Sound Garden Yoga

07/10/2025

Join us for the sound of yoga. Call and response mantra to wind down your busy week. We look forward to you joining us.. 199 Ferry Road, Christchurch Friday 6pm 🙏🎶🩷

07/10/2025

Join us in the sounds of yoga with call and response mantra. A beautiful way to end your busy week!

Upstairs in the yoga studio at Uprising Yoga, 199 Feery Road, Christchurch Friday 10th October at 6pm. Koha entry

03/10/2025

This is resonating today. Have a lovely weekend 💕🎶💫

"You will never lose what was meant for you!"

There is immense peace to be found in releasing the anxiety that fuels so much of our striving. We often live in fear of missing out, of failing to grasp the perfect opportunity, or of losing a connection we desperately desire. Yet, the foundational truth of destiny is this: You will never lose what was meant for you!

The blessings, paths, and people that are authentically aligned with your soul's purpose do not require constant, frantic effort to maintain.

They may be delayed, they may arrive in an unexpected form, or they may take a circuitous route, but their arrival is assured. This profound realization allows you to shift from desperate clinging to confident waiting.

Trust your worth, trust the process, and know that what is truly yours will gravitate toward you with an effortless, inevitable force.

Mitra ➡ Tips That Change Your Life ❤☀

14/09/2025

You are cordially invited to unwind with a deeply calming and restorative sound bath, crafted to promote profound relaxation and wellbeing. Saturday 20th September at 5pm at The Oxford Art Gallery. Please text Cindy on 0212969819 to reserve your space. $10 door entry or $15 for two.

10/09/2025

Even in our busiest moments, kirtan invites us to pause, breathe, and return to the heart.
This Friday, join us for an evening of mantra and song — a practice that soothes the nervous system, re-energises the body, and reconnects us to what matters most.
🕕 Friday 6–7:15pm
📍 Uprising Yoga, 199 Ferry Road, Christchurch
No experience needed — just bring your voice & open heart 💛

The practice of kirtan is provided by Uprising for free, we ask that any attendees make a koha to Conservation Volunteers NZ. You can donate on their website at conservationvolunteers.co.nz/donate.

09/09/2025

✨ Make Gratitude Your Attitude✨

Bring balance, calm, and resilience into your everyday life through the simple practice of gratitude. 💛

Free Gratitude Meditation
(Link in comments)💫

20/05/2025

Have you ever had one of those meetings that magically changed the course of your life?

I attended a gathering a few years ago that I nearly didn’t go to… and had met someone who also loved to share kirtan.. . we began chanting together and sharing mantra on a regular basis. Although this partnership of kirtan came to close, a new door opened when I was asked to co-facilitate kirtan once a month. I remember meeting and walking on the beach with my yoga friend and mentor and she asked me to step into a leadership role. My heart leapt with joy and my whole body felt a resounding YES . That is how I got to lead kirtan and share with you the practice that allows my heart to sing. It is also how I got to know Lucy (Sukhaprada). I felt incredibly grateful for the opportunity and still am incredibly grateful to share what I love!
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15/05/2025

My first experience of kirtan was unexpected…
I was fairly new on my yoga journey, attending a workshop, when someone began to play the harmonium.

The moment those sweet, mellow vibrations filled the room, something in me lit up.
I didn’t know how it would unfold, I just knew why—because of how it felt in my body.

It was a knowing. A remembering.

Years later, I met my harmonium teacher, and it felt like I had come home.
Playing that instrument felt natural—like a language I already knew.

But the chanting… that was harder.
My voice had been closed for so long.
It took time, and gentle practice, to rediscover that part of myself.

But once I began… I never looked back.

Chanting mantras helps me connect with the divine.
It brings me back to joy.
When I chant, it’s not about me—it’s about something far greater flowing through me.
It feels as though the mantras rise from within, effortlessly, like breath.

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If you’ve ever felt the call to chant—or felt something stir when you hear sacred music—I invite you to follow that thread.
It might just lead you home.

12/05/2025

My morning river walks give me the space I need. I also create space in the body and mind using mantras, such as the most simple and profound mantra, OM. As the source of all creation, it’s not surprising this mantra holds a very powerful vibration. For those who find meditation challenging, repeating OM can be a helpful alternative, according to Patanjali's yoga sutras. 🕉️

08/05/2025

To hurt another is to hurt myself.

That is ultimately the meaning of the principle, Ahimsa. One of the 5 yamas that make up the 8 limbs of yoga. Following this principle creates a solid foundation on our yoga journey in how we think, act and behave. Imagine that you are in a feed back loop. Every action you send out is fed back to you. Keeping you in the cycle of pain and suffering.

Make self care and self love a priority. The more care, respect and love you have for yourself, the more you have to offer the world.

Be aware of your words, thoughts, actions and behaviours. Take a moment to pause, breathe and reflect before acting out in an instinctual way.

A~U~M ♥️

My horse, Honey loves her new massager brush!

04/05/2025

It’s coming up to that time of the month when we gather to chant mantra! 🎶✨🎶

Mantras are simple Sanskrit (mostly) that are repeated. They carry vibrational energy that helps us connect with our hearts and with the resource states of love and joy. 🩵🙏💚

When: FRIDAY 9TH MAY 2025 from 6-7.15pm at UPRISING YOGA STUDIO, 99 Ferry Road, Christchurch.

It’s free to register here:
https://bouldering.co.nz/timetable-yoga/

and your KOHA goes to Conservation Volunteers Otautahi. 🌿

I’m looking forward to chanting with you!

A~U~M 🕉️

01/05/2025

A Magenta Spreen bowing her head from the weight of the rain. Reflecting back to me, from my healing room the play of the element of water outside and within. Just as she bows her head to the heaviness of the water element I feel an honouring of the overwhelm within.

Today I let go of 3 things to make more space for creating and manifesting my dream mahi. I let go of two work contracts. One, in seva (service) for an energetic exchange, another, a paid contract. I let go of an opportunity to offer kirtan on a retreat in Bali because as wonderful as it would have been, there were elements that didn’t quite align at this time. A sacrifice I’m willing to make.

Listening to pratibha (intuition), feeling shakti rising and acting from that place. Making space for the things that are most important.

We need to say no to say YES.

A~U~M