What if the patterns that keep repeating in your life aren’t random?
This July, Evie and I are bringing together two approaches that rarely share a room: Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and Gestalt therapy.
What happens when you place them side by side is fascinating.
Both are exploring the same territory:
• The patterns we get caught in
• How those patterns were formed
• Why we keep repeating them
• What it actually takes to create lasting change
Together we’ll explore how your mind works, how conditioning shapes the way you think, react, and relate, and how to begin moving differently in ways that genuinely stick.
We’ll dive into philosophy.
We’ll explore psychology.
And we’ll bring it all back to your actual life so the insights become practical, relevant, and useful.
We’ve also just released the pre-retreat audio, laying the foundation of Samkhyan philosophy and Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, so you can begin exploring these ideas before arriving.
✨ July 16–19
✨ Springbrook
For yoga teachers, this retreat is fully accredited and offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at how we design, theme, prepare, and facilitate workshops and classes for large groups with diverse needs, abilities, and limitations.
You’ll have access to a dedicated teachers’ circle where you can ask questions, unpack the process, and explore the craft of teaching more deeply.
And you absolutely do not need to be a teacher to attend. In fact, many participants aren’t.
As a bonus, we’ll also be opening the first release of places for our 2027 international retreat. Only 10 spots will be available.
Come curious.
Leave with a deeper understanding of yourself and practical tools for creating change.
Only a few spots left!
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200hr YTT Gold Coast, Brisbane and Online
Fully acredited courses run by a team of professional and experienced registered yoga teachers (E-RYT500).
Darci specialises in technical alignment and verbal adjustments. Her teaching style is accessible to the total beginner and will deepen the more experienced yogi's practice. You will learn how to rhythmically explore the layers of your body, so you are able to consciously dissolve tension and feel into the origin of your discomfort. Darci has a unique way in delivering the philosophy of yoga that
What do we do on our two night silent meditation retreat?
Sit by the fire.
Sit with the trees.
Sit by the fire again.
Tea by the Inside fire.
Gaze up at the trees,
and into the outside fire.
Meditate.
Infrared sauna.
Watch the birds.
Walk beneath the night sky.
Walk to a beautiful and vast view.
Eat nourishing meals.
No cooking.
No dishes.
No decisions.
Sit in the sun.
Sit by the fire.
Have some space.
Meditate.
Meditate again.
Practice yoga.
Write.
Reflect.
More space.
Meditate.
Rest.
Listen.
Breathe.
Notice what has been there all along.
Two nights.
No distractions.
Just space to be.
19-21 July
Springbrook QLD
Best thing about are their ‘in and out in 30 minute’ bootcamp sessions.
Oh, and…
I teach a Tuesday night Yin-ish class that’s included for all the members! 🤙🏼
6-6:45pm
If you’re looking for somewhere to train, I recommend giving this place a go 🙌
If you’ve been thinking about coming to .festival.brisbane this year, I’ll actually be guiding one of the opening class - a Yin yoga class!
This Yin class will be a floor based practice to suppprt your arrival, and truly settle into the experience before moving into a day full of yoga!
Yin yoga works deeply into the body through longer held shapes that help release tension, calm the nervous system, and create space physically mentally and emotionally.
It’s a powerful practice for stress, overwhelm, tight hips and backs, mental fatigue, and reconnecting to yourself beneath the noise of daily life.
So if you’re craving a weekend of yoga, connection, inspiration, community, and a little more space to breathe… come join us.
I’ll be teaching at 9am - come find me ❤️
Day in the life of retreat 🌺
A little series…
DAY ONE
Always exciting.
The start of an adventure.
A shared exploration within community.
and a deeper exploration within yourself.
Settle in,
get acquainted with the lay of the land
and one another…
and expect yummy, nourishing, warming food.
And Ella’s famous chocolate self saucing pudding.
July 2026 - Springbrook, QLD 🌿
A beginner-friendly series of workshops designed to help you understand and work with your nervous system in a practical, accessible way. You’ll be guided through simple breathing practices, gentle movement, and short meditation practices that support you in shifting out of stress and into a more settled, steady state.
Drawing on evidence-based approaches to nervous system regulation (no woo woo here!) this class focuses on building awareness of internal signals, increasing your capacity to respond to stress, and establishing reliable tools for daily life.
Link to register below.
03/05/2026
Brisbane 200hr YTT registrations close at the end of this week ✌🏼
Select Weekends May til September 2026
Practice 100% in person or merge with online learning for flexibility.
Hosted by Amber Tree Yoga and Retreats
Dive into the heart of yoga - on and off the mat 🌿
06/04/2026
Refine your teaching skills with one of us or both!
Evie is delivering an Advanced Mediation Training and Darci, an Advanced Pranayama Training.
Both trainings have been developed for teachers.
Both tainings merge science, philosophy and psychology and will dive into the heart and importance of the nervous system.
Both trainings are 10hrs each (5 hours online and 5 in person at Boheme + Body Yoga Studios) and fully recognised by Yoga Alliance. Both of us are E-RYT-500.
You can complete one or both trainings (both trainings done together will give you 20 accredited hours).
For me details, see below :-)
16/03/2026
A space where movement, reflection, and the relational aspect of being human meet.
Alongside yoga practice (on and off the mat) we explore therapeutic relational insight through the lens of a psychotherapist (Evie) and a Gestalt therapist deep in a masters degree (Darci).
The intention is not simply to share yoga philosophy, but to weave it together with practical therapeutic tools that help illuminate the patterns we can’t see on our own.
Through guided practices, reflective insight, times of silence, and gentle relational inquiry, we create opportunities for blind spots to become visible.
Not through pressure or analysis, but through curiosity, presence, and connection.
This is a retreat for those who sense that growth happens not only on the mat, but in how we meet ourselves and each other.
A place to slow down, listen more deeply, and explore what emerges when ancient wisdom and contemporary therapeutic practice meet.
16-19 July - Yoga and Philosophy Retreat
19-21 July - Silent Meditation Retreat
Springbrook, QLD
These retreats run back to back so you are welcome to join one, or both ❤️
12/02/2026
Teachers and yoga practitioners - this Sundays online workshop is for you :-)
Come join us!
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