Heart Breath Yoga - with Maria

12/03/2026

💚 Work With Maria 💚

If you’re feeling the call to slow down, reconnect with your body, or deepen your practice - here are the ways you can work with me.

BODYWORK & ENERGY HEALING

✨ Intuitive Lomilomi Bodywork
Traditional Hawaiian massage flowing with intuitive healing, relaxes the body, calms the nervous system, and supports energetic balance.

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

YOGA OFFERINGS

🧘 Radiant Body Yoga
An embodied yoga practice weaving movement, breath, and awareness to support vitality, balance, and inner steadiness.

• 1:1 Yoga Sessions
Personalised guidance, including support to create a simple & consistent daily practice.

• Couples Yoga Sessions
Reconnect, slow down and share a mindful practice together.

• Small group classes & workshops

• Breath-led and nervous system supportive practices

✨ Bookings & more information

www.mariacournane.com⁠

A space to reconnect with your body, breath and inner steadiness.

Trust the nudge if your body is asking for rest, care, or reconnection.

Working with Intuition, Knowledge & Source Intelligence

With Love

Maria 💚

11/03/2026

There is a cold lingering - something is working its way out.

This morning the energy in motion was
Anger - Frustration - Sadness...then tears which led to Hope - all before 9am.

Rest is Yoga
BEing present to what is needed and allowing it all to move through...

Leaning into the discomfort, offering myself the opportunity to move with gentleness and allow myself to feel all that is.

Not judging my humanness - doubts, fears, the what ifs
Allowing curiousity
Not lingering too long in the 'poor me'
Acknowledging where I am at 'this' moment
Doing the work to move with, then through.

Because I live in the space of trust - all parts of me know, that yet again this too shall pass.

Landing gently

With Love

Maria 💚

02/03/2026

Tonight’s Lunar Eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon stand in exact opposition, with Earth moving directly between them. For a brief, powerful window, Earth intercepts the Sun’s light and casts its shadow across the Moon.

What is usually illuminated becomes partially darkened, revealing contrast, truth, and what may have been hidden beneath the surface.

In Yogic philosophy, the Moon is known as SOMA - the nectar, the cooling light, the emotional and intuitive body.
When Soma is eclipsed, we’re invited inward. Eclipses often mark a culmination, endings, revelations, and emotional release.

It’s less about doing, more about witnessing - tune inwards and be curious.

A time to pause
To feel
To let something complete

Journalling Prompts 🌘

• What is coming to completion in my life right now?
• What truth has been quietly asking to be acknowledged?
• Where am I ready to release emotional weight?
• What patterns are no longer aligned with who I am becoming?

You'll be able to start seeing the moon entering the earth's shadow for 9.45pm, let's hope for a cloudless night 😊
...tonight we gather for a Full Moon sound Bath to acknowledge all if this 7.15pm - FULL.

02/03/2026

Make the most of this Full Moon Eclipse energy and book yourself an appointment this week 💚

Spaces available

Tuesday 3rd - 9.30am | 1.30pm
Thursday 5th - 11.30am

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

25/02/2026

Your Thymus & Immunity 🙌

Did you know your thymus gland which sits just behind your breastbone, is where your immune system is “educated”?

The thymus is the training ground for T-cells (your intelligent immune cells). It’s most active in childhood and begins to naturally shrink after puberty around 13 - 14, yet it continues to play a regulatory role throughout adulthood.

This sweet little gland is deeply connected to;

- Immune resilience
- Stress response
- Inflammation balance
- Nervous system regulation

Chronic stress and elevated cortisol can suppress thymus function, which is why breath, awareness, and gentle somatic practices matter more than we realise.

In this video, I’ll guide you to:

✨ Place your hand over your thymus (centre of chest, behind the sternum)
✨ Inhale slowly through the nose
✨ As you exhale, apply soft pressure into the space repeat about 5 x
✨ Then lightly tap the thymus area for 20–30 seconds

This simple practice may:

- Stimulate circulation to the area
- Support lymphatic flow
- Encourage parasympathetic (rest & repair) activation
- Bring awareness back to heart centre

Think of it as a small daily reset for your immune and nervous system 😌

Gentle • Grounded • Powerful

Supporting your own tool box to resource yourself.

With Love

Maria 💚

23/02/2026

MOVEMENT

Yoga, Radiant Body Yoga & the Endocrine System.

Your Endocrine system is your body’s hormone messenger, influencing mood, sleep, metabolism, stress response, energy and reproductive health.

It includes the hypothalamus, pineal, pituitary, thyroid, thymus, adrenals, pancreas and ovaries & te**es - each playing a role in how you feel, function and respond to life.

In Yoga & specifically Radiant Body Yoga, we work rhythmically with breath, movement, mantra and focus. These focused kriyas stimulate the spine, nerve plexuses and areas around key glands, gently supporting balance in the glandular system.

✨ ️Changing your shape, literally changes your state ✨️

When we regulate the nervous system, we influence the hypothalamus and pituitary - the master regulators of hormones.

So this isn’t simply “energy work.”
- It’s breath shifting chemistry.
- Movement improving circulation.
- Sound affecting the vagus nerve.
- Repetition building new neural pathways.

From a yogic lens, chakras align with glands.
From a modern lens, feeling at ease regulates hormones.

When the nervous system feels settled, the endocrine system follows 💛

Slow. Rhythmic. Intentional.

Feel your body, move your body, create change from the inside out 😌

With Love

Maria 💚

23/02/2026

What's coming up...

💫 IN CLASS
This week is all about the pause between eclipses...

Classes slow down
We tune inwards
Setting our antenna to integration

💫 BODYWORK Massage | Reiki | Sound

Spaces available for your own personal reset
Tuesday - Friday
Book here
https://heartbreathyogawindsor.as.me/

💫 POP UP Next Week

Full Moon Lunar Eclipse
Tuesday March 3 | 7.15pm
Illuminate & release
Book here
https://heartbreathyogawindsor.as.me/FullMoon

Remember consistency is key!

Keep showing up for yourself whether in movement, rest, gratitude, stepping into nature, or a simple acknowledgement that you need to slow down....and breathe.

Moment by Moment

With Love Maria 💚

(These cheeky Kererū followed me on my walk last week = JOY)

23/02/2026

Full Moon Lunar Eclipse Gathering

Tuesday March 3
7.15pm - 8.30pm
$25

A Lunar Eclipse is a powerful moment of release.

Where a Full Moon illuminates, an eclipse reveals and clears.

It shines light on what has been hidden, asking us to let go of old patterns, outdated stories, and emotional weight we’re ready to move beyond.

This is a threshold moment, honouring endings creating space for new beginnings.

We will have gentle seated movement, breath meditation, heart activation & sound bowl journey.

Join us to pause, breathe, reflect, and gently realign under this potent Eclipse Full Moon energy.

All Welcome ✨️

Book Now
https://heartbreathyogawindsor.as.me/FullMoon

In Radiant Wellness

Maria 💚

21/02/2026

Consistency & Neuroplasticity 💚

Neuroplasticity is your brain’s ability to rewire itself - shaping new pathways around what you repeatedly think, feel, and do.

The key word?
CONSISTENCY.

Consistency tells the brain:
This matters. Keep this pathway.

So remember - Each time you repeat a thought, a breath, a behaviour, you are lighting up neural circuits that begin, gently and steadily, to reshape old patterns.

Choose the things that light you up, and make your heart sing - you're literally retraining your brain 🙌

Every time you pause for breath…
Show up for your practice…
Choose a steadier response instead of a reactive one…
Step into an intentional moment to regulate your nervous system…

You are strengthening specific neural pathways.

The brain follows a simple principle described by Donald Hebb — known as Hebb’s Law:

“Neurons that fire together, wire together.”

But they only wire through consistent activation.
https://deviq.com/laws/hebbs-law

One meditation won’t reshape your nervous system.
One empowering thought won’t undo an old story - but small, steady, daily inputs...that’s the magic and that’s how the brain reorganises 💫

Over time:
• Stress responses are noticed & soften.
• Emotional regulation deepens.
• Growth-oriented habits become more natural.
• What once felt like an effort, begins to becomes your norm.

So please keep showing up for yourself, even when it feels difficult, you are worth it.
The rewiring is happening 💫

With Love

Maria 💚

15/02/2026

This week at the studio 💚

As we travel into a pretty potent week - we'll be embracing the rhythms of this time.

Our class focus has been all about the release, allowing any density to pass through.
This theme will continue along with our Breath Meditation for Human Kindness ( i'll share that on here soon) A beautiful practice where we wrap the Earth in kindness, then bring it back in to ourselves 😌

✨️ Energy & Bodywork Appointments

- Tuesday 9.30am | 11.30am | 1.30pm
- Wednesday 11.15am
- Thursday 11.30am | 1.30pm
- Friday 11.15am

BOOK
https://heartbreathyogawindsor.as.me/

✨️ Pop Up Sound Sessions - An invitation to Pause

Breath • Relaxation • Crystal Bowls & Chimes

- Tuesday 7.15pm
- Wednesday 7.15pm

BOOK
https://heartbreathyogawindsor.as.me/harmonize

A moment to you

Maria 💚

14/02/2026

Every day should be a celebration of LOVE!

Today's little win amongst the many blessings - enjoying a delicious brew which was gifted to me today as a 'pay it forward' .

A perfectly thoughtful way to add an extra Glimmer to my day - thank you 🙏

May you find many moments today to land in love for self & all ✨️✨️✨️