What's on: Creation Circle - Art workshop + Cacao & Sound medicine. 13 April @Blockhouse Bay Boat Club
Take time out for you in nature and join us for an afternoon retreat with meditative art, cacao, light frequency + reiki meditations, plant-based treats and the medicine of crystal singing bowls, in a beautiful space on stilts by the sea.
$111 Ticket includes:
- an abstract art workshop with soul: release self-doubt, fear and blocks, draw from an infinite well of inspiration and create from a place of joy not struggle. Turn self doubt from your biggest block to your biggest ally. No experience in art necessary—just openness & curiosity.
- cacao, meditations and the healing sounds of singing bowls
- compassionate, non-judgemental space to let the soul play and explore
- raw plant-based treats
- your own set of natural pigment watercolours from Flora Art Materials to take home
- your own abstract art you'll make on the day
**Book to reserve your space via Eventbrite - limited spaces available to keep our group intimate and focused**
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About your facilitators:
Brian Berneman is the co-founder of Conscious Action and You Being You as well as working as a wellness and spiritual coach and facilitator.
From an early age he was introduced to different teachings and traditions that opened up endless possibilities. After learning multiple healing techniques, Brian immersed himself in studies of Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan Yoga and Meditation practice for a few years at Ratna Ling Retreat Center in California. This direct experience of living in a way that's more aligned with community, self-responsibility, respect, and compassion has inspired Brian to be a leader for new ways of being, through connecting to Self and others.
He is a master of healing techniques like Reiki and Del Arca, and runs Tibetan yoga classes and sound journeys in various studios in Auckland. Brian aims to help people find ways to connect with their inner resources, grow, develop, change and lead a more balanced and meaningful life.
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Meghan Geliza Jackson (Meghan Jackson Art) is an exhibiting artist, writer, creative director, yogi and soul-led practitioner. She creates paintings inspired by nature & universal wisdom lineages. She creates to mirror oneness, healing, serenity and play amidst the chaos and fragmentation of this modern world.
She has been a meditation and mindfulness practitioner since she was 15 and in 2012 had her first kundalini experience. She has been studying the yogic and intuitive arts ever since, drawing from paths and lineages such as Ashtanga and Karma Yoga, chakra balancing, light sourcing work and universal shamanism. Her private work has been said to be activating, transmuting and expansive. She studied under spiritual change agents Belinda Davidson and Rebecca Campbell and she firmly believes in creating experiences to allow people to find the healer and teacher within themselves.
Aside from this soul-based path, Meghan also enjoyed a career as an art director and copywriter in the advertising world, helping conscious and social change organisations find their authentic voice. She enjoys balancing the left and the right hemispheres of the brain, the horizontal and the vertical -- to find the middle point of every seeming contradiction to transcend limitations.
Christmas Eve busiest shopping day of the year with more than 500,000 sales
Busiest shopping day of the year
Peak time 12 noon-1 pm - 563,303 transactions
Per second peak - 167 transactions
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Number of sales beats Black Friday, but lowest Christmas Eve in six years
Christmas Eve has been the busiest shopping day of the year with 9,745 sales a minute at its peak.
Payments company Worldline says noon to 1pm saw 563,303 sales recorded on its network, down by about 7 percent on a year ago.
The company's network covers about three-quarters of the electronic terminals in operation.
Worldline did not have a dollar value for spending, but the peak number of transactions was the lowest for the past six years and well shy of the record 679,436 in 2019, before the pandemic.
Earlier this month it noted rising sales in the first three weeks of the month, but they remained 1.3 percent lower than 2024, with most parts of the country trailing the previous year's spending.
Official data from Stats NZ to the end of November showed a small rise in spending on the previous month, to 1.6 percent higher for the year.
Retail spending has been subdued as households have remained cautious because of high prices and a slow benefit from lower interest rates, and as well as concerns about the soft labour market.
However, recent surveys have shown improving consumer sentiment with ANZ bank's monthly report showing confidence at its highest level in four years.
Boxing Day is traditionally the country's favourite shopping day, but with Black Friday spending also softer this year the amount going through retailers' terminals may also be down on a year ago.
Adding a dampener to consumer spending may be the recent rises in longer term fixed mortgage rates because of higher wholesale rates.
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79.1% Yes! It's better to regift what I don't need
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20.9% No. It's the thought and effort that matters
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