Vedic Yoga

“Vedic Yoga is in many ways very different from modern Yoga. It is not a matter of a special asana style or a magical sequence.

A community in the heart of Elsternwick offering Vedic Meditation courses, Abhyanga Massage, Yoga and community events that bring people together to learn and grow in love. It is not centered on a special technique or powerful methodology. Vedic Yoga contains many mantras but cannot be reduced to one set mantric formula. The Vedic Yoga is vast and many-sided. It requires adaptation at an individual level, and cannot be made into an en masse formula. It contains all aspects of Yoga from lifestyle to devotion and deeper meditation. We can approach it both at a philosophical level and through practices, and it can greatly enrich all that we do. Vedic Yoga rests upon reconnecting to the Divine and the sacred presence that permeates and energises all things. It returns us to the universal life, its deeper rhythms and transformational processes.” - David Frawley

15/10/2025

🔥 The thing about meditation is, you become more and more you! - David Lynch 🔥

All of the practices we engage with seek to connect us ever more deeply to our own uniqueness, our humanity, our individualities most authentic expression. True mastery in sādhāna doesn’t mute us, dim our personalities or seek to diminish our needs as humans. Rather it slowly chips away at all the mind born ideas and deeply held conditioning that keeps us stuck, contracted and small. Practice reveals to us a more expansive way of being within, that then shines forth in a life fully lived. My personal journey has been one of accepting the fact that I truly love life, I’m a painfully enthusiastic soul 🙃❤️‍🔥 my role here is to alchemise absolutely everything into the realm of my practice. I refuse to believe that anything exists in isolation outside the realm of wholeness and fullness. The last few years of my practice have felt like a radical journey of self acceptance and honestly it feels like I’m just getting started 🤌🏽 Here’s to yoga that delivers more belly laughs, deep connection, compassion, q***rness, authenticity, revelation and love 🙋🏼‍♀️

Please enjoy this carousel of sassy childhood photos that my fabulous and loving mother sent to me 📸

13/10/2025

As our time in the south of India comes to a close 🇮🇳🪷

Sri Shakti Amma our incredible teacher has once again demonstrated what is possible when we live from the heart ❤️‍🔥 this trip has made us deeply appreciate the philanthropic nature of Amma’s work here is Tamil Nadu:

Amma’s projects encompass a wide range of initiatives that support education, healthcare, social welfare, reforestation, waste management, women’s empowerment, feeding the masses, disaster relief and so much more. A crucial pillar of what Amma teaches is Seva; to be of service. Witnessing the scale of Amma’s generosity and how she takes the esoteric teachings of spirituality and brings them into potent and powerful action is really inspiring and cuts to the heart of our practice.

This is a reminder for us and for anyone in our community who needs to hear it, Yoga is skill in action. The truest measure of the success of our practice is how it is manifesting in our daily life. We are not trying to get ‘better’ at sitting still and chanting mantras, we are seeking a greater awareness and deeper connection to the living wisdom that is guiding us into powerful, purposeful and aligned action. Remember that each individual’s dharma is unique and the way we express the teachings may look different but is equally important.

Here is to treating each person we encounter with the love, kindness, respect and dignity that is all of our birthright. We truly are the first recipients of that which we share with others 🤍🌸 Jai Ma

09/10/2025

✨ Why is meditation important?

Why is it at the heart of spiritual practice?
And why would we take our valuable time to sit and do… nothing?

All incredible questions — and they deserve our sincere enquiry.

Firstly, if “nothing” is happening in meditation, then why isn’t it super easy, accessible, and endlessly gratifying for everyone? Because meditation is far from inert. It’s a revealing practice that asks us to be with life as it is, not as we would like it to be.

As we settle into stillness, we begin to uncover what’s really going on beneath the layers of distraction, fatigue, and overwhelm. This can be confronting — we meet the parts of ourselves we’ve ignored or pushed away in order to survive.

Know that this discomfort is a natural part of every meditator’s journey. It’s the process of releasing limitation — the very tension that manifests as intrusive thoughts, agitation, doubt, fear, anger, sadness… the list goes on.

We don’t have to fix or change any of it.
We simply create a space where the deep intelligence of the mind-body — far beyond our conditioned ideas — can bring us into loving relationship with it. To feel it 🤍

Through this process, meditation also reveals what we are at our very essence.
It brings us into relationship with the intricate layers of body, mind, and energy — and into an alive, aware reality that pervades all things. From here, we begin to live in alignment with our unique role in the great unfolding — our Dharma.

Ultimately, meditation shows us the truth of what we are beyond it all — the witness, pure awareness, the silent container holding every experience — and then asks us to integrate that witness into our eyes-open life 👀

So one aspect of our practice moves through cycles — expanding, contracting, spiralling — always changing as we meet ourselves anew.
The other aspect is timeless: the unchanging truth that we are already home.
That everything is connected. 🌿

01/10/2025

Navaratri Retreat 2025 🪷🇮🇳❤️‍🔥

To host a retreat inside an Ashram in Tamil Nadu with the support of and the guidance of Sri Shakti Amma has been life changing. Our experience of this particular festival in India is one of profound transformation, amounting to months or even years of practice done under other circumstances. The energy of Navaratri grants a higher vision of what is possible and actualises a profound inner shift that ripples through our entire lives, catalyzing the evolutionary process and awakening us to all of the ways we are staying small or cutting ourselves off from love.

The flavour this year (to put it frankly) was ‘heart explosion’ ❤️‍🔥 through the continued offering of ourselves to practice (Sādhāna), to gathering in community (Satsang) and to selfless service (Seva) the heart opens unambiguously and shows us what’s needed with a directness that cuts through our conditioned ways of thinking, speaking and acting in life. This was a key teaching that Amma offered the night before we began the retreat 🌸

Enjoy this first installment of piccies 🤳🏽 we will be taking some time to rest, ground and integrate before heading home in a few weeks. Sending so much love to our community back home in Melbourne during this wild time we call Navaratri 🔥 Jai Ma 🫂

12/09/2025

💡A special podcast for our WTFers Nataraj and Vishnudev unpack the heart of Hatha Yoga—sharing their working definitions, wisdom on how balancing sun and moon energy opens the third channel, and diving into why simple postures can reveal profound inner aliveness (spanda).

✨They explore the wisdom teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, rounding, breath, mantra, and the limbed path of practice as a living transmission that moves from gross to subtle and back again.

🤍This is our heartfelt invite into a deep and meaningful 200-hour Trika Hatha Yoga teacher training starting this coming February 2026.

📩Slide into our DMs lots of love xx

26/08/2025

✨ Last chance to join us as we journey to India for something extraordinary… 🌸🌿

SĀDHĀNA IN INDIA RETREAT
📅 Sept 25 – Oct 1
📍 Sri Shakti Amma’s Ashram, Tamil Nadu – The Valley of Temples

Held during Navaratri, the sacred nine nights of the Divine Mother, this retreat is a rare chance to immerse yourself in Vedic wisdom at the most potent time of the year.

Together with Kristian, Jayden & Brahman, you’ll dive deep into:
✨ Daily Vedic Rounding
🔥 Ātma Vichāra (Self Inquiry / Healing)
🕉 Japa Sādhāna (mantra practice)
🌿 Advanced techniques

And all of this while being held in the loving field of Amma’s Ashram, where every breath vibrates with devotion and Shakti. 💫

If your heart feels the call, trust it. This is a rare doorway into wisdom, love & transformation. 🕉🔥

DM us to join — a few spaces remain. ✨

22/07/2025

🎙️ EPISODE 7 JUST DROPPED! ⁠
Wisdom. Ta**ra. Freedom. WTF.⁠
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We’re 7 episodes in — deep dives, wild laughter, sacred truth bombs, and plenty of WTF moments along the way.⁠
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If you’ve been listening, thank you for being on the ride with us. If you’re new here, this is your sign to jump in. It’s raw, it’s real, it’s spiritual AF.⁠
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From lineage to liberation, q***r identity to cosmic humor — this is the podcast where devotion meets disruption.⁠
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🌶️ Tune in on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Tag a friend who’s ready for some soul-stirring, mind-bending conversation.

02/07/2025

The reviews are in and Vedic meditation is a winner! 🙌🏻🎊 this incredible practice affords us the opportunity to know ourselves more deeply. It builds a relationship that supports us touching on an aspect of ourselves that is unchanging, infinite and full of creative potential. The Yogic scriptures call this the Self or Atman, a wakefulness that exists beyond the movements of our mind.

As we journey inwards to seek this greater Self, which is our very essence, we also encounter parts of us that seem uncomfortable, irritating and a hinderance to our practice. This is in fact one of the great gifts of meditation, the ability the fully engage with, reconcile and resolve parts of our mind body that we have been ignoring, suppressing or running away from. Meditation teaches us how to move through these sticking points, which is a valuable skill that translates into everyday life.

Most of us enter into meditation with the somewhat misguided notion that a successful practice looks like infinite bliss, peace and a completely empty mind and if our relationship with the inner world becomes troublesome, boring or too close for comfort we become frustrated. Like any intimate relationship we cultivate in the external meditation requires patience, commitment, compassion and a deep reverence for the process as it unfolds for us.

Our encounters in meditation, much like in life can be wondrous, baffling, scary and revelatory, they all come with a particular flavour that delivers us the wisdom we need. Like any good relationship meditation changes over time and it is a practice best undertaken with love and support. Know thy Self and awaken to the infinite potentiality of life around you.

28/06/2025

This is more than a teacher training. It’s a journey into the heart of yoga—where practice becomes presence, and posture becomes prayer.
Rooted in classical Haṭha and nondual Ta**ra, this training weaves sādhana, inquiry, and transmission into a living path of transformation.

Join us as we dive deeply into the treasure trove of yoga:

Bhakti. Jñāna. Karma. Rāja.
Breath. Mantra. Meditation.
Darśana. Discernment. Devotion.

We don’t train performers.
We don’t make cookie-cutter yoga teachers.
We cultivate real practitioners who embody love, wisdom, and the courage to serve.

In-person & online options
Starts Feb 13, 2026 | Every second weekend
Limited spaces.

24/06/2025

🌕 Sponsor Navaratri Pūjā & Sādhana

As Navaratri approaches, we prepare to honor the Divine Mother through nightly pūjā and sādhana. This is a time of profound inward turning—a chance to align with Her power, wisdom, and grace.

Offering dakṣiṇā, a monetary donation, is a time-honored way to participate in this sacred cycle. In the Vedic tradition, dakṣiṇā expresses reverence, gratitude, and commitment to the spiritual path. Your contribution nourishes the ritual, honors the lineage, and deepens the connection between the giver, the practice, and the Divine.

Each sponsorship helps support the pūjā offerings and the time and presence dedicated to this devotional work. Your name and sankalpa will be included in the nightly prayers, and you will receive consecrated prasād as a blessing at the conclusion of Navaratri.

To offer with devotion is itself a sādhana—an act of humility and love that brings powerful blessings both seen and unseen.

In this way, your gift becomes part of the sādhana—fueling the fire of devotion that burns for the benefit of all beings.

🪔 $45 per night
🪔 $306 for all 9 nights

23/06/2025

You are warmly invited to participate in a rare and potent window of inner transformation—Ashadha Gupt Navaratri, taking place at Sukha Ashram in collaboration with Nataraj Chaitanya from June 26 to July 5, 2025.

According to the Devi Bhagavatam, Navaratri occurs four times a year. While the spring and autumn Navaratris honor the well-known nine forms of Goddess Durga, or Kali, Lakshmi, and Saraswati, Gupt Navratri is a more esoteric and spiritually charged period, reserved for deeper practices and secret rites. The word Gupta means “hidden,” reflecting its emphasis on inward transformation and esoteric practice.

During this time, we will engage in Narayani Abhishekam Puja, Ta***ic Sādhana, and contemplation of the ten Mahāvidyās—Kālī, Tārā, Tripura Sundarī, Bhuvaneśvarī, Chhinnamastā, Bhairavī, Dhūmāvatī, Bagalāmukhī, Mātangī, and Kamalā Devī. Their worship is during this time considered highly meritorious and brings swift results.

Together, we will:
    •    Invoke the Goddess through ritual and mantra
    •    Read and reflect on sacred texts from the ta***ic tradition.
    •    Meditate, chant, and immerse ourselves in devotional practice
    •    Engage in secret and sacred sādhana for spiritual accomplishment and inner awakening

Where: Sukha Ashram, 51 Clarence Street, Elsternwick

When: 6pm - 8pm June 27th - July 5th. First night Thursday June 26th beginning at 5pm

19/06/2025

Dear Beloved Community,

Tonight you are warmly invited to a sacred evening of Narayani Puja with Brahman, followed by heart-opening Kirtan with our friend and guest Nataraj Chaitanya.

The Narayani Abishekam is a deeply devotional and auspicious puja where we bathe the goddess in sacred oblations, chant powerful mantra and lovingly make offerings to Divine Mother. This ancient ritual invokes the Goddess in her most potent and benevolent form, aligning our inner being with the supreme Śakti. It is said to fulfill heartfelt wishes, purify the mind, awaken deep devotion, and bring blessings of beauty, harmony, abundance, and spiritual liberation.

We will follow the puja with Kirtan, the ecstatic singing of mantras — a practice that softens the heart, silences the mind, and draws us into direct communion with the divine.

🪷 Date: 20th June 2025
🪷 Time: 6pm
🪷 Location: Sukha Ashram
🪷 What to bring: Offerings for the altar (flowers, fruit, incense) are welcome.
🪷 Contribution: Give what you can, Suggested Donation of:
Narayani Plus: $30
Narayani Self: $20
Narayani Subsidised: $10

Whether you’re a seasoned devotee or simply curious, you are welcome. Come as you are. Let’s gather in beauty and reverence, and offer our hearts fully to the Divine Mother.

With love and devotion,
Krissy, Jaydie, Brahman & Nataraj

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51 Clarence Street
Melbourne, VIC
3185

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Website

http://www.vedicyoga.com.au/

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