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Yoga & Meditation
The retreats with * are suitable for your first ashram experience.
Arrival
Fri 2pm or before 5pm - Sun 2pm
Sat 9am - Sun 2pm
Day Option Sat 9am to 9pm
The Many Forms of Bhakti *
3.00pm Sat to 2.00pm Sun $110
Day Option 3.00pm - 9.00pm Sat $40
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October | 27 - 28 27 - 27 |
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24 - 25 |
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25 - 26 |
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9 - 9.45am Sunday
The Many Forms of Bhakti
Discussion with Sw. Atmamuktananda
A relaxed overnight stay: includes the many forms of Bhakti Yoga, havan & 2 hrs of Kirtans
The ancient purpose of Havan with Mantra is a scientific practice of purification for health, peace, plenty, prosperity, goodwill and protection for all environments.
Havan & Mantra act as a gateway from the ordinary to the higher plans of connectedness to nature and the consciousness. At the time of Swaha all that is no longer useful to our expansion of consciousness is symbolically offered to the fire for transformation.
Kirtan is a part of Nada Yoga (the yoga of sound), in which you produce sound waves and follow them with your awareness. It can provide divine, ecstatic moods, as well as bring peace and focus to the wavering mind.
The Many Forms of Bhakti Weekend daily time table (22 ~KB)
Meditation - 7 day Intensive *
May
with Swami Anandakumar
(senior meditation teacher in the Satyananda Yoga Tradition)
18 - 25 May $630 7 days Enrol
18 - 21 May $280 3 days Enrol
18 - 23 May $445 5 days Enrol
About the Teacher
Swami Anandakumar underwent his training with Swami Niranjan at the Bihar School of Yoga in India from 1999 to 2007. He is a long-term practitioner of meditation and an experienced teacher with an emphasis on establishing the correct principles of meditation and the effectiveness of self observation.
Gyana Yoga
Gyana Yoga is like a more active form of meditation where, instead of trying to fix the mind to become still, the practice is proactive in taking the enquiry to the mind itself. In this way we come to understand all the inner forces that motivate us. Then it becomes possible to separate clearly who we really are from all the accumulated impressions that can have a strong influence on how we think and how we act.
There are techniques to make the enquiry clearly, and once understood and established, practice is not limited to time or place but forms a part of how we can observe and look at ourselves, other people and life around us.
Beyond Chronic Pain *
June
Beyond Chronic Pain
Physical, Mental and Emotional
01 - 03 June $270 Enrol
02 - 03 June $200 Enrol
Day Option Sat 02 9am to 9pm $100 Enrol
This workshop is suitable for people with a chronic pain illness or injury, depression and or anxiety.
Sannyasi Kalikamurti will facilitate a healing weekend based on dealing with physical, emotional and mental pain through Yoga and ‘Choice Theory’ Psychology.
About the teacher
Sannyasi Kalikamurti, is an experienced Satyananda and Dru Yoga Teacher and ‘Choice Theory’ Counsellor.
With her many years of experience she has found that when yoga and conscious 'internal control psychology' are combined, your capacity to manage and heal pain increases, while simultaneously gaining immeasurably knowledge from the experience.
Yoga & Meditation *
June
08 - 10 June $250 Enrol
09 - 10 June $180 Enrol
Day Option Sat 09 9am - 9pm $100 Enrol
Learn postures and breathing techniques that prepare the body and mind for a successful experience in meditation.
Once the mind is trained to turn inwards it will naturally flow towards the object of meditation – stillness and alertness – the supreme witness of all events.
Yogic Living Conscious Dying *
July
27 - 29 July $280 Enrol
28 - 29 July $200 Enrol
Day Option Sat 28 9am - 9pm $120 Enrol
About the Teacher: Swami Samnyasananda (Philip Stevens)
BSc(Psych,Physiol)BSc(hons)(Physiol)MWSCYFWSCY
Web: www.yogalinks.net/research/research.html
Consultant Neurophysiologist; Certified Yoga Teacher, Life Member and Fellow of the "World Society For Clinical Yoga" (Lucknow, India); Meditation, Relaxation and Stress Management for busy people (M.B.T.I. Accredited); Post Graduate Clinical Training in Mind-Body Medicine from Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. Currently teaching Clinical Yoga and tutoring at Monash Medical School (Dept of General Practice)
About the Retreat Yogic Living Conscious Dying (900 ~ KB)
Yogis must learn how to live in order to know how to die. The yogic way of living involves developing and raising one's awareness and expanding consciousness through living a yogic lifestyle, whereby life is lived in fullness, connected to the natural rhythms of light and dark, summer and winter, sleep and wake cycles, as well as rich inner and outer exploration of who we are.
Tranquil Mind - a gift of meditation *
August
03 - 05 Aug $250 Enrol
04 - 05 Aug $180 Enrol
Day Option Sat 04 9am to 9pm $100 Enrol
Meditation dawns spontaneously when the art of separating the mind from the external distractions is practised.
Pratyahara the 5th step of the Patanjali’s royal path of yoga is the tool to train and redirect the mind away from the external sensorial attractions to the inner dimension of the witness – the balanced mind with equanimity.
The Quintessential of Hatha Yoga Pradipika *
August
17 - 19 Aug $280 Enrol
18 - 19 Aug $200 Enrol
Day Option Sat 18 9am - 9pm $120 Enrol
A specialised retreat with Sw. Muktibodhananda Saraswati - a senior and expert teacher in the Satyananda Yoga Tradition and the author of Hatha Yoga Pradipika (Satyananda Yoga publication)
Yoga & Meditation *
September
07 - 09 Sep $250 Enrol
08 - 09 Sep $180 Enrol
Day Option Sat 08 9am - 9pm $100 Enrol
The many benefits of Meditation: more in harmony with our selves and our surroundings, more in tune with making positive and creative decisions, more able to experience mental peace and wellbeing, less affected by frustration and stress, less reactive and more responsive to the need.
The practices for this weekend are:
developing Pratyahara - the ability to withdraw the outward moving senses to focusing on the practice of
Antar Mouna – developing inner silence by cultivating the aspect of the observer not just during your meditation practice but in everyday activities.
Expanding Awareness & Mindful Bush Walking *
September
14 - 16 Sep $250 Enrol
15 - 16 Sep $180 Enrol
Day Option Sat 15 9am - 9pm $100 Enrol
Through yoga the awareness is expanded. This retreat takes yoga off the mat and into the beauty of the Wombat State Forest for a weekend of meditative bush walking.
The Power of Mantra - 5hrs of Om Namah Shivaya Chanting *
September
29 - 30 Sep $180 Enrol
Day Option Sat 29 9am - 9pm $100 Enrol
This overnight retreat is a rare opportunity to take part in a mantra sadhana using the Om Namah Shivaya mantra.
“Mantra is a vehicle for expansion of the mind and liberation of energy.”
Om - the silence - the life or soul within
Na - Annamayakosha - the gross body
Ma - Pranamayakosha - the pranic body
Shi - Manomayakosha - the mental body
Va - Vignanamayakosha - the intuitive body
Ya - Anandamayakosha - the bliss body
Mantras are sound vibrations which have specific effects on the mind and body. Mantra bypasses the busy, intellectual mind and can lead to a higher state of consciousness and awareness.
Swami Satyananda
Astrology & Art - with Sw. Kriyavidya *
October
02 - 04 Nov $270 Enrol
03 - 04 Nov $200 Enrol
Day Option Sat 03 9am to 9pm $120 Enrol
Delve into the mysteries of the planets that guide karma and dharma.
Practise yoga with astrological awareness to know the influence on our energy and mind/emotion moods that constellations and alignments have on our personality.
