Soma Yoga

Soma Yoga Sharing the path of transformation & healing through the wisdom of the body. Yoga, Somatics, Ecstatic Dance, Sound Healing, Trauma Recovery & More

YOGA JOURNEYS term 3, 2022. Tuesdays:

BEGINNERS
Each term, 4 x per year
Tuesdays 5:45pm
Starts Tuesday July 26th
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SOMA YOGA
Open Level
Each term 8 x Sessions, 4 x per year
Tuesdays 7.30pm
Starts Tuesday August 2nd
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Thursdays:

SOMA YOGA
Intermediate Level
Each term 8 x Sessions, 4 x per year
Thursdays 5:45pm
Starts Thursday July 28th
(Please register by message)

ATTUNE-UP: 3 WEEK Sessions
(Some Terms)
Thursdays 5.45pm

Fridays:

WILD AT HEART - MONTHLY Community Dance Gathering
First Friday of the month 7pm

Solstices:

AYANAANT: YOGA & SOUND JOURNEY
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REGISTRATIONS NOW OPEN
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Thank you for all your GREAT questions about Ecstatic Dance! Here are some frequently asked ones ✨1. What is Ecstatic D...
03/11/2025

Thank you for all your GREAT questions about Ecstatic Dance! Here are some frequently asked ones ✨

1. What is Ecstatic Dance?
Ecstatic Dance is a freeform movement practice where you let the body move any way it wants, without choreography or guidance. It’s a moving meditation with specially curated music that shifts through soundscapes and tempos to help you reconnect in to your animal self and feel the freedom of this dance. The musics starts of slow and then builds in speed, then slows down again, like a wave.

2. Do I need dance experience?
No. This is an opportunity just to enjoy, where everything is optional and every movement - even quietly sitting - is welcome.

3. What kind of music do you play?
The journey moves through a wide range of genres and rhythms - from ambient / world music to tribal beats, electronic incl techno, house, dnb, and soulful acoustic sounds. It’s designed to take you on an energetic and emotional journey.

4. What are the guidelines?
We dance without shoes, talking or phones. You're free to move however you like while respecting others’ space.

5. What should I bring or wear?
Comfy clothes you can move freely in, a water bottle, and your curiosity.

6. What if I feel self-conscious?
That’s completely normal, most people do at first. Once everyone is in their own flow, that usually dissolves. No one is watching/judging anyone. It's a perfect practice to let go of the layers of worry & simply enjoy.

7. Is there a structure to the session?
We start with grounding, then enjoy the movement/dance, then we find stillness, and finish in a closing circle. Afterwards, everyone is invited to stay for hang outs.

8. Can I come alone?
Yes! Many people come solo - our community vibe welcomes you just as you are. You might make some new friends here ✨ You are also welcome as a group.

9. Is it spiritual?
It can be! For some it’s a practice of connection to self, spirit, music and community. For others, it’s simply joyful, embodied movement.

10. How often should I come?
As often as you like! Many people find it deeply nourishing as a monthly ritual - a super fun way to release tension, recharge, and reconnect to a blissful state.

Before I taught yoga, I worked in film - on fantasy sets that made the magical and impossible real. I loved the creativi...
22/10/2025

Before I taught yoga, I worked in film - on fantasy sets that made the magical and impossible real. I loved the creativity, the excitement and the feeling of being in a whole other world, but behind the scenes, I was burning out.

The hours were long, the culture intense. I lived on caffeine, cortisol and adrenaline, and numbed the rest with whatever helped me keep going.

On paper, I was successful and had a great life. I was earning well and working on incredible projects that got me travelling to and living in cool places, and hanging with cool people, but inside, I was feeling a bit zombie like - dealing with anxiety, feeling empty and exhausted and carrying the quiet ache of unprocessed trauma.

I had everything I thought I wanted, except peace.

Yoga and retreats were already woven into my life, but as a side quest - brief moments of stillness between deadlines.

Then the global financial crisis hit, and I was made redundant.

I expected the feeling of fear would arrive soon, but it never did. Instead I felt relief.

I finally had space to breathe - and for the first time I paused to ask myself, what do I love?

That question (along with a series of serendipities I'll save for another time) led me to take one simple step: to go deeper with what made me feel good.

I moved into an ashram to live and study the holism of tantrik yoga - just for me, just for my healing.

I didn’t know it would change everything, but a week into my training, it hit me at a soul-level: This is what I'm here to share.

Now I help others find what I did - the feeling of being alive, aligned, calm, and strong again.

To come home to their bodies and their own whole truth.

I guide people back to the quiet magic that was never lost, only forgotten beneath the noise.

🌿 The body knows.

I’m honoured to be welcoming Richard Jeffrey of Men and Trauma NZ to Dunedin (coming up SOON 💥) to co-facilitate Restori...
30/09/2025

I’m honoured to be welcoming Richard Jeffrey of Men and Trauma NZ to Dunedin (coming up SOON 💥) to co-facilitate Restoring Wholeness Workshop, which is both a Professional Development opportunity & a space for men to learn and practice.

Richard brings over 20 years of experience as a counsellor, facilitator, and men’s wellbeing specialist. His work spans trauma recovery, family violence prevention, and therapeutic group facilitation, and he has dedicated much of his career to creating spaces where men can reconnect with themselves and with others in safe, supportive ways.

Together, we’ll weave Richard’s therapeutic insight with my embodied practices of breathwork and Yoga Nidra. Offering both theory and practice for anyone who supports men in their personal or professional lives, plus of course, men themselves.

This is a rare opportunity to learn from one of Aotearoa’s leading practitioners in men’s work, and I’m thrilled to share this space with him.

📍 Ayu Community Space, 7 Crawford Dunedin
🕒 Saturday 11th October 10am - 1pm
💫 https://www.somayoga.co.nz/immersive-events/restoring-wholeness-a-workshop-for-men-and-those-who-support-them

This is much needed work for our community, I hope to see some of you there!
Jasmin

If you could change your whole life for the better, not all of a sudden, but gradually, starting with one step - with an...
21/09/2025

If you could change your whole life for the better, not all of a sudden, but gradually, starting with one step - with an hour a week - would you?

I started taking yoga (as a way to change my life) a bit more seriously around 25 years ago.

I needed to get relief from the stress load I was carrying with me everywhere from my history, my career (film & fashion sectors - fun and inspiring but think 15 hour days, intense competition, huge party culture) and the utter crazy of the world around.

I felt it in my body, in my reactivity, in my soul. And I saw it in the lifestyle - I was beginning to feel like I was on a giant rat wheel that was keeping me unhealthy (work hard, play hard takes a toll on everything after a while iykyk).

I was sick and tired, of being sick and tired.

And just like the hair ad, it didn't happen overnight - but it did happen.

As I continued to practice, the time I spent feeling bad - stressing (ruminating, worrying, regretting) and avoiding with toxic distractions - reduced, and the time I had feeling great and enjoying my life, increased.

I came out from under the rock / feeling of life happening to me, and grew in courage and skill, so that I could take charge and make the right choices for me and my future.

It didn’t take 25 years for me, it took just months. I started sleeping better, and could see more clearly from a slightly different view of life. From there, my life started changing. I was making different choices.

All those years of practice, including 17 of teaching later, I’ve built a relationship now, with my practice, that increases the peace inside me, I’ve learnt how to calm and release stress from my nervous system, I’m into my 50s and despite many challenges, I am maintaining my joy for life, my mobility, strength and flexibility. All from the one me-time practice.

If you've experienced this, maybe this could be your reminder to keep it up, and if you're wanting to start - this could be your nudge to take that first step.

Yep - I’ve been called a yogavangelist before, but honestly, if you had something that isn’t a quick fix, but it could be a whole life fix, wouldn’t you tell everyone?

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