Touch Heart Yoga

Touch Heart Yoga A long-running local class (24 yrs strong). No website, no council funding—just real people, real practice. Scroll the page and see if it resonates.

Looking for more direction in your life? Come experience it for yourself. You’ll love the group. Ross Dawson- Has been a popular teacher in Southeast Qld for nearly 20 years. He is well-schooled in Yoga philosophy, psychology, and Asana on multiple levels including advanced. He does pranic work and Swara Yoga also. For those of you thinking of attending our class, we offer a rather rewarding and v

aried yoga experience that equally focuses on physical strength, flexibility, and health. These classes content-rich allowing individual participants to find rich developmental pathways. So here is something special for you, take advantage of our trial first class half-price offer for only $10. Workshops: We offer a range of workshops to groups aimed at sound pathways of self-awareness, growth, and productive self and team development. These workshops need to be booked 4 weeks ahead. You can even have the workshops developed to suit the current needs of your organisation.

Facilitators — Pre-AnnouncementA new group program is forming around community, connection, and repair.Return to Self is...
28/04/2026

Facilitators — Pre-Announcement

A new group program is forming around community, connection, and repair.

Return to Self is a simple, structured process built on
self-forgiveness, reflection, and boundaries —
designed to support people in reconnecting with themselves and others.

We are opening pathways for facilitators.

This work develops more than group skills —
it builds personal clarity, steadiness, and the ability to hold space without reaction.

If you’re interested in contributing to stronger, more grounded communities
while developing your own capacity at the same time,
you may want to take a closer look.

More details coming soon.

If you are interested in leading a group, please leave lg below
if you are interested in attending a group please leave ag below

27/04/2026

Can you find the difference between "Inspiration" and a "Great thought"

26/04/2026

From time to time in life, things change in ways we didn’t expect.

I’ve been teaching for a long while now, and I’ve noticed that when life becomes unsettled—whether through loss, pressure, or a quiet sense of something missing—people begin to look a little deeper. Not just for exercise, but for steadiness, for understanding, for a way back to themselves.

If that’s where you find yourself, you’re very welcome here.

This is a long-standing local class, built over many years. We move gently, we breathe, we pay attention, and over time, things begin to settle and make more sense. There’s no pressure to be anything other than where you are.

You don’t need to have answers. Just a willingness to come along and begin.

If it feels right, you’re welcome to join us.

19/04/2026

For me now, it is a time to be slow — to think and act with awareness, especially awareness of consequence.

If ever the question, “If I do this, what will happen?” makes you feel uncomfortable, it is highly likely you have already justified (or are leaning toward) taking that action.

If you are curious enough to try the question, it can help you grow in many ways.
If you’re not comfortable with it, a simple practice is to relax into your breath and ask it again:
“If I do this, what will happen?”

In doing this, we are not robbing ourselves of adventure, and we are not eliminating risk.
We are developing the space between emotion and action — allowing reason to enter.
All from one simple question.

Frequently overriding this evaluation, consequence included, leads to patterns of acting without thinking. This is overt wilfulness, and it can be unhealthy.

Gaining experience through pain and failure can be valuable — they are powerful teachers.

However, the pathway of discernment also holds many valuable lessons. It can be thought of as a path to wisdom.

The awareness of the space before action — this is discernment. This is the lesson.

It’s a simple practice, something you do with your awareness, and it brings rewards.

One of those rewards is the development of a quick and reliable executive function through metacognition — what I call the “mind gap.” Understanding how to use it can serve you for a lifetime.

Discernment, and awareness of consequence, is a strong place to move into after the pause — after interrupting the usual sensory and cognitive patterns of reaction. In that moment, you are directing your mind toward guidance.

From this place of awareness, you begin to build one of the most valuable human assets: adaptable authenticity — the ability to remain yourself, not pulled away from who you are, in any situation or circumstance.

This is the old teaching of Viveka — just spoken through a more modern pathway.

When you fall down, you stand up a different person. It can be positive, and it can be negative. That depends on whether...
17/04/2026

When you fall down, you stand up a different person. It can be positive, and it can be negative. That depends on whether you learn a lesson or blame someone else or something else.

One is acceptance the other is want.

It is a lesson we all must have

A bit about Ross – the teacher (the boring but honest version)First up: I’m not actually 110 years old. That’s just the ...
17/04/2026

A bit about Ross – the teacher (the boring but honest version)
First up: I’m not actually 110 years old. That’s just the big lie I tell people.

Yes, I’m a vegetarian. Yes, I’m married – and I still don’t know how my poor wife has put up with me for 45 years. Of all the people amazed by that fact, I’m at the top of the list.

I write a lot. I’m currently finishing a program on therapeutic socialisation, I have one and a half books written, I write songs, and I’ve got most of a stage musical script done with my granddaughter.

Why do I teach yoga? Honestly, I have no real idea. My teacher basically pushed me into the training. I didn’t want to do it, I didn’t have the time, and I definitely couldn’t afford it. I only passed my final exam by 2%.

Am I a good teacher? I don’t think so. Yet somehow I’m a Level 3 senior teacher. Go figure.

I came to proper literacy in my mid-30s and then fell in love with study. Turns out I’m not dumb – I’m just different. I have a very autodidactic, hyper-intellectual, pattern-seeking mind (with a dash of synesthesia thrown in). That seems to help me pull clarity and stability out of complex or abstract things.

What I want most is humility (which I still lack). Because of my early struggles with reading and education, I can be a bit prideful about the mental strength I’ve built.

I’m also an artist – mostly abstract painting that I lovingly call “scribble,” and I adore sculpting even though I’ve barely done any.

I love science, mythology, cultural evolution, psychology, philosophy, and bird calls.

In my early years I had my share of difficulties, made ridiculous mistakes, and I know what trauma feels like from the inside. Somehow, with enough love around me, I got through.

If you’re ever looking for a living example of enduring kindness and patience, look no further than my wife. She has my unending gratitude (at least until it’s my turn to scrub the bathroom again).

I share all this not because I think I’m special, but because I’m really not. If you’ve ever felt like you don’t quite fit, or you’re carrying your own stuff, or you worry you’re “not yogic enough” to show up to class… you’re welcome here. No perfection required.

Come as you are. I’ll do my best to offer some steadiness and clarity, and we’ll figure it out together.

16/04/2026

we will fail many times, hurt and know sorrow.
Our first and last breaths may be near or far away

Success will seem a lot more temporary than it is
Difficulties will seem to be longer at times.
But lessons give you experience and experience promotes growth.

Love will always seem further away when your interests are more important than theirs. Life will teach you balance and love will follow.

May your heart know peace
Ross

16/04/2026

this is just a question to ask for your opinion.

Do you think that if a country allows or even legislates its Ai's have to broadcast all and any corruption it finds (including its own corruption) would they become the strongest government in the world? And would the world change for the best?

One of the paths in yoga is Ahimsa non-harming, what a global dream.

15/04/2026

There is a need building in a large number of people for stability.

Personally, I have no question as to why.

If I may, from my understanding, we sacrifice our simplicity for too little reward not knowing what we are giving away.

I would tell you that the maintenance of your simplicity is the pathway to success in life.

It's not that complications and stressors can't be a part of the motivating force. It is partly the percentage of complications and stressors that you allow in your life. Aka, do I have balance?

But more importantly, it is the things that you allow and justify as reasonable reasons to take away your simplicity. Then, with that awareness, you can begin to examine how much of the expectation you place on yourself come from external influences and by their nature have a temporary place in your life and almost no benefit to your well-being

You might like to reference "Dog awareness" and the "Bhutan happiness index"

If you have any tips you'd like to share, please leave your comments

12/04/2026

The 3 P's: Potential. Possibility. Probability.

We all get potential. That lovely latent essence that could be anything.

Then comes possibility. The question: Is it possible?

But without a driver, you're just floating.

That driver is probability.

Try to move anything from possibility into potential without understanding its probability?
You don't get action. You get abstraction.

Is that semantic? Philosophical? Just crazy?

Yes.

So this is a thought exercise. Here's my question for you:

How do you understand probability?

Not the math. The gut feel. The lever.

Drop your take below. 👇

12/04/2026

This may be insignificant:

In monasteries or ashrams, there's a little quiet joke about the real world. Visitors who stay a while will say "when I get back to the real world" or " out there in the real world"

Things like that, and of course the joke for the monks or swami's is that this makes their world the unreal world.

So I tell you this to tell you, that yes, for a to long period I have been busy in "The real world", but now with gratitude, I at least have one foot in the unreal world.

A swami once explained, "It's harder to live the yogic life in the real world, for at least in the ashram, everything there is there for your practice. In the real world you have the constant work of maintaining your practice without support"

You know I found it to be true, until I found something deeper. Gradually, you begin to develop a non-systematised independence. The insights come from experience.

Here I should like to quote the words of the Buddha, " learn it from the sages, read it from the texts, but until you experience it yourself don't teach it"

Yoga has been described as the science of shared experience, for example, knowingly or unknowingly if you are doing a practice or something equal to that practice spontaneously. It's highly likely you will have a similar experience to everyone else who has a similar practice.

There is no reason for a person to have to practice for 20 years to have an experience; there are no rules no real guidelines on time, only things to support your practice.

So, I may be a slow learner, I can't tell you, but I can tell you I understand meditation practice as a developmental frame of connection. Perhaps firstly to your own inner resources, then perhaps as connection to service for others, and then a whole range of connections to assets that aid humanity and the environment live in a more humane, stable and compassionate way.

This said, I am now of the opinion that meditation (perhaps even prayer if you're into that) is the key to the concept of "universal consciousness."

Fairly said, I might be wrong, would you share your thoughts please?
Namaste
Ross

12/04/2026

If you like to move up a level in your thinking on practice.

I experience meditation as me connecting to something, and samyama as something connecting to me.

How do you experience the universal?

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