Ray of Light

06/01/2026

Hello Bhakti Women✋,

Happy New Year. I hope you’ve had a soft landing into 2026. I'm wishing you an abundant year ahead.

Thank you,.rose, for the introduction and for creating such a heart-centred community over the past five years. I’m genuinely looking forward to this sixth summit, and I’ve already been quietly behind the scenes, beginning to shape something really special for you all.

I wanted to take a moment to share a little about myself, and why I feel so committed to carrying this summit forward.

For the past twenty years, I’ve been on my own bhakti path. Before yoga became central in my life, I worked as a therapist in many different community settings. A trip to India shifted something deeply for me, and I began turning toward yoga more seriously. In 2007, I qualified as a yoga teacher, and five years later I trained as a yoga therapist. Over these years, I’ve continued to feed my curiosity studying āyurveda, mantra, vedanta and yogic philosophy. I am so grateful for all the teachers that have so generously shared along my path.

I am at heart a gather and love to create warm, honest spaces where these incredible sciences can be explored. I facilitate yoga teacher trainings, pilgrimages, and an online yoga philosophy and chanting collective, The Becoming, which intentionally supports yoga teachers to remain students — staying curious, devotional, and connected to practice.

I live on the Far South Coast of NSW with my husband and our three sausage dogs - Chloe, Poppy and Stella.

I feel deeply honoured to be stepping into this space and to be meeting you all as we move forward together. This years Bhakti Women Summit and its theme, Sacred Sound.
There's so much more juice coming soon, I'm absolutely bursting to tell you. I’m really glad you’re here, and I’m looking forward to what we’ll create together

With love,
Rachel xx

04/01/2026

Late summer.
A pause.
A gentle return to yourself.

Step away from the daily hustle and immerse in a weekend of rest and reflection, held by yoga, āyurveda, and the quiet beauty of Long Beach.

Move and breathe in our garden shala.
Listen to seasonal wisdom and simple āyurvedic rhythms.
Share nourishing meals, meaningful conversations, and time by land and sea.

Sauna. Fire. Stillness.
Space to soften, restore, and remember what truly matters.

Come for the weekend. Leave feeling replenished, grounded, and clear.

Rest & Reflect Retreat
🗓 20–22 February
🔗 Link in bio

03/01/2026

Happy New Year ✨

Nature continues her sacred rhythms and cycles — steadfast in her integrity, unwavering in her devotion.
May we remember, just like her. 💫🪔

Wishing you a new cycle that truly serves your highest good. Love R x

Need to connect in? You are invited to join me for my next Rest & Reflect retreat 20th -22nd February in Long Beach. Link in bio x

27/12/2025

27/12/2025

1 January i’m heading back to the ashram that changed the course of my life. My first journey to India, twenty years ago, was a catalyst awakening a deep curiosity about the subtler dimensions of yoga, devotion, and Self-understanding. What began then continues to shape how I live, teach, and walk this path.

Returning exactly twenty years later just before I lead my next Yatra feels deeply significant. It’s the journey through India itself that keeps calling me back. The places, the practices, the pauses in between. And it’s why I continue to guide others on pilgrimage.

Since the first Yatra I led in 2014, these journeys and I have evolved. This one moves through Tamil Nadu, from the mountains to the sea.

🌺Join me behind the scenes 🪔Along the way, I’ll be sharing exclusive behind-the-scenes moments early-morning practices, temple rhythms, travel days, quiet rituals, reflections I don’t usually share publicly, and glimpses into how a Yatra is really held.

✨ Comment YATRA and I’ll send you the private link to follow the journey. ✨

22/12/2025

South coast friends come practice with me 🤍

If you’re craving a little steadiness, softness, and reconnection over the holiday season, I’ll be teaching at Soul Tribe Studio and I’d love to share the space with you.

✨ My Holiday Class Schedule ✨
23/12 — Chill Flow · 11.30am
27/12 — Chill Flow · 7.30am
29/12 — Slow Flow · 7.30am
30/12 — Chill Flow · 11.30am

Gentle movement, conscious breath, devotion and chanting. A sacred time to land back in your body, perfect for this liminal end-of-year moment

Love R x ✨

18/12/2025

Curious to know what happens in a chanting lesson?

Learning to chant in the classical way is an act of devotion, patience, and deep listening. The method is called “Guru uccādanam; śiṣya anuccādanam “
the teacher chants first, and the student follows. The teacher chants once. The student repeats the mantra twice.

Sound is received through listening, absorbed through repetition, and carried through memory. Weeks or months may be spent with a single chant until it is known from the inside out.

This way of learning trains far more than pronunciation.
It cultivates attentiveness, humility, steadiness, and trust. It asks us to slow down enough to be shaped by the vibration itself.
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With deep gratitude to Clare Lovelace of , who generously allowed her recent lesson on the Invocation to Patañjali to be recorded. Clare has been devoted to chanting practice for the past three years and is a cherished member of The Becoming Collective. Her steady commitment and sincerity are audible — her chanting has deepened and refined through devotion, repetition, and care.

Thank you, Clare, for your trust, your practice, and your willingness to let this learning be shared.

🪷Follow for our upcoming online sacred sound summit coming March 2026

15/12/2025

May there be peace everywhere, at all levels of existence. In the sky….. the stars, vegetation, among animals and humans. In the Divine, and among all who have attained Brahma.Those who recite this mantra ask that the peace within shall be strengthened so that it may be offered to others.

I received this translation from Debby Badger. I ask for forgiveness for any errors.

Praying for peace for all beings 🙏🏽

08/12/2025

Started the day with a few tech struggles 🫨
So I thought I’d redirect that energy and share a little snippet of what’s coming for 2026 ✨

After taking 2025 off from leading my own trainings — focusing instead on retreats and guest teaching with dear friends — I’m feeling ready and inspired to step back in.

🌿 Advanced Yoga Philosophy Training
100% online | begins June 2026

🌊 Foundations Yoga Teacher Training
Retreat-style, in-person learning on the South Coast NSW | begins October 2026

If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to study with me — this is it.I can’t wait to share these next-level offerings with you 💫

⛓️‍💥Fill out the register your interest form link in bio !!