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02/01/2025

2025! WHY JOIN LEIGH MARSDEN YOGA?

In my 300+ hours on the mat teaching time in 2024, I was paying very close attention to my clients.

I was constantly asking myself: How can I present the powerful tools of yoga and arrange the background systems in the way that best serves all these people who come to my classes?

Here's what you'll experience with Leigh Marsden Yoga:

✨️Highly organised admin system and responsive messaging so you know what's happening at all times.

✨️Easy online payment options.

✨️Reliable class scheduling term after term at a range of times to suit your lifestyle.

✨️A brand new, spacious, accessible studio (from March 2025) with quality props, eftpos, retail space, and extended class options.

✨️Well-rounded classes featuring mindfulness meditation, breathwork, multiple options within poses to cater to your body, relaxation with pure wool blankets and soothing sounds from chimes/singing bowls.

✨️Balanced instruction that provides information about techniques and poses, as well as space for silence and inner work.

✨️Authentic empathy, active listening, & compassionate patience, with a trauma-sensitive approach across all offerings.

✨️A commitment to ongoing professional development for teachers to ensure you receive the best possible service, instruction, and care.

Is it your time to join us? Please PM - I'd love to hear from you!

You can also find out more at: www.leighmarsdenyoga.com

Class schedule term 1 yoga:
MONDAY
Timaru 6.30am
Geraldine 7pm

TUESDAY
Timaru 9.30am, 11am, 5.30pm, 7pm
Timaru 3.30pm CHILDREN'S (from March)

THURSDAY
Timaru 5.30pm, 7pm

FRIDAY
Timaru 10am

SATURDAY
Timaru 9am (from March)

From term 2 extra yoga classes additional to term 1:
MONDAY
Timaru 5.30pm Flow yoga
Geraldine 6pm Trauma-Informed Yoga

TUESDAY
Timaru 1.30pm Trauma-Informed Yoga

WEDNESDAY
Timaru 1.30pm Prenatal yoga TBC
Timaru 6pm Trauma-Informed Yoga

THURSDAY
Timaru 10am Mum's and Baby's yoga TBC

12/12/2024

We have SO many exciting things in store for 2025 at Leigh Marsden Yoga!

💛 NEW STUDIO!
A brand new, spacious Leigh Marsden Yoga ground-level studio space downtown Timaru, designed to ensure an accessible, high-quality yoga experience for everyone in our community. 😀

💛 10 CLASSES EACH WEEK!
Our awesome yoga schedule, featuring 10 classes every week, including a new 6.30am Intermediate session on Mondays in Timaru🙏🏼
https://www.leighmarsdenyoga.com/yoga

💛 EASY BOOKING/PAYMENT
Online class and term bookings available. Pay quickly and easily with your card online or via eftpos at the studio 👍

💛 YOGA SHOP
Retail space in the new studio, featuring beautiful Tribe Yoga products, Leigh Marsden Yoga resources, apparel, and more. Tribe Yoga products will also be available to elevate your experience during yoga classes ✨️

💛 MORE TRAUMA-INFORMED YOGA OPTIONS
Extended Trauma-Informed Yoga classes from June 2025, including 3 group classes per week in South Canterbury and additional workshop opportunities 🤗.

💛 EXTRA YOGA GOODNESS
Workshops, events, cacao ceremonies, evening/day/weekend retreats... we've got your wellbeing options covered! 👌

www.leighmarsdenyoga.com

21/11/2024

Free Yoga Relaxation Session!

This Saturday 23rd November, 9 -10.15 am, join me for a free relaxing yoga session at West End Hall, Maltby Ave, in support of Aoraki Foundation Women's Fund.

All welcome! Some mats available; BYO if you have one, please. No booking needed. Suitable for complete beginners. Easy parking.

We will enjoy relaxing breathing exercises, poses, and guided rest to set you up perfectly for the weekend!

See you there 💜.
Leigh

21/09/2024

Term 4 yoga and sound healing options with me, Trudi, Amanda and Jezer - let's go 🧘🏽‍♀️🕉✨️.

If you are already enrolled in a class, you are automatically in for term 4 and should have received your term 4 email. Please PM if not 🙏🏼.

Want to join us? 🤗 Details of how to book below!

🕉 Casual classes:
* Monday 7pm Yoga with Leigh (no booking needed). Primary School Hall. $12. Off 30th Sept, continues weekly otherwise.
* Wednesday 7pm Sound Class with Jezer. No term break. Book online 1 class $18, or 4 class Sound Pass, $50: https://www.leighmarsdenyoga.com/sound-healing

🕉Trauma-Informed Yoga classes. 8 week block starts 23 Oct. Please PM to discuss. We have spaces available for term 4.

🕉All other yoga classes are in 10 week term blocks, starting week of 14 Oct. $125 for the term.
* Tuesday 5.30pm and 7pm classes with Leigh are FULL.
* Spots available in all other classes.
* Casual places usually available in sessions other than Tue 5.30pm/7pm. $15.

Please PM to book or visit www.leighmarsdenyoga.com to read more about our yoga, breathwork, sounding healing, corporate and retreat offerings.

06/08/2024

NEWS FLASH ⚡️ SILENT RETREATS 2025!

I'm thrilled to announce that my 2025 budget-friendly silent retreats will be held at Spencer Park in Christchurch on:

9 - 11 May 2025 (1pm Fri - 9am Sun)
8 - 10 August 2025 (1pm Fri - 9am Sun)

ONLY $195 all inclusive of:

- 2 nights shared accommodation (6 beds per room, 5 rooms available, men & women accommodated seperately).
- 5 plant-based meals (GF available)
- 4 Yoga/Breathwork practices
- 2 guided seated meditations
- 1 guided walking meditation
- Temple Gong Meditation

We will be in the Koru Lodge, amid a 70Ha forested reserve and only 500m from the beach. A quiet time of year with regards to other patrons of the park. Excellent heating, large practice space.

I have 30 spots available per retreat. Please book yours early to avoid disappointment! Full refund available up to 4 weeks prior to retreat.

Book online here: https://www.leighmarsdenyoga.com/retreats

26/07/2024

11/07/2024

You're already there.

Watch the trick of the mind that says, 'You're not there yet...', or 'Still more to do...' or perhaps, 'When you get that pose/sit longer/concentrate better you'll be there...'

Always somewhere to go.

Let all that chatter be in the background. Rest in the space of aliveness, of Being, of awareness, that is always there behind the noise.

It's possible to go about all the activities of your life from this space of awareness. It's the opposite of detachment. When you're looking from the space of awareness rather than from the mind, you're able to be completely involved in life.

04/07/2024

Starting MONDAY July 1st with Georgina. Please book @ https://schedulebliss.com/pavitrayog.

21/06/2024

Term 3 Yoga in Timaru!

Term bookings are open now; starts week 22nd July. 10 sessions: $125*. PM to book or find out more here:

https://www.leighmarsdenyoga.com/yoga

*Trauma-Informed yoga fully funded for those with ACC sensitive claim. Private payment also available, different fee to regular classes. Please PM to learn more.

11/03/2024

Tickets for the Breathe Tekapo Wellness Festival are on sale tomorrow, Monday 11 March!

If you haven't already, head over to our website and check out our full weekend programme including three key note sessions with , and

The festival includes over 20 workshops based around our four pillars of food, movement, nature and inspiration.

To join us at Breathe Tekapo, you will need to register for the weekend which will provide access to all of the workshops. Super Early Bird pricing will be in place till the 2nd April and all events have limited spaces.

https://www.breathetekapo.com/weeekendprogramme

Image by Brook Sabin

27/01/2024