The Yoga Studio

A hands on workshop learning to play singing bowls including metal and crystal and other instruments like chimes and gongs. Gain an understanding of mindfulness of sound techniques, vocal and breath practices. This 6 hour workshop includes a personalised sound bath journey for the participants. The group will be limited to 6 people for an intimate, supportive atmosphere with plenty of time to learn with hands on time with all instruments. We will also being doing partner work with bowls on bodies. No experience is necessary, come to deepen your own meditation and spiritual practice, or to learn how to incorporate more sound into your yoga teaching or wellness work. Or just come for a unique fun day. 

special gift for each participant

11:00 am - 5:00pm with break for shared lunch

Instruments

vocal work

Traditional metal bowls

tongue drum

Frosted Crystal bowls

Alchemy crystal bowls

chimes - bar and koshi instrument and ting she

wind gongs

 Yoga for anxiety and overwhelm

Not drowning, waving

The menopause is a time of transition for women and change can bring feelings of anxiety or being overwhelmed. A common symptom at this time is brain fog, the feeling of forgetfulness that can be combined with the sense of being overwhelmed. Fatigue and stress can also play a major role to contribute to menopause related anxiety.

Flow with Fi in collaboration with The Yoga Studio Devonport is hosting a three hour workshop on menopause yoga for anxiety and overwhelm. This workshop will offer techniques to reduce anxiety and stress to help to reduce the impact of these menopausal symptoms. We will also work on meditation and breathing techniques to help us to gain focus and hopefully leave finding a sense of inner peace and calm, along with techniques that can be applied in daily life.

Menopause yoga for anxiety and overwhelm workshop

Saturday February 11th 2-5pm

The Yoga Studio, Devonport

find out more about Fi Riley here

Menopause yoga for strength and empowerment

Still, I rise

Yoga can be a fantastic tool to help alleviate the symptoms of menopause and help us feel empowered during this time of transition. Whilst some symptoms can leave us feeling depleted in energy, there will be times when we feel the need for a stronger practice to help us to build our bone density and increase muscle mass and cardiovascular health. A more physical yoga approach can also help to energise us and lift a low mood, boosting our resilience and wellbeing.

Flow with Fi in collaboration with The Yoga Studio Devonport is hosting a three hour workshop on menopause yoga for strength and empowerment. We offer a safe space including a women’s circle, an empowering strong yoga practice and time afterwards to journal and reflect. Suitable for all stages of the menopause but may be particularly relevant for post-menopausal women.

Menopause yoga for strength and empowerment workshop

Saturday February 25th 2-5pm

The Yoga Studio, Devonport

find out more about Fi Riley here

Iyengar Yoga class suitable for all levels of experience, this class is at an easier pace.

This term is 7 weeks

The focus at The Yoga Studio is on building up your strength and confidence with your yoga practice. Class sizes are a maximum of 8 so a more individualised approach is taken.

Known as Yoga Kurunta or Puppet Yoga this is a way of doing Iyengar Yoga poses using ropes. At the yoga studio we have the unique "great wall™system, it's the only one in NZ and offers a lot of advantages over traditional rope walls. In this class you will discover a different way to practice Yoga. One that offers a lot of advantages, enabling you to use the ropes for traction in the poses - so great for joints, do upside down poses without weight bearing - fun and easier on the neck and hands, improve your flexibility, plus build up strength - you will work hard and build up core strength but have SO MUCH FUN doing it!

this is a six week block of classes

Let's Begin Yin

Yoga Teacher Fi Riley is taking this 5 week course

This course will introduce Yin Yoga poses and breathing techniques for students helping them create balance within their bodies. Yin is ideal for stiff bodies, for the likes of runners or cyclists who want to help their muscles recover, or anyone who would like to give their joints a tune up. We are working into our connective tissues and joints rather than our muscles, helping keep everything in our bodies working towards its full potential.

Yin Yoga is rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and in Daoist Philosophy. In Yin, we hold postures for a longer period of time to invite more space being created in the body. Yin Yoga holds poses for 3-5 minutes and works to an edge, inviting students to observe the sensations that arise in their bodies. Drawing on its roots in TCM, Yin Yoga works to maintain the balance in our bodies working with our meridians, which are energetic pathways to help stimulate and activate the flow of our energy. 

if you have any questions about the class please contact Fi via email here

Revive Restorative Yoga Class - is focused on relaxation and breath work.

Suitable for beginners

A practice that boosts your immune system, reduces stress, calms the mind and gently opens the body.

This is special practice that is more about undoing than doing a perfect antidote to stresses of life.

This is an 8 week term

Class sizes are a maximum of 8 so a more individualised approach is taken.

Known as Yoga Kurunta or Puppet Yoga this is a way of doing Iyengar Yoga poses using ropes. At the yoga studio we have the unique "great wall™system, it's the only one in NZ and offers a lot of advantages over traditional rope walls. In this class you will discover a different way to practice Yoga. One that offers a lot of advantages, enabling you to use the ropes for traction in the poses - so great for joints, do upside down poses without weight bearing - fun and easier on the neck and hands, improve your flexibility, plus build up strength - you will work hard and build up core strength but have SO MUCH FUN doing it!

This class is suitable for beginners and will be a 5 week course that gradually builds up your skills with the ropes. It is a safe and graded approach so you go at your pace.

There will be an overrun week on the 29 March in case I have to cancel a class during term.

One hour Yoga (Iyengar) class

Lively, energetic fun class - Not suitable for beginners

9 week term

Restorative Yoga poses that will leave you feeling nourished, peaceful. Then bliss out in Savasana with an healing sound bath.

In this 3 week course you will learn a beautiful style of yoga practice that is internal, still and spacious, based on slow, conscious presence, rather than ‘working out’. Discover a way to undo and deeply unwind the layers of tension that have become the norm for so many of us.

Dates: Begins March 30 6:45pm - 8.15pm

what is restorative yoga

t's a quiet, supported and alignment based style that encourages you to move into a more balanced and even state in both body and mind. Using “yoga props” like blankets and bolsters we support the body to improve circulation and create space, gently stretching and opening and create a feeling of safety.

In addition to the poses we use beautiful breathing practices that switch on the Parasympathetic Nervous System that that frees us from the stress of ‘flight or fight’ mode and takes us to rest and digest mode where deep healing takes place. 

This is a powerful practice, and helps you to take part in cultivating your own well-being. 

Additional benefits

• Boost your immune system
• Improve poster
• Lift your mood and reduce anxiety
• Soothe stress and your nervous system
• Help with insomnia
• Ameliorate menstruation and menopause symptoms

What is sound healing?

Sound healing is the use of specific instruments, music, tones, and other sonic vibrations to balance and heal the body, mind, and spirit. It involves using specialized sound frequencies to create a therapeutic atmosphere to promote deep rest, nervous system rebalancing, and emotional release. Ideally, a hypnotic, meditative or theta brainwave state is created which allows access to deeper levels of inner wisdom and healing.

This course will explore the art of the mindfulness of sound meditation and deep listening. 

At the studio we have a large collection of traditional bowls, Frosted crystal singing bowls and the world renowned alchemy healing singing bowls along with other sound healing tools.

No experience needed but you do need to be able to get up and down off the floor. All the blankets, bolsters and equipment are provided for you. Please email Cheryl@theyogastudio.co.nz if you have any questions.

Make some space for yourself to calm down and rest

You'll be greeted by some herbal tea and sweet smells of aromatherapy. Enjoy a New Moon Card reading. Then delight in some deep rest in supportive restorative poses.

Be guided in a meditation to refocus with NEW MOON energy

We will complete the class with a sound bath so you can surrender to the sound of singing bowls that will help to harmonise subtle energies and activate the natural healing process of the mind body and spirit.

A beautiful way to clear the flow of vital energy through the body.

Places will be 7 people only so please book now to avoid disappointment. 

No experience needed but you need to be able to get up and down off the floor. All the blankets, bolsters and equipment are provided for you.