Kyo Yoga & Healing

02/09/2026

Who's ready for it?
Join me for 3 mornings over Grand Final Weekend to invite the Spring energy. 8.30am - in studio (limited space) and online available.

Spring (or Vasanta) is considered the ‘king of seasons’ and honoured as a time of renewal, flowering and awakening. Light and warmth are treated as manifestations of divine energy and this will be part of the focus of the morning intensives.

Bookings via link below.

Jill 🌼

Jump into this three morning September Grand Final weekend yoga intensive, igniting the Spring energy with Jill Harris.

25/08/2026

Samtosa (contentment) takes us into practice this week - asking us to acknowledge what is inside and not be drawn out by what we think brings happiness around us. Success, objects, experiences are all transitory and sometimes a turning away from finding contentment within. Distraction.

The practice brings us back to sattva - the guna of clarity and lightness where we can access Samtosa as a natural state arising as an internal anchor and a meeting point between who we really are and who we think we should be.
It all comes back to the practice. 💫

13/08/2026

‘When the mind no longer worries about acquiring and keeping goods, we understand where we come from, where we are and where we are going.’

Presenting the Yamas (social disciplines) in class these past few weeks has prompted much discussion. The fifth and final Yama – aparigraha (non-grasping) has really landed for many.

The Yamas are not just social disciplines that we apply in relationship with others. We need to embody them first in our self. And Yoga assists this because we are making an intimate inner connection each time we step into practice.

It may be easy enough to imagine what ‘non-grasping’ might look like in a pragmatic way. Do we tend to accumulate material goods or even knowledge or experiences? Can we be present in ourself without relying on ‘the stuff’ to keep us feeling worthwhile?
But aparigraha presents in relationship in ways that are often hidden. We all know the word ‘baggage’ and many relationships accumulate this over time. This can limit our vitality and that of the relationship. Communication suffers and we recoil into a type of ‘programming’ that seems set.

What would it feel like to be in relationship without expectation and comparison? To not anticipate or expect?
Aparigraha is asking us to be aware – to keep things fresh and meet the other as though we are seeing them for the first time. This means letting go of patterns in the mind, body and speech. Every moment is a new one. It asks us to check ourselves before we load the ‘baggage’ onto the other. Self awareness.

If we can engage aparigraha it becomes a boost for our prana (life force energy). Rather than being dragged down in past expectations, clinging to actions that have gone before – we can instead take a fresh perspective and be open to the offering of ‘now-ness’. Aparigraha is the key that can unlock the experience of life for us.

21/07/2026

A practice for Satya… appropriate truth telling and authenticity in speech. Focus on upper body - prana vayu - clearing the throat, heart and mind. 🙏☀️

06/07/2026

Check out new Winter Workshops on offer and my new blog on 'Yoga As Transformation'. 🙌🧘‍♀️

https://mailchi.mp/d4b2bf76f75e/winter-workshops-to-warm-and-sustain

21/06/2026

Honoured to be teaching and connecting again this weekend at my ‘yoga home’ - Agama Yoga Centre. Sharing the teachings of this deep and nourishing tradition.

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. 🙏