Celebrating our beautiful new teachers and community – North Sydney Yoga August 2025. It was an auspicious moment, a new beginning. Rami Shivan guided us through a Puja, blessing the Yoga shala, and inviting us all to participate by honouring all of the teachers...
As we embrace November, our practice turns toward the energetic bridge between the heart (anahata) and throat (vishuddha) chakras. This is a month of opening, softening, and courage — an invitation to express ourselves with clarity while remaining rooted in...
As spring unfolds around us, nature demonstrates the profound art of balance—light emerging from darkness, strength softening into ease, renewal rising from stillness. This is our invitation as Yoga practitioners to explore the same sacred dance of opposites, both in...
Core stability and integration are fundamental principles in yoga teachings, particularly within the lineage of Krishnamacharya and his renowned students, Pattabhi Jois and B.K.S. Iyengar. While these teachers developed their own distinct styles, they all emphasised...
The bandhas or muscle seals are an integral part of the Ashtanga Vinyasa practice. They form part of what Pattabhi Jois called the ‘breathing-movement system’. They complement the ‘chest breathing’ we use in Ashtanga. What are bandhas & how to apply them Bandhas...
Lately a few Yoga students have taken up learning to chant the Yoga Sutras by heart. They are practicing this in the early morning Mysore class, which has enhanced the lovely atmosphere in the room. Whenever we are singing or chanting, we are exhaling, which relaxes...
