Yoga Under the Bodhi Tree

30/10/2025

So much amazing yoga in yoga class this week. And how we love this rain! So grateful for this life giving moisture and the cool change. Yesterdays 38 degrees with 40 knot Westerleys was something out of a horror movie. But back to yoga! So working on the nadis of the body, shifting stuck energy using Nadi Shodhana. A classic ta***ic breath to open up the channels of the body, bring us back into balance and help us let go of the excesses of modern life. Our YIN class last week was filled with vibration and resonance, taking our cellular bodies to new levels of healing. My Zygocactus. Its a brief, stunning display of blooms that was a welcome relief from the dry. And all the jacarandas are out in bloom. Did you know that the in city of Pretoria in South Africa, where many of the streets are lined with Jacarandas, the month of November cloaks the city in a purple haze from these exquisite trees. Such is our beautiful Mother Earth!

29/10/2025

The Studio is closed from Sat 1/11/25 to Mon 24/11/25 for family duties.
Apologies for the inconvenience!
Back on the mats Tues 25/11/25 9.30am Zamia Theatre, MT Tamborine and then its full steam ahead all the way up to Christmas!
Our last class will be Sat 20/12/25.
Keep checking your emails and the FB and Insta pages for lots of exciting articles and pics.
Love and namaste Margot

28/10/2025

My first Silent Yoga retreat was 2 years ago. It was such a success that I decided to alternate a talking and a silent yoga retreat each year. There was some resistance. Noooo! We'll be bored, be sad, go crazy, two whole days with my own thoughts! I wrote a couple of emails talking about the value of silence and how important silence is for self-growth. I mentioned the reality TV stars who fell apart once the TV show was over (hop onto my website www.yogaunderthebodhitree.com.au under BLOG to view these old articles). The most astounding thing was that these young people had LOVED the relentless scrutiny of their lives by the public and when that dried up, they slumped into depression or su***de. We also met Jo Blow who would rather give himself electric shocks just to bide the time than to sit happily for a period alone, with his own thoughts.

Did you know we are all encouraged to be permanently distracted, multi-tasking and shallow. We spend so little time on any one subject that we never form a real opinion, we just mouth someone else's. Not many people read books anymore. How exhausting - it’s so much easier to scroll through Instagram and take in bite size bits of information while we watch pretty images. This has been a carefully guided demise of the human mind by those in charge for the last 50 years. The moguls who own all the media and information channels would love us all to be mindless, distracted, drowning our sorrows in addictive substances and habits. We are so much easier to manipulate, sell something to, or influence. How on earth do you make good decisions when your mind is fluttering from place to place and everyone else is doing the same?

And of course, there was fear that we might be overwhelmed by our own sad thoughts, and the weekend retreat would disintegrate into a morbid rumination of all the horrid things that have happened to us. Well, the good news is – not a chance. Why? Well, you’ll be busy for one. We don’t have to kill 4 hours between classes on my retreats, 1.5 hours max and then we keep going – learning and growing from this amazing science called yoga, pranayama and meditation. And if the sadness and the regrets come up, let them. You are all amazing, courageous human beings and why not embrace the darkness in the company of others who are all walking a similar path? Once you turn to face the shadow there is nowhere else to go but up and into the light.

We live life through 3 energy centres - head, heart and abdomen. The forces of Thinking, Feeling and Willing. The more these centres are aligned in a person, the more that person will be able to manifest their soul’s purpose or dharma. So how do we do this? For the head centre, this means we must be able to concentrate, go silent and pay attention to our thoughts without distractions. If you can’t go silent how on earth are you going to identify which thoughts are truly yours and which ones are external, imposed or habitual? Which thoughts are true? Every truthful expression brings us closer to our essence, every dishonest one leads us further away.

For the heart centre this requires us to feel everything, all our emotions without projecting them outwards. We must embrace these emotions like we are holding a child. Without judgement, without resistance. By embracing the gift of that emotional energy, we can illuminate our entire being.

The will centre is activated by action and movement. Cultivating the discipline to follow through on decisions you have made is essential. Without the will forces, any thought or intentions stays just that. Just a thought, frozen in time, no action, no change in the world. During our Silent Yoga Retreat we will experience all these energies: your thoughts, your feeling and your desire to act upon those insights.
Fabulous stuff! I hope you can join us! Love and namaste Margot

19/10/2025

YIN Yoga tomorrow with Sound Healing , all classes, all week: Mon 20/10/25 - Sat 25/10/25. Bring your bolsters and blocks students for a wonderful week of YIN with Sound healing. Love and namaste Margot

13/10/2025

De- armouring our bodies. We’ve all had times in our lives when everything is working out – it’s like we’re blessed with a lucky star and the opportunities, people and good fortune just seem to fall into our laps. These are rare occasions when we are in the “flow” of life and can’t seem to put a foot wrong. In the world of frequency, we would say that you are aligned with your future self and that universe you are operating from, is free flowing energy. For most of us this state doesn’t last, and we revert back to our ordinary lives and often bad habits.

Why can’t we stay in that elevated state of congruence? From a brain perspective your basal ganglia forms neural pathways through a cue-routine-reward loop. Over time, this process becomes automatic, creating a shortcut your brain is reluctant to abandon. So, if the bad habits and the restricted energy are all part of this familiar routine, you’ll drop out of the flow state and go back to a life which is familiar and “safe”. In yoga we call these grooves in the mind your samskaras, bad habits and familiar memories and emotions that drag us back to the same old, same old.
Wilhelm Reich stated that: The life of an individual is the life of his body. A person who doesn’t breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn’t move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn’t feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. If his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body. And all these restrictions develop as a means of survival in a society that denies body values in favour of power, prestige and possessions.

Reich was the father of ‘de-armouring’ the body. People build up defences or ‘armour’ due to stresses of everyday life, shock trauma and negative thought patterns. Armouring restricts and blocks the free flow of energy in the body, keeping us in patterned behaviours that produce dysfunction, illness and premature aging. We walk around inside a body that is bound by pain tapes of the past. Armouring blocks the flow of energy through the chakras, which in turn depletes the organs associated with those chakras. Thus, our holistic body system becomes compromised and separates us from a natural connection to Source.

On yoga retreat (https://www.yogaunderthebodhitree.com.au/yoga-retreats) we will be using Reichian physical movements and Conscious Connected Breathwork as part of our de-armouring therapy. As we de-armour the body we will allow suppressed emotions and memories to surface and integrate, leading to nervous system regulation, greater body awareness, increased flexibility, and renewed vitality.

We are much more than our body. We are much more than who we imagine ourselves to be. As sacred humans, we are interconnected with all forms of all things within Creation. Yet, most of the time we walk around asleep to the grandeur of our potential. From Anodea Judith: The body remembers what the mind forgets. Releasing armour is not weakness, it is the beginning of real strength. Its going to be an amazing retreat! Hope you can join us!
Love and namaste Margot

11/10/2025

07/10/2025

Wednesday evening 6pm Yoga Class at the Creative Art Centre, Wongawallen Rd restarts tomorrow 8/10/25 now everyone is back at school!
If you are new to this class, just text me if you'd like to join us.
I text my regulars to confirm numbers.
Cant wait to see you beautiful yogis back on the mats!
Love and namaste Margot

05/10/2025

We have our Yoga Retreat coming up - Gather, Breathe, Grow - In Silence, Fri 20 - Sun 22 March 2026, Theosophical Institute, Springbrook, QLD. A catered, weekend, residential Silent Yoga Retreat filled yoga, meditation, breathwork and vibrational frequency.
It was Karan who stated: “Your vibration shapes your reality. The higher you vibrate, the more aligned, joyful, and magnetic you become. Raising your vibration isn’t about perfection. It’s about presence, intention, and devotion to your light.”

This retreat is all about resonance, energetic signatures and becoming aware of how you vibrate and your frequency and changing that frequency if it doesn’t suit your life. How would know if your frequency was not optimal? Look at your health, your mental health, your relationships and your financial prospects. If you are out of tune with what you truly desire from your life – your current life will reflect this dissonance.

So, there were a couple of things that tempted me to pursue a retreat all about vibration, human electrical fields, resonance and frequency. The first thing was my awareness of how badly many of us are affected by EMF toxicity. It’s got worse since COVID, when they put up all the 5G towers. Now EMF toxicity is tricky, some of the population are not affected initially, some are mildly affected and some are chronic. And much like everything else, if it doesn’t affect you, and its invisible, you ignore or dismiss it as the whining of someone else. You’re fine, why aren’t they fine?

About 20% of the population is electrohypersensitive and of that, 80% are female. And if you are electrohypersensitive, you are likely multiple chemically sensitive. Like the canary in the coalmine, warning others around you who dismiss it as neurosis until they develop an autoimmune or pain or something else. We are now exposed to exponentially more artificial radiation (non-native emf), than any previous generation. EMF toxicity can look like fatigue, headaches, insomnia, pain, decreased learning ability, and cognitive impairment thought to be caused by the opening the blood-brain barrier, allowing toxic invaders such as heavy metals, pesticides, and other pollutants through this important barrier, potentially contributing to neurodegenerative diseases.

We all now live in this EMF smog, its a given in all 1st world countries. So how can we protect ourselves from this toxicity and what can we do to build resilience as its not going away. Well, you can try to minimise your personal exposure and there are all sorts of devices out there that come with mixed reviews as to how they can protect you. But my strategy is: if we could improve our own vibration, strengthen it and bolster it so that no matter what is thrown at you (within reason) you will be able to bounce back and you will be able to hang onto your good health whilst living in this world filled with EMF.

Hence the Yoga Retreat. My juiciest one yet! Filled with tools to help you identify where your energetic signature is dense, heavy, blocked or out of tune and practices to help you come back into resonance with this amazing Universe. Tibetan Buddhist Light Yoga - a tradition that emphasizes the connection with light and energy to support growth and inner illumination. Rebirthing Breathwork using the Conscious Connected Breath to fill the body with light- filled prana. Meditation, Reichian Dearmouring, sound baths and sound healing, using vibrational sound to flood your cells with healing frequencies. Mantra, nature, fire, ceremony and best of all, Silence. In silence you will find your true resonance. Hop onto the website to secure your place: www.yogaunderthebodhitree.com.au
Hope you can join us! Love and namaste Margot

03/10/2025

Yoga is on Monday 6/10/25 - Kings birthday - 9.30am Moriarty Centre, Coburg Rd, Canungra. Hope you can join us! Love and Namaste Margot

03/10/2025

Yoga is on Monday 6/10/25 - Kings birthday - 9.30am Moriarty Centre, Coburg Rd, Canungra. Hope you can join us! Love and Namaste Margot

02/10/2025

So much awesome yoga this week so far and a nice strong, sparkly class to help us cope with this unrelenting heat! So shocking for Spring! Our poor gardens and all the wildlife. Spring is the time for really cute baby things and I met a little rabbit called Cecil this week. A miniature Lop who lives in the Tweed. This little cutie gets walked in her pink harness , carried around in her Louis Vuitton Bag and loves to breakfast with the girls!

And Spring is also the time for birdsong starting at 4am. The Asian Koel, all the way from PNG and Indonesia with its distinctive call in the hot mornings! The Channel Billed Cuckoo, also from PNG, my favourite with its haunting scream. And with all the windows open on hot nights the Boobook Owl with its lonely hoot. Such is this beautiful web of life we live in! Sound healing this week for one of my beautiful clients with some of the toys! Two big sound baths will be featured on our Yoga Retreat coming up next year.https://www.yogaunderthebodhitree.com.au/yoga-retreats

Hope you can join us! Love and namaste Margot

23/09/2025

Our Summer Timetable! The only real change is that our Saturday Yoga Class at the Zamia Theatre, MT Tamborine now starts at 8am and the Wednesday night 6pm class is SCHOOL TERM ONLY.