Kyo Yoga & Healing

02/01/2026

Three day intensive begins today. Practising through the Kriya yoga model - tapas (the purification), svadhyaya (reflection and mantra) and Isvara pranidhana (surrender to the higher force). 🌼🧘

02/01/2026

Solitude gives birth to the original in us ~ Thomas Mann

💫 What does it take to return to the ‘original’? We spend most of the day in disconnection from the truly original within us. The layering of life easily forms us as we take on roles, attitudes, protections, practices that pull us into an outward motion… away from centre...

🧘‍♀️ Yoga as a discipline and a practice offers a return to wholeness. By definition the word yoga means ‘to yolk’ - indicating a linking of two things, a merging and reclaiming of a centre we have moved away from.

🌺 The practice doesn’t ask us to be a particular way when we start out but rather to integrate steps that lead us in a direction of inner healing, uncovering an invisible but felt source where our own truth resides.

🌖 Coming out of practice can be like the wiping away of cobwebs or dusting away of a residue. We may have operated at a particular level of ‘ok’ with the residue - yet once it is removed we see the full potential of what exists underneath. A glimpse of this ‘original’ in us becomes the drawcard that leads us back into practice, to once again return to the source.

☀️ This journey to the ‘original’ is a solo endeavour. How amazing that we can be in a class with other people yet still have an innately individual experience! The collective focus or harmony of the group can aid this journey.

🪷 Without doubt we have to make this return to solitude consciously, over and over - we cannot sustain it indefinitely. This is the human nature and a product of living in the world. The tools of practice - body, breath and focus of mind become the pathway. And once we learn these pathways we have them for life. Each return a new birth back to self.

👑 Solitude is our reset.

22/12/2025

Wishing all a wonderful Festive Season and time for space and reflection.
Join me for these three carefully curated practices to welcome in the New Year. In studio almost full. Online also available. 🙏⭐️

Merry Christmas to all. Book now to secure your spot in the New Year Yoga intensive - in studio and online with recording available.

06/12/2025

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali gives us great insight into Yoga and how we can step into receiving more juice from the practice. More info in this latest blog.
Jill x

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali presents wisdom paths for practising and guides us to reap the benefits of Yoga.

04/12/2025

Intention is the beginning of yoga practice.
We don’t arrive with the first breath or asana.
Our arrival into the process starts much earlier. ✨

Intention begins outside the practice space. Maybe the night before or when we rise in the morning. Maybe weeks before as we sign up for that course or term.

Intention flows all the way through to the final point of savasana in each practice. Or the namaste we recite at the end. And then it begins again.

Intention breeds commitment.
In itself it is a practice in discipline. A collecting of the fractured energy of the mind into a decision and an arrival.

What drives intention? Many things. In yoga we link it to relationship with self. The quest for sitting a little deeper in your own seat. The removal of the clutter. 😶‍🌫️

Stepping in to practice we find the obstacles are still with us. A distracted mind. A stiff body. The to-do list. Past memories floating in.
All is welcome on the mat.
And as soon as the distraction rises, the intention floats in behind it. Ah… I remember why I am here!
I am taking a step forward. 🙏

In Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras the very first sutra talks about arriving into the practice with intention - atha! It goes on to describe yoga as a step forward onto a path that must be followed ‘anusasanam’ in relationship… between teacher and student. A journey that has many layers and challenges but rewards those who can maintain the process. ☀️

In life as in yoga, intention rises before action. It is a plan, a hope, even a soft and unspoken maybe… it is the beginning of a path that guides us forward - an eternal beginning and a first step.

Intention is an interwoven link with all our actions. Foundation. 💗

25/11/2025

Join me for three mornings after New Year to recharge and restore after the Christmas chaos. Breath centred practices focusing on new beginnings and releasing old cycles. In studio and online.

Dates: January 2,3,4.
Times: 8am-9.15am Flow.Restore 9.30am-10.45am Gentle Yoga.

Bookings now open. Limited in studio space. More details via link.

Join me for 3 mornings of Yoga to welcome in the spirit of new beginnings and releasing of old cycles. Two separate morning classes will be on offer over these three days including Friday 2nd / Saturday 3rd / Sunday 4th January 2026. 8am-9.15am Flow.Restore...

12/11/2025

Latest newsletter with upcoming events...🌼

Vedic Meditation starts Saturday - bookings still open. View upcoming offerings in the Studio for the New Year plus register interest for upcoming retreats.

12/11/2025

The Therapeutic Space. ✨
There are so many stories in this room. It’s not just a space for group class but a place that holds the individual who comes seeking inner balance and re-connection through the tools that yoga offers.

This is the yoga therapy space.
Individualized practice….seeker and teacher…moving… breathing…chanting…laughing…wondering…sometimes simply listening. 🧘‍♀️

The journey to personal reintegration has many paths. Sometimes it needs a solo approach.
A space to practice or guidance for home practice.
All is possible. 🪷

I’m constantly in admiration of my clients who come seeking personalised practice. There is a desire for personal empowerment when we take the solo over the group path. It involves a deeper knowing or desire for change.

Sometimes it’s convenience, sometimes necessity. The outcome is liberating.

Yoga Therapy isn’t Yoga as you know it: nothing is prescriptive or done a set way. There is simply the understanding of what the person in front of me needs - at that time.
It is an approach that offers support, direction and hope for so many things that this bodily form encounters and its various needs.

Physical - Energetic - Emotional - Personality Patterns - Mental Impressions.
Stepping out of suffering.
Healing through self motivation and action. ⭐️

Discover more about the Yoga Therapy process at kyoyoga.com.au/yoga-therapy/

03/11/2025

The rebalance of the pranic energy in the garden after the rain. Nature reflecting back to us our internal state. 🌸🌧️☀️

27/10/2025

A unique opportunity to learn more about yourself through yoga and understand it as a complete philosophy.

This is not only a yoga teacher training program but a personal development process where you take time and space to experience Yoga as a lifestyle choice.

The scope of study is broad including:

🌟 Yoga and its physical postures and the methodology of designing practices

💫 Breath and pranayama - its functions including therapeutic benefits

🌱 Ayurveda and the elemental nature of our being and its links to Yoga

☀️Yoga as a philosophy of Mind and the origins of modern psychology via the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

🪷 Personalized practice and mentoring to embed the benefits into to daily life.

Face to face weekends once a month over 18 months plus some online and prerecorded modules taken at your pace.

These are classical Viniyoga teachings via the Krishnamacharya lineage, through the teachings of TKV Desikachar.
This approach embodies the view of the student as a unique individual - not a one size fits all process.

Applications close December 15 for end January start.

Click on link in bio or below for more information or get in touch with Jill for a detailed prospectus.

https://kyoyoga.com.au/yoga-teacher-training/ 🧘‍♀️

24/10/2025

What's Coming Up at the studio and beyond... New Yoga Teacher Training 2026, India Retreat only 2 rooms left and Vedic Meditation starting soon.

This is an opportunity to experience the magic of India whilst being held in the container of a yoga retreat with two experienced facilitators. October 2026 11 days / 10 nights Mumbai - Gokana - Goa  

05/10/2025

It was so wonderful to be invited to teach a workshop on Yoga for Osteoporosis for an eager group at Samana Yoga in Queenscliff yesterday. Thank you Kirsteen!

The ageing body faces many challenges that we can’t ignore.

Yoga as a practice is about reducing suffering, not creating it so learning ways of moving and modifying to best support the body is vital.

Yoga can be beneficial if you have Osteopenia or Osteoporosis but learning how to move relative to your own bone density needs means you don’t increase the risk of fracture and hopefully begin to repair the bone loss - along with other treatments. 🦴

Some key points -

☀️ Opt for practices that stay and hold poses over constant movement. Building strength via our own body weight is essential.

✨ Remove strong flexion and extension postures in favour of more moderate ones.

🕉️ Learn to move in and out of forward bends without rounding the spine. Using wide arms instead of forward movement.

💫 Let go of deep twists particularly standing ones.

☀️ Learn to fully integrate conscious breath into your practice so that the torso can hold itself well and abdominal muscles are strong to support movement.

And there was so much more…🌈

If you are interested in learning more about bone health and how it applies to your yoga practice get in touch. ☺️