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The End of Chapter 2, and the Beginning of Chapter 3 ✨🙏🏾

When we opened our doors in Greenside in 2018, we dreamed of creating a space rooted in accessibility, inclusivity, and true healing. That dream became The Nest Space, a home for community, for rest, and for remembering that wellness belongs to us all.

When the pandemic forced us to close our Greenside doors, we were heartbroken. But from that ending came a new beginning. In that stillness, we planted a seed through our yoga teacher training school, which began online and later evolved into a hybrid model. Since then, we’ve had the honour of training nearly 100 yogis of colour across South Africa and beyond.

When the world reopened, we found our new home in Parktown North. For the past three years, this space has carried our dreams, our community, and our hope to rebuild what was lost. From the start, The Nest was never meant to be only a yoga studio. Our vision included a vegan café and a zero waste store alongside our classes, a place where wellness, sustainability, and community could meet. Though that full vision could not yet come to life in our new home, it remained the heartbeat of what we were building.

A few months ago, our landlord placed the building on the market. We fought hard to secure it, exercising our Right of First Refusal and gathering support within days. We raised a significant portion, but not enough to meet the offer in full.

The property has since been sold, and as our lease ends, we know this timing is no coincidence. It is alignment ✨ a quiet confirmation that this chapter was always meant to close exactly as it’s unfolding.

This is not a loss, but a moment of surrender. A reminder that sometimes what we build is meant to evolve beyond walls.

The Nest will continue to live through our teachers, our students, and the ever-growing community of yogis who carry this mission forward. We are still teaching, still showing up, still believing in accessible, mindful wellness for all.

So this is not goodbye. It is thank you from the bottom of our hearts. And It is see you soon.

With love deep gratitude and pride,

Banesa and Dr Anesu 🤍 by @thenestspaceza

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🌕✨ Here’s your mid-week reminder to •take 3 deep breaths

•relax your jaw and shoulders

•move your body

•keep hydrated

and come into the present moment

🤍🙏🏾

#fullmoonloading

📸 @maxie_bella 🌱 taken in The Nest Space by @thenestspaceza

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Somewhere between beginner and advanced is the real practice.

The return to fundamentals.
The refinement.
The discipline of doing simple things exceptionally well.

This Sunday, The Nest Space gathers again for an intimate full day Asana immersion with Mandla, focused on alignment, technique, micro adjustments, and the architecture behind the practice.

This is for the intimidated. For the curious. And the practitioners ready to sharpen their edge.

Because the strongest yogis are built on foundations.

Limited to 5 spots.
DM to reserve.

If you feel genuinely called to attend but finances are a barrier, reach out to us privately. We believe practice should still remain accessible where possible. taken in Parkview, Gauteng, South Africa by @thenestspaceza

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Back for something special ✨🤍

After a season of stillness, we’re opening the doors for an intimate Fundamentals of Asana immersion with Mandla: @theafricandragonfly .

This is a small, focused workshop for yogis wanting to refine their practice through deeper understanding of alignment, technique, and micro adjustments in asana. Less performance, more precision. More awareness.

Only 5 spaces available.

Sunday, 17 May
10am to 3pm
Private space, Parkview
R650pp

If you’d like to join us, DM us the word “ASANA” and we’ll send through the full details and booking info directly.

Quietly returning, intentionally. 🖤 by @thenestspaceza

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We come from a lineage of teachers, a Golden Link that reminds us that ‘Social Justice is a Spiritual Practice’. Silence is not neutral.

Gender based violence is not a debate. It is a national emergency.
In the year ending March 2024, 5,578 women were murdered in South Africa.
That is 1 woman every 3 hours.
Our femicide rate is about x5 higher than the global average.

These are not numbers. These are our sisters, our friends, our mothers, our daughters. Lives taken with a violence so routine that the country has learned to absorb the shock.

People often mistake non-violence for weakness. In yoga, non violence, ahimsa, is a niyama, a discipline, a vow to protect life. So tomorrow, we protest in peace. We stand for peace. We honour life by refusing to replicate the violence that has taken so much from us.

Our anger, our grief, and our power will be felt through the thousands who gather tomorrow in solidarity with @womenforchangesa . This is what happens when people unite for a single purpose.
This is group consciousness, a collective intention that is thicker than fear, stronger than oppression, and capable of transforming the world.

Tomorrow we gather as a community, as healers, as students, as teachers, as South Africans who refuse to look away. We are ready to pool our energy into a single message that echoes across every realm. This darkness will end. The light is already coming.

For those who are able to join us, we will see you tomorrow 💜For those who cannot, if your intention is with us, your contribution is already felt.

Senzeni na. by @thenestspaceza

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Scorpio New Moon Gathering 🌑✨

On this dark night, the Scorpio New Moon beckons us into the hidden waters of our hearts. At the end of Scopio season, before the next astrological threshold, the moon invites us to pause, reflect, and honour the lessons of emotional depth we have gathered.

Date: Tuesday 18th November
Time: 18:45 for 7pm
Place: @light_house_holistic or online @thenestspaceza IG LIVE

The Scorpion moves with quiet power — part spider, weaving the intricate web of life; part crab, carrying her soft, sacred heart behind a protective shell. She reminds us that our feelings are gifts, and that discernment, courage, and boundaries are the keys to their mastery.

Join this gathering with @dranesumbizvo as we:

•Breathe and move, allowing tension and old patterns to dissolve
•Enter meditation, tracing the currents of shadow and clarity
•Journey through a story of the Scorpion, unfolding her wisdom, her sting, and her grace
•Set intentions, carrying the treasures of Scorpio lessons into the new season ahead

This night is an offering: a chance to dive deep, honor your emotions, and emerge with clarity, courage, and renewed intention.

Come as you are, and meet the power, mystery, and magic within you 🦂🌑✨ taken in Light House Holistic Wellbeing by @thenestspaceza

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Online Full Moon Gathering 🚨

This evening’s full moon in Taurus lights our skies during Scorpio season. Taurus is a fixed earth sign that invites us to slow down, be present in our bodies and remember the importance of grounding. Scorpio, a fixed water sign, asks us to explore the shadows that live beneath the surface, the emotional currents we often overlook. Together, this moon invites depth with steadiness, reflection with gentleness.

This is the second super full moon of the final three of the year. Its timing prepares us to begin closing this cycle, to notice what still needs understanding, soft release or completion as we move toward the end of the year.

To speak to this energy, we will be guided by @sibongile_oageng as she leads us through movement and breathwork to reconnect with the relationship between our bodies and our emotional states. She will share journal prompts for later reflection and conclude with a card reading to support clarity and guidance as we enter these final months of the year.

Please have some water handy, wear warm comfortable clothing, and have something to write with.

Time: 18:45
Place: IG Live

Happy Full Moon Tribe✨ taken in IG Live by @thenestspaceza

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#savethedate❤️ Online moon ceremony tomorrow 🤌🏾✨ by @thenestspaceza

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✨ Scorpio Season ✨

We entered Scorpio season on the 22nd October..
A time of depth. A time of honesty and a time of returning to what is real inside us.

Scorpio is fixed water. It does not rush. It does not spill. It holds.
It teaches us to be with our emotions rather than escape them.
To sit with what is uncomfortable.
To listen to what the body has been whispering beneath the noise.

This season invites us to slow down and look beneath the surface of our lives.
What am I holding onto that is asking to be released.
What truth am I finally ready to acknowledge.
What part of me is ready to be reclaimed.

Transformation is not dramatic here.
It is quiet.
It happens in the small moments where we choose honesty over avoidance. Presence over performance and feeling over numbing.

In our practice, we move with presence. We breathe into the places that ache and we allow the heart to soften at its own pace.

There is no rushing what is meant to unfold.

Scorpio season reminds us that healing is not about becoming someone new but rather about remembering who we were before we learned to hide.

May this season grant you courage, softness, and depth.
We are walking this inner journey together. by @thenestspaceza

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#newmoongathering 🚨

New Moon in Libra

Tonight’s New Moon arrives as Eclipse Season closes,
a soft exhale after weeks of shadow and revelation.

What has felt uncertain or out of rhythm is slowly finding its way back to harmony.
This lunation invites us to pause in the middle ground, to soften into balance,to listen for what wants peace rather than control.

Libra, ruled by Venus, reminds us that relationship is a practice of grace.
How we hold ourselves is how we hold each other.
In the stillness between breaths, we learn to love without striving,to choose truth over tension, to begin again with gentleness.

Tonight we gather for our FINAL Moon gathering in this home,
to honour the teachers who have poured their heart, breath,
and devotion into this space.
In their presence, this circle becomes a prayer of gratitude
for what has been, and a quiet opening to what is becoming.

Movement and breathwork with @sibongile_oageng
Soundbath with @asande_cikiwa @wemoveyoga
Kirtan with @theafricandragonfly

🌑 Tuesday 21 October
18:45 – 20:00
Open and donation based

Come softly.
Come home to your balance.

Happy New Moon Tribe, and thank you from the bottom of our hearts 🥹✨ taken in The Nest Space by @thenestspaceza

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We step into the end of Libra season, a passage ruled by Venus, calling us back to harmony, truth, and beauty ✨ both within and around us.

This Libra energy moves like a mirror, reflecting all that has been brought into balance, and all that must now be released to create space for what is becoming. The scales remind us that peace is not passive, it is a practice. One we return to again and again, especially in times of transition.

As The Nest Space prepares to close this physical chapter, the energy of Libra invites us into grace 🤍 to honour endings not as loss, but as realignment.

Pluto continues its slow, transformative journey through Aquarius, reshaping collective consciousness and urging us to release what no longer serves the whole. This is the deeper undercurrent of change many of us are feeling: the quiet call to evolve, to rebuild, to begin again differently.

Mercury’s post-shadow reminds us to speak gently, to listen deeply, and to choose our words as acts of devotion.

This season is not about rushing forward. It is about moving deliberately, letting beauty and truth lead the way.

As we close one circle and open another, may we all find balance between surrender and creation, stillness and movement, self and community.

The air shifts, but the spirit remains.
We are learning to breathe again, together.

Happy Libra Season Tribe ✨🤍

#LibraSeason by @thenestspaceza

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Tomorrow we gather under the new moon for a sacred evening at The Nest Space ✨🤍 our final New Moon gathering in this home.

It feels deeply fitting that this closing is being held by the teachers who have poured so much of their hearts, breath, and spirit into this space. In their presence, this evening becomes a living prayer of gratitude.

Sibongile (@sibongile_oageng ) will guide us through movement and breathwork to ground and release.

Asande ( @asande_cikizwa @wemoveyoga )will offer a meditative soundbath to quiet the mind and soften the heart.

Mandla (@theafricandragonfly ) will lead Kirtan, calling us into devotion through sound and vibration.

Together they offer this final new moon gathering as a blessing, a moment to give thanks for what has been and to open to what is still becoming.

New Moon Satsang Gathering 🌑
Tuesday, 21 October
18:45 at The Nest Space

#TheNestSpaceZA #Satsang #Kirtan #SoundBath #Breathwork #NewMoonGathering #CommunityOffering #SacredSound #NewBeginnings taken in The Nest Space by @thenestspaceza

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