Welcome in winter with a 1 Day Yoga Retreat

Welcome in Winter 
SOLD OUT

Sunday May 29th

9 - 5pm 

Yoga East

$120

Farewell autumn and hello winter!

"Fall, leaves, fall; die flowers away; lengthen night and shorten day! Every leaf speaks bliss to me fluttering from the autumn tree." 

Emily Bronte 

A lovely way to bring in winter with a one yoga day retreat led by Margot Porter (RYT 500 hrs) and guest speaker Rebecca Takac  (registered nurse and nutritionist). 

Come along to Yoga East and welcome in your winter in  a soft, meaningful and playful day filled with fun, yoga, helpful information and delicious food. 

Nourish yourself and take time to slow down and take stock of what will make your winter a joyful experience of serenity, stillness and surrender.

The day includes:

• A fun workshop learning about your organs: their form, function and weight 
• Yoga asana practice where we explore the ways in which moving from your organ body shifts the way we think about and move through our yoga  practice
• Winter nutrition talk with Rebecca Takac - learn how to support your health as winter heads our way. 
•  Delicious, seasonal vegetarian lunch and light afternoon tea
• A relaxing yoga nidra
• Yin yoga practice focusing on the meridian lined for winter kidney and urinary bladder
• Finish with restorative yoga and enjoy blissful relaxation

Bookings essential as there are limited places!

Contact Margot for details on how to book your place.

Restorative Yoga: Inhale Exhale ...

Booked out!
Inhale Exhale

Restorative Yoga Intensive

Saturday April 30th

2.30 - 5pm

Yoga East

206 a Main Street, Bairnsdale 

$40

Payment secures your place.

Limited places.

Bookings required.

Yoga: being in the body with grace.

YOGA

Being in the body with grace 

or 

letting go of an ego based practice.

Most of us grow wiser as we age and there comes a time in our practice when our hearts and our bodies tell us it is time to change our practice to suit our needs. Recently I decided that I no longer wanted to do a strong vinyasa practice. A flow practice yes but not one that made me not want to get up and go to my mat. Strong vinyasa everyday was just making me tired. It no longer energised and nurtured me the way it had. I don't have any injuries - it just didn't feel good anymore. I then thought about other poses that I no longer needed in my tool kit and felt a freedom in doing so for now I was practising the yama ahimsa - being gentle and loving kindness.

Make your body happy and let your ego take a back seat.

Do any poses or practices you do make you feel tense, tired or just uninspired?
Is it time to unclutter your yoga suitcase?

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Going with the flow

I like handstands and keep trying to do them. The question is should I?
I am beginning to question why I like to do these harder poses and if I am hanging onto to some idea about still being 25 rather than almost 50. Am I being honest and truthful with myself about what would help me or am I being stubborn and hanging onto practices that are inappropriate and are hurting me.

When I stop trying so hard poses I find difficult pop up and are often much easier to do as if they know organically that now is  a good time. I just need to get my head or ego out of the action.
 Open up to the moment and let what arises arise and let what dissolves dissolve.

Relax in your practice and see what happens instead of being focused on the physical and external outcomes for yoga is a work in, an energetic practice for quieting the mind and serving others.

Om shanti,

Margot XX

Yoga Therapeutics Workshops

Yoga Therapeutics with Lisa Baker

LOVE your back 

Saturday Feb 20th 2.30 - 5pm

 at Yoga East

LOVE your belly 

Sunday Feb 21st 10.30 -1pm

 at Yoga East 

 Yoga Therapeutics

LOVE your Back

Learn tools to deal with a busy mind, troubled sleep, sore back, nervousness, anxiety, fibromyalgia and hormonal irregularities.

Based on the 5 elements and the meridians of Chinese medicine, Lisa will guide you through yoga poses to move energy into the lower back, kidneys, bladder, reproductive organs, adrenals and into your lower limbs. Learn ways to reduce tiredness, stiffness and manage ailments on a daily basis. Suits all levels.

 

Yoga Therapeutics

LOVE your Belly

  

Explore yoga sequences to move your bowels, get regular, detox, control sugar cravings and improve digestive health.

Discover how chakras support your digestive system and enhance your overall sense of vitality and wellness. In this workshop, Lisa, a qualified herbalist and naturopath, will blend Yoga with Western Naturopathy and the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine, to show you how to put together your personalised sequence. Suits all levels.

About Lisa Baker

"Lisa started her yoga journey in 1992 with Elleke van Kralingen in the Netherlands while she was studying Naturopathy. Lisa graduates in 1997 as a herbalist and naturopath.She moved to Australia in 1999where she settled down in the beautiful Dandenongs near Melbourne. In 2009 she finished her yoga teacher training and has been teaching yoga since. She has studies children's yoga with Loraine Rushton and finished another teacher training with Donna Farhi in 2015. Lisa has a down to earth approach to teaching yoga ans is interested in tis therapeutic effects. For Lisa yoga is a life style. Her goal is to empower people to use the principles of yoga beyond the mat into each day and each moment as a guidance on how to reduce stress and live a fulfilled life."

To book 

Details: LOVE your Back

Saturday Feb 20th

2.30 - 5pm

Yoga East

206 a Main Street, Bairnsdale 

$40

Payment secures your place.

Limited places.

Bookings required:

To book via Direct Bank transfer email Margot or message me on Facebook

Book by credit card.

No refunds.

Details: LOVE your Belly

Saturday Feb 21st

10.30 - 1pm

Yoga East

206 a Main Street, Bairnsdale 

$40

 Payment secures your place.

Limited places.

Bookings required:

To book via Direct Bank transfer email Margot or message me on Facebook

Or pay by credit card.

No refunds. 

See you on the mat. 

Om shanti, Margot XX 

margotporteryoga@hotmail.com

Yoga Intensive Dragon Dance Feb 14th

                                  Dragon Dance Yoga Intensive
                                                       Play! Move! Groove!

Saturday Feb 13th

 2.30 - 5pm 

Yoga East 

 Dragon Dance

           

Feel the heat of summer with this vigorous and fluid dance. 

The Dragon Dance is a wonderful blend of Daoist and Classical Indian Yoga. Move through a whole body work out, work up a sweat and challenge your mind, ego and body. In this workshop, we build up into a flow of poses in stages with each stage adding to the dynamism and spirit of a yoga dance. Work to improve your flexibility and increase your concentration and focus.  

 Experience the flow of energy and feel the magic of 'prana' as it moves through the body.

Once the stage is set and we are familiar with the dance, let's slow it right down and work with holding poses or variations of poses to build strength and stamina. Then wind down into a selection of yin poses echoing the dance. Finish with pranayama and savasana.

Details:

Saturday Feb 13th

2.30 - 5pm

Yoga East

206 a Main Street, Bairnsdale 

$40

Payment secures your place.

Limited places.

Bookings required:

For Direct Bank Transfer payment details email Margot Porter
 or message me on Facebook
Or book and pay with a credit card

No refunds.