The Mindful Yoga School

26/01/2026

COMING UP
Thu 5th - Sun 8th March

Yoga & Meditation Retreat for Calm + Stillness with Erin Lee
Chenrezig Institute, Eudlo Sunshine Coast

Option to truly immerse yourself and add on accommodation and meals onsite at Chenrezig OR register for $300 and come and go each day/byo meals.

Bookings via Chenrezig Institute website.

12/01/2026

Join me this year for a steady, yet spacious rhythm of yoga and meditation practices and half-day retreats, plus book club, and more.

Leave me a comment and I’ll send more details.

03/01/2026

Our focus this year is doubling down on personal yoga and mediation practice — and supporting you to do the same.

Why?

✅ Consistent practice changes us in ways nothing else can.

Not the occasional retreat.
Not another certification.
Rather the quiet, regular act of returning — to the mat, to the breath, the natural state of our spacious and vast mind.

✅ In a world that rewards busy-ness and encourages distraction, practice is an act of radical courage, and a transcending devotion to yourself AND the world around you.

✅Devoting to our personal practice keeps us honest about how we're meeting our lives.

Life is ever-changing. We are ever-changing.
Are we meeting the moments with authenticity? Care? Heart?
Or just a busy mind, self-preservation and survival strategies? One brings separation and disharmony.
The other brings connection and peace.

✨Sādhanā '26 is an invitation to commit — not perfectly, but sincerely — to a year of yoga & meditation practice. Led by Erin Lee and supported by Sādhanā community, structure, and rhythm.

You'll combine direct experience (asana, pranayama, meditation) with philosophical study (book club, group discussions) to deepen your understanding of Self.

All available in person (Currimundi) or via live-stream/recordings.

➡️Weekly class with additional online class journey.
➡️Monthly half-day retreats (most are in silence until morning tea)
➡️Quarterly book club
➡️Online yoga and meditation library
➡️Shared inquiry via in-person & online community

This is NOT about adding more!

Instead creating physical and mental spaciousness, for a year of less confusion, doubt and distraction, and instead more clarity, contentment and freedom - no matter what the year brings.

✨ Sādhanā ’26 is now open: A year-long yoga & meditation immersion for those ready to practice with intention.

Already 70% full (due to limited venue space for those partaking in-person).

- Program Orientation is next Mon 12th Jan 6pm online.
- First community practice is Wednesday 14th January, continues weekly.
- First half-day retreat is Sunday 25th Jan 8am-12pm.

Link in comments.

26/12/2025

A gentle first morning teaching Yoga for Presence at with the incredibly sweet sounds of .108 and .relaxation.music

See you out there! Dec 27-Jan 1.
I’ll be offering the following sessions:

Coming up:

MON 29
Yoga for Wisdom
6.00am 7.00am
Bazaar

TUES 30
Yoga for Bliss
7.30am 8.45am
Arbour

WED 31
Giving Thanks ‘25 and Planting
Karmic Seeds ‘26
7.45am 9.00am
Village Green

WED 31
Book Club Session
The Little Book of Big Intentions
3.00pm 4.00pm
Library

See you out there!

22/12/2025

Giving Thanks ‘25 & Planting Karmic Seeds ‘26 with Erin Lee Tenzin Choegyal and Tenzin Kunsang.

How has the past year shaped me - through both ease and difficulty?

Because of the past, what matters most to my heart as I move forward?

No matter what unfolds in 2026, may you find peace and freedom through the way you choose to respond.

Thanks Josh Lovegrove for the awesome production and the 📸, event sponsors Yoga Australia , to all the volunteers welcoming guests, pouring chai, and dropping gifts, and to you if you joined us for this 6th annual year of this end-of-year event.

12/12/2025

Sunday 21st December
Giving Thanks '25 & Planting Karmic Seeds '26
Final tickets!

https://events.humanitix.com/giving-thanks-25-and-planting-karmic-seeds-26

Give thanks for the journey of 2025, and sow beneficial intentions for the future year 2026, in a very heartfelt, connecting and embodied way - including a gentle yang and slow yin session guided by Erin Lee featuring an incredible 90-minute unique sound offering by ARIA award-winning Tenzin Choegyal.

Tenzin Kunsang will also be accompanying Tenzin Choegyal, and offering a Tibetan dance for purification and an obstacle-free 2026. Bring that on!

SUNDAY 21st DEC, 5pm - 730pm.
Arrive from 430pm onwards to settle in and enjoy a cup of chai.

Big thanks to event sponsor Yoga Australia.

Give thanks for the journey of 2024, and sow beneficial intentions for 2025 during this yoga-live music offering with Erin Lee and Tenzin Choegyal.

22/09/2025

The Yoga for Awakening Presence online course with Erin Lee is just $9 until next week only (save $88).

You’ll establish a consistent, nourishing daily yoga practice, feel more present and connected, and open to fresh perspectives and new possibilities.

Plus you'll have a whole whole week's worth of yoga videos you can practice to again and again!

Getting started is simple:

✔️ Register here: https://www.themindfulyogaschool.com/yoga-for-awakening-presence
✔️ Watch the introductory videos
✔️ Begin your first practice whenever you’re ready
✔️ Receive a new guided yoga video each day for 7 days plus compassionate accountability from Erin.

This 7-day online yoga program with Erin Lee is designed to help participants deepen self-awareness, open up to life as it exists now, thus awakening presence - through the practice of yoga.

22/09/2025

Biggest CONGRATULATIONS to these Sunshine Coast/Fraser Coast Yoga Teacher Trainees who have now completed all of their in-person training days AND most have graduated from the program today, coming soon to a space near you, supporting you to know the nature of your mind! 🙌

Enrolments now open for the November intake - a great way to commit to this practice that gives back 108 x more than you put in.

18/09/2025

Back in 2013, I said yes to a yoga teacher training program.

At the time, I wasn’t thinking about becoming a teacher. I simply wanted to go deeper into the practice that had given me so much.

The training itself was incredible. But what I couldn’t have imagined—even as I graduated—was where saying yes would take me.

I'm feeling reflective today, and I hope you don't mind me bringing you along the ride with me, savouring some of the milestones (so far!):

🕉️ the collaborations
🕉️ the travel
🕉️ the community
🕉️ the music
🕉️ the discipline
🕉️ the nerves!
🕉️ the creativity

And, most of all, the bucketloads of trust it took to step forward each time.

If you are also feeling called to deepen your own personal immersion into yoga, you know that all I've got to say to you is go for it!

Who knows what's on the other side of the yes!

There are some incredible teachers around offering teacher training programs.

And if you feel it's me that you'd like to train with, I'm running a program starting this November.

(at this stage, I'm unlikely to be running a 2026 teacher training program)

If you want another recommendation then please ask!

With gratitude to all my yoga teachers along the journey, and my 'undercover teachers' who have helped awaken my inner Knowing.

28/08/2025

Toward the end of her Yoga Teacher Training studies a few years back, Faieza wrote an article sharing how her new level understanding of compassion has not only completely changed her approach to her yoga practice - it has completely changed how she approaches her whole life.

You'll love the examples Faieza gives to remind us all that yoga isn't something you 'do - it's a whole way of being.

Here's one of our favourite quotes from her article:

"...I've learnt that rigidity and stability are not synonymous - rigidity actually prevents adaptability and growth."

Thank you for sharing your wise insights Faieza!

In this article Yoga Teacher Training graduate Faieza shares how her new level understanding of compassion (ahimsa) has completely changed her approach to her yoga practice - and life.