Special Events

You will be invited to listen inwardly and allow movement to arise naturally from the body’s impulses.

The evening begins with gentle arriving and guided body-based meditations that awaken our awareness. From there we explore solo movement and partnered opportunities to witness and trust what is emerging naturally. (Moving & Witnessing’ & introducing the invitation of touch – ‘Contact Improvisation”.)

Concluding with invitation of an open group movement playing and resting into space together. We close with grounding meditation and the option to stay and enjoy connection of tea and nibbles.

Levi – a professional dancer & Annabel – trained with the New Zealand School of Dance (please see their bios below). No dance experience is needed this evening come with your curiosity and willingness to explore movement and stillness, sacredly intertwined together.

Levi: “5+ years as a full-time dance/movement artist, guided by my community. Everything I create comes from the people around me. I move with the intention to offer meaningful work in service of the people that give me everything. For me, movement is both a tool of creation and destruction – a language of transformation. My path is rooted in centring love through joy and struggle, and in continuously sharing and receiving knowledge, through our past, through our futures.”

Annabel: “Movement for me, is life. It brings me joy, peace, love, a sense of self, a coming home. For as long as I can remember I was always dancing and expressing myself through my body when words couldn’t express it all. I have trained in dance throughout my whole life, beginning in ballet and later contemporary, leading me to the New Zealand School of Dance. It was here that I began my yoga practice. I then deepened this practice with Space Studio’s 200hr Yoga Teacher Training. Always and forever a student of life, I find immense joy in guiding a yoga class through seva, selfless service, and allowing others the space and time to simply be.”

Stay in Tune in May & June

Encouraging wellbeing practices & receiving gifts of Space!

Every year we offer a 1 month challenge in June. This year we have extended it two months. ‘From out of balance, out of harmony and discordant to instead being physically and emotionally stronger, calmer, more energised & open.’
Come and stay tuned in to regular nourishing classes.
A 1 Month special pass is available now for purchasing, so you can warm up! You can use it whenever you’d like and it won’t expire until you’re ready to use it – just $145. Purchase this special until the 1st June

The details:
If you come to 12 classes in a month you’ll automatically receive a gift of a class of Space and go in the draw to win 1 month of Space or a 5 trip pass. We will draw the winners at the end of each month – May & June. All the details will be in Space, so you can see how you can place a star on your personal sign in sheet to track your progress.
Any event you attend in May or June too will count as 2 stars / 2 classes – we will have 3 events over this time.
Stay tuned in!
Kia ora.

Full Moon Exhale – A Half Day Retreat

with Sarah Morley 
May, 2 2026 Saturday 2:30pm – 6:30pm
with tea and nibbles
$75

This specially curated half-day retreat is inspired by the full moon.
You are invited to slow down, soften & return to stillness.
Guidance through simple meditative movement, breathwork & guided practices of deep rest NSDR (Nidra). Unwind the body, quieten the mind & reconnect to a steady & natural rhythm. There will be space for reflection, release & restoration. Tea and simple nibbles will be shared offering an opportunity to experience mauna (noble silence) a turning inward to observe our thoughts and internal responses with awareness.
An to return to our inner landscapes. No experience is necessary. All props are provided Limited spaces

+ Details coming soon for 2 more events for 2 Sunday afternoons and early evenings of King’s Birthday weekend…& the Sunday of the Winter Solstice – 21st June. These events are just 3 hours long ‘Meditative Flow, Meditative Yin, Restore, Poetry’ for just 14 students and a pot luck dinner with us, if you’d like to share at the end…just $40 for each event…

‘New Moon in Spring,
Silent Retreat’

September 10th, Thursday afternoon – September 15th, Tuesday midday, 2026
Strathean Retreat Centre, Otaki
with Sarah Morley & Lana Bright
16 spaces only. Just 8 left now.

Come with us on a gentle journey, into the blossoming of spring. Settle into this peaceful sanctuary setting.
Enter the retreat’s graceful rhythm, without rushing or needing to be anywhere else. Feel into the nature
of silence as it quietly unfolds.
During our special full moon spring retreat, we draw on the wisdom of traditional meditation practices &
concepts. We take these on a voyage. We come to understand their evolution and how we can be awake
& well now. Lana & Sarah are delighted to be your teachers.
Together we will explore grounding & uplifting meditation practices & ideas, in form & in energy: Seated,
reclined & walking meditation. Each day will unfold with moving & still meditative yoga asana. We will
sprinkle & soak in mantra meditation, metta bhavana & chakra meditation.
Well-being ideas are also shared & practiced. We infuse awareness with questions for the body, mind-
heart (citta) & spirit. We bathe in consciousness, with breath practices & enjoy simple doses of conscious
being. Poetry is woven into each day to open us up to possibility, mystery and appreciation.
Each afternoon offers you a space to enjoy resting & exploring in your own unique way. Notice
how this space & time allows you to simply digest the nourishment that you are receiving here.

Pricing is from $1,050-$1,395 for accommodation, food & tuition. Registrations now open $195 to Book.
Please contact us at info@spaceyoga.nz to arrange the room that’s nourishing for you.

$195 to Register your space

16 Students Only

‘Radiant Nature’
Full Moon Labour Weekend,
Silent Retreat

22-27th October, 2026
Te Moata Retreat Centre – Tairua, the Coromandel
with Lana Bright & Oliver Ferry

Leave the familiar for a while. Let this be an opportunity to rest & restore in Te Moata – a nature sanctuary nestled in 344 hectares of native bush and streams, lit by solar power. Tune in & open to calmness, vitality & inspiration. Come home to your own radiant nature. Lana & Oliver are delighted to be your teachers.

Enjoy and explore meditation, yoga & nourishing pranayama practices, soaked in traditional and contemporary wisdom. Strengthen positive states in the mind & body and encourage deeper reservoirs of lightness, as a natural way of being. Everything we offer is an invitation – choose to experience as many or as few of these beneficial practices as you like. Let yourself find your own nourishing and natural rhythms throughout your retreat. Move, be still, play in the streams & trails.

Regardless of your previous experiences, this retreat offers you the opportunity to be present, to feel rested, to be silent & be rejuvenated.

Day One – Thursday 22nd October – Arrive between 3.30-5pm then we begin at 5.45pm. After an early evening meal together, we start settling into intentions then you journey into silence together.

From Friday 23rd to Monday 26th:
• 7.00 – 7.45am : Meditation
• 7.45 – 8.30am : Breakfast
• 8.30 – 9.15am : Karma Yoga (Mindfulness in Action)
• 9.30 – 12.30pm : Inspiration, Exploration & Experimentation : Traditional & Modern Practices that we have learnt & developed, which support us to feel awake, open & rested: Meditative Slow Flow – Hatha Yoga; Pranayama Breathwork; Meditation – Seated, Reclining, Standing, Walking; Meditative Yin or Restorative Yoga shapes; Chakra Energy Meditation
• 12.30pm : Lunch + Rest, Rejuvenate, Explore. Your time to rest or move as you like
• 5.30 – 7pm : Dinner
• 7pm – 9pm: Evening practices for calmness & gently rebalancing energy – Meditative Yin, Restore Yoga & Meditation. Deepening inquiry & reflection.

Tuesday 27th
After a Meditation & Yoga practice, breakfast & your personal tidy up time, we journey out of silence & welcome in what’s here now. We then enjoy a light lunch together by 11.30am and share farewells.

*This retreat is open to anyone who is inspired to come and enjoy a silent retreat.
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.

Te Moata Retreat, The Coromandel
Registration is open with a $165 deposit.

5 nights – Meals, Accommodation & Tuition : the pricing begins at $865, with many accommodation options to choose from.
Enjoy 3 nutritious vegan meals each day. Teas will also be available throughout the day. Special dietary needs can be catered for at a small additional price. Please tell us about any dietary needs and we will communicate that to Te Moata.

Accommodation options range from : lovely zen individual curtained/cubicled bed spaces, in 2 separate bunkroom wings, within the main centre; 3 single rooms, within the main centre; 3 x simple 1 room cabins a short walk away; 2 self-contained cottages, that have a kitchen, bathroom and 2 bedrooms.
As such the pricing for accommodation and meals and your tuition will vary and begin at $865.
Tell us what’s good for you. Any questions please email Lana
info@spaceyoga.nz Thank you.