Events and Workshops are a great place to take your Yoga practice to the next level and learn more about Health & Wellbeing. Every month you can expect: advanced yoga workshops, yoga teacher trainings, meditation courses, ultimate relaxation master classes, and yogic philosophy... so check in regularly to see if there is an event in the pipeline that sounds right for you. Enjoy x

Soul Circle - A Monthly Gathering at Golden Yogi

-With Ceane Light

New to Golden Yogi! we have a mixed soul circle event happening once a month starting this October 9th as a special introductory offering, this one will be on a sliding scale price. Thereafter from November the price is $33 per person.

Friday, 9th October | 6.00–8.00 pm

We are living in times that ask a lot of us. The pace of modern life, global uncertainty, and the constant demands on our energy have left many feeling disconnected from ourselves, from others, and from a deeper sense of inner peace.

Soul Circle was created in response to this need.

A warm, nurturing, and inclusive monthly gathering open to everyone men and women, all genders, all nationalities, all walks of life. Adults 18 and over are warmly invited.

It is time for men and women to come together in healing releasing the divide and the fear of our differences, and embracing what we share at our soul level. We are all here on this earth journey, navigating many of the same experiences. At our core we are far more alike than we are different. When we heal together, we heal more wholly.

This is a safe, compassionate, and non-judgmental space where you are welcome to be heard and to share at whatever level feels right for you. No one will try to fix you here. This is a self-empowered space that honours each person's individual journey offering gentle guidance and practical new tools to support your mental and emotional wellbeing in everyday life.

Each month may include a gentle combination of:

Mindfulness practices and guided meditation
Self-care and discovery journaling prompts
Open discussion and compassionate listening
Calming movement and breath

Presence, observation, understanding and acceptance
Practical tools to take home and use between sessions

Regular intentional pauses like these support stress and anxiety relief, emotional regulation, improved mental clarity, a sense of belonging, greater self awareness, and renewed energy and resilience.

Whether you are navigating stress, seeking genuine connection, or simply ready to prioritise yourself — you are welcome here, exactly as you are.

No experience necessary. Simply come as you are.

After School Yoga at Golden Yogi

- With Y.E.S

Giving our young people space to breathe.

The school years can be exciting, challenging and sometimes overwhelming. Our children and teenagers are navigating enormous changes — discovering who they are, managing friendships, understanding their changing bodies and emotions, and finding their place in the world.

This is where yoga can offer something really valuable: a space to slow down, breathe, move and reconnect with themselves.

Golden Yogi is proud to partner with Yoga Education in Schools (Y.E.S.) to bring an inclusive, eight-week youth yoga programme to our studio in Takapuna.

Through gentle, breath-centred movement, young people learn practical tools to help them:

• Manage stress and anxiety
• Develop focus and awareness
• Build body confidence
• Connect with their bodies and emotions
• Develop resilience
• Feel more grounded and present
• Create simple practices they can use at home, at school and during challenging moments

The programme is inclusive, non-competitive, non-religious and respectful, welcoming different bodies, abilities and needs. There is no pressure to perform or achieve — simply an opportunity to learn, explore and feel more at home in themselves.

Two age groups

Ages 5–9
A playful and accessible introduction to movement, breathing, body awareness and emotional wellbeing.

Tuesdays, 4–5pm
13 October – 1 December

Ages 10–18
A supportive space to develop practical tools for stress, focus, resilience, self-awareness and navigating the challenges of adolescence.

Wednesdays, 4–5pm
14 October – 2 December

Yoga Sādhanā - A complete Yoga Practice

- With Molly & Ash

Fortnightly Fridays 6-8pm

There are 196 sutras in Patañjali’s Yoga Sutras (Yoga Bible). Only 2 of them are concerned with the physical posture of Yoga. The rest talks about the mind.

Yet in the Western world, Studio Yoga has largely become synonymous with āsana, the physical practice. But the Yoga Sutras are pointing us somewhere much deeper.

The real work is the mind.

How does the mind work? Why does it become restless, distracted, fearful or attached? How do our thoughts, habits and patterns shape the way we experience life?

Patañjali begins not by simply telling us to control the mind, but by giving us the right knowledge to understand it. You can’t work skilfully with something you don’t understand.

This is the great elephant in the room of modern Yoga: we spend so much time working on the body, while the very thing experiencing the body is the mind.

This is what this Yoga Sādhanā designed to explore. A complete 2-hour practice where āsana becomes the doorway not the destination. It brings together:

- Vinyasa Krama Breathwork

- Simple āsana (postures) with Bandhas (internal locks)

- Chakra activation (energy centers) for proper Prana (life force) flow

- Yoga Nidra (Yoga sleep)

- Pranayama (breathing exercise)

- Mantra (chanting)

- Patañjali’s Yoga Sutra (Yoga Bible) discourse with Q&A

- Contemplative Meditation

It’s how I was personally trained and taught in my Yoga lineage. A practice rooted in 5,000 years of tradition and passed down through generations.

A practice for creating space to work not only with the physical body, but also for exploring the true power of Yoga has to offer in quieting the mind.

This Sādhanā is run in two parts. The first will run for an hour with Ash who will take us through Yoga Sutra discourse and Q&A. The other half will run after a 5minutes tea break and will be led by Molly, and she will take us through the breath principles of Vinyasa Krama, simple āsanas, Yoga Nidra and Pranayama. From there Ash will take you back to contemplative meditation and finish with OM chanting.

Pricing Details: Sliding scale between $15-$45. Choose an amount that works for you.

Cacao & Connection -Thursday Slow Flow

- With Michelle

Starting Thursday 15 October

Once a month, we’ll gather for our Thursday 9:30am Slow Flow, followed by a little something special.

Ash will lovingly prepare a beautiful ceremonial cacao for you to enjoy as we gently awaken from Savasana. Receive your gifted cup of cacao, settle into the warmth of our beautiful studio space, and take a little time to connect, share and simply be in community.

There’s no need to rush off. Stay for a while, enjoy your cacao and bask in the light of our much-loved Golden Yogi space.

We know life can be busy, so there is absolutely no obligation to stay but you are always warmly welcome.

Come for your practice. Stay for the connection.

Yoga for Healthy ageing

- a beginners journey with Perry

Thursday, 29th October - 3rd December | 12.00–1.15 pm

A six-week introduction to yoga designed especially for beginners and those returning to movement later in life.

Whether you've never unrolled a mat or have practised for years, this course starts from the same place for everyone: the beginning.

This isn't yoga as a workout, and it isn't tied to any one style or tradition. Each session brings together gentle strength, mindful stretching, yoga philosophy and meditation, with the wisdom of Yoga and Ayurveda woven through our conversations. You'll move, you'll breathe, you'll rest, and you'll come to understand why we do what we do.

Perry has had over 35 years of  experience, a background in Naturopathy and Ayurveda and can adapt postures, breathe exercises and relaxation techniques to what is needed - honouring where you are today and taking you forward from there. 

The Journey

Week 1: The Yoga Breath
We begin gently, with a restorative session that returns us to the breath, the foundation of everything that follows.

Week 2: Yoga from the Ground Up
Our feet carry us through life, yet we rarely give them a thought. We'll discover how steady, awakened feet support the whole body.

Week 3: Standing Poses
Learning to stand tall, upright and free of tension, with strength that feels easy rather than effortful.

Week 4: The Stillness That Supports Movement
Exploring stability: the quiet, unmoving foundation that allows us to move with confidence and grace.

Week 5: Spinal Extension
Opening and lengthening the spine, gradually leading us into gentle, supported backbends.

Week 6: Forward Folds
Turning inward and exploring the grounding, downward movement of prana, a calming close to our six weeks together.

What you can hope to take home

• A fresh perspective on your body and your practice

• A deeper understanding of how each pose affects you

• A sense that yoga is so much more than exercise

• The confidence that yoga truly is for everyone

• The importance of breath

Breathe Reflect Connect - A Women’s Workshop

With Vicky & Molly

Saturday 7th November| 2:00 - 4:0 pm

Molly opens the workshop with an embodiment practice 'How do I occupy space'? 

Molly is a somatic facilitator, yoga and meditation teacher, and advocate for the intelligence of the human body. Raised in the Waitākere Ranges and trained in Bali and Portugal, she has spent over six years working in wellness around the world, running retreat centres, designing programmes and supporting hundreds of people in private sessions. Her work sits at the crossroads of mental health, embodiment and women’s health.

Her specialty is the space between intuition and action: the moment we sense something and the body either moves towards or away from something. Drawing on trauma-informed somatic movement therapies, she helps women feel that space, trust it and act from it.

The breath is the red thread through everything she does, and it began with her own Mother. After years of working in education and social services, Molly learned that real change happens when each person is met as an individual, with their own history and pace. She now brings that into embodied, feminine leadership and group facilitation, where nervous system, psychology and movement come together.

Who is this for?

You look after everyone. Your body is tired and your head is full. You would have to think hard to recall the last time you stopped to ask how you’re really going.

What you walk away with:

A settled body after a clear look at yourself. Vicki’s awakening quiz shows the patterns running quietly in the background. The ones you learned, kept repeating, and stopped noticing. 

You will learn the science of connection. Stories and research on why feeling connected is a human need.

Your own next steps. Time to reflect, and select meaningful action items in your own words.

Women who get it. Two hours with women doing the same work. Connections made.

Something to keep. Reflections workbook and one lucky winner of a Wāhne Global Sisterhood Memo Bottle 

Energy for the drive home. We close with a re-energising meditation.

Vicki Tyler is a TEDx speaker, behavioural leadership strategist and founder of The Sleepwalking Effect™️. She holds a Graduate Diploma in Applied Psychology and has spoken to thousands of leaders on three continents. She created Campaign 195, asking one woman leader in every country the same question, with findings going to the United Nations for International Women’s Day 2027.

At 17, the people she loved most were going through heartbreaking times, and she started sinking too. A self-transformation course she found in a newspaper pulled her back up. She promised herself she would one day help people feeling unseen or lonely. There is overwhelming research we have never been more connected electronically, but never felt so socially isolated. At 22, after the first of two near-death spinal accidents, she doubts she would have healed the same way without those mental skills.

Her daily practices include meditation and self-hypnosis. She’s a mum of two hybrid Kiwi-American sons, and her favourite word is perspective.

An Introduction to Meditation & the Art of Inner Stillness

With Daniel

Saturday 21st November| 2:00 - 3:30 pm

A 1.5-hour introductory workshop with Daniel Rubin from the Sri Chinmoy Centre

Have you ever wondered what meditation really is or wished you had a simple practice you could return to in the midst of a busy life?

Join Daniel Rubin for a gentle and practical introduction to meditation, inspired by the teachings of the late Sri Chinmoy, one of India’s renowned spiritual teachers.

Daniel discovered meditation as a 12-year-old, when he was first shown how to meditate on a candle flame. Years later, after meeting Sri Chinmoy in America in 1998, he returned to meditation as a daily practice and found in it a deeper sense of inner peace and connection.

Sri Chinmoy studied meditation from a young age and had a profound inner experience which inspired him to come to America to teach meditation in 1964. Soon Sri Chinmoy Meditation Centres spread as far as New Zealand, pioneering the meditation movement here.

In this 1.5-hour workshop, Daniel will introduce you to some of the simple, time-tested practices offered through the Sri Chinmoy Centre. You’ll be guided through breathing techniques, concentration, visualisation, mantra and meditation, gradually moving from the activity of the thinking mind towards a quieter, more peaceful inner space.

The session is suitable for complete beginners as well as those who already have some experience with meditation.

You’ll explore:

• Simple techniques to calm and focus the mind

• Breath and concentration practices

• Visualisation as a support for meditation

• Mantra and music as pathways into stillness

• How to develop a sustainable meditation practice at home

• Practical guidance for making meditation part of everyday life

• Time for questions and reflection

Rather than trying to empty the mind or force a particular experience, this workshop offers an opportunity to discover what becomes possible when we learn to become quiet, present and attentive within.

Continue your practice:

This introductory workshop will also be an opportunity to discover Daniel’s regular Friday lunchtime meditation class at Golden Yogi, where you can continue developing a consistent practice in a supportive setting.

Whether you are completely new to meditation or looking to reconnect with a practice, this is an invitation to take a little time for yourself, slow down and explore the quiet space within.

All yoga mats, blocks, bolsters, and blankets provided. Come as you are. Begin with one breath.

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Laozi

Music, Storytelling & Mental Health Workshop

Presented by Carl o Yāng - Acoustic Singer-Songwriter

Carl o Yāng is an acoustic singer-songwriter whose music explores themes of mental health, love and spirituality. His live performances create an intentional listening space that invites people to connect deeply with the music, experience powerful emotions, and discover moments of revelation, reflection, and wisdom.

This workshop combines a selection of original songs Carl has written throughout his personal journey, with storytelling and insights gained through his experiences of mental health and addiction struggles, recovery, and spiritual growth.

Through music and honest storytelling, Carl aims to inspire individuals to overcome their own challenges, reconnect with themselves, and discover the best versions of who they can become.

Carlo’s easy going humour mixed in with the depth of experience has the ability to create a welcoming and comfortable atmosphere to be able to drop in.

The intention is to create a space where people feel comfortable to reflect, relate, share, and find hope through the power of music and lived experience.

At its heart, this workshop is a reminder that even through our darkest struggles, there is always potential for growth, transformation, and a deeper understanding of ourselves.