Yoga Festival Program

Start Your Day the Best Way! Begin with a breath practice to cultivate conscious awareness, followed by a gentle flow leading into Gita-style Hatha poses designed to support your endocrine system and balance your energy centers (chakras). When your energy is aligned, you’ll experience a deep sense of wholeness—and you’ll carry that feeling with you throughout the day. This class is suitable for all levels and will leave a lasting, positive effect on your body and mind. Join us and set the tone for a vibrant day ahead!

Step into an immersive yogic journey that weaves together breathwork, kriya, asana, and mantra meditation. Inspired by the Himalayan tradition, this practice is designed to harmonise the nervous system, awaken inner clarity, and elevate your energy. Moving through intelligent sequencing, you will cultivate vitality and stillness, preparing the body and mind for a more profound meditative experience. Expect to: Release tension and stagnation Expand your pranic energy through breath and kriya Deepen your connection to the heart and intuition Prepare the mind for profound inner stillness This is more than a class—it’s an initiation into a more profound way of practicing and integrating yoga's vast technology beyond asana.

Fusion of a Vinyasa breath flow with a Yin style end.

A niche session designed for women traversing the complicated life transition of perimenopause and menopause, led by Annebelle van Tongeren, a Senior Level 3 teacher with Yoga Australia, certified in Menopause Yoga. You’ll experience appropriate movement, mantra, breathworth and self-soothing practices to bring you back to centre when you’re feeling untethered and unlike the You who you know so well. Bring your bolster, blanket and eye pillow if you have them, but these are not essential if you don’t. Annebelle is based on the Bass Coast and founder of eco-luxe Fern & Frost yoga props, a beautiful product line that was inspired by her own perimenopausal aches and pains! www.theyogastylist.com.au

Release, let go, chill out and relax. This hour is an opportunity for you to sit, or lie back and close your eyes as Gaelle sings mantras like lullabies drawing you deeper into the space of calmness and peacefulness. Using vocals and harmonium along with sound bowls and chimes, the sounds encourages a time for troubles to ease and awareness to rise to the surface. Doing less to feel more is the aim for this practice.

In this session, you naturally invoke your subtle energy channels (Chakras); and reconnect to your ever-present deepest levels of peace (Shanthi). Easy to follow guidance that inspires you to leave mental distractions behind and seamlessly flow through - majestic expressions from ancient practices of dance yoga(Natya); -hand gestures (Mudras); -and tranquil sounds (Mantra and Raga); - infused into traditional yoga poses, breath and deep relaxation. Described as "a blissful meditative dance experience like-never-before!" Suitable for all levels.

Our practice begins with a calming, centring chakra awareness sound meditation. We cleanse and activate the energy centres in the body through breath and mantra. We will chant simple yet powerful mantras and healing medicine songs to open our hearts and uplift our spirits (a mini kirtan!). Our journey of the healing power of sound concludes with "Rest with the Harp", a unique opportunity to allow the magical tones of live harp music to help soothe and balance the nervous system and enable your body to deeply rest. Bring all the props you need in order to be comfortable and warm.

Join us for an empowering journey into Radiant Lotus Qigong, a practice tailored for women's health and vitality. Rooted in ancient Chinese wisdom, this holistic approach integrates gentle movements, mindful breathing, and meditation. Led by Rachel Hanrahan, an experienced senior yoga teacher and Radiant Lotus Qigong instructor, our sessions harmonize hormones, detoxify the body, and support menopausal symptoms. Experience serene flow and accessible movements that encourage relaxation and rejuvenation. Discover the profound benefits of this empowering practice and leave feeling rejuvenated, balanced, and connected.

A grounding Hatha Slow Flow designed to help participants reconnect with their breath, body, and mind. This mindful session focuses on intentional movements, longer holds, and breath awareness, promoting strength, balance, and inner calm. With an emphasis on alignment and mindful transitions, this practice offers a peaceful reset — perfect for all levels.

Stomach /spleen in the traditional five element all our rounded pos’e building power in the belly and squeezing the toxins from the spleen.

Solo & Partner Yoga, Bodywork Massage. Curious & playful exploration into the qualities of intentional Touch. Everybody welcome, No Partner or yoga mat required.

Laughter REALLY is the Best Medicine, and here’s why. In this interactive workshop you will hear how laughter is being introduced into the National Health Service UK as Social Prescription for people with mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, and psychosis. Research studies to support this. And then take part in a Laughter Session to understand first hand why it works. Merv will take you from Weird to Wonderful to WOW.

A workshop & yoga practice to help you become a magnet to your desires. What to expect: A brief overview of Manifestation and how it actually works The connection between Yoga and Manifestation Journalling exercise and guided meditation to help you clarify and call in your desires A heart opening Asana practice for embodying the energy of Manifestation

In a world that often encourages self-criticism, this practice is a reminder to turn inward with kindness, patience, and love. Through gentle movement, breath awareness, and mindful reflection, this class will guide you in developing a more compassionate relationship with yourself—just as you would with a dear friend. We leave with a commitment to show ourselves more patience, understanding, and encouragement—knowing that we deserve the same care we offer to others.

An invitation to slow down and meet yourself, just as you are. In this guided meditation session, we’ll explore present-moment awareness through breath, body, and gentle observation of thoughts and emotions. Mindfulness offers a pathway to greater clarity, ease, and inner steadiness, especially in the midst of life’s busyness. Expect a grounded, calming practice that welcomes both new and experienced meditators. A space to pause, soften, and reconnect.

With the flow of our breath, we embark on an energizing yoga practice that invites us to explore and expand the edges of our experience. Through curiosity and courage, we open our bodies to fully embrace the present moment, discovering release on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels as we move through this transformative practice.

The Ashtanga Primary Series is a set sequence of asanas (postures) that forms the foundation of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga

Hatha Yoga is accessible for everyone. As we explore our practice Mindfulness will be interwoven throughout the class with a final meditations and a focus on calming the Nervous System.

From the moment you think you have arrived on the mat, Penny will weave her surprises into this true heartfelt Awakening Gratitude practice. With heart opening shapes and standing postures to ground and ignite your joyous light within, this practice aims to have you receiving gratitude for yourself first and leaving projecting gratitude and kindness out to the community around you and beyond. We’ll begin with breathwork before we warm ourselves throughout the practice of Vinyasa and lead to heart expansive opportunities. This is a practice for anyone who chooses to leave feeling joy and wanting more of that oxytocin boost!

Join us for a deeply nourishing yoga event that blends the calming stillness of Restorative-Yin Yoga with the soothing vibrations of a crystal singing bowl sound bath. This unique practice invites you to release tension, restore balance, and melt into profound relaxation. Through gentle, supported postures held for extended periods, you'll create space in your body and mind while being bathed in the healing resonance of crystal sound waves. Please bring your yoga mat, bolster, strap, and two blocks to ensure your ultimate comfort during this transformative journey. Allow yourself to unwind, reset, and leave feeling lighter, calmer, and completely renewed.

The Five Element Form is designed to purify and enhance the qualities of the Pancha Koshas (five sheaths of human existence). Created by ancient Indian Tantra Yogis and Seers who observed the natural world around them as a reflection of the Five Elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Akasha. The Five Element Form includes practices to purify and enhance: - Anamaya Kosha, the physical body - asana, physical movement. - Pranamaya Kosha, the pranic body - pranayama, breath-work. - Manamaya Kosha, the mental body - yoga nyasa, yoga healing practices. - Vijnanamya Kosha, the chakra body - mantra and chanting. - Annanadamaya Kosha, the spiritual body - meditation. The healing properties of "The Form" are derived from a yoga practice known as Tattwa Shuddi Sadhana. The physical benefits include increase of circulation of blood bringing oxygen and nutrients to every cell of the physical body. Increases circulation of lymphatic fluid to help cleanse and eliminate toxins. Expansion and contraction of the physical body creates pumps and massages the tissues and organs within, which are the source of our collective health and wellbeing. This is an accessible practice for everyone and everybody.

Join Ally as she takes you on a spiritual journey through Mediation to connect you with your spirit guides. If you are open, this is a gentle loving experience that will connect you. Can’t wait to meet you all

Just as we shower and brush our teeth daily, our energy body also needs regular cleansing. This immersive workshop is designed to help you understand the layers of your energy body and why keeping them clear is essential for overall well-being. Through a blend of education, Reiki, Yoga, and Tibetan sound play, you'll learn: How energy flows through the body and where blockages can occur, intentional practices to cleanse and recharge your energy and utilise breath-work, movement, and vibrational sound healing to restore balance

Learn the secrets of your etheric body and how to clear your Aura.

Our life experiences are a reflection of our nervous system. Traditional Yoga practices are designed to optimise the health of our nervous system. In this science-based interactive (and fun!) workshop, you will gain understanding on the mind-altering power of a consistent traditional yoga practice to enhance your nervous system - leading to a calmer mind, strengthened body and uplifted spirit. You will leave this session empowered with practical tools - that you can use immediately for a consistent practice that can optimise your overall wellbeing by enhancing your life experiences.

Meditation teacher (cert.med)and facilitator of rest and relaxation! Come and take some time out from the hubbub of this amazing festival. Bring your journal and your heart as we tune in to our inner-selves to discover what we all want. Kirsty has a knack for bringing you into a soft space within yourself, to listen to your own heart beat and allow your inner yearnings to be heard. Join us in the meditation room on both days.

Mitch Hunter shares his 30-year mystical journey to awakening, which transformed his work as a physiotherapist and university lecturer. Now helping people heal from previously incurable conditions through meditation, he’ll offer key practices, insights, and practical exercises to support your own spiritual awakening and its potential for deep healing.

An immersive practice blending yoga, breath, kriya and sound vibration. Through intentional movement and guided breathwork, you’ll activate and ground into the present moment, ready to connect with your inner light, and honour your energy for the weekend of magic ahead. No experience needed—just come as you are.

Yoga bolsters are circuit breakers. Lie on a bolster and you immediately to relax. This class is an introduction to how else the bolster can be used in practice. BKS Iyengar built a tradition of using equipment such yoga bolsters as a way to acknowledge the variety of all our body shapes and also differing abilities. Working with bolsters we can experience the release of the deeper muscles and the calming of the nervous system. Our experiential understanding becomes more nuanced and subtle. Through this understanding our practice builds a light gracefulness. Of significance exploring the use of bolsters through our practice helps us to grow a deeper understanding of connection of breath to movement – we learn to explore with a calm and curious mind. *If you don’t own a bolster simply roll up a couple of towels or soft blankets to use.

Are you done with period pain? Want to learn how yoga can reduce period pain and PMS? Join Annie to deepen your connection with your menstrual cycle and harness its wisdom through the practice of yoga. This immersive experience includes yoga practices that can help honour you cycles phases, and ease period pain and PMS. We will explore the menstrual cycle, its 4 phases, and how to listen to your body's messages in order to heal naturally.

Sink into the warmth of deep rest with Rachel Hanrahan as she guides you through a heart-centered Yoga Nidra—a meditative journey to soften, open, and reconnect. This practice offers a sanctuary of stillness, where you’ll be lovingly held in a space of deep relaxation. Rachel weaves together breath, intention, and awareness, inviting you to release tension, restore balance, and return to the wisdom of your heart. Whether you’re new to Yoga Nidra or a seasoned practitioner, this session is a beautiful opportunity to nourish yourself from the inside out. Let the rhythm of your breath and the resonance of your heart guide you into a place of profound ease. Come as you are, leave feeling lighter.

Yoga massage is a unique form of massage in that it breaks free from the traditional concept of massage being only performed with lotions and oils while bringing meditation and relaxation to the mind and focusing on muscular or fascial tissues and restrictions. It is done on the floor on mats while fully clothed and focuses more on the way that traction can assist deeper energetic release along with rhythmic rocking and pressure along meridian lines to move lymph and stagnant energy through the body. It is a profoundly relaxing experience akin to having a yoga practice done for you.

Join us for a transformative experience combining Yin Yoga, live music and sound healing. Yoga teacher Mel will guide you with gentle Yin Yoga poses and breath to release physical tension and promote relaxation. While immersed in the yoga practice local musicians and sound therapist Nicky and Pete play their “Essence of Place” music. This is combined with crystal bowls, chimes, percussion, live instruments, guitar, voice, and harmony to create evocative therapeutic soundscapes and music pieces. These elements flow seamlessly into each other, guiding you into deep relaxation. The combination of Yin Yoga and harmonious vibrations and soothing sounds will help release tension, clear energetic blockages, and rejuvenate your entire being, leaving you feeling refreshed and revitalised. Perfect for anyone, this session enhances focus, reduces stress, and cultivates a sense of inner calm, making it an ideal way to wind down and soothe the nervous system.

A Holistic Qigong Practice. Discover a path to balance, vitality, and grace through a simple, holistic Qigong practice. This gentle form invites you to harmonise with the wisdom of nature, nurturing body, mind and spirit. By awakening your body’s innate healing energy, Qigong offers a powerful way to reconnect with your essence and cultivate well-being.

Ocean Flow is a fluid Hatha-style yoga class, accessible for all levels of yoga experience, that brings the calming essence of water onto the mat. This class blends gentle, wave-like movements with breathwork inspired by the Blue Mind theory, promoting a meditative state of calm and clarity. Move with the rhythm of the sea, release tension, and emerge refreshed and centered.

Fascial maneuvers are designed to reduce stress so your body can begin to heal. By opening up and releasing your fasica your body can move and feel better. The benefits include releasing trauma, improved athletic performance, reduction of autoimmune symptoms, improved mobility, reduced pain.

Energising asana, breathwork, mantra and meditation create vitality in body, balance in mind, openness in spirit.

Gentle Hatha Yoga will allow you to achieve the perfect balance between body, mind and soul. The class will focus on tuning into the body, soft and gentle breath work and the opportunity to target the deep connective tissues of the body ~ the ligaments, bones, muscles and deep fascia networks to support the flow of energy, detox, improve circulation to the joints and the opportunity to reset the whole body.

An invitation to come home to yourself through the simple, powerful gift of rest. A gentle return to the self that exists beneath effort, expectation, and the busyness of daily life. This is a space with nothing to fix, nothing to prove, just a quiet return to yourself, where softening is safe and being held is enough. In this fully guided, lying-down meditation, you’ll be supported into a state of conscious rest. Using the foundations of Yoga Nidra, the practice offers a pathway to reconnect with the part of you that doesn’t need to strive or do. Expect to leave feeling grounded, clear, and quietly transformed. Perfect for anyone needing to recharge, if your body feels tired, your mind busy, or your heart is gently calling you home. Note: Deep Rest Meditation is inspired by the concept of Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR) and is shaped by the principles of Yoga Nidra.

Discover the untapped power of your breath in this transformative Himalayan Breathwork and Kriya session. Using ancient techniques from the yogic lineage, we will guide you through a progressive breath and kriya sequence designed to expand your awareness, unlock inner energy, and prepare the mind for a deep meditative state. This session includes: Enlivening Himalayan breath techniques An introduction to Kriya for deep transformation Stillness meditation and some movement to integrate the practice

The Ashtanga Primary Series is a set sequence of asanas (postures) that forms the foundation of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga

Beginning with sharing our voices together as a mantra choir, we harmonise ourselves in preparation for simple asana movement where you are encouraged to join Gaelle in singing mantras of love and joy. We continue to open to the glory of peace as we shift into restorative poses and Savasana when the quietening sounds now have their chance to permeate to the deep layers of our being where the renewal of divine love’s truth can be revealed.

This 2 hour workshop combines: an interactive discussion about the Vedic theory applying to mental health compared to Western psychology and physiology; Somatic therapy practice; and a Yoga Nidra meditation, which is a reclined meditation practice commonly used in stress, anxiety and trauma therapy.

Join me for an ultimate hypnotic detox spa for the mind and soul. Reconnect your mind and body, release emotional baggage, tap into inner peace and boost your self worth. Leave feeling calmer and relaxed — ready to embrace life with more ease and control. If you're ready to change your mindset, or even just curious, join me for this hypnosis session—you might be surprised at what is possible using the power of your mind.