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15/11/2025

Spaces are still available for an icredible morning of learning and practice in this accessible and powerful technique

Www.yogatotransform events, or PM here to join us
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09/11/2025

This simple and powerful practice is just one meditation technique that forms an integral part of our Awakening Arts The Art & Science of Rest training experience

Based in somatic experiencing through body-mind sensing and expanding nervous system awareness - we explore the felt sensations of positive experiences - large, or small

H - an experience is recalled into awareness

E - we are guided to enrich the recollection through all five senses to see, hear, taste, touch, and smell the intricate, rich moments of that experience - bringing it alive as a felt sense

A - noticing the sensations throughout the body that are present with the recollection helps us get to know what arising emotion(s) feel like in these body-minds, in this moment
We absorb the sensations, welcoming them into awareness and absorbing their qualities

We can choose to stay with and in this experience

We may choose to
L - link these sensations and recollection to a less positive experience that may be difficult or challenging for us

Here we experience the duality of opposite emotions as felt experience
Away from the mental intellectualisation that permits only one focus at a time
Into the body-mind presence of all things here at once, always

We begin this, and so many more explorations on 29 November

https://awakeningarts.co.nz/the-art-and-science-of-rest

02/11/2025

Plan your adventure - turning overwhelm into opportunity
~ finding joy in the journey

Latest newsletter out now!

https://mailchi.mp/yogatherapyworks/bring-joy-to-summer-adventures

24/10/2025

New health tip article out now
An Ayurvedic perspective on food choices, consequence and the power of moderation as we endeavour to digest life!

https://yogatherapyworks.co.nz/resources/ayurveda/food-choices-lessons-from-ayurveda

23/10/2025

We might know that movement is essential for muscle and fascial health, but sometimes pain, soreness, discomfort, and fatigue make movement difficult to do. And, there can be a fear of making pain worse if we 'do the wrong thing', or 'too much' movement and end up paying the consequence.

Here's where yoga therapy can help, by facilitating the positive effects of whole body-mind movement through manual therapy, passive movement and lymphatic clearance as a combined treatment approach in one session.
Feel like you've moved your body, expanded your breath, and balanced your mind with ease, yet no effort, or pain!

Whilst muscle pain often occurs in the context of injury, myalgia, or myalgic conditions are terms that refer to conditions, infections and medication reactions are characterised by pain or tenderness and restricted movement in certain muscles, or muscle groups

Conditions like:

Myalgia - muscle pain or tenderness

Fibromyalgia - widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and cognitive difficulties

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) - inflammatory pain and stiffness in muscles and joints -mainly in the shoulders and hips

Myalgic Encephalitis Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) - a complex multi-system condition that often includes myalgia, cognitive difficulties, and fatigue

And other rheumatological conditions including Lupus (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus), Ankylosing Spondylitis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Vasculitis, and more...

Each condition has an inflammatory basis, making movement difficult, painful and restrictive
This impairs blood flow, fascial health, nerve and muscle fibre glide, and lymphatic drainage to clear waste and toxins from tissues

Moving in these bodies can be daunting, painful, and exhausting
Yet movement IS medicine, and contributes as much to mental health as physical and emotional health, particularly in chronic conditions that often feel like there's no rhyme or reason to why one day feels so different to the next

If you'd like to know more, chat, or try a yoga therapy session reach out:
Email Jane@yogatherapyworks.co.nz
Book https://Yogatherapyworks.as.me/

Sessions available at The Well Studios - The Tannery & Purau bay - Diamond Harbour

17/10/2025

Introducing the incredible Carlos Pomeda - whom we're lucky enough to be hosting in Otautahi this coming November 15 & 16

Originally from Madrid, Spain, Carlos has been steeped in all aspects of the yoga tradition during more than 50 years of practice and study. He spent 18 of those years as a monk of the Saraswati order immersing himself in Indian philosophy, yoga, and meditation
As a senior monk he has taught meditation and philosophy to tens of thousands of students around the world & you could be one of them!!

We've asked him to curate practical workshops to illuminate insight and practice tools to help:

Bring Meditation to Life - practical workshops for beginning and experienced meditators alike

Carlos' great love of the Indian yoga traditions, his insight, his humor and his deep connection with his audiences give him the ability to transmit the teachings in a way that is clear, meaningful and applicable.

Join us for one, or more sessions to experience for yourself:

* The wonder of meditation (2 sessions - take one, or both) Saturday 15th November from 9.30 am - 5pm

* Mantra meditation Sunday 16th November 9.30 am - 12.30 pm

Discounted rates available for multi session bookings (see https://www.yogatotransform.com/meditation for tickets)

Studying with Carlos is an enjoyable and transformative experience - we do hope you can join us

14/10/2025

We receive so much sensory information in each moment - and so much passes by our awareness
Mindful awareness is noticing, when we can, the sounds, smells, tastes, textures, colours, shapes, and surroundings and the feelings they create in body-mind awareness
Notice and absorb
Giving awareness time to be present
Sensations are always present, guiding our judgement, decision making, movement, breath, and posture
They enable us to perceive and evaluate how, and where we are
Become aware of how we feel

No judgement - but truth, as a felt sense experience and deep knowing

Take a moment to feel into your body-mind, be present to what is...
Just as it is

An experience you can never un-experience, un-know, un-see, or un-feel
An experience that helps you come to know your Self
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11/10/2025

Movement is essential to long-term physical, mental, and emotional health
"Use it, or lose it" has a truth as the neuro-muscular coordination and strength to create certain movements and activities needs practice to stay functional

Pain , restriction, and structural changes to muscles, fascia and bones create different pathways that rarely stand the test of time, and often create other health problems

Read about how yoga therapy can help with long term solutions for sustainable health
https://yogatherapyworks.co.nz/resources/movement/painrelief

07/10/2025

Our cats are masters at embodied Rest!
Alert when required - noticing sounds, movement and smells
And yet completely able to yield into each moment where no response is needed, the moment any hint of threat or demand has passed
Embracing every delicious ray of sunshine, warm bed, opportunity to be... just as they are..no matter how ridiculous they may look

We can learn to embody these practices as humans
It's crazy that we have to learn to do this, yet life places demands and stimuli in our paths in such a way to challenge mindful awareness and presence

This is the focus of our Art and Science of Rest training experience this November 29- December 7 in Onekāka, Golden Bay

See https://awakeningarts.co.nz/the-art-and-science-of-rest for details

Together we explore:

Breath dynamics, the intricacies of relationships between breath, neurochemical, neuroendocrine & neuropsychological systems

Nervous systems, their complexity and interplay

Poly vagal theory in action, adaptive responses and therapeutic practices

Digestion, how rest vs active states affect our digestion and assimilation of food, life, environment, and emotions

Brain wave states

Balancing negativity bias

Yoga Nidra

Authentic movement /processing - daily practice of self regulation and authentic expression.

Terra Soma™ yoga, daily morning practice of somatic inquiry through asana, free movement, pranayama, mantra and seated meditation.

Terra Soma™ dance, dance as process /entrance to the waking dream

Accessing deep psyche through sound and story
.. And a bounty more in relationship with fellow students and the spontaneity of what is alive moment to moment in the room as we grow together.

Fully catered, residential training for yoga teachers, somatic & embodied movement practitioners, dance, art & movement therapists

Standard pricing total: $2,550 booked with deposit / paid in full by November 1st / or enquire if payment plan would enable you to attend

02/10/2025

What a week!, It's also, just like that, Happy 1st Birthday Yogatherapyworks!!
I've been blessed with loyal and new clients, supportive referral partners, and the best team Well Studios to enable me to offer yoga therapy in all it's guises to help you find a path to optimal health
Thank you all
🙏🫶🙏

29/09/2025

Thank you, thank you, thank you to whoever nominated me & my solo venture Yogatherapyworks for this year's Exercise New Zealand awards...

I have made it to the finalist round!!

One of 4 'studio' finalists, and one of 23 categories for this annual celebration of exercise and wellbeing industry professionals and their mahi

Thank you Jen & Alaina Well Studios for persuading me to put my entry in with just a couple of days to spare before a big trip away, and Alaina's expertise in creating the video as part of this quick fire entry
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Huge gratitude to all who kindly responded to the invitation to send in feedback and testimonials direct to Exercise New Zealand for round 2 of my submission - I don't know what you said, but it seemed to work a treat & I so appreciate your support
What I do would literally be nothing without all of you ☺️
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Exercise is anything that enables us to move in the ways that support our body-minds & nourish movement as medicine to stay well, active, and able to do the things we love, and need to do
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Whatever the outcome of the final announcements in Auckland on 29 November it is a privilege to offer what I can to whoever is interested in finding their path to optimal health, and helping you get there
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Address

The Well Whole Body Studios/The Tannery, Woolston + Purau Bay, Diamond Harbour
Christchurch

Opening Hours

Tuesday	10am - 6:30pm
Wednesday	10am - 6:45pm
Thursday	11am - 7pm
Friday	9:30am - 6:30pm

Website

http://www.yogatherapyworks.co.nz/, http://Www.yogatherapyworks.as.me/

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