The Mindful Yoga School

10/08/2025

Down to the FINAL 87 COPIES of this lil beauty — and it won’t be reprinted as a standalone.

From here on, the book will only be available as part of the Box Set, paired with the guidance cards.

Order one of the final copies of the stand-alone book: https://www.themindfulyogaschool.com/store

They make cute and meaningful gifts for your yoga friends and teachers!

With gratitude to everyone who’s supported this book — may its intentions not only inspire your thoughts, but flow through your actions so you can live them fully, here and now.

31/07/2025

The Yoga Teacher Training Summer Immersive program is now open for early bird enrolment.

What a way to spend your summer... consistently getting on the mat, reading and living yoga philosophy, and connecting with a crew of others interested in this pathway too ☀

ENROL TODAY and receive the 22nd August retreat day (Sunshine Coast) totally complimentary (as well as securing the early bird rate for the yoga program).

Head to The Mindful Yoga School website for more info.

23/07/2025

Whether it's a day - or four, retreats are like a mega boost for our mindfulness practice. Here are a couple that are coming up at Chenrezig Institute, Sunshine Coast with Erin Lee:

🧘‍♂️ Fri 22nd August - Yoga & Meditation Retreat Day
https://www.facebook.com/events/1301977181589902

🧘‍♂️ Fri 24th - Mon 27th October - 3-night/4-day Yoga & Meditation Retreat Day for Calm + Stillness
https://www.facebook.com/events/687814837626350

17/07/2025

Trusting the process…

This year’s Yoga Teacher trainees are now embarking on practice teaching to their communities!

This step is naturally a bit daunting but it’s a massive first step to build confidence. AND an even bigger step into Seva, selfless service.

Getting out from under our own doubts and fears and looking outward and cherishing others, demonstrating kindness and presence for others, and being in service of others.

Without expecting anything back, the heart fills with joy, contentment, genuine happiness and the deepest sense of satisfaction, beyond any ‘goal’ or ‘achievement’.

So excited for the 22 teacher trainees between Sunshine Coast and Perth 🙌

If this journey is something you’re contemplating, early bird enrolments are now being accepted for the Nov ‘25 intake Sunshine Coast, with in-person training days held at the Wellbeing Centre Eudlo.

The more intensive/immersive nature of the Nov program means it’s perfect if you live afar and want to drive/fly in-out for the 4 x in-person training blocks.

10/07/2025

If you've registered for this weekend's Yoga + Meditation Retreat for Calm & Stillness with Erin Lee at Chenrezig Institute (Sunshine Coast), see you tomorrow!

🏠 Prior to 3pm: check into your room if staying onsite.

🧘‍♂️ 3pm: Welcome and Mindful Yoga (Wellbeing Centre)

🥗 5pm: Supper/dinner break (Big Love Cafe)

📿 7pm: Discussion and Meditation (Wellbeing Centre)

💤 9pm: Recommended bedtime. You'll be serenaded by the sounds of the forest as you drift off to sleep nice and early.

Have a question?
Best to email ask@themindfulyogaschool.com prior to 10am Friday morning.

Big love,

Erin 💚

05/07/2025

Join us next weekend!

✨You are warmly invited to attend the Yoga and Meditation Retreat guided by Erin Lee at Chenrezig Institute - Wellbeing Centre - Friday 11 July to Monday 14 July✨

During this 3-night/4-day Yoga + Meditation Retreat, you’ll participate in gentle embodied practices (asana, pranayama) and guided concentration and contemplative meditations, to reawaken/deepen your mindfulness and introspection practice for greater inner calm and stillness.

Throughout this retreat, you’ll be guided to maintain your mindfulness practice during all scheduled activities AND you’ll also be encouraged to maintain the practice between scheduled sessions. In honour of this, both Saturday and Sunday morning will be in noble silence (up until 12pm lunch break).

With plenty of space offered in the schedule, you’ll have time to enjoy the grounds of Chenrezig Institute, maybe even read one of the books located in the onsite library, or just have some time to yourself.✨

🙏 More information and registration here:
https://chenrezig.com.au/upcoming-events/yoga-meditation-retreat-for-calm-and-stillness-with-erin

26/06/2025

This year's Yoga Teacher Trainees (Sunshine Coast and Perth) are now half way through the 200hr program.

Trainees will soon be ready to run their community practice teaching classes and I'm bouncing-off-the-ceiling excited!

Not just for the teacher trainees...

But for all the people who are about to receive the teachings of yoga, through the lens of mindfulness.

Being a yoga teacher isn’t about performing or mastering complex poses.

(yes, you'll learn about the importance of physical postures—their alignment and intention)

The Yoga Teacher Training 200hr program trains you in holding space for others to have their own self-realisations. You have to get out of your own way (and your own "performance" habits, imposter syndrome and self-doubt) and instead turn your attention to others with your heart-full of compassion and service.

There's an art to this!

And it's learnable.

Enrolments Now Open for Nov '25 Yoga Teacher Training Intake

***NEW***
3-month immersive Yoga Teacher Training program now being offered with 4 x longer training blocks held on the Sunshine Coast.

Option to extend the at-home study practice components for up to 12 months to fit in with your other commitments. Make a start anytime from now.

Super early bird enrolment rate available until end of June ONLY!
(includes payment plan option)

Whether you dream of teaching, or simply want to deepen your yoga studies and personal practice (or both!) this program is an immensely rewarding one.

Program graduate Amanda shares her experience:

"An extremely rich training offering a deep dive into the Self.
There is an in-depth study of Yogic Philosophy, Mindfulness, Anatomy and Physiology, Sanskrit, as well as experiencing and learning about many other areas of yoga such as Yin and Pregnancy Yoga, Ayurveda, Sanskrit, Yoga Business... the list goes on and on!
Featuring many special guests, you are getting a collaboration of teaching from a highly skilled 'Yoga Hub' here on the Sunshine Coast.
I began this training with a desire for something greater from life and left with a supportive yoga teaching community, a group of like-minded friends, and the confidence to begin my teaching journey immediately after graduating."

Thanks for joining me in cheering on all the current Yoga Teacher Trainees and Graduates!

Big love,

Erin

11/06/2025

The upcoming Meditation & Mindfulness Teacher Training 110hr program blends ancient wisdom with modern science to help you deepen your own personal practice, while learning how to share the practices with others in a confident and authentic way.

The program starts with a 5-day immersion on the Sunshine Coast (Wellbeing Centre, Chenrezig Institute) June 24th - 28th and continues across 3-months online.

Drop a comment to receive the detailed course curriculum.

10/06/2025

If you stay up to date with the news of the world — such as the journey of the Madleen, the plight of Gaza, and other war and conflicted populations and environments, then you might be familiar with overwhelm.

It's why it can feel easier to turn away. Or react loudly fuelled by uncontained anger.

There's another way though — which helps everyone in the long run: Love in Action.

It's something you can do from exactly where you are.
Praying, meditating, speaking up, and wishing PEACE for every living being in suffering right now.

It requires sitting with/leaning into the heartbreak 💔. It's a very courageous — and radical act.

But when we take the time to do this, what we'll discover is the same war and conflict plays out in our own minds—it's a total battlefield of destructive thoughts, rising tensions, harmful weapons, and surging emotions that wish to seduce us to act rashly out of self-preservation.

Soften the inner conflict, and we can see more clearly how to act WITH PURPOSE —not reactivity (which only fuels the beast).

It's the solution the world’s decision makers need…to see beyond self-interest to something greater—a power rooted in love and connection, instead of greedy and finite land and resource grabs, and “power over”.

Put Love in Action now. Begin with familiarising yourself with your own mind. Create spaciousness and compassion within, and step into the world and speak up 🙌 armed not with reactive weapons but with true, transformative power.

This true power is rising - may our energy meet with it and grow it.

Energy flows where awareness goes.

Whether or not this message speaks to you today, may your find peace within, for the benefit of all.

Big love 🫶

09/06/2025

Join me for a 1hr 🙌 Pranafest inspired 🙌 yoga class at the WindanSea Currimundi (1a Buderim St) this Wednesday 930am. BYO yoga mat and $10.
No bookings, just show up!