Wise body, wide heart, steady mind.
Retreats & Intensives
Retreats 
Retreats are held regularly throughout the year, usually around public holidays. Retreats run for between two and five days, and are held at Clearview Retreat, which is 90 minutes from Melbourne, off the Hume Highway, just past Strath Creek, in the King Parrot Valley, with views to Mt Buller.
For the full schedule of retreats, please visit the Clearview Website
Next in-person retreat:
4 Day Easter Retreat: 28 March – 1 April 2024
Call Jocelyn Bennett for reservations and further information: 0437813737
Places are limited and accommodation is a mix of single rooms and shared. Camping rate also possible. Reserve early.
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General Information: Residential Retreats
Retreats offer students a way to consolidate their yoga and to clarify their intentions regarding practice, and more broadly. The structure of a retreat can enable considerable relaxation and recovery over a relatively short time frame. Retreats involve the four aspects of yoga practice – sitting, pranayama, asana, and study/inquiry.
The combination of simple food, clean air, a kind and safe environment and a consistent schedule is a way to find one’s personal direction and rhythm again, as well as building commitment to yoga practice.
They can interrupt cycles of adrenaline exhaustion, introduce sustainable patterns, and provide the space to invite new feelings and perspectives.
Prices include all tuition, vegetarian food and accommodation. Car pooling is often arranged, to reduce the environmental impact of travel and to assist those needing transport.
Intensives
Intensives encourage students to develop their tenacity and to deepen their commitment to practice and general understanding of yoga. Classes are suitable for general attendance, and may involve longer meditation and relaxation sessions, some study of texts and chanting, workshop-style asana classes, where students can work on new poses, as well as time for discussion and sharing.
SUMMER INTENSIVE 2024 IS IMMINENT!!
at Temple Park Hall & St Ambrose Community Centre & via zoom
- Fees are a flat rate of: $14 / $12 c. per hour of tuition.
Count your hours of in-person study (for your fees). Then please apply the discounts below according to how many sessions you’re joining (include the home practice as one of your sessions in your sums). The more you join, the larger the discount applied. Write to me if you prefer me to calculate it for you 🙂
DATES:
- SATURDAY Nov 30: 8am (4hrs) — Ambrose Community Centre*
- MONDAY Dec 2: 6.45pm (2hrs) — Temple Park Studio
- THURSDAY Dec 5: 6.45pm (2hrs) — Temple Park Studio
- SATURDAY Dec 7: 8am (4hrs) — Ambrose Community Centre*
- MON Dec 9 — MON Dec 16: Recorded Class (2hrs) — to be completed as Home Practice between these dates
- THURSDAY Dec 19: 6.45pm (2hrs) — Temple Park Studio
- SATURDAY Dec 21: 8am (2.5hrs) — Ambrose Community Centre*
TOTAL: 16.5 hrs (+ free 2hr Home Practice)
* Ambrose Community Centre (if you google-maps those words precisely) is to be found between Sydney Road and Saxon St, Brunswick. Front entrance, via metal gates, is opposite ALDI. The back entrance is through a gate, into the concrete courtyard (for parking).
For the Saturday workshops at Ambrose, please bring ALL EQUIPMENT for practising. For sessions at Temple park, just bring your yoga mat and personal blanket.
DISCOUNTS (count the home practice as ‘1’):
- WHOLE INTENSIVE (7 sessions): 15%
- 6 Sessions: 12%
- 5 Sessions: 11%
- 4 Sessions: 10%
- 3 Sessions: 5%
- Classes are suitable for all levels, including the totally new to yoga. Longer workshops will have more time for discussion, relaxation, chanting, postural workshopping, study questions, etc.
- Bring ALL equipment to sessions at St Ambrose Community Hall: mat, blanket, sitting cushion/block/bolster, water bottle.
- Please inform, upon your request for spots, about any pregnancy, existing injury etc.
The concept is to decide what you’ll do, and to do what you decide.
Email the school to request spots for various sessions. Wait until you hear the place is reserved…
Calculate hours of yoga and (using info above) to determine fees. Or ask for calculation by us.
If financial pressure might prevent you from participating, please email to discuss.
Join our mailing list for updates. (We email infrequently and primarily with news of upcoming courses.)
Please email us at Vijnana Yoga Australia to reserve your spot, stating the dates to which you are committing. We will reply to confirm.
