Evolving Towards Simplicity
with Donna Farhi
Five Day Yoga Intensive
10th-14th April 2026
Herne Bay, Auckland
The practice of yoga asana (postures) can be distilled into “seed” forms that constitute an alphabet we can use for our own purpose and to achieve our personal goals. Through subtle adaption, variations, gradation, and creative sequencing, these simple forms can have almost infinite application. Through sensing and feeling what is needed, we can learn to move into a practice by sensing, feeling and listening to what the body is already self-suggesting.
Each day of this intensive will be divided into a morning and afternoon session. We’ll explore a wide variety of practices, from active practices that build strength and vitality to more passive practices that restore calm and relaxation.
Yoga practitioners of all levels of experience are welcome to attend.
About Donna Farhi
Leading yoga teacher Donna Farhi has been practicing for almost 50 years and teaching since 1982. As a post-lineage pioneer, Donna has been at the forefront of generating a new model for teaching that fosters self-inquiry through the cultivation of a deepening trust in one’s own perceptions.
Through creating a warm atmosphere free of judgment and competition she invites her students to investigate their experience and to adapt and evolve their practice according to their individual needs. Incorporating the rigorous backing of anatomical principles for safe and sustainable practice, Donna offers progressive levels of engagement that allow people of all levels of experience and from all traditions to build their own authentic yoga practice.
Considered the “teacher of teachers”, people return to Donna’s intensives year after year to be a part of the inspiring evolution of her own practice and teaching.
Donna’s livestream and online courses make her expertise accessible to teachers and students worldwide and, in 2021, Donna became the first yoga teacher to present the practice of yoga to a global audience through MasterClass USA. This e-learning platform hosts the world’s foremost minds and experts in their fields.
Donna is the author of four contemporary classics:
The Breathing Book; Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness; Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living; Teaching Yoga: Exploring the Teacher-Student Relationship, which is a curricular text for teacher training worldwide.
Her fifth and most recent book, co-authored with Leila Stuart, Pathways to a Centered Body: Gentle Yoga Therapy for Core Stability, Healing Back Pain and Moving with Ease is becoming the go-to text for Yoga teachers, therapists and somatic practitioners.