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Events & Training
Events
Jane offers collaborative events throughout the year alongside inspirational practitioners from Otautahi and surrounds.
Bringing Meditation to Life – with Carlos Pomeda
Yoga to Transform & Yogatherapyworks are proud to host this incredible world-class teacher in Ōtautahi for a weekend exploring the wonders of meditation. This event includes three practical workshops that can be taken as stand alone, or progressive sessions so you can attend one, two, or all three.
Saturday 15th November – Sunday 16th November 2025
The Mary Potter Community Centre
Durham Street, Christchurch
The Wonder of Meditation
- Saturday 15th November from 9.30 am – 12.30 pm & 2 – 5 pm (take one, or both sessions)
Mantra Meditation
- Sunday 16th November 9.30 am – 12.30 pm
- $65 for one session, $120 for 2 session, or $170 for all 3 sessions
The Art & Science of Rest – advanced teacher training
29th November – 7th December – 2025
- 10 day residential & fully catered advanced teacher training – Golden Bay, NZ.
Jane Hardcastle and Juliette McConachy offer this Awakening Arts experience as deepening dive into The Art and Science of Rest.
This advanced module takes yoga, somatic, movement and embodied practice students deeper into the knowledge and felt experience of being beyond the rush and drive to keep up, to perform, to produce. Through Terra Soma yoga, meditation, art, dance and nature we explore 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
Investment – $2,550 for all tuition, food and accommodation ($s deposit / full payment required by November 1st)
Event partners
Juliette McConachy – Founder Awakening Arts School of Yoga and Eco-Somatics. Devoted to a path of enquiry and embodiment, Juliette has spent ten years in professional training along side world class yoga teachers, travelled the world to sit at the feet of her spiritual guides, clocked many hours in vipassana meditation halls and countless hours in the shifting terrains of her yoga practice. She has been working one to one and in group therapeutic settings since 2012 and continues to learn and grow and weave the threads of various healing traditions into artful and relatable teachings and experiences of embodied awakening.
Jane and Juliette met through a serendipitous blessing from the digital God’s in 2020 & bring their complimentary perspectives together in Awakening arts trainings and workshops to weave wholistic experiential trainings that tantalise the brain’s enthusiasm for the nitty gritty science facts (western and yogic), and the hearts necessity for connection and expression through story, song, dance and visual art.
Margaux Pelletier is a psychosomatic practitioner with a deep passion for nervous system support and body awareness connection.
Jane regularly collaborates with fellow Te Waipapa locals Sue Beach and Katie Cambridge to offer yoga, dance, movement meditation, motivational workshops, and inspirational health retreats throughout Ōtautahi and the surrounding regions.
Sue Beach is a motivational speaker, reiki and EFT practitioner, skilled facilitator, and 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.
Katie Cambridge offers regular local, nature based unravel dance therapy sessions, both group and individual sessions, to utilise movement to help release emotional and energetic patterns that can limit freedom of self and mind-body awareness.
Teacher Training
Hatha yoga | Kashmir Siva Tantra | Somatics | Eco-psychology
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
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
2026 dates to be confirmed
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.