Heart Breath Yoga - with Maria

29/07/2025

So far this term, we’ve been journeying through the subtle systems of the body, keeping ourselves vibrant & in flow as we move through the depths of Winter.....

✨ Week One – We began by inviting the body out of distress. Through systematic tapping and movement, we activated our inner communication pathways — think fascia, the vagus nerve, and subtle energy channels — laying the foundation for deeper connection.

💧 Week Two – We opened the gates to lymphatic flow, gently clearing stagnation and encouraging the body’s natural ability to release and renew. A dissolving of old layers — both physical and energetic.

🔥 Week Three – Our focus turns to the Adrenals & Kidneys: the seat of vitality, resilience, and deep inner calm. This week is all about stress release, rejuvenation, and recharging your inner battery.

Yoga may be much more than you think it is... 😉

In Joy & Radiance

Maria 💚

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16/07/2025

If you're feeling like you'd like to take another leap out of your comfort zone - this could be just the thing to help you 🔥🌊🔥

If you want join me I'm booked in for Friday 3.30pm & Sunday 11.30am 😊

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🔥🌊 Sauna Sessions this week 🌊🔥

Breathtaking Oreti — where the ocean meets the sky, horses wander the shoreline, and the light changes by the minute - no two sessions are the same!

There’s something about this place that reminds us to slow down…
To breathe…
To feel...

Step into the wood-fired warmth, then take an optional cold plunge — awakening your body, clearing your mind, and returning to yourself.

✨ Let nature move through you - this is therapy in motion.

Session Times:

🔥 Thursday: 3.30pm & 5.15pm

🌊 Friday: 1.45pm, 3.30pm & 5.15pm

🔥 Sunday: 11.30am, 1.15pm, 3.00pm & 4.45pm

😌 Book your reset

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14/07/2025

🌺 Lomilomi & Frequency Healing Appointments Available 🌺

An invitation to slow down, relax, and return home to yourself.

Mondays - 11am
Tuesdays - 9.30am & 11.30am
Thursdays - 9.30am, 11.30am & 1.30pm

Each session begins with a cleansing prayer, setting the tone for sacred connection.

💨 Guiding you into your breath brings the nervous system into harmony
🌊 A full body Lomilomi massage flows like a dance through the body, releasing tension.
✨ Subtle frequency healing supports energy balance and aura expansion.
💤 Drift into a state of deep rest and cellular rejuvenation.

This is more than a massage - it’s a
realignment on every level: physical, emotional, spiritual, energetic.

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In Radiant Wellness

Maria 💚

12/07/2025

Beautiful BEings,

So thankful for each of you — as we gather again tomorrow in our community, our Sangha.

I always feel a quiet excitement stirring as we step into a new term… wondering what may unfold.

Each of us walks a unique path, with our own layers to explore and unpack.

This weekly moment becomes a sacred pause — a chance to soften the edges, move inward, and feel breath and body return to harmony.

To simply BE is a courageous act, amd that in itself is a celebration.

It truly is a gift to be on this journey together.

By showing up, you’re already receiving the transmissions that come with saying yes.

See you all from tomorrow.

With love & radiance

Maria 💚

09/07/2025

✨️ Term 3 - We gather together from Monday July 14th ✨️

I love working in Terms, it gives us a rhythm.
A beginning, middle & end - with a gentle pause to integrate & reflect in between.

First classes are often quite breath focused as we check in again to see where the breath is being held, where we can lengthen and where we need to release.

There are a few spaces left in classes;

Monday 7.15pm - Gentle - 1 space
Tuesday 5.45pm - Kundalini - 3 spaces
Friday 9.15am - Kundalini - 1 space

All classes are for all levels.

We have lots of people completely new to Yoga and loving what evolves in this space for them.

If you're after a sunrise session, or perhaps a Thursday night, the wonderful Kathleen from True Form Yoga has got you. Kath is an incredibly knowledgeable teacher, who shares her wisdom with kindness & authenticity.

Please reach out if you have any further questions.

In Radiance & Joy

Maria 💚

07/07/2025

Join our heart-centred community for Term 3.

Radiant Body Yoga is an integrative style, weaving Vinyasa, Ta**ra, Kundalini & Hatha for a deeply transformative practice.

My intention is to teach from a space of unconditional LOVE and to bring JOY into every class 🙏💚

Tapping into a deep well of shared wisdom, honouring the expansion & awareness these practices have given me.
Each class offers the opportunity for an embodied practice, inviting mind, body, energy and soul to process with ease & grace all that is ready to be released.

🌿 Gentle Flow
A nourishing, slow-paced practice linking breath to mindful movement. Perfect for easing tension, lengthening while building strength with care, and cultivating presence.
Ideal for those seeking a softer approach.

🌀 Kundalini
A mixture of traditional asana, dynamic Kriya (movement sets), mantra, & breathwork to awaken energy, balancing the hormonal system & elevating you in the most radiant way.
We illuminate the light within to see your path ahead with more clarity.

🌙 Release & Rest
Guided relaxation, soothing breathwork, sounds and longer holds with prop support. All floor work, and chairs are available also.
This class offers a slow unwinding to melt tension & bring yourself into a calmer mind.

All offerings are designed to develop
breath awareness, strengthen your wholeself. We open into your heart intelligence, embrace release with movement, and stillness with integration.

Come as you are, leave aligned, replenished & radiating from the inside out 🙏

Please note group classes are for Women.
1:1 and healing sessions are available to all.

In Radiance & Joy

Maria 💚

**ra

03/07/2025

Radiant Yoga Sangha,

I will be placing a DoTERRA order around July 9th.

If there is anything you would like please send me a message. I order these at WHOLESALE so it's a nice 30% discount for you - you'll see the wholesale prices are listed in BOLD.

Payment with name can please be popped into;

MARIA COURNANE
01-0961-0152345-55

Have a fabulous week! I'm manically cleaning and food prepping as we're off for a few family days away tomorrow.

Big love,

Maria 💚

30/06/2025

NOW POSTPONED due to unforeseen circumstances 🙏

around 18, I first began exploring how to quiet the mind, it was a book—The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama—that first piqued my curiosity. From there, I found myself drawn to Buddhist teachings, absorbing all I could.

There are many paths to a calm mind. Often, it takes time and gentle curiosity to find the one that feels truly accessible to you.

Maybe you’ve been feeling that pull too...

And maybe this quiet weekend is just the space you've been waiting for. 🌿✨

See ya there!

Please reach out to Julie Amare Reiki if you have any further questions.

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Clear Mind & Emotional Wisdom ~ Winter Meditation Retreat
With Venerable Thubten Khadro

Join us in this very special and unique weekend retreat!!!

Sat 12 & Sun 13th July Invercargill.
Venue: Heart Breath Yoga Studio Windsor
Investment: $220.00
Register via email: julieandersonreiki@gmail.com

About the Retreat
The meditations will be guided and focused on the breath. These meditations have proven to improve inner mental clarity, health and awaken contentment and inner-joy. They will enable you to recover from stress, anxiety & tension.

The discussions will be based on Emotional Wisdom, the ability to effectively manage one’s own emotions, particularly the disturbing ones, and thus cultivate a calm mind, a warm heart and provide a clearer perspective on life.

As a result, this retreat will bring you peace, happiness and harmony and be the key to unlocking your inner wisdom. The tools given will allow you to focus better on ordinary tasks and make you become more relaxed and peaceful, bringing success for personal, interpersonal and professional relationships.

About Venerable Khadro
Venerable Khadro was born in Venezuela of European parents, raised in Argentina and after completing a degree in Business Administration, she emigrated to New Zealand in 2004, where she first encountered Tibetan Buddhism. She took ordination in 2014 with the Great Master Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

Since then Khadro has engaged in formal Buddhist studies, including the completion of the Master Programme in Buddhist Philosophy. She has also spent months in solitary retreat including at Lawudo, a remote hermitage in the Himalayas, Nepal.

Khadro has served the FPMT, an International Buddhist Organization for the past 20 years in various roles, and is currently the Resident Teacher at Yeshin Norbu Center in Stockholm. Khadro has led various courses & retreats in NZ, Australia, Sweden, Colombia, India, Nepal and Germany. Her "international" background allows her to have an open, friendly and warm manner. She is an FPMT registered teacher, a Buddhist Chaplain and an accredited Foundation for Developing Wisdom and Compassion facilitator-FDWC.

About the Schedule ~ Mornings in silence
Sat 12th July
9:00am ~ 1st Meditation Session
10:30am ~ Tea break
11:00am ~ 2nd Meditation Session
12:30m ~ Lunch
2:00pm ~ 3rd Session - Emotional Wisdom discussions and Q&A
3:30pm ~ Tea break
4:00pm ~ 4th Meditation Session
5:00pm ~ End of the day

Sun 13th July
9:00am ~ 1st Meditation Session
10:30am ~ Tea break
11:00am ~ 2nd Meditation Session
12:30m ~ Lunch
2:00pm ~ 3rd Session - Emotional Wisdom discussions and Q&A
4:00pm ~ End of the retreat.

24/06/2025

Radiants Souls - It's deep relaxation week 😌

Wear your cosy clothes & slippers!

We journey into nurturance with gentle holds, a breath practice to slow down even further, and to finish we melt into relaxation with a guided Chakra Nidra.

Om Shanti Shanti Shanti

Maria 💚

23/06/2025

A Collective Invocation for Light, Love, and Liberation.

Hands on heart.
With conviction.
Send this vibration to the unified field where we all meet as ONE.

In this time of unrest, may we remember the power we hold to anchor ourselves in the light—to shine our deepest tenderness into the highest realms of collective consciousness.

Together, let us weave a web of loving-kindness and compassion so vast that it moves effortlessly, touching the hearts of all sentient beings.

Fear contracts, binding us in heaviness; love expands shifting us beyond the illusions of separation, transcending space and time.

In every small moment, may we attune to the luminous field of our shared awareness, our ONENESS where blessings gather like stars in the cosmic tapestry. Let us return, again and again, to this light - our birthright - unity.

May we liberate ourselves from the grip of external forces—war, division, and negativity—not through resistance, but by rising in sacred activism: actions rooted in peace, fueled by love, and magnified by collective intention.

When we stand as one, harmonizing our consciousness, we become an unshakable force.

In love, we remember.
In unity, we rise.

TOGETHER

Maria 💚




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19/06/2025

Radiant Souls,

I am working on Term 3 classes which will begin July 14th.

I am adding 2 deeper restorative classes to bring in another layer of cellular healing for those who prefer gentler support - this will be a floor ( or chair ) practice

These classes will also be designed to settle the Nervous system and set you up for a restful evening.

How these will look;

✨️Seated practices with prop support & longer exhales - to release

✨️ Breath focus to settle busy minds

✨️ Sound bowls to heal at a cellular level - think harmonising your system.

✨️ Guided rest - Yoga Nidra, Sound bath, or body scan (this will change weekly)

These classes will be 60 mins

Monday 7.15 pm - confirmed.
...and I need your help deciding the other one.

Question, Would you prefer?

Tuesdays at 9.15 am or 7.15 pm