Kyo Yoga & Healing

18/06/2026

Excited to be presenting at this wonderful weekend of Yoga and all it encompasses at in Middle Park this weekend.

I stepped into this studio as a novice yogi 24 years ago and it has remained one of the original yoga schools in Melbourne and somewhere my heart always returns to. 💗

This says so much about the tradition, the teachings and most of all Barbara who has been the leader of this space all that time.

All welcome - students, teachers and community. Choose the topic that appeals or stay for the whole day! 🧘

Bookings via agamayogacentre.com.au

01/06/2026

Teacher Training weekend… diving a little deeper every month.
Course planning, mantra, Yoga Sutras and asana practice were all part of the weekend.

29/05/2026

A beautiful depiction of how technology will never replace self realisation - or the inner work. 🙏

While AI is already profoundly changing our realities, can it really help us with the shift in consciousness we urgently need to restore our relationship with the living world, asks author and Sufi teacher Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee.

25/05/2026

Over the next few weeks the ‘taste of bandha’ will float into practice.

Bandha means ’to tie or to bind’ and involves locking the torso in particular ways during asana.

There are three main bandhas in yoga - jalandara (throat lock), uddiyana (abdominal lock) and mulabandha (root or pelvic lock).
They are worked with in that order, gradually experiencing one at a time, building the practice with integrity.

Why do bandhas?
✨ Accumulation - according to yoga - is at the root of all dis-ease whether of body or mind. Our practice should have a purpose that can assist us in maintaining health.
When we keep adding without releasing, an overflow develops and the body succumbs to ill health.

🌟 Although bandha means ‘lock’ these techniques are actually used to release accumulation in the system. Be it physical, emotional, energetic etc. The body comes into a form of contraction and then lets go slowly through the muscular structure. This also serves for health of our internal organs particularly those of the lower abdomen and pelvis.

🔥 They are specific to pranayama due to the long breath required to control them. Pranayama is the biggest form of waste removal for our system so if we are neglecting the conscious breath in practice we may find we experience being ’stuck’ or that the flow of life in an easeful way is absent.

💨 The traditional breath length for attempting bandha practice involves 4 parts - 10 seconds inhale, 10 seconds pause, 10 seconds exhale and 10 seconds pause!

🍁 Whilst this ratio may be out of reach for many modern yoga practitioners, we can experience a ’taste’ of the bandha effect in certain postures and by working with the all parts of the breath in a proactive and sustained way.

↕️ Experiencing a ‘taste of bandha’ as we enter the colder months, gives the body a starting point for resilience as we work with jathara agni - the digestive fire. When the fire burns well for us we will be less affected by outside change.
Ultimately we can bring a steady form into all aspects of life that we encounter. 🙏

04/05/2026

The authentic Vedic Yoga teachings are rarely encountered in the 'quick bites' of modern yoga practice. Exploring the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali allows a deeper of experience of why we practice and the benefits to mental and physical wellbeing.

This program is aimed at yoga teachers who have some experience with these philosophical teachings along with students seeking the deeper realms of yogic understanding.
The sessions are monthly - as discussion forum - in studio or online with Jill Harris. 🙏
This month's program is on Friday May 15 at 3.15pm-4.45pm.

From Kriya Yoga we begin the journey into the Kleshas (causes of suffering) examining how the Kriya Yoga path reduces the klesha influence.
For bookings head to:
https://kyoyoga.com.au/yogic-philosophy-sessions/

11/03/2026

Studio news and Easter Intensive Sessions open for booking via link below.

https://mailchi.mp/5536d2f301dd/easter-intensive-sessions

17/02/2026

Refections on Stability in Change.

Abyasa - the effort to be stable.

According to Patajali’s Yoga Sutras, abyhasa sets the stage for practice and discipline so that we can arrive in clarity (nirodah) with a true foundation beneath us.

✨This might be a physical stability that comes about through gradual and consistent practice - as well as knowing when too much is too much and stepping the practice back.

🌷It might be a link to a steady breath that becomes the monitor for our nervous system and our body function overall. It is neither forced nor too relaxed. Breath and body are in tandem. Interplay.

🌗 It can be an effort to put supports in place so that we have greater capacity to fly in life. To experience freedom.

Abyasa can give us direction. It needs time and practice to grow and embed.

Abyasa teaches us humility. Too often we go beyond what we can do right now and suffer as a result. Failing to see limitation or making the wrong decision for that time.

Or we give up completely because we don’t have the foundation to keep going.

Forming abhyasa takes time and consistent practice. Sometimes we have to swim upstream a little to challenge ourself - away from stability so we know what stability is.
Gradually abhyasa becomes the compass. 🧭

Abyasa cultivates positive states for us that are lived and felt - not simply blissful or fleeting experiences.
When we practice it we have protection and a quiet inner strength to keep moving forward. It is our gift to ourself in yoga and life. 🙏

17/01/2026

It’s felt like a long break… a Summer of stepping back and observing, being with the flow rather than dominated by it. ☀️

Some quiet and reflective classes are on offer this week to keep you grounded before we step back into a new term after Australia Day weekend.

Join me on the mat - in studio or at home. All welcome. 🙌🏻🧘🌻

02/01/2026

Three day intensive begins today. Practising through the Kriya yoga model - tapas (the purification), svadhyaya (reflection and mantra) and Isvara pranidhana (surrender to the higher force). 🌼🧘

02/01/2026

Solitude gives birth to the original in us ~ Thomas Mann

💫 What does it take to return to the ‘original’? We spend most of the day in disconnection from the truly original within us. The layering of life easily forms us as we take on roles, attitudes, protections, practices that pull us into an outward motion… away from centre...

🧘‍♀️ Yoga as a discipline and a practice offers a return to wholeness. By definition the word yoga means ‘to yolk’ - indicating a linking of two things, a merging and reclaiming of a centre we have moved away from.

🌺 The practice doesn’t ask us to be a particular way when we start out but rather to integrate steps that lead us in a direction of inner healing, uncovering an invisible but felt source where our own truth resides.

🌖 Coming out of practice can be like the wiping away of cobwebs or dusting away of a residue. We may have operated at a particular level of ‘ok’ with the residue - yet once it is removed we see the full potential of what exists underneath. A glimpse of this ‘original’ in us becomes the drawcard that leads us back into practice, to once again return to the source.

☀️ This journey to the ‘original’ is a solo endeavour. How amazing that we can be in a class with other people yet still have an innately individual experience! The collective focus or harmony of the group can aid this journey.

🪷 Without doubt we have to make this return to solitude consciously, over and over - we cannot sustain it indefinitely. This is the human nature and a product of living in the world. The tools of practice - body, breath and focus of mind become the pathway. And once we learn these pathways we have them for life. Each return a new birth back to self.

👑 Solitude is our reset.