Gold Coast Yoga Centre

From this Saturday 20th June, all Saturday 8am classes will resume at Space 10 hall. This is the only class we hold off-site, and we are happy to able to welcome more students in this newly renovated space! Book as normal through Mindbody 🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️

Address: Cnr Cypress Tce and Tenth Ave, Palm Beach

Please Bring: Yoga mat, props, blankets, towel, drink bottle and warm things, as the hall is not heated. Mark will ensure you warm up quickly though! 😁🔥

See you on the mat! 🙏💛

Can you feel the cellular healing and rejuvenation coming your way?

A few places still available for the Gong Sound Bath with Leith-gong James this Saturday ✨💛✨

Experience deep rest as the sound of the gongs helps to release tension, and rebalance your nervous system. 🌿

Awaken and feel truly refreshed and released from stress, ready for almost anything 🙌

Sound baths operate on deep cellular frequencies and are particularly helpful when feeling the need to realign body, mind and senses…✨✨✨✨✨

Book in via the GCYC office or front desk - drop in, call 55342883 or email [email protected]

🌟 This Saturday 13th June
🌟 1:30pm arrival for a 1:45pm start
🌟 Tickets $45

🌟 There are five days left to sign up and begin the Winter Commitment Challenge… If you want to commit to your practice but need a little extra encouragement and motivation to get onto your mat during the cooler months, sign up and feel the benefits of 10 weeks of consistent yoga.

To join:
🔸 You decide what consistent practice is to you - 3, 4, or 5 classes per week.
🔸 Sign up at GCYC and begin by the week commencing 15th June.
🔸 Commit to the challenge and attend for your preferred number of classes each week for 10 weeks.

If you complete your goal, you’ll receive that number of classes (3, 4, or 5) for FREE! And you get a bonus free class if you incorporate one 6am class each week 🙌

The best part is that you get to choose your commitment and you can adapt your practice to be exactly what you need each week. No forcing, just showing up and committing to your time on the mat, however gentle or strong that needs to be for you to feel good in your body, mind and spirit!

We look forward to sharing the sacred winter months with you in the cosy yoga room! 🔥🧡🙏

Today is World Environment Day…

We give thanks for our home, this Earth…
More than our home, our source of life and everything we need or want…

If recent years/decades she has been forgotten… collateral damage in the race for material supremacy…. the constant desire for more, wars and division, shortcuts, profits and greed.

It’s time to start honouring her again…
And perhaps in the process, start honouring each other and ourselves again too 🌙🙏☀️
Maya Bhumih - Mother Earth 🙏🌏💗🌿

Have you wondered why we love having sound healings here at the GCYC?

As well as providing a wholesome and nourishing community experience, sound healings are a different form of Yoga that have a myriad of benefits.

A group of ancient Yogis (called Nada Yogis) primarily focused on sound as a method of liberation. Sound is the most subtle of the senses, said to be the first to incarnate when the material world was created and the last to be dispersed when the manifest returns to spirit.

Yoga’s ultimate focus is on the inner world, and sound is said to take you there. You can follow the sound in, much like the breath, but even deeper, and without having to exhale.
The element associated with sound is Akash (space/ether) and as space can expand and contract - so to can sound fill any space, becoming larger and smaller - even infinite.

The Nada Yogis (and Yogis in general) believe that we are all made of vibration/frequencies, and that sound effects that vibration - in both positive and negative ways. We all know the experience of music calming us, rousing us or disturbing us - stimulating different feelings like peace, intensity or even anger/depression depending on the music.

The practice of Nada Yoga is to use both inner (anahata) and outer (ahata) sound (music/instruments) to influence vibrational frequency in a way that heals the body, calms and stills the mind, and takes us inward to listen to our inner sound that leads to expanded consciousness and ultimate awakening and freedom.

Many cultures include sound at the beginning of their creation story. In Yoga and Hinduism, the primordial sound “OM” is said to have brought all of creation into being.

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Part 2 looking back (as promised) - the song says it all “I’m grateful for my tribe “ 🙌🙏💗🧘‍♀️🧘🏻🤸🏽‍♂️🌟❤️✨

Happy first day of Winter ❄️
In Yoga and Ayurveda we adapt to the changing seasons. We are after all a part of Nature and the Earth 🌏 💗
This helps us stay aligned to universal rhythms ✨

Remember to:
Eat seasonally; and have warmer, nourishing foods and drinks. Add a little olive oil/ghee before serving food.

Stay out of cold wind and space (especially if Vata - Kaphas might enjoy the exuberance a fresh day can bring).

Enjoy the sun and warm fires when possible (but don’t overheat Pittas!) ☀️🔥☀️

Warm up before practice - start gently. A great practice is joint mobilisation (pawanmuktanasana) either a little before practice, or as a whole practice itself (stay tuned for the next newsletter)✨🔥✨

A preference for (smooth/aware) movement in practice rather than long holds. A chance to work on some stronger/heating postures (once warmed up).

Join our Winter challenge (previous post) to keep practice consistent and body/mind joyful 🙌🙌🙌

Bring out the shawls and Ugg boots! Keep warm when travelling to/from the GCYC, and an extra layer for pre class relaxation, sitting and Savasana ☀️🧘‍♀️☀️

Be curious about how you feel, your energy, your enthusiasm, your mind, your postures… learn more about your deeper response to the season and being part of the natural world 🌏💗

And enjoy all the beautiful flavours and aspects Winter living can bring 🌟🌟🌟

📸 courtesy of .pettit1 and ❄️🙏❄️

In two weeks time, we welcome back Leith James to take us on a meditative journey with a gong sound healing… ✨

Come and experience the bliss of surrendering to the sound of the goings, a wonderful pause from the noise of your mind, to calm and nourish your nervous system through the power of deep rest 🫠

Leith’s sound healings are well-loved within the community, so contact the office to reserve your spot or chat to your teacher when you’re next in for yoga!

Details:
🌟 Saturday 13th June
🌟 1:30pm arrival for a 1:45pm start
🌟 Tickets $45 through the office or your teacher

See you there 🙏💛

🌚 The darker, cooler mornings can make it tempting to stay in bed… With winter now approaching - is it becoming a habit? Pay attention to how it makes you feel. Maybe a little heavy? Missing a little zing? 💥 It may require the extra push to get up, but when you do, you know you’ll be rewarded by feeling so good for the rest of the day! 🙌

For some extra encouragement for our early morning Yogis, and for all students wanting more consistency in their yoga practice, we’ll be holding a Winter Commitment Challenge 🤝

To take part in the commitment:
1️⃣ Decide what consistent practice looks like for you - 3, 4 or 5 yoga classes per week.
2️⃣ Sign up for the commitment at the GCYC front desk between 1st and 15th June.
3️⃣ Commit to the challenge by attending yoga for your preferred number of classes each week for the full 10 weeks.

🥇 After 10 weeks, we’ll check your attendance and if you’ve reached your goal of 3, 4 or 5 classes every week for 10 weeks, you will be gifted that amount of classes (3, 4 or 5) to your account for FREE! And you can earn a BONUS free class if one of your classes each week is a 6am morning class 🌟

The real reward will be the benefits of consistency, and how amazing your body, mind and spirit will feel after the 10 weeks. The free classes you’re awarded will keep this going even further! Sign up at the front desk next time you’re in, just ask your teacher 💛

Use this little extra push to come and enjoy the calm, sacred vibe that a warm, candlelit room brings on these darker mornings, commit to your consistent practice, and reap all of the rewards… 🙏🔥

The January Ashtanga Intensive is one of the most satisfying and rewarding experiences you can have. It’s powerful, transformative and invigorating. It turns up the dial on our practice for just a week, and in doing so, allows us to understand more about our practice, our strengths and weaknesses, and shows us new and deeper aspects- it feeds and inspires our practice for the next year. 🔥

The synergy of many yogi/nis together unified in practice, commitment and a little sacrifice (tapas), a structured “container “ for the energy of the practice, and stepping out of our normal routine all play a part. ✨

Of course, nothing takes the place of sustained practice over time, but a little fire every now and again clears away any complacency, habitual practice or stagnation; and helps us look again with fresh eyes. 📿

The best time to prepare for the Intensive is now! Regular practice allows a deeper experience of the Intensive as the Intensive allows deeper insight to our practice. They are part of each other. ✨

Our Ashtanga Led classes are Thursday 6am and Sunday 4pm, and our Mysore are Tuesday 6am and Friday 10am. ☀️

The Level 2 classes are a great adjunct to the Ashtanga practice, at a similar level but opening up to different postures and sequences. 🙌

The cooler months are an important time to recommit to practice as the temptation is there to go the other way. This is the season of Tapas (discipline/sacrifice leading to greater freedom) 🔥🙏🔥