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Stockist Spotlight - The Space Matakana

Stockist Spotlight - The Space Matakana

The first in our new segment on the Santosa Journal, we’re featuring a few of our beautiful Santosa stockists. These businesses have been huge supporters of the Santosa brand over the years and we want to celebrate and share the fantastic work they are doing.  This week we highlight The Space Matakana owned by Ana Lynch and Alex Davids. The Space Matakana is an inclusive venue, designed to spark inspiration, connection and curiosity to grow and deepen your inner wisdom. Their physical space in Matakana hosts a wide variety of yoga and meditation classes as well as inspirational events. We caught up with owner Alex Davids (pictured...

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Inspiring Living - Gemma Douglas

Inspiring Living - Gemma Douglas

As a special segment on the Santosa Journal, we’re featuring women from our community that have inspired us on our path of living a more contented life.  These inspiring women are doing amazing things and have each made us want to grow, learn and become better people ourselves. This week we highlight Gemma Douglas, a Certified Breathwork and Meditation Practitioner, NLP Practitioner and the talented lady behind @themotherhoodproject and @theconsciousproject. She is also a mother of three with qualifications in teaching, as a Reiki Practitioner, and a music degree from Otago University. Gemma is passionate about empowering Mothers to help them care for themselves...

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Simple swaps to live a more sustainable, fulfilled, eco-friendly life

Simple swaps to live a more sustainable, fulfilled, eco-friendly life

Life is full of demands and pressure to live more sustainably. We know it can be overwhelming (we feel it too!). That’s why at Santosa, we're passionate about encouraging people to make small changes, to do better for both you and your family. Because those small changes in your daily life, even though they might not seem like it, add up to big changes over time. Here are our top 15x small and simple changes we’ve made in our family, on our journey to living a more sustainable, fulfilled eco-friendly life. Shop in-season – Try to purchase fruit and veggies that are...

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Inspiring Living - Laura Mohi

Inspiring Living - Laura Mohi

As a special segment on the Santosa Journal, we’re featuring women from our community that have inspired us on our path of living a more contented life.  These inspiring women are doing amazing things and have each made us want to grow, learn and become better people ourselves. This week we highlight Laura Mohi, the owner of Wild Pilates, an online Pilates Studio with over 250+ on demand classes to suit everyone. Laura is passionate about combining her love for Pilates, getting out into the wild and prioritising exercise that energises you and fits into your lifestyle.  1. What simple things...

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Why we don’t mind being different to the others

Why we don’t mind being different to the others

Surfactants, phthalates, sulfates, parabens and synthetic fragrances are just some of the secret ingredients that make their way into supermarket household cleaning products.  In our recent blog post we shared why we ditched these supermarket products within our homes, but glossed over what these ingredients actually are and why they’re not good for you. In this post, we are shining the light on surfactants and synthetic fragrances. Surfactants They’re  what you find in regular cleaning products, because they lower the surface tension of water. This makes the water molecules slipperier and less likely to stick to themselves, therefore, more likely to interact with...

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