Annual Community Yoga Retreat – Asana

Yin For The Spine with Lolly
Love your back with this spine-focused yin session. On a physical level, longer-held seated stretches encourage circulation and hydration in the discs. On an emotional level, by moving the spine we can create more free flowing energy through the sushumna nadi ultimately bringing more joy and vitality into our lives.

Breathing with Nature with Carolyn
The joy of movement – Grounding from arrival. Flowing with the sounds of nature in the Pond Dome – flow with some strength poses to feel grounded and strong in our core.

All Levels Hatha with Sahaja
This class opens with an invitation to practice a mantra with hand mudras as a way of centering and drawing attention inward. Asana will include gentle hatha poses with a focus on stabilization to support the low back. Students will be encouraged to relax effort where it is not necessary. Both the mantra and the practice of relaxing effort are excellent practices to bring off the mat and into everyday life.

Self Healing Yoga Journey with Aurelia
Gentle practice, including Himalayan Kriyas from the Vedic and Tantric traditions (breathing exercises, gentle movement, and sounds) for balance and self-healing. This journey is designed to bring a sense of harmony and rejuvenation to your life.

General Dosha Balancing with Jyoti
This is an instructional Yoga Asana class where Jyoti will be providing information and tools that can help folks manage their emotional state through strategic movement using the principles of Ayurveda and Yoga.

Cleanse and Reset Yoga Journey with Aurelia
In this cleanse and reset yoga journey, experience the power of active Himalayan Kriyas (breathing techniques, dynamic movements, and sounds) from the Vedic and Tantric traditions. This class is designed to help you release toxins at all levels, optimize energy flow, and achieve complete renewal

Gentle Hatha Yoga with Rajani R
This gentle class will incorporate mindful breathing, gentle movement, and meditation. You can expect a playful, balanced practice that will move your spine in all the ways it can move and incorporate reclined, seated, kneeling, standing, and balancing postures. Yoga is for everyone who has a body, and this class is designed to be accessible and suitable for everyone.

Exploring The Heart Chakra with Lolly
This heart-opening flow is centred around expanding and connecting through the heart space using breath and mindful movement to cultivate self love. The Anahata chakra is associated with gratitude, loving kindness, compassion and self acceptance. Invite more of these qualities into your life, into your heart, by joining me on the mat.

Family Yoga Class with Diana & Melody
Diana would like to co-create a family class with participating families through Nature storytelling, movement with music, dance, games, partner Yoga with your child and group yoga with the SSCY family. Be prepared to dig out your inner child’s imagination, feel the lightness that joy and play bring to the mind and body!

Restorative Yin with Ricardo
Expect a dynamic storytelling session where your mind will help your body hold postures for up to 12 minutes. Be ready to challenge yourself in a different way, and feel renewed once again. This practice has something for all levels of yoga practitioners.

Nyasa with Chetna
Nyasa is a deeply reflective yoga therapy practice that involves a series of self-touches in specific locations on the body. This is often done by a “seer,” or rishi, who chants a specific mantra to “place” it on a body part. It is thought that this ritual imparts the presence of a deity in the body, or makes the body of the individual more divine. In Sanksrit, nyasa means “placing” or “touching.”  Practitioners will be invited to lay hands on themselves or mentally “place” sacred symbols or mantras in specific locations on their body.

Hatha Yoga (All Levels) with Kenzie
We will explore traditional yoga poses and practices through a contemporary, functional and playful lens while cultivating a deepening sense of present moment awareness and embodiment. We will use gravity, space and movement to anchor ourselves in the unfolding present, noticing where we need to gather stability and where we need to soften and allow.

Somatic / Mindful Movement with Lolly
A flow class accessible for Every Body. This session is trauma informed and offers a journey on and off the mat of healing through movement and breath. Focusing on energy centres, this embodied flow fuses modern and traditional practices with intelligent sequencing, to allow students to focus on self-enquiry rather than performance. Follow your sense of curiosity and join me as we invite in more space to breathe and move.

Finesse in Movement with Lyndsay (CP)
Finesse in movement rather than bulk force. Cultivating kindness in the mind/body/breath complex – understanding that diverse movements, exertions and focuses can lead us to our personal “science lab” – play in the kind side of pain (no pain). When we can breathe easily during movements we will be working in a sweet mind and body space.

Yoga Core with Kenzie
Within the framework of an Asana practice, we will cultivate a visceral and embodied experience of our functional core, building the capacity to add complexity and dynamic ease to initially simple, then increasingly more challenging poses and movements. Emphasis will be placed on therapeutic movements that help undo the impact Western cultural practices have on core stability, including extended sitting, cell phone use and modern footwear.

Deep Hips & Shoulders with Jyoti
This will be on all levels class. Ease into the retreat by opening up the hips and shoulders, tight from our everyday habits of sitting at a desk and using our computers/phones. We will start with light stretches and move deeper into these areas as the class progresses.

Vinyasa Flow – Level 2 with Yogita
This class uses sun salutation and vinyasa as the thread to build into dynamic and challenging poses. Taught with clear verbal cues, you may flow through standing and arm balance, binds or inversions, as your practice allows on the day. Yogita will adapt the class to the skill level of those attending, but some prior experience is recommended. There will be options to explore within the practice.

Family Yoga Class with Diana & Melody
Diana would like to co-create a family class with participating families through Nature storytelling, movement with music, dance, games, partner Yoga with your child and group yoga with the SSCY family. Be prepared to dig out your inner child’s imagination, feel the lightness that joy and play bring to the mind and body!

Gentle Flow & Restorative Rest with Gita
This therapeutic yoga class will use mindful breathing, gentle movement, and supported restorative yoga poses to help you unwind, release tension, and rejuvenate. Props will be used to help support and cradle the body during the restorative poses. This practice will be calming and cooling and is suitable for everyone.

Forgiveness Series with Chetna / Bhavani S
Two-part, all-levels class of Kshama Prarthana Pranam (Forgiveness Asana Series)and Yoga Nidra(Yogic Sleep). Kshama Prarthana Pranam is a gentle devotional flow of asanas chosen by Babaji that embodies the principles of vulnerability, humility, and self-reflection. The second half of the class is dedicated to the practice of Yoga Nidra, a fully guided meditation in the posture of savasana. This practice can help manage immune function, blood pressure, and cortisol levels. It is effective in awakening higher awareness, reducing anxiety, and inducing restful sleep.

Vinyasa Flow with Lolly
These flow classes are suitable for Every Body, are trauma-informed and offer a journey on and off the mat of healing through movement and breath, tuning into our unique landscape of our bodies. The flow fuses modern and traditional practices with intelligent sequencing to allow students to focus on self-enquiry rather than performance. A mindful embodied flow where we place gentle focus on energy centers and on different areas of the body, inviting in more space, openness and a sense of curiosity.

Yoga Nidra with Kenzie
The practice of ‘Yogic Sleep’ is both entirely accessible and profoundly nourishing, requiring us to simply lie down and listen. We will be gently invited to quiet the mind by calming the breath, while cultivating a felt sense of deep presence within our physical and energetic being. By anchoring ourselves in the present moment, we will create room to expand within and without, releasing layers of holding while increasing our capacity for creativity, clarity and peace.

Forest Bathing with Tahia
Staying connected to the natural world is essential to our well-being and resilience. This forest therapy walk will consist of a series of guided invitations to enhance your sensory connection to the natural world. The experience will offer opportunities to connect to yourself, others, and the forest around you. Come dressed in comfortable clothing, bring some water to drink, and be open to slow down as you bathe in the air of the forest and immerse your senses in the qualities of the more-than-human world around you.

Unwinding Into Ease with Rajani R
This class will include breathing practices and slow warm-up asanas, moving gently to release any tightness and unravel tensions, and then move on to standing poses, backbends and twists, ending with supported relaxation.

Sacred Sunday Hatha Flow with Cara
This illuminating Eco-Yoga in Nature class begins with gentle warm-ups in the beautiful, open air Pond Dome, followed by a Walking Meditation, and Asana Flow with our feet in the cool green grass, under a Bigleaf Maple mother tree, beside the shimmering water lily pond, bathed in the refreshing breeze off the ocean. Suitable for all levels.

NEW TIME! Vinyasa Flow (Level 2) with Yogita
This class uses sun salutation and vinyasa as the thread to build into dynamic and challenging poses. Taught with clear verbal cues, you may flow through standing and arm balance, binds or inversions, as your practice allows on the day. Yogita will adapt the class to the skill level of those attending, but some prior experience is recommended. There will be options to explore within the practice.

Finding The “Baby Bear” with Lyndsay, CP
This will be your personal learning centre with the understanding that we are not broken and needing fixing, but that we may have mute places or gristly regions of much tension. We will continue to come back to granular movements to find the “baby Bear”, just right action of Mind/body/breath through movement. Working with the spinal strip to release tension.

Forest Bathing with Tahia
Staying connected to the natural world is essential to our well-being and resilience. This forest therapy walk will consist of a series of guided invitations to enhance your sensory connection to the natural world. The experience will offer opportunities to connect to yourself, others, and the forest around you. Come dressed in comfortable clothing, bring some water to drink, and be open to slow down as you bathe in the air of the forest and immerse your senses in the qualities of the more-than-human world around you.

Loving Kindness with Chetna
Loving Kindness can be practiced anywhere, anytime. You can practice in traffic jams, in buses and on airplanes. However, any authentic expression of compassion starts with extending loving kindness to one’s self first. This practice will calm your mind,help you connect to your heart and provide you with an avenue to offer loving kindness to others. Using the mena prayer while moving through a physical practice, Chetna will guide you through a class to feel the power of loving kindness within yourself.

NEW TIME! Gentle Hatha with Gita
This gentle class will incorporate mindful breathing, gentle movement, and meditation. You can expect a playful, balanced practice that will move your spine in all the ways it can move and incorporate reclined, seated, kneeling, standing, and balancing postures. Yoga is for everyone who has a body, and this class is designed to be accessible and suitable for everyone.

Restorative Yin with Ricardo
Expect a dynamic storytelling session where your mind will help your body hold postures for up to 12 minutes. Be ready to challenge yourself in a different way and feel renewed once again. This practice has something for all levels of yoga practitioners.

Gentle Hatha with Kenzie
This practice offers us the opportunity to explore what it feels like to be truly gentle with ourselves. We will cultivate the energy of loving kindness to flow through each and every breath, movement and posture while helping ourselves remember what it feels like to experience our fully embodied, infinite and loving nature.

All Levels Yoga with Kenzie
We will explore traditional yoga poses and practices through a contemporary, functional and playful lens while cultivating a deepening sense of present moment awareness and embodiment. We will use gravity, space and movement to anchor ourselves in the unfolding present, noticing where we need to gather stability and where we need to soften and allow.

All Levels Yoga with Sahaja
This class invites students to begin with a mantra and hand mudras to ground and focus attention. Asana practice will include accessible restorative poses to release the legs and relax the low back, followed by a gentle and slow moon salutation. The session will culminate with the practice of the 8 kriyas and a guided meditation from Baba Hari Dass’s yoga primer.