Health – Hatha Yoga Ipswich

The Camel

September 14, 2025premaria

The Camel – Ustrasana. The camel pose, also known as the sitting wheel.

This Yoga posture gives you all the benefits of the backward bends. Strengthens the thighs while improving the flexibility of the back.
If your knees are sensitive and to protect them from pain, use a blanket or other cushion under your knees.
In the beginning reach back with one arm only holding onto your foot, while stretching the other arm up to the sky. Alternatively place your hands on your lower back, leaning back as far as you can. Keep the chin forward, don’t tilt the head back, only the upper body.
If this feels good, reach back with both hands to hold onto your feet.

YOGA Classes 2025

January 6, 2025premaria

Happy New Year 2025, our Yoga classes resume on Tuesday 14th January 2025.

Weekly Hatha-Yoga & Senior’s Yoga classes. https://hathayogaipswich.com.au/
Monthly Meditation, usually on a Friday evening. https://hathayogaipswich.com.au/satsang/
Weekend Retreat 29 – 31 August 2025. https://hathayogaipswich.com.au/retreat/

YOGA 2025, all details below…… Contact Maria for any questions.

Current Yoga class schedule

Raceview Scout Hall, 32 Taylor Street, Eastern Heights 4305

Tuesdays, 9:00am – 10:30am (90 minutes Hatha Yoga class)

Cameron Park, Scout Hall, Easton Street, Booval 4304 (this hall has air-con.)

Tuesdays, 6:00pm–7:30pm (90 minutes Hatha Yoga class)
Wednesdays, 5:00pm–6:30pm (90 minutes Hatha Yoga class)

Raceview Scout Hall, 32 Taylor Street, Eastern Heights 4305

Wednesdays, 9:00am – 10:00am Seniors Yoga class
Thursdays, 10:00am – 11:00am Seniors yoga class

Our first Meditation for the year is already coming up, on Friday 17th January 2025 at 5pm – 6:30pm. You need to book for this session. Thank you, call or text Maria on 0423 477 725.

Satsang Meditation

Letting go of the Winter blues during an inspiring, motivating, & uplifting Yoga & Meditation weekend.

We’ll be surrounded by beautiful, peaceful nature. While being nourished with delicious, vegetarian meals.

This and more awaits you the Yoga & Meditation Weekend Retreat, Friday 29 – Sunday 31 of August 2025.

The Retreat is taking place a the Glasshouse Mountains Ecolodge.

Yoga Retreat September 2026

Atmanjali Mudra – Namaste

October 7, 2024premaria

Atmanjali Mudra (gesture of prayer)

Also known as the “Salutation Seal,” this Mudra is one of the most recognisable hand positions in yoga. It is both a joining and a gesture of reverence.

Place both hands together in front of your heart chakra.
Placing your hands together in front of your chest supports inner collection and creates harmony, balance, repose, silence and peace. This gesture activates and harmonises coordination of the left and right brain hemispheres.
It can support a meditation when you have a request of the Divine, when you have a heart’s desire that you would like to have fulfilled. With this gesture, you also express reverence or gratitude.
In India, it is the gesture of greeting or thanks; it shows respect for fellow human beings. Namaste

(From the the book – Mudras – Yoga in your hands, by Gertrud Hirschi, page 144).

Namaste – Maria, June 2024.

Namaste (hand prayer position)
Meaning:
My soul honours your soul.
I honour the place in you where the entire universe resides.
I honour the light, love, truth, beauty & peace within you,
because it is also within me.
In sharing these things we are united, we are the same, we are one.