Kyo Yoga & Healing

18/09/2025

Are you interested in learning Vedic Meditation? This is a simple and unique practice that can bring clarity and inspiration to life. You may have tried other meditation techniques before that haven't resonated.
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Are you interested in learning Vedic Meditation? This is a simple and unique practice that can bring clarity and inspiration to life.

13/09/2025

India 2026 Bookings Now Open!
Join this carefully curated immersion to the enchanting west coast of India, exploring Yoga practice and philosophy with Jill Harris and Dani Pritchard.
More info below.

A special experience of Yoga in India whilst exploring the West coast of India and retreating at the beautiful Swaswara Wellness Resort.

08/09/2025

Practising yoga in the later stages of life often needs a particular approach.
Acknowledging that the body is changing is an essential part of the yoga journey so finding ways to adapt and support accordingly is important.

In taking this workshop I aim to inform women about appropriate practice choices for their bone health and changing structure.

We will explore
- A brief overview of Osteoporosis and its stages
- Appropriate ways to maintain structure in Yoga practice
- An exploration of common yoga poses and their adaptions for Osteoporosis and Osteopenia
- A 60 minute yoga practice including Yoga Nidra focusing on bone health

Conducted at Samana Yoga in Queenscliff by Jill Harris, Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapist.

Cost: $75
Bookings via Samana Yoga.

Only a few spaces left.

05/09/2025

Keramas Sunrise… inspiration. 🧘‍♀️

28/08/2025

What's Coming Up? Click on the link below for India Retreat 2026, Yoga and Osteoporosis Workshop and Yoga Teacher Training 2026 details.
https://mailchi.mp/da9df16f151f/what-coming-up

27/08/2025

What does Space look like in our yoga practice? And why is it important?

Space or Ether is the basic principle in which everything else arises.
We quickly feel a lack of space. Dukham.

✴️ The first aspect of space is the environment we practice in. Is there restriction around us that prevents freedom of movement?

☀️ The breath tells us if we have adequate ‘internal space’. If it is too short there will be a feeling of ‘threat’ to the nervous system or an inability to coordinate movement well.

🪷 The body. Restriction in a joint. Muscular tension. A holding pattern that might want to release but isn’t yet ready.

💫 Mind. Busy thoughts, distraction, not being able to focus on instructions. Yoga is a discipline of the Mind.

Without an experience of Space in practice we become tied to the ‘doing’ as though we need to achieve something. Rather we should acknowledge ‘what is’ and work gently with it - befriend it and offer some guidance to the restriction.

Space isn’t separate to us - it is our intrinsic internal experience and how we perceive it will lead to the practice outcome.

All of this internal realisation falls under pratyahara - the withdrawal of the senses. The fifth limb of the eightfold path.

Pratyahara is where we acknowledge the effect of space as we shut out sensory stimulation and come into the ‘bridge’ between outer and inner experience.

Stepping out of practice with new understanding - a taste of freedom. 🌸

29/07/2025

This Saturday 3.00-5.30pm.
A couple of spots still available in this workshop with Jill. Also via Zoom and recording available.

This workshop explores yogic tools to assist with sleep as well as bringing an understanding of the nervous system and how it responds to a change in breath patterns and body movements. 💫🛌

We can actively assist the body and mind to receive better rest through learning via these ancient wisdoms.

Discussion and practice will be part of this session including restorative yoga and iRest Yoga Nidra.
Take home breath practices provided.

In studio $75 / online or recording $55.

Book via kyoyoga.com.au/timetable


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14/07/2025

Interested in practising yoga but unsure where to start?

This basics class acknowledges individual starting points and builds on asana practice via gentle movement, breath awareness and relaxation.

Suitable for bodies that don’t have specific injuries and move relatively well. Modifications are always offered. 🌟

A great class to kickstart or return to practice.
Beginning Monday 21st for 8 weeks. 6.45pm-7.45pm. 🧘‍♀️

Click on link to book in bio or contact jill@kyoyoga.com.au

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12/07/2025

Yoga Therapy is not Yoga.

Yoga Therapy addresses individual needs via the various layers of the human being. Physical form, energy, emotions, mind and traits.

When i work one on one with a person there is a particular observation that takes place, not just in the physicality of that person but beyond to the deeper needs or presentations that may be affecting their ability to live harmoniously.

Much of this is established through conversation, observation, sometimes pulse reading and always listening. Often that which isn’t said is what reveals a deeper need. 😌

Unlike a ‘quicker fix’ modality, Yoga Therapy has both short and long term goals - its first concern is pacification of whatever is causing suffering. After this it is possible to work with a longer term goal.

An example is someone who comes to me with neck pain that is preventing them from living fully. The first step is to pacify the pain before eradicating - along with any mental projections that pain is causing. A step by step approach.

We are multi layered beings and this needs to be honoured for true healing to occur. 🌻

Space is a big part of this. When there is suffering there is no space. When space is offered and received many possibilities can open up.
Sometimes the breath alone begins this opening of space. A change in the mind is often the result. 🧘‍♀️

Whether it is working with trauma, anxiety, lack of confidence, or physical manifestations and illness, Yoga Therapy has an array of tools that can bring a person back to living with harmony. Finding the right tools for that person is the key, and this is where many years of observing and listening are of service.

After 23 years as Yoga Teacher and many of these as a Yoga Therapist working individually and on various research trials, the ability to observe is my main focus. No judgement, no preconceptions, and no prescriptive approach. Just the individual in front of me. 🙏

To find out more about Yoga Therapy and its benefits head to
kyoyoga.com.au/yoga-therapy/

Jill ☀️

09/06/2025

https://mailchi.mp/d6a6696692b2/workshops-for-winter

Nurture yourself into Winter. Book Now for Moving with Mantra and Restorative Sleep Workshop. Looking to step into a practice that is healing and suited to your body - an individualised yoga approach? Yoga Therapy bookings available now.

26/05/2025

A weekend of retreat and nourishment away from routines and expectations. 🌻🍁🪾
So fulfilling being with this group of women exploring the elements of nature through the lense of Yoga and Ayurveda.

Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space. And their manifestation in our bodies.

Our disconnection from nature is often a root cause of suffering so understanding that we are Nature itself sets a freedom and acknowledgement that we are change, each of us unique.

As we change, so does our yoga practice. We begin the movement into something more supportive, with an energetic foundation that aligns us with our evolution as a being of nature. 🌖

Pratyahara - the withdrawal of the sense was explored through Vedic mantra, visualisation, asana and pranayama. All leading back to the source. ☀️

Bodies fueled by the delicious meals of along with sound medicine from Shohn at 🙏 and the beauty that is Hepburn Springs. 🌿

I’m forever grateful to the Krishnamacharya teachings that apply a wholistic and therapeutic view of yoga where each person is encouraged to meet their own practice according to their needs. A true gift in a world of often standardized yoga practice. 😔🧘‍♀️

Om Santi Santi Santih 🕊️

14/05/2025

How many shades of green exist in the world?
This is a question I often reflect on via this view from my yoga room. It is impossible to count them all even in this photo.

Although yoga is ultimately a pathway to sitting with an internal landscape rather than an external one, we cannot deny the role of the senses in determining how we begin on that path. Sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. We are always being led outwards.

As you look at this photo, it is one dimensional. In reality you would be feeling the light warmth of the sun, hearing the cacophony of birds feeding from the seed pods on my palm tree and feeling the movement of breeze or air through the open window.

Our senses play a role in how we experience life. So placing them in an environment where we find wonder, see beauty and connect with our place in a wider world is going to lead the mind down a holistic pathway.

Expansion over internalisation.

There is so much evidence now around then benefits of nature as a way of 'clearing the clutter' or providing a greater view beyond our internal chaos. When we clear the junk in the mind first, we can then begin the step inwards in a more functional and positive way.

Although we may not always have a view like this to focus on, our yoga practice can draw on sensory experience for our internal benefit.

It's called 'bhavana' - a visualisation or feeling that we acquire from focusing on something external - usually from nature's inspiration. The moon, a flower, a beach or this view.

What we create in the mind, becomes embodied. We use bhavana to bring a particular feeling or flavour to practice.

Needing inner strength or energy - use the sun. ☀️
Needing nourishment or inner retreat - use the moon. 🌕
Reducing pain or discomfort - moving water. 🌊

Nature provides us with an endless choice of focuses that can change a mindset, an emotion, an attitude or unhelpful belief. This is where we move beyond the physicality of yoga to a deeper resonance and experience of what the practice can really offer.
Finding what resonates for you is part of the journey.

Be adventurous in your reflection.
Don't underestimate what the outside world can give to the inside. ⭐️