early age. He finished music school as a classical guitarist & he moved to Montreal & explored new genres such as Jazz, World Music & Spiritual Music. Traveling he discovered Indian Music and the Yoga Tradition then became very important influences to his career & lifestyle. This allowed him to study Music & Yoga with teachers in Europe & Asia. He learnt to play the Tibetan Singing Bowls in Kathmandu & Varanasi. He explored many instruments & music styles such as Sitar, Esraj, Bansuri, Harmonium, Flutes, Gongs & Voice.
You can listen and get Claudio´s music and sounds here: https://soundcloud.com/claudioescutiasounds
www.claudioyogasound.com
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Meditation Retreats & a Meditation Training Programme
Silent Retreats in 2024 – Save these dates!
3 Silent Retreats on offer – in Taupo, Otaki, The Coromandel.
We hope you might enjoy travelling with us to one.
‘Full Moon in Autumn’
Silent Meditation Retreat
22-27th May, 2024
Tauhara Retreat Centre, Taupo
with Lana Bright, Sarah Morley & Oliver Ferry
Come with us into the sanctuary of a retreat setting, without rushing to be anywhere else. This special silent retreat draws on both the wisdom of traditional meditation practices & the evolution of these for being well & waking up now. Lana, Sarah & Oliver are delighted to be your teachers.
With care and quiet reverence, we will explore meditation in form & energy: seated, reclined, walking meditation, moving & still meditative yoga asana, mantra meditation, metta bhavana, chakra meditation. We offer breath consciousness practices as potent portals for meditation.
We offer meditation & well-being principles & ideas for their sustenance & benefit. We infuse awareness with questions for the body, mind & heart. Poetry is woven into each day to open us up to possibility, mystery and appreciation. Let yourself enjoy time & space too in the afternoons to rest & practice in your own heartfelt way. Let the nourishment that you are receiving here simply be digested.
The full moon, on the 24th May, is particularly potent for millions of meditators across our planet. This is celebrated as Vesak full moon. (Vesak Day – United Nations https:www.un.org). We too will enjoy this sacred time with practices that focus on appreciation, illumination, revitalisation & restoration.
Day One Wednesday 22nd May, 2024:
We start in the afternoon at 5pm, orientating & connecting. After our evening meal together, we begin to set intentions & journey into silence.
Day Two to Day Five – Our Sample Daily Schedule from Thursday 23 – Sunday 26th May:
• 7:30am – 9:30am : Morning Practices – Meditation, Meditative Slow Flow, Breathwork, Mantra.
• 9:30am – 10.30am : Breakfast
• 10:45am – 1pm : Concepts & Practices – for Inspiration, Exploration & Experimentation: We share traditional & modern practices & concepts, that we have learnt & developed. These support us to feel awake, open and at peace.
• 1pm : Lunch
• Rest & Digest Personal time : Let the beauty & nature around Tauhara bring you home to your natural self – walks & rejuvenating cold plunges in Lake Taupo; resting, journaling & practising in your own way.
• 4 – 6pm : Afternoon Practices – Embedding, remembering and returning to refreshing & nourishing practices.
• 6.15pm : Dinner
• 7.15 – 9pm : Each evening we enjoy practices for restoring calmness & resonating aliveness. We deepen awareness with inquiry & reflection.
Day Six – Monday 27th May:
Practices from 7- 8am; Light Breakfast 8.15-9.15am; 9.30am we gently journey out of silence together, reflect, share, reorientate. We consider ideas for sustaining ourselves in practices that invite us to be calm, clear, compassionate & awake We finally share a light lunch together by midday and make our farewells.
On this retreat you can expect to:
– establish and stabilise some foundational meditation practices & anchors, that support settling, arriving & opening more easily to what is – anywhere and anytime;
– receive clarity about meditation & well-being concepts, so that you can begin to explore these for yourself;
– feel inspired to practice & learn;
– feel rested & also wakeful;
– experience insights;
– recognise the benefits of silence
– feel the benefits of breath practices;
– have simple ways to take these retreat practices & ideas into your life, for greater consciousness, well-being & peace.
*This experiential retreat is open to anyone, who is inspired to come and enjoy a silent retreat. Know that while you are here, you don’t have to come to everything we are offering – find your own rhythm and help yourself to what’s really good for you. As such you can enjoy even longer breaks than the ones we schedule, throughout the retreat.
**This retreat is also an entry point into Space Studio’s 100 hour Meditation Training Programme.
If you are curious to find out more about this retreat, please contact us info@spaceyoga.nz
***This experience also directly supports the professional development of yoga and meditation teachers.
As such it is registered with Yoga Alliance® and meets the equivalent of 35 Continuing Education contact hours.
Limited spaces.
The base rate – for Taupo’s accommodation, food & tuition starts from $1195
Send us an email if you are keen to find out more details about this retreat or the 2 below.
info@spaceyoga.nz
‘Full Moon in Spring’
Silent Meditation Retreat
14-19th September, 2024
Strathean Retreat Centre, Otaki
with Sarah Morley & Lana Bright
We have all the details for this September retreat, if you are interested…
‘Radiant Being’
Spring Silent Meditation Retreat
Labour Weekend: 24-29th October, 2024
Te Moata Retreat Centre – Tairua, Coromandel
with Oliver Ferry, Sarah Morley & Lana Bright
We have all the details for this October retreat, if you are interested…