Immerse yourself in 5 nights and 4.5 days of yoga, meditation, delicious vegetarian food and the beautiful natural surroundings of Emu Park, a small coastal village near Yeppoon.
Interview with Abhijata Iyengar & Linda Apps – IYA Convention 2023
October Long Weekend Yanada Retreat 3-6 October 2025
We’re taking bookings for our Yanada Retreat over the 2025 October long weekend! 3 nights in beautiful St Albans, near Wiseman’s Ferry. You can arrive any time after 2pm, with the first class on Friday afternoon October 3 at 6-7pm. We’ll do asana, pranayama and some sitting meditation over the weekend. Treat yourself to lots […]
Guruji’s 100 Years
The following is an excerpt from an article I wrote a while ago for Australian Yoga Life, to celebrate Mr Iyengar’s centenary in 2018. You can download the entire article here. “In 1918, 100 years ago, the deadly Spanish flu pandemic swept across the world, killing 30 million people, 17 million of them in India. […]
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 […]
