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.
WINTER INTENSIVE 2024 IS IMMINENT!!
at Temple Park Hall & St Ambrose Community Centre & via zoom
DATES:
- MONDAY 10 June (via zoom): 6.45pm (75 mins)
- THURSDAY 13 June (Temple Park): 6.45pm (2hrs) ZOOMED
- SATURDAY 15 June (St Ambrose Community Centre): 8am (3hrs)
- MONDAY 17 June (Temple Park): 6.45pm (2hrs)
- THURSDAY 20 June (Temple Park): 6.45pm (2hrs) ZOOMED
- SATURDAY 22 June (St Ambrose Community Centre): 8am (3hrs)
- MONDAY 24 June (Temple Park): 6.45pm (2hrs)
- no class Thurs 27 June…
- SATURDAY 29 June (St Ambrose Community Centre): 8am (3hrs)
- MONDAY 1 July (Temple Park): 6.45pm (2hrs)
SLIDING FEE SCALE:
WHOLE INTENSIVE (20+ hrs): $240
16-19 hrs: $12.50 p/h
12-15 hrs: $13.00 p/h
8-11 hrs: $13.50 p/h
4-7 hrs: $14.00 p/h
1-3 hrs: $14.50 p/h
(if a concession applies to your fees, please deduct 10%).
- 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.
Calculate hours of yoga and (using scale above) determine fees.
If financial pressure might prevent you from participating, please email to discuss.
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Please email us at Vijnana Yoga Australia to reserve your spot, stating the dates to which you are committing. We will reply to confirm.
