BeCalmed Studio

06/04/2026

Do you wear your traumas like armour? Would you rather be like a river as it meets the sea: journey filled, about to float in an ocean so big that your traumas can be felt instead like a gentle tide? I guide yoga for first-responders, cancer survivors, the chronically stressed and the hearts that haven't quite mended. Yet. If you are curious about how yoga can support your healing journey, let me know. Moving the body is only one out of the eight limbs of yoga. Yoga is more about moving the breath and mind., towards a gentle tide.
https://www.becalmedstudio.com/studio-classes

04/04/2026

Kai Tahi Yoga is on today 9am! Balance your chocolate sugar high this morning with some caaaaallllmm. $10. Mats provided. Give it a go... you may be surprised what yoga is and what it isn't. All welcome.

25/03/2026

Anyone want to join me for Dosa Day (if you've never had a dosa, it's the most delicious Indian kai) to fundraise for Kurinchi Kumaran Temple in Newlands? This Saturday lunchtime-ish. I can take three others. Let me know by Friday morning and I'll put in our orders! We will find a time to sit and calm too, along the way, depending on the weather.

23/03/2026

You were never incomplete.

The expectation was built on a misperception and that changes everything.

This week we traced the full territory of expectation - where it is born, what it costs in relationships, how it chains from preference to frustration to demand, and how it operates even in our relationship with our own performance and outcomes.

What emerges from that examination is a teaching that Gurudev Shri Amritji places at the absolute center of I AM Yoga: the belief underneath every expectation is not true.

He teaches it plainly: "You are already whole. Everything that you think you are missing is your imagination."

This is not spiritual optimism. It is a precise description of what witnessing reveals.

When you sit in genuine awareness, - not the analytical mind reviewing itself, but the witnessing consciousness that observes the content of the mind without becoming it - what you find is not lack.

What you find is presence. Unbroken, unconditional, already here.

Every expectation you have ever carried was an attempt to supplement that presence with something the mind decided it was missing. And because presence was never actually missing, the supplementation was never going to work.

The expectation was chasing a problem that did not exist.

Gurudev offers the direct consequence of seeing this clearly: "If you begin to give without expectations, you will begin to feel that whatever comes to you comes as an expression of grace and not a return for your expectations."

When expectation releases, grace becomes visible - not because the circumstances changed, but because the lens through which they are perceived has vcleared.

It has always been in the quality of attention you bring to the present step.

Join us every Friday as we do our Quantum Breath Medidation with Gurudev Shri Amritji, live at 11 AM ET. Comment MEDITATE to gain access.

22/03/2026

What's in a name? Thanks for the photo Russell.

22/03/2026

Good things, bad things, painful things, fun things, past things, annoying things, joyful things - how can we experience anything that comes our way with more calm, clarity and wisdom? We'll focus on this in today's Calm Life class at 4pm in the forest studio. ☺ https://becalmedstudio.as.me/calmlife2026

16/03/2026

Super easy to come to your relaxing yoga class. Just follow the orange triangles! Thanks Dean, the best yoga support ever.

16/03/2026

If you want to explore one of the most insightful ancient yoga texts ever written, with an inspiring teacher who spent 35 years living in India, please consider this exceptional offering.

The Bhagavad Gita is a profound scripture on the nature of the true Self of all beings. It leads us to an understanding of the root cause of doubt, fear, and confusion that grip the mind and heart.

Understanding the symbolism of the epic “war” opens the mind to clarity, allowing the knots of the heart and mind to release, so that one becomes doubtless in action and at peace within oneself.

From April to September 2026, we will meet on the first Tuesday of each month (6 meetings)
7:30 – 9:00 pm (NZT)
Online via Zoom

Each monthly session includes teachings, reflection, and concludes with the chanting of the seven essential Gita verses.

Each session will be recorded and shared with participants, so you can revisit them during the month or catch up if you are unable to attend any session.

To sign up write to shikhaasatsang@gmail.com

14/03/2026

Sunday's 9am yoga at Kai Tahi will focus on how we can move and return to a sense of awesomeness! Gentle moves, deep breaths. Great for people who want to give yoga a go as well as those who want to deepen their practice. For all bodies and experiences.😊

01/03/2026

One layer moving south. Another layer morning north. Something still. Constant opposing change. What remains constant, that we can rely on, no matter the weather? Close your eyes, try to feel your heart beat. Open your eyes, try to feel your heart beat with your eyes open. Close your eyes. Heart beat. That's what doesn't change: Your awareness. The watcher. She is calm and unaffected by the weather.

15/02/2026

It is absolutely a thing to be freaked out by weather. Our nervous system hears the havoc winds and pounding rain. It waits, in the stress response, ready to save you. Wild weather also brings us an opportunity to switch what our mind is telling our body, to experience something else. Calmer, unchanging. Be prepared for rough weather, and then switch so you can sleep, digest and balance. Find your breath. Breathe deep into your belly, and on the outbreath let go of what you've been holding since the warnings began. The forecast inside your breathe is calm, soothing... like a still forest at sunrise.

This simple, short meditation track focuses on your breath for times when your mind is racing. Bring mindfulness to the way you are right now. Yoga is as much about your breath as it is about moving your body. In fact, yoga is meditation - when your body, breath and mind are one joined, harmonious

09/12/2025

Meditation is not stopping your thoughts. Meditation is watching your thoughts from a position of such nonresisted kindness, that they feel seen enough to pass on through. Next year BeCalmed Studio will align more with meditation.