Heartspace

11/09/2025

The new yoga term is scheduled and up on my website with more information.

🌿 Gentle Yoga

🧘‍♀️ Join us Tuesday and Wedesday evenings, 5:30–7pm
Starting 7th/8th October in a Hastings and Havelock North location.

💫 A nourishing blend of Sliw flow Hatha & Yin Yoga with Tibetan Singing Bowls

✨ Slow-paced | Deep relaxation | Intuitive movement and variations for different levels

🧘‍♂️ Build strength, flexibility & inner calm and establish a regular practice in the company of likeminded people

🎟️ 11-week pass: $198

💵 Casual drop-in: $20 (if space allows)
🤝 Koha spots available – just reach out

💌 Book or enquire: heartspace.nz /silke@heartspace.nz / 021 161 4340

07/09/2025

07/09/2025

Upcoming sessions:

The last sessions for the next 2 weeks before I take a break for 2 weeks.

My regular sessions have casual spaces this term. It is $20 per class and I ask that you text me to see if there is space beforehand 021-161 43 40. Koha is accepted for all my sessions, please message me directly to book. All my below sessions have sound healing with Tibetan Singing bowls included. The new term starts after the school holidays 7th & 8th October for 11 weeks until 16th/17th December. Sessions are up on the website to purchase.

TUESDAYS @ The Yoga Space Hastings - YIN YOGA - 7 week series 5th August - 16th September. 5.30 - 7 pm (A floor based gentle practice of longer held shapes to stimulate the facia, nourish the joints & nervous system and support conscious breathing and inward journey.)

WEDNESDAYS @ Keirunga Homestead Havelock North - GENTLE YOGA - 7 week series 6th August - 10th September, 5.30 - 7 pm (A gentle, slow Hatha Yoga flow with longer held Yin shapes interwoven. Options and adjustments are given to accommodate for beginners and students that have practiced for a while.) Last session this term next week!!!

Friday, 19th September, 6-8 pm Nourish, a 2 hour Yin Yoga & Sound Healing Journey at The Yoga Space in Hastings. This one is a super relaxing, floor based class. $25 pp, Koha welcome.

Bookings through heartspace.nz/shop or text 021-1614340 or e-mail silke@heartspace.nz

06/09/2025

Overcoming creative blocks. Having a daughter who reminds me I am creative defenitly helps. Sharing time and space doing stuff helps. Not being bothered much as to how it turns out helps. And it felt a calming, nourishing thing to do with no pressure to produce a certain outcome.

My incense holder in action for the first time.

05/09/2025

Another nugget of wisdom for you from the book Embodying the Yoga Sutra.

04/09/2025

A bit more info about my classes this weekend.

04/09/2025

Leaving this here for contemplation. From the book Embodying the yoga sutra

02/09/2025

Looking for a Pianist

I had an inspiration the other day. I was hosting a private yoga group at The Pavillion in Haumoana and a couple of the people in the group started playing the piano that is in there. And I thought what a lovely idea it would be to create a gentle, slow yoga class with live piano accompanying it. I know there is one at Taruna as well. Are there any pianists out there that would be interested in a collaboration? Needs to be able to play slow, emotive music that supports an inward journey through the movements and breath (something along the lines of Andrea Vanzo). Would love to hear from anyone who this resonates with. Not sure about the tuning / quality of the pianos, but we could check that out if I find the right person.

photo credit: Ashley Byrd / Unsplash

02/09/2025

A huge thank you to the organisers of the Yoga Festival Tribe in Napier. Rosie and her team run the festival so well and it has a really grounded, beautiful feel about it. It’s one of my favourite weekends treats and I look forward to it every year. It provides space and time for so many people to be nourished, learn, relax & try out different healing modalities and practice styles. Organising an event of that proportion involves so much work & so many logistics, we are grateful to you for bringing this event to our region. It feels like extended yoga family now.

Thank you to all the presenters sharing their wisdom, heart and time with us all. I am still learning to pace myself, but usually the excitement wins. I attended two Meditation sessions, 2 Kundalini Yoga classes, a Woman’s Circle, a gentle Yin class, a beautiful Yoga Nidra, 2 sound healing sessions and a workshop around Fascia. I moved, breathed, danced, cried, ate yummy food from the vendors, drank too much cacao for my own good and got onto a total yoga high. I am so grateful for all the different experiences.

Thank you to all the people who trusted me to guide them in my session Sunday morning. I really appreciate you being there. It’s amazing how we have the capacity to expand. In the first, second and even third year I was very nervous about holding space for & guiding that many people, incl. sleepless nights, having my heart beat up in my throat and a shaky voice at the start of the session. This year I felt relatively at ease and even managed to keep the class going fairly smoothly with a mic failure halfway through. So grateful for the chance to expand my wings in different spaces and places and grow through those experiences.

Witnessing all the releases, relaxation, light bulb moments, joy and people just being themselves and letting go and learning something new and valuable is so special. I don’t usually like big gatherings of people with my introverted nature, but this weekend I can always lean in quite comfortably and love the sense of connection with likeminded people.

Apart from taking 1 photo and a short video in my own class I haven’t really captured any of the nourishing classes, presenters or stallholders. It was a perfect opportunity to just be present without the phone. I am lucky that my helper Ariane took some photos and video in my session. Thank you for your help setting up and taking down and bringing in rescue when the mic stopped working.

If you haven’t been yet, I encourage you to head to yogafestival.co.nz and sign up to their newsletter. The early bird tickets usually come out around March and the festival is usually around August and the pricing is really reasonable for what is offered.

Riding on the yoga high I am offering 4 classes this week. Check out my previous post if you like to see if you might like to join one or more of them.

02/09/2025

I would like to gift 3 tickets to fathers who might enjoy a treat like this on Sunday. Message me or comment below and I will do random draw if I get more than 3 nominations.

01/09/2025

Upcoming sessions:

My regular sessions have casual spaces this term. It is $20 per class and I ask that you text me to see if there is space beforehand 021-161 43 40. Koha is accepted for all my sessions, please message me directly to book. All my below sessions have sound healing with Tibetan Singing bowls included.

TUESDAYS @ The Yoga Space Hastings - YIN YOGA - 7 week series 5th August - 16th September. 5.30 - 7 pm (A floor based gentle practice of longer held shapes to stimulate the facia, nourish the joints & nervous system and support conscious breathing and inward journey.)

WEDNESDAYS @ Keirunga Homestead Havelock North - GENTLE YOGA - 7 week series 6th August - 17th September, 5.30 - 7 pm (A gentle, slow Hatha Yoga flow with longer held Yin shapes interwoven. Options and adjustments are given to accommodate for beginners and students that have practiced for a while.)

SATURDAY, 6th September, 8.30 - 9.45 Rise & Shine class at The Yoga Space Hastings. This will a be Hatha Slow flow class. Tickets available from $10 at theyogaspacehastings.com

SUNDAY, 7th September, 3.30 - 5.30 Nourish, a 2 hour Yin Yoga & Sound Healing Journey at The Pavillion in Haumoana. This one is a super relaxing, floor based class. $25 pp, Koha welcome. I know its Fathers Day, but how about you bring the fathers along for blissed out relaxation.

Bookings through heartspace.nz/shop or text 021-1614340 or e-mail silke@heartspace.nz