Yamba Yoga Retreats, Yamba (2025)

27/07/2022

‘A weekend of yoga, nourishing food and good company in one of Australia’s most beautiful seaside towns.’ ✨

Spring yoga in Yamba weekend now open for bookings 🧡🧡

September 30th and October 1st 2022.

🧘🏽Three yoga classes over two days

🍋 Nourishing Ayurvedic take home meal on Friday night after class

🥑 Shared two course brunch on Saturday morning

🕯Restorative yoga and candle gazing meditation

🧘🏻‍♀️Gentle movement and yin yoga to release tension from the body

☀️Plenty of time for you to enjoy beautiful Yamba.

$220 per person

19/06/2022

I have a breathwork practice for you. Its called breath stacking, and it’s really great for keeping your lungs healthy 🫁

It’s called breath stacking because we take an inhale, pause, then before exhaling, we take another inhale, pause take another and so on until you can’t take in any more air. Then you take a slow, calm exhale and repeat a couple of times.

We want to move the entire body in small, regular and sustainable ways, and this includes the breathing muscles and organs.

This practice helps us to use more of the lungs and use them to their potential.

The audio has just gone out to my subscribers. You can find the link above to listen and learn more. 🙂

Pic by from a yoga weekend in yamba

11/05/2022

~ Winter Reset ~

This winter I’m hosting an online seasonal reset. ❄️

🌙 Daily yoga to keep you warm & grounded, about 10 mins each day

🌙 Guided self massage with warm oil (so good for you! More on this to come)

🌙 winter recipes

🌙 a conversation with naturopath Alice about diet and supplements during the cooler months

🌙 Longer restorative and yin classes to embrace turning inward and deep rest

🌙 Yoga nidra for rest & immunity

🌙 Practices such as tongue scraping to remove toxins and neti to wash the nasal passages

🌙 Starts 30th May with access for until the end of winter

🌙Bookings open 15th May $170 or free for my lovely members (hint- sign up! 😅)

Please message me if you have any questions at all. 😗

11/05/2022

Change how you think about taking plank posture 😅

I don’t know about you, but plank doesn’t sound appealing to many of us. 😏

It’s a strong posture and requires a lot of strength in the body and patience in the mind.

In my member area this week I added a new class including plank. 💪

However this time I invite you to change how you think about it. 🤔

Instead of taking plank to build strength in the shoulders and core, let’s think of doing it to get out of the head and into the body. It doesn’t matter how long we are holding them, or if we have our knees on the floor or not- but more that we become so present in our bodies that it’s very hard to stay in your head, looping thoughts over and over. 😵‍💫

Of course we will get the added side effects (benefits) of strength in the body but in this case it’s not our intention. 💫

Take this approach next time you include plank in your practice and let me know what you think 😌

22/04/2022

Over on substack I posted a conversation I had with my sister, Jo about her upcoming course, Common Ground.

Jo will teach you how to master hard conversations. I know that many people here in this community might find this course useful.

It is an 8 week self paced online course with beautifully presented professional videos to take you through the modules.

Throughout the course you will gain all the practical communication skills you need to thrive in any conversation or situation. Such important skills!!
If you’re like me, clear communication can be tricky. Many of us enter in to a difficult conversation with dread, assuming that it will end with one of us ‘winning’ (being right) and the other ‘losing’ (being wrong). This can leave us uneasy to actually have the conversation. We don’t want to be wrong, or for the people pleasers, a sense of guilt with offending someone or making them wrong. So instead we avoid the interaction - however the issue or resentment doesn’t go away! Instead we store it away in our bodies.

If you’d like to listen, you can visit click the link in my profile.

*cute pic of our little girls communicating with love 💛💛😉

12/04/2022

We spend so much of our lives talking to each other, but how often are we simply running on autopilot - relying on old habits and hoping for the best?

The techniques taught in Common Ground will enable you to truly hear others and speak your mind in a clear and kind way, without the need to get defensive or go on the attack.

Common Ground is an 8-week online, self-paced course that teaches you all the practical communication skills you need to thrive in hard conversations. The course is designed to help people:

▪️Develop leadership skills for a positive & productive culture
▪️Deepen loving relationships and show up fully where it matters most
▪️Strengthen personal boundaries and communicate from a place of values
▪️Speak peacefully in a world of conflict

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I’ve just signed up to Common Ground, an upcoming online course all about effective and compassionate communication, hosted by Jo Meditation • Business Coach] 😊

Jo (my sister! 💗) has been running this program in person for some time, and now it’s available for us all to take in our own time and wherever we live.

I feel like this course has come at a very good time for me. 😅

You can learn more Meditation • Business Coach] or there is a link in my profile for you to learn more about the course

10/04/2022

I’ve just sent out this weeks letter to my lovely subscribers, but thought I’d share it here too ☺️

If this idea resonates with you, you can visit my Substack to listen to a very short guided audio practice to experience ‘softening the edges of the posture’.
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There can be a lot of instruction when we take a yoga posture. Checking the alignment of your knee, or if your shoulders are shrugging up to your ears for example. While alignment instruction is important in some case to keep the body safe, it can also cause us to hold on or to tighten too much.

This is where the idea of ‘softening the edges of the posture’ comes in. The idea is, take the instruction into account, understand it but then soften the edges, let go a little. That’s when the energy can flow, and we feel lighter in the pose.

This is instead of forcing the posture, holding tight and being too fixated on getting it right.

We can still be in a strong and powerful posture, but we are easing into it.

I love to consider the ideas we learn in yoga and how they can be transferred to living your life off the mat.
We can consider this idea with many aspects of our lives. For the purpose of this post, let’s think about eating healthily, for example. It’s important to know the facts about what to eat and why. But if we become too focussed or fixated on it, most of us know that isn’t healthy and defeats the original intention. However, if we approach it from a ‘softening the edges’ perspective, then we would still see the value of healthy eating and embody what we learn but then let go a little and not be so fixated on it.
It’s not to say that we suddenly turn to a diet of processed foods ( we can still be in that powerful posture, remember) but we let go and be more gentle on ourselves.

And many of us also know that is usually a more healthy approach.
I know in the world of parenting there are many areas where we could soften a little. Screen time, sugar intake, bedtime routines to name a couple. Perhaps in your career or work you could let go just a bit? Or maybe there’s a part of your persona that you have become to identify with, can you soften that too?

04/04/2022

Each Sunday I send off a little email. 💌
It’s about yoga related thoughts, books and podcasts recommendations and practice bits and bobs. Let’s say it has evolved and continues to do so. 💫

I’ve just moved it to a new (to me) platform called Substack.

Have you heard of it? It is really designed for writers but I’ve decided to use it for a couple of reasons. Firstly I find it’s a little more calm visually. Also, I can keep all my letters together so you can read back on past letters in the same place rather than having to traipse back through your inbox (you can even download their app so it’s so easy to read).

However what appealed most is that it’s very easy for me to send subscribers a video or an audio. It’s stored right there on the platform, rather than having to link out to youtube or Vimeo, for example.

So, you can look forward to the occasional short yoga session, practice tips, yoga Nidra and breathwork audios and whatever else I get inspired to send! ; )

For now, to start us off I am sharing a 30 minute class from my online member area.
This class is gentle, designed to move tension that has been stored in the body. So if you’re feeling exhausted physically and/or emotionally I hope this helps.

If you’re already a subscriber then you’ll continue to get the emails and don’t need to do anything. ✔️

If you’re not and you’re interested you can sign up via the link in my profile above. 🙏🏻

Pic by at a Yoga weekend in Yamba with

03/04/2022

July yoga weekend in Yamba is now full 🧡

If you missed out this time or the dates didn’t suit you, I also offer private weekends for groups of five to twelve so if you have a group of friends who would love a weekend of yoga and wholesome food please send me a message! 💫

15/03/2022

Yoga weekend in Yamba coming up 💫

1st - 3rd July 2022

The retreat will begin later on Friday evening at 6.30pm to allow for travel to Yamba. Our first class will start with some gentle movement to release tension from the week. We will then take some restorative yoga postures to really calm the nervous system. At the end of class we will take a candle gazing meditation - known as trataka. This is such a lovely meditation that will help you get some quality sleep. After class I will send you off with a nourishing take-home bowl of kichari with some delicious condiments to warm and enjoy at home or in your accommodation for the weekend.

Saturday morning we will meet at 6.30am for a walk in the winter sunshine along Pippi beach. At the end of the beach we will take a short pranayama (breath work) session. If you feel like it, a bracing dip in the ocean will set you up for the day!

We will then meet at our cottage for a shared wholesome brunch on the verandah. Warming Ayurvedic porridge followed by a winter breakfast salad and herbal teas will be on the menu.

The day will be free for you to spend as you please. Perhaps a massage or facial, wander the shops, enjoy the beaches or settle in with a good book.

At 4pm we will meet back at the yoga studio. This class will include a little more movement and active breath work.

The evening is free for you to try one of Yamba and Angourie’s excellent restaurants, or you may prefer an early night!

Finally, Sunday morning we will meet a little later in the morning at 10am for our last class together.

The cost for the weekend is $250.

You can learn more by visiting my website which you’ll find in my profile above.

There are currently 3 spots remaining ☺️

23/11/2021

Ustrasana, the camel pose 🐪

The variations are all ustrasana. ✔️

Any posture where the spine is extended can make us feel so good! They are energising and uplifting and important to keep the spine healthy and youthful.

However many of us feel a lot of tension in the lower back after back bends.

Our lower backs have more flexibility and movement than higher up the spine. This means we can easily force too much pressure in the lower back, simply to get ourselves into this posture.

When you are taking ustrasana, think about lengthening the lower back to create space between the vertebrae.

If you feel a ‘pinch’ or pressure in the lower back then bring your hips closer to your heels and open more through the heart.

You don’t have to force the hips forward as there’s a chance you’re doing more damage than good 😱

Remember to meet yourself where you are in your practice. And keep asking yourself; am I concerned with how this posture looks, or how it makes me feel? 🌼

03/11/2021

Better late that never 😅

Here is day ten of our ten day sun salutes challenge! 👏

Thanks for joining me. 🙂

It can often be challenging to fit yoga into our day. It’s easy to find an excuse, but sometimes deciding to make the commitment to yourself is all it takes. Remember it doesn’t have to be perfect and it doesn’t have to be for long. Simply rolling out your mat and moving and breathing in any way that feels good is a worthwhile practice.

The surya namaskar sequence is a really nice practice to get to know. It’s a complete practice in itself, and once you know it you don’t have to think about it!

I’d love you to come back to use these videos whenever you like.

☺️

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