Te Hine Ruru Retreat

05/11/2025

Are you looking for a deeper connection to nature, and nature based practices?

This dream journey (immram) using the Irish drum and a movement meditation will bring you into relationship with our animal friends, and the wisdom and knowledge they have for us humans, both on an individual level and on the collective.

The drumbeat changes our state of consciousness and takes us into a theta brain wave state where we have access to other types of knowing.

This will be a time to connect with nature and develop our love and respect for other species that we share our home with. We hope to learn from them how to live more harmoniously and in alignment with life on the earth, our home.

Come, spend time with others who are looking for this earth deepening too. If this is new for you but you are curious, come and experience something different.

“If we keep doing the same things we will keep getting the same results” (Albert Einstein)

Sunday November 9 th
3-5pm
Te Hine Ruru Retreat Russell 0272

Please wear comfortable clothes, and bring a water bottle and journal.
Arrive a few mins early so we can start on time.

To reserve your space please click on the event or use booking link below:

https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=27617475&appointmentType=82678844

05/11/2025

EFT FOR MENOPAUSE SUPPORT
Emotional Freedom Technique can relieve the feeling of ANXIETY in the body.

This anxiousness can more easily show up when our endocrine system ( hormones) is changing at perimenopause and menopause.

Changing hormones has an effect on adrenal glands and how much adrenaline and cortisol is produced. This has an effect on how easily we can cope with everyday stress.

EFT reduces the stress / threat response in the amygdala and so leaves us feeling more calm and able to think, do and feel like normal.
In a recent study* of EFT effectiveness they found a
🔻40% reduction of anxiety
🔻43% reduction of cortisol.

EFT is something you can learn in the
6 x 1:1 sessions AND it can then be a self help tool you have for the rest of your life !!

01/11/2025

Seasonal celebrations 🌀🔥
Marking the start of Summer

30/10/2025

🌱💫BEALTAINE BLESSINGS💫🌱

A cross quarter day and one of the 4 fire festivals in the Irish Wheel of the Year, halfway between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice.

Astrological date is Nov 8th 08.12 am in Southern Hemisphere.

A time of fertility of the land, and in the Irish calendar marks the start of the season of summer, blossoming, everything is alive and fertile.

A time to honour growth and the creative energy or spark within.
A time where opposite energies meet to create something new and whole.
UNITY
WHOLENESS
CREATION

🔸️In what ways is your embodied self vibrating to the energies of the land and the earth you live in, are part of?
🔸️What polarities are you integrating within yourself ?
🔸️Can you feel energy of Bealtaine alive in your body? In what ways?
🔸️Maybe you feel like dancing?
🔸️Perhaps putting your creative endeavors out into the world?
🔸️Maybe you’d like to celebrate Bealtaine with a picnic or a dance on the land, a group of friends coming together ?

So NOT Halloween in Southern Hemisphere.
Halloween is at approx. end of April in Southern Hemisphere, it’s a celebration which falls half way between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice that honours the energies of death, connected to nature retreating in that season.

COMMIT TO LIVING IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE SEASONAL ENERGIES OF WHERE WE LIVE💫🙏

29/10/2025

Delighted to be supporting Springbank School Fireworks Fundraising event this Saturday. Come along for some family fun, good food and lots of prizes - including a treatment at Te Hine Ruru Retreat!

WELCOME BACK FOR TERM FOUR, we've got a busy and exciting term ahead of us!

If you haven't already, lock in the date for the Fireworks Extravaganza on Saturday 1st November from 6:00pm.
🎆🎇🎆

24/10/2025

Do you have trouble SLEEPING?

Are you having difficulty getting to sleep or are you waking up in the middle of the night?

This series of relaxing yoga classes will be perfect for you -

~reduce cortisol in the body
~relax the body and mind so they can drift into sleep
~give yourself a routine so you know you will be going to sleep soon

Each class will include
~some easy, slow and relaxing yoga sequences for before bed.
~pranayama (breathing) to bring you into a parasympathetic state
~yoga nidra (yoga sleep) a muscle relaxation method which brings you into a brain wave state that is close to sleep.

Over 6 nights your body and mind will develop a pattern to help induce sleep and relax yourself after a busy day.
Start Sunday 26th October 9pm -9.30pm NZST
Last Class Friday October 31st 9pm-9.30pm NZST

You will be able to continue with some of these techniques on your own to create a restful night and wake up fresh in the morning

link to book :
https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=27617475&appointmentType=82652985

19/10/2025

RELAXED SUNDAY EVENING VIBES