ByronYoga

Written by Christine Lines

In November 2009, teachers from the Byron Yoga Centre (BYC) stood at the Belongil Studio for the last time, waiting for the shuttle bus to Brisbane Airport. After 22 years by the beach, it was a time of transition and adventure! The studio had closed its doors and moved to new premises in town. A few teachers continued the daily classes, while the rest of the team flew to India…

We're delighted to announce two new themed retreats being offered over the next few months. There are still places available and we invite you to join us in Byron Bay for a retreat with a difference, choose from Yoga and Cooking or Yoga and Meditation (or even both!)

Yoga and Cooking Retreat
27 Feb - 05 Mar $1250 

Explore conscious eating, deepen your understanding of nutrition and learn how yoga, meditation and pranayama can support a sattvic lifestyle.

This retreat offers the unique opportunity to assist in the kitchen during the week and learn how to prepare a variety of sattvic recipes, designed to be healthy, cleansing and delicious.

Participants will help the kitchen team and then share informally with the rest of the group about the meal preparation and ingredients etc before everyone enjoys the delicious meal created!

Read about Gitam Garden, our wonderful head chef, yoga teacher and hands on healer who created many of our delicious recipes.

Raising standards nationally and internationally

Introducing Australia’s first nationally recognised Certificate IV in Yoga Teaching as well as Yoga Alliance and YTAA accredited program.

Byron Yoga Centre is proud to announce it is now a registered training organisation (RTO) and able to offer a Certificate IV in Yoga Teaching to complement our existing Level 1 and Level 2 courses. This new formal recognition means we now offer an expanded teacher training course incorporating additional certificate units designed to prepare the yoga teacher for all aspects of running a yoga studio. This qualification is recognised not only throughout Australia but internationally, and with the Yoga Alliance (YA) and the Yoga Teachers Association of Australia (YTAA).

Wild dogs, cyclones, and lots and lots of chai!

Written by Ana Davis

I’m not a natural traveler; it doesn’t come easily to me.  After 6 months of frequent overseas trips, I felt almost unwillingly pulled along by the bus that took us to Brisbane airport,  preparing to set off across the oceans to India, far away, yet again, (sigh) from my little boy, and my home.

However, these feelings of reluctance lifted the moment we were in the taxi from Goa airport, tearing through the South Indian countryside, the warm wind in my hair, Bollywood music blaring, dodging cows and heavily loaded mopeds.   Ahhh… Indiahhh…already weaving her magic.

How to Register for YogaAid

We have just a few weeks until the Sunday, November 15th YogaAid Challenge. We encourage everyone to register for the event, join our Byron Bay team and begin fundraising for this worthwhile event.

1. Register:
Make sure you are registered for the event
Go to www.yogaaid.com.au
Click on Register
You can view the participants by going to the Challengers page and choosing Byron Bay from the drop-down menu.

2. Bring 5 to 10 people to the event - spread the word, and get participants registered and fundraising.

3. Be inspired by reading the story of last years event below:

Written by Ana Davis

You know you’re in Japan when you experience service that takes the concept of ‘the customer is always right’ to unprecedented extremes. John Ogilvie and Ana Davis recently toured Japan to introduce keen yogis there to the Byron Yoga Centre Purna style of yoga.

Written by Brook McCarthy
You hear lots of claims that yoga teacher training ‘will change your life.’ This made me skeptical seeing as how I was already working as a yoga teacher when I began my level 1 course. Yet, I began my level 1 course in a publishing job I despised, and finished level 2 having started my home-based business, in a new house with my first child.
 

Written by Ana Davis
For ten straight days a group of committed yogis lived and breathed ‘yoga therapy’ from six in the morning to half eight at night. During the meal breaks the intensity did not stop, with passionate discussions about yoga, natural health and healing often accompanying the dhal and chai.

Written by Brook McCarthy

Ah, Indiahhh. No other country evokes such strong emotions, opinions and expectations. Love it or hate it, rarely is a visitor unmoved. This November, the teaching staff of Byron Yoga Centre warmly invites you to Goa to join us for yoga teacher training, the graduate program, a yoga retreat or a relaxing holiday for non yogi family and friends.

Written by Brook McCarthy

Byron Yoga Centre is pleased to welcome Rushika Parikh from Chatswood on an all-inclusive, seven-day retreat with us in Byron Bay in January and a Coma-Toes yoga pack of goodies, as the winner of our Mind Body Spirit competition. Rushika was one of several hundred people who entered our competition, held in conjunction with Coma-Toes, at the recent Mind Body Spirit Festival at Sydney’s Darling Harbour.