Anahata Yoga Retreat

Koha/Donation Online Yoga Classes
2020-12-27 08:00 - 2023-12-01 17:00 (Pacific/Auckland)

Integral Yoga & Mindfulness Programme for PTSD
2022-04-01 - 2023-04-01
A trauma-informed community programme for women experiencing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder which offers a wide repertoire of somatic techniques that can complement ongoing trauma therapy and play a supportive role in promoting trauma healing, self-regulation, and physical and mental wellbeing.

Discover embodied practices that can assist you to:

Cultivate resilience
Nourish physical and mental health
Calm and balance the nervous system
Self-generate a feeling of safety, agency and choice
Expand the window of tolerance and capacity for presence
Self-regulate physical and emotional responses to stress and trauma
Return to wholeness

Additional Information

A free year-long programme starting in April 2022
Limited spaces available
Registration closes 11 April
In-person sessions based in Golden Bay

For more details get in touch with Priyadhara at: hello@creatingbalance.co.nz This year’s women’s Integral Yoga & Mindfulness Programme for women with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is brought to our community through a close collaboration between Creating Balance, Te Whare Mahana and AYHET. Advice and support has been provided by Mohua Social Services, Manawhenua Ki Mohua’s Whanau Ora Navigator and health professionals in the community.
The PTSD programme aims to assist rurally isolated, vulnerable and at-risk women with PTSD in their efforts to manage their healing and wellbeing. This programme also aims to address the need for more complementary pathways of physical and mental health support available to women with PTSD in Golden Bay by offering an integrated and somatic system of integral yoga and mindfulness tools, that are trauma-informed, holistic in nature, have been clinically studied internationally and are known to help relieve PTSD symptoms
AYHET has received grants from Lottery Community Fund and Golden Bay Community Trust, and is welcoming donations to further financially assist this promising community initiative. If you wish to make a donation, please enter the amount below and click Donate.
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Once you have made a donation, you will receive an automatic email that includes a free download of Swami Karma Karuna’s guided Health Yoga Nidra. Enjoy 25 minutes of deep relaxation, to heal and nurture your body.

Teachers

Sannyasi Priyadhara specialises in yogic science education. Her experience in exploring the scientific, transformational and holistic quality of yoga as well as her extensive and continuous training at the internationally renown Bihar School of Yoga in India and in yoga education centres in New Zealand and Australia has inspired her to integrate yoga into daily life and enables her to assist individuals of different backgrounds, cultures and mental/physical health needs on their journey towards positive change.
Priyadhara’s practical understanding of yogic science and yogic lifestyle allows her to offer knowledge and personal insight on a variety of topics in accessible ways. Her work places emphasis on community resilience, integral health and wellbeing and involves the development and facilitation of initiatives that aim to address a specific need in the Golden Bay community through collaboration with key local and regional organisations.
She has worked with Red Cross Belgium, to deliver yoga for refugee youth, and developed integral yoga and mindfulness programmes for teenagers and individuals with PTSD in Golden Bay, in collaboration with AYHET, Golden Bay High School, Te Whare Mahana and community funding organisations.

Havan (Sacred Fire Ceremony) - Every Saturday
2022-11-12 - 2025-04-26
Havan is a traditional fire ceremony to bring balance & healing to our environment as well as to ourselves.

Most Saturday Evenings 5:00-7:00pm.
As spaces are limited, bookings are essential before visiting Anahata. You can book in by emailing: yoga@anahata-retreat.org.nz or calling us at: 03 525 7587

Every Saturday, in our yoga tradition all over the world, 108 rounds of the Maha Mrityunjaya Healing Mantra is chanted during the practice of Havan, an ancient Fire Ceremony, using mantra and fire for means of transformation.
This particular mantra is chanted to offer healing to people in need and to assist those who are wanting to let go of attachments. We read the names of all those we know in need of healing before making offerings to the fire with those names in our hearts.
Come experience this powerful practice of healing & transformation, followed by uplifting vibrations at our heart-opening Kirtan. Check out our blogpost on how the practice of Kirtan can be used to develop Bhakti.
Everybody is welcome to join us and no previous experience is necessary.

Mahamrityunjaya Mantra
Om Tryambakam Yajamahe Sugandhim Pushtivardhanam Urvarukamiva Bandhanan Mrityor Mukshiya Maamritat

Meaning
OM. We worship and adore you, O three-eyed one, O Shiva.
You are sweet gladness, the fragrance of life, who nourishes us,
restores our health, and causes us to thrive.
As, in due time, the stem of the cucumber weakens,
and the gourd if freed from the vine, so free us
from attachment and death, and do not withhold immortality.

To Join Us Onsite
Please ensure to bring lots of layers with you due to the higher altitude.
Please RSVP at least a day before the event by phone on 03 525 9887.
And, if you would like to add somebody to the Healing Book, which is read out before the practice, please contact us and we can add this on your behalf.

Anahata Specialist Teachers

Anahata Teachers – we have an ever-changing group of visiting and resident teachers at Anahata. All are well trained and knowledgeable in their field, and they will lead you through this practice in a respectful and gentle manner, inspiring you to go deeper and explore what you find.
