This Invasion Day weekend,
our teachers are taking a break to honour time with their families.
This weekend marks the end of the school holidays and the beginning of a new year for our children.
Let’s connect and spend time in nature, keep up our practice on and off the mat.
Classes cancelled for Monday 27th January:
6am Mysore Class with Debbie
10am Iyengar Yoga with Fran
6pm A Balanced Practice – Level 1-2 Vinyasa with Liz
Our teachers and classes at Warriewood Surf Club will take a break over the Christmas and New Year period.
Summer Yoga Intensive: Reconnecting to your Inner Heart
Donna’s Summer Yoga Intensive morning classes commence on the 2nd January running through every morning to Sunday 6th from 7-8am.
This is a unique & annual opportunity to embody and recognise the value of connection and awareness between breath body and mind, as a way of taking care of ourselves, those close to us, and the subtle relationship with our nervous system and nature which is so important to de-stressing and wellbeing. Everyone can do Donna’s profound yet gentle classes, even beginners, so contact her on 0408783187 / donna@yogaandhealing.com.au if you feel this Intensive is for you. You’re welcome to attend some if not all of the 5 days, but booking is essential.
During the week of 2-6th January, we will not be holding our scheduled evening or morning classes, as we encourage all of you staying local to start the year with Donna’s Summer Morning Yoga Intensive.
January Timetable
January 7-13th
Monday 6pm A Balanced Practice ( 1-2) Vinyasa with Liz
Wednesday 9:30am Ageless Yoga( 1-2) with Liz
Wednesday 11am Beginners Ageless Yoga ( 1) with Liz
Friday 7-8am A Balanced Practice (1-2) Vinyasa with Liz
January 14-20th
Monday 6pm A Balanced Practice ( 1-2) Vinyasa with Liz
Tuesday 10am Gentle Yoga (1-2) with Donna
Wednesday 9:30am Ageless Yoga( 1-2) with Liz
Wednesday 11am Beginners Ageless Yoga ( 1) with Liz
Wednesday 7:30pm Yin Yoga with Leah
Thursday 7:15pm A Balanced Practice ( 2-3) Vinyasa with Liz
Friday 7-8am A Balanced Practice (1-2) Vinyasa with Liz
January 21-27th
Monday 6am Mysore Style Astanga with Debbie
Monday 10am Iyengar Yoga (2) with Franziska
Monday 6pm A Balanced Practice ( 1-2) Vinyasa with Liz
Tuesday 10am Gentle Yoga (1-2) with Donna
Tuesday 6pm Sports Recovery Class (1-2) with Liz
Wednesday 6am Mysore Style Astanga with Debbie
Wednesday 9:30am Ageless Yoga( 1-2) with Liz
Wednesday 11am Beginners Ageless Yoga ( 1) with Liz
Wednesday 7:30pm Yin Yoga with Leah
Thursday 9:30am Seasonal Hatha with Katie
Thursday 7:15pm A Balanced Practice ( 2-3) Vinyasa with Liz
Friday 7-8am A Balanced Practice (1-2) Vinyasa with Liz
We have new Class Levels- to help you to find the right class for you.
1- suitable for students new to yoga postures and new to movement with breath awareness
2-suitable for beginners as well as students familiar with yoga postures and breath awareness
3- suitable for students familiar with yoga postures and experience at practising yoga and experience with listening to their own needs, breath control and posture modifications within a group class.
Join Liz Bennett as we awaken our bodies into the joyful expression of Spring.
We’ll explore the anatomical safety and technique pointers to really help you bring deeper strength and purpose to your back-bending postures, for all levels of experience.
Our daily life, the cold of winter, too long sitting at a desk.. shake it all off and open your shoulders, spine and your heart with us!
A juicy 1.5 hour practice to lift and open- backbends are our favourites!
We’ll serve a delicious Ayurvedic snack and gather after our practice to discuss Ayurvedic elements and constitutional assessment, share Spring Ayurvedic lifestyle principles for each body type/constitution and provide you with some recipes and shopping lists to take home for your new, more balanced relationship to nourishment in awareness of nature.
$90 per person.Bookings essential: liz@yogaessentia.com.au or call 0405543263
Workshop held at Therapy Works, 367 Barrenjoey Road Newport Beach.
Our yoga classes will be running as usual this Monday.
Iyengar Yoga at the special time of 9:15am with Franziska.
Physio Flow 6pm with Liz
Wishing you all a lovely, deeply restful long weekend.
Introducing short continuing education courses for yoga teachers and practitioners, bringing together asana, relevant functional anatomy and Ayurveda to help up level your year-round health and deepen your practice.
Ayurvedic techniques and rituals are often surprisingly simple yet profound.
Understand the principles behind them and a deeper awareness of nature is tapped into.
Adhering to suitable practices around nutrition lifestyle and yoga can really make a huge difference to your vitality and smooth out the road bumps of life.
What’s more, Ayurveda can be woven into our yoga practice and yoga teaching to enhance the benefits of the practice and awaken shifts in awareness, triggering positive changes in our lifestyle habits and relationship with ourselves.
Workshop 1
May 19th 1:30-5pm
with Liz Bennett and Valli Simpson
BOOK NOW ONLY 3 SPOTS LEFT FOR THIS SATURDAY
Workshop 2
Winter:Arm Balances
June 23rd 1:30-5pm
with Debbie Gilligan and Liz Bennett
Workshop 3
Summer:Living from your Heart- Backbends and Heart Openers
November 11th 10am – 1pm
with Liz Bennett
Workshop 4
Spring:Healthy Hips, Strong Core and Legs
TBC
with Katie Dutton and Liz Bennett
$90 each. Book 2 of these workshops for $160.
Or email liz@yogaessentia.com.au/ 0405543263
What to expect
Introduction and Embodied Anatomy Class
Techniques, benefits and physiology of seasonal asana for health and wellbeing. Anatomy learnings for deepening your practice/ teaching safely and effectively.
Practice
1.5 hour Yoga class
Ayurveda and Yogic Living Talk
Discussion with Ayurvedic afternoon tea- Ayurvedic wisdom, rituals and recipes for the season.
Ways to enhance life from your home, your kitchen and your mat.
Namaste and Metta
Discover the benefits of seasonal postures and ayurvedic routines for health and wellbeing.
Learn how inversions can help your physiology, improve digestion and immunity and calm your state of mind for better sleep.
1:30 – 2:15pm
Learn about the physiological effects of shoulder stand, headstand and viparita karani.
Learn how and why inverted postures can help your breathing, digestion and immunity and state of mind.
Learn how to practice shoulder stand for a sound night’s sleep.
2:15 – 3:45pm
1.5 hour Yoga class.
Let senior teachers Liz and Valli guide you through a flowing vinyasa sequence to prepare your for new possibilities in your inversion practice.
Increase your understanding, strength and balance through an exploration of the anatomical principles which make your inversions safer and more effective.
With strong foundations in alignment and breath you will progress with confidence from supported toward unsupported postures including shoulder stand and headstand.
Suitable for all levels of experience with inversion poses.
3:45 – 5pm
Share an Ayurvedic afternoon tea
Discussion: Self-care for Autumn- Winter
Simple and seasonal Ayurvedic routines and recipes that enhance life from your home, your kitchen and your mat.
Learn specific daily and nightly practices for the seasons through the Yogic and Ayurvedic traditions.
After identifying your ayurvedic body-mind constitution, you will learn:
Morning and evening self-care specific to your constitution
Daily habits for better digestion, sleep, physical and mental wellbeing
5 – 5:30pm
We will complete our workshop with yoga nidra for deep weekend relaxation.
Therapy Works: Upstairs @ 367 Barrenjoey Rd Newport
$95 Includes an Ayurvedic afternoon tea, workshop handouts and recipes.
Bookings essential.
Liz Bennett 0405 543253 : liz@yogaessentia.com.au
Valli Simpson 0417 400612 : valli@eastviewyoga.com.au
Do you want to teach yoga? Is this the year for a life changing training?
Take your next step and join “Teaching a Balanced Practice” 350 hour Yoga Teacher training,
delivered by Physiotherapist and Senior Yoga Teacher/Yoga Therapist, Liz Bennett and Senior Teacher, YogaBellingen director, Amelia Disspain.
Our weekend intensive modules are based at Therapy Works from July 2018 – January 2019
with a 2 week Bali Immersion in September.
Accredited with Yoga Australia as a Level 1 350 hour yoga teacher training.
The weekend intensives can be attended as stand alone trainings for those doing the course to deeper their personal practice.
The Bali Immersion can also be attended as a 150 hour training.
Not sure how to make it happen? We’ll do our best to make the course flexible to your needs.
Come along to an information session and free yoga class at 9am on Sunday May 20th at Therapy Works
Upstairs at 367 Barrenjoey Road Newport Beach.
Email liz@yogaessentia or book with Therapy Works reception on 99995544.
Download your course outline PDF.