Y.A.W.S programmes & activities for 2024 are now completed.

Looking forward in seeing your bright eyes and bushy tailes in 2025!

This is our last Yoga session for the year.

Make sure you join us to help you find your Zen leading up to the Christmas session & don’t get bent out of shape :-)

“Hidden talent is silent, until it finds its stage”

According to the words of Bob Ross ‘Talent is nothing more than a pursued interest’ In saying that let your talent be awakened at our first ever Talent Show.

Come join us and share with us your hidden talent. This doesn’t necessarily have to be singing or dancing. Share a funny joke, show us a magic trick, showcase your cooking skill. The possibilities are endless…….

More details on our FB page.

This will be followed with our last Yoga session today from 1:00pm-2:10pm

South Coast Environment Society are continuing with their workshops - today will be all about bringing the birds back to our gardens.

Yoga for today is CANCELLED due to an illness. See FB page for more details.

Come join us in a Yoga session with Lynda.

Southland Coast Environment Society is taking us into a three sessions in finding our inner green.

First session is composting and beastly bugs.

Come join us for an afternoon filled of Resin crafting. Today we will be making Christmas decoration/ornaments in resin.

This will be a tree-mendous fun afternoon, so come one down and ‘lets hang out’

This is our last Music Therapy with Cheree Tawhara.

Come and join us for a fun morning and you might just find the keys to making great music!

See you then.

Stretch out of your comfort zone and join us in our Yoga session this afternoon and find a way of channeling your ‘Yogi’.

“Inhale the future, exhale the past.”

We continue our planning for this course to be delivered next year. Planning today will be based from the questionnaires that was sent home.

Join us for a fun filled morning with our Music Therapy with Cheree Tawhara

Two sessions : first session is on Tuesday, October 22 2024 from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm & second session is on Tuesday, November 5 2024 from 10:00 am -12:00 pm.

Cost: $25

Please RSVP by Friday, October 18 2024 by emailing Debbie at whanake.manager@gmail.com

Our October Social Night will be an un-bowl-leaveable night of lawn bowls, 5:30-7:00pm. Followed by dinner at the Northern Tavern until 8:00pm. For more details please bowl on over to our FB.

This is our last Session for our Speech Language Therapy. In this session we will be covering a selection of relevant activities from the last Five weeks.

‘I don’t agree with what you said’

In today’s session we learn how to read the signs that someone is interested in our conversation and how to respond when we don’t agree with what someone said/someone did.

To end our last session with the Y squad this term we are going to Crank up the fun with every pedal. We are off cycling in the Velodrome. More details in our FB page.

In today’s session we get to explore the different types of relationships. Please check our Facebook page for more details.

Come along for an afternoon full of fun. Today’s session targets lots of different muscle groups at once for total body toning. It not only Boosts your heart health but it also helps you de-stress.

Our Y Squad session this week is going to take us for a Spin…..Spin Class that is.

Please wear your gym gear and bring your drink bottles.

For more details, please check Friends of Whanake House Facebook.

Let’s talk- Building Conversation skills

This week is a continuation from our first season last week. This week’s season will look at Conversation tips, how much or little to talk, active listening in conversation is some of the topic that will be covered.

This is a very exciting and rewarding course to be apart off. Please mark this on your calendar.

More details to come soon. Please watch this space.

Today’s session will be delivered by our wonderful YMCA facilitators, Robyn and Jamie.

Our morning session will be a recap from last week’s session about the food choices we make and updating our books with pulse reading, and going for a 1km walk. 

Our afternoon session will then take us to Splash Palace to learn about how to keep ourselves safe in the water, with the aid of life jackets.

Please refer to our Facebook Page for pick up instructions for this day.

Our Y.A.W.S. are making great progress with their goal setting the last couple of weeks and recording their baseline fitness level at the start of the program.

Today our Y squad session will be at YMCA location.

If any of our Y.A.W.S. is being picked up from YMCA, our session will be finished at 2:30pm.

Our Y.A.W.S. will have their Front-Line Course Graduation tomorrow, August 20 2024 at 11:00 am - 12:00 pm.

Please be there no later than 10:45 am.

Parents and Caregivers are more than welcome to join us.

August Social Night is taking us into the boxing ring at the SPW Southern Rumble on August 3 2024, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm @ Invercargill Workingmens Club.

We will have a meal prior to the show at the Invercargill's Workingmens Club at 5:00 pm. 

Get in touch with Rhea at 029 0481 5070 no later than Wednesday, July 31 2024, to secure your ticket. In order for us to purchase tickets by Thursday. 

Cost of ticket is $16.60 & meal is $27 per head. 

Meal options will be either bar meal, Table menu or Roast meal (Traditional Carvery). Something for everyone.

Looking forward in seeing you all there.

Chloe from Front-Line will be coming to us at Whanake House to take our Y.A.W.S. some drivers license and driver safety.

If you are interested in enrolling in this course, please get in touch with Rhea at whanake.inhouse@gmail.com and she will get in touch with you.

We have both the wonderful Robyn and Jamie from the YMCA taking our Y.A.W.S. for the next 10 Weeks on a Healthy Lifestyle journey, July 23 - September 24 2024.

Each week the session will be complimented with a physical activity where our Y.A.W.S. will participate actively in a variety of physical activities.

Come join us in the fun by getting in touch with Rhea at whanake.inhouse@gmail.com

Chloe from Front-Line will be coming to us at Whanake House to take our Y.A.W.S. some drivers license and driver safety.

If you are interested in enrolling in this course, please get in touch with Rhea at whanake.inhouse@gmail.com and she will get in touch with you.