Metta Breathwork

Metta Breathwork with guest Sri Ganesh & Maliya

When:
Thursday April 2nd
6:00PM-8:30PM

Rate:
$53

Sir Ganesh & Maliya are back visting from India, a year after their last visit to offer Metta Breathwork. A journey into the heart – a synthesis of Ayurvedic wisdom, conscious breathing, and the gentle power of self-love.

Rooted in the principle of metta, loving-kindness, this practice invites you to meet yourself exactly where you are. Each breath becomes an act of compassion, a bridge between the mind and the body, and a reminder that love itself is the most healing medicine.

The Practice

Each session weaves together:

    • Conscious connected breathing
    • Mindful body awareness
    • Loving-kindness meditations
    • Heart-centered awareness tools (practices to shift from the thinking mind into the heart space)
    • Radiating loving energy exercises (tools to invite others into your compassionate, loving energy field)
    • Deep rest and integration

The experience is guided, safe, and nurturing – allowing emotions, memories, and tension to be released with compassion rather than effort or force.

Benefits

    • Calms the mind and balances the nervous system
    • Releases emotional blockages and old patterns
    • Cultivates self-acceptance and inner peace
    • Strengthens connection to the body and present moment
    • Increases vitality, clarity, and joy
    • Awakens the heart’s natural capacity for love

Metta Breathwork is not about forcing change or reaching a goal. It is a return to home – to your body, your breath, and your heart. By honouring the wisdom of Ayurveda, the guiding forces of Vata, Pitta, and Kapha, and the medicine of loving breath, every session is an opportunity to meet yourself fully, cultivate compassion, and awaken the quiet strength and love that have always been within you.

So far the workshop is scheduled in Dunedin, Queenstown, Invercargill, Nelson, Wellington, Upper Hut, Masterton, Gisborne and Auckland.

About the facilitators:

Maliya is an international Ayurveda Yoga Therapist and breathwork facilitator, originally from Sweden, with over 20 years of experience guiding people into deeper relationship with body, breath, and awareness.

Her work weaves yoga therapy, Ayurveda, and Metta-based breath practices into spaces of healing that are both grounded and intuitive. Rather than offering fixed methods, Maliya meets each person as they are – designing individual yoga therapy programs that support balance, self-trust and health development.

Alongside her therapeutic work, she is educating yoga students to become yoga therapists through a pedagogic approach that blends lived experience, embodied understanding, and quiet inquiry. With a teaching degree from Uppsala University and many years of clinical experience, she is one of three head teachers at the AYTT (Ayurveda Yoga Therapy Training) in India. Maliya is author and translator of several books on yoga and Ayurveda.

Sri Ganesh, the founder of Vaidya’s Ayurveda Village in Kerala, India, is an internationally recognised Ayurveda practitioner, inspirational lecturer and the author of eight most read health books in nine languages including United States, Europe and India.

Born in a traditional family in South India Sri Ganesh begins his education in Ayurveda in the early years of his life with his grandmother, a well respected ayurveda practitioner and poison therapist in the village, and extended his knowledge in the subject of Mana-shastra (psychology), Vedanta (philosophy), Dhyana (meditation), Kalari marma chikitsa (Kerala martial art therapy) and Yoga chikitsa (yoga therapy) from traditional schools in South Indian villages known as gurukulam. Sri Ganesh also has a bachelor’s degree from Mahatma Gandhi University and a master’s degree in HRD – Human Resources Development.

Based on his traditional knowledge and the experience in working as an Ayurveda practitioner around the world for more than two decades. Sri Ganesh has been traveling in Europe and United States as an ambassador of Ayurveda, sharing his ancestors’ wisdom through lectures, columns and books. During the years Ganesh has done hundreds or inspirational lectures and so far he has written eight books in the field of health, which have been translated and published in Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Holland, USA, India and Brazil.

To learn more: https://janeshvaidya.com/metta-breathwork/

INSTAGRAM: metta.breathwork 

Where is it happening?

At the Whanganui Yoga Centre, 76 Guyton Street, Whanganui.

Seats will be offered as well as yoga mats, blankets, and cushions for those that prefer to be close to the ground.

Booking:

Please use the ‘REGISTER’ above button on this page to book your spot. Rate is $53 per person.

Plus there will be an incredible giveway for one guest! One guest will win a two weeks sponsorship for a panchakarma retreat at Vaidya’s Ayurveda Village Kerala, South India. This means that the winning participant can choose from three different panchakarma programs and will have the first two weeks 100% sponsored. This is for one participant and can not be transferred or combined with other sponsorships or offers.

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