27th-29th April
Unity in Diversity. Diversity in Unity. Join us for an exciting weekend of seminars, workshops, community and yoga. Outstanding presenters from many yoga traditions within New Zealand and overseas are presenting workshops and seminars on a wide range of topics.
Extend your practice and teaching skills with over 50 workshops and 30 presenters. We are bringing you the very best in Yoga.
Be inspired by wisdom teachings from Spiritual Masters in yoga philosophy, vedanta, the tattwas, and more.
Deepen your understanding of spinal awareness and alignment, plus yoga for high stress, yoga therapy, and more.
You can explore a diversity of traditions, including Astanga, Iyengar, Kundalini, Art of Living, Satyananda, Purna, Vinyasa, Deeksha, and Kriya.
You can also learn about methods to attain inner peace through meditation, pranayama, and yoga nidra.

The weekend is also a festival.
You may buy tickets for the festival or the conference. Conference tickets include entry to all the festival events.
Come for a day, or the weekend, stay with us onsite – rooms and camping options available.
On Friday night Sika is playing in the glade. These tickets are purchased separately.
Whether you are a beginner student or an experienced teacher/practitioner this weekend is designed to inspire, teach and take you deeply into your own practice.
Realize the potential of yoga to penetrate every aspect of your life. Discover the diversity in unity and unity in diversity. Connect with others who share the same passion. Live your yoga. Have fun.
Registration starts at 4:00pm in Prema. The Powhiri follows at 5:30pm (Prema) and everyone is welcome to attend.
A Complimentary Light Supper is available between 7:30-8:30pm in Prema. Grant Macredie Kirtan and Meditation will be in Shanti at 8:00-9:30pm.
We are looking forward to seeing you all there! The conference finishes on Sunday at 5:30pm.
Extend your practice and teaching skills with over 50 workshops and 30 presenters. We are bringing you the very best in Yoga.
You may buy tickets for the festival or the conference. Conference tickets include entry to all the festival events.
Yoga Conference Timetable Ticket Information
Yoga Festival Timetable
Beginning Friday 27th April 2012
In addition to the conference workshops and seminars, we have a whole program of festival events and activities for you to enjoy. Yoga classes, yoga for children, music, dancing, performance poetry, stalls, food, therapies and other entertainment.
Yoga Conference Timetable
Yoga Festival Timetable
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Don’t miss this unique opportunity to meet outstanding international yoga teachers and spiritual masters, all at one time, all in one place. Swami Suddhananda is coming to New Zealand especially for this conference. For more than thirty years Swamiji has been addressing audiences worldwide to emphasize the indispensability of Self Knowledge. We are delighted to announce that Swami Durgananda will be flying to New Zealand especially for the Yoga Conference. She is the Spiritual leader of Samata Yoga – a modern woman with an ancient job. Swami Muktidharma ,NZ Acharya (spiritual guide) from Anahata Yoga Retreat in Takaka, Golden Bay, will be sharing wisdom gained and distilled from over 40 years experience and teaching yoga. Drs Pooja and Shridar Madella have been teaching the highly successful Yoga Teacehrs Training programs at Wellpark College for over ten years. John Ogilvie is another world acclaimed teacher of teachers, from Byron Yoga Centre. He is also coming over especially for the conference and will be presenting workshops at both the conference and festival.
Both Neal Goshal and Juliet Forch are senior associate teachers with Donna Farhi, and Martina Gotz is a master Astanga Teacher. Elandra and Antion are close friends of Kawai Purapura and internationally acclaimed kundalini yoga teachers and musicians. We have over thirty different teachers and presenters bringing you the very best in yoga.
You can read more on the Workshop Teachers.
THREE-DAY CONFERENCE & FESTIVAL PASS
$150 early bird until February 28th, $185 from March 1st, $200 at the gate (tickets limited to 250)
THREE-DAY FESTIVAL PASS
$50 early bird until February 28th, $60 from March 1st, $70 at the gate
SINGLE DAY OPTIONS
Stall Holder Registration
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Four large workshop spaces and two large marquees for the yoga. The glade for dance, the plains for music, mature bush for walking, the orchard for camping. swimming pool for cooling off in and Prema for dining.
19 acres of bush, gardens, and workshops to lose yourself in.
Full details of Accommodation and Catering are available here: Venue, Accommodation & Food
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Ancient Vedic fire ceremonies utilize the elements, offerings and sacred mantras in a ritual setting, thus combining earth, fire, water, air and ether to invoke and connect with nature and the cosmic energies. The Havan will be led by Swami Muktidharma (NZ Acharya)
Cultivate a relationship with the subtle aspects of your being and experience a yoga practice for harmonizing, purification and healing.

Postural alignment and adjustment.
Build flexibility, strength and stamina of body, mind and spirit with the guidance of experienced teachers.

Natarani and Sasha Witten-Hannah are top New Zealand musicians who are in constant demand. They bring high class cultural enjoyment to any event, their music lightens and inspires the heart, heals the soul and enriches the mind.