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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

Christmas Holiday 2024 / 2025

December 8, 2024premaria

The Christmas pause this year is from 15th December 2024 until 11th January 2025.

The last Yoga class in 2024 is on Thursday 12/12 at 10am, a Senior’s Yoga class.

A Meditation / Mantra chanting session on Friday 13/12 at 5pm, including a gratitude and release ritual for the past year. (you need to book for this class – thank you).

All the Yoga classes at the Scout halls and Zoom online, resume on Tuesday 14th January 2025. As per our well known yoga class times. https://hathayogaipswich.com.au/

Merry Christmas & and a happy, healthy start into 2025 !!

Yoga classes & meditation until Christmas 2024

November 18, 2024premaria

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

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

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

Wednesday 6:00pm–7:30pm (90 minutes Hatha Yoga class)
Wednesday 5:00pm–6:30pm (90 minutes Hatha Yoga class)

Raceview Scout Hall, 32 Taylor Street, Eastern Heights 4305

Wednesday 9:00am – 10:00am Seniors Yoga class
Thursday 10:00am – 11:00am Seniors yoga class

Two Meditation classes on a Friday evening at our home in Silkstone. You need to book and confirm for the meditation. Thank You:

Friday 22nd November 5pm – 6:30pm
Friday 13th December 5pm – 6:30pm

The Tree (balance pose)

October 31, 2024October 28, 2024premaria

The Tree (balance pose)

Balance on one leg – the Tree pose
The balancing postures on one leg are mentally highly demanding. These postures develop, to the highest degree, the powers of mental concentration and single-mindedness of thought, as well as physical balance.
It also improves the muscle strength in the standing leg. Therefore always practice on both sides, even though usually one side is easier than the other.

Start with lifting the foot a little to stand on one leg. As the balance improves bring the leg up higher, all the way to half-lotus.

Another way to practice standing on one leg. Close your eyes and count for how long you can stand on one leg, repeat on the other side.

Repeat, repeat, repeat. …….

November 2024 holiday

October 28, 2024premaria

I’m on holiday from 4 – 16 of November 2024.

The yoga classes resume on Tuesday 19th of November 2024, for four weeks until the Christmas break.

November pause to reset.

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.

Namaste

Yoga Retreat August 2024 spaces available

July 15, 2024premaria

A few more spaces are available for the upcoming Yoga & Meditation Retreat at the Glasshouse Mountains Ecolodge, Friday 23 – Sunday 25 of August 2024.

Immerse yourself in a Weekend of Yoga & Meditation surrounded by beautiful nature, towards the end of Winter to shake off the Winter blues.

Our program for the weekend looks like this:

Friday:
• 4pm yoga class (asana, pranayama)  
• 6pm Dinner  
• 7:30pm evening meditation   

Saturday:   
• 6am morning sunrise meditation   
• 7am yoga class  
• 8:30am breakfast 
• 10:30am Chakra & Aura talk  
• 12noon lunch 
• Afternoon activities , e.g. hike Mt Tibrogargan circuit, 
• 4pm hatha-yoga class (sun salutations, asana, pranayama) 
• 6:30pm Dinner 

Sunday:  
• 6am sunrise meditation and morning stretches 
• 7am yoga class 
• 9am Breakfast

The cost for the Retreat is $690.00 per person, this includes the whole yoga program, all the meals & accommodation in single or shared rooms, with private ensuite. https://hathayogaipswich.com.au/retreat/

Please contact me for any questions, or to book your space. https://hathayogaipswich.com.au/contact/

YOGA Classes July 2024

July 1, 2024premaria

I’m back in Ipswich from my overseas travel. All went good.

The yoga classes resume on Tuesday 2nd July 2024, as per our weekly schedule, for the next several months.

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 is heated in Winter)

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

All of the above classes can be joined online of course, if Zoom is better for you. Please contact me for the log-in details. https://hathayogaipswich.com.au/

MEDITATION EVENING

Friday 19th July 2024 at 5pm – 6:30pm

(breathing exercises, Meditation & Mantras, Chakra talk, full moon wisdom).

The cost is $15.00 or a tick on the yoga-class-pass

Satsang Meditation

CHAKRA Introduction

May 23, 2024premaria

The word Chakra means ‘wheel’. Chakras are energy vortices, or intersections where two or more nadis / meridians 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 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:

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

The six chakras are way-stations along the sushumna, to the final destination, the sahasrara chakra. They are of consciousness, with specific tones of awareness and bliss, as well as storage places for the subtle, vital energy. They have corresponding centres in the spinal cord and nerve plexuses of the gross physical body, with which they are closely related.

While these main chakras actually exist in the astral body corresponding to locations within the spine, it is hard to visualize and work with them in these locations. Therefore, we usually reference locations in the front of the body at the levels described above, and these locations have a direct effect on the actual chakra location within the spine.

Each chakra also has associated with it a corresponding number of nadis, a colour, a presiding deity and goddess, Sanskrit letters, a bija or seed mantra, and a presiding element or tanmatra.

From a Yoga perspective the Chakra system is part of Kundalini Yoga.

During the Yoga Retreat in August 2024, we’ll talk and discuss the Chakras, their functions, meanings, etc. in detail. https://hathayogaipswich.com.au/retreat/

NO YOGA classes in June 2024

May 17, 2024premaria

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

Current Yoga class schedule

Raceview Scout Hall, 32 Taylor Street, Eastern Heights 4305

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

Raceview Scout Hall, 32 Taylor Street, Eastern Heights 4305

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The Christmas pause this year is from 15th December 2024 until 11th January 2025.

Merry Christmas & and a happy, healthy start into 2025 !!

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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

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

Raceview Scout Hall, 32 Taylor Street, Eastern Heights 4305

Two Meditation classes on a Friday evening at our home in Silkstone. You need to book and confirm for the meditation. Thank You:

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The Tree (balance pose)

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I’m on holiday from 4 – 16 of November 2024.

The yoga classes resume on Tuesday 19th of November 2024, for four weeks until the Christmas break.

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Atmanjali Mudra (gesture of prayer)

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A few more spaces are available for the upcoming Yoga & Meditation Retreat at the Glasshouse Mountains Ecolodge, Friday 23 – Sunday 25 of August 2024.

Immerse yourself in a Weekend of Yoga & Meditation surrounded by beautiful nature, towards the end of Winter to shake off the Winter blues.

Our program for the weekend looks like this:

The cost for the Retreat is $690.00 per person, this includes the whole yoga program, all the meals & accommodation in single or shared rooms, with private ensuite. https://hathayogaipswich.com.au/retreat/

Please contact me for any questions, or to book your space. https://hathayogaipswich.com.au/contact/

Share with your friends:

I’m back in Ipswich from my overseas travel. All went good.

The yoga classes resume on Tuesday 2nd July 2024, as per our weekly schedule, for the next several months.

Current Yoga class schedule:

Raceview Scout Hall, 32 Taylor Street, Eastern Heights 4305

Cameron Park, Scout Hall, Easton Street, Booval 4304 (this hall is heated in Winter)

Raceview Scout Hall, 32 Taylor Street, Eastern Heights 4305

All of the above classes can be joined online of course, if Zoom is better for you. Please contact me for the log-in details. https://hathayogaipswich.com.au/

MEDITATION EVENING

Friday 19th July 2024 at 5pm – 6:30pm

(breathing exercises, Meditation & Mantras, Chakra talk, full moon wisdom).

The cost is $15.00 or a tick on the yoga-class-pass

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As many of you know already (I’ve been talking about it long enough 😉 during the month of June are no yoga classes.

I’m away from 3rd – 28th of June 2024. Visiting family in Switzerland, early Summer holiday and going on Retreat myself.

The last class in May is on Thursday morning 30/5/24 10am Senior’s Yoga.

On Friday 24th May 5pm we have a Meditation & Mantra class, please let me know if you would like to join.

In July all the Yoga classes resume on Tuesday 2/7/24.

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