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Who We Are

Rita Riccola is the director of Mindfulness Education and Mindful New Zealand Schools. She has been practising mindfulness for over 20 years and has attended a number of mindfulness retreats and seminars. She has also completed the Certificate Course with Mindful Schools (USA). Rita is also a registered NZ Teacher with many years classroom experience in a number of  Auckland schools . LEARN MORE

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Mindfulness for Children Classes at the Grey Lynn Community Centre with teacher Rita Riccola (Registered NZ Trained Teacher) 

Weekly Classes in Grey Lynn, Auckland

Mondays 4-5pm- all ages welcome

COST: $10 per class (parents free)

Book a Free Trial Lesson Here

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Mindfulness After School Programme

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Mindfulness at Work

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 Online Consultation

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Skype consultations now available. Do you quickly need to find your inner calm? Are you preparing for an important meeting or speech? Are you dealing with stressful issues in your life?

Book an appointment for a private Skype session.

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One of the greatest challenges for teachers and educators today is increasing behavioural problems in the classroom. Often those issues can be modified with the introduction of simple mindfulness practices such as:

• Breathing techniques
• Listening exercises
• Body scanning
• Mindful body practices

“Suspensions at our school dropped from 14 last year to 6 this year. We attribute this to the mindfulness programme.”

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Focus on Mindfulness

The Feb 3rd issue of Time Magazine focuses on mindfulness, the far-reaching effect it is having in all walks of life, and on Jon Kabat-Zinn, who brought mindfulness to hospitals and clinics, through his Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).

“People come with a huge amount of pain and suffering, both physical and emotional,” says Kabat-Zinn in our Award Winning book, Be The Change. “Through the cultivation of mindfulness, they develop a more functional relationship with that suffering, they turn towards it, open to it, and actually befriend it to a degree rather than insisting that it stop, and in the process, the pain often transforms or even falls away… For the most part, they will tell you that they are more in touch with their own beauty than they may have been since they were children.”

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