Mountain Mindfulness

Mountain Mindfulness Beautiful Hatha Yoga and Mindfulness classes in Lenah Valley & New Town. Silent Day Retreats. The Om Choir.

It's like living in a wilderness calendar. Evening walks on the east coast 🙏
24/01/2026

It's like living in a wilderness calendar. Evening walks on the east coast 🙏

I found the most comfortable rock for cloud gazing. Do you ever stop and watch the sky?
23/01/2026

I found the most comfortable rock for cloud gazing. Do you ever stop and watch the sky?

22/01/2026
This summer! A little monocrome to say the least. 😅
19/01/2026

This summer! A little monocrome to say the least. 😅

Peace is a daily choice 🧡
09/01/2026

Peace is a daily choice 🧡

They ask for nothing.
No donations.
No slogans.
No enemies to defeat.

They simply walk.

Right now, Buddhist monks are walking nearly 2,300 miles—from Texas to Washington, D.C.
Step after step.
Silently.
With bowls, robes, and discipline.
Alongside them walks Aloka, a rescued dog—no speeches, no opinions, just presence.

This is not a protest.
It is not performance.
It is practice.

In Buddhism, peace is not demanded from the world.
It is embodied.

The monks walk because walking itself is the teaching:
Mindful step.
Mindful breath.
Mindful intention.

Every step says:
👉 Violence does not heal violence.
👉 Noise does not cure suffering.
👉 Anger cannot end anger.

The Buddha taught that peace begins when the mind stops fighting reality.
When greed softens.
When hatred is not fed.
When compassion becomes action.

That is why this walk is unsettling for some—and deeply healing for others.

Because it exposes something uncomfortable:
We are exhausted from arguing about peace,
yet unfamiliar with living it.

People line the roads.
Strangers cry.
Online trackers follow their progress daily.
Not because the monks are asking us to change the world—

—but because their calm reminds us that we can.

This walk is medicine for anxious minds.
A mirror for divided hearts.
A quiet reminder that peace is not an idea.

It is a discipline.
A daily choice.
A step you take even when no one is watching.

They walk for peace.
And somehow… the world remembers how to breathe. 🪷

Sometimes the loudest message
is a silent step forward.




End of day 🧡
09/01/2026

End of day 🧡

Wow! Look at this special event coming up on Sunday.
08/01/2026

Wow! Look at this special event coming up on Sunday.

‘It makes sense that i feel this way.’ Love it!Emotional intelligence ❤️
05/01/2026

‘It makes sense that i feel this way.’ Love it!
Emotional intelligence ❤️

The view from shavasana this morning 😀Early morning yoga on the deck has finally resumed 🔆🔆🔆
05/01/2026

The view from shavasana this morning 😀
Early morning yoga on the deck has finally resumed 🔆🔆🔆

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188 Lenah Valley Road
Lenah Valley, TAS
7008

Opening Hours

Monday 9:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 9:30am - 7:30pm
Wednesday 9:30am - 7:30pm
Thursday 9:30am - 7:30pm
Friday 9:30am - 5pm

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+61400519323

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Welcome to Mountain Mindfulness

Yoga & mindfulness are tools that help to get us out of our heads, and back into our hearts and bodies. They allow us to drop the constant ‘doing’ and take some time to simply ‘be’. Mindfulness research shows that we have around 60,000 thoughts a day, and that 90% of them we also had yesterday and the day before! Understanding the nature of the mind, and learning techniques to manage it, helps us live a more happy and balanced life.

Music: Coming together to sing, chant, or move with the peace dances, creates a positive vibration on every level - physical, mental and emotional. Melodic repetition and musical patterns are calming for the mind. Being in a group creates community and connection. Learning something new creates new neural pathways in the brain and is so good for your mental health.

About Melissa Howden (Sangita): Melissa’s background is in education as a music teacher working in schools in both Tasmania & London. Following a major sea change triggered by a health crisis in 2013, she found herself living in a yoga ashram in NSW and studying at the Gawler Cancer Foundation in Victoria. During this time Melissa came to understand the enormous part the mind plays in healing and in determining the quality of one’s whole life. This is why she now loves to share the path of yoga and mindfulness, as well as music, as ways to enhance both physical and mental wellbeing and to create a more personally meaningful life.

Sangita (coming together in music)