THE HEART OF YOGA: 30HR IMMERSION into Non-Dual Śaiva Tantra & Embodied Flow

EASTER WEEKEND MARCH 26 - 29 2027

Your yoga practice can reach far beyond your yoga mat. It can enrich your relationships, help you navigate life's challenges, deepen your connection to yourself, others, and the world and invite you to experience the extraordinary within the ordinary.

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30HR IMMERSION into Non-Dual Śaiva Tantra & Embodied Flow

Easter Weekend 2027, March 26-29 | Kula Studio, Christchurch

Join us for four inspiring days exploring Non-Dual Śaiva Tantra, a life-affirming, body-affirming and world-affirming wisdom tradition that has profoundly shaped the philosophy and practices of yoga worldwide.

At its heart is a simple but radical invitation: let your practice become a place of recognising your inherent wholeness, rather than striving to become someone better, more worthy or more complete. The sacred isn’t separate from you or somewhere you need to get to. It’s woven into the very fabric of your life. Your body, relationships, challenges and joys aren’t obstacles to practice, they’re part of its expression.

This also invites us to consider our responsibility to one another and the world. We’ll explore why social justice, ethical awareness and questioning systems of inequality are essential to a spiritual practice that truly embraces all of life.

Alongside the core philosophical teachings, you’ll experience yoga, meditation, pranayama (breath practices), contemplation and Embodied Flow™, and discover how this living tradition remains deeply relevant to modern life. Non-Dual Śaiva Tantra offers insights and practices for householders, those of us navigating family, work, relationships and the beautiful complexity of being human. We’ll also explore the Yamas and Niyamas (the ethical principles and personal observances of yoga) through a Tantrik lens.

Embodied Flow™ weaves together yoga, somatic movement, experiential anatomy and non-dual philosophy, bringing the teachings into the felt experience of the body so your understanding is grounded in lived experience, not intellectual knowledge alone.

What will you take away?

Over these four days, you'll explore how to:

  • Develop a meaningful home practice that enlivens and inspires you, both on and beyond the mat.

  • Recognise limiting beliefs and habitual patterns that shape how you experience yourself and the world, opening up greater possibility and choice.

  • Meet uncertainty, change and difficulty with greater curiosity, spaciousness and capacity to respond.

  • Deepen your relationship with the body through movement, sensation and awareness, discovering new ways of listening, moving and being.

  • Explore how yogic ethics and Tantrik philosophy can inform your relationships, everyday choices and participation in a more just and compassionate world.

  • Discover ways to weave Tantrik philosophy into your classes and offerings, allowing the teachings to emerge naturally from your own embodied understanding and lived experience.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME

Whether you're a yoga teacher, a dedicated practitioner or simply curious to explore yoga beyond the physical postures, these four days offer an opportunity to deepen your understanding and enrich your practice. For those who have studied with us before, the immersion will also introduce new material, fresh perspectives and opportunities to explore familiar teachings in greater depth.

This immersion also forms part of our 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training. You don't need to be enrolled in the full training to participate. Everyone is warmly invited to join our teacher trainees for four days of shared learning, exploration and practice.

SAMPLE SCHEDULE

Friday | 9:30am–5pm

Welcome and introductions, opening satsang and philosophy, then an introduction to Embodied Flow™ and an embodied movement practice. After lunch, we gather for an opening circle, followed by philosophy, contemplation and experiential practice.

Saturday | 9:30am–5:30pm

We begin with morning meditation and satsang, followed by an Embodied Flow™ practice. After lunch, we explore philosophy, social justice and ethical inquiry, then move into group discussion and experiential exploration. We close the day with integration and reflection.

Sunday | 9:30am–5:30pm

We begin with morning meditation and satsang, followed by an Embodied Flow™ practice. After lunch, we return to philosophy, contemplation and experiential practice, then move into group inquiry and discussion. We close the day with integration and reflection.

Monday | 9:30am–4pm

We begin with morning meditation and satsang, followed by an Embodied Flow™ practice. After lunch, there’s a meditation workshop and time for developing your personal home practice, before we come together for a closing circle.

TRAINING DETAILS

Dates

Easter Weekend 2027: Friday 26 to Monday 29 March

  • Friday | 9:30am-5pm

  • Saturday | 9:30am-5:30pm

  • Sunday | 9:30am-5:30pm

  • Monday | 9:30am-4pm

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INVESTMENT

$850 early bird, available until 31 January 2027
$950 full price, from 1 February 2027

A $200 deposit secures your place, with the remaining balance due [add date]. That leaves $650 (early bird) or $750 (full price) to pay.

MEET YOUR TEACHING TEAM

SARAH

Sarah is a curious, loving, compassionate yogini warrior, with a sharp, discerning mind and an idealistic, spiritual heart. She is passionate about Being, and the ways in which we show up for ourselves, in our relational spaces, and in the world. Studying, practising and teaching on Being has been her passion and her dharma for the last twenty years.

Sarah has studied and practised yoga across a vast range of traditions and lineages, and her daily meditation sadhana has been the cornerstone of her life for over 20 years. Her teacher, Hareesh (Christopher) Wallis, gave her the spiritual name Sāra, which means essence, reflecting her desire and commitment to live and Be from the essence of who she is, and to support others to experience this too.

Sarah is also a somatic therapist, an embodiment coach, and a practitioner of Somatic Stress Release™. She facilitates embodied awakening through yoga, meditation and movement, leading yoga classes, retreats and teacher trainings, alongside her work as a Somatic Therapy Mentor.

Sarah is mama to two incredible humans, Finn and Raine, who are her greatest friends and teachers. They live in Beach Haven on Auckland’s North Shore, where Sarah also teaches an epic weekly community yoga class.

MARI HALINA

Mari is a yoga facilitator, teacher trainer, somatic therapist and devoted student of the body and its inherent wisdom. For nearly two decades, she has explored dance, yoga, somatics and contemplative traditions as pathways to remembering our aliveness, presence and belonging as part of this living earth.

Her journey began with training as a professional dancer and has since led her through over 2,000 hours of study in yoga, Non-Dual Tantra, Embodied Flow™, Body-Mind Centering®, somatics and Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy. She has been fortunate to study with many extraordinary teachers and mentors, whose teachings continue to deepen her own practice and devotion to this path.

At the heart of all that Mari offers is a deep trust in the body’s inherent wisdom and our essential wholeness. She believes the body is not a problem to solve, but a place of listening, relationship and remembering. She is deeply committed to nurturing an embodied relationship with the earth, through ecological somatics, reciprocity and reverence for all life. Her teaching weaves together non-dual philosophy, embodied anatomy, somatic movement, poetry, breath and nervous system understanding, with ample space for curiosity, choice, play, self-expression and deep rest.

Alongside facilitating yoga classes, immersions and teacher trainings, Mari is a Certified Hakomi Practitioner and an ACC provider of trauma-sensitive yoga.