Join some of the world’s most inspirational presenters at wide range of wonderful workshops covering shamanic healing, sustainable business development, renewable energy, meditation, chanting, yoga, dance, sound healing, permaculture, organic food production, foraging, nutrition, cooking, food security, and more. We are still inviting presenters to join Evolve Festival 2020 and will be adding their details to this page over the next few months, so check back regularly to see more.
Clare Vivian-Neal is a teacher, trainer and counsellor and has been working in this field since 1990. She lives in Golden Bay. Clare has studied Gestalt and Hakomi body-centred psychotherapy and other therapeutic methods. She has been actively practicing and teaching the More To Life course work around the world since 1991. From 2016-18 she studied for a Masters in Counselling (Solution-Focused) at Canterbury University, NZ, her thesis investigated the connection between validation, and hope in the client and counsellor. Working with trauma is one of her interests, especially following Bessel van der Kolk’s transformative body-based therapeutic practices.
Merryn Penington
Merryn’s passion is to inspire and empower others to heal naturally.
Mesmerrised by energy in motion, Merryn’s inspiration is gathered from a vast array of healing art forms and seeing our reflection in nature. Merryn embodies an alchemic infusion of teaching integrative anatomy, full-bodied movement and therapeutic touch. Over two decades of practicing and teaching, her passion is to captivate and inspire others in the journey of self discovery. Merryn empowers others to witness their own light and rejoice in the celebration of self healing. An inquisitive approach to connection is both simple and powerful, reminding us of simplicity and sacredness.
Merryn has completed studies in the forms of health science, eastern philosophies and traditional healing forms. Working with leaders in the fields of zenthai shiatsu, functional anatomy, traditional and contemporary asana, myofascial meridians, remedial massage, integrative movement and wholistic healing forms, Merryn’s insights’ teach us a wholistic perspective of health and healing.
Merryn embraces the whole life experience in this human form and how our experience affects the body and health. This fascination continues to nurture the growth in sharing these insights with others. Merryn teaches across multiple courses, workshops, festivals and retreats, where the flame in your heart is ignited.
As we learn through experience, workshops are interactive, innovative and inclusive. We are receptive when we are open, we open when we feel safe. Embracing authenticity and presence, life is enabled to move though us with Grace and ease. When we trust, miracles happen and bonds are created. These aspects are at the essence of Merryns workshops and community events.
We are the cosmos of infinite energy, dancing, creating form, merging into the galactic dance of creation.
Merryn is truly in her element when presenting at retreats and festivals. She has taught at the Woodford Folk Festival, Byron Spirit Festival, High Vibes on the Mountain, Winter Solstice Festival and numerous Yoga festivals and retreats in Australia. The past few years Merryn has shared her passion and knowledge to students as a Lead Teacher and Co-facilitator within the Zenthai Shiatsu Therapists Program. As well, as offering an innovative and integrative approach to anatomy within multiple Yoga Teacher Training programs. Merryn is truly living her Dharma.
Renetsu is an Embodied Tantra Teacher with a unique teaching and 20 years of international experience. Acclaimed as a holder of ceremony she honors the sacred in all and brings a depth of empowered safety that enables the release of behavioral and cognitive patterns that restrict us from living the life of our dreams.
Now Renetsu has brought her own Tantra Ecstatic Presence Teacher Training Course to NZ offering modules of personal development in accessible residential weekend retreats near Nelson.
Born in the UK, she is now based in Thailand, but is a frequent visitor here and has taught @ Luminate and other NZ festivals since 2010. This will be her 6th year teaching @ Evolve Festival. All of her focus revolves around facilitating and encouraging others into deeper depths of Consciousness and Healing from which to fully express their awesome authentic being in life.
Renetsu is a powerful energy worker, a sensitive and very experienced empath, and a deeply intuitive international teacher. Mother of two, grandmother to many. During a successful career as a probation officer, during which she worked with a wide range of clients, she was struck down with an illness of unbearable pain and told repeatedly that she would never walk again.
From that point her journey and life learning became very focused leading unexpectedly to awakening to the knowing of the oneness of all. She spent six years in the teaching of a Tantric Master and became a teacher within his teaching. In 2003 she tantrically self realised with her then husband. For two years she was a core member of the Osho Leela community in England. There she received the name ‘Renetsu’ which represents Gratitude. She also held healing workshops and taught the movement system Biodanza while at the Osho community. She supported the opening of two schools to train Biodanza teachers and teaches internationally, including 8 countries.
She has combined her numerous skills and passions under the name ‘Ecstatic Presence’ which encompasses the core of her teaching. Later she included Tantra within the name as recognition of the energy she embodies, which fuels and directs her. With her understanding of the impact and consequences of the traumas we hold within our selves, she enables gentle releases. With her accomplished abilities to create an environment of safe space, healing and shifts of consciousness easily occur. This allows an impressive growth opportunity to all. She uses her sessions as a speaker of wisdom and messenger of insight with pinpoint accuracy.
Renetsu’s sessions are heart centered, playful and fun ♥
Alison Elsberry is the creator of Embodied Brilliance™, an innovative embodiment curriculum that helps nurture the authentic Soulful expression of children.
Her brilliance is in supporting kids to embody and express their Soul’s essence. Or in other words, to feel comfortable in their skin and at home in their body so their gifts are fully recognized, celebrated and deeply nourished, without having to hide, fit in or hold back their brilliance.
She loves helping parents, educators and youth professionals recognize a child’s unique quirks, emotions, sensitivities and intuitive abilities as clues to who they are and what they need. So they can better relate to the children they interact with and allow Love to guide the way.
Alison has 20 years of experience as a pediatric occupational therapist, intuitive energy healer and body worker supporting kids. And has supported thousands of children and families world-wide through her innovative courses and educational experiences.
She is the contributing author in the bestselling book Motherhood’s Not For Punks by Patrina Wisdom and has appeared as a guest on podcasts, radio and TV shows sharing new ways to support and educate our next generation of youth. Find out why major networks such as A&E Entertainment have sought her out for her unique wisdom.
Amy is a traditional Herbalist & Advanced Tutor. She works with depth and ease using kinesiology and Native NZ & Wild plants to see what it is that is transpiring on different levels for the individual and brings in nz plant medicines to support, align and uplift. www.plantrhythms.com
Annemieke Harmonie (Bachelor of Education, Dip of Teaching, Dip of Shiatsu, ConTact C.A.R.E student practitioner) was born and raised in Holland. She has learnt the harp since she was nine. From a young age she was asked to perform for people in rest homes, churches, in restaurants, schools etc.
She graduated as a primary school teacher and then traveled the world with her backpack and her Celtic Harp.
She visited many different cultures and was inspired by their customs and arts and music. She performed worldwide in castles, palaces, monasteries, museums, at wineries, on beach weddings, at funerals, in churches, at festivals, for prime ministers, and recently for the governor general of NZ.
Annemieke started a harp school in Auckland in 1995, and they traveled with 15 harpists to Great Barrier Island and Waiheke Island for local performances.
Quite an ordeal with all those harps on the boat…but what a divine surprise for the local residents!
She traveled to festivals through new Zealand and introduced her harp meditations, where she combined her writing and musical gifts into journeys to help people tune deeper into them selves and heal at a very deep level.
In 1999 Annemieke moved to Dunedin, and during the next 12 years she had three children and ran the Dunedin harp school and orchestra. She made several CD’s.
In 2010 Annemieke and her three children moved to Nelson, after traveling through New Zealand to find a good place to live and a bit warmer then Dunedin…they enjoy growing their own organic food.
Currently Annemieke runs Harmonie Harp School in Nelson, and her Harp Orchestra with 15 members, who will perform on Sat. 26 Oct at 3 pm in the Richmond Town Hall, and on Sat 2 Nov at 3 pm at the NCMA in Nelson.
She also practices ConTact C.A.R.E and intuitive healing.
Her memoir was published recently;
This book presents her story, one filled with initiations, challenges, adversity and magic. From an early age, Annemieke tried to make sense of this world and to find out who she is and why others can’t see what she does. Her connection with the natural world became her guide. A musician from the age of nine, she traveled through the world with her harp and visited a wide variety of places. She finally settled far from her homeland, in New Zealand, where she raised and home schooled her three children on her own. Through both music and various healing modalities, Annemieke found ways to reach out to others and make this world a better place for all.
In this memoir, one woman shares her life story, describing a challenging life worth living that calls forth love and inspiration in those around her.
Annemieke is dreaming up and implementing new realities, where happiness, love, health, beauty and peace exist for everyone, every day. Where people believe in their dreams again and have the courage to be different.
Cassa Grant is a writer and brand strategist… who is seriously in love with essential oils, meditation, and crystals. She had a near-death pulmonary embolism after undergoing surgery to treat endometriosis and began to look more seriously at what the underlying energetic causes behind these second- and root- chakra issues are. Since then, she’s learned how to use essential oils, meditation, and crystals to lift her vibrational frequency and support her healing journey.
Dawn Grace Kelly is a Nelson-based spiritual teacher, mentor and author of the new book Truth Spiritual Love — The Essential Guide to Healing.
For the past 27 years Dawn has been in private practice as a spiritual guide and healer. She teaches lightworkers past life regression, inner child work, channelling, how to work with earthbound spirits, shadow work, tarot and the psychology of the chakras.
Her work includes past and current life regression, spirit connection, intuitive reading, inner-child work and tarot therapy.
Dawn writes regular psycho/spiritual blogs and inspiring articles for magazines.
She is passionate about supporting Lightworkers to come into their power.
You can follow her on –
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/dawngracekelly/ where she shares weekly Tarot guidance
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dawn_grace_kelly_
Website http://www.dawngracekelly.com
Name workshop: Fly and Thai
Workshop facilitators: Elena Åseby & Erwin Coenen.
Elena is a certified yoga (hatha/vinyasa/yin) and acrovinyasa teacher. Erwin is a certified yin yoga teacher, plays mantras and has various certificates in Thai massage. They have both followed trainings and workshops with a wide variety of teachers all over the world, which have all inspired and shaped their workshops and classes. They live here in Nelson part of the year and spend the other part in Europe. They love to share their passion for yoga, acroyoga and thai massage, and to create a safe and fun space for everyone to play, learn and try new things.
Gabrielle Harris, the content and mindful writer and teacher, is one of 2019 finalists in the Ashton Wylie Mind Body Spirit awards.
Author of the popular Facebook page Yin New Zealand, Gabrielle has been practicing yoga for over ten years. Her writing has been featured in Yoga Journal, Mind Body Green and various other publications. Her teaching and writing inspiration arise from over 1000 hours of studying with some of the world’s leading teachers in both the yin and yang world.
Ten years ago, while searching to resolve the dissatisfaction Gabrielle felt with her life, she started teaching and practicing yoga. Gabrielle’s yoga life started with a hard and fast-paced yoga in a heated room. This only made her feel tired and drained of energy. After discovering Yin Yoga things began to shift. Over the subsequent years this feeling of ‘things not being enough’ and ‘something better’ gradually fell away. Patience, seeing a bigger picture of life, the feeling of general happiness, and contentment began to fill the void.
Why do I have certain experiences in my life ?
Why do I have the thoughts, emotions, beliefs, fears, anxieties, symptoms, health concerns, pain, and feelings that I do?
What happens when I or my loved ones have a challenging, stressful or traumatic experience – big or small ?
How might this affect me, my loved one, my child, and the choices and life decisions I or they make?
This interactive workshop provides an introduction, to
Understand your body and its infinite wisdom from a root cause approach
Recognise cycles of thinking and feeling
Learn your body’s response to stress triggers
Learn calming tools and a new way of self healing
You will be introduced to Meta Health, Matrix Reimprinting, Matrix Birth Reimprinting and learn the basics of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT / Tapping) related to your questions within the group of those attending.
What might you want to explore now and in the future? Your birth, childhood, pregnancy, relationships with others, life experiences ….. ?
Gaylene Hansen is a nurse (and previous midwife) currently working in Special Care Baby Unit and within her own company Nurturing Naturally NZ. She guides clients in learning about and resolving their health concerns, birth and life experiences, fears, anxieties, and emotional issues to enable them to move forward and create the life of their choosing.
http://www.nurturingnaturally.nz/
www.facebook.com/nurturingnaturallynz
https://www.meta-healthy.life/babies-birth-relationships-and-love/
http://www.nurturingnaturally.nz/blog-/14280400
Glenys Earle is an Energy Healer, Yoga teacher and Flower Essence therapist. In her healing work she combines ThetaHealing, Eden Energy Medicine and Reiki, as well as her own experiences with and knowledge of subtle energies.
Glenys knows that underlying everything in the physical realm is energy and vibration, and that healing at the level of energy is both subtle and profound.
Glenys’ mission is to bring joy to your life; to inspire you and to give you tools that will help you make better choices for your own health and wellbeing. She wants to help you experience greater health and vitality, and wake up to being more alive, whole and fully expressing yourself.
Glenys believes that helping people make positive, healthy changes in their lives creates a ripple effect that inspires others to change.
Her vision is that by helping her clients experience better health and vitality, and then empowering them to take greater responsibility for their own wellbeing, they will free up energy and vitality to live more joyful and creative lives.
Hannah and Liam are the Two No-Waste Nomads behind The Rubbish Trip. Since July 2017 they have been travelling NZ fulltime delivering talks and presentations to communities, schools and businesses about how individuals can reduce their household waste. The Rubbish Trip presentations are based on Hannah and Liam’s own research and experience, having lived without a rubbish bin for over 5 years.
Hannah is Naturopath, Shamanic Healer and Forest Therapy Guide. With 18 years experience in the wellness industry she’s tried it all and is certain that one of the most overlooked areas for wellbeing is the simple art of nature connection.
Hannah runs transformative nature connection events and offers breakthrough shamanic healing sessions in NZ and the USA. Warm, open and engaging, Hannah will gently support you in coming home to yourself and relating to the world around you in a new invigorated way.
What people have said:
“I really enjoyed my forest bathing with Hannah. She is so authentic, open, unassuming and easy going. She knows how to hold space and be flexible depending on what the group needs on that day. I love her passion in what she does and she does it so well!
Carmen, USA
“Wonderful experience reconnecting with nature and learning more about this ancient land, plants and trees. So peaceful and Hannah made us feel very welcome.”
Gushiv, Australia
“I was so curious about it and wasn’t disappointed – such an amazing experience, no words to describe it. I recommend to try it ;-). Hannah is simply the best.”
Karin, Austria
rma Jager lives in the Motueka Valley. She is the mother of three teenage children; has a passion for nutrition and living a self-sufficient lifestyle. She and her husband own a lifestyle farm, where they have been living co-operatively with 5 households for over a decade. This means she is well aware of the challenges and gifts of community living and this has supported her growth in authentic communication.
She first became aware of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in 2004 and has been actively developing this new language through attending workshops, taking part in and leading practice groups. She has been facilitating NVC courses in the Nelson/Tasman area for the last few years. She has worked as a communication consultant in the business environment. She gets the opportunity to role-model authentic communication in a range of volunteer positions in community groups. In her role as a health coach she has experienced the magic of truly listening and giving empathy to people as opposed to giving advise and wanting to ‘fix’ someone’s problem.
Author-Artist-Educator, Jacquelyn E. Lane integrates decades of metaphysical study and her personal record of conscious contact to explore our relationship with the multi-level intelligence of Nature traditionally known as the Deva kingdom, a hierarchy of elemental lives and their angelic overseers. She sees her role as moving this subject out of folklore and into a modern understanding of consciousness and perception. She backs her views with coherent metaphysics that enable us to integrate the apparent separations between science, spirituality and experience. Extensive world travel and a focus on this cross-over between science and spirituality give her work considerable depth. Her new book on Deva was shortlisted for the 2019 Ashton Wylie Unpublished Manuscript awards. ‘Deva – Our Relationship with the Subtle World’ is being published internationally by Findhorn Press via the US publishers Inner Traditions-Bear & Co. It is now available for pre-orders and will be released in print in June/July 2020. Jacquelyn has been involved in the writing and/or illustrating of several books including; The Children of Gaia (an illustrated eco-novel) and This World of Echoes – A Divine Guide to Being Human. She has a BA in the Social Sciences and has run numerous workshops on Deva, metaphysics, art and illustration. She has been guest speaker at The Seven Rays Conference in Christchurch and at a range of events over the years. She believes that we are at a point where we need to understand our relationship with Nature at a much deeper level that will take us to a true sense of ‘Pan Consciousness’ – the realisation that we and Nature are in an intricate relationship as partners in the One Life of Planet Earth. Many of us sense or wish for this closer relationship with the world around us but are hampered by a world-view that is fractionated into ‘science versus spirituality’, a result of our ‘us and them’ separatism that causes so much strife within humanity and between us and the natural kingdoms that support us. Her understanding of how we and Deva, the form builders of the world, are partners in creating our ‘reality’ is presented in ways that are accessible to a wide audience.
Jo Wilcox is a qualified and experienced Yoga teacher, sharing yoga with both adults and children in the local community.
Jo will bring the fun and interactive aspects of Kids Yoga to adults in this group workshop; guiding you to connect with each other and share yoga together.
Debbie Sumner is an experienced yoga and dance teacher. She is a trained yoga teacher in Hatha and yin, trained bellyfit instructor with 19 years Middle eastern dance experience. She has studied with many different dance teachers from all over the world. She loves to share her knowledge with others and to create a space of community.
Workshop Description:
Shake ‘n Groove is an exploration of Shaking Medicine and Groove Dance weaved together with a stunning soundscape. Your journey is facilitated by the conscious loving couple Joni Bee from NZ and Keith Motes from the USA.
Shaking Medicine arises from a mostly forgotten instinctive intelligence within us all. It guides us into a spontaneous-therapeutic tremoring that stems from our autonomic nervous system. We allow an involuntary shake to move through us, which is nothing like ordinary shaking. It encourages even deeper parasympathetic states of relaxation and release the way the mammals in nature do.
Groove Dance encourages organic movement through rhythm and sound, invites us to use different ranges of motion to curiously explore our own intuitive expression in ways many of us would not ordinarily do. There’s the age old saying of “move it or lose it” and Groove dance gets us to do just that! We’ll add to our movement toolkit for better health and joy of being in a body, walking this Earth.
The dance enhances the shake and the shake enhances the dance.
Join us on this powerfully held journey as we step in, warm up our thirteen joints, get groovin’, explore Shaking Medicine, floor-play our warm down, and mindfully step out into a colourful day.
Come with your curiosity and the intention to shake ‘n groove. EveryBODY welcome. No physical level or experience required. Each journey is unique for everyone.
Bio:
Keith Motes is a quantum physicist (PhD) from Louisiana, USA and Yoga teacher of both Indian and Taoist-Chinese styles. He is learning about energy from both the intellectual and the experiential. Keith has completed his PhD with his thesis titled, “Routes Towards Optical Quantum Technology – New Architectures and Applications,” has invented world record breaking quantum computing technologies, and has been teaching for more than a decade. He is passionate about raising the consciousness and vibration of the planet.
Keith’s main interest at the moment is uplifting the world through Shaking Medicine. He founded the Shaking Medicine Foundation. He actively teaches various forms of Yogic arts from asana, neidan, qigong, pranayama, meditation, acroyoga and therapeutic tremoring. He has done his Yoga teacher training with Power Living Australia Yoga, studied and practiced the work on tantra and kriya by Swami Satyananda Saraswati and teaches neidan, which is Chinese-Taoist Yoga, primarily from the lineage of Mantak Chia.
Joni Bee is a high vibe, playfully buzzy bee-like radiant human bee-ing. She is passionate about raising the world’s collective vibration in more joy, health and connection. She grew up in Nelson, NZ, has travelled the world extensively and now currently resides in Byron Bay, Australia co-creating with the conscious community there.
She is a trained blue belt of the Nia Technique, receiving her training in the USA, Sweden and Australia. The Nia Technique incorporates nine different forms of dance arts, martial arts and healing arts. Joni has been facilitating movement, dance and fitness classes for more than six years. She is inspired by holistic health and guides us to listen to the body’s natural way to uplift the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of our being.
Joni Bee also offers sessions as an Attunement Therapist, has her expertise in child-care as an ESOL teacher. She has a keen interest in natural child-birth and training as a Doula.
There is a video at the top of the home page of www.shakingmedicine.com that covers the Shaking Medicine aspect of our co-creation.
The School of Shamanic Womancraft
The School of Shamanic Womancraft is an international Women’s Mysteries School, a community of women united by a revolutionary impulse for social change and healing. We create circles of intimacy and belonging in which growth and transformation can unfold. Our cutting-edge programs are designed to help women undertake their inner healing work, and build resilience, stamina, and adaptability so they can respond to the global need for sustainable living on every level.
Judy Mort
Judy is a graduate and teacher with The School of Shamanic Womancraft. She completed the Four Seasons Journey in 2011 and has continued a close association and ongoing involvement and training with SSW since then. She is a teacher of the Four Seasons Journey year long program, and offers both ‘Moonsong’ and Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy workshops.
Judy has over 20 years’ experience as a midwife working with birthing women and families in Australia and England, in both public hospital and homebirth settings. She currently practices as a midwife in the public health system. Judy holds a passion for all aspects of child birth and brings an awareness of sacred birth to the hospital environment. She supports students with clinical supervision and mentorship.
Judy brings the wisdom of many years of spiritual, personal and professional education and enquiry to all that she offers. She actively applies grounded scholarship to inform her intuitive, embodied and soulful knowing.
As teacher and practitioner of the Women’s Mysteries she offers a variety her own workshops, courses and community-based women’s circles. In all she does Judy guides women to remember and reclaim their innate wisdom, inner knowing and authentic nature. Judy is a way-shower for women to reconnect with Soul, Self and the Divine Feminine, grounded in Nature Based Spirituality.
Judy lives on Biripai Country, Mid North Coast NSW Australia with her Dunedin-born husband and their two teenage sons. She delights in regular immersion in wild nature and natural landscape, which living near the beach, rivers, bush and mountains of her home, offers her. She is thrilled to be returning to Nelson to experience the Evolve Festival.
Musician Kāren Hunter – Kāren uses guitar, voice, mandolin and loops to create heart charged soundscapes that draw deep from the well of collective spirit. Her recent album “Gradually Falling Down’ is a great showcase for her work accompanying Yoga classes and explores sonic texture and dynamic as a healing modality. http://www.karenhunter.bandcamp.com
Yoga Teacher Lisa Allan – Lisa has been teaching yoga for 16 years, opening heartful spaces to connect with self, others, the world around us and beyond.
Musician Kāren Hunter – Kāren uses guitar, voice, mandolin and loops to create heart charged soundscapes that draw deep from the well of collective spirit. Her recent album “Gradually Falling Down’ is a great showcase for her work accompanying Yoga classes and explores sonic texture and dynamic as a healing modality. http://www.karenhunter.bandcamp.com
Yoga Teacher Lisa Allan – Lisa has been teaching yoga for 16 years, opening heartful spaces to connect with self, others, the world around us and beyond.
Come enhance your bandwidth for life’s experience and attune to your ecstatic frequency so that you can be an authentic positive force on this planet.
Breath of Bliss is a breathwork practice that infuses you with aliveness, sensation, emotion and presence. This experience begins with movement, deep sharing, touch, and conscious loving exercises and deepens as we lie down for an hour of circular breathing. The journey is sensitively led with vocal guidance, empowering affirmations, music and sound healing. The result? Powerful, mind-altering experiences of heart-opening, connection and awareness!
Why Breathwork can inspire —
~ Expand consciousness
~ Experience euphoria and ecstasy
~ Increase mental clarity
~ Oxygenate and Detoxify
~ Balanced mind, body and spirit
~ Reduce stress
~ Expand creativity
~ Open you heart
~ Improve relationships
Laura, a lover of ‘the sacred’, has over 10 years global experience in holding powerful healing ceremonies and she believes the medicine first and foremost is unconditional love. With acceptance of what is, she holds in humble service a sacred space for healing and activation, setting up a strong, nurturing and powerful energetic container.
Lauren Hill is a yoga teacher, lifestyle coach, and creative visionary committed to inspiring people to fearlessly love themselves and live their dreams. She is a beautifully balance of wild & free and wise & grounded. Lauren is on a heart centered mission to have every young girl know that their unique power can change the world through Camp Wondergirl. She is also faithfully determined to share the powerful practice of Yoga Nidra so people can experience the deep inner peace that comes from looking within. Lauren believes Yoga can and will change the world…. bringing us all to a space of peace, acceptance and our true core, love… 🙂
Matiu has over 20 years experience as a Maori language and performance teacher, he is an engaging facilitator, dynamic international musician, playwrite, storyteller and a leader amongst his own communities.
Max Jones
With his roots stretching into the Scottish Highlands and further still to Uppsala in the Land
of Skadi, Max Jones has spent his life climbing amongst the branches of his World Tree. This enterprise has afforded him precious glimpses as to what lies beyond the relative comfort of his own grove and the hill upon which it stands.
With wonder and mystery as his constant companions he has traveled to 56 countries in the
known world and several more in the less known, most notably, the UnderWorld. And it has been here, in the light-deprived belly beneath all “this” that so much has been discovered. With grief, and its counterpart love by his side, does he now move through the world. This has mobilised his days, focused his attention, and catalysed his ability to be responsive to these troubling times From this place will he speak about the BoneYard. Max lives in the Marahau Valley with his wife and two feral sons. When he is not allowing himself to
be troubled by some thing or the other, he can be found in his workshop crafting leather into finery, smoking his ole briarwood pipe, and sipping Yerba mate from a gourd. Other feathers in his Fedora are: ceremonialist, rites of passage facilitator for males, cranial-sacral practitioner, and ancestor worshiper.
The Boneyard: Death, grief, and elderhood in a time of sorrow.
This presentation will attempt to paint an authentic picture of our collective situation as a culture and species. How is it that we now find ourselves at the cliff’s edge awash and replete with information, technology, and old people yet utterly bereft of anyone to turn to for support based on experience and wisdom? What is the function of elderhood? Who are the elders and where can they be found?
How has our impoverished relationship with death shaped us and ultimately, disabled us? What role does grief have in the nuts and bolts and slings and arrows of this troubled time?
And what of our ancestors, those who have gone before us, from whom we descend and owe so much to? Where do they stand and where is their place amongst us?
This is an invitation to be trouble allowed. To ask the hard questions and begin the walk to becoming an ancestor worthy of remembering.
Myffie James teaches the NZQA registered training in Holistic Pulsing in Nelson and on the West Coast. She has been actively involved with this therapy for the last 20 years. Teaching for the last 10 years. She incorporates her knowledge of Hakomi psychotherapy, massage and Cranial Sacral Therapy into her teaching and for her clients.
Myffie is passionate about this therapy and the benefits it can offer. Listening in so many ways to a client and offering gently supported movement can enable not only physical wellbeing but support to mental and emotional processes.
She practices from her clinic in Stoke, Nelson. Information can be found : instagram, Facebook and www.holisticmindbody.nz.
I, Nanny van den Oever, am an immigrant from the Netherlands. I live in Christchurch since 1977. I’m the founder of Best Life Ltd and I’m in the public since 2006. I’m a life coach, author Best of Life, numerologist and tarot. Professional speaker in self-empowerment. I was the reader at the Arts Centre in Christchurch every weekend, till it all stopped in 2011, because of major earthquakes. I help many people from all walks of life to live their Own Best Life. The science of numerology is my passion and has given me an insight in my life and others. I work to pass on my knowledge and research done over many years. My goal is to put the value of my book to a wider audience. Last four years I’ve spend much time in England working with the book, while visiting my old parents, who passed over in this time. I attended in 2019 twice Mind Body Spirit festivals in Sydney and Melbourne. I gave a public presentation in Melbourne in November that year. I’m a single mother of three children for the last 20 years, and have now two young grandchildren. I have a footprint on Instagram nannybestlife I do an inspirational daily public post. Another book will be published to complete the set in the future. I give workshops-seminars on self empowerment and numerology. I look forward meeting you and answer any questions you may have. This workshop will help you to improve your own Best Life. Lets make our world on planet Earth peaceful together. Much Love Nanny
Instagram: nannybestlife A daily public post
Book: Best of Life
Nikki Scarano & Pablo Salas (DJ Green Chilli) are Nelson based Ecstatic Dance facilitators. Nikki is a traveler, a fire performer, and a yogi with a passion for conscious movement & healing. Pablo is a Latin Dance instructor and experienced DJ who can create beautiful musical transitions on the dancefloor.
none available at the moment
Paru has truly lived a full life and is passionate about helping people manifest abundance and
live from their highest potential. She has run a retreat for 15 years and works with the enneagram and the journey and doterra oils to truly pave the way to the best life.
Bone Yoga uses gentle movement sequences that focus on and engage the joints. Particular importance is placed on the range of motion of our joints which are determined by the architecture of the joint itself and the tension and vibration in the ligaments and fascia.
The yoga and gentle somatic engagements move within the easeful range of motion of our joints. For many this will give a new dimension of safety and stability to yoga.
The slow, mindful engagement in Bone Yoga allows the opportunity to feel and adjust the way we move and introduce clearer patterns of movement in the body. This has the potential to change default physical and emotional patterns. Bone Yoga engages, stimulates and activates every bone, joint, tendon, ligament and major muscle group.
Bone Yoga can be used therapeutically on its own and in conjunction with other yoga and physical/energetic practices.
Bone Yoga can help to develop your relationship with your body mechanics and functioning, assist with postural alignment and help with ease of movement.
Bone Yoga is mindful, restful and restorative, and has been beautifully described as “Yoga from the inside out.”
Bone Yoga as an exploration and an opportunity to discover our bone energy through working with the breath, mind and movement. Bone Yoga develops our relationship with our core self held in our bones.
In his late teens, Paul explored the world of improvised dance in workshops inspired by the work of Anna Halprin. He also delved deep into the Buddhist practice of Vipassana Meditation.
In 1985 he qualified as a 5 Element Acupuncturist, in 1992 as a Zero Balancer and as teacher in 1996.
He ran a multi-discipline practice in the UK for 15 years and immigrated to New Zealand in 2000.
After a serious illness in 2015 he committed himself to a regular daily practice of yoga. In 2016 Paul qualified as an advanced yoga teacher.
In 2017 he retired from Zero Balancing and founded Bone Yoga and Bone Yoga Bodywork.
He lives on Waiheke Island with his wife Loeci.
He has a twice daily practice of yoga and Qi Gong.
The focus of the Bones and the whole skeletal system is for many a new experience. Understanding the mechanics of the bone and joints of the body on an embodied kinesthetic level support free flow at within our deepest fabric, our bones.
“The focus of my work is to help people to find, for themselves, new ways to be present in the world with more ease. That’s it, simple really.”
The combination and the interplay of Bone Yoga and Bone Yoga Bodywork is taking Paul’s work to new exciting places. This exploration is deeply refreshing and offers the potential for endless creativity.
“I’m loving my work and my teaching more than ever. I’m constantly learning and I’m excited.”
Bone Yoga focuses on our skeletal system, bones, joints and ligaments and fascia. This includes the energetic and emotional vibrations that are held within the bones and tissues of the body.
Rebecca Pflaum is an internationally admired Kundalini Yoga inspired teacher whose classes are an experiential explosion of music, sweat, stillness, and energy that will open your heart and leave you overflowing with bliss!
Living, breathing and teaching the joy of movement, dance and yoga for over 30 years, Rebecca has traveled extensively to share her life, experiences, wisdom and Truths. Her journey with Yoga began in 1994, when she found herself in crippling physical pain throughout her back, hips and neck. Kundalini Yoga was the most transformational and sacred gift she received to recover and reclaim her body, mind and spirit. In turn, she responded to the calling to share this powerful technology with others and has since led many retreats and workshops around the world, including 7 years at the Bali Spirit Festival, Milan Yoga Festival, Evolution Asia Yoga Conference and Namaste Festival.
Certified through the Kundalini Research Institute and an ERYT, so much of what is shared in Rebecca’s classes is inspired by the wise and wonderful teachings of Yogi Bhajan, the late Master of Kundalini Yoga. Her classes are joyful and uplifting, offering a dynamic blend of breathing, movement, postures, meditation, mantras, mudras and relaxation. This sacred science enables you to tap into your vast reservoirs of potential to feel abundantly creative, live graciously and gratefully!
Rebecca is based in Bali at Naya Ubud, a sanctuary for hosting beautiful retreats, homestays, nourishing meals, and stillness. This is also the home of Chakra Ma, her Chakra inspired jewelry brand and Naya Academy for Inspired Arts, where she offers a Yoga Alliance recognized 200 Hour Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training.
Rebecca is also a proud Mama of four sons, who have been her greatest teachers. She has a specialized certification in Pre-Natal Yoga, and is a Level 2 Reiki practitioner.
Robina has been a community development and permaculture design facilitator for the past 30 years, witin Aotearoa and internationally. She is the co founder of Tui Spiritual & Educational Trust & Tui Community and founder of the Institute for Earthcare Education Aotearoa. She is a woman who lives her passion and walks her talk.
Rosie is passionate about health and wellbeing,
is a certified Rainbow Kids Yoga Teacher and she
loves what she does! Rosie has been practicing
yoga for over 8 years and is excited to share this
with children and their families. She has a
passion for empowering children and helping
them find inner calm through mindfulness and
movement. As a teacher Rosie always brings the
elements of fun and imagination to her classes.
Sally Rees is the founder of Natural Nosh and teaches raw food classes in Nelson.
If you’re looking for more adventure in your life, you’re in the right place, because Sally believes that everyone, including you, is entitled to feel and look amazing from the inside out! She helps you to do this by teaching you about raw foods in a variety of classes.
Sally believes that raw foods can transform us on a physical, emotional and spiritual level. She helps people of all ages, mostly women, to improve their eating habits, to quickly see improvements in their health and regain their zest for life through workshops and coaching you to achieve your dream.
Savitri is passionate about teaching ascension meditation, including in schools, workplaces, the community, and in prisons. She is an Ishaya monk of the Bright Path, based in Wellington, and has been teaching these powerful techniques for the last seven years.
Gauri is the youngest of the Ishaya monks of the Bright Path, just graduating in 2019 at the age of 18. She has an amazing experience of Stillness and communicates it to everyone she meets with joy and ease.
Sean O’Connor is an experienced singer/songwriter, school teacher, music teacher and performer. Of mixed Maori and Pakeha descent, he offers these songs in the service of ecological, social and personal healing.
Nia is a holistic dance practice that addresses each aspect of your body. mind and soul.
Shaune, Sally, and Corinne are all experienced Nia teachers and bring their unique styles to the practice of Nia, a movement fusion, done to great music and suitable for every BODY! In this playful session all three teachers will invite you to connect to your body’s sense of joy and fun.
Sika has been offering Sound Journeys for over 25 years and has the blessing of many Maori, Native American and Aboriginal elders, including the Yuin tribe of South Australia. He’s deeply humbled to share their instruments with people around the world.
. Swami Karma Karuna Saraswati is an engaging, intuitive yoga and meditation teacher, inspirational speaker, writer and IAYT certified Yoga Therapst with almost 30 years of experience. She has been trained in the Bihar Yoga traditional system and visits India to spend time with her spiritual guides yearly, furthering her yogic learning and dedicating herself to selfless service.
Swami Karma Karuna is a co-founder and director of Anahata Yoga Retreat, New Zealand, a residential yoga retreat offering an integral yogic lifestyle. She also travels throughout the world, leading workshops, training yoga teachers, presenting at international events, guiding spiritual sadhana retreats and offering therapeutic one to one yoga and lifestyle sessions.
The long held dream of developing and leading Yoga Nidra and Restorative Yoga Instructors Professional Development Trainings has also now been manifested and is part of Swami Karma Karuna’s focus in continuing education for yoga teacher’’s and health professionals.
She is passionate about sharing an authentic and down to earth approach, weaving together the ancient practices with a touch of psychology and brain science aimed at motivating people to live their yoga here and now. Yoga Nidra, Restorative Yoga, Meditation, Chakras, Prana Vidya and Women’s Health are amoung her specialities.
Several guided practice CDs and MP3 tracks including Hatha Yoga classes, Yoga Nidra and Meditation techniques are available through Anahata Yoga Retreat web-site and articles on a variety of subjects can be read in the Australian Yoga Life Magazine.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpco9cWH-8BUFdlk6DjaJPQ
Sybille is a dedicated edge-worker and movement lover, passionate about the power of group work. She weaves her skills into Open Floor movement workshops and retreats to create transformational medicine, helping people to grow physically and emotionally within a community.
“True Colours”- Cindy Lauper.
Do you love singing but feel scared to sing in public?
Or maybe you are a confident singer and enjoy the challenges of harmony and rhythm?
Either way this is for you.
You are invited to join the pop up contemporary singing group Voice Collective in the final hour of the festival.Led by musicians Tanya Nock and Ryan Beehre, this is a safe space to sing your heart out. No auditions, commitment or rules, apart from a focus on Manaakitanga values of integrity, trust, sincerity and equity.
For more information, please email – [email protected]
Vasumi has been passionate about exploring MetaPhysics and the unseen worlds for 35 years. Workshops, sacred theatre, sessions and lectures are among the myriad ways she reveals her findings, across the globe. A gypsy with a style that evokes the heArt of play, as a pied piper encouraging all to walk the path less traveled, dedicated to loving the Earth, in co-creation of a better planet for our future generations. Sharing by igniting hope, bringing the extraordinary into the ordinary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sn2qIxaDcE&t=6s Mayan Dreamspell explained simply
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6JzZqWm4J8 Dreamspell Theatre