Heart of Yoga
Description
From sunrise to sunset, join us in our three day celebration with yoga classes and workshops encompassing yoga philosophy, pranayama, movement practices, pelvic health, relationships, body-mind connections, the senses and other topics and concepts through the lens of Patañjali's Yōga Sūtra-s.
Each class takes us through a traditional yoga practice as taught by Agama founder Barb Brian in the tradition of her teacher, TKV Desikachar.
Each 2-hour workshop includes discussion, education and a gentle guided practice.
Each session involves breath, movement and reflection.
If you would like to learn or enhance how to apply this ancient wisdom to your everyday life, please join us!
Agenda
- All day
Friday 19 June
Friday 19 June 6.30-7.30am | Sunrise Yoga Class 8.30-10.30am | Strengthening for 50+ (2hr Workshop) 11am-1pm | Osteopathy & Yoga – Pelvic Health for Women (2hr Workshop) 2.30-4.30pm | Why we keep coming back to yoga – Yoga as a Mirror (2hr Workshop) 5-6pm | Class: Sunset Yoga Class
- All day
Saturday 20 June
Saturday 20 June 6.30-7.30am | Sunrise Yoga Class 8.30-10.30am | Body to Breath to Being – from Asana to Meditation (2hr Workshop) 11am-1pm | The Quiet Beneath the Noise – Stilling the Activities of the Mind (2hr Workshop) 2.30-4.30pm | The Importance of Relationship in Yoga Practice – A Dive into the Senses, Through Hearing to Listening (2hr Workshop) 5-6pm | Sunset Yoga Class
- All day
Sunday 21 June
Sunday 21 June: Solstice, International Yoga Day 6.30-7.30am | Sunrise Yoga Class 8.30-10.30am | The Joy of Chanting – From Asana via Chanting to Pranayama and Meditation (2hr Workshop) 11am-1pm | Feed your gut, Feed your Mind – Exploring the Gut-Brain Axis of the Ancients (2hr Workshop) 2.30-4.30pm | The Transformative Process that is Yoga – From States to Traits (2hr Workshop) 5-6pm | Sunset Yoga Class and Closing Sound Bath
Our Teachers
Geetha Soosay
Presenting Friday 19 June at 8.30-10.30am: Strengthening for 50+ and 11am-1pm: Osteopathy & Yoga: Pelvic Health for Women Geetha Soosay is an Osteopath with a special interest in women’s pelvic health, yoga teacher and strength trainer with a focus in bodyweight strength and arm balances. She has a passion for helping people move with greater strength, confidence and ease. Geetha combines evidence-based knowledge with a practical, compassionate approach. Her work focuses on functional movement, healthy ageing, women’s health, strength, mobility and body awareness.
Dani Pritchard
Presenting Friday 19 June at 2.30pm: Why we keep coming back to Yoga Dani Pritchard is a Certified Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapist in the Krishnamacharya linage and a Vedic Meditation Teacher with a dedicated personal practice since 1997. She began teaching Shanti Yoga in 2005 and completed post-graduate study in the Krishnamacharya lineage in 2017. Dani’s teaching gently weaves together ancient yogic wisdom with breath and movement to create spaces of deeper connection, self-inquiry and transformation. She is especially passionate about creating retreat containers that invite students to step away from the busyness of daily life, reconnect with themselves and their wholeness and experience the power of yoga to carry us beyond the mat.
Jess Wozniak
Presenting Saturday 20 June at 8.30am: Body to Breath to Being I have been teaching yoga since graduating from teacher training in 2016, in the tradition of T.Krishnamacharya. I’m interested in how our bodies store and process information, and the relationship between various asanas and their effects on our breathing and what we can learn. I’m inspired by nature and the parallels between human life and experience and those we can witness in the natural world.
Annie Maver
Presenting Saturday 20 June at 11am: The Quiet Beneath the Noise (with Rebecca Nathan) Hi I’m Annie, I started in this inspiring yoga tradition in the early 1990’s. Completing my teacher training in 2000, although still a student as it is a lifelong study. This tradition emphasizes the link between mind, body and breath. I love teaching yoga so come in, roll out a mat and see how you go.
Rebecca Nathan
Presenting Saturday 20 June at 11am: The Quiet Beneath the Noise (with Annie Maver) I am a qualified Naturopath and Clinical Nutritionist and have a keen interest in mind-body medicine and how chronic stress can directly affect our health. This came from my own experience of exploring yoga and meditation where I have noticed the many physical and mental benefits. I wanted to share what yoga has meant to me so I completed my teacher training with Barbara and have continued to learn and expand my teaching through further study in the Krishnamacharya lineage. I love the community aspect of joining together to practice yoga and aim to make my classes fun and accessible for all, no matter what level of experience. We will focus on creating a balanced and calm mind while improving the strength and flexibility of the body.
Meg Tucker
Presenting Saturday 20 June at 2.30pm: The Importance of Relationship in Yoga Practice (with Denise Duprat) I have been a student at Agama since 2013 and I am a qualified audiologist working in the rehabilitation of people with hearing loss. I completed the teacher training in 2021 and have been teaching at Agama ever since. I love to teach and find the contact with students and other teachers at Agama very rewarding. My journey studying the tools of yoga is ongoing and always enriching.
Denise Duprat
Presenting Saturday 20 June at 2.30pm: The Importance of Relationship in Yoga Practice (with Meg Tucker) and Sunday 21 June at 11am: Feed Your Gut, Feed Your Mind (with Larissa Lewis) Denise comes from Argentina where she has had most of her Yoga experience over the last 25 years. Although her early days were in the realms of Ashtanga, it was through Krishnamacharya’s lineage that she got into a deep understanding of the vast tools and philosophy underpinning Yoga and it is through the lens of this school that she has been teaching for the last 18 years. She has extensive experience in Āsana, Prānāyāma and the more meditative elements of Yoga: Mantras and Vedic Chanting. Having not only shared her knowledge in Group classes and Personalized home practices, but also being part of the Krishnamacharya’s Teacher Training in Argentina where new Yoga Teachers of this tradition are formed every year. As part of the Extension Studies offer to Yoga Teachers, she has been training teachers in Prenatal Yoga.
Larissa Lewis
Presenting Sunday 21 June at 11am: Feed Your Gut, Feed Your Mind (with Denise Duprat) Hello, I’m Larissa, after practising yoga most of my adult life, I finally landed at Agama with the incredible Krishnamacharya / Desikachar lineage. The teachings through this lens have not only supported me personally in life so beautifully, but allowed me to continue learning and developing as a teacher and as a Yoga Therapist in training. I teach a gentle general class as well as a therapeutic group class. I love being part of the accomplished sangha of teachers at AYC and I love to be able to share what I learn in my classes. I love all the different ways we can experience our vital selves and hope to share some of those in class with you soon.
Fiona Hardie
Presenting Sunday 21 June at 8.30am: Experience the Joy of Chanting I have been practising yoga since I was 18 - drawn to the mindful movement and spiritual aspects. After finding Āgamā, the focus on the breath in our classical tradition opened up other dimensions of the practice and I then undertook the teacher training course to find out what lay behind yoga and where it might take me. I discovered Vedic chanting and that has become my passion as well as my teaching specialisation. I trained as a Vedic chant teacher at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandarim in Chennai and now, in addition to teaching general and private yoga classes at Āgamā, run regular chanting sessions - for groups and private students. I am also a yoga teacher trainer - in the tradition of Krishnamacharya.
Jill Harris
Presenting Sunday 21 June at 2.30-4.30pm: The Transformative Practice that is Yoga Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapist. Since completing YTT with Barb in 2003, I have practiced and taught yoga consistently finding it to be the glue that holds me steady. The teachings allow me to ride with the ebb and flow of life. Based in Ocean Grove, I continue to share the Krishnamacharya teachings through classes, workshops, teacher training and retreats.
Nadia Chaves
Teaching Friday Sunrise Yoga Class 6.30am I am an infectious diseases and general specialist and local to the area. I have practiced yoga since a teenager but found in 2020 that it was the perfect antidote to the challenges we were facing, so I completed Teacher Training at Āgamā Yoga Centre in 2022. I now use yoga principles with my patients and my colleagues and find that it gives me the tools to deal with the challenges we all face and reminds us to find contentment and joy in the small things in life.
Imad van der Velde
Teaching Saturday sunset Yoga Class 5-6pm I am very inspired by T. Krishnamacharya, as he openly introduced the teaching of Yoga to women. The courage to break with an ancient tradition, to do something he believed was right. We all benefit from actions like these. There was suffering and he found he could help. Actions speak louder than words. My own working background is teaching Resilience programs to primary and secondary school groups to find and grow their comfort zone. Empowering young people to discover, have a go, and find their own voice, in this noisy world. When living in Europe, I worked as a Youth worker with refugees. As more refugees came to Europe, young adults were struggling to find a place in society. I worked to support this difficult transition In Australia, I work as an Outdoor education guide for secondary schools and as a yoga teacher where invited to. I started studying Yoga, I think, because I wanted to understand more. Yoga studies helped me bring many different experiences together, and discover a common thread. Yoga is a very powerful tool. As we practice, so we learn. We don’t have to know exactly how it works to begin. Showing up, moving, breathing and paying attention, Yoga can empower us with our living, in this ever-changing flow of life. This informs my Yoga teaching, Yoga to empower, to discover. Applying the tools of Yoga I enjoy teaching classes for people of all ages, from primary school age to senior ages. Looking forward to meeting you.
Lyn Camilleri
Teaching Friday sunset Yoga Class 5-6pm I began as a student of Āgamā Yoga Centre in 2005, when I was pregnant with my first child and was hooked! Since then, it has been an integral part of my life, helping to maintain physical, mental and emotional strength and flexibility. I completed my teacher training at AYC in 2013 and have been a teacher at AYC since that time. In 2021, I qualified as a yoga therapist, after completing a 1000 hour teacher therapy training course at AYC.
Barbara Brian
Teaching Saturday + Sunday Sunrise Yoga Classes 6.30am I was a long-standing student of TKV Desikachar and am the founder and director of Āgamā Yoga Centre for Health & Healing, a Yoga Therapist, Teacher and Trainer. I have been teaching yoga since 1989, offering both group and private classes for the young and healthy, and for students in all stages of life. Now, I mainly teach private classes, train and mentor Yoga Teachers & Yoga Therapists and conduct Further Studies workshops and events.
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