Ashtanga Yoga Retreat: A Journey
Date and time
Location
Naravi
89 Rowcliffe Road Forest Grove, WA 6286 AustraliaRefund Policy
Description
Deepen your practice and join together with a sangha to support your journey. Be nourished with vegetarian wholefoods and connect deeply with the natural beauty of Western Australia’s south west. Long term and new practitioners welcome, new practitioners please contact us to undertake some Mysore classes before you attend the retreat.
Naravi is a private retreat centre on 53 acres of Jarrah forest in the stunning Margaret river region. The gardens are on your doorstep and you will experience a private and secluded haven to retreat and enjoy the natural wildlife. The Naravi yoga studio is a large bespoke space designed to bring the outdoors in and is a peaceful environment to practice. Rooms are beautifully presented, inviting, cosy and adorned in natural light. Naravi is a place to truly reconnect with what is important in life and invites creativity, inspiration and restfulness.
Organised by
Jean Byrne is the Co-owner of The Yoga Space
B.A.Hons, Grad Dip Ed, Dip Childbirth Education, PhD.
Jean began practising yoga at the age of 19 while completing a Bachelor of Arts in World Religions and Philosophy. Her study of world religions led to an interest in yoga and meditation and she spent many years intensively studying yoga and meditation in India, Thailand, Malaysia and Australia. Her academic and personal journey into Eastern philosophy and practice ashtanga yoga led her to several trips to Mysore, India. Her teaching encompasses Restorative Yoga, Intuitive Flow and Vinyasa classes. Jean is dedicated to sharing the transformative power of Yoga and loves working with students and carefully and safely watching the way in which both mind, body and spirit open and unfold through practicing steadily.
Jean has lectured in Eastern philosophy at various Australian universities and has a PhD in Eastern Philosophy & Feminist Theory. She is a qualified primary school teacher, Childbirth Educator, a Yoga Alliance E-RYT500 and Registered Pre Natal Yoga Specialist Teacher, and a senior member of Yoga Australia (YA). Jean is also a certified Yoga Therapist.
Elena Pinto is the co-owner of Sva Sangha Yoga, Fremantle
Elena Pinto has been interested in the conncection of mind/body and spiritual philosophy since early twenties, that interest lead her to the practice of yoga the Ashantga yoga in the early 2004.
Her daily practice, along with long term studies done with senior teachers around the world and with R. Sharath Jois, in Mysore India; has permited her to deepend her understanding of the ashtanga pracitice. She is now dedicated to the teaching of the method of Ashtanga yoga to its fullest capacity, cultivating transparency to the tradition, trying to facilitate an open and secure space for each student to expirience their full potential and the love for what the practice of yoga can develops in each individual.
Elena teaches in the Mysore program at Yoga Space, West Perth and at Sva Sangha Yoga in Fremantle.
She is a mother of two teenager, Chiara and Matteo.