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Magdarie van Staden in an arm balance by the sea

Come home
to yourself.

A return to your body, to presence, through intelligent, embodied movement that builds strength, settles the nervous system, and changes how you move through the rest of your life.

What I offer

Where would you like to begin?

However you want to practise — hover to see more, tap to explore.

Weekly Group Classes

Find your place
(on the mat).

The weekly rhythm. Come as you are, as often as you can. Consistency > perfection. Classes run across Westville, Durban North and Umhlanga. Tap any class to book your spot.

Each venue books on its own platform — tap a class to reserve your spot.
where strength meets ease
Private sessions

A practice shaped entirely around you.

One-to-one yoga, in person or online — trauma-informed, nervous-system aware, and grounded in ayurvedic and lifestyle principles. We work with your body, your history and your day-to-day, not a template.

Asana, pranayama, yoga nidra, functional movement & qigong, woven to what you need.
Lifestyle & ayurvedic coaching — sleep, stress, rhythm, nourishment.
Optional sound bath, as a standalone or alongside your practice.
What's coming up

Events, Retreats & Gatherings.

Retreats, sound baths, workshops and seasonal gatherings — moments to step out of the everyday, drop deeper into your body, and practise in good company. Here's what's on the horizon.

Experience
Be the Calm — Ocean-side Morning Retreat, 25 July 2026
Sat 25 July 2026 · 6:00 – 11:00am · Yoga · Surf · Brunch

Be the Calm: Ocean-side Morning Retreat

Durban Beach Club, Browns Road

Maybe you've always been curious about yoga, or surfing, or both? Spend a Saturday morning with us exploring just that — stillness and breath as the sun comes up, then straight into the water (wetsuits provided), closing with brunch. No experience needed, just bring yourself.

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Experience
Rest in Resonance — Yin Yoga & Sound Bath, 26 July 2026
Sun 26 July 2026 · 4:00 – 5:30 pm

Rest in Resonance: Yin Yoga & Sound Bath Experience

Virgin Active Cornubia · Marrion Clarke & Magdarie van Staden

Slow yin holds work into the body's deeper layers while a live sound bath and closing yoga nidra ease the nervous system into genuine rest. An experience that is deeply physical and profoundly settling — for body, breath, and mind.

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Retreat
Wayfinding Retreat — 9–11 October 2026, Pumula
Fri 9 – Sun 11 October 2026

Wayfinding Retreat

Pumula Retreat Centre · South Coast, KZN

Three days of yoga, qigong, breathwork, meditation and sound — the art of paying attention to the subtle currents that move us. Slow mornings, strong practice, the ocean at your door, and space to find your way back to yourself.

More info & booking
For teams & leaders

Your team is high-performing. Their nervous systems are paying for it.

Burnout, anxiety, stress and the chronic back pain of desk-bound days are quietly expensive — they show up as people who are at their desks but no longer really there. I bring yoga, breathwork, sound and nervous-system science into your workplace, on-site or online, to help your people steady themselves, recover focus and resilience, and reconnect — to their bodies and to each other.

Group yoga class
Some of the teams I've worked with
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A deep-rest practice — yogic sleep that down-regulates the nervous system and leaves you restored. It's yours when you join the newsletter; after that, I'll only write when there's something worth sharing.

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Magdarie van Staden
About Mags

The long way to the mat.

Before yoga was my work, it was the thing that kept me standing. I built a career in the corporate world — a BCom in Marketing Management, years across graphic design, PR and corporate training, designing leadership-development programmes, and ultimately running a KZN training centre for one of South Africa's foremost labour-law firms as regional manager. I know the pace, the pressure and the real cost of that world from the inside — which is exactly why I know how to work with your teams.

It was my own practice that let me thrive in it: a way to stay regulated, to move stress through my body, and to keep burnout at arm's length. Over the years it became something far bigger — a practice that has reshaped me physically, mentally and in my health, more deeply than I can fit into a paragraph.

So that's how I teach. Strong, dynamic movement and deep, quiet stillness, often in the same hour. My classes are trauma-informed and nervous-system aware, which is really just a careful way of saying you're safe here, exactly as you are. There's no perfect posture to reach and no flexibility to earn first. Only your body, your breath, and a place to come back to.

Off the mat, you'll find me in the ocean — surfing is my other great teacher — or on some kind of a mission with my pug, Melon, who is, objectively, the cutest.

x Magdarie van Staden
500hr Yoga Alliance Certified Advanced Trained Yoga Teacher
Over 10 years' experience
E-RYT 500 · Yoga Alliance RYS 200 · Yoga Alliance YACEP · Yoga Alliance
What I teach

One practice, many doorways.

A curated journey of what you can experience with me — strength and stillness, science and soul, woven to where you are on any given day.

Move with intelligence
Yoga, strength and mobility — a body that lasts.
  • Traditional Hatha Yoga
  • Strong, vigorous Vinyasa & alignment
  • Qigong
  • Functional movement
  • Somatic & fascia-focused work
  • Hands-on assists & adjustments
Rewire & restore
Settle the nervous system into deep, dynamic rest.
  • Yin Yoga
  • Nervous system rewiring
  • Vagal toning
  • Trauma-aware practice
  • Deep rest — yoga nidra (non-sleep deep rest)
Breath, stillness & sound
Quiet the mind and widen presence.
  • Yogic breathwork (pranayama)
  • Meditation & mindfulness
  • Deep-state sound journeys
स्थिर सुखम् आसनम्
Sthira sukham āsanam · Yoga Sūtra 2.46
“The posture should be steady, and at ease.”
It is the same balance your nervous system is asking for — enough strength to hold you, enough softness to let you rest. The practice isn’t forcing the posture, or your life. It is finding the place where effort and ease finally meet.
Kind words

From those I've practised with.

A few reflections from students, private clients and teams I've had the joy of holding space for.

Get in touch

I'd love to hear from you.

Want to collaborate, ask about a custom offering that isn't listed here, have a query, or simply say hi? Every message comes straight to me, and I'll always reply — I read them all myself, so it might not be immediate, but it will come.

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A class, a private session, a retreat, or yoga for your team — tell me what you're looking for. Every message comes straight to me.
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Step into the circle

A warm, grounded community to practise alongside — and the first to know when something new opens up.