Enlightened Life 3 Part Workshop

Enlightened Life Part 1: Journey of Self-Discovery - Saturday 15th February 2025

Embark on a transformative journey to uncover your true self and unlock your full potential. The Journey of Self-Discovery Workshop is designed for individuals seeking deeper spiritual understanding, greater fulfillment, and a life rich with meaning and purpose.

In this interactive workshop, you’ll gain a profound understanding of yourself, your relationships  and your connection to the world around you. Through applied yoga wisdom, mindfulness practices, and reflective exercises, you’ll uncover the keys to living with clarity, peace and purpose.

This workshop is part of our Enlightened Life Guide course, a practical roadmap for applying yoga wisdom to modern living. In this first session, we’ll explore Self-Discovery, the foundation for living with balance, clarity and purpose. Future workshops in the series—Managing Life’s Storms and The Art of Harmonious Relationships—build on these insights to further enrich your life.

What You’ll Experience:

• Self-Reflection: reflect on your life journey and life priorities. 
• The Search for Happiness: Explore our search for happiness and how we seek it.  Goal setting through the phases of life.  Discover if you are missing anything!
• The Mind Layer: In modern society, we are rarely taught how to understand the power of our mind. Yogic wisdom offers profound insights into using this incredible instrument effectively, allowing us to function optimally and live with greater clarity, focus, and purpose.
• Mindfulness techniques: Learn how to overcome obstacles, develop awareness in every day life and lead a peaceful, purposeful life.
• Self-Care: We all know what we should be doing for self-care and can often ignore the fundamentals. Your Life-Check-in will help you to establish daily habits to support your goals.
• Yogic Practices: Discover tools for balancing your mind, body, and spirit, cultivating harmony and wisdom.
• Group Connection: Share insights and experiences with like-minded individuals in a supportive environment.
• Guided Meditation: Clear your mind, open your heart, and connect to new possibilities.

What You’ll Gain:

• Understand the difference between external and internal happiness and how to build your inner foundation.
• Clarity on prioritizing your life goals, with strategies to move forward meaningfully.
• Understand the changing nature of the physical body and the mind.
• Practical tools to continue your self-discovery journey and optimize happiness in your life.
• A greater understanding of your relationships with yourself, others, and the world.

Inclusions:

• A delicious plant-based afternoon tea with chai.
• Meditation beads and a workshop booklet to support your ongoing practice.
• Course materials for reflection and growth.

Begin your journey to self-discovery today. Step into a life of deeper awareness, fulfillment, and joy. Spaces are limited—bookings essential.

Enlightened Life Part 2: Navigating Life’s Storms - 8th March 2025 

Life’s challenges are inevitable, but how we respond to them can transform our journey. The Navigating Life’s Storms Workshop is designed to help you cultivate resilience, find balance, and navigate adversity with clarity and wisdom.

This workshop is part of the Enlightened Life Guide course—a practical framework for living yoga wisdom in everyday life. After exploring Self-Discovery in the first session, we now turn our focus to navigating life’s ups and downs. The series concludes with The Art of Harmonious Relationships.

What You’ll Explore:

• Build Harmony with Nature’s Rhythms: Discover how ancient wisdom can be integrated into modern living to create balance and harmony by aligning your life with nature's laws, fostering greater stability and well-being.
• Resilient Individuals: How they exemplify resilience through their actions and words, offering powerful insights into overcoming adversity.
• Life Lessons: Embrace essential truths that empower you to navigate challenges and build resilience in the face of adversity.
• Resilience Strategies: Explore and discover proven strategies and practices to develop a strong, adaptable response to life’s challenges.
• Mental Foundation: Use mindfulness awareness to strengthen your mental foundation – pivotal to navigating life’s storms.
• Purpose: Explore the role of purpose in building adversity.
• Gratitude: Embrace it’s power and influence in promoting strength of character.
• The Power of Choice: Making the right decision can sometimes be confronting and hard. Develop awareness of how to make decisions with best outcomes.
• Journey of Life: Reflect on your journey of life and what is available to you to live with peace, strength and harmony.
• Group Connection: Share insights and experiences with like-minded individuals in a supportive environment.
• Actionable Strategies: Gain tools to adapt, take effective action, and embrace what’s within your control.
• Spiritual Growth: Use ancient wisdom, meditation, and mindful practices to find peace and wisdom amidst life’s storms.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand how ancient wisdom practices stabilize your life. 
• Develop the ability to embrace change and challenges that come your way (without freaking out).
• Understand how the power of choice influences your outcomes and importantly, how to arrive at the best choice.
• Learn practical techniques for maintaining inner strength during difficult times.
• Grow through the transformational power of meditation and spiritual wisdom.

This workshop is perfect for anyone looking to strengthen their ability to face challenges and thrive in the ever-changing tides of life.

Inclusions:

• A delicious plant-based afternoon tea with chai.

Embrace the opportunity to grow through life’s storms and discover the calm within. Spaces are limited—book now.

Enlightened Life Part 3: The Art of Harmonious Relationships - 12th April 2025

This workshop, part of our Enlightened Life Guide course, offers a practical and transformative approach to creating, maintaining, navigating and enhancing interactions with others. After exploring Self-Discovery and Navigating Life’s Storms, this final session focuses on The Art of Harmonious Relationships.

We all strive for harmony in our relationships, yet challenges are inevitable. Our ability to connect and relate to others is shaped by various factors, including our upbringing, environment, personality, and past experiences. Life, much like relationships, can be both smooth and bumpy, and we all encounter pain and hurt from difficult or broken connections and what may feel like irreparable relationships. Healing and moving forward can feel challenging and impossible.

At our core, we are all seeking love, kindness, care, understanding, and respect. By combining modern understanding with ancient spiritual wisdom, this workshop will explore modern and ancient wisdom insights into the mind, emotions, feelings and our spiritual essence—key elements that influence how we understand ourselves and interact with others. It will equip you with the tools to bring happiness, joy, peace and inspiration into your daily interactions with others.

We will draw on time-tested spiritual practices to foster and maintain harmonious relationships—whether in family, friendships, or professional settings. This workshop offers practical tools for cultivating deeper, more meaningful connections in all your daily interactions.

What You’ll Learn:

• Yogic Key Understandings: For returning participants and new enrolments: Recap key understandings on identity which are pivotal to a life of happiness and harmony.
• Virtuous Qualities: Reflect on those that we admire in others and consider qualities to cultivate.
• The Nature of the Mind: By mindfulness awareness you will understand how the mind can be used as a tool to guide you to enhance and bring balance into your relationships. 
• Thinking Styles: You will identify common cognitive distortions  in yourself and others and see how you can reframe your own thinking patterns.
• Driven by Emotion: Learn to process your emotions as information versus reacting. Explore how to recognize your own and others default patterns of thinking and emotional responses which lead to resultant actions.  Applying principles of emotional intelligence, you will learn how to recognize and understand your own and others emotional responses.
• Emotional Regulation: The power of  the breath. Learn simple strategies to regulate your nervous system and restore calm within in any situation.
• Practical Tools for Empowering your Life: Discover life lessons and strategies to reduce frustration, anxiety, anger and resentment in your relationships, and maintain clarity in any situation.
• Forgiveness Meditation: Experience freedom from within letting go of the pain and burdens of the past or present.
• Eternal Beings Seeking Love: Understand the true nature of love and how a deeper understanding of its spiritual essence can transform your connections. 
• The Inward Journey: Learn how true happiness and fulfilling relationships begin with cultivating inner peace and self-awareness.

Inclusions:

• A delicious plant-based afternoon tea with chai.

Join us for practical strategies and transformative insights to help you restore balance and cultivate deeper, more meaningful connections. You’ll gain tools to navigate even the most challenging interactions with clarity, wisdom, and purpose, while deepening your spiritual awareness. This workshop will empower you to create positive outcomes in your personal, professional, and spiritual life.

Take this opportunity to deepen your relationships and cultivate a spiritual practice which brings deep and lasting inner happiness. Book your spot now.

Have a question about this event? Please Contact Gayatri on 0404 499 593 or brisbane@asmy.org.au

***PLEASE NOTE*** We have 3 car parks near our entry on Beattie St but parking in West End is limited, please allow enough time to find a park. There are a few streets a short walk away that usually have street parking, Egbert, Adelaide and Crowther Sts.