Manaia Yoga & Wellbeing
Yoga, Health and Wellbeing in Waimangaroa, Buller and Rangiora, North Canterbury.
Facilitating your Healing and Growth in Person and Virtually.
Manaia
Manaia is a mythological creature in the Māori culture and it’s general meaning is of spiritual guardian. How wonderful to have the energies of Manaia protecting and supporting us as we engage in this journey of life and healing together.
Yoga
My classes are offered at a pace that allows you time to connect with yourself fully. I regularly encourage you to feel into your body; to be in the present moment; to learn how to witness what your current experience is – physically, energetically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
CranioSacral Therapy
CranioSacral Therapy is a profound form of healing, that works with balancing the central nervous system, alleviating a variety of pain and dysfunction-related conditions and releasing stored trauma from the body tissues.
The Compassion Key®
The Compassion Key® is a talking therapy that will allow you to let go of behaviours that no longer serve you and to heal wounds from childhood and past lives. Compassion Key empowers you to create and live the type of life that you desire and deserve.
Relaxation Massage
Relaxation massage focuses on offering a deeply soothing experience by releasing muscle tension, easing tight spots, and enhancing fluid flow throughout the body. Using a variety of massage techniques, it creates a sense of deep relaxation and balance for you.
Angelic Reiki
Angelic Reiki is a powerful healing modality that supports deep soul healing and spiritual awakening. Melissa connects with the Angelic Realms and channels Beings of the highest healing frequencies for your highest good.
Melissa Gardiner
I am here to support and guide you in creating the Life that you desire.
I am here to support and guide you on your personal healing journey.
“Empowering &
Transforming Lives”
Melissa provides a professional and compassionate service, where the focus is on building trusting relationships so people feel welcome and safe, allowing them to learn and be engaged, as they grow and are nourished through the practices of Yoga, Craniosacral Therapy, Angelic Reiki, Compassion Key and Relaxation Massage.
Through Melissa’s teaching and bodywork, she creates opportunities for you to connect with your Soul. The spark of the Creator/God/Goddess/Universe, which ever word resonates for you, resides in all of our Hearts. By connecting to this spark within, we can access the Divine Wisdom of our Higher Self, of our Soul. It’s empowering to make this connection, to feel this connection, to trust and be guided on this journey by our Soul. Living from your True Nature brings Joy and Love to everything you do.
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Reflections
A Weekend of Transformation
Recently I have been deep in processing, integrating, embodying and resting. I was at a CranioSacral Therapy Retreat with 2 friends over the...
A Fresh Introduction
Kīoranga beautiful Souls, It feels timely to reintroduce myself. My name is Melissa, my business name Manaia Yoga & Wellbeing, and I’ve been...
Wisdom from the Yoga Mat
What do you do when you come up against those tight areas in the body? During the earlier years of my Yoga journey, I didn’t enjoy uncovering these places of holding, of tightness, of rigidity in the body. I felt stuck, cornered, confronted and out of control.