Classes
Yoga Flow in Bairnsdale
at the HUB, 27 Dalmahoy street, Room 02
Tuesdays 5:30 - 6:45 pm
Costs: $20 casual ; $90 for 5 ; $170 for 10
In this Hatha flow class we explore dynamic movement combined with steady breath, creating a grounding and relaxing experience designed to work out the body’s kinks. Everybody can do it. Get ready to increase flexibility, stabilize your core, develop body awareness, strengthen muscles and unwind, release and relax. Every class embraces a certain part of the body using playful and informative instructions encouraging you to listen to your own body’s limits. Each class ends with a mind-melting combination of deep stretches and quiet, supported breathwork. All levels are welcome. Enjoy a delicious herbal tea after the practice to unwind completely.
Please bring your own yoga mat and props like a blankets or cushion if you have them. Let me know if you don’t have any yoga gear and I can provide some. No booking required you can just pop in and enjoy.
Gentle Yoga in Newlands Arm
At Newlands Arm Community Hall
TUESADAY mornings 9:00 - 10:30 AM
Costs: $20 casual ; $90 for 5 ; $170 for 10
By practicing gentle Hatha Yoga we learn how to connect our bodies movements in a natural and calming way that also allows our mind to relax yet remain focused on performing the movements correctly.
This form of yoga is absolutely ideal for beginners and intermediates that want to liven up their practice. It is both mildly energetic and calming at the same time allowing you to relax and unwind quickly and easily while keeping your blood flowing at a health beneficial level. Each class ends with a mind-melting combination of deep stretches and meditative, supported breathwork. The ultimate finishing touch is a delicious herbal tea after the practice to unwind completely.
Please bring your own yoga mat and props like a blanket or cushions and blocks if you have them. Let me know if you don’t have any yoga gear and I can provide some. No bookings required, you can just pop in and enjoy.
YIN Yoga in Bairnsdale
at the HUB 27 Dalmahoy street; Room 2
Thursdays 5:30 - 6:45 pm
Costs: $20 casual ; $90 for 5 ; $170 for 10
Yin yoga is a slow-paced style of yoga practice. The poses are passive, and produce little active strain on muscles. They are not intended to strengthen and challenge the physical body, but stretch out, restore and unwind areas of stress and tension in the body and mind. Therefore, yin yoga mostly consists of non-stressful yoga and meditation which are passive yet effective in nature. It emphasizes mainly on the connecting tissues like tendons, fascia and ligaments and releasing the tensions between the muscles in a relaxing way. It helps in building inner wellbeing, restoration of broken tissues and muscles from the past. It recharges the energetic system of the body and draws the mind inward for a relaxed and meditative state. Postures are held for up to 4 minutes allowing you to go much deeper into the stretches.
Recommended for beginners or people who are recovering from injuries or sickness. All levels are welcome, every body benefits from mindful, meditative, gentle movement and deep stretching.
Please bring your own yoga mat and props like blankets, bolster or cushions and blocks if you have them. Let me know if you don’t have any yoga gear and I can provide some.
Mums and Bubs Yoga
At the HUB 27 Dalmahoy street Bairnsdale Room 1
Thursday 11am - 12 pm
Cost $20
Yoga is a wonderful way of looking after yourself after the birth of your baby. The classes include special activities to bond with your baby, yoga for you, and time to connect with other mothers.
Stay strong and release tension. The classes are specifically designed for the postnatal months to help your body regain strength and tone in a safe and effective way. The emphasis is on strengthening the pelvic floor, the abdomen, legs, and back as well as on opening and relapsing tensions and tightness in the shoulders, neck, and arms from feeding and carrying your baby.
Finding emotional balance. Yoga relaxes the nervous system and brings balance to the endocrine system (hormonal balance). It helps to create a balance between your body's physical needs and your emotional state. The yoga taught in these classes is gentle and slow, giving you time to integrate the experiences of your body after birth.
Baby bonding time. We make time to bond with your baby by placing the baby in the center of the experience, thereby helping the attachment between carer and baby blossom.
Meet other like minded mums. These classes are baby centred so you can attend to your baby's needs either by feeding, changing, holding, or generally reassuring them in your presence. With the support of others, you will be able to develop a balance between doing yoga for yourself and meeting the needs of your baby.
Prenatal Yoga
At the HUB Bairnsdale, 27 Dalmahoy Street, room 7
Wednesdays from 5.30 - 6.45pm
$20
Pregnancy is a special time to connect, trust and explore your body. Yoga is invaluable throughout pregnancy. Woman are encouraged to connect to their intuition and instinct as their first and foremost guide for a safe practice. This will help them connect with their initiate birthing wisdom. The classes are a balance of active and meditative practices. Woman are welcome to leave a pose out and rest whenever they need to. This is not like the usual yoga you might have experienced before as your body is changing and we explore how to flow with the changes.
Enjoy your practice during this special time! The overall approach to asana is to emphasise strength and stability, postural alignment, embodiment, alongside flowing circling movement connected to the breath.
Please bring your own yoga mat and props like blankets, bolster or cushions and blocks if you have them. Let me know if you don’t have any yoga gear and I can provide some.
SPRING DAY-TOX
Spring invites us to open back up, delight in warmer days, and cultivate a spirit of aliveness. Perfect time to recharge and rejuvenate your spirit with a special yoga day-tox.
Honouring the seasonal change with this special event is an invitation to check in, to re-evaluate, to refine, to recalibrate and to keep on rising and transforming as we embrace this change.
I warmly invite you to receive and experience: 108 Sun Salutations, Gentle movement and Yin yoga, Yoga Nidra and a relaxing live sound meditation. A delicious, nourishing vegetarian feast.
Schedule for the day:
* 10.00 – 11.15 am 108 Sun salutes
* 11.15 - 1.45 pm light refreshments and little break
* 11.45 – 2.00 pm Yin Yoga + Sound meditation
* 2pm Vegetarian Feast (Menu attached)
You can book those events separately or enjoy the full experience.
108 Surya Namaskar (Sun salutations)
Spring is the seasons where new beginnings and productivity are welcomed.
If you are into yoga, ‘108 sun salutations’ is something that you must have heard of or are interested in. 108 rounds of traditional Surya Namaskar is an intense workout. 108 is a daunting number. But it is possible. When you find the rhythm of your breath with your body, the number seems to fall away and you become entrenched in a moving meditation. It is a highly satisfying and transformative experience that you must try once.
Benefits:
*It uplifts the energetic levels of the body
*It aids in the detoxification process
*Facilitates the flow of prana
*Provides psychological and spiritual benefits
*Pent-up emotions are released while practicing 108 suryas
*It boosts physical and mental stamina and strength
Yin Yoga & Sound Meditation + nutritious south Indian feast
Yin Yoga classes will be focusing on the digestive system and gentle movement to support the process to reflect, detox, deep stretching, reflection, relaxation and emotional equilibrium.
The Sound Meditation is a type of meditation that uses sound to help calm one’s body and mind and promote a sense of overall well-being. It uses focused awareness on the vibrations of sound to help people relax and meditate to promote self-inquiry and journey inwards through a soundscape of high vibrational sound bowls, Kalimbah, Koshi Chimes and guitar & voice.
Vegetarian ayurvedic Feast
Ayurveda and Yoga have a symbiotic relationship, each helping the other to enhance its own benefits.
Meals will be deliciously prepared according to ayurvedic principles. The menu is designed to offer a taste of Southern India (Samosas, Idlies, variety of curries, spiced rice, cakes...) that also benefits the detox process.
Where: At the Newlands Arm Community Hall
When: 15/10/23 from 10am - 2.30 pm
Costs: $110 Full Experience
$30 for 108 Sun Salutations
$ 95 Yin Yoga & Sound Meditation
+ Vegetarian Feast
One on One classes or group bookings
Receive one-to-one instruction attuned to your individual needs and health goals. By closely working together we create your personalized health concept to improve your wellbeing. Our goal is to build-up strength, balance and flexibility, to improve body-awareness and therefore increase your wellbeing. I create a customized health program for one on one or group sessions.
Book a Class
You can book a class by getting in touch with me through email lydi.schoeni@gmail.com
or Phone: 0487416058