Christmas Holiday 2024 / 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).

Christmas Holiday 2024

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/

Yoga classes & meditation until Christmas 2024

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



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)

Maria Steiner, June 2024.


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. …….
 

Yoga Retreat August 2024 spaces available

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

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


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/

Maria in Cornwall, UK, June 2024

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
Full Moon in Capricorn, June 2024.

Trikonasana – the triangle pose

Trikonasana, or the triangle pose. The main benefits of this standing posture are to stretch the sides of the body and give a lateral movement to the spine. All standing yoga postures help to ground your energy.

Physical Benefits

  • Stretches the sides of the body
  • Stretches the spine laterally
  • Helps keep the spine elastic
  • Improves flexibility in the hips and legs
  • Helps to open the chest
  • Massages the internal organs
  • Improves digestion
  • Amplifies the benefits of the half spinal twist
  • Improves circulation in the body

Mental Benefits

  • Steadies the mind
  • Calms the emotions
  • Increase empathy and self-awareness

Energetic (Pranic) Benefits

  • Calms the prana in the ida nadi
Maria doing Trikonasana – triangle pose, May 2007.
Maria doing a spinal twist in triangle, October 2011.
Maria doing Trikonasana, the triangle pose, October 2011.

sitting spinal twist

(literally Ardha stands for half = half spinal twist).

There are many benefits to this posture, but the most important is that the entire length of the spine receives a lateral twist in both directions – first to the left and then to the right.
 

Physical Benefits

  • Increases flexibility in each vertebrae of the spine, from the base of the spine through the neck
  • Stretches the back muscles and hips
  • Massages the abdominal organs, helping to relieve constipation
  • Breathing becomes more rapid, speeding up circulation and creating an aerobic effect
  • Brings more blood flow to the spine

Energetic (Pranic) Benefits

  • Helps rouse the Kundalini Shakti

Mental Benefits

  • Brings peace of mind
  • Helps to cure nervous disorders
 Easy version of the sitting spinal twist, with leg straight. Maria Steiner June 2023.

Scout Hall Location in Cameron Park, Booval

PLEASE have a look at the picture below, for the exact location of the Scout Hall in Cameron Park (BLUE DOT). As street view and google maps might guide you to the wrong section of Cameron Park.

This is where we have the Yoga classes on a Tuesday 6pm and Wednesday 5pm.
OM OM OM

It’s possible that the apple maps on the iPhone is correct. But more than once this year, new people in the yoga class, ended up at the old Swifts Sport Club.

I don’t want to know, how many gave up coming to class, because they were guided to a wrong location ?!?

Maybe if you put into google maps “Foote Street, Booval” you end up very close to the Scout Hall.

Maybe if you put into google maps “Foote Street, Booval” you end up very close to the Scout Hall. View of the Scout Hall from Foote Street, towards Cameron Park.