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Events & Training
Events
Jane offers collaborative events throughout the year alongside inspirational practitioners from Otautahi and surrounds.
La Douceur du Silence - Entering Silence
This 5 day retreat, with 3 days in silence, is an invitation to come back to yourself and to meet your sacred truth. Surrounded by nature, this space is an opportunity to reconnect and awaken the relationship with Self.
- A space for self-care and exploration into your own depth.
- A space to sense and feel your body and precious heart space.
- A circle to connect & honour your femininity and its power.
- A call to honour who you truly are, to heal with love and fully embody your light.
Together, we will explore the foundations of nervous system regulation, discover how silence can become a sanctuary and place of profound connection.
Through somatic practices, gentle movement, and compassionate inquiry, you’ll build the tools to anchor yourself in safety and presence.
Oct 31, 2025, 4:00 PM – Nov 04, 2025, 1:30 PM
Ridgeclif – Banks Peninsula
Little Akaloa, 971 Chorlton Road, Little Akaloa 7583, New Zealand
Bookings now open
Further information and booking is available via margauxpelletier.com
Or email margaux@margauxpelletier.com
Event partners
Margaux Pelletier is a psychosomatic practitioner with a deep passion for nervous system support and and body awareness connection.
Jane will be teaming up with Margaux and Natasha Godetz (healthcoach, breath worker, and trauma coach) this October to offer a 5 day Entering Silence women’s retreat in Little Akaloa, Banks Peninsula.
See below for further information, links and booking details.
Fellow Te Waipapa local Sue Beach is a motivational speaker, reiki and EFT practitioner, skilled facilitator, wellbeing, and life coach. Sue has a strong background in healthcare and is able to provide mental, emotional and spiritual support to individuals and groups.
Jane regularly collaborates with Sue and Katie Cambridge (below) to offer yoga, dance, movement meditation, motivation and inspirational health retreats throughout the extended Otautahi and surrounding regions.
Katie Cambridge also resides in Te Waipapa and offers regular local nature based unravel dance therapy group and individual sessions to utilise dance and movement therapy as a way to unravel emotional and energetic patterns that can limit freedom of Self and mind-body awareness.
Teacher Training
Hatha yoga | Kashmir Siva Tantra | Somatics | Eco-psychology
Completely biased in opinion, and yet so committed in truth that these teacher training experiences are the best in the world!
Teacher training is one of Jane’s favourite places to be, it serves to nourish, inspire, humble, and marvel in all that we have, and can be when we soften into being, moving, breathing beings; connected with all there is.
Jane is blessed to be founder faculty of Awakening Arts School of Yoga and Eco-Somatics with dear friend and colleague Juliette McConachy. She regularly teaches on the Terra Soma 200 hr RYT and advanced 300 hr Art and Science of Rest trainings in the beautiful surroundings of Shambhala eco-retreat, Onekaka, Golden Bay, NZ.
Jane is world class! What a treasure of a find here in little old New Zealand. Jane teaches anatomy and physiology from the lens of western medical science, yogic science, and therapeutic experiential somatics.
What our students learn most of all with Jane is to work less for their practice and BE more in it/with it. Jane teaches, and demonstrates in her approach to her own practice, efficient pathways for fulfilling the āsana shapes with effortless strength, grace and awareness. Her profound knowledge of the body and her skill in meeting each student, beginners and beyond, exactly where they’re at, makes learning with Jane somehow both engaging and deeply relaxing! Come experience it for you self!
We love learning and growing, moving and being moved with you Jane
YTT 200 Terra Soma™ yoga teacher training 2025
April 16th – May 14th
28 day residential & fully catered foundational teacher training – Golden Bay, NZ.
We receive such amazing feedback and reviews from the 200 hr trainings, and love to share this comprehensive introduction to the history, philosophy and methodologies of yoga. The training prepares and qualifies students with the necessary sensitivities and skill to facilitate yoga as a practice for friends and family and/or as a fulfilling profession.
- See Facebook event details here
- Reach out for more information – 020 4173 7240 / contact form or email
Go to the Awakening Arts website for information on all training and workshop offerings and words from our incredible kula.
The Art & Science of Rest – 2025
29th November – 7th December – 10 day residential & fully catered advanced teacher training – Golden Bay, NZ.
Jane Hardcastle and Juliette McConachy offer a deepening dive into The Art and Science of Rest.
This advanced module takes students deeper into the knowledge and embodied experience of being beyond the rush and drive to keep up, to perform, to produce. Exploring ways of living in greater relation to the ebb and flow of Rest.
As teachers of yoga, therapists, body workers, or somatic movement guides Rest is a terrain we must know well and have access to in ourselves if we are to guide others into the most nourishing and generative ground of their own being.
- See Awakening Arts website for details
- Reach out to Juliette for more information – 020 4173 7240 / contact email
- Contact Jane