Southern Yoga and Health Centre

Southern Yoga and Health Centre We run Hatha and Yin yoga, meditation and deep relaxation classes 6 days per week.

The third step on Patanjali's 8-fold Path of Yoga is the Asanas, the postures. Asana means seat, and asanas help the at...
17/07/2025

The third step on Patanjali's 8-fold Path of Yoga is the Asanas, the postures. Asana means seat, and asanas help the attainment of steadiness and stillness. The postures not only calm and centre the mind, you become stronger, more supple, more coordinated and more aware of your body and how it works. You can start to replace old habits with healthier new ones. The postures energise you rather than tire you and you become more in touch with energies and how you breathe. When asanas are well performed, pranayamic breathing automatically sets in. There is no hierarchy in the posture work, one asana well performed conveys the entire meaning of Yoga and the real oneness of creation. One life pulsates in every body. Consciousness projects itself and Spirit flows through matter, matter through Spirit. Shanti Gowans

Dinner Night! Akiya Japanese Restaurant, 133 Church St. Brighton, Saturday. 26th July, 7pm. Come and join us for a...
16/07/2025

Dinner Night! Akiya Japanese Restaurant, 133 Church St. Brighton, Saturday. 26th July, 7pm. Come and join us for a relaxing evening with a delicious meal and good company, and get to know other yoga students. Everyone welcome, please contact us direct for bookings.

The Niyamas are the second step on Patanjali's 8 Fold Path of Yoga. Once we've understood and are observing the Yamas, ...
01/07/2025

The Niyamas are the second step on Patanjali's 8 Fold Path of Yoga. Once we've understood and are observing the Yamas, the abstinences and Universal moral codes, we move to the 5 Niyamas, observances and personal virtues, that are disciplined guidelines for us with ourselves. They calm a disturbed mind.
1. Purity/Cleanliness - of behaviour and habits. Cleanliness of person and surroundings and internally eradicating passion, anger, greed, infatuation, pride and malice and envy by occupying the mind with good constructive thoughts.
2. Contentment. Reducing our wants makes us cheerful and gives balance of mind.
3. Discipline. Perseverance and diligence enable us to discipline the body and to endure challenges and adversity, directing the mind inwards.
4. Self education. Study of the teachings and self education by seeking truth and self realisation.
5. Faith in Cosmic Power. Surrendering to a higher power, to the divine.
Shanti Gowans

Many people know yoga as being just the asanas, the postures. However yoga is a wholistic and complete path to self-rea...
25/06/2025

Many people know yoga as being just the asanas, the postures. However yoga is a wholistic and complete path to self-realisation. It's a spiritual practice. And for thousands of years the seers and sages who spent their lives in practice in the caves and forrests in India passed their knowledge down to their students verbally. Patanjali who lived around 300 BC was the first person to encapsulate the disciplines and write them down - The 8 Fold Path of Yoga to self realisation. The first step on the 8 Fold path is the Yamas, 5 abstinences, guidelines for inter-personal relationships. We bring our relationship with the outside world into balance.
1. Non-Violence. We withdraw from harming anyone or anything, in thought, word or deed. When hatred and animosity are gone, all embracing love remains.
2. Non-Lying. Not just refraining from lying to others, but being truthful and honest with ourselves.
3. Non-Stealing. Respecting peoples possessions and ideas, not wanting more than we need.
4. Non-Misuse of Sexual Energy. Restraint is practised and brings the ability to see divinity in all forms.
5. Non-Greed. Not wanting things that are not necessary to maintain life. Excessive desire for things leads to attachment and unhappiness.
Shanti Gowans

Change! If you look at the changes in your life, if you have the eyes and awareness to see this, hasn't the change gi...
11/06/2025

Change! If you look at the changes in your life, if you have the eyes and awareness to see this, hasn't the change given you something, not left you with a lack? I feel change keeps us on track. It can be beautiful the way something else comes in effortlessly if you allow it, when something else has gone. It brings a deeper connection with life.

This Sound Journey is designed to bring us back to a blissful, relaxed and balanced state of mInd and being so we approa...
28/05/2025

This Sound Journey is designed to bring us back to a blissful, relaxed and balanced state of mInd and being so we approach life from a place of harmony and equilibrium. We will start with pranayama breathing practices, then a chant and guided meditation to melt you into the experience. Then we'll immerse in the vibrations of the sound bath. You will be offered the gentle, loving energy of Reiki during the immersion. Please arrive 10 minutes early and BYO mat, blanket and cushion where possible. $55.00 Bookings: eventbrite.com.au/e/moorabbin-vic-sound-bath-guided-meditation-tickets-1368156636329?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Wisdom is not one particular experience, not a series of ideas or knowledge to be collected. It is an ongoing process o...
26/05/2025

Wisdom is not one particular experience, not a series of ideas or knowledge to be collected. It is an ongoing process of discovery that unfolds when we live with balance and full awareness in each moment. Shanti Gowans

I would like to say a heartfelt thank you thank you thank you! to you all for your good wishes and generous offers of he...
29/04/2025

I would like to say a heartfelt thank you thank you thank you! to you all for your good wishes and generous offers of help as my fractured knee heals. It's been a challenge, especially not being able to drive for a few weeks, but as with all challenges, opportunities have also presented, which I've been happy to flow with. Your kindness at the studio has made it as easy as possible. Again, thank you. Chris

We had such a beautiful Sound Immersion with Dorothea Lucaci recently. Such a peaceful and harmonious evening, it was t...
23/04/2025

We had such a beautiful Sound Immersion with Dorothea Lucaci recently. Such a peaceful and harmonious evening, it was tangible. An exceptional group of people, simply happy to be there, all helping to create it with their beautiful energy.

The Yoga practice of Antar Mauna. Antar Mauna means inner silence. It's the process that unlocks the power within you ...
23/04/2025

The Yoga practice of Antar Mauna. Antar Mauna means inner silence. It's the process that unlocks the power within you to awaken the boundless possibilitys that lie dormant within the depth of your own mind. The conscious and subconscious mind are two interconnected aspects of the human psyche. Much of our behaviour and responses are influenced by subconscious processes ie. biases, instincts and deeply ingrained patterns formed through experiences. Antar mauna allows you to access and understand the interplay between these two aspects of the mind. You turn within and start to understand and analyze your own mind. Be present to thoughts, feelings and daily activities with a silent mind. Let what comes, come. Let what goes, go. Don't try to push away what comes. It's already here and will pass by itself in time. Don't try to cling to what goes. Grief is natural. Leaving is life. Bless the leaving too. Let what stays, stay. Let what dies, die. Stop interfering with the way of things today. Just be the wide open space for it all. Shanti Gowans

Yoga Nidra - a state of relaxation between wakefulness and sleep. Some students say it's the best part of class! Yoga...
21/03/2025

Yoga Nidra - a state of relaxation between wakefulness and sleep. Some students say it's the best part of class! Yoga Nidra starts at the surface level, physical and mental change, then goes deep into the subconscious mind, where we can start to see our limiting mindsets and beliefs and start to change them or let them go. This can bring lasting results. Your body is able to relax completely your mind becomes calm, clear and present. You're able to heal and real healing comes from within.

19/03/2025

Another beautiful Sound Immersion last Friday with Dorothea Lucaci. Next one is 11th April, 2025.

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Bentleigh, VIC

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Monday 9am - 8:30pm
Tuesday 9am - 9pm
Wednesday 9am - 9pm
Thursday 9am - 9pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 12pm

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Southern Yoga and Health Centre runs yoga, meditation and deep relaxation classes 7 days per week. We teach classical Hatha yoga and run classes for children as well. All our classes are suitable for beginners and people who have done yoga before. This is yoga you can do! We also run mini meditation retreats, hikes, dinner nights, film nights, Ayurvedic classes and Sound Immersion workshops. We have a team of psychologists working in our practitioner rooms who are available for consultations.