Our next Beginners Workshop is Saturday 1st October 2016, from 10 - 12pm.  A great place to start to get a more indepth introduction to Yoga! More info here

Yoga is the perfect complement to our busy modern lifestyles - fantastic for bad backs, stiff necks, tight shoulders and great for stress release. You'll find that Yoga .....

• Makes you feel good and look good through movement, breathing and relaxation.
• Improves your all round muscularity, body shape and flexibility.
• Helps remove all the tightness in your body.
• Will complement any sport or fitness regime.
• Has a flow-on effect to the anti-aging process - part of your Forever Young Plan.
• The best antidote to stress.
• Is strength and stamina building.
• Gives you a great workout followed by a good nights sleep.
• Adds balance to your fitness, business and personal life.

It's called the art of feeling good, from the inside to the outside. So come and join me and my team at Mande White's Yoga. See you in class soon. I know you'll love it!

Cheers,
Mande

About Mande

Mande is the founder of City Yoga. Her remarkable teaching ability and creative approach to yoga, movement and health have made her one of the most sought after fitness consultants in New Zealand. Mande's enthusiastic and positive approach to life and fitness is motivational.

Mande has spent more than 2 decades expanding the horizons of health and fitness for people of all ages and fitness levels. Her many yoga trips to India, Europe and the US have given her depth and understanding of yoga. Mande is a Level 2 Intermediate Certified Iyengar teacher.

Mande maintains a very practical and hands-on teaching approach that can be easily incorporated into every day life. Her students come from all walks of life and are inspired by the passion and devotion that she brings to her classes. After 2 decades of creating fitness and health trends, Mande remains one of the industry's brightest innovators.

Be inspired by Mandes Ode to Yoga ... Click here to read!

 

 

 

Yoga / Stretch Class Timetable

STARTING FROM JULY 2016

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
						8.30-9.50 am Level 1 & 2
	10.00-11.00 am Level 1 Beginners		10.00 -11.15 am Level 1 & 2	9.45-11.15 am Level 2	Mande White Beginners Workshops 10 - 12pm, 1st October 2016	10.10 - 11.10am Level 1 Beginners
			12.00 - 12.55pm Back, Neck and Shoulders All Levels	11.30 - 12.30pm Level 1 Beginners		11.30-12.30pm Levell 1 Beginners
6.00-7.15 pm Level 1 & 2		4.30-5.30 pm All Levels Mid-week Stretch-out
7.25-8.25 pm Level 1 Beginners		6.30-7.30pm Level 1 Beginners

Last Updated 1 July 2016

Level 1 Beginner

For beginner students new to yoga or those students who have done the Beginners Intro Yoga Course. Students learn correct alignment and movement in basic yoga poses with the help of props. Highly therapeutic techniques to help back problems, tight hamstrings, bad necks etc and stressed out bodies. Level 1 classes also help train the mind to remain alert and focused. Classes always end with relaxing poses to then soothe the mind and allow for a good nights sleep.

level 1 & 2

Basic yoga poses are presented in more challenging ways with the focus on the fundamentals. Students start to build more strength, stamina and flexibility in these classes. Inversion, back-bends and arm balances are introduced at this level.

 

Beginners workshop

If you haven't tried yoga yet and you're one of the people that cringe at the thought of stretching but are feeling stiff and achy and can't get any-where near touching your toes you need my beginners course. You'll find the beginners workshop informative, physical and fun and you'll get stronger in ways you never thought possible while you get more flexible. There are no pre-requisites - you don't need to be flexible to get flexible!!

All the yoga gear is provided at my studio and all you have to do is turn up and I will do the rest. The workshop includes;

• a brief discussion and introduction to Yoga.
• the study and practice of the fundamental
• Yoga postures including correct body positioning and alignment.
• detailed instruction on how to combine breath and movement.

Cheers Mande

Going to Mande White Yoga has transformed my life. I used to be exhausted and injured from wokring hard as a lawyer and runnning every day, but now I am injury free and I have discovered new energy and fun through yoga. Mande has enabled me to do things I havent done since I was a gymnast in my youth and I have real pride in the flexibility and strength I have built through working hard under Mande’s guidance. My brain function has also imporved with all that blood to the head and that helps me a lot in my work.

I also feel younger now than I did when I started training with Mande at the start of 2015.I have tried other yoga instructors but Mande’s variety of movements, combination of building strength and flexibility, sequencing and inspirational teaching style is unbeatable. I know I will do yoga until I die. It has become an essentail part of my self care. Thank you Mande for giving me a new life!
Mai Chen, Managing Partner, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland.

Mande while teaches with a gentle yet powerful insight, her classes are intense yet informative and not only focus on the strengthening and flexibility parts of yoga but the healing and restorative process’s for the human body. The outcome, I feel refreshed, aligned and balanced with a calm stamina that allows me to push through work and life.
Ben Mitchell: Actor

Its not often you find a yoga instructor so good that you’re prepared to plan your whole day around trying to get to a mid week lunch time class but Mande Whites classes are so motivating.  Having had serious injuries Mande’s classes are perfect for me because she provides a style of yoga that is challenging enough for me and that compliments for existing gym strength work something you don’t find enough in the yoga world.  Mandes classes are functional, therapeutic but I always leave feeling like I have had a “proper” workout  a factor that is important to me her classes are the perfect compliment to my gym training and play a huge role in me keeping my body and mind in balance.  Her classes are educative, intensely challenging yet are also intuitively designed to reduced the stress, tension and pressure the stressful aspects of western lifestyles have on our bodies.  And because of this i don’t think any other instructor has inspired me to love yoga and integrate it into my life as much and Mande.
Rosie Bosworth

In the past I had always thought of yoga as being ‘nice to have’ as part of my workout schedule but could never really justify yoga as one of those workouts.  Mande’s offering of challenging classes with plenty of variety certainly changed my mind on that front.  Mande’s ability to change your thinking from ‘can’t do’ to ‘can do’ is very infectious and you always walk away after class with a sense of personal achievement.  I began doing Mande’s classes four years ago and my mindset has certainly charged over that time.  I can’t imagine my weekly workout schedule without those classes now!
Over the four years that I’ve been doing yoga I have noticed a tremendous change in my body both posturally and in the way that it moves.  The benefits of yoga have helped in the other aspects of my fitness regime too.  The positive improvements i’ve achieved in both my flexibility and mobility have enabled me to perform strength training exercises more correctly.  My body has become more balanced during the time that i have been doing yoga and I feel that i demonstrate a more youthful posture as a result.
Helen Wrightson

Knight Coldicutt has had Mande White as our yoga instructor for a number of years.  We love doing yoga with Mande once a week as a corporate group, as it gives us all a chance to change gears and pace together, as well as taking a break away from the day to day routine of the screen and desk.  The stretching combined with Mande’s vast knowledge of health and nutrition sets us up for the balance of the week and takes us into the weekend with enthusiasm.  Mande is a special person and the way that she conducts her classes in a friendly, yet thorough and professional fashion, is a benefit to all that come in contact with her.
Brett