Alex Grant
Thursday 3:30pm: Pranyama: LAWN We will open with a welcome session of pranayama to connect to ourselves unifying sun and moon energy. Friday 2:30pm: Yoga and Chanting: AGNI HOTRA: Kevin and Alex will conspire in a flowing yoga and musical journey connecting body with sound and breath.
Angel Singmin
Friday 2.30pm: Energy, Flow & Harmony : PRAKRITI: Restore, regulate and harmonise with a mix of vinyasa flowing yoga to move energy & cultivate breath awareness. Followed by irest Yoga Nidra. Saturday 2.30pm: Heal, Soothe & Restore: PRAKRITI: Gentle Yin & Yoga Nidra – a fusion of gentle movements, breathwork & nidra. Sunday 10am: Regenerate & Balance: PRAKRITI: Slow flowing asana practice, ending with irest yoga nidra to bring you into still peace & harmony:
Beata Alfoldi
Friday 10am-12pm: The Shamanic Journey: PRAKRITI: Shamanism is a soulful path, which recognizes the sacredness and connection of all living things. Its power is to be used respectfully and only for the good of all. Sunday 10am-12pm: Divine Union: PURUSHA In this experiential and practical earth-centred workshop, we will explore ways to understand, embody and integrate our inner feminine and masculine qualities.
Dustin Thomas
Friday 10am-12pm: Soul Singing with Soul: AGNI HOTRA Sit in circle with Dustin as he shares intimate stories of his personal journey to unite darkness and light, through music as a form of prayer. Explore your voice as a bridge to connect to spirit and transform emotional pain to spiritual understanding : turning our Pain into Praise. Bring your voice ! SATURDAY 9:15pm Concert: LAWN
Jaya Lakshmi and Ananda
Thursday 4.00pm-5.30pm: Kundalini Yoga and Mantra Meditation: LAWN Thursday 8:30pm – 9.30pm: Kirtronica Mantra Dance: SANGAM Original house and tribal trance grooves with live vocals and bansuri flute. Saturday 10am-12pm: Kundalini Yoga and Meditation: PURUSHA Kundalini Yoga class led by Ananda w/ live music by Jaya Lakshmi. Sunday 2-3pm: Closing KIRTAN: LAWN
Jeremiah Abrams
Friday 2.30pm – 4.30pm : Healing Love Wounds : PURUSHA Healing the wounds of love begins with an inquiry into the deeper truth of what has happened on our earthwalk thus far and then a revision of what we have made of these experiences. Jeremiah will elaborate in presentation and dialogue. Saturday 10am – 12pm : The Love Journey : PRAKRITI What is up for healing about love for you now? We will take the shamanic Dreamtime Journey to find out.
Mel Dobra
Friday 1.00pm: CONCERT: LAWN With a new musical project that calls on the sacred and invokes the divine feminine, Mel Dobra offers a sound that is ethereal and timeless. Drawing on the ancient roots of prayer and mantra, she blends celtic, hebrew and folk songs with harmonious instrumentation and angelic voices. This musical journey is a unique opportunity to dive into the sacred.
Natali Joscelyne
Friday 8.30am – 9.30am : Medicine Rhythms Sound Journey : SANGAM Opening into the body with sound & breath connections to the sacred live musical offerings of Prabhu Osoniqs & Joshua Tree. Saturday 10am – 12pm : Ecstatic Prayer Dance : LAWN - Medicine Rhythms lead a dance of devotion, connection, honesty & reconnection, to inspire inner union of the divine feminine & masculine energies within each of us. Sunday 10am –12pm: Womb Wisdom : AGNI HOTRA An opportunity to explore, activate, heal and reconnect to the deep wisdom & power of your womb
Sacred Earth
Friday 9.15pm: CONCERT: SANGAM Saturday 2.30pm-4.30pm: Mantra & Chant: AGNI HOTRA Join Prem & Jethro and ”let us sing with abandon the ancient prayers of old to guide us into Divine Union with our divine selves. Meditation, laughter, prayer, music, mantra… deep internal focus…these practices turn the light of awareness towards our hearts and help to cultivate more content and peaceful lives. When we are in tune with our own knowing; our deepest held truths, life flows with ease & grace”.
Sarah Jane Perman
Friday 5.30am : Vinyassa Yoga : SANGAM : Join SJ for a gentle heart opening class, using the fluid motion of Vinyassa flow Saturday: 2.30-4.30pm: Nutrition Talk: PURUSHA: This class will explore the essential elements of eating for health, healing and happiness
Simon Borg-Olivier
Saturday 10am-12pm: Yoga Synergy: SANGAM Sunday 5.30 –7.00am: Yoga Synergy: SANGAM Simon will lead you through a flowing sequence of spinal movements. These movements, although rarely seen in modern yoga are both the source and key to all posture and movement systems including classical yoga, martial arts and modern dance. This practice has also proven to be one of the most effective movement therapies for the relief of back pain.
Tahir Qawwal
Friday 10am-12pm: SAMA Yoga: SANGAM: Open the body with Yoga and be immersed in the beauty of sacred music with Barbi & Tahir Saturday 8.00pm: CONCERT: LAWN Sunday 8.30am: Qawwali singing workshop: SANGAM In this workshop you will learn some of the important elements that make up raaga, such as voice culture, pure pitch, microtonal ornamentations & expression of sentiment.
Kevin James
Zoe Braithwaite - Yoga Joy
Kathyrn McCusker KM Yoga
Rendra Freeston
Jewelz A Hoopz
Sacred Sonics Cacao Ceremony
Iolani Grace
Friday 2.30-4.30pm: Chant & Yoga: AGNI HOTRA Friday 8.00pm: CONCERT: SANGAM Kevins chanting circle swirls sweet harmonies into ecstatic chanting and deep silence. A free space to cocreate, dance, sing, pray, express your devotion and reconnect to the heart. Weaving ancient Mantra’s from various traditions with his own chants and heart song, Kevin James’ facilitates a space to dissolve the ego, reconnect to the heart and co-create a positive vibration for yourself and the world.
Friday 10am-12pm KUNDALINI YOGA : PURUSHA: Join Kathryn on an inspirational Kundalini journey to experience your internal power to be happy, creative and connected to yourself and the collective consciousness. Saturday 2.30-4.30pm: KM YOGA: SANGAM ‘Body is not all. Mind is not all. Spirit is not all. All three make the sense.’ Yogi Bhajan The essence of Kundalini Yoga is to unite and awaken consciousness.
Mark O’Brien Qi Yoga
Saturday 5.30am-7.00am: QI YOGA: SANGAM Say goodbye to jadedness and hello to curiosity. Learn ways to enjoy creatively flowing asana to find joy - not pain- in your yoga as you replace ambition with curiosity. Sunday: 10am – 12pm: Divine Union: SANGAM: Asana and Pranayama practices to create divine balance for Autumn
Friday 2.30pm-4.30pm: AcroYoga: SANGAM: shift the way you relate to yourself in relation to how you relate to others. Utilising the framework of group and partner balances, games, and release work Saturday 1.30-2.30: AcroYoga: LAWN: Drop into an hour of Acro - Partner Yoga. An entrancing and invigorating practice, opening and strengthening every aspect of your being into balance Saturday 7pm: Drumming Circle: LAWN Co-create a rhythmic microcosm of the universal macrocosm in this special sunset drum circle delicately guided by Rendra - let go into the world of rhythm, pulse and tribe. Friday 7.00pm : Cacao Ceremony: LAWN Sacred Sonics is the pairing of beloveds Jemma Gawned and Christopher Mapstone; working in love, ceremony and bringing in transformative power via cacao ceremony and music.
Saturday 7pm: Drumming Circle: LAWN imageHoop Dance & Partner Play Learn the basics of hooping & then apply them to your dance… different music, different beats coming through different people. Find the hooper in you through play & dance. Saturday 8.30am – 9.30am : Ke Lele Dance Medition: LAWN Ka Lele is a Shamanic Flying Dance Meditation, a Prayer in Motion and the foundational practice of Hawaiian Temple Bodywork, Lomilomi. In addition to being a powerful journey and exploration of Self, Ka Lele has many practical benefits
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
1 pm Arrive and Register
5.30 am Sarah-Jane Perman Heart Opening Vinyasa Flow: SANGAM Swami Yogasandhan: Classic Satyananda class - PRAKRITI
5.30am Mark O'Brien: Qi Yoga: SANGAM Swami Yogasandhan: Classic Satyananda class: PRAKRITI
5.30am Simon Borg-Olivier: Yoga Synergy: SANGAM Swami Maitritara Tattwas (elements): PRAKRITI
3:30 pm Alex Grant Pranayama: LAWN
7am Breakfast
7am Breakfast
7am Breakfast
4 pm Jaya Lakshmi & Ananda YOGA: LAWN
7.45am Karma Yoga
7.45am Karma Yoga
7.45 Karma Yoga
6 pm Dinner
8:30 am Natali Joscelyne: Sound Journey : SANGAM
8:30 am 'Iolani Grace : Ke Lele : LAWN
8:30 am Qawalli Singing Workshop : SANGAM
7 pm Welcome Ceremony
10am - 12pm Barbi & Tahir Sama Yoga: SANGAM Beata Alfoldi Shamanic Journey: PRAKRITI Katherine McCusker KM Yoga: PURUSHA Dustin Thomas Soul Songwriting: AGNI HOTRA
10 - 12 pm Simon Borg-Olivier Yoga Synergy: SANGAM Jeremiah Abrams The Love Journey: PRAKRITI Jaya Lakshmi & Ananda YOGA: PURUSHA Natali Joscelyne Ecstatic Dance Pray : LAWN
7.30pm Satyananda Kirtan
12-12.30pm Satyananda Yoga Nidra
12-12.30pm SatyanandaYoga Nidra:
10am - 12pm Mark Obrien Qi Yoga: SANGAM Angel Singmin Regenerate & Balance : PRAKRITI Beata Alfoldi Divine Union : PURUSHA Natalie Joscelyne Womb Wisdom for Women : AGNI HOTRA 12-12.30pm Satyananda Yoga Nidra:
8.30pm Jaya Lakshmi & Ananda: Kirtronica
12:30pm Lunch
12:30pm Lunch
12:30pm Lunch
1:00-2:30pm Mel Dobra: LAWN
1:30-2:30 Yogajoy: AcroYoga : LAWN
2pm Closing Ceremony: LAWN
TIMETABLE SUBJECT TO CHANGE
2:30 - 4.30 pm YogaJoy: AcroYoga : SANGAM Angel Singmin Energy, Flow & Harmony: PRAKRITI Jeremiah Abrams Healing Love Wounds: PURUSHA Kevin James & Alex Grant Chant / Yoga : AGNI HOTRA
2:30pm - 4.30pm Kathryn McCusker KMYoga: SANGAM Angel Singmin Heal, Sooth & Restore : PRAKRITI Sarah-Jane Perman Eating for health, healing and happiness: PURUSHA Sacred Earth Mantra & Chant: AGNI HOTRA Free Time / Swimming / Cave Walk 5.15pm Havan (Vedic Fire Ceremony): LAWN 6pm Dinner
6pm Dinner
7.00pm Cacao Ceremony Sacred Sonics 8.00pm Kevin James 9.15pm Sacred Earth
7:00pm : Drum & Hoop Workshop 8.00pm : Tahir & the Qawalli Ensemble 9.15 : Dustin Thomas
2.00 - 3.00 Jaya Lakshmi & Ananda - Kirtan
We welcome you to the Sydney Spirit Retreat! It is our intention to create a unified experience that allows for deep healing and transformation. We honour the traditional custodians of this sacred land as well as give thanks to the current custodians, the Satyananda Yoga Ashram. As I’m sure you will discover, this is a truly powerful place for spiritual awakening. In addition to the wonderful guest teachers, the Satyananda resident teachers will be offering daily classes at 5.30am, Yoga Nidra at 12midday, Fire Havan and Karma Yoga everyday at 7.45am, by aligning yourself with the rhythm of the Ashram, you can open to a deeper personal process. We hope that you will embrace this opportunity to connect with yourselves, the ashram, the teachers, the land and your inner spirit. Please don’t feel that you have to do everything offered or wake or sleep when everyone else does. We trust that you will listen to your inner guru and follow your bliss! Thank you so much for sharing yourself with us, we hope that you take a little slice of the spirit of this retreat home with you. Please reach out & connect with us, if you ever need help or a hug! In Love & Unity, Kate Little & Alex Grant