Yoga Under the Bodhi Tree

19/03/2026

Such awesome yoga this week so far! And I'm up to my eyeballs in the last minute touches for Yoga Retreat, which is a pretty exciting time for me. And some delicious additions to our menu. On Silent retreat we enjoy Rooibos Chai tea. Really divine after dinner, warming and spicy without the caffeine. Our cuisine is infused with spice, which is why Ayurvedic and Indian food is so healing, anti inflammatory and really good for our guts. Mango kulfi, a cardamon rich Indian ice cream is our dessert at Sunday lunch.

On retreat we do the familiar Hatha and YIN yoga but we do way more of the unfamiliar, ancient, weird and esoteric Yogic practices that make these Retreats sooo exciting! My logic is: if you love the yoga enough to come on Retreat with me, you will absolutely adore the deeper practices of Ta**ra, Tibetan Diamond Light Yoga, Zen Buddhist Meditation practices and immersing ourselves in Frequency, Vibrational Healing and Resonance. So frequency and light in particular have been part of my world these last few months. Remember we are batteries: the energy from the sun is our solar positive charge, the energy from Mother Earth is our negative charge and we need to recharge and cleanse regularly, bathing in these healing frequencies.

Early morning light for meditation. To be able to embrace the quiet of the dawn is a special privilege and so good for our circadian rhythms. Every now and again I teach yoga in a breathtaking spot - next to a bubbling creek among the rainforest. So beautiful. Autumn bulbs from my garden, a very special gift after a hot summer to have these gorgeous gems pop up. This is Ta**ra! A fusion of all the elements. See you on the mats students! Love and namaste Margot

18/03/2026

NO YOGA
Saturday 21/3/26 8am Zamia Theatre - we are on Yoga Retreat! Wish you could all join us! Back to normal Monday 23/3/26.
Next week Mon 23/3/26 - Sat 28/3/26 is YIN Yoga. So bring your bolsters and blocks and blankets.
Love and namaste Margot

13/03/2026

Due to rent increases I have a small price increase:
Casual class is now $22
10 class pass is now $200 (still a $20 saving)
And the good news is: If you pay cash for your card its still $180.
Lots of love Margot

07/03/2026

Cosmic Consciousness
I was asked by one of my students about the Yoga Retreat coming up soon (20/3 – 22/3/26, https://www.yogaunderthebodhitree.com.au/yoga-retreats/) and why a Yoga Retreat on frequency, vibration and electrical charge? Actually, I couldn’t imagine better timing for this kind of Retreat. With us, the world, teetering on the cusp of a widespread destruction and horror. We have a frequency in the world right now of insanity, lies, corruption and a moral demise of an unbelievable level – governed by rulers who are all vibrating and controlling from a frequency totally different to what a normal, balanced human wants: moral leadership, prosperity, a peaceful future to raise families and a safe future to retire in. How did the frequency of the common man diverge so wildly from those running the show? So, in the light of this craziness, a Retreat on frequency is perfect and one of the many theories that kicked off the design of this Retreat was my interest in the nature of Consciousness.

Now for most of us consciousness means are awake, we own our own minds, and we don’t necessarily go along with the mass mind. Pretty simple. So, you are aware of how your vibration, your thoughts, your behaviours essentially your frequency: affects others, is influenced by the frequencies from other people and you’re conscious enough to know when your thoughts are not your own and you’re being manipulated by the mass mind or the collective. That’s an awake, individuated, conscious human being.

But the theory below really rocked my idea of what consciousness is, and instead of being some quality you are born with and can refine over a lifetime (we all know people way up there with free thought and free minds and those who are deep in the trenches of popular thought and behaviour), this theory proposes that consciousness appears through varying frequencies. We begin with raw data at the subatomic level and ascend through instinctive, computational, and creative human awareness, ultimately reaching for Cosmic Consciousness.

According to the experts we define a spectrum of consciousness frequency extending from: 10⁰ Hz (subatomic reactivity) to 10¹⁴ Hz (human brain) up to 10¹⁷ Hz and beyond (cosmic consciousness). This spectrum reveals that every entity occupies a narrow band within this continuum and our decisions, perception quality, and even future evolutionary paths reflect our current frequency. We can only speculate the frequency of the nutters currently ruling our world. And this is interesting: after death, consciousness does not “choose” where to go; it returns to a level aligned with your frequency, not to where it desires. That’s rather motivating to improve our frequency!

Now unlike human consciousness, which derives meaning from data, physical reality, things we can understand and measure; Cosmic Consciousness taps into pre-existing knowledge. Knowledge that was laid down from previous lives, understandings and existence, knowledge in the Ether, knowledge in the Akashic records. When you tap into this Cosmic Consciousness you have access to everything, every possibility offered in the Universe. Many cultures refer to Cosmic Consciousness as God, Source, or Creator. This field creates and governs reality through infinite frequencies. God is seen as divinity: timeless, spaceless, and infinitely generative. God is the source of all vibration, meaning, and law. It is existence at its purest frequency.

Every thought, intention, and action affect this frequency, which in turn determines one's position in the universe. Heaven and Hell are thus reframed as natural outcomes of frequency alignment. The more one harmonizes with this field, the higher the awareness. The less aligned, the deeper the dissonance. Your reality is shaped by your resonance between self and truth. When we move into a higher frequency; fear, violence, and deceit disappear, replaced by clarity and unity. So real consciousness is not merely a brain function, but a dynamic process capable of reshaping reality.

These are the qualities we aspire to, to allow us to tap into Cosmic Consciousness: Honesty and integrity. Empathy and nonviolence. Self-inquiry and independent thought. Conscious regulation of instincts. Creative meaning-making (philosophy, art, science). Deep meditation and mindfulness. Philosophical contemplation of life, death, and existence. Each factor enhances your system’s resonance with higher levels of awareness and promotes alignment with the cosmic field.

Once you start looking at your life and health through the lens of frequency everything makes sense. If we look at our Souls, which in most religious traditions, the soul is often described as an invisible essence that survives after death. In a frequency model the Soul is defined as a person’s frequency signature- shaped by thoughts, experiences, and choices over this lifetime. It’s a dynamic pattern of frequencies reflecting one's quality-of-life experience and it influences post-death continuity and functions as a kind of existential echo, affecting future incarnations. Where your Soul goes is a natural outcome of your vibrational state, both in this life and beyond. No divine judgment is needed—only the mechanics of resonance.

Its amazing stuff and we are diving into all aspects of Frequency on this Retreat! Very exciting! Love and namaste Margot

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22/02/2026

YIN with Sound healing tomorrow students! All week Mon 23/2/26 - Sat 28/2/26, all classes. bring your bolsters, blocks and blankets for a divine week of YIN Yoga. Love and namaste Margot

18/02/2026

Kickstart 2026 with the Autumn Equinox
On our Yoga retreat coming up soon 21/3 – 22/3/26 we are using the energy of the Vernal Equinox (Sat 21/3) to set in motion what we want from 2026. Using the Fire ceremony to shed what we don’t want and secondly, to manifest what we do want. Aided and abetted by the energy of the Equinox. Really? According to Western Science the influence of the planets on we humans is hogwash and unmeasurable and Astrology is considered a pseudo-science. Well yoga could be considered hogwash as well. A glorified system of bending and stretching with some ornate breathwork and a silent mind thrown in. And yet those of us who practice yoga regularly have amazing health, are pain free, are calmer and happier compared to our peers. Mmmmm.

Yoga and the influence of the planets (called Astrology) have been intertwined sciences for 5000 years. Yoga and astrology both aim to harmonize human life with the cosmos. Yoga connects the self with universal energy through inner practice, while astrology maps the outer influences of celestial bodies. Together, they create a bridge—yoga aligning the inner being, and astrology understanding external cosmic rhythms. They complement, not conflict.

Everything in life is about the right timing. So, if you missed the hoopla around Jan 1st and the setting of New Years resolutions (or if you’ve already fallen off the resolution wagon), there is still hope to make 2026 the best year yet! In fact, using Jan 1st as a starting point to kick off something huge is pretty much doomed to fail. You’ll be relying on sheer willpower and discipline and you’re missing out on an incredible boost of ENERGY hanging out there in the cosmos – the power of the Equinox, which we are using on our Yoga Retreat, Sat March 21, 2026, 00:46 (12:46 AM) AEST QLD.

The 1st of January is a purely imaginary dividing line that is supposed to separate the past from the future. Nothing of astronomical significance actually happens at the midnight of the 31/12. Astrologically it’s not the New Year, so goals set on this date don’t hold much energetic power. However, if you delve into the energy around us, we can call it the Akasha, Ether or Universal Consciousness this energy is influenced by the Sun and the movement of the planets, and it impacts our earth and us. This Cosmic energy moves like a spiral and it peaks and troughs throughout the year in accordance with the movement of the Sun and the planets. Astronomers, astrologers, stock markets, gardeners, online gambling casinos, HR departments, corporate merger sectors, yogis and those in the know have used these peaks and troughs as windows of opportunity for millennia, to navigate their lives and their business decisions with huge success.

So, what is an Equinox and how are we going to harness this energy? The Equinoxes and Solstices are powerful time windows, and we can use them to enhance our own individual consciousness. In the diagram above, the 2 circles represent the Earth travelling around the Sun (ecliptic plane) and the other circle represents the Earth rotating around its axis (the equatorial plane). The intersections are the equinoxes and the points of maximum separations between the two circles are the solstices. Hence the astrological year is a continuous sine-like wave of energy oscillating between the moments of maximum and minimum of daytime duration (solstices), while briefly passing through the “zero” moments at the times of equinoxes when day and night have equal length.

Why are these zero moments so energetically powerful for us? The equinoxes stand for: Conjunction - the precise moment something ends and something starts - the arrival of the next phase. Silence - as the cup is getting emptied ready for the new cycle. Renewal - set the direction for the next year. And a New Moon phase, powerful manifesting energy.

And on our Yoga retreat, our Fire ceremony Saturday night specifically, corresponds to a “zero “moment! The perfect moment in the whole of the year to kick off something big. A doorway to truly synchronising one’s individual rhythm with universal consciousness. Super powerful and super exciting! Love and Namaste Margot

01/02/2026

Deep Listening:
Our Silent Yoga Retreat coming up soon (20/3 - 22/3/26), Springbrook QLD
https://www.yogaunderthebodhitree.com.au/yoga-retreats/
is designed to be an intimate journey within. It’s not for the fainthearted, as you will confront lots of stuff inside you that you have never noticed or even bothered to get to know. And when we think about journeying within, we always think about our thoughts. Our monkey mind. All those things we must do, the lists piling up and the other voices in our head – from our loved ones, your inner critic and even those annoying jingles and snatches of popular songs.

But what would happen if you were able to switch off the mind, would there then be true silence in your world? No way. When we switch off the mind, as we are doing on this retreat, eventually those inner voices cease – but then your body rises to the occasion and asks for attention. Why? Why do I hurt here? What is this heaviness? Why have you ignored this pain, just here, for so long? So, you don’t get really get true silence or total peace, but you do start to develop an awareness and a deep intimacy with the only person on Earth who will be with you through the good times and the bad times and when you exit this planet – yourself. Just you. So, this retreat is a really lovely chance to get to know this miraculous, faithful body as we switch off the busy, bossy mind.

We all have a deep yearning for intimacy. To be listened to so deeply, in the presence of someone who has all your needs at heart. Someone who won't interrupt, offer unsolicited advice (unless asked) and someone who will just hold the space as you verbalise all those tight, dark, hard things you’ve been holding inside for so long. That someone will be you. To be present to yourself, with mindful awareness is an act of profound intimacy. And this is a huge act of trust. We have all grown up in cultures which honour the extroverted, the accumulation of stuff, the busyness of life and we’ve learned to ignore our wounds and our longing in our rush to live life. It’s hard to stay present and be respectful to ourselves in a world where everyone is fighting to be first to the finish post, and no one wants to pause and listen.

Yoga practice offers us one of the greatest of human possibilities – the possibility of awakening. In this we must listen to the whole of ourselves, our body’s cries for attention, the unhappy thoughts in our minds and to step back and see how we fit into this bigger context of life. Because we aren’t an island. We are affected by this vast soup of noise, and energy, and influence tugging at us this way and that. So, on this weekend together, you will feel how difficult this is: to encounter all the stories you have held to protect yourself from the suffering in life. You will face stories of grief and fear and sense the emptiness and loss of opportunities never taken. You will realise the reality of the impermanence in all things, the cycle of change and death. And through all of this, the fire of your truth and your silence, you will emerge powerful, free and lighter and so very joyous. As Buddha would say, "You will hear the lion's roar". It’s the path of the Boddhisatva, the Warrior.
Hope you can join us! Love and namaste Margot

25/01/2026

NO Yoga Monday 26th Jan 2026 - its Australia Day! I hope everyone has a wonderful day and stays cool. Back to normal from Tuesday 27/1/26. Love and Namaste Margot

21/01/2026

Vibrational healing:
We have a Silent Yoga retreat coming up soon in Springbrook QLD, Fri 20/3 – Sun 22/3/26), https://www.yogaunderthebodhitree.com.au/yoga-retreats/
and its is all about you, the attendee, trying various forms of vibrational healing, and in just one weekend, seeing how they can make a difference to how you feel. We’re living in a funny time in the world. There is so much information, new and old, so much hidden information coming to light and a large chunk of ordinary people are seeking the truth and some kind of middle ground in a culture that values extremes.

A good example is health. Did you know that vibrational medicine was very well respected 120 years ago? Practices like yoga, breathwork, homeopathy, sound healing and reiki, to name a few, are all considered a form of vibrational healing. In the USA alone, at the turn of the last century, there were 200 hospitals using remedies like homeopathy to treat an assortment of diseases. Beautifully non-invasive, with no side effects, the vibrational approach is a gentle way of coaxing your body to come back into balance using natural principles of nature. These modalities will never replace the allopathic model for really aggressive forms of disease, but they are a great compliment to treatment plans and should be the first choice for prevention and the treating of milder ailments, mind-body ailments (like auto- immunes which have a huge emotional element) and neurological challenges. Vibrational healing addresses the whole of the human, every layer, not just the physical.

Your body is like an orchestra. You have a signature sound. It’s like mine; we are both human. Animals, trees, the earth etc have a different signature sound to humans. But your sound is unique to you. It’s a reflection of your lifestyle, your trauma load, your ancestry and is influenced by where you live. And each organ inside you and your bones, your muscles etc all have their own vibratory signatures, like an electrical signal. Now let’s say something is off. You have been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, that trauma load from childhood, which you have successfully dodged for 40 odd years, is starting to show cracks. Your life isn’t working the way it used to, and you suspect you can no longer ignore the toll it’s taken on your body.

So, like the 2nd violin in the string section of the orchestra, you sound off. Initially you only affect the violin section, but eventually the whole orchestra starts to sound wrong. We have several choices to fix this. We could drug you and numb you down, so we don’t hear that off bit anymore and you don’t negatively affect the orchestra. It’s a patch solution, doesn’t fix the problem but that’s the Western approach. We could use surgery and cut off your offending bit that sounds wrong. That would fix it for good, but you have paid the price, you’re missing a piece of you. Or we could give you back your sheet music to help you find and fix the missing vibratory signature and bring you back to wholeness so the whole of you is online again, vibrating at your perfect pitch and adding to the beautiful sound of the orchestra.

Put like this, it all makes sense. And that photo above of the starfish. That's Cymatics, which is the study of how Sound (or Vibration) shapes matter into intricate geometric patterns. Could you use Vibration to shape a better version of you? Come and join us, I’m filling fast! Yoga, Breathwork, Meditation, Ceremony, Chanting, Toning and Silence: we are using so many vibrational tools on this Retreat you’ll leave the Retreat like the finely tuned violin you deserve to be! Namaste Margot

18/01/2026

Dear students. So wonderful to be back on the mats practicing yoga with you all! Its YIN Yoga tomorrow: Mon 19/1/26 - Sat 24/1/26. All classes, all week. Bring your blocks and bolsters students for a delicious class of YIN. And our Meditation Schedule is on the website www.yogaunderthebodhitree.com.au. The meditation class. A normal yoga class with a slightly longer themed meditation drawing from the Vedic, Theravada, Mahayana, Vajyarana and Zen Buddhism. Cant wait!

15/01/2026

Balancing Energy with your Voice
A big part of our Silent Yoga Retreat coming up soon (https://www.yogaunderthebodhitree.com.au/yoga-retreats/)
on the 20/3 – 22/3/26 in Springbrook is finding tools and teachings you, the attendee, can take away from the weekend so that you keep up the changes and healing you will experience on this retreat. I love empowering my students and keeping it simple, and these Retreats continue to attract an amazing group of fellow yogis who continue to grow: in health, knowledge, spiritual depth and love. As every retreat is different, this group of yogis will find something, some teaching or practice that will keep them on that path of self-realisation. And growth as a human being, individuation, becoming who you were meant to be and stepping onto your true life path (dharma) is the most important thing we could do in this lifetime.

Vocal toning was one of those teachings that the first time I tried it (it was mantra chanting) I woke up the next day with these ancient, magical, deeply healing Sanskrit mantras reverberating in my head and I felt madly energised, like I had drunk several cups of coffee – bursting with energy. It was as if an old primitive memory had woken up and woken me up. I’ve never had any formal training in singing or music (actually my signing voice is terrible), although I do like public speaking and I know the power of words, so this idea of chanting out loud was fairly unique. But when the Universe beckons, I follow, and Nada Yoga was added to my teachings.

Nada Yoga means "union through sound." It is the ancient spiritual art and science of inner transformation through sound and tone. Meditation on sound is one universal path to self-realisation. This Retreat is all about resonance, vibration, your electrical field (your biofield) and frequency. So, we are using vocal toning, mantra and chanting to change your electric body. We've chanted mantra together heaps, but what is vocal toning?

Toning is the creation of extended vocal sounds on a single vowel in order to experience the sound and its effects in other parts of the body. No melody, no words, no rhythm, and no harmony - just the sound of the vibrating breath. This tool is free, you can haul it out anytime and elicit a form of healing, meditation, calm or peace for yourself. In fact, your voice is so powerful you could use that same tool to help others. Think of how our children loved us singing them to sleep. Your voice was their safety and comfort as they drifted off.

Vocal toning and humming also increases nitric oxide, which can reduce blood pressure, slow the heart rate, and slow brain wave speeds from high functioning beta to slower meditative states of alpha, theta, delta. Sound healing is not just about audible frequencies, but also about rhythms and the frequency of rhythms within the body. The breath is one of the most fundamental rhythms we can access for reducing stress and restoring peace within the body. When we’re singing, toning, humming, and extending the length of that sound, we are essentially extending the length of the exhale to be longer than the inhale.

Super exciting and so much fun! Hope you can join us! Love and namaste Margot

13/01/2026

This is for my Tuesday 9.30am Zamia Theatre students. Apologies for not making class. My car blew a hose coming up the mountain and I had to wait for the RACQ tow truck. An epic wait! Thank goodness for meditation and calming thoughts! Thank you Sarah and Janelle for passing on the message and to all of you for understanding! Everything is back to normal from tomorrow Wednesday 6pm and Saturday 8am. Love and hugs Margot