During the Winter months our Yoga classes continue. We warm up with the Yoga postures and exercises. It’s good to keep the circulation and metabolism going, plus it warms our heart to be in good company.
Please bring a jumper, socks, and even a blanket to keep warm during the relaxation.
Raceview Scout Hall, 32 Taylor Street, Eastern Heights 4305
This year’s YOGA & Meditation Retreat is from Friday 11 until Sunday 13 September 2026, at the Glasshouse Mountains Ecolodge on the Sunshine Coast, QLD.
The Yoga Retreat is suitable for everyone. Regardless if you are a beginner and Yoga is new to you, or you are more advanced and need to give your practice an extra boost. I accommodate and help you each individually. Spring is always a good opportunity to invigorate your practice.
The Retreat is for women and men, even though, we are always more women.
The cost for the weekend is $760.00 per person, it includes the Yoga program, accommodation & the meals. You are basically covered for the whole weekend.
The numbers of guests/participants/Yogis are limited to 12 – 15 persons, that everyone can be in a private room / cabin with ensuite. Unless you would like to share with a friend or family member.
For more detailed information, please head over to this link https://hathayogaipswich.com.au/retreat/ or message me, and I’ll send you the seven-page – brochure as a pdf file.
From Tuesday 19th November onwards until Friday 13th December 2024, we have the following weekly yoga classes (our well known schedule). I hope to see you in some of these classes before the end of this year.
At the Scout halls or online on Zoom, please let me know if you need the Zoom link:
Raceview Scout Hall, 32 Taylor Street, Eastern Heights 4305
I look forward to welcome you back on the yoga mat soon. Classes as follows at the Scout Halls, or you can join online on Zoom. For Zoom please contact me to receive the login details. Thanks.
Raceview Scout Hall, 32 Taylor Street, Eastern Heights 4305
Cost for Senior Classes (Wednesday 9am + Thursday 10am)
first class: free
single class $12.00
5-class-pass $55.00
10-class-pass $100.00
If possible please book for your first yoga class, but it’s is perfectly fine if you just show up at the Hall about 10 minutes before the class begins. Thank you !!
You can practice the following breathing exercise anytime. I recommend several times per day, short 5 – 8 minutes to calm down the nervous system. Breathing away the hectic of the day. Releasing small amounts of stress each time you practice.
Breathing in through both nostrils, deeply and slowly to a count of 5. Hold the breath to a slow count of 5. Breathing out through both nostrils, very slowly, emptying the lungs completely to a count of 5. Pause and wait after the exhalation to a count of 5. Then inhale again…… Practice as many rounds as you wish in one setting.
I suggest a minimum of four to five rounds, anytime/anywhere during the day.
Disclaimer: All exercises at your own discretion and responsibility.
This is a 12 minute video with a short breathing session to begin and 3 full rounds of Sun Salutations (6 times down & up). If you have any troubles watching it, please let me know. Thank you !!
If it works for you and you enjoy the practice, please let me know as well.
On the 1st of December I started with a 21 days meditation/manifestation challenge, initiated by a meditation group in Germany. Two weeks ago I suggested in a couple yoga classes (so not all of you in the classes know about this). Repeat a different positive affirmation or mantra every day as an Advent Calendar starting on the 1st of December until Christmas. If you were busy or didn’t know about it from me….. do it now or as a family game at Christmas or New Year’s Eve: everyone states a positive affirmation. You can come up with your own or there are many in the books by Louise Hay, Dr. Wayne Dyer, etc. for example.
If you like New Year’s resolutions start at the 1st of January.
You can start for yourself anytime…. and know that many around the world are doing the same. The gist is, when you practice or do something for a minimum of 21 days every day (if you miss one you start again at day one) it becomes a habit.
Here are some examples I created for you as a motivation and inspiration. When you repeat an affirmation often it becomes a Mantra.
A next 8 – weeks – meditation – course is starting soon. Monday 10th of May 2021, 5pm – 6pm, for eight consecutive weeks. The Topic of the course is on the Chakras.
The 7 main Chakra
Chakra means ‘wheel’. Chakras are energy vortices, or intersections where two or more nadis (sanskrit word) meet. Everyplace the 72,000 nadis of the astral body intersect, there is a chakra. There are an uncounted number of chakras in the body.
The chakras are the mechanisms by which the prana (lifeforce) is able to permeate the physical body from the astral body, and basically then, it is the prana that keeps the physical body alive.
Within the astral body are 7 main chakras associated with kundalini awakening. They are located within the astral body in locations that correspond with the spine in the physical body, and at the junctions where the ida and pingala, and various other nadis, meet.
These main chakras are called:
Muladhara – located near the base of the spine in the perineal space for men, at the back and top of the cervix for women; sacral plexus
Swadhishthana – located at the level of the uro-genital systems; prostatic plexus
Manipura – located at the area of the navel; solar plexus
Anahata – located at the level of the heart; cardiac plexus
Vishuddha – located in the throat region near the thyroid and adam’s apple; laryngeal plexus
Ajna – located in the space between the eyebrows; cavernous plexus
Sahasrara – located at the top of the head; pineal gland
In the first week of the course, we cover the basics and overall meaning of the Chakra. Then every week we cover, talk and meditate on one Chakra from 1 to 7. So if, you miss a week, each week is it’s own lesson.
Cost & Registration:
The upfront payment for the whole 8 weeks is $110.-, or you can pay each week $15.-.
If you have yoga class pass, you can use it of the meditation course as well.
The course is taking place at our home in Silkstone, and is limited to six participants. You need to book for the whole course, or for each week, if space is available.
Please send me an email: hathayogaipswich@gmail.com or phone/text 0423 477 725. Thank You !! Looking forward to diving into this important topic of the Yoga theory and help you with a meditation practice. It will improve my own as well. 🙂 Namaste, Maria Prema ❤
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