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SUMMARY:Yoga Retreat with Juliet Forch
DESCRIPTION:Join Juliet Forch for a weekend that includes a variety of practices to nourish and rejuvenate.\nJuliet offers a Yoga practice that is suitable for beginners and those with many years of practice. You can find more information on Juliet and her studio\, Papakura Yoga\, on her website at the following link: www.papakurayoga.co.nz \n\nIntroducing\nThe Teaching Team\nJuliet Forch \nWith a Yoga Journey dating from 1990\, Juliet the founder of Papakura Yoga Centre exudes a passion for Yoga and continuous learning. She believes that Yoga teaches us about ourselves as it leads us to a deeper understanding of how to live with greater kindness and compassion. \nJuliet completed her initial Teacher training with the International Yoga Body in NZ. She later delved into advanced studies with Donna Farhi and Judith Lasater. Her curiosity about the Human Body / Movement in general and Yoga has led her down many different paths; infusing her teaching today with a blend of natural movement\, somatic awareness\, modern biomechanics along with the ancient wisdom of Yoga. She encourages each person to meet themselves with complete acceptance whilst at the same time opening the pathways for transformation. \nOff the Mat Juliet enjoys tramping / walking\, her 9 grandchildren \, gardening\, reading\, exploring Aoteoroa and most recently she has committed to strength training 2x per week; finding it to be a wonderful (and surprising) compliment to Yoga. \n 
URL:https://manaretreat.com/event/juliet-forch-yoga-retreat/
LOCATION:Mana Retreat Centre\, 608 Manaia Road\, State Highway 25\, RD1\, Coromandel\, 3581\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Yoga
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SUMMARY:Relax and Rejuvenate with Stella Goetz
DESCRIPTION:Friday September 18th 2026  Sunday September 20th 2026\n  \nThis retreat is an invitation to rest\, soften and refuel Body and Soul in one of the most breath-taking places in Aotearoa — high above the Coromandel coastline\, surrounded by vast land\, ocean views and deep quiet. \nMana is my PERSONAL FAVORITE place to rejuvenate. There is space to be pampered with amazing cuisine\, walk the land\, enjoy the sauna\, take in the views — or simply sit in stillness and do very little. Alongside this spaciousness\, there will be gentle inward guidance. A must be! \n \n  \nFor Bookings and more information:\nPlease contact Stella Goetz – \nstellatreehouse@gmail.com\n+64 (0) 210 249 6390 \nVisit Stella’s Website: www.Stellayoga.co.nz
URL:https://manaretreat.com/event/stella-yoga/
CATEGORIES:Yoga
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SUMMARY:5-Day Mindful Self-Compassion Intensive With Dr Anna Friis and Dr Robyn Charlton
DESCRIPTION:5-Day Mindful Self-Compassion Intensive\nWith Dr Anna Friis and Dr Robyn Charlton\nThis immersive five-day experience offers the complete Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) programme in a spacious\, restorative retreat setting.\nMindful Self-Compassion integrates the skills of mindfulness and compassion to support emotional resilience\, nervous-system regulation\, and a kinder relationship with ourselves. Developed by Dr Kristin Neff and Dr Christopher Germer\, MSC uses guided meditation\, experiential practices\, reflective exercises\, and gentle inquiry to help us meet difficulty with warmth rather than self-criticism. \nOver five days\, we step out of the busyness of everyday life and into a rhythm of practice\, rest\, and connection — learning how to become our own steady ally in\nmoments of stress\, uncertainty\, and change. Self-compassion is not self-indulgence or avoidance. It is a courageous inner stance that allows us to respond to struggle with clarity\, care\, and strength. \n\nWHAT THE RETREAT INCLUDES \n\nThe full Mindful Self-Compassion programme taught intensively over five days (fulfils the prerequisite for MSC Teacher Training)\nExclusive use of Mana Retreat Centre and grounds\nDelicious\, nourishing meals\nOptional yoga and Qigong classes\nCreative and reflective evening sessions\nTime for rest\, walking\, and integration\n\n\nTUITION\n$850 early bird (until 31 May 2026)\n$950 thereafter \nAccommodation and meals additional. \n\nTESTIMONIALS\n“Working with you has changed the most important relationship in my life — the relationship with myself.” — Vanessa\n“You are both absolute gems. This is the most mind-blowingly wonderful\, life- changing investment I have ever been lucky enough to participate in.” — Margot \n\nTHE TEACHING TEAM \nAnna Friis PhD \nAnna is a health psychologist in private practice in Auckland\, with a deep commitment to mindfulness- and compassion-based approaches to wellbeing. After a high-paced corporate career\, she developed a particular interest in helping people find balance\, ease\, and meaning in both their personal and professional lives.\nAnna was one of the first people to be trained as a teacher of MSC by Drs Neff and Germer and continues to be closely involved with the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion’s (CMSC) mission to cultivate a kinder world (www.centerformsc.org). She is a senior teacher\, teacher trainer and mentor on the CMSC’s global training team. She is also a facilitator and teacher of the Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy (SCiP) training programme\, an initiative that trains mental health professionals from around the world in how to integrate the science and practise of self-compassion into their clinical work. Anna holds a PhD in Health Psychology from the University of Auckland\, where her research contributed new scientific knowledge on the mental and physical health effects of self-compassion among people living with diabetes. Her work has been published in leading international journals. She is a devoted yogini with three adult children\, and two utterly adorable small grandchildren. \nDr Robyn Charlton \nDr Robyn Charlton is a psychiatrist with nearly 20 years’ experience\, specialising in burnout\, ADHD\, trauma\, and perinatal mental health. Her work integrates lifestyle medicine\, mindfulness\, self-compassion\, and somatic approaches to support deep\, sustainable wellbeing. \nRobyn’s work spans three interconnected spaces: \n\nMindFitness Clinic — individual therapy and assessment for ADHD\, trauma\, and perinatal mental health\, drawing on EMDR\, MI-CBT\, Havening\, and compassion-based approaches\nMindFitness for Professionals — coaching\, retreats\, and burnout recovery for health and helping professionals\, grounded in nervous-system care and self-compassion\nMindFitness Education — training and CPD for clinicians in ADHD\, perinatal mental health\, and trauma-informed\, compassion-based care\n\nShe is the creator of the SOAR Self-Care Battery™\, a practical framework informed by polyvagal theory\, lifestyle medicine\, and positive neuroplasticity.\nThis model helps people recognise what drains their inner resources and choose intentional practices for restoration and resilience.\nRobyn is a certified Mindful Self-Compassion teacher\, has completed the Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy (SCIP) programme\, and is currently co-\ndeveloping Self-Compassion for ADHD with Dr Christopher Germer. She also teaches yin yoga\, offering an embodied\, gentle pathway into compassion and\nhealing.
URL:https://manaretreat.com/event/5-day-mindfulness-self-compassion/
LOCATION:Mana Retreat Centre\, 608 Manaia Road\, State Highway 25\, RD1\, Coromandel\, 3581\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Meditation
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SUMMARY:Spring Qi Gong Retreat with Hedwig Bakker
DESCRIPTION:Spring Qi Gong Retreat\n9 October\, 4pm – 12 October\, 2pm\n\nInfuse yourself with more energy this spring\nThe essence of practicing Qi Gong is to optimize and improve your internal energy\, the inner force that keeps you alive through breathwork\, activation\, stretching\, flows\, standing postures and meditation. \nAnother aspect of Qi Gong is to create harmony\, balance\, connection\, flow between the internal and external. Internal is your innate intelligent energy system and external relates to seasons\, space\, people\, weather\, environment\, earth\, nature\, universe. \nWe want ways to integrate what’s going on around us with what’s happening inside of us and during this retreat we will be looking at working with the seasons.\nWorking with the seasonal energies will help your body follow the cycles and rhythms of the natural world\, feel supported and in tune with the energies of the natural world and will help you to transition from one season to the next full of vibrant\, youthful energy. \nIn this retreat we will work with and tune into the energy of spring. Every season has specific characteristics and relates to one of the Five elemental energies (metal\, water\, wood\, fire and earth) that we find in nature and within ourselves. Spring corresponds with the wood element with its internal qualities and characteristics like resilience (strength and flexibility)\, abundance\, generosity\, kindness\, creativity\, perception. \nIn winter everything slows down and there is the aspect of going within. Spring follows and is the season where nature wakes up from hibernation\, there is expansion\, growth\, a coming to life and this will be reflected in our Qi Gong practice. \n\nWhat other people had to say\nHedwig has perfected the delivery of her Qi Gong Retreat. I have the impression it’s equally rich and meaningful whether the participants are completely new to Qi Gong\, have been doing it for many years\, or at one of the many places in between. Thank you for an amazing retreat. \nIt was beautiful to see the transformation and healing that took place amongst everyone. \nMy gratitude and appreciation for all you shared. You soar in joy and flow of Qi Gong. My heart feels open and my base feels stronger. I am ready to journey on. \nHedwig’s Qi Gong retreat was such a precious experience – held in the beautiful surrounds of Mana\, I could really sink into her teachings\, practise deeply and cultivate motivation and ideas for continuing the practise at home. I wholeheartedly recommend Mana and especially the Qi Gong retreat with Hedwig. \n\nThis Spring Qi Gong Retreat includes\n-Breathwork combined with Qi Gong\n-Explore the wood element\n-Learn a Swimming Dragon Routine for strength and flexibility\n-Practice techniques to tap into your inner power\, awaken loving-kindness in your heart\, strengthen abundance and awaken healing energy within through sitting meditation\, walking meditation and Qi Gong practice\n-Experience the shared energy that you only get when practicing in a group.\n-Sessions will take place in beautiful indoor and outdoor settings\n-Enjoy three nights and four days of accommodation in a beautiful\, natural and peaceful setting\, delicious and nutritious organic meals and friendly staff. \nPlease note that parts of this retreat will be conducted in silence. \n  \n\nDaily Schedule\n \n\nYour Teacher\nHedwig grew up in the Netherlands\, was trained as a teacher physical education and worked  as an outdoor instructor for 15 years until she left the Netherlands in 2000. Initially she travelled overseas\, then lived in India and Nepal for nine years where she engaged in Buddhist teachings & retreats and several charity projects. \nHedwig has been practicing meditation for over two decades and has been leading meditation classes\, courses and retreats since 2004. She is also a certified Holden Qi Gong teacher and leads all kinds of Qi Gong events.  These many years of personal practice and leading retreats & courses have resulted in a richness of experience and a genuine joy in sharing and guiding others in meditation & movement practice. \n  \n  \n\nThis retreat is suitable for all skill levels: those new to Qi Gong as well as those with previous experience. \nFor questions or more information\, contact Hedwig at qigonghedwig@gmail.com \nFor an impression of the practice\, visit: \nhttps://www.youtube.com/@QiGongwithHedwig or \nhttps://www.facebook.com/qi.gong.with.hedwig \n 
URL:https://manaretreat.com/event/spring-qi-gong-retreat/
LOCATION:Mana Retreat Centre\, 608 Manaia Road\, State Highway 25\, RD1\, Coromandel\, 3581\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:QiGong, Bodylight & Pilates
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SUMMARY:Sing Your Heart Out with Tony Backhouse
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Gospel Singing Weekend with Tony Backhouse \n\nIntroducing Your Teacher \nTony Backhouse\, BA\, B.Mus\, is one of the leaders in the Australasian a cappella movement.Tony Backhouse founded Australia’s foremost a cappella gospel choir Café of the Gate of Salvation in 1986 and directed it for 21 years. He arranged and composed the bulk of their repertoire and still writes music regularly for them. He founded a cappella choir the Honeybees and has directed and sung with the reclusive male a cappella group the Heavenly Light Quartet since 1996. In demand for his inspiring teaching style\, Tony has run more than 2000 vocal workshops throughout the world for the public\, for festivals\, schools\, universities\, churches\, organisation’s and corporate training events. \n  \n  \n\nWhat others have said about Tony \n“He is quite simply the finest vocal arranger he knows and Sam Neill reckons he’s a national treasure” – Tim Finn\nTony Backhouse has been\, and continues to be\, a major influence on music in Sydney and beyond. The a cappella revival is almost entirely due to him – Roi Colbert\, New Zealand Listener \nTony Backhouse’s voice can be heard several times on The Cafe of the Gate of Salvation and each time he manages to cleverly shape otherwise simple melodic lines. He’s very effective at blending into the ensemble and then appearing again\, wrapping around notes\, gliding above the sopranos\, growling between the tenors and baritones. Few ensemble leaders have as clear an understanding of their group’s sonic spectrum\, and how their voice fits within as a soloist – Martin Wesley-Smith\, composer\, Australia \nFor more information about Tony Backhouse\, please visit https://www.tonybackhouse.com/ \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://manaretreat.com/event/sing-your-heart-out-with-tony-backhouse-2/
LOCATION:Mana Retreat Centre\, 608 Manaia Road\, State Highway 25\, RD1\, Coromandel\, 3581\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Singing and Chanting
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SUMMARY:Working with Legacy material (IFS between the Generations)
DESCRIPTION:Working with Legacy material (IFS between the Generations)\nLearn how to identify\, explore and heal legacy burdens while honouring and celebrating legacy gifts. Legacy burdens often present as parts that have entrenched beliefs and patterns of behaviour that are perpetuated across generations and can be corrosive\, counter-productive and no longer compatible to the here and now. By working with clients’ legacy burdens we can move stuckness\, shift deeply held pain\, create more connection to authenticity while remaining connected to and respectful of a multiplicity of generations. \nThis workshop offers opportunities for you to do your work and to give you the skills and abilities to work with your clients legacy material. There will be lectures\, demonstrations\, small group and somatic/ embodied experientials offered. All in the beauty\, simplicity and tranquility of the Mana Retreat centre. \nThis workshops specific focus is on familial legacies as held by parts\, the body and within the system. Learn how to work with legacy material in a variety of experiential ways through somatic exploration\, creative externalisation and IFS as it applies to many systems. \nYou will learn to work with protectors that hold legacy material and exiles that are often holding pain that is not entirely all theirs. As we tune into legacy material we see that it is often deeply woven throughout our systems and often subtle yet powerful in its influence- when we bring this material to awareness and meet it with curiosity and openness applying the IFS model\, profound change can happen. \n\nYour Teacher\n\nEmma Diamond MA is an Individual\, Child and Family Therapist in private practice with a Masters in Family Therapy. As the inaugural IFS Institute Trainer in the Australian and New Zealand region\, Emma has eighteen years of experience working extensively with children\, families\, couples and individuals mostly in the context of complex trauma. She deeply values being part of the growing IFS community of Australia\, New Zealand and Asia. \nEmma has enjoyed deepening her IFS practice over the last five years via trainings\, workshops\, deepening courses and most importantly her clients\, supervision and personal therapy. She works with creativity\, playfulness\, perspective and presence to deliver expansive and practical consultation and guidance for your ongoing IFS growth both personally and professionally.
URL:https://manaretreat.com/event/ifs-between-the-generations/
LOCATION:Mana Retreat Centre\, 608 Manaia Road\, State Highway 25\, RD1\, Coromandel\, 3581\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Professional Development
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SUMMARY:The Perceptual Journey - Soma to Wholeness
DESCRIPTION:We warmly invite you to our weekend course The Perceptual Journey; Soma to Wholeness with the blessing and guidance of Robyn and Manuela we are offering this course at Mana. This course has been developed to continue to support your development of the perceptual journey. \nOver the weekend we will explore topics of: Polyvagal theory\, and its role in inflammation and allostasis. Trauma and its impact on soma and the journey to Wholeness\, including the modified or adapted form\, autoimmune conditions and PTSD. The Neuroimmune axis\, lamina terminalis and The Bird\, thus deepening your understanding of mind\, body\, spirit connections\, how the subtleties of these connections of the bodies systems impact how our patients present and treat and the beauty of the bodies inherent ability to remember The River of Life and the Wisdom that flows and guides each one of us. \nOver the weekend there will also be time for reflection and rest. \n\nAbout the Course\nThe course will be worth 20 hours of CPD and take a similar approach as that which you have experienced in the past with both theory and practical elements. \nStart 12noon Friday 20th November\nFinish 1pm Monday 23rd November \n\nFacilitators\nThe Perceptual Studies Group NZ\nRoss Payn\, Debbie & Jerry Ryan\, Angela Procter\, Anne Bengsston and Anya Schumacher Knight.\nA little bit about us\, together we have over 135 years osteopathic experience in private practice\, we have all completed the IX Phases with Robyn and Manuela. We are dedicated to supporting osteopaths on their biodynamic journey\, preserving and growing the legacy left to us all by our elders. \nTo book your study place if you haven’t already please email perceptualstudiesnz@gmail.com
URL:https://manaretreat.com/event/the-perceptual-studies-group-nz/
LOCATION:Mana Retreat Centre\, 608 Manaia Road\, State Highway 25\, RD1\, Coromandel\, 3581\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Professional Development
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