“You need go no further than your own body to understand the Universe.”

- Namgyal Rinpoche

Weaving together movement, meditation, art and science, we will enter the studio/laboratory of our own human experience. We will study, contemplate, explore and come to understand the patterns that shape our own lives, and all of life.

Our human bodies are the doorway to our personal, ancestral, collective and planetary history, and the vehicle for liberation in this life. They show us the way to remembering and realising our fundamental wholeness. As we align our human body with the heart of the earth body, we become the medicine so sorely needed in our world. Join us as we embark on a restorative, experiential and illuminating journey into our interbeing nature, to bring healing, insight, liberation, and joy to our lives.

✔ Australia and New Zealand’s number one 'in-person' mindfulness course - over 40,000 people have taken this course.

✔ Full length 4-week course so you can practise and report back.

✔ No risk money-back guarantee; if you attend all the classes and don’t feel you have received any benefit get your money back.

✔ Exclusive 45-page guidebook including weekly assignments, in-depth articles and a reading list.

✔ Over 15 guided downloadable meditations for you to keep.

✔ No religion. No dogma. No funny positions. Practical and non-religious course.

✔ Designed for absolute beginners.

✔ Access to follow up training and support so you can continue your mindfulness journey

A 4-week online community practice gathering

Life As It Is offers families a unique chance to pause, to sink into connection with each other and the earth, to feel into and attend to what is most important in our lives.

Together we will practice how to weave our inner and outer lives together, infusing them with our deep heart of aspiration for ourselves and for our world. We will be supported by the teachings of Buddhadharma – insights and methods that are as relevant today as ever – that help us build confidence, contentment, and the capacity to meet with whatever arises with our whole being. In this way we find true refuge right here in the lives that we have, supporting and strengthening ourselves, our children, and all beings with whom we share this Earth.

The weekend will consist of group practice time, fun and explorations, children’s activities and space to be immersed in the oasis of calm that the Centre and the whenua offers.

Get involved in this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week!

The theme for 2024 is Community is…. what we create together.

DID YOU KNOW ??

Individual and Organisational wellbeing are inextricably linked. Your organisation is only as healthy as your employees are. Supporting mental health is everybody’s responsibility.

If you would like to invite me to come to your workplace to offer a Mindfulness Session specifically tailored to support the mental health and wellbeing of your staff, please get in touch here.

This annual retreat, now in its 11th year, is an opportunity for anyone wishing to develop or refresh a regular meditation practice in a supportive retreat environment.

Together we will study and practice the meditation on breathing, one of the oldest and most effective practices known, that has been taught and practiced continuously since the time of the Buddha. The practice is founded on, and naturally supports, a commitment to living an ethical life. It is designed to lead us gradually and skilfully from wherever we are right now, to the full experience of healing and freedom made possible through meditation.

This workshop is for anyone wishing to bring deeper presence, connection, clarity and harmony into their communication and relationships with self and others. It is also for those who are motivated to bring these qualities into our communal, social, and societal spaces.

Through gentle guided movement, meditation, individual and shared enquiry, transparent and compassionate communication, we will be learning and practicing skills to embody the kind of world we wish to create and live in - to heal divisive and harmful separations within and between individuals, to bring awareness and love into spaces of difficulty, and to be part of a global healing movement contributing to ecosystemic change on a deep level.

Together we will learn how to develop, refine and apply embodied listening in our personal, professional and community lives.

The workshop will run as two half-day immersion sessions, with time for integration in between.

Learn the skills and practice of mindfulness with New Zealand’s #1 provider of mindfulness training.

Suitable for beginners.

4 Monday evenings 6:30pm - 7:30pm

May 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th

Pūtangitangi Greenmeadows Centre, Main Road, Stoke

For all enquiries and to book please visit Mindfulness Works

Six Month Online Program: Honest Conversations About Death and Dying

Hosted by Wendy Haynes and Chani Grieve

Through honest, generous and inspired conversations and practices, with no set beliefs or agendas, we will talk about death, dying and what’s important to each of us. We will meditate, write, talk, listen, be quiet. We will play, be serious, research, discover and listen deeply to find out what’s alive in us. This is not a death doula training although some people are inspired to undertake further training in this field. This course is for everyone, young and old, in prime health or facing terminal illness – everyone is welcome.

Join us to reflect, research, discover and listen deeply to find out what’s alive in us; and learn from those who’ve gone before, many teachers on this path and the wonderful people who are part of these groups.

"The most important movement in the Feldenkrais Method is the movement of attention."

Explore gentle, playful and insightful movement practices to develop a flexible body and a flexible mind.  

6-week block of classes starts on Monday February 19th. In person at Koru Studio in Nelson, and via Zoom. 

Cost is $100 for 6 classes / $20 casual attendance (space permitting)

To enquire or register please send me an email

A 4-week Introductory Meditation Course

with Kath Mitchell, Mark Schrader and Chani Grieve

Suitable for beginners and those with experience

Start the year with

INTENTION. PURPOSE. STABILITY. KINDNESS

Weekly movement classes to build intelligence and resilience of body and mind

Koru Studio, Nelson and live on Zoom.

Cost is $20 casual, or $120 for 8 weeks.

To register for in-person classes click here

To register for Zoom attendance please click here

Experiential Weekend Public Workshop

Movement, meditation and creative enquiry

Saturday May 6th and Sunday May 7th

9:30am - 1pm NZT both days

Koru Studio Nelson, and online via Zoom

Cost : $150 / $120 concession for in-person attendance

$100 for participants out of town attending online, and for members of The Embodiment Journey online course.

Before we learned to talk,

we listened……

In the womb, we were bathed in our mother’s heart beat, her digestion, her breath.

As babies and young children, long before we had words, we listened intently to the sounds around us, receiving every impression.

Our entire lives are deeply shaped by the soundscapes we inhabit - of nature, of culture, of language, of relationship.

In this weekend together we will explore the profound art of listening as an embodied experience. Through gentle movement, quiet contemplation and creative enquiry, we will endeavour to enliven and re-inhabit this fundamental life skill. We will share practices and develop our capacity to deeply listen, and respond - firstly to self, then to others, to planet, and to Life.

We will explore questions like -

How might we learn to listen with our whole bodies, our whole selves, not just our ears and pre-conceived ideas?

How often do we give ourselves and others the space to deeply listen, and be genuinely heard?

How open are we to the authentic experience of another?

Do we listen to the space between words, to the unspoken, to the whisperings of the heart?

What is our relationship to quietude, responding to the wordless pulse of life within us?

In a world full of noise, the opportunity for deep listening is trampled on all too easily.

Let’s touch into the spaces where listening takes place, understanding takes root, and true communication is born.

Registration is essential as space is limited.

For more information or to register contact

chani@movementfromtheheart.com

or visit https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/embodied-listening-weekend-workshop-tickets-612690522847

Learn mindfulness and meditation with New Zealand’s #1 course provider Mindfulness Works. 4-weeks of 1 hour sessions will equip you with the basic skills and understanding to begin your mindfulness journey to greater self-awareness and self-acceptance.

Monday evenings 7pm - 8pm, Fairfield House Nelson

February 13th, 20th, 27th, March 6th

To register please visit Mindfulness Works

A 5 day introductory retreat, perfect for beginners and anyone looking to refresh and recharge their practice.

To register or for more info please visit Beginning Again! Retreat

Annual immersion retreat.

4 days of movement, meditation and creative enquiry, at the beautiful Wangapeka Study and Retreat Centre

A nourishing and restorative retreat exploring what it means to make friends with death. In this weekend workshop we will work together to explore what it truly means to make friends with life’s only certainty.