Yoga Under the Bodhi Tree

19/10/2025

YIN Yoga tomorrow with Sound Healing , all classes, all week: Mon 20/10/25 - Sat 25/10/25. Bring your bolsters and blocks students for a wonderful week of YIN with Sound healing. Love and namaste Margot

13/10/2025

De- armouring our bodies. We’ve all had times in our lives when everything is working out – it’s like we’re blessed with a lucky star and the opportunities, people and good fortune just seem to fall into our laps. These are rare occasions when we are in the “flow” of life and can’t seem to put a foot wrong. In the world of frequency, we would say that you are aligned with your future self and that universe you are operating from, is free flowing energy. For most of us this state doesn’t last, and we revert back to our ordinary lives and often bad habits.

Why can’t we stay in that elevated state of congruence? From a brain perspective your basal ganglia forms neural pathways through a cue-routine-reward loop. Over time, this process becomes automatic, creating a shortcut your brain is reluctant to abandon. So, if the bad habits and the restricted energy are all part of this familiar routine, you’ll drop out of the flow state and go back to a life which is familiar and “safe”. In yoga we call these grooves in the mind your samskaras, bad habits and familiar memories and emotions that drag us back to the same old, same old.
Wilhelm Reich stated that: The life of an individual is the life of his body. A person who doesn’t breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn’t move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn’t feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. If his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body. And all these restrictions develop as a means of survival in a society that denies body values in favour of power, prestige and possessions.

Reich was the father of ‘de-armouring’ the body. People build up defences or ‘armour’ due to stresses of everyday life, shock trauma and negative thought patterns. Armouring restricts and blocks the free flow of energy in the body, keeping us in patterned behaviours that produce dysfunction, illness and premature aging. We walk around inside a body that is bound by pain tapes of the past. Armouring blocks the flow of energy through the chakras, which in turn depletes the organs associated with those chakras. Thus, our holistic body system becomes compromised and separates us from a natural connection to Source.

On yoga retreat (https://www.yogaunderthebodhitree.com.au/yoga-retreats) we will be using Reichian physical movements and Conscious Connected Breathwork as part of our de-armouring therapy. As we de-armour the body we will allow suppressed emotions and memories to surface and integrate, leading to nervous system regulation, greater body awareness, increased flexibility, and renewed vitality.

We are much more than our body. We are much more than who we imagine ourselves to be. As sacred humans, we are interconnected with all forms of all things within Creation. Yet, most of the time we walk around asleep to the grandeur of our potential. From Anodea Judith: The body remembers what the mind forgets. Releasing armour is not weakness, it is the beginning of real strength. Its going to be an amazing retreat! Hope you can join us!
Love and namaste Margot

11/10/2025

07/10/2025

Wednesday evening 6pm Yoga Class at the Creative Art Centre, Wongawallen Rd restarts tomorrow 8/10/25 now everyone is back at school!
If you are new to this class, just text me if you'd like to join us.
I text my regulars to confirm numbers.
Cant wait to see you beautiful yogis back on the mats!
Love and namaste Margot

05/10/2025

We have our Yoga Retreat coming up - Gather, Breathe, Grow - In Silence, Fri 20 - Sun 22 March 2026, Theosophical Institute, Springbrook, QLD. A catered, weekend, residential Silent Yoga Retreat filled yoga, meditation, breathwork and vibrational frequency.
It was Karan who stated: “Your vibration shapes your reality. The higher you vibrate, the more aligned, joyful, and magnetic you become. Raising your vibration isn’t about perfection. It’s about presence, intention, and devotion to your light.”

This retreat is all about resonance, energetic signatures and becoming aware of how you vibrate and your frequency and changing that frequency if it doesn’t suit your life. How would know if your frequency was not optimal? Look at your health, your mental health, your relationships and your financial prospects. If you are out of tune with what you truly desire from your life – your current life will reflect this dissonance.

So, there were a couple of things that tempted me to pursue a retreat all about vibration, human electrical fields, resonance and frequency. The first thing was my awareness of how badly many of us are affected by EMF toxicity. It’s got worse since COVID, when they put up all the 5G towers. Now EMF toxicity is tricky, some of the population are not affected initially, some are mildly affected and some are chronic. And much like everything else, if it doesn’t affect you, and its invisible, you ignore or dismiss it as the whining of someone else. You’re fine, why aren’t they fine?

About 20% of the population is electrohypersensitive and of that, 80% are female. And if you are electrohypersensitive, you are likely multiple chemically sensitive. Like the canary in the coalmine, warning others around you who dismiss it as neurosis until they develop an autoimmune or pain or something else. We are now exposed to exponentially more artificial radiation (non-native emf), than any previous generation. EMF toxicity can look like fatigue, headaches, insomnia, pain, decreased learning ability, and cognitive impairment thought to be caused by the opening the blood-brain barrier, allowing toxic invaders such as heavy metals, pesticides, and other pollutants through this important barrier, potentially contributing to neurodegenerative diseases.

We all now live in this EMF smog, its a given in all 1st world countries. So how can we protect ourselves from this toxicity and what can we do to build resilience as its not going away. Well, you can try to minimise your personal exposure and there are all sorts of devices out there that come with mixed reviews as to how they can protect you. But my strategy is: if we could improve our own vibration, strengthen it and bolster it so that no matter what is thrown at you (within reason) you will be able to bounce back and you will be able to hang onto your good health whilst living in this world filled with EMF.

Hence the Yoga Retreat. My juiciest one yet! Filled with tools to help you identify where your energetic signature is dense, heavy, blocked or out of tune and practices to help you come back into resonance with this amazing Universe. Tibetan Buddhist Light Yoga - a tradition that emphasizes the connection with light and energy to support growth and inner illumination. Rebirthing Breathwork using the Conscious Connected Breath to fill the body with light- filled prana. Meditation, Reichian Dearmouring, sound baths and sound healing, using vibrational sound to flood your cells with healing frequencies. Mantra, nature, fire, ceremony and best of all, Silence. In silence you will find your true resonance. Hop onto the website to secure your place: www.yogaunderthebodhitree.com.au
Hope you can join us! Love and namaste Margot

03/10/2025

Yoga is on Monday 6/10/25 - Kings birthday - 9.30am Moriarty Centre, Coburg Rd, Canungra. Hope you can join us! Love and Namaste Margot

03/10/2025

Yoga is on Monday 6/10/25 - Kings birthday - 9.30am Moriarty Centre, Coburg Rd, Canungra. Hope you can join us! Love and Namaste Margot

02/10/2025

So much awesome yoga this week so far and a nice strong, sparkly class to help us cope with this unrelenting heat! So shocking for Spring! Our poor gardens and all the wildlife. Spring is the time for really cute baby things and I met a little rabbit called Cecil this week. A miniature Lop who lives in the Tweed. This little cutie gets walked in her pink harness , carried around in her Louis Vuitton Bag and loves to breakfast with the girls!

And Spring is also the time for birdsong starting at 4am. The Asian Koel, all the way from PNG and Indonesia with its distinctive call in the hot mornings! The Channel Billed Cuckoo, also from PNG, my favourite with its haunting scream. And with all the windows open on hot nights the Boobook Owl with its lonely hoot. Such is this beautiful web of life we live in! Sound healing this week for one of my beautiful clients with some of the toys! Two big sound baths will be featured on our Yoga Retreat coming up next year.https://www.yogaunderthebodhitree.com.au/yoga-retreats

Hope you can join us! Love and namaste Margot

23/09/2025

Our Summer Timetable! The only real change is that our Saturday Yoga Class at the Zamia Theatre, MT Tamborine now starts at 8am and the Wednesday night 6pm class is SCHOOL TERM ONLY.

17/09/2025

Our Breathwork Workshop
So much great yoga this week so far and we’ve just enjoyed our 2nd Breathwork Workshop. For this workshop I was inspired to jack things up by drawing from my amazing week at the International Breathwork Conference. So we opened the body before we dived into the Breathwork using Ta***ic shaking and Neurogenic Tremors.

And we use a Conscious Connected Breath in my Breathwork Workshops. An active big inhale into the belly and the ribcage and a passive exhale. Your breath is under your control, so you can breathe according to your body and your needs. We breathe for 45 minutes to 1 hour so its big session. You might attain a state of bliss, find your hips shaking or your spine arching. You might see visions or experience trauma release. Or you might feel nothing. I’m helping you stay linked to your breath the whole time (and occasionally bringing people back from the void!) so its super safe and tailored just for you.

Some people get tetany which is perfectly normal as the body resists the release of long held blocked energy. Tetany is not caused by hyperventilation because we don’t hyperventilate. Hyperventilation is rapid, shallow breathing where you breathe in more than you breathe out and it’s in response to stress, fear, pain and perhaps chronic ailments. With Conscious Connected Breathing, we breathe fully into our belly and chest to allow the nervous system to stay clear of anxiety.

It was an amazing session. Many students reported feeling so much lighter after the session and a few students had big energetic releases in their physical bodies as they let go of long held trauma.

And my garden has gone nuts in response to Spring! I nick away for a week and come home to the veggie garden fence groaning under the wisteria, the bauhinias in flower, the orchids in the native trees are outdoing themselves and the bromeliads are all flowering at once. Mother Earth never lets us down! Magic is possible when we unite consciousness, nature and breath. Love and namaste Margot

14/09/2025

Its YIN this week. All week, 15/9 - 20/9/25! Bring your bolsters, blankets and blocks. Love and namaste Margot

10/09/2025

Back from the International Breathwork Conference 2025
So good to be back on the mats with you all from a very busy week on K’ Gari (Fraser Island – it means Paradise and so it is) – breathing! Yup, we spent 7 days practicing all forms of breathwork and different ways to release trauma from our bodies. It was an extraordinary experience. World class practitioners from Germany, Belgium, Greece, USA, Canada, Scandinavia, Italy, France, Indonesia and of course Australia – who hosted the event. These guys were awesome – so much wisdom and I’ve come home with so much good stuff to share with my students and if you are sitting on the fence about attending my Breathwork Workshop this Saturday 13/9/25, 2.30pm Zamia Theatre MT Tamborine – come and join us! Your mind and body will be officially blown!

So, the theme of the Conference was: Breathing into the Field of the Unknown. And we went there, many times. As humans we tend to obsess over our own lives, our immediate circle of loved ones, our health, our financial robustness and our communities. All good and perfectly normal. But things like Breathwork can help you tap into so much more.

And it wasn’t all work and no play. I saw whales on 3 of the 7 mornings straight from the beach (yay for being a yogi, waking up at the crack of dawn meant I had the whole beach and the dawn to myself – shared only with the whales, the pelicans and the sea eagles) I saw dingo tracks and fish and all the colours of the rainbow as the world woke up.
And in our workshops, we didn’t just breathe. Our incredible Australian conveners filled the program with the most glorious spiritual teachings, always connected to the breath and the field of unknown. We also twirled like Rumi’s Sufi dancers under the guidance of Shaykh Ibrahim Al Ansari, we experienced a Lotus Birth, we basked in the wisdom of Buddhist nun Ayya Jitindriya, we used breathwork as a Soul Retrieval tool and we partied with Venus Mantrap our absolutely gorgeous MC for 2 fun events.
My next yoga retreats are going to be so off the planet, filled with these teachings! So wonderful to be back to share this glorious stuff with you incredible students. Love and namaste Margot