Doutta Galla Yoga Studio

17/10/2025

Saturday Classes at Yarraville Yoga Centre.

11/09/2025

Intensive, workshop and classes timetable.

Details about the upcoming Spring Intensive, Saturday Workshops and Sunday Lv 1 & Lv 2 Classes are available through the Doutta Galla website at

July to December 2025 Saturday classes (zoom) Classes continue, 8.00 – 9.30am, as usual with the exception of the following dates: 9 Aug, 17 Aug, 13 Sept and 20 Sept Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81254740111?pwd=NnpaMjYzdW1HQjMyT0VONlVSM0VCQT09Spring Daylight Saving Intensive (zoom)Date: Monday ...

03/08/2025

At my teacher Mark Gibson's workshop yesterday Yay!
Hanumanasana with a chair, elastic strap and block.

29/06/2025

Class Updates July - December 2025

Saturday classes (zoom)
Classes continue, 8.00 – 9.30am, as usual with the exception of the following dates:

9 Aug, 17 Aug, 13 Sept and 20 Sept

Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81254740111?pwd=NnpaMjYzdW1HQjMyT0VONlVSM0VCQT09

Spring Daylight Saving Intensive (zoom)
Date: Monday Sept 29 to Friday Oct 3 (The week prior to the time change, while it is still light.)
Time: 6.30 – 8.00am
Cost: $125
Register: Email Mark at contact@dgyoga.com. The Link will be sent out on registration.

Saturday Afternoon Workshops (in person)
Venue: Yarraville Yoga Centre, Ballarat St
Dates: July 12, Aug 2, Sept 6, Oct 11, Nov 8 and Dec 6.
Time: 2.00 – 5.00pm
Cost: $60 per class
Register: Email Mark at contact@dgyoga.com.
Payments: EFT to bank account –
Mark Gibson
BSB: 063114
Account No: 1006 8639

Iyengar Yoga Association National Convention
Date: Friday 14 – Sunday 16 November 2025
Venue: Coburg Town Hall.
Currently open to members and shortly to the General Public.
Link: https://iyengaryoga.asn.au/convention2025

Wishing you all the best

Hope to see you soon

Mark

Australian Iyengar Yoga Convention 2025. This will be the first Australian Senior Teacher-Led Convention in eight years, and we can’t wait to come together for an inspiring weekend of practice and connection.

23/12/2024

Holiday Season Timetable

The normal timetable has concluded for 2024 and will recommence on Saturday, 18 January 2025.
Link - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81254740111?pwd=NnpaMjYzdW1HQjMyT0VONlVSM0VCQT09

January Zoom Intensive
Join Mark for a five day Intensive from 6 - 10 January, 7 - 8:30am. Price is $125. Bookings - email contact@dgyoga.com
Link - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88398506476?pwd=BziR83vLvACJCOF4o2z6U4VaYqjNQy.1

Saturday Workshops
Mark continues to run Saturday workshops at Yarraville Yoga from 2 - 5pm on the following dates. Bookings at https://yarravilleyoga.com.au/
Jan 18
Feb 15
Mar 22
May 10
Jun 14

We wish you all a safe and peaceful holiday season!

Mark & Sally 🙏🏼

Iyengar Yoga Melbourne. Yarraville Yoga Centre is the longest running Iyengar Yoga studio in Melbourne's West, situated in Yarraviile Village

18/11/2024

Today is birthday of Shri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (November 18, 1888 – February 28, 1989); one of the most influential yoga teacher, ayurvedic healer and scholar who is credited with revival and renewal of HathaYoga not only as spiritual (which is always maintained as supreme) but also as physical and therapeutic practice based on the Yoga Sutras and other classical yoga texts.

Shri Krishnamacharya was adept in all the six Vedic darśanas, or Indian philosophies. Under the patronage of the King of Mysore, Krishna Raja Wodiyar IV, Shri Krishnamacharya traveled around India giving lectures and demonstrations to promote yoga, including such feats as apparently stopping his heartbeat. His most basic concept of teachings was the principle "Teach what is appropriate for an individual." While he is revered in other parts of the world as a Yogacharya, in India Krishnamacharya is also known as a healer who drew from both ayurvedic and yogic traditions. He authored four books on yoga—Yoga Makaranda (1934), Yogaasanagalu (c. 1941), Yoga Rahasya, and Yogavalli (Chapter 1 – 1988)—as well as several essays and poetic compositions.

Shri Krishnamacharya's students included many of yoga's most renowned and influential teachers: BKS Iyengar (1918-2014); K. Pattabhi Jois (1915–2009); Indra Devi (1899–2002); his son T. K. V. Desikachar (1938-2016); Srivatsa Ramaswami (born 1939); and A. G. Mohan (born 1945). He and his students have some influence on most of the ways we practice HathaYoga today.

I offer my humble pranams to the great Yogacharya 🙏🙏🙏

11/10/2024

07/10/2024

Workshops - purchase a pass and book for October 26 at https://yarravilleyoga.punchpass.com/passes/182336?back=https%3A%2F%2Fyarravilleyoga.punchpass.com%2Fclasses%2F16252227&express_reservation_for_class_id=16252227&express_reservation_for_class_type=Instance&express_reservation_waitlist=false

02/10/2024

Mark recommences classes.

It’s been 16 weeks since my shoulder operation and I feel ready to start teaching again after what seems like quite a long sabbatical and a little like semi retirement which has been good, but I’m missing everybody.
The shoulder is a bit more complicated than the hip but it’s progressing very well, impressing both the surgeon and the physio. Thanks be to Yoga.

I had decided to make a comeback for a daylight saving intensive this week before time got away again….. D/S begins this coming Sunday and the Spring Equinox was on Sunday last week.
Doutta Galla Yoga Studio was opened on spring equinox (1992) and I feel it’s auspicious enough to start up once more in Spring.

From this coming Sat (5th) I will recommence zoom class, but only on Saturday mornings 8am-9.30am.
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81254740111?pwd=NnpaMjYzdW1HQjMyT0VONlVSM0VCQT09

And my occasional monthly in-person workshops at the Yarraville Yoga Centre also restart in October: Sat 26 Oct, Sat 23 Nov, Sat 18 Jan 2025.

The workshops are from 2-5pm
Bookings soon on Yarraville website:
https://yarravilleyoga.com.au

Also look out for a zoom intensive Jan 6-10. 7-8.30am
I look forward to seeing you again.
All the best
Mark
🙏🕉

Iyengar Yoga Melbourne. Yarraville Yoga Centre is the longest running Iyengar Yoga studio in Melbourne's West, situated in Yarraviile Village

20/08/2024

On this punyathithi of respected Guruji BKS Iyengar, I offer my humblest pranamas. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Great souls like Guruji don't die they just leave the confines of mortal body and join the vastness of paramatama. Sharing some inspirational quotes of Guruji from his "Light on Life"

"Before our consciousness finally gravitates to our Self and our Self is merged in the Infinite, there are many fine threads to be woven together into the shimmering cloth of our practice."

"We have to weave in a meditation of such selfless purity that the impersonating ego will be unmasked for all time. When the ego is effaced, the afflictions that accompany it will disappear."

"Another thread that we must weave in is an understanding of how the elements inform our practice. I have discussed in the earlier chapters the elements of earth, water, fire, and air and how they correspond to the first four sheaths of body, energy, mind, and intellect. The final element that corresponds with the final sheath of bliss is called "space" and allows mobility and freedom in all the others. Space is the most subtle and pervasive element, and we must learn to tame it."

"A vase, like a building, like a body, has two spaces—the one that it contains and the one that surrounds it. When we begin asana, we worry about the shape of the pose, that is, how we look in the mirror, in other words, the space we exclude. By now we should be worrying about the space we include, the space within, for it is largely that which gives true life and beauty to the asana. It is called yoga svarupa—the self assuming its perfect form through yoga."

"That is achieved through the inner distribution of space."

~ Guruji BKS Iyengar

26/05/2024

REMINDER

Mark's regular classes recommence on Saturday 1 June.

Mark's monthly workshop at Yarraville Yoga Centre is happening again on 8 June:

Suitable for experienced yoga students, Mark Gibson's monthly workshops will run for 3 sessions over 3 months from September to November.

18/04/2024

All Mark's classes have now stopped while he takes an overseas holiday and will return on Saturday 1st June 2024. Thanks for your patience and enjoy your personal practice til then! Namaste!