Have you felt crazy busy recently? Or overwhelmed and exhausted? Like you are languishing in survival mode, with no energy to rise and shine? Like there is no time to focus on you or what matters in your life? Like you are just running in circles, going nowhere?

When was the last time you felt radiantly happy, healthy and fulfilled?

Sometimes, all we need to do is to press pause and come back into a more loving and honest relationship with ourselves. Deep dive and thrive is a safe, supportive and inspiring space for you to do just that.

Join Maya Nova and Wendy Douglas for this day of holistic, deep self-awareness and self-care, designed to restore your wellbeing - the experience of abundant vitality, contentment and joy and a clear sense of purpose.

We will engage in the mind and body vitality restoring practices:

• Mindfulness

• Meditation

• Yoga (flow-based ashtanga and yin)

• Time to reflect and share

Once you register, we will be in touch with some tips to make the most of our time together.

Facilitators:

Maya Nova

Maya is a mindfulness coach, mentor and speaker with over a decade of experience working with smart, busy people, helping them to regain clarity and balance and integrate mindfulness into their everyday life and work. She specialises in Mindful Leadership.

"My focus is on supporting and enabling my clients to thrive, even under the challenging circumstances. I have been learning and practicing mindfulness and meditation for 20 years, including being ordained as Buddhist nun for 2 years. My passion is integrating mindfulness into life and work, creating energy, inspiration and presence to live life awake to each moment, as if each moment truly mattered."

Wendy Douglas

Wendy was first introduced to Ashtanga Yoga over 20 years ago & has been teaching this, alongside Yin Yoga for the past 3 years. Wendy encourages and uplifts people in their day to day lives and brings fun and lightness to the practice of yoga. She enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience to help people to fully connect with their whole selves. Wendy has also taught at retreats and festivals as well as working with corporate clients and one on one. Wendy has an insatiable appetite for life and boundless energy and looks forward to welcoming you to her classes and sessions with open arms. 

 "My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour and some style”. Maya Angelou

The cost is $190

"I enjoyed taking the time and creating space to declutter my mind, recharge the body with nourishing food and yoga. Spa under the stars was a bonus". Amy

Grant Pritchard is an epic, genuine human who has done so much mahi to normalize the conversation about Mental Health in Aotearoa.

Join us as we kōrero about addressing and supporting Mental Heath in the workplace

Next week is Mental Health Awareness Week - let's come together and explore how to talk constructively about mental health.

Next week I am talking with Callum McKirdy about harnessing the power of minds wired differently.
Join us if you would like to learn about neurodiversity and make the most of this hidden potential.

Join me for this free webinar as I chat to my dear friend, mentor and colleague Kate Billing about Conscious Leadership. Now more then ever we need to rise to the challenge of leading wisely, compassionately and courageously through these unprecedented times of uncertainty and change.

Join me as I chat to Fiona Robertson about Culture and her recently published book Rules of Belonging

Fiona is a culture and leadership expert who holds an MBA from London Business School and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership. She is also the former Head of Culture for the National Australia Bank (NAB).

*Please note this session now starts at 11.30am.

For the first time, I am offering the content of my SOLD-OUT MINDFUL LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS ONLINE!

Join me for these 90 min online workshops delivered via ZOOM. During this 90 min online workshop, I will share my model of Mindful Leadership and introduce the key ideas behind to help you get back in touch with your leadership potential and harness it. There will be opportunities for reflection, dialogue and practice.

Click below for more details and to register.

(N.B. - This session provides an introduction to my other workshop Lead Above The Line, so it is recommended that you attend them in that order.)

To help keep us connected while we are isolated,  help us stay calm during a time of great anxiety, and give us an opportunity to care for one another, I am providing live & online weekly meditation group.

You are welcome to join us. Physical distancing is one of the greatest acts of kindness right now and it will save lives. Physical distancing doesn’t mean social distancing - we need to stay connected via online platforms and provide much-needed support and connection.

The format:

• guided grounding meditation

• group check-in/ topic of the week/ reading/ group discussion

• silent 30 min sit

The intention of these sessions is to help people stay calm during these anxious time and offer support to one another. As such, these sessions are being offered on a donation basis.

There is no obligation to make a donation. If you do wish to donate, please click on the button below.

Due to the national lockdown, I have moved my weekly meditation group online.

You arer welcome to join us. Physical distancing is one of the greatest acts of kindness right now and it will save lives. Physical distancing doesn’t mean social distancing - we need to stay connected via online platforms and provide much-needed support and connection.

Now more than ever, it is important to stay calm and focused and be kind.

You are now welcome to join my meditation group - I will be running these sessions via zoom.

The intention of these sessions is to help people stay calm during these anxious time and offer support to one another. As such, these sessions are being offered on a donation basis.

There is no obligation to make a donation. If you do wish to donate, please click on the button below.

These times are VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous)

Uncertainty + Fear = Anxiety
Anxiety + Social contagion = Panic

If you are a people and culture professional, L&D, OD or a people leader, this FREE webinar will inform you how to step into the calm and clear leadership during this time of VUCA due to COVID-19. Maya will take you through the outline of her online Mindful leadership training designed to support leaders to leverage their leadership presence, manage stress, and develop their mental fitness and emotional resilience and intelligence needed to lead people during this period of great change and uncertainty.

Mindful Leadership in the age of COVID-19, April 7, 9:00 AM, NZST

If you are a people and culture professional, L&D or a team leader and keen to help your leaders to rise above the resilience baseline and become more resilient, self-aware and mentally and emotionally agile, then this series of FREE  webinars may be for you

Mindful Leadership, Feb 10, 9:00 AM, NZST

Registration URL: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/uZUkc-Grpz8jbLb_OgMzlJQJUBdbaK4e8g

Mindful Leadership, Feb 13, 7:00 PM, NZST

Registration URL: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/vJUqcumorz4p6Ho_US2KSE2Dq7Mif_RAxA

Sunday 11th August 11 – 4.15pm

Space, Wellington
Maya Nova & Lana Bright
$95 early bird until July 31st then $105

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Limited to 18

‘In the midst of winter, I found within myself an invincible summer.
An invincible stillness and vividness.’

Can we interrupt the normal mind from time travelling to the future & to the past and instead rest in this present moment?
Can we invite ourselves to relax and restore with mindfulness, meditation & simple yoga practices?

Lana and Maya Nova (flying into Space as a guest teacher) invite you to this day retreat at Space Studio. They will co-create a formal container for clarity, wakefulness and calmness to be present.
Just show up – no need to prepare or rehearse – just show up and allow yourself to be surprised by the unfolding of your life with more energy and ease.
Acts of kindness for the body and mind – meditation, gentle meditative movement, eating mindfully, silence and developing a steady mind & an open heart.
Juices, nuts, fruit will be provided for nourishment during our breaks
‘Develop meditation that is like space.’
The Buddha

Maya is a skillful & inspiring mindfulness teacher, coach and speaker. She has diverse experience working alongside people to help them to regain clarity and balance.
For 20 years she has been studying and practicing mindfulness and meditation. This has also included the unique & absorbing experience of being ordained as a Buddhist nun for 2 years. Maya’s passion is integrating mindfulness into life and into work. Her deep intention is to support others to find energy and renewed inspiration and presence in each moment: To live life remembering that each moment truly mattered.

Lana brings a wealth of practise, teaching and experience into Space. She weaves traditional & modern practises together to make them fresh & available to students. She has studied with Dr Rick Hanson, Bhikkhu Analayo, Dr Deepak Chopra, Sarah Powers, Sayadaw u Tejaniya.

Early bird until 31st July $95 then $105

You are warmly invited to an evening of discussion, connection and activation.

This time the conversation will center around Mindful leadership

Our working environments are becoming increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA). 

Leading change and the capacity to connect are therefore becoming primary leadership competencies required today. Neither is easy. Change brings up fear, resistance, insecurity and reactivity.

In order to help people move beyond these regressive states of mind, leaders need to develop their own self-awareness, agility, resilience and social awareness. These are the foundations of Mindful Leadership.

The capacity for empathy and the ability to accept their own vulnerability around the challenges they face are key competencies needed to meet the demands of complexity and unpredictability of leading change.

Thursday,  April 18, from 6pm

Café Hanoi, Parlor room

RSVP: $90 (includes dinner and a glass of wine)

If you are an HR, L&D specialist or an executive =responsible for leading people in your organization, this interactive evening of discussion, activation and networking may be just what you need right now.

·      Meet, discuss and network with your colleagues, listen to ideas and think about opportunities that will enable you to support your leaders in 2019 and beyond

·      Find out how you can empower your leaders to develop “soft” (ha!) skills to manage themselves and their people in times of change, ambiguity and uncertainty

·      Get inspired and activated for 2019

·      Wander on down after work and enjoy a dinner and a glass of wine with like-minded people in a convenient and fabulous setting of the award winning Café Hanoi in Britomart.

 

• Does your life feel, chaotic, madly busy? Is your mind over-full, do you feel like you are juggling too many things at once?
• Are your thoughts creating peace and a sense of wellbeing, or stress? Are your thoughts creative and productive and encouraging or do they drag you down?
• Would you like to have a bit more peace, clarity and joy in your life?

Come and check out how mindfulness can help. So many things are out of our control but you can choose how you respond. Join me for this 3h workshop. You will:

•  Learn the basics of Mindfulness Practice
• Create some calm and clarity for your self
• Learn and develop the tools to quieten the mind and relax the body
• Regain a sense of perspective and balance in your life
• Rediscover joy that comes from being present and available to life in the present moment.

Cost for this workshop is $75 +GST

                                         Cost for this daylong workshop is $150. 

This one day workshop is based on the seminal Buddhist text of mindfulness instructions called Satipatthana which covers the four foundations of mindfulness.

The four foundations of mindfulness workshop will be held in Devonport at the foot of Mt Vic. During the lunch break you can enjoy lunch at one of the many Devonport cafes, walk down to the water of up the hill.

During the workshop we will practice the four postures embodied in meditation: walking, sitting, standing and lying down. The focus will be on embodying the four foundations of mindfulness in meditation practice and in everyday life. 

1. The first foundation of mindfulness

is our body. Through the practice of mindfulness of breath and the four postures of the body(sitting, walking, standing and lying down) we can gain more awareness of the five senses and our innate capacity to connect with the present moment through breath and the grounding of awareness in the body.

2. The second foundation of mindfulness

is mindfulness of sensations and feeling tones in our body. It is so easy to develop a knee jerk response to the feeling nature of our experience which manifests as the aversion towards the unpleasant feelings, craving towards the pleasant and zoning out and boredom towards the neutral. The second foundation of mindfulness has at it’s heart the development of equanimity.

3. The third foundation of mindfulness

is about awareness itself, the knowing quality of the mind and the exploration of consciousness. Everything that arises in the mind – a thought, an opinion, a memory, a belief, feelings of anger of fear or desire – all these mental objects can be experienced calmly, with awareness and clear perception.

4. The fourth foundation of mindfulness

Is awareness of mental factors. They can be positive or negative, leading away from or towards the suffering. We will look at hindrances as well as the factors of awakening.



“You must have a place in your house, or in your mind, or a moment in your day where you can go, where you do not know what you owe anyone or what anyone owes you; and you do not know who you are married to, and you do not know who your children are, and you do not know what your career is, and you go there, not to leave any of these responsibilities behind, but to go to a place of first hand remembrance, where you get back in conversation with yourself and have a real relationship with yourself.”Joseph Campbell


“Maya has a presence, an aura; her calm delivery is perfect from me, she just feeds your soul!” Charlotte