Looking forward to our first Yanada Retreat for a few years! 3 nights in beautiful St Albans. You can arrive any time after 2pm, with the first class on Friday afternoon September 30 at 4-5.30pm. We’ll do asana, pranayama and some sitting meditation over the weekend. Treat yourself to lots of yoga and time to […]
QLD Retreat – 4pm Monday to 10am Saturday July 4-9th 2022
Yoga Nook Videos
Balance, Courage and Caution practicing yoga with MS
Casual Zoom Classes
NSW Retreat – 24 to 27 January 2020
Australia Day Retreat – Tyraman, Hunter Valley, NSW Tyraman is a beautiful retreat centre surrounded by gardens and water-lily ponds. A retreat gives us the opportunity to surrender completely to the yoga process in a supportive and peaceful natural environment. Accommodation is shared and linen and towels are provided. It’s about a 3 hour drive […]
Peter Thomson: There is a method, and an order, in the asana that needs to be respected.
Pixie Lillas: Always go out the door with some Yoga behind you
Pixie Lillas has been a shining light in the Iyengar Yoga world for almost 40 years. She is well known for her commitment to her practice and her ongoing support for younger teachers through her teacher training and the Iyengar Yoga assessments. She started yoga with three practices a day when she was 26 and […]
Being or becoming?
This morning was my first class back at the Iyengar Institute (RIMYI) after 14 years. Even though I was here in Pune, India last year for the Geeta Convention, I didn’t attend classes at RIMYI. Some things have changed – no more squat toilets – but mostly it feels the same, my feet opening on the marble floors just as they did all those years ago. Prashant looks older of course, more like his father. Let me predicate this blog with a disclaimer – this is my interpretation of what Prashant said – and as he said, we are all making our own recordings of what’s going on according to the quality of our equipment!
Peace in Paradise at Emu Park Yoga Retreat
Practice Makes Perfect
Active Body, Still Mind
Have you noticed that after yoga you come out of class more centered and calm? Your mind at peace, resting a moment from the incessant activity that often occupies it. Patanjali wrote about this phenomenon thousands of year ago in the yoga sutras, short aphorisms describing the yogic path. Sutra 1.2 yogah cittavritti nirodhah is […]