Otways Forrest Yoga

15/10/2025

🙏Diving into Spring🌼

Currently, in my classes, I'm guiding/ leading a journey through the 5 Koshas using asana, breath and dharana (fucused attention). Working our way from the periphery annamaya kosha (physical body)- releasing old stale energy to the most subtle anandamaya Kosha and into the core of our Being as an embodied soul, Atman. I'm incorporating traditional meditation at the end of the class. No belief system pushed or needed to get benefit. I have aetheists and spiritualists in my classes. Awareness is awareness. Consciousness is consciousness.

The Koshas are not a literal anatomical model of the body but rather, as Shiva Rea states "a metaphor that helps describe what it feels like to do yoga from the inside - the proces of aligning what in contemporary language we often call the "mind, body, and spirt' or 'mind-body connection.""

30+ years ago I started yoga asana in India - just spontaneously joining an Iyengar teacher on the roof top of the accommodation place I was living. I was working in Calcutta at the time. I never stopped doing yoga from that day. Interestingly, that same week (or so) a random sweet woman in that accomodation place gifted me a copy of ' Light of Yoga' by BKS Iyengar. Had no idea it would lead me here!

So grateful 🙏 Yoga found me 🪷
Satchidananada

15/10/2025

21/09/2025

I am back from India 🙏 beautiful people.

Yoga commences next wednesday (24th September 25) in Forrest @ 9.10am and in Deans Marsh Community Cottage @ 6pm.

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17/08/2025

Blessings from India 🇮🇳

Arunachala, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, South India. So blessed to be meditating in Sri Ramana's Ashram daily and showered with the devotion ✨️ of the rituals and presence of this hill.

Tiruvannamalai holds such peace and chaos all in the same breath. Pilgrims from all over the world come here to circumnavigate Arunachala and visit this Ashram.

I am humbled more and more every day, the longer.
Tears (of joy and sadness) well up, and live behind my eyes constantly.

🙏 I have so few words today.

So blessed🙇‍♂️ I hope this finds you well.

11/11/2024

Thank you to all the participants who joined the yoga retreat in Forrest this weekend🙏 we all together created a sanctuary for a deep & soulful dive into the Self through the practices shared.
Thank you Peter, Rozzy and Lizzi for sharing your wonderful practices with us all.
Hari 🕉 om

05/11/2024

Yoga classes on Wednesday mornings @9.10am in Forrest and Deans Marsh @ 6pm continues until December 18th.....

My practice has taken on a different shape......

I've been immersed in breathwork BBTRS and Somatic movement ( training with Somatic Groundwork teacher Kaila June) for last couple of years.

More, recently connecting with some Key ideas from Osteo yoga teacher Viktor Radionov. My body feels stronger, holistically moreso.

Underlying the above....is the original training I did in the Shivananda lineage 30 years ago. But Iyengar was my original way of connecting was with yoga.

I worked with an Iyengar buddhist nun in her stunning warehouse studio near Victoria Station, London in 1993.

I connected to yoga through theses two styles.

I also practiced Ashtanga with Peter Day, and others.

Peter introduced me to Shadow yoga and i trained in that school for 10 years. Shandor, founder of Shadow yoga was a student of B.K.S Iyengar. My shadow yoga teachers were awesome.

And i didn't end up being a Shadow Yoga teacher.

I did end up diving into other types of related teachers.
Dove into the amazing teachers of Non~dualism. I go 'Still' around them, and when i practice their teachings 🙏 and try to live them every.moment.

My Fate was to find my own way/style as a teacher ~ fashioned by the gifts bestowed in the wisdom and ways of these great teachers.

Bessings on our teachers 🙏 and all fellow living Beings in all dimensions, here and beyond❣️now and forever.

So grateful 🤍 thank you

04/11/2024

Been thinking about yoga this morning and how it's my 'haven', my refuge - especially child pose. Balasana works on backs, hips, thighs and ankles. It also puts me in a receptive state of mind. Where gratitude and connection to the earth are gently coaxed by the magic of gravity 🙏

My two dear yogi friends and I are running a yoga retreat next weekend and we invite you to join for one or more classes. Brief over-view:

Saturday -
Morning - i will be teaching a Breathwork and Balancing class
Evening - Peter will be teaching a twisting class and
Rozzy will take us through a yoga nidra.

Sunday
Morning - We will take you through a class (a surprise one)
Followed by Lizzi Gage and her beautiful Crystal Healing Bowls. Magic ✨️✨️✨️
Text Amanda on 0439 999 941 if you'd like to join any of these classes.
Blessings for your day 🙏

05/03/2024

Yoga class on tomorrow morning 9.10am - 10.30am.
Blessings
Amanda

27/01/2024

Breathwork @ the Otway Wellbeing Centre
Introduction to Breathwork and Pranayama techniques
6 weeks – 02/02/24 – 01/03/24
8.45am – 9.45am
$120 (6 weeks) 0r $25 casual

Breathwork is a marvellous way to land in presence and, over time, spend more time in the Now! And according to research, breathwork may:
• *Boost mood.
• *Deepen relaxation.
• *Promote meditation
• *Help with symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• *Improve alertness, focus, and memory.
• *Increase heart rate variability (a metric associated with longevity,
• fitness, and mental health)
• *promote creativity.
• *help lower High Blood Pressure if moderately elevated.

Through this 6 week course I will introduce you to a range of practices that you can take on as a commitment to develop a practice that suits you. I will also include some movement practices. The final two weeks we will be exploring movement and breath together using the circular breath.

Call or text Amanda on 0439 999 941 with enquiries and/or to book into the 6 week course. Casual attendance welcome.

This class is not suitable for: pregnancy, recent surgery, eye conditions, anyone with severe heart issues – including cardiac arrhythmia, slow heart rate, high blood pressure, angina or chest pain, a recent heart attack, heart disease, or any other heart condition

23/01/2024

2024 🙏 Greetings

My yoga and breathwork Offerings:

Wednesday 9.10am - Yoga in Forrest commencing 24/01/24

Wednesday 6pm - Yoga in Deans Marsh commencing 24/1/24

Friday 8.45am - 6 week breathwork course Colac commencing 2/2/24

Saturday 8.30am - Yoga in Colac already started !

Please message or call 0439 999 941 for further clarification 🙏
Amanda 🩷