Half Day Urban Yoga ReTreats 2022 

ReTreat yourSelf to half day of nourishing Yoga

The half day yoga reTreats offer a morning of balancing, nourishing and purifying Yoga.  Open to new and long term yoga practitioners the reTreat will allow you time to deepen and fully integrate all aspects of Yoga Asana (physical movement), Pranayama (energetic breath work), deep Relaxation and Meditation.

Interweaving the ancient wisdom of the yogic philosophy accompanied by current scientific findings, you will gain a greater insight into the enriching benefits the practice of yoga can bring into your life both on and off the mat.

WHEN -  2022 Dates - Sunday 9:30am - 1:15pm

20 November

DETAILS & INVESTMENT:

• Arrive 9:15am for 9:30am start until 1:15pm
• Morning tea provided - our famous CHAI returns
• mats and props provided - please feel free to bring your own mat and anything else that gives you support and comfort
• Investment $75 - pay in details on registration form 
• Half Day ReTreats are run with Covid safe spacing and requirements

WHERE: The Living Centre, 16 Trinity Place, East Melbourne           

GETTING THERE:  

The Living Centre is nestled in the tranquil bluestone laneway on Trinity Place. Enter via George Street or Hotham Street, East Melbourne.

Train: 5 minute walk from Jolimont Station

Tram: 48 & 75 

Driving: Sunday unlimited free parking on Clarendon St (Fitzroy Gardens side) and Wellington Parade (opposite gardens).

TO REGISTER:  Click Here to a download registration form. To secure your booking, please complete and return the form via email along with your payment (pay in details included on the form).

If you have attended a Half Day Retreat before there is no need to complete another form.  Simply let me know via email if anything has changed for you since then.

THEMES:  Each retreat is themed with Yogic philosophy.  If you'd like to be informed of the theme and advanced reminder of each date please register to receive the Affinity Yoga Newsletter.

What to Expect

As a beginner, advanced practitioners or teacher of yoga, the Half Day Yoga Retreat will allow you invaluable time to explore, extend and deepen your Yoga practice. Uninterrupted time for you.

Each reTreat is nurturing and nourishing, encouraging and informatively threaded with Yogic philosophy, current scientific findings and relevant tips to balance, enrich and enhance your health and wellbeing.  There is plenty of time for you to restore when required and challenge when appropriate. You'll leave with easily accessible tips to take your Yoga off the mat into your everyday life.

During the reTreat you will be guided through:

Asana ~ physical movement through slow flowing sequences and held postures

• Enjoy fully being in your body
• Be guided through postural alignment for increased energy flow
• Strengthen stretch and release
• Increase bone density
• Mobilise and stabilise joints
• Improve blood flow, circulation and lymphatic movement
• Release energetic blockages and stagnation
• Cleanse through twisting poses
• Quiet the mind in forward bending poses
• Ground and stabilise in standing poses
• Find your centre in balances
• Open your heart in back bends
• Broaden your perspective with inversions

Pranayama ~ guided breath work

• Unite mind, body and heart through focused breathwork
• Release what is not conducive to your wellbeing
• Calm and balance your nervous system
• Shift stagnancy and blockages
• Enhance your pranic/energetic flow
• Improve and strengthen cardio-respiratory system

Deep Relaxation

• Let go and release
• Melt away physical tension
• Free yourself from mental and emotional fatigue and stress
• Restore and renew your energy

Meditation

• Time to explore various techniques that can work for you
• Focus and concentrate your mental energy
• Enjoy deep inner calm and peace
• Increase conscious awareness
• Build a cohesive relationship between your mind, heart and emotions
• Tune into your intuition
• Connect with your deep innate wisdom

Mudras and Bandhas

• Increase and sustain your energy
• Internally support and strengthen your body
• Direct pranic flow
• Increase awareness of your subtle body
• Awaken to the subtle aspects of yourself

Mantras and Chant

• Heighten your energetic vibration
• Create positive mind and energy re-patterning
• Elevate your mood
• Open your heart to joy