Dyana Wells

Why I love Somatics

by Dyana Wells | Jan 26, 2017 | Anatomy & Physiology, Mindfulness, Somatics

Finally, after almost a lifetime of yoga practice and study, I came to Somatics. I had struggled with a broad variety of different ideas about how yoga should be practised. A lot of the instruction seemed contradictory and hard to clearly embody. I kept forgetting...

Self Comes to Mind

by Dyana Wells | Jan 17, 2017 | Mindfulness, Writing

Antonio Damasio’s Self Comes to Mind What I found so fascinating about this book was Damasio’s idea that our self evolved first of all as a clever way to organise information from the body and respond to it effectively. A self begins to consciously experience the...

Dyana’s Author Page on Amazon

by briant | Nov 22, 2016 | Autobiography, Mindfulness, Sailing, Writing

Great news! After enormous wrestling with Amazon and CreateSpace and Kindle and IngramSpark – yes, they’re all involved in some way or another – we finally have an Amazon Author Page for Dyana which, finally, collects her two books properly! So head on over to...

Book Two: Buddha and A Boat

by briant | Nov 20, 2016 | Autobiography, Mindfulness, Retreats, Sailing, Yoga

Digging into the mystery when life gets sticky. Alice, Roger and Cornelius set sail from Fiji for Vanuatu and New Caledonia and the adventure and excitement continues. They share watches through the day and night, cope with seasickness, struggle with headwinds, and...

Book One: The Yoga of Sailing

by briant | Nov 10, 2016 | Autobiography, Mindfulness, Sailing, Writing

Leaping free from the world into spiritual experience. A romp with Alice, her daughter Emily and father Roger, on a sailing adventure through the Pacific. Sailing is the protagonist of the story, the sails, the sea, the winds and the destination. While Emily is...

Anchors in an Open Sea trilogy

by briant | Oct 28, 2016 | Autobiography, Mindfulness, Sailing, Writing

Sailing into the full catastrophe of living. Have you ever wondered what it is like to be driven by an overwhelming desire for spiritual experience most of your life? Explore with Alice through thirty tumultuous years, cycling, tramping, sailing, making love, sitting...

The desire to understand self and mind

by briant | Oct 20, 2016 | Autobiography, Meditation, Mindfulness, Sailing

Fly over any city and see millions of people doing much the same thing in much the same way. The house may be large or small, expensive or cheap, but the desires and pressures and options will be similar. Fly over any Pacific island and the lives below are very...

Sailing adventure and spiritual autobiography

by briant | Oct 2, 2016 | Autobiography, Mindfulness, Sailing, Yoga

Sailing – a life on the ocean that can be like extreme sports, before the term was invented. Alice enjoys sailing, the thrill, the exhilarating physicality of the tug of war with nature. That’s with nature, not against it, because Alice feels more in tune with the sea...

Cycling around East Cape: the possibility of experience as a miracle

by briant | Aug 6, 2015 | Autobiography, Mindfulness, Retreats, Writing

East cape was a landscape of silvery-leaved pohutukawas, grand old puriris, rocky coves and dark blue water. I was cycling in the middle of summer, a pleasure not for the fainthearted. On big hills I pushed my bike up through sticky tar that glowed black jewels and...

Speciality Yoga Workshops in Auckland

by briant | Jun 4, 2015 | Anatomy & Physiology, Meditation, Somatics, Yoga Workshops

From Therapeutic Yoga to Meditation, and from Restorative to Anatomy & Physiology, the Centre for Integrated Yoga Studies will offer weekly, weekend and intensive workshops throughout the year. Looking ahead: Monday classes from August 17 10am-12 noon: Anatomy...