May You Be Well and Happy

Saturday, March 9, 2024

H u m m i n g 2 0 2 4

H u m m i n g - cultivating yoga practice that is joyful and deeply restful. A weekend Yoga retreat at Mana Retreat Centre, Coromandel Peninsula | 1 - 2 - 3 November. Bookings are now live manaretreat.com ____ Join Karla for a weekend of regenerative movement practices, Restorative Yoga and wander walking - complemented by nourishing and seasonal food and the land that is Mana____ “It was such a delightful and restorative weekend, so full of your wisdom and sense of fun which led to many insights and much joy for me!” - Helen Dodd

Summer delights

My beloved friend Sam and her partner Robbie got married!

Reflections on love...Liberate love so deeply from your being that everything and everyone around you feels the pleasure in their own heart in being with you, for you. My love is with you today and always. Karla

Friday, December 29, 2023

An incredible night of inspiration with the farmers footprint community. We are nature! Yes to digging a hole and planting a tree and growing community. Seeing beauty in every moment…‘It gets better the whole time it get worse’ thank you Zach Bush, thank you for the loving hug, for your wisdom. Deeply moving.

A year of rest

This year gifted weekly and monthly rest gatherings, restorative and regenerative movement retreats, a Restorative Yoga teacher training, a rest billboard, the launch of a rest research project and the creation of ‘An Invitation To Rest | He Tono Kia Okioki’ a first print and digital journal about Restorative Yoga and conscious rest. It’s been a full year - full of collaboration, creativity, community and a continued commitment to rest as a life and well-being practice. Thank you to everyone who has supported rest offerings. I keep diving in - with thought, reflection, practice, evolution of the material with students and colleagues. Rest is somehow a radical and entirely sensible life practice, one which so many of us have a complex, interesting or non-existent relationship with. I invite you to rest this summer, find some moments to pause, put your feet up, take time to smell the earth and sky, rest into the beauty of a moment, breathe out - and in - and out. Savour anything or anyone in your life that feels kind and nourishing. My feeling is to continue the theme! Rest 2024 here we come!

humming after humming at Mana.

An absolute blessing to be on the land with a very awe - some community - embodying blood, kidneys and nerves, flow and form inspired by trees, calligraphy, Greek statues and bees. In celebration of song, dance, laughter, wandering, feasting, resting.

An Invitation To Rest | He Tono Kia Okioki

This year marks 23 years of sharing Restorative Yoga. The practice continues to be a deep process of learning, insight, discovery, creativity, innovation and co-creation. What a radical and sensible idea that one would gather in community to deeply rest. I have been blessed over the years to have a group of dedicated ‘resters’, dear colleagues and trainees who year after year continue to evolve the practice with me. This conscious rest practice continues to be a deep resource for my own physical, mental, emotional and energetic well being. An Invitation To Rest | He Tono Kia Okioki Writing about Restorative Yoga seems a natural evolution of sharing and making the practice more accessible. I’m not what I would call a natural writer, however I do have a passion for gathering a few words and capturing the essence of what rest is for me with the support of a wonderful team of collaborators, Todd Eyre, Suzanne Day and Sandy Farquhar. So in honour and celebration of this deeply nourishing practice I have co-created a first journal - An Invitation To Rest | He Tono Kia Okioki - somewhere I can seasonally offer my ideas about the nature of rest, and share my joy and love of rest as a life practice. Print copies will exist for purchase at the Contemporary Yoga Centre in Remuera, and digital copies are available through my website karlabrodie.co.nz It is my hope that this offering may inspire, be in service to, and companion your rest. Aroha Mai, Aroha Atu, Karla