2.  Learn to Activate the Psoas - "The Core of Your Core".

The psoas group connects your upper body to your lower body, & your inner emotional body to your physical body.

The psoas is involved with moving, breathing, organ support, emotions, & spine alignment. Activating your psoas in synergy with the rest of your core abdominal muscles is the key to a pain-free body & a strong, stable core.

Many common abdominal exercises strengthen through flexion, or shortening, of the trunk muscles. This eventually leads to pain, misalignment, & injuries.

The focus in YogAlign is to train your core muscles predominately as stabilizers of the truck & extenders of the spine.

Does an opportunity to spend two nights away in a little oasis, the Beachpod in Mount Maunganui with your very own YogAlign Instructor & then an afternoon of pampering Decléor treatments sound appealing to you?  Check out www.mountskinbody.co.nz for details or ring 07 575 0777 to speak to one of the lovely staff at mount skin & body.

1.  Create the Foundation with SIP Breathing.

It is not what you do that is most important, but how you breathe while you are doing it. Optimal fitness requires learning to breathe deeply & efficiently.

Breathing brings oxygen into our body, & is the most important exercise in which our body engages. Our breathe creates basic structural body alignment, directs our nervous system responses, & defines our emotional well-being.

Learning to breathe deeply with your inner core muscles is the most important life skill you can learn.

6 - 7.30 pm 26 March 2014 - free event

Meet at Maxwells Road entrance to Daisy Hardwick Walkway, Otumoetai, Tauranga

Ride the 9.1km loop track around Waikareao Estuary Reserve

Bring bike suitable for dirt, boardwalk & paved sections

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Night Owl Cinema & Little Big Markets

Tauranga Waterfront, The Strand

Friday 14 March 5-10.30pm Gold Coin donation

Come & get involved in creating pedal power for the screening of Carving the Future

A documentary about young people working on Climate Change action in NZ

Cycle powered smoothies at Envirohub stall

The Russian Imperial Ballet Company presents Don Quixote

Wednesday 12 & Thursday 13 March 8pm

Baycourt Theatre, Tauranga

www.baycourt.co.nz or call 07 577 7188 for more information

Photographer/Marine Biologist Dr Kim Westerskov 

Takes us on a photographic journey under the Bay of Plenty seas.

Meet blue whales, friendly seals, huge crayfish, and many more.

Tuesday 4th March 6.30-7.30 pm

Gold coin donation

Bongard Centre, Lecture Theatre 104, 200 Cameron Road, Tauranga

Brought to you by University of Waikato

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Walk Month

1st - 31st March 2014

Check out Sport BOP's Play in the Bay Walk Month calendar - full walks

that explore the great walkways & recreation areas around Tauranga - free events.

Pick up from local library or www.sportbop.co.nz

Mozzarella and Ricotta

1st March 10.30 - 1 pm

$70 includes cheese making kit

Katikati Community Resource Centre

Discover how easy it is to make your own cheese & make sweet

& savory dishes with your cheeses.

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Mountain Bike Ride

Waterfront, The Strand, Tauranga

1st march  7.30-10.30 am - free event

Discover & explore the great network of urban mountain bike trails around Tauranga.

The ride will be about 30 km long.  By BOP Community Trails Trust.

Register on the BOPCTT Facebook page.