Maryborough Yoga Centre

09/01/2025

Did you hear….. Kent Street Studio is in the process of renovating upstairs into a yoga studio. Classes starting February with these two gorgeous yoga teachers…..Lyn Newman and Lessa Anderson.

18/12/2024

Merry Christmas from our Yoga teachers Lyn, Joan & Leesa 🤶🏼🤶🏼🤶🏼 May you all have a wonderful festive season & we will see you in the New Year in our new space (to be confirmed…) 🎄

11/12/2024

Update for all Maryborough Yoga Centre students. Our end of year get together will now be at Portside Cafe. 10 am for all those that can make it. Hope you can join us.🙏 Lyn

10/12/2024

To all Maryborough School of Turiya Yoga students. We would like to meet up before Xmass at Homeware from Everywhere. This coming Saturday 14th December. Can I have an indication of numbers to make a booking? It would be a lovely way to finish the year after our abrupt end of term. Namaste 🙏 Lyn Lisa and Joan

18/11/2024

Maryborough Yoga Centre students. Just posting an update for Leesa's students. There will be a Thursday morning class at the CWA hall for 4 weeks. No Wednesday class as I previously indicated. 🙏 Lyn

18/11/2024

To all students of Maryborough Yoga Centre. Due to the sale of the property we have had to vacate our room earlier than expected. There will be no further classes for this year but looking forward to beginning afresh in our new space at 345 Kent St. In the New Year. Leesa may try Wednesday classes in the CW A Hall till the Xmass break. Keep on eye on this sight for further updates. Our sincere appology for the abrupt ending to the year. We will set a date to meet up before Xmas. 🙏 Lyn and Leesa NAMASTE

17/09/2024

16/01/2024

Welcome to another year of yoga in the year 2024. Already there a a few changes to our Yoga school. Our lovely teacher Joan has retired from teaching at our center at the remarkable age of 90 years in a few weeks. She will continue to take some classes from her home to make life a little easier for herself. That leaves Leesa and myself both taking two classes a week. Much as we both wish to provide an affordable class, to retain the room we have needed to increase the fee per lesson to $15. We do hope this is not a deterrent to your practice.
Leesa's classes on Tuesday and Wednesday morning have resumed this week and my classes on Tuesday and Thursday evening resume as from the 23rd of January! We are so blessed to have our yoga practice that embodies gratitude for all that we have and grace to handle whatever challenges come our way in the course of life.
Looking forward to sharing the benefits of yoga with you all again this coming year.
Lyn and Leesa
Namaste
Namaste

22/12/2023

Sharing this meditation mantra as a gift for your wellbeing.🙏💖

15/09/2023

The sympathetic nervous system produces our fight-or-flight response to any perceived threat. The vagus nerves are part of the parasympathetic nervous system, which does the opposite.

06/09/2023

Listen to this. Gives me goose bumps.Hope and joy in song.

MORE NOT LESSCan you feel it coming?It’s just around the bendTake my hand, we’ll walk this landI’ll talk with you my friendThere’s a big decisionAnd it’s up ...

08/02/2023

This post from Tao and Zen, so eloquently expresses the cause and panacea to humans disharmony and anguish.

"We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously. When you realise the depth and fullness of your love of yourself, you know that every living being and the entire Universe are included in your affection. But when you look at something as separate from you, you cannot love it for you are afraid of it. Alienation causes fear and fear deepens alienation. It is a vicious circle. Only Self realisation can break it. Go for it, resolutely." ~Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Learn about yourself, by watching yourself. There is great beauty in that. You will find out in watching what it means to be aware, attentive. A mind that is so attentive is a clear mind. From that, you can act totally... Be aware of what you want to do, for in that awareness your mind becomes sensitive, intelligent. From that intelligence is an action that is total.⁠" ~Krishnamurti

"There is a way open to all, on every level, in every walk of life. Everybody is aware of themselves. The deepening and the broadening of self awareness is the royal way. Call it mindfulness, or witnessing, or just attention. It is for all. None is unripe for it, and none can fail." ~Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Even if you have the perseverance to sit for nine years facing a wall, sitting is only one part of Zen. The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind — with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind’s return home..” ~Thich Nhat Hanh

09/01/2023

Welcome to the New Year. Yoga classes for 2023 will be resuming on the dates listed below. We hope everyone has enjoyed quality time with family and friends, and ready now to face 2023 one moment, one day at a time with openness and optimism. I wish to share a little quote that I found both amusing and poignant: 'Relax, nothing is under control'.
I think over the course of the last few years, we have all been vividly awakened to the realization that nothing bar 'death and taxes' (as they say) is a certainty. The pleasure in small things, awe of nature, a smile, a rewarding moment, good company, silence, stillness, are the uplifting moments in life that refresh our being. May we be blessed with many such moments in 2023.
Leesa's classes resume on the 18th and 19th Jan.
Joan's classes resume Monday the 16th Jan
Lyn's Tuesday classes resume on the 24th Jan
Thursday classes resume 2nd February.
We look forward to sharing our yoga practice with you all again this year.
Namaste
Lyn, Joan and Leesa

24/12/2022

On the Eve of Christmas, may we all enjoy the giving and receiving of generosity and kindness! Many have endured a year of difficulties and challenges, being forced to explore their inner landscape to discover an inner reserve of strength, courage, resilience and the support and comfort of a shared humanity to forge a path forward. When humanity unites and works together harmoniously then we can transform obstacles. Let us rejoice with gratitude at the close of the year and reflect upon the challenges and the lessons learned; about what is of true and lasting importance and value to our life, to all living beings and all life on earth! I am ever so grateful for my yoga practice. I find yoga is like my tool kit, ready and available every moment, for any challenge that confronts life.
Wishing each and everyone peace and goodwill.
Namaste
Lyn Newman

11/12/2022

I share this wisdom expressed so beautifully by Thich Nhat Hanh. My wish for 2023 is for humanities awakening to this absolute truth, that we and our environment are one!

~ Realize You are the Earth, by Thich Nhat Hanh ~

“You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer. In that kind of relationship you have enough love, strength and awakening in order to change your life.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, that the Earth is only the environment. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

So to breathe in and be aware of your body and look deeply into it, realise you are the Earth and your consciousness is also the consciousness of the Earth. Not to cut the tree not to pollute the water, that is not enough.

We need a real awakening, enlightenment, to change our way of thinking and seeing things. When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born. That is the meaning of love, to be at one." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Realize You are the Earth – Thich Nhat Hanh
https://creativesystemsthinking.wordpress.com/2015/10/24/realize-you-are-the-earth-thich-nhat-hanh/