Ray of Light

Ray of Light Rachel Nokes - Yoga philosphy mentor & sacred travel guide. 🪔 Join me in India Janurary 2027. The Becoming ~ An online collective for seasoned yoga teachers

YOGA THERAPY:
A one-on-one yoga therapy session with Rachel is a great way to tailor your practice to your specific needs and to work towards your health goals in a holistic way. This therapeutic combination of ancient wisdom and modern biomedical knowledge can be used to address a number of health complaints or simply increase your health and vitality. After a thorough health assessment and practice instruction you will feel confident in starting your personalised daily practice from the comfort of your own home. AYURVEDIC CONSULTATIONS
Discover and understand the underlying causes of your health imbalances and learn steps to correct them. Ayurvedic consultations with Rachel direct specific dietary and lifestyle changes, herbal medicines, yoga therapy, therapeutic treatments to strengthen your constitution, improve your digestion and sleep and steer you towards long-term health. BALI RETREAT
Experience the beauty of North Bali for five nights with Rachel and Rebecca as your hosts. With twice daily yoga sessions, daily philosophy and meditation, delicious vegetarian meals and plenty of time to explore and relax on your own you will see the sights as well as recharge and reconnect to your own centre. SEASONAL RETREATS
Our seasonal day retreats are perfect for those who can’t get away overnight though still desire the inner nourishment of an immersive retreat style yoga experience. Experience a seasonal yoga practice, Ayurvedic lunch with take home recipe and seasonal self-care practices for rediscovering your best self. INDIA RETREATS
We invite you to journey with us to India and take your experience of yoga and Ayurveda back to the source. Our fourteen-day immersions include daily rooftop yoga practices. Experience the power of sacred sites, temples and culture, witness Vedic rituals in this fascinating country with the support of experienced guides and facilitators. TEACHER TRAINING LEVELS 1 & 2
Ray of Light offers a unique and complete teacher training experience that is firmly rooted in the tradition of the practice. You will leave our training feeling confident in the practical aspects of yoga as well as the practical application of the philosophy. As you go deeper with our level II, you will discover the richness of the ancient texts and how to apply them to your own life and share them with others. Teacher Mentoring is also available for new and existing teachers.

You don’t know what you don’t know — until you do 🤯For years I had a burning desire to chant the yogic scriptures. I’d l...
11/04/2026

You don’t know what you don’t know — until you do 🤯

For years I had a burning desire to chant the yogic scriptures. I’d listen to recordings and mimic the sounds as best I could. I thought I was doing it. I felt like I was doing it. It wasn’t until I began 1:1 chanting lessons — and learned the Sanskrit alphabet — that I discovered what I’d been missing all along.

I was unconsciously incompetent. Blissfully unaware of the intricacies hiding beneath every syllable. The moment that changed? Learning about the origin points of sound. This isn’t something we ever think about in English. We just speak. But in Sanskrit, where a sound is formed in the mouth is everything. It’s the difference between a vibration that resonates and one that falls flat.
We’ve all heard that Sanskrit is a language of vibration but the magic isn’t in the idea of vibration. It’s in the how and the where. That’s the key to unlocking this ancient technology. Once I understood this, my chanting completely transformed. I went from mimicking sounds to inhabiting them.

That’s exactly what the 5-Week Sanskrit Course gives you.You’ve already shown you’re curious. Something in you knows there’s more to discover. Now it’s time to find out what you’ve been missing.

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What you’ll learn ✨Week 1 — Śiva & the Ḍamaru: The Origin StoryWhere it all begins. Through the myth of Naṭarāja, we dis...
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What you’ll learn ✨
Week 1 — Śiva & the Ḍamaru: The Origin Story
Where it all begins. Through the myth of Naṭarāja, we discover how the Sanskrit alphabet was born from the beat of Śiva’s drum — then drop into the body to explore the five places of articulation. The foundation everything else is built on.
Week 2 — The Mātṛkā: The Divine Mothers
We meet the vowels — the mātṛkā, domain of Śakti. Sixteen vowels. Sixteen phases of the moon. The sacred sounds of Viśuddhi cakra. Sound as feminine, lunar, and alive.
Week 3 — The Consonants: Śiva & the Power of the Breath
The consonants carry the energy of Śiva, the divine masculine. We explore the consonant families and the quality of breath — mahāprāṇa and alpaprāṇa — that shapes each sound. Chanting as active, purifying practice.
Week 4 — Semi-vowels & Sibilants
We complete the alphabet — sounds that bridge and refine. Deepening the felt sense of how each sound lives in the body, until the alphabet begins to feel whole.
Week 5 — Mantra Puruṣa: The Body as Sound
We close with mantra puruṣa — mapping the Sanskrit sounds onto the body. Each syllable finds its place. The alphabet becomes something you don’t just chant. You inhabit it.

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YOGA TEACHER Ready to move beyond pop philosophy? Yoga philosophy becomes embodied when it’s voiced, felt, and lived. Th...
08/04/2026

YOGA TEACHER Ready to move beyond pop philosophy?

Yoga philosophy becomes embodied when it’s voiced, felt, and lived. The teachings are there for svādhyāya, to be held up as a mirror for our enquiry to reveal the jñāna (wisdom).

The Becoming is a path mapped out many moons ago. Each month you’ll receive a mantra, śloka, or sūtra carrying timeless wisdom learn to chant it, sit with it, let it ask something of you.

Opportunities to receive feedback on your chanting. Move through carefully crafted enquiry questions. And at the close of each month, we gather in circle to share what’s arising.

This isn’t for everyone. It’s for the teacher who longs to go deeper whose curiosity won’t let them stay on the surface.

✦ The Becoming Mentorship — enrolling now
✦ Twelve months ~ over twelve mantras
✦ Early bird pricing closes 14th April

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✈️I’m off to the land of wellie boots and bluebells. The temple of the local villlage pub and cream tea with scones. Off...
06/04/2026

✈️I’m off to the land of wellie boots and bluebells. The temple of the local villlage pub and cream tea with scones. Off to celebrate my mums 80th. To honor the strong story of my red thread family line. My mums just returned from her annual ski trip with my sister. She’s in a panic, it’s Spring she needs to plant her veggie garden she has put jobs planned out. She’s planning the menu for her garden party. I’m longing to have deeper conversations about my Dads family he passed in 1994. Grief takes hold weeks before I travel my body in pain, my heart re-breaks. I can’t wait to spend time with my siblings. My sister my best friend. My brother trqvellling from Galway.My niece and nephew incredible young adults I adore. Old friends, old hangouts. Time to visit sacred wells and reclaim the roots of my ancestors inspired by this Autumn season of my life
May it be fruitful and bring healing.
Homeward bound !
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S L O W

S — Śravaṇam (Listening)
To truly hear. Not just intellectually, but with the whole being. Listening to teachings, to mantra, to the subtle voice within.This is where the journey begins receptivity.

L — Living the Teachings
Taking philosophy off the page and into your life.
How you speak, how you move, how you respond.
Dharma expressed through action. This is practice becoming life.

O — Observation (Svādhyāya)
Witnessing oneself with honesty and compassion.
Seeing patterns, reactions, conditioning.A refinement of awareness the seer becoming clear.
This is the space of transformation.

W — Wisdom (Embodied Knowing)
Not borrowed knowledge, but lived truth. What has been integrated, digested, and realised. This is where teaching becomes transmission

The Becoming mentorship supports yoga teachers through this process one teaching, learn one mantra that encapsulates that teaching each month. Early bird pricing closes 14th April

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There’s a real shift in the qualitiy of sound when you move from rote learning to feeling. The divine pulsation of sound...
04/04/2026

There’s a real shift in the qualitiy of sound when you move from rote learning to feeling. The divine pulsation of sound moving through you vak devī Sarasvatĩ. 
“She was Vāk the divine speech, the moment when thought becomes truth and sound becomes creation.” describing Sarasvatī Ṛgveda

Over five weeks we’ll move through the Sanskrit alphabet not as a list to memorise, but as a living map of sound, of myth, of the body itself. Each week has its own story, its own energy, its own layer of the practice to inhabit.

This is for you if you’ve always felt drawn to chanting but didn’t know where to start. And it’s for you if you already chant and want to understand what you’re actually sounding and why it matters how you sound it.

No prior Sanskrit experience needed. No script to read. Just a willingness to listen, to sound, and to show up.

All sessions with Rachel are live and recorded and loaded into our learning portal for you to watch back.

Live & recorded onto our learning portal
Live session dates: April 16, 23, 30, May 7, 14
7pm ~8pm Sydney

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03/04/2026

The movement from hearing into embodying
has already been mapped.

The process is not new.
It is well documented.
The path has been walked, tested, lived.

What is asked of you is not to seek more…
but to enter into what your enquiring into more fully. .

To practise.
To repeat.
To soften into the rhythm of it
until it becomes you.

This is the way of Becoming.
Join The Becoming. ✨

02/04/2026

Yoga teacher . The precious jewel 💎 of your studentship is the gift you can keep giving to yourself.

You don’t need to share everything. I know how generous you are. But there’s deep wisdom in holding something back . In maintaining a part of your practice, study and contemplation that’s just for you.

Not to withhold, but to nourish. To stay connected to the sacred source of what you teach, not just the teaching itself. The teaching remind us that through Self study, we come into contact with the divine.

When your studentship stays alive, your teaching flows effortlessly, not from depletion, but from devotion.

The Becoming honors this. It’s space for yoga teachers and committed students to reconnect, refill, and remember. Not to give more but marinate in the teachings just for you.

Come sit in practice with us.
Not as a teacher.
As yourself.
👉 rayoflightyoga.com/thebecoming
Temple doors are open! Early bird pricing expires 14/4

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Yoga philosophy becomes embodied when
it’s voiced, felt, and lived

The Becoming is year long container designed specifically for yoga teachers who have taken multiple trainings, but now seek immersion over information, depth over breadth, and embodied experience alongside study.

This is for teachers who want to refine their chanting practice, deepen their connection to yogic philosophy through self enquiry, and community. This is for you if you want to bring these teachings into your daily life and offerings with confidence and presence.

All teachers who have a desire to deepen in devotion are welcome here.

Early bird pricing available until 14th April
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