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Yoga in Harmony with Nature. Yoga & meditation classes, courses, retreats. 500hr Teacher Training. www.kookaburrayoga.com

Yoga is for everyone - and can help you awaken your inner joy, realise your potential, bring strength, health and resilience to your body, and calmness, peace and clarity to your mind and soul. Kookaburra Yoga offers classes, courses and retreats which are affordable, accessible, safe and easy to learn - from our sanctuary in the heart of nature. Our unique Hatha Yoga Method is a holistic system of self-understanding and nurturing every aspect of your body, mind and soul through yoga, meditation, mindfulness, yogic living and diet. Our teachers have decades experience guiding and supporting students to experience the profoundly transformative, healing intent of yoga. Away from the busyness and responsibilities of life, yoga at Kookaburra brings you into harmony with your inner nature so you can emerge refreshed, renewed with new perspectives and vitality. In its truest form, yoga is a beautiful, joyful journey inwards where we discover the essence of who we are - beyond the many roles we assume through our lifetime. Delve as deep as you like at Kookaburra - from 1 hour classes, 1 day retreats to immersive India retreats and 12 month Teacher Training.

09/11/2025

Moods of the Mountain. Every morning in the predawn light meditating with candlelight and the rising sun..and every evening in moon light. The deep peace of Arunachala. Invoking the qualities and blessings of the sacred mountain and the divine earth. The deep peace of meditation at the beginning and ending of each day. Om Namah Shivaya.

07/11/2025

“Summa iru – Be still" said Ramana Maharshi. "The silence of the Self is the highest teaching.”

MOUNA – The Two Faces of Silence.
On the full moon eve we joined half a million pilgrims here at Tiruvannamalai, circling Mt Arunachala barefoot beneath the moon’s silver light. A flowing stream of devotion wrapped around the sacred mountain, like the endless current of thoughts that encircle the stillness of awareness itself.

As part of our retreat, after the pilgrimage we entered mouna, the practice of sacred silence.

Turning inward we came to the mountain’s heart, the centre where all motion dissolves into stillness. Two days of mouna, the inner pilgrimage that follows the outer one.

Silence is golden, radiant, and deeply restorative. It is pratyāhāra, the gentle turning of the senses inward, a resting in awareness. In this stillness the mind refines, the heart grows light and the breath flows with quiet grace. Such silence is sāttvic, luminous by nature. It brings clarity, empathy and a subtle joy that arises when we rest in harmony with life.

This is the silence of Ramana Maharshi, whose presence here continues to transmit stillness beyond words. Within this sacred quiet, thoughts soften, perception clears and the grieving heart, shattered into a million shards, begins to become whole again.

Silence also reveals what has long been hidden. Some silences heal, others conceal. The path of mouna is to know the difference, to rest in the silence that brings lightness, and to release the silence that binds. To recognise that what remains unspoken can echo just as deeply and cause as much harm as words themselves.

Emerging from these days of silence, there is clarity in thought and speech. Words arise slowly, purposefully, with greater care. We become aware of their power, how they shape our inner world and ripple outward to touch others.

Here at Arunachala, the mountain holds everything, sound and silence, joy and grief, and returns it all to peace.

The mountain is silent, yet it speaks through everything. In its stillness, I hear my own heart clearly.

~ Mandy

03/11/2025

When love turns inward it becomes devotion. When longing meets the Divine it becomes peace. Īśvara Praṇidhāna is this surrender, a return to the quiet ever-present knowing that love itself is the mountain - steady, unmoving, eternal.

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Here at the foot of Arunachala, whose silent heart has called pilgrims and sages for millennia, I find myself returning to Love. Here, there is devotion everywhere. It is in the people, the pilgrims here to walk the sacred giripradakṣiṇā under the full moon tomorrow, in the temples, the silent prayers, the elaborate rituals, in the kindness and generosity of strangers and friends.

Īśvara Praṇidhāna is unconditional surrender to the Divine, a letting go of outcomes, of holding on, it is to come closer to God. This mountain holds a stillness so vast it softens the edges of longing, and absorbs the noise of thought until only essence remains.

In my own healing journey, through the grief of the unravelling of what I once called love, I have come to understand surrender in a new way. All the love and longing that once flowed outward toward another, I now turn inward toward the Divine that breathes quietly within. The love here is expansive, universal, filling the heart completely. From that fullness, compassion begins to flow outward again, steady, unforced, and unconditional.

There have been serendipitous encounters here, subtle transmissions of Arunachala’s wisdom and the presence of Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi, the greatest of sages, whose grace continues to infuse this place. His words echo in the heart cave: Why want what you cannot have? Why invest energy into what diminishes you, into those who cannot meet you in truth? Each time the mind circles around what has ended, it feeds the illusion of separation. The mountain clearly says instead: let it rest, let love return to its source.

Arunachala reveals that what we seek in others is already here, in the breath, in the silence, in the heart that continues to love, no matter what has passed.

30/10/2025

Darshan with my Teachers. What a blessing and an honour to sit today with my beloved teachers, A.G. Mohan and Indra Mohan, here in Chennai. I have received their guidance for the past eighteen years, and their influence on my life and teachings is profound and enduring. They see into our minds and hearts, understanding deeply our fragility and humanness, and with great compassion and gentleness share the most profound and relevant wisdom.

During today’s talk they shared wisdom which is both timeless and deeply relevant. In a world where values are fading, while selfishness, fear, and the pursuit of power often dominate, it is through yoga and mantra we learn to protect the mind and heart. Selfishness and fear are innate within us all, and when these tendencies are left unrestrained, the result is conflict and imbalance in the inner and external world. Yet suffering has its sacred purpose. It comes to strengthen us, to lift us to a higher path, and to guide us inward.

Some situations are beyond our control, and peace is found in accepting them. Others require courage and action, standing firm and responding with empathy and strength. Yoga strengthens our capacity to act with integrity and keep ourselves safe in the world. There is an analogy in the Upaniṣads, life is like a bird with two wings, one wing is our values and the other is protection. Both are needed for balance and for flight.

To sit with teachers who embody such gentleness, clarity, and compassion is humbling and healing. It is truly a rare blessing for which i have so much gratitide. They remind us that values must be consciously cultivated, that knowledgeable practice is the true teacher, and that love, real love, is discovered in the stillness within. It is a feeling of expansive peace which arises when the senses quieten and the heart turns inward. We seek this love everywhere else and forget it is already within. When we remember, we stop searching for happiness in the outer world and turn towards what is steady within. Even when our lives are imperfect, even in the midst of difficulty, we can be content. When we drop expectation and find acceptance, peace flows naturally.

30/10/2025

Darshan with my Teachers. What a blessing and an honour to sit today with my beloved teachers, A.G. Mohan and Indra Mohan, whose guidance I have received for the past eighteen years. Their influence on my life and teachings is profound and enduring.

During today’s talk they shared wisdom which is both timeless and deeply relevant. In a world where values are fading, while selfishness, fear, and the pursuit of power often dominate, it is through yoga and mantra we learn to protect the mind and heart. Selfishness and fear are innate within us all, and when these tendencies are left unrestrained, the result is conflict and imbalance in the inner and external world. Yet suffering has its sacred purpose. It comes to strengthen us, to lift us to a higher path, and to guide us inward.

Some situations are beyond our control, and peace is found in accepting them. Others require courage and action, standing firm and responding with empathy and strength. Yoga strengthens our capacity to act with integrity and keep ourselves safe in the world. There is an analogy in the Upaniṣads, life is like a bird with two wings, one wing is our values and the other is protection. Both are needed for balance and for flight.

To sit with teachers who embody such gentleness, clarity, and compassion is humbling and healing. They remind us that values must be consciously cultivated, that knowledgeable practice is the true teacher, and that love, real love, is discovered in the stillness within. It is a feeling of expansive peace which arises when the senses quieten and the heart turns inward. We seek this love everywhere else and forget it is already within. When we remember, we stop searching for happiness in the outer world and turn towards what is steady within. Even when our lives are imperfect, even in the midst of difficulty, we can be content. When we drop expectation and find acceptance, peace flows naturally.

28/10/2025

Selfless service heals the heart.
Nourishment is an act of love.

This weekend I was back in the kitchen, creating deeply nourishing vegan meals for our programs with the luminous Nitya Mohan and all who gathered at Kookaburra. Each dish was prepared and shared with devotion, in the spirit of Annadānam, the sacred offering of food.

My work with food is a relationship with nature and the elements, a co-creation with the living world. It draws on a deep attunement to the earth’s intelligence, where flavour, colour, texture, and aroma come together in harmony. Every meal is an intricate balancing of the five elements, the six tastes, and the senses, crafted to offer a complete sensory experience. There are no recipes, only intuition and presence, and somehow the synergy is always magic and delicious.

In the ancient story, Annalakṣmī, goddess of abundance, offered food to Śiva, turning nourishment into worship. Annadānam is this same act of love, giving without expectation, serving as a mother nourishes her child, and recognising the divine within all who receive.

In yoga, food is prāṇa, the vital life force that sustains and harmonises. When cooked and eaten mindfully it steadies the body, clears the mind, and awakens gratitude.

At Kookaburra Yoga, our values are grounded in care, community, and service. To share food is to share love. To serve is to honour life itself. Annadānam reminds us that every meal can be sacred, and every act of giving a step toward peace.

Our 22 November Women's Circle includes a simple nourishing dinner I prepare with love. And then there is our New Year's Eve Sound Silence Stillness Celebration Retreat which includes an incredible vegan feast. I hope you can join me. Details on our website: www.kookaburrayoga.com

28/10/2025

It was a true honour and blessing to welcome the luminous Nitya Mohan back to Kookaburra for three days of profound learning and inspiration through her programs Yoga for Women and Yogic Sound for Wellbeing.

Rooted in the wisdom of Patañjali and the great sages of the Upaniṣads, Nitya’s teachings wove together philosophy, mantra, rāga, and Sanskrit with depth and clarity. Her approach to the spectrum of human emotion, and to cultivating harmony and peace through sound and breath, was deeply relevant and moving.

Her renditions of the rāgas carried pure devotion, while her lessons in Sanskrit and mantra were steadying, practical, and transcendent.

Nitya embodies the very qualities yoga cultivates: gentleness, calmness, clarity, generosity, and grace. She is a true light in this world, and her presence left a lasting resonance in our hearts and space.

You can expect the echoes of her teachings, her mantras and insights, and the bhāva of sound to flow into our upcoming classes, retreats, and programs at Kookaburra Yoga. We hope to see you soon. www.kookaburrayoga.com

21/10/2025

This to me is such a healing and sacred place. The many moments over many years spent lying on this granite rock warm from the sun, with the river flowing by. A place to bow to the earth and to let go of my sense of humanness for a short while. You might have been here with me on a silent walk, or cold plunge in the river, on one of our retreats.

Calm and clarity come when there is a sense of being held by nature, and being one with nature. Do you have a place in nature you can return to again and again? Sometimes we can't go there physically, even remembering such a place returns us to the temple of nature.

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DEEP ECOLOGY at Kookaburra Yoga. 12-14 December. A weekend immersion of practice, meditation, reflection, and awakening the ecological self. This weekend workshop offers a rare and beautiful experience of Deep Ecology, as an embodied philosophy that restores the sacred relationship between humans and the living Earth.

Across the weekend we explore the deep intelligence of nature through yoga, Deep Ecology processes, meditation, story, and reflective dialogue. Each experience is a portal into awareness, gratitude, and kinship with all beings. The practices awaken the ecological self, expanding perception from the personal to the planetary, from the human to the universal. It is deeply moving and deeply healing.

Details on our website https://www.kookaburrayoga.com/deep-ecology-retreat.html

20/10/2025

THE QUALITIES WE NEEDED IN 2025
At the start of this year, I wrote to our community and led a Soma Healing Yoga session defining ten essential qualities for 2025. I wrote about strength, clarity and courage – unaware of how deeply life would ask me to live them.

The message found its way back to me recently, a reminder of how our soul often knows what lies ahead before we do. Reading those words again, I felt both tenderness and awe. Every quality has been a living practice, awakened through heartbreak, change and surrender.

This year has shown me that success is not measured by what we achieve in the outer world, but by how deeply we stay true to the inner one. It is about presence through uncertainty, grace in the midst of grief, and faith in the quiet unfolding of life.

These were the ten qualities we began the year with, and perhaps the ones we still need most:

• CLARITY to define what truly matters.
• FOCUS to stay steady through distraction.
• RESILIENCE to rise again, softly and bravely.
• ADAPTABILITY to meet life as it is.
• BALANCE to care for body, heart and soul.
• VISION to keep sight of the greater whole.
• COURAGE to face the truth and step into the unknown.
• ALIGNMENT to live by our values.
• SELF-DISCIPLINE to honour the daily practices which sustain us.
• GRATITUDE AND PRESENCE to see the beauty in it all.

Little did I know, how deeply I'd need to draw on these inner qualities. About to return to India, I find myself returning to the same intention: to stay grounded in practice, pure and open in heart, and devoted to what is true. To let every ending be an initiation, the challenges a deepening, and each and every breath a prayer of connection with the earth and with the light within.

Our classes here at Kookaburra continue with our beautiful teachers, and are a support in holding these qualities steady. On returning from India we again host our Summer Solstice Community Gathering on the 20 December. This year a collaborative offering with a giving circle, joyful circle dance and celebration dinner. I hope you can join us in honouring 2025 and bringing these qualities forwards and into the world. www.kookaburrayoga.com

20/10/2025

🌟Meditation Mastery and Diwali Blessing 🪔
This weekend we closed the Meditation Mastery Teacher Training journey, seven months of inner work, discipline, insight, revelation, and grace. Through sincere study and practice, we have journeyed into the subtle layers of consciousness, exploring the vast inner terrain of mind, subtle body and Self.

We gathered this weekend in reflection and celebration, teachers, seekers, and friends, completing our training on the auspicious eve of Diwali, the Festival of Lights.

How fitting that this path of awakening culminates on a day when the world honours light prevailing over darkness, truth over illusion, and wisdom over ignorance.

Each of us was gifted a dīya, a small clay lamp, to place in the doorway on the eve of Diwali, welcoming abundance, good fortune, and the blessings of Lakṣmī, goddess of light and prosperity. These lamps remind us that the flame we see outside is the same light that shines within. Each graduate has become a dīpaka, a bearer of light, carrying the radiance of meditation into their homes, families, and communities.

What a dedicated, kind, and supportive sangha this group has been. Shining bright together, becoming reflections of the same flame - steady, luminous, and vibrantly alive. And what a blessing it is to do this work, to gather such beautiful generous souls together, and to live such a deeply purposeful life.

May these lamps, inner and outer, continue to burn with beauty and purpose.

Sarvaṁ Khalvidam Brahma - All This Is Divine. All that shines within and without is the same sacred light. 🌟

16/10/2025

Deep Ecology – Remembering Our Ecological Self

Deep Ecology is an eco-philosophy, a lived inquiry into who we truly are within the web of life. It asks a simple and radical question: Where do I end, and the Earth begin?

When we begin to perceive the Earth as our larger body, rivers as our bloodstream, forests as our lungs, mountains as our bones, a profound shift occurs. The sense of separation dissolves, and care for the planet becomes care for the self. This merging of the personal and planetary awakens what philosopher Arne Naess called the ecological self, an expanded identity that includes all beings, all elements, all existence.

Deep Ecology invites a shift from a human-centred worldview to an Earth-centred one. It reminds us that we are expressions of the same vast intelligence that animates every cell, seed, and star. Our wellbeing arises through alignment with this living system. When we live from this understanding, our choices, values, and actions heal and harmonise.

Deep Ecology Workshop
Kookaburra Yoga, Perth Hills
12–14 December 2025

A weekend immersion in Deep Ecology, a philosophy of practice, meditation, reflection, and awakening the ecological self. This workshop offers a rare and beautiful experience of Deep Ecology as an embodied philosophy that restores the sacred relationship between humans and the living Earth.

Across the weekend we explore the deep intelligence of nature through Deep Ecology processes, meditation, story, and reflective dialogue. Each experience opens awareness, gratitude, and kinship with all beings. The practices awaken the ecological self, expanding perception from the personal to the planetary, from the human to the universal. It is deeply moving and deeply healing.

Facilitated by John Seed, Patsy Hallen, Erika Aligno, and Mandy BeckerKnox. Held within the sanctuary of Kookaburra Yoga, a place of stillness, beauty, and renewal. You are welcome to join us and find your place again in the circle of life.

https://www.kookaburrayoga.com/deep-ecology-retreat.html

11/10/2025

KṢAMĀ – Acceptance, Patience, Grace.
To accept the unacceptable is one of life’s greatest spiritual practices. Kṣamā, in Sanskrit, means acceptance and the quiet courage to meet life as it is, rather than as we wish it to be.

Acceptance doesn’t mean approval or even forgiveness. It is the ground from which forgiveness becomes possible. It is the strength to sit with what feels painful, unjust, or bewildering, while staying present. It is the wisdom to recognise that what is unfolding may be beyond our control, yet still held within the field of divine order.

There is tenderness in this. The heart softens. Stories dissolve. The mind begins to unclench. Life becomes what it always was — beautifully vast, interconnected, alive.

My yoga practice has changed through this period of transformation and healing. There is a required gentleness with myself. I return again and again to Kṣamā — acceptance — and to this simple yet profound mudra practice, which I’ll share tonight in our Shakti Women’s Circle: the gesture of acceptance.

Kṣamā Mudrā
* Palms open on the knees, receiving this moment as it is, accepting life, the self, and this breath.
* Arms open wide, palms to the sky, welcoming the world in all its beauty and sorrow, allowing life to flow through.
* Hands to the heart, returning to love, resting in compassion, accepting the universal pulse that connects all beings.

Through Kṣamā Mudrā, we remember that healing begins in softness, grace flows when we open, and acceptance is strength in its most luminous form.

The world is uncertain and imperfect, yet within us there is the capacity to meet it with equanimity and love. This is the work of the heart, and the path of yoga.

~ Mandy

SHAKTI WOMEN'S CIRCLE is tonight 5-8pm. A beautiful evening of acceptance, grace, heartfelt connection and kindness. BALI WOMEN'S SACRED HEALING RETREAT 23-29 April 2026. Just launched, early bird bookings welcomed. www.kookaburrayoga.com

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From a seed of intention Kookaburra Creek Yoga Centre arose as a vision for a centre where people could seek solace and reprieve from the stresses of everyday living, and directly experience the oneness and unity the practices of yoga bring about in a pristine natural environment. Kookaburra Creek is a 10 acre property in Bedfordale in the Perth hills. The grounds are mainly native flora and fauna with a spring-fed stream flowing across the property and an abundance of kangaroos, kookaburras, frogs and bandicoots!

The Kookaburra Creek Yoga Centre was built on the guiding principles of Vastu Shastra - the traditional Indian system of space and building design where the design, layout, measurements, space arrangement and spatial geometry are all considered to best integrate built spaces with nature to ensure harmony and the flow of positive energy. In Vastu Shastra the various parts of the structure form a geometric pattern (yantra) with sacred significance which is conjucive to spiritual practice. The Kookaburra Creek logo was also designed to replicate the shape and form of the building and uses found objects from the ground. Kookaburra Creek is managed by Robert Becker and Mandy BeckerKnox who conduct a full program of hatha yoga and meditation classes and courses, educational workshops and programs on aspects of traditional yoga and a retreat program for longer, immersive yogic experiences. In addition to the yoga centre, Kookaburra Creek has 3 other buildings including a residential retreat facility, and an organic garden where much of the food prepared for retreats is grown. Kookaburra Creek is truly a place in harmony with nature. It is an eco-friendly property powered by the sun utilising the pure, soft spring water which rises higher up the hill. Classes are often accompanied by the sounds of kookaburras, crickets, frogs, birds and the breeze between the branches of the trees. We often incorporate activities in nature into retreat programs giving participants the opportunity to absorb the peace and beauty of this very special place.

Kookaburra Yoga's integrated system of Hatha and Raja Yoga ensures the practices are holistic and beneficial on every level of being. Hatha Yoga classes are often the starting point for many people who may eventually enquire into the more meaningful and spiritual paths of yoga. Kookaburra Yoga's classes at Kookaburra Creek Yoga School and on our retreat programs are informed by both the traditional teachings and modern approaches ensuring they are relevant, accessible and safe for all levels of practitioners. In this system, the practices taught are of 4 types which align with and bring into focus the values and characteristics of the four paths of Traditional Yoga thereby leading us towards an integrated and true experience of yoga. The 4 types of asanas can be characterised by: those which bring inner quiet; those which bring focus and body awareness; those which bring humility and detachment; and those which increase confidence and vitality.

Kookaburra Yoga's classes at Kookaburra Creek Yoga Centre are informed by both traditional teachings and modern approaches ensuring they are relevant, accessible and safe for all levels of practitioners. Kookaburra Yoga's integrated system of Hatha and Raja Yoga ensures the practices are holistic and beneficial on every level of being. Hatha Yoga classes are often the starting point for many people who may eventually enquire into the more meaningful and spiritual paths of yoga.

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