Kriya Yoga
10 week course: Wednesdays, 19 May - 21 July, 7 – 9pm
With Swami Shantimurti. Suitable for people with practice and experience of asana, pranayama & meditation
The tantric kriyas consist of 20 practices formulated and designed into a sequence that leads a person through pratyahara (sense withdrawal), Dharana (concentration) and culminating with Dhyana yoga (meditation). This course offers a guided opportunity to experience and learn these practices in a supported environment, in effort to clear inhibiting condition within the psyche.
Cost:$350. Please send $100 deposit to secure your place.
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Meditation Course
6 week course: Wednesdays, 26 Ma y - 30 June, 6-7pm
with Premajyoti. Open to all.
This is an opportunity to learn meditation, or a space to deepen your knowledge or practice of technique. Over the 6 weeks we will work on ways to find comfort in your seated position, as well as building a meditation practice that you can take away with you and continue to use!
Cost: $75 * Early bird special pay by 15 May - $60
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City Revival Day
Saturday 29 May, 10.30 - 4.30pm
An opportunity for those with young families/unable to physically ‘get away’ to receive the restorative effects of a day full of Yogic treats! Take the time out from busy city living to nurture your body, expand your mind & soothe your soul. Your day in the Yoga ‘bubble’ will include a posture class, pranayama and yoga nidra, lunch, and a mini workshop taught by one of our many knowledgeable and talented Ashram Yoga certified teachers.
Cost: $85 per person *Early bird special pay by 15 May - $75pp
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Children's Reiki Class
2 & 3 June 2010
Designed for 5 – 12 year olds to have a playful learning time with the energy of reiki.
Sharman Okan, (Swami Shishyananda Saraswati), in conjunction with Ashram Yoga, is conducting a children’s reiki class in Auckland. Reiki is the universal life energy of love and healing. During the 2 day class, children are tuned into the reiki frequency via 4 Fine Tunings and will learn how to use the reiki energy for healing, happiness, clarity, improvement in school and whatever else they can think of! It means two days away from school but will be very worth while.
Reiki is a healing energy of wholeness which comes equally through both hands when placed on the body of oneself, or someone else. It is not affiliated with any religion. When a person is is initiated into reiki they have the energy in their hands for the rest of their life.
Sharman was apprenticed to, and initiated into reiki, by the late reiki Grandmaster, Denise Crundall of Australia, in 1989, and into reiki mastery in 2002, and has since been conducting classes for children and adults. Denise only initiated four of her many students into the Master frequency of reiki before she died.
TIME: Starting promptly at 9.15am on Wednesday 2 and finishing at 1pm.
Starting promptly at 12.15pm on Thursday 3 and finishing at 3.30pm.
COST: NZ$55 per child; $100 for two or more children in one family. \
Early Bird Rate paid in full by 15 th May: $45 per child,
$80 for two or more children per family.
WHAT TO BRING: a snack plus textas or colouring pencils
FOR FURTHER ENQUIRIES: Please phone Yara on 09 6292496 or 021639272
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Journey to the Inner Sound (Nada Yoga)
4 (eve) - 7 June (Queens b/day weekend)
Annual 3-day Yoga Retreat at Mana Retreat, Coromandel
Lead by Swami Shantimurti Saraswati with special guest Sharman Okan
Nada comes from Sanskrit. The root NAD = “to flow” refers to a stream or flow of consciousness. Nadam is the flow of the inner current. The mind becomes easily absorbed by sound, moving from the external sounds, to the deeper realm. Discovering the subtle, inaudible sounds.
Over this weekend we are using Pranayama (breathing) practices to lead us into meditating on a variety of sounds that have the potential to introduce us to THE inner sound. Nada Yoga is a process of disillusion. You don’t always have to confront your traumas, you can disolve them with sound.
Special guest: Sharman Okan has been chanting for over 30 years, Sharman intimately understands the resonance of the chant and through this creates and empowers transformation, expansion of consciousness and ecstasy.
The weekend also includes postures, yoga nidra, kirtan (chanting), entertainment, personal time and life-giving vegetarian food. All welcome - no previous experience necessary
"The deer is trapped by sweet sound. The cobra is enchanted by sweet music.
Nada entraps the mind. The mind dissolves in sweet Nada,
therefore you can easily control the mind through Nada Yoga.”
- Swami Sivananda
Finding peace and balance at Mana -
for more picutres of previous retreats click here!
COST: $470.00 (all inclusive). Please send $100 non-refundable deposit to secure your place. Please contact us with any queries or bookings by email or phone: (09) 3022110
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Shankhaprakshalana, digestive wash
20 June, 6 - 11am
The change of seasons is an ideal time to undergo this practice of flushing out the digestive tract to create internal balance. This practice is guided and will require rest as well as ensuing dietary restrictions.
Read more about the yogic cleansing practices (click here). Or please call with any queries or medical conditions.
If this is your first time of doing Shankaprakshalana please contact us to learn and practice Lagoo (a short cleanse) before undertaking this full cleanse 2 - 3 weeks prior.
Cost: $50 *Booking essential, limited spaces
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