Suitable for ALL LEVELS.
A powerful meditation with concentration on each chakra with the corresponding mantra to awaken and harmonize the talents that lay dormant within. It’s healing, awakening and deeply relaxing, at the same time. Bringing into one’s awareness the powers and abilities that lie within is the best way to overcome life problems and pave the way for a successful future.

Tulsi Devi
Yoga In Daily Life
Yogaindailylife.org.au  Chakras.net

From an early age Tulsi was drawn to the world of Yoga and Natural Therapies. At 21, by a wonderful set of circumstances she met her Guru, Mahamandelshwar Paramahans Swami Maheshwarananda, and began practicing The System Yoga in Daily Life. Tulsi immediately found her home and travelled to India, spending time studying, training and travelling with the guidance of her Guru. She opened Yoga in Daily Life on the Gold Coast 8 years ago, and has been guiding and mentoring Yoga Teachers over the past five years. Tulsi is now director at Yoga In Daily Life Brisbane and spends time there and abroad as she teaches sought after workshops and classes. Tulsi brings to her classes a dedication to Yoga for healing of  body, mind and soul.

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How ancient wisdom can guide us to helping Mother Earth in a yoga practice

Suitable for ALL LEVELS.
This session will be a talk on how living with environmental values and awareness can be part of our yoga practice, exploring how ancient wisdom and philosophy are just as relevant to those drawn to a path of loving and helping Mother Earth, helping us find a more peaceful and healthy world inside and out.

Kate Fallick
EARTH awakening
earthawakening.com.au

Kate Fallick is the Founder and Principal Yoga Teacher at EARTH awakening, a community minded, eco-friendly yoga centre in West End, Brisbane. Kate brings to her classes and services a mixture of asana, pranayama, dharana, dhyana and yoga philosophy as well as commitment to her own yoga practice and spiritual path. Kate’s work at EARTH awakening is set up on Mahatma Ghandi’s famous quote: ‘Be the change you want to see in the world’, setting up a safe space to connect with each other, go deeper into your practice of yoga and help be a part of a more loving world.

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Yoga Flow

Suitable for ALL LEVELS.
Drawing on many influences, including intensive training in Vinyasa Yoga and Kundalini Yoga, Rachel’s classes set up a practice suitable for all stages in life and all levels of experience. Expect a flowy class that seamlessly rides the cycle of your breath. You will stretch and strengthen and, if you allow it, you will expand your awareness and deepen your inner understanding.

Rachel Pereira
Ten Toes Yoga
tentoes.com.au

Rachel flirted with Yoga when she heard it promised health, fitness and a better night’s sleep.  When it became clear that Yoga had more to offer, she sought a more permanent arrangement and they have enjoyed a steady relationship since. Today, Rachel teaches tired bodies and frazzled minds to direct their energy using the very Yoga practices that have transformed her own life.  In fact, as a business owner, parent and ex-corporate employee, she has a lot of first hand experience of ‘tired’ and ‘frazzled’ and the ways Yoga can help. As a Yoga teacher, she shows people that a better life and accelerated inner growth is possible through deeper awareness – noticing more things and more about those things – through Yoga practices.  She guides people to feel energy moving in their bodies, know when they have found the perfect alignment for their unique structure and overcome inner hurdles that stand in the way of peace. Rachel is a co-director of Ten Toes Yoga & Natural Health, which has three beautiful spaces in Ascot, New Farm and Brisbane CBD.

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Bollywood Dance

Suitable for ALL LEVELS.
A fun Bollywood dance class, where you will learn some Bollywood dance moves, followed by a short performance showcasing some fun Bollywood routines.

Bollycise
SARI
bollycise.com

BollyciseTM Dance was founded in 2009 by Racheal Leigh with the view of creating a dance fitness class that was based around her passion for Bollywood Dance. Whilst most classes are based around easy to follow choreography (which helps improve flexibility, memory and co-ordination), the classes have a good fitness element ensuring you will also get a whole body workout during the session! Classes are held at three locations: Stafford, Woolloongabba and Ormeau. BollyciseTM Dance also have a dedicated Bollywood performance troupe, SARI, who love to add a bit of sparkle and colour to any event with their energetic dances and interactive dance workshops. SARI are available for both public and private events around Brisbane and on the Gold Coast.

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Cosmic Chants

Suitable for ALL LEVELS.
We will begin by some chanting of Paramahansa Yogananda’s Cosmic Chants (with musical accompaniment, participants can join in), followed by a period of guided meditation, and a closing chant.

Self-Realization Fellowship
Brisbane Meditation Group of SRF
srf-brisbane.com.au

For more than eighty-five years, Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) has been dedicated to carrying on the spiritual and humanitarian work of its founder, Paramahansa Yogananda, widely revered as the father of Yoga in the West. SRF is a worldwide organization with international headquarters in Los Angeles. As expressed in the Aims and Ideals formulated by Paramahansa Yogananda, the society seeks to foster a spirit of greater understanding and goodwill among the diverse peoples and religions of our global family, and to help those of all cultures and nationalities to realize and express more fully in their lives the beauty, nobility, and divinity of the human spirit. Paramahansa Yogananda founded Self-Realization Fellowship in 1920 to make available the universal teachings of Kriya Yoga, a sacred spiritual science originating millenniums ago in India. These non-sectarian teachings embody a complete philosophy and way of life for achieving all-round success and well-being, as well as methods of meditation for achieving life’s ultimate goal — union of the soul with Spirit (God).

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A tantrik meditation on the body’s Tattwa elements

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According to tantra the physical body is comprised of five Tattwa elements: earth, water, fire, air and ether.  Earth represents solidity; water, fluids; fire digestion; air, the breath; ether, the space between atoms and cells.  Through the process of meditation, which includes yoga breathing, mudra hand gestures and visualisation, you can purify and balance these elements.  This meditation can be done either sitting or lying down. Prior to practising there will be a brief explanation.

Swami Muktibodhananda (Mukti)

Satyananda Yoga – Forest Lake
yogawithmuktibodha.com

Swami Muktibodhananda is a world-class exponent of the Satyananda Yoga system. Beginning yoga at a young age, she met Paramahansa Swami Satyananda, her guru, in 1976 and decided it was time to fully commit to the yogic path. Muktibodha lived in India for 10 years studying, teaching and practising yoga sadhana under the direct guidance of Swami Satyananda. She has written a range of books and today continues to teach and lecture on the various aspects of yoga and tantra in Australia and abroad. She has a broad experience of the various aspects of yoga applicable in day-to-day life and is a Yogacharya (a title of acknowledgment recognising her understanding of yoga).

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Qigong – OUTDOOR CLASS

Suitable for ALL LEVELS
We all talk about Qigong as being the integration of posture, breath and mind. What does this actually mean and how do we accomplish this? We can stand quietly with hands on Dantian, or we can create beautifully flowing movements, but are we making a noticeable difference?

Patsy Wilcox
ntpages.com.au/patsywilcox

Patsy Wilcox of the Ashi Acupuncture & Qigong Centre has 26 years experience. Recently Patsy has incorporated The Tong Ren System of Qigong into her practise, which has added richness to her teachings. “Nothing to believe in, Everything to experience.” Come and experience for yourself.

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Awareness Through Movement – Feldenkrais Method

Suitable for ALL LEVELS.
Come and sense how the Feldenkrais Method’s group classes could enhance your personal yoga practice. Awareness Through Movement lessons explore new movement patterns whilst simultaneously drawing your attention deeply into how each movement affects your whole self. The lessons invite a greater sense of ease, elegance and self-awareness.

Anna Yen
Playmoves
feldenkrais.org.au
playmoves.org

Anna Yen is a performer, physical theatre director / creator, circus and movement tutor and Feldenkrais Method practitioner based in Brisbane. Anna’s work emphasises the connection between heightened awareness gained through gentle inquiring movement and how to integrate this into a more playful, conscious approach to daily life.  Her inspirations come from the renowned European theatre teacher Monika Pagneux, the life work of Moshe Feldenkrais and her own creative, meditation and yoga experience.

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Tibet2Timbuk2

World music group Tibet2Timbuk2 takes you on a journey from the meditative to the joyous with Tenzin Choegyal (Tibet), Shen Flindell (Tabla), and Marcello Milani (African guitar, ex-Toothfaeries). With eclectic influences, this world music garage band blends with complete harmony and groove and is guaranteed not only to put a smile on your face and a tap in your feet but to engage your mind and soothe your spirit.

Tibet2Timbuk2
tibet2timbuk2.com

“…not so much a performance by highly talented artists, but more a meditation that would be remembered long after the evening finished…  The band members Tenzin Choegyal, Marcello Milani, Shen Flindell … were in perfect harmony with each other, joking in a relaxed way about Karma and Lamas. Tenzin Choegyal, the lead singer, sang with such control and strength it was as if he was calling the spirit of Tibet into our presence. His voice was powerful and vibrant…  An evening not to be forgotten.” (Albert Falzon, The Daily Lama, concert review Bellingen Jan 2012)

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5 Rhythms Dance to Connect

Suitable for ALL LEVELS
Deva’s style of teaching is tuned to what happens in a group at each moment. She will guide you into a moving meditation journey via the 5Rhythms of Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness. You will have the opportunity to explore the 3 different levels of relating (self, partner and tribe) as a tool for self awareness and expansion.The 5Rhythms is a physical, spiritual dance practice that offers a lifetime of discovery. Always beginning with the body in motion, we engage the work of freeing the body, opening the heart and emptying the mind. In this practice we connect to our natural state of being; a fluid body in motion. Through this dance we reclaim our own instinctual nature, and practice being fully alive and present human beings.

Deva Nandan
Dance to Connect
5rhythmswithdeva.com  dancetoconnect.me

Teaching this work has been a fantastic journey. I have learned to read peoples movements and its with humbleness and patience that I encourage them to move what I perceive as stuck and in resistance to full expression. Some tend to hold back, use little space to dance, are too tight to open up. My job is to offer them a safe space where they can open up, connect to their body, express their brilliance, shine with joy, disappear in the dance so that they remember their natural joyful ecstasy. I have taught in London, Portugal, Caribbean and presently in Australia (Brisbane, Byron Bay and Gold Coast). I found that each group can be unique in its own but in essence, all humans seek the some freedom, acceptance, joy, community and connection, peace of mind and love. That is our bond. We meet in the beat on the dance floor, stripping away layers of self consciousness to allow our true self to shine. I love teaching the 5Rhythms because it a practice that supports healing, transformation and growth via movement combined with self awareness – and it works each time people show up!
“Deva is like a traditional midwife on the dance floor – holding the space with such presence and awareness; trusting the dancers on their own journeys; supporting us with guidance and encouragement; modelling beauty, connection, understanding of the Rhythms, and a trust in yourself and Life.” G.K., Brisbane

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