Amani

12/10/2026

🌿 What if softening was its own kind of strength?

We spend so much of our lives holding on.

To tension. To expectations. To the need to keep moving, achieving, doing.

Yin Yoga offers another way.

Through gentle, supported shapes, conscious breathing and unhurried moments of stillness, we invite the body to release unnecessary effort and the nervous system to find a little more ease.

Not by pushing further.

But by listening more deeply.

Perhaps the greatest gift of slowing down is discovering that we don’t always need to do more to feel more whole. 💕

Join Zara for The Slow Down – Tuesday Yin, 9.30am at the Heretaunga Women’s Centre.

A gentle, wāhine-only practice offered for koha. Mats and props provided.

Book: https://amanibooking.as.me/yin

09/10/2026

🌿 A little weekend update from Amani! 💕

Sunday REST at Keirunga Gardens is now fully booked. Thank you to everyone who has reserved a space - I’m just about over my jet lag and can’t wait to share this month’s offering!

But there’s still room in our other classes for you this weekend! 🧘🏾‍♀️✨

🌸 Saturday | 9.30AM
Strength, Balance & Flow with Sav
An uplifting, nourishing practice to explore movement and fluidity, build strength and balance, and connect with your body in your own unique way.

🌿 Sunday | 9.30AM
Gentle Yoga: Sunday Sādhana with Ariane
A gentle invitation to slow down, move mindfully, breathe deeply and find a little peace within.

📍 Both classes at the Heretaunga Women’s Centre
💕 Offered for koha
🌸 All mats and props provided

We’d love to share the mat with you this weekend. There’s something pretty special about coming together in community, making space for ourselves and one another. 💗

Book your place here:
https://amanibooking.as.me/

05/10/2026

🌿 THIS WEEK AT AMANI | GROUNDING 🌿

Sometimes peace begins by coming back down to earth.

Feeling the ground beneath our feet.
The breath moving through the body.
The steadiness that is already there beneath the noise.

This week, our practices invite us to ground — not to disconnect from the world, but to find enough steadiness within ourselves to meet it. 🕊️

🌿 The Slow Down — Tuesday Yin with Zara
Tuesday | 9.30AM

🌿 Strength, Balance & Flow with Savannah
Saturday | 9.30AM

🌿 Gentle Yoga: Sunday Sādhana with Ariane
Sunday | 9.30AM

📍 Heretaunga Women’s Centre

And to close the week…

🌿 Sunday REST with Paula
Restorative Yoga + Yoga Nidra
Sunday | 4–5.30PM
📍 The Homestead, Keirunga Gardens

All practices are offered for koha, with mats + props provided.

A week to root down.
To soften.
To remember the earth beneath us.
And perhaps, from that grounded place, to rise again. 🌱🕊️

01/10/2026

Spring @ Amani 🌞💛🌱🌼

An update on the build PLUS a feature on Amani Yin, details of our regular koha offerings, and a call to action. Check out this month's community yoga for peaceful beings...

29/09/2026

Strong doesn’t have to mean pushing harder. 🌿

Balance doesn’t have to mean perfect stillness.

And your flow doesn’t have to look like anybody else’s.

Strength, Balance & Flow Yoga is an invitation to explore what your body can do — moving with breath, following sensation, building strength and steadiness, and finding your own unique rhythm.

No perfect shapes. No expectations. Just space to move, explore, connect and be exactly where you are. 💛

🌿 Every Saturday
🕤 9.30–10.30AM
📍 Heretaunga Women’s Centre
💛 Koha
🧘🏾 All mats + props provided

This week, our Ariane is here to welcome you to your practice. EVERYbody welcome. Come as you are. 🕊️

29/09/2026

Peaceful Warrior: Ākenehi Tōmoana ✊🏾🕊️
Birth date not recorded – 1908
Ngāi Te Rangiitā, Ngāti Papa-tua-maro, Ngāti Ngarengare, Ngāi Turahi

Ākenehi’s story is rooted here in Heretaunga, where our Amani community gathers today.

In 1893, she accompanied Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia to the Kotahitanga Māori parliament as Meri called for Māori women to vote and stand as members. By 1895, Ākenehi was helping to bring wāhine together through Komiti Wahine o Heretaunga, gathering at Te Haukē Marae to discuss women’s rights, the wellbeing of Māori, and the loss of Māori land.

At that hui, Ākenehi offered a challenge that, to this day, stirs the heart: “We women have not yet tried!”

More than a century later, we feel the power of this local history. Ākenehi and the wāhine alongside her made space for voices that needed to be heard. At Amani, we hold close the value of gathering with care — creating inclusive spaces where wāhine are seen, heard, and held so that we may amplify peace within and peace between, as a collective.

Today we honour Ākenehi’s courage, and allow her voice to echo within us and shape a future rooted in equity, liberation, and peace. 💗

27/09/2026

🌼 THIS WEEK AT AMANI 🌼

There is something beautiful about diverse beings coming together, each bringing their own strengths, their own stories, their own way of being - this is where we connect and find the richness, beauty and colour in the world.🕊️

At Amani, we believe peace grows through connection. Through moving, breathing, resting and simply being alongside one another, our collective appreciation of our differences fosters true togetherness and belonging in our spaces.

Come as you are, move in your own way and share in the beautiful collective energy of our Amani whānau. 💛

This week’s offerings:

🧘 TUESDAY | 9.30AM The Slow Down – Tuesday Yin with Zara Zara 🌞 | Mindset & Movement (wāhine only)

🧘🏾‍♀️ SATURDAY | 9.30AM Strength, Balance & Flow with Ariane

🧘‍♂️ SUNDAY | 9.30AM Gentle Yoga: Sunday Sādhana with Susy

📍 Women’s Centre
🧡Offered for koha
🌼Mats + props provided

Whether you’re joining us for the first time or returning to your mat after a winter’s hibernation, there is a place for you here.

Bookings:
https://amanibooking.as.me

Many bodies. Many stories. One peaceful community. 🕊️

24/09/2026

This Body, a Vessel for Peace 🌿

May I honour this body, not for its shape or what it can do, but for the sacredness of simply being.

May I soften where I have judged, offer tenderness where I have struggled, and listen with compassion to the wisdom held within.

Let my breath become a prayer, my movement an offering, my stillness an act of devotion.

May I remember that this body is my sacred home, a sanctuary for my spirit, a vessel for peace.

But let my peace never be passive, nor my stillness a retreat from the world. May the strength I cultivate within become the courage to rise, to stand for freedom, to defend the dignity of others, and to act with fierce compassion wherever liberty is denied.

For peace begins within, but its purpose reaches far beyond me.

May this body be a vessel for peace, and my life an expression of it. 🕊️

21/09/2026

🦋 THIS WEEK AT AMANI 🦋

Spring is stirring… Lighter mornings, warmer air, and new growth unfolding all around us - all a beautiful invitation to awaken the body, breathe a little deeper, and make space for movement, connection and peace. 🌿✨

Three opportunities to gather on the mat this week:

✨ The Slow Down — Tuesday Yin
with Zara
Wāhine-only

🦋 Strength, Balance & Flow
with Susy
Open to all

🌿 Gentle Yoga: Sunday Sādhana
with Shayla
Open to all

All classes begin at 9.30AM at the Heretaunga Women’s Centre.

As always, our community yoga is offered for koha, reflecting our kaupapa of making yoga welcoming, accessible and available to our community.

Come exactly as you are.
Mats and props are provided.

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Bookings:
https://amanibooking.as.me | Link in bio

20/09/2026

REFLECTIONS ON PEACE 🕊️✊🏾

Peace was never meant
to make us passive.

It does not ask us
to look away
from what hurts.

It asks us to look closer.

To see injustice
and refuse indifference.

To meet cruelty
without becoming cruel.

To stand beside those
whose voices have been silenced
and say:

You will not stand alone.

Peace can be gentle,
but gentleness is not weakness.

Sometimes peace whispers.

Sometimes it marches.

Sometimes it plants a tree,
feeds a neighbour,
shields the vulnerable,
speaks an uncomfortable truth.

Sometimes peace is simply
the brave refusal
to hate.

This is the path
of the Peaceful Warrior:

a soft heart
and a steady spine.

Compassion with courage.

Hope with intention and effort.

The understanding
that inner peace
was never the final destination—

it is where we gather
the strength
to begin.

So let us awaken.

Not only to lighter days,
but to the part we might play
in creating them.

Again and again,
in ways both quiet and fierce,

may we choose
the world we wish to live in.

May we become
the peace
we are waiting for.