Wise body, wide heart, steady mind.
Workshops & Retreats & Intensives
Winter Intensive 2025
To accompany the solstice: “7 Days of Daily Yoga”
Across one week, as the days lengthen again, we’ll touch all the aspects of this balanced system (as explored in the Vijnana Practice Manual). Gain a real feel for how the various parts of the asana suite link together, building on one another intelligently and pleasurably in the body.
See below for the schedule, and press the button to indicate your request for a spot. Fees are $145 / 122c.
Over the week you’ll do 11.5hrs of guided tuition (with suggestions for several other self-guided sessions, with recordings for flexible use).
**Key: OWN (unguided self practice) | ZOOM (guided at home) | AUDIO (using headphones at home) | CLASS (in-person, *available to remote students)
SCHEDULE: 22nd-28th June 2025
(Before we begin: Saturday…
- OWN — sit for 15mins before bed on the year’s longest night, marking the decision to begin the Intensive the next day…)
Sunday (morning only)
8am-9.30am CLASS* — Intro with Standing Pose capsule (90mins)
Monday (morning/evening)
6.45-7.30am AUDIO — sitting/breathing (45mins)
6.45-8.45pm CLASS* — sitting, then Asana Curriculum, learn capsules for: Hand Balances | Back Bends (2hrs)
Tuesday (morning, optional evening)
6.45-7.30am AUDIO — sitting/breathing (45mins)
Evening OWN — restoratives suite (30mins, video provided)
Wednesday (evening only, optional time)
6.00-7.30pm ZOOM* — sitting/breathing, revise capsule from Monday (90mins, recorded for flexible use)
Thursday (morning/evening)
6.45-7.30am OWN — sitting/breathing, as per guided practices (~45mins)
6.45-8.45pm CLASS* — Practice with Forward Bends/Twists capsule (2hrs)
Friday (evening optional)
6.00-7.00pm AUDIO — sitting | yoga nidra (1hr) Note: this session will be made available as recording for future use.
Saturday (morning: close of intensive)
8.30-10.00am CLASS* — Practice with ‘afternoon curriculum’ capsule (90mins)
In summary, you’ll come away with:
- Practice + Capsule Study Guide
- Restoratives Video (for use Tuesday evening)
- 2 zoom recordings (yoga nidra + 90 min Wednesday practice)
- A steadied practice rhythm
- An understanding of the shape of the Vijnana asana curriculum
- Confidence in how to structure your home practices
- A different feeling in yourself… 😉
Retreats 
Retreats are held regularly throughout the year, usually around public holidays. Retreats run for between two and five days, and are held at Clearview Retreat, which is 90 minutes from Melbourne, off the Hume Highway, just past Strath Creek, in the King Parrot Valley, with views to Mt Buller.
For the full schedule of retreats, please visit the Clearview Website
Next in-person retreat:
2 Day Retreat: 19th – 21st September 2025
Finding Your Middle
Yoga is a way to engage and re-engage with staying close to your ‘middle’. The middle might be the place (in your body, in life, in attitude) where you can move with ease, purpose and integrity, where you can remain steady while also adapting to life’s changes. This retreat weekend, via the curriculum of Vijnana Yoga (sitting meditation, breathing, moving, resting, reflecting), we will explore techniques to strengthen our connection to what matters in life, to our capacity to cultivate fulfilment, joy, playfulness and sustainable relations. Eating good food, resting well and breathing clean air, we may meet a spacious mind and clearer heart. All levels of experience welcome.
Call Jocelyn Bennett for reservations and further information: 0437813737
Places are limited and accommodation is a mix of single rooms and shared. Camping rate also possible. Reserve early.
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General Information: Residential Retreats
Retreats offer students a way to consolidate their yoga and to clarify their intentions regarding practice, and more broadly. The structure of a retreat can enable considerable relaxation and recovery over a relatively short time frame. Retreats involve the four aspects of yoga practice – sitting, pranayama, asana, and study/inquiry.
The combination of simple food, clean air, a kind and safe environment and a consistent schedule is a way to find one’s personal direction and rhythm again, as well as building commitment to yoga practice.
They can interrupt cycles of adrenaline exhaustion, introduce sustainable patterns, and provide the space to invite new feelings and perspectives.
Prices include all tuition, vegetarian food and accommodation. Car pooling is often arranged, to reduce the environmental impact of travel and to assist those needing transport.
Intensives
Intensives encourage students to develop their tenacity and to deepen their commitment to practice and general understanding of yoga. Classes are suitable for general attendance, and may involve longer meditation and relaxation sessions, some study of texts and chanting, workshop-style asana classes, where students can work on new poses, as well as time for discussion and sharing.
Check back towards late May 2025 for more info on the next Intensive.
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Please email us at Vijnana Yoga Australia to reserve your spot, stating the dates to which you are committing. We will reply to confirm.
