Byron Yoga Centre

If your energy feels a little low, heavy, or stuck this winter, Crescent Lunge (Anjaneyasana) is a simple way to create warmth and get things moving again.

It’s a powerful posture for building heat in the body while also opening the hips and front body — areas that often tighten in colder months.

To set it up, step one foot forward between your hands and lower your back knee to the mat. From here, you have two options: keep the back knee down for a more grounding, accessible variation, or lift the back knee for a stronger, more energising version.

With your front knee stacked over your ankle, slowly lift your torso upright. You can keep your hands on your hips or reach your arms overhead if that feels good. For a more advanced practice you can slowly invite in a backbend.

Once you’re in the shape, focus on grounding through your legs while lifting through your spine. Draw the lower belly in slightly to support your lower back, and soften the shoulders away from the ears.

Stay for 5–10 slow breaths. Inhale to create length and space, exhale to ground and stabilise. Let the breath build internal heat from the inside out.

This pose is especially supportive in winter because it increases circulation, strengthens the legs and core, and helps shift sluggish or stagnant energy.

Move slowly, breathe deeply, and let the posture do what it’s designed to do.

One deep breath.
One nourishing meal.
One moment of stillness.
One day where you’re not rushing, multitasking, or holding it all together.

Our Full and Half Day Retreats at Byron Yoga Centre are designed to help you reset — physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Come spend the day with us:
▫ Yoga
▫ Meditation
▫ Nourishing food
▫ Nature
▫ Connection
Space to simply be

Because rest shouldn’t have to wait until burnout.

Our winter retreats have arrived….

For all of June, July and August we’ve shaped our retreat offerings to match the energy of winter. These retreats are designed to support exactly what this time of year asks of us: more rest, more nourishment, and a deeper slowing down.

Winter in Byron Bay is quietly beautiful. The days are often crisp but full of sunshine, the pace naturally softens, and everything invites you inward. It becomes the perfect backdrop for a more restorative retreat experience.

On the mat, practice moves a little deeper — easing into the stiffness that winter can bring, creating space in the body rather than pushing it. Off the mat, we lean into extra warming, grounding meals that truly nourish and support the season.

There’s also the magic of what’s happening just beyond the retreat space… whale season in Byron Bay, reminding us of nature’s own rhythm of migration, pause, and return.

These winter retreats aren’t about doing more, they’re about doing less, more intentionally. A season of slowness, reflection, and real restoration.

If you’ve been craving space to reset, winter is one of the most powerful times to come 🤍

We're always looking for ways to live more consciously and care for the land that supports us.

Using the power of the sunshine is one small part of that commitment - helping reduce our environmental impact while powering daily retreat life with renewable energy.

For us, sustainability isn’t about perfection, it’s about intention. Small choices, made consistently, that reflect the values we teach inside the yoga room too.

Care.
Awareness.
Connection.
Responsibility.

We know there’s always more to learn and improve along the way, but this is one step in the right direction. ❤

Our Nourish Your Soul Retreat with Simon Toohey has been featured in The Echo!

Running 24–26 July at Byron Yoga Centre, this winter retreat brings together mindful yoga, seasonal plant-based cooking, and time to slow down in the heart of Byron Bay.

Across the weekend, you’ll move through grounding yoga practices designed to support rest and reconnection, alongside hands-on cooking sessions with Simon using fresh, seasonal ingredients.

Winter in Byron sets the perfect backdrop for this experience — spacious, calm, and deeply nourishing.

Read more via The Echo:
https://www.echo.net.au/2026/05/masterchef-simon-toohey-hosts-byron-mindful-foodie-retreat/

MasterChef Simon Toohey hosts Byron mindful, foodie retreat One of Australia’s most recognisable plant-based chefs is coming to Byron Bay this winter – MasterChef favourite Simon Toohey has partnered with Byron Yoga Centre to host a unique weekend retreat celebrating conscious food, sustainability and wellbeing.

This Winter Solstice, give yourself permission to pause. A weekend of yoga, reflection, connection, nature, and sacred rest.

Join us this June for a deeply nourishing Winter Women’s Retreat created by Tabata Ogilvie.

Winter invites us inward. To slow down. To listen. To let go of what no longer serves us and reconnect with what truly matters.

Through yoga, sharing circles, meditation, women’s wellness sessions, journalling, and time in nature, this retreat is designed as a space to reconnect with your feminine wisdom, honour your natural rhythms, and remember that rest is not weakness — it is necessary.

Come solo and be held in community, or share the experience with your mother, daughter, sister or friend.

There are still a few spaces left, reach out if you’re ready to go on this journey with us.

Meet Colin 🤍

One of the wonderful hosts on our retreat team, Colin has a way of making people feel genuinely welcome, both on and off the mat.

His classes blend breath, alignment, presence, poetry, and just the right amount of humour, creating a space where everyone feels comfortable, supported, and included no matter where they are on their yoga journey.

But it’s often the moments outside the yoga room that people remember most… the thoughtful conversations, the easy laughter, and the sense of connection and ease he helps create throughout retreat.