Heart Breath Yoga - with Maria

27/04/2026

Glimmers - those moments when your whole self feels like it has had the biggest exhale, and you slip into a moment of divine bliss… even if it’s fleeting, it was felt 😌

This term I’m inviting you into a space where you may find your glimmer…

Casual spaces are now available for classes 🙌

This is the joy of having a bigger space and being able to open it up for you.

So if you’re hanging on by a thread and feel like you need something soft to land back into yourself - to see, feel, move, and simply be…I invite you to join us.

Classes available at the link below
Casual drop-in = $25

https://heartbreathyoga.as.me/Casual

MONDAY
5.45pm - Gentle
7.15pm - Rest & Release

TUESDAY
5.45pm - Radiant Body Yoga (Kundalini)

WEDNESDAY
5.45pm - Radiant Body Yoga (Kundalini)

FRIDAY
9.15am - Radiant Body Yoga (Kundalini)

Please note: These group classes are women-only spaces (Pops-up & Bodywork sessions are for all)

In Radiance

Maria 💚

18/04/2026

A quiet morning practice for me today, I felt a deeper calling to move slow, and travel inwards.

Japa - the repetition of sacred sound, either inwardly or outwardly.

One of the most effective ways I’ve perosnally found to quiet the mind and cultivate inner focus.

This morning I completed 108 repetitions (1 round of Mala) the 9th verse from the Śrī Sūkta, still travelling gently with her nourishing energy.

Sanskrit
गन्धद्वारां दुराधर्षां नित्यपुष्टां करीषिणीम् ।
ईश्वरीं सर्वभूतानां तामिहोपह्वये श्रियम् ॥ ९ ॥

Transliteration
Gandhadvārāṁ durādharṣāṁ nityapuṣṭāṁ karīṣiṇīm |
Īśvarīṁ sarvabhūtānāṁ tāmihopahvaye śriyam || 9 ||

Calling upon Śrī - the divine embodiment of beauty, nourishment, and abundance - to permeate all beings and all things 😌🙏

May your Sunday bring you what is needed.

Maria 💚

18/04/2026

So excited to welcome you back next week for Term 2! ✨️

The theme that keeps coming through strongly is CLARITY, and I have a feeling it will travel with us for some or all of the term.

As always, I tune into the current energies and what the collective seems to be moving through, then gently shape the classes around those themes - always landing, clearing, and expanding.

AVAILABILITY

Monday 5:45pm - GENTLE
Spaces available - I’d love to see you there! This beautiful woven practice offers a restorative feel with a slower flow and plenty of moments to pause and breathe.

🌱 https://heartbreathyoga.as.me/GENTLE

Friday 9.15am - KUNDALINI
Spaces available - the teachings of Radiant Body Yoga these classes help clear old stagnation creating space to welcome in radiance, through breath, sound, asana & integration

🌱 https://heartbreathyoga.as.me/Kundalini

If you’ve been feeling that little ni**le to join but also some nerves…that’s completely okay. These classes are designed to meet you exactly where you are - creating space to land, ground, and gently expand.

I can't wait to welcome you 🙌

Maria 💚

16/04/2026

And a new space awaits us.. ✨

Cleansing, clearing and honouring this moment of expansion.

I've landed in Gratitude for this radiant community that continues to gather together and grow together, each of us in our own way, adding to the collective ripple of light.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you 🙏💚

Gather with us and feel it for yourself in our beautiful new home. First classes for Term 2 start on Monday - who’s joining the flow?

Grateful for you

Maria 💚
www.mariacournane.com

15/04/2026

A couple of things pi**ed me off this week… it happens, right? That rise of what could fester, build and turn into rage...

When I feel activated like that, I’ve got a few tools I reach for.

Movement
I walk. I just walk until the heaviest emotion starts to edge its way out of my system. I notice it leaving when the overriding feeling shifts - from rage, anger or fear into noticing the expanding beauty around me.

Yoga
Finding shapes in my body that release where the constriction is physically felt. While here I often ask my higher self, that nudge of inner wisdom to help me move through the heaviness.

Pause | Breathe
I land back in my whole body and slow my breath right down. Deep, rhythmic, conscious breathing - following the inhale, following the exhale, just listening… until the heaviness starts to subside.

Music
Cranking up my favourite tracks. Sometimes it’s arms above my head, shaking my whole body - especially my spine. Pulsing my heels up and down into the earth, really letting it move through me.

Gratitude
For breath, for form, for the natural beauty all around. I sat with this flower last night, and I was in awe - nature has a way of bringing you back to presence pretty quickly!

All these practices (and plenty more) work. It can be hard when you’re deep in that rumination, overthinking spiral, but with time you land back in your body faster. The emotions settle, the mind quiets, and you return to an embodied space.

Surrender & Consistency

Little practices done daily help us continuously move through the build up...keep going.

What supports you when you feel an intense emotion rising?

With LOVE

Maria 💚

09/04/2026

🌿 Just popping in with a wee reminder...

If you're enrolling for Term 2 yoga, you can 100% pay in installments, we'll work it out in a way that suits you best 🤗

And yes, I'm also very open to barter for both Yoga classes and Bodywork sessions

I love creative exchanges that support our community.

Here are some things I'm happy to accept as a trade

*** NB barter is limited as I do have to pay bills as well 🤭

✨️ Fresh produce, - veggies, fruit, eggs, herbs, flowers, homemade preserves, or anything from your garden/kitchen.

✨️ Artwork - your creative expression

✨️ Beauty services - hair, facials, manicures, or other self-care treats

✨️ Massages or bodywork (always a winner for this yoga teacher!)

✨️ Other skills/services, photography, marketing, cleaning, gardening, dog walking

✨️ Homemade goodies - healthy baked treats, jams, pickles, candles, soap, or wellness products, balms etc

✨️ Yoga-related items - new mats, blocks, straps, woollen blankets

Have something else in mind?

Send me a message and let's chat - I'm pretty open if it feels like a good energy exchange.

Spots are filling up, if you're keen to join or re-join, drop me a message and we'll sort the details.

Maria 💚
www.mariacournane.com

Healing touch, soul-centered yoga, and bespoke one-on-one support in Invercargill - reconnect with your true self today.

08/04/2026

I've had an appointment open up tomorrow

Thursday - 11.30am 💚

PM if you'd like it or book directly

https://heartbreathyoga.as.me/Bodywork

Schedule your appointment online Heart Breath Yoga

06/04/2026

A little bit about me...

Born and raised in Invercargill, New Zealand
I attended Newfield Primary, Tweedsmuir, and Southland Girls’. Childhood weekends were spent at Nokomai or Papatowai - being tormented by older siblings one minute, welcoming new members into our blended family the next, and navigating deep loss at a young age. It was resilience at its best.

Being a naturally curious human, by 19 I was ready for more, so I headed away. At 20 I dove headfirst into a fairly wild decade. Wonderful friendships forged for a lifetime, gigs, travel, late nights, and all the adventures that come with being young and curious - I soaked it all up!

Even back then, though, there was always this quiet pull toward something deeper. I questioned the conventional path and longed for a truer way of living - one that honoured both the stillness inside and the mystery beyond.

At around 21, I began a formal meditation practice, and soon after discovered yoga. But it was during my first pregnancy in 2007 that I found Kundalini Yoga. It hit me on a soul level, and I’ve been committed to my daily Sadhana ever since - 19 years strong and still going.

Life hasn’t always been gentle. Through navigating extraordinary grief, loss, motherhood, and big seasons of change, I’ve learned the sacred power of the pause - how to meet whatever arises with awareness, trust, and grace. These practices have brought me home to myself, again and again.

Now at 47, I’m a proud mum of two incredible young men, and I honestly believe my children (and the beautiful chaos of real life) are my greatest teachers. From tantrums to tenderness, gigs and travel to quiet mornings on the mat - it’s all part of the practice.

Every single moment is an invitation to awaken, to soften, and to remember who we truly are beneath the noise.

This path isn’t about perfection. It’s about learning to observe yourself even when you’re right in the throes of the very things that make us beautifully human.

With love

Maria 💚

06/04/2026

✨️️Term 2 begins Monday 20th April and bookings are now open ✨️

Come join us for Radiant Body Yoga™ breathwork, mindful movement, and practices that help you soften, reconnect with yourself, and expand your inner awareness - all in a welcoming, heart-centred space.

We’re super excited to be expanding into a brighter, more spacious studio so we can keep growing together in comfort and community.

I’m excited to welcome you into our new elevated sanctuary - filled with light, birdsong, fresh air from the balcony, and gentle flooring that supports your practice.

Whether you’re looking to create consistency, build strength, release tension, deepen your breath, or simply land in a space of ease and joy, there’s a class for where you are right now.

Classes run in term blocks, to create that communuty vibe. If you miss a class you can pop into any other that term as a make-up session.

New location: 6 Surrey Park RD (the big white building -old netball pavilion, just before the stadium)

*** Please note: the studio is upstairs with a small flight of stairs. If this creates any barrier for you, reach out - I’m happy to explore other ways we can stay connected 🙏

View the Term 2 schedule and book your spot here:

https://heartbreathyoga.as.me/Termtwo

More space, more connection, more growth 🙌

Amy questions? Please reach out.

With love, radiance & gratitude

Maria 💚
www.mariacournane.com

06/04/2026

I hope you're enjoying some quality downtime, and doing all the things you love!

💫 Appointments available this week 💫

Tuesday - 9:30am, 11:30am & 1.00pm
Wednesday - 9.30am & 11.30am
Thursday - daytime & a late night session available 6pm.
Friday - 9.30am, 11.30am & 1.30pm

Similar hours also next week with a few extra late night sessions on offer.

BODYWORK & ENERGY HEALING

✨ Intuitive Lomilomi Bodywork
Traditional Hawaiian massage flowing with intuitive healing, relaxes the body, calms the nervous system, and supports the energetic system to come back into alignment.

• 30 min – Back, neck & shoulders | $50
• 60 min – Full body | $90
• 90 min – Full body + Feet & Scalp massage | $130

✨ Reiki Energy Healing
Usui Reiki energy to restore balance and support your body’s natural flow.

• 30 min Reiki session | $50
• 60 min Reiki + Crystal Sound Bowls | $90

✨️ Add-On to any Session
Crystal Sound Bowls
Deep vibrational sound currents, tuned to 432hz for cellular harmonization.

• 15 mins | $15

BOOK NOW
https://heartbreathyoga.as.me/

Trust the nudge if your body is asking for rest, care, or reconnection. I work sourcing from the Heart in the healing arts of Intuition, Knowledge & Source Intelligence...

With Love

Maria 💚

Schedule your appointment online Heart Breath Yoga

29/03/2026

This week is Deep Integration Week 🌟

A time for slowing down, turning inward, and allowing your inner radiance to shine fully.

In times of unease, can you find ease within?

Many of us are privileged in this moment to be safe in our communities. Perhaps we are able to hold the light, to ripple it out and send it to those who need it most.

Stay consistent, stay rooted & steady, especially when things feel uneasy.
Let’s continue to be the change, holding ourselves in love & kindness - this is the vibration that collectively holds so much strength!

✨️Deep Rest - Casual spaces available this week:
Monday - 5:45 pm
Tuesday - 5:45 pm
Wednesday - 9:15 am & 5:45 pm
Friday - 9:15 am

Please PM me if you’d like to join one.

✨️Bodywork Appointments

Thursday - 11:30 am & 1:30 pm
Friday - 11:15 am & 1:15 pm

https://heartbreathyoga.as.me/Bodywork

In Radiance,

Maria 💚

25/03/2026

💚 ANNOUNCEMENT 💚

Something new is unfolding 🌱

As this community continues to grow, it’s become clear we’re ready for a little more space to breathe, move, and land.

I’ll be relocating into a new studio - an upstairs space that feels a whole lot quieter, an elevated sanctuary, with birdsong, a balcony, and windows that open - the floor is gentle, and the space is light.

Heart Breath Yoga will always be a place to soften, to reconnect, and to continue deepening into the practices we share.

***With this move, I also want to acknowledge that the studio is accessed by a small flight of stairs, and may not be physically accessible for everyone. If this creates a barrier for you, I welcome you to reach out - I’m always open to exploring alternative ways we can work together 🙏

On the plus side more people can now gather in community and ripple our collective radiance even further!

There offerings have always been about meeting you where you are, and that remains at the heart of everything I offer.

Thank you for being part of this space, and for growing alongside it.

The new location is at 6 Surrey Park st ( old netball pavillion) the big white building before the stadium.

Classes at the current Windsor location will continue until the end of term and we start in the new space - Term 2, which begins April 20th.

I can't wait to see what continues to unfold with you all, as I firmly believe change brings growth.

With love & gratitude

Maria 💚

You can check out the Term 2 schedule here & you can also book in your preferred class.

https://heartbreathyoga.as.me/Termtwo

Classes run in term blocks, and if you miss a class you can simply pop into any other class as a make-up session.



More space for all of us 🥰

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