The Yoga Factory Sydney, 1 Booth Street, Annandale, Sydney (2025)

27/10/2025

Happy Birthday to Mick🤍

The one who started it all — who made The Yoga Factory a thing, shaped what it stands for, and carried this school — and so many of us — through everything.

Never one for illusions or performances, Mick has always taught with honesty, humour, and care — the old-fashioned way, the real way.

Even though he only teaches a couple of times a week these days, the essence of the school — the humour, the honesty, the discipline, the care — still carries his imprint.

He made it a place where people with real lives and real personalities roll out their mats and remember what’s worth showing up for. We’re endlessly grateful for that — and for so much more.

🖤 Thank you, Mick. Happy Birthday. We all love you.🕺🏽🐕

01/10/2025

For the month of September, our community committed to a 4-week Tapas Intensive. The intensive wrapped up on Sunday, and we just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who attended.

Some came every day, some two or three times a week—but what united you all was your dedication. It’s through regular practice that we build attention, concentration, and a deeper connection between body and mind.

Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras define practice as continuous and unbroken over a long period of time. It really is that simple. We hope the intensive has firmly grounded you in your practice and that you are beginning to notice a change in perspective—a pause between the constant wandering of the mind and a different view of this life experience.

Practice is like a bank account. As long as we make regular deposits, our balance improves. The moment we stop, we begin to draw more and more from our savings until, one day, it’s empty. Our practice works in much the same way. Depositing in your “yoga bank account” builds clarity, peace, concentration, compassion, selflessness, gratitude, love… the list is endless.

Our message: keep at it. You’ve done the hard work and established the foundations. Now, just keep it in your life. Don’t be the person who goes to the bank one day and finds the account empty—maintain it.

This past month with all of you was such a buzz. Our community was humming. Thank you, truly, to each and every one of you.

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Photo documentation excellence by Mick to be found in the carousel (:

05/05/2025

How do we act in the world with clarity and steadiness, even when we are uncertain? How do we stay connected to what matters most?

The Bhagavad Gita is one of yoga’s essential texts — a conversation on action, responsibility, and the nature of the Self. As part of Svadhyaya Series — a series of yoga philosophy workshops — we’ll gather for a two-hour workshop exploring the heart of this teaching: how to move through life with integrity, and how to practice not just on the mat but in every part of our lives.

You don’t need any prior knowledge to attend — just curiosity and a willingness to reflect.

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✨May 10, 3:30pm✨
led by Julian Boswell
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booking is essential via 🔗 in bio

22/04/2025

Digging Deeper - The Body as Archive

What stories live in the body? What memories, losses, beliefs, languages, and silences are stored in its tissues, gestures, and patterns of holding? How do we begin to read it — to interpret its signals, its silences, its loops and holding patterns?

This selection gathers five very different texts, each offering a way to approach the body not as an object to be fixed, but as a layered, intelligent presence that holds more than we often allow.

These books span disciplines: from trauma science to q***r memoir, indigenous ecology to classical yoga. Some are direct. Others circle around the unsayable. Together, they offer different ways of listening to what the body might be trying to tell us — and how practice can be a process of slow reading, careful rewriting, or sometimes just learning to stay with the page.

Because yoga doesn’t only happen on a mat.

It lives in how we notice, how we tend, how we relate to what is already here. Broadening the lens — reading across disciplines, perspectives, and voices — helps us return to the body with more nuance, more care, and more curiosity.

If you have books, ideas, or practices that resonate with this theme, feel free to share in the comments — we’re always interested to hear what others are exploring.

04/03/2025

Beyond movement, beyond breath—yoga is a way of seeing. A way of understanding the mind, the body, and the nature of action. Its philosophical roots run deep, and through them, practice takes on new dimensions.

This three-part workshops series is an exploration of yoga through its foundational texts: Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, the Bhagavad Gīta, and the Hatha Yoga Pradipika. Each session will offer a way into these writings—not as distant philosophy, but as something tangible, relevant, and applicable to our practice.

Julian will guide these sessions with his ever-evolving depth of study, making space for discussion, questions, and reflection.

Come for one or take all three as a complete study. All are welcome.

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First session:
✨March 22, 3:30pm – Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras✨

Following sessions:
May 10 – The Bhagavad Gita
June 28 – Hatha Yoga Pradipika

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booking is essential via 🔗 in bio

01/03/2025

We haven’t posted in a while, but we’ve been here, doing what we do, and not much has changed. Teaching, practicing, questioning, learning. The school is still here. Still still full of people showing up day after day, practice, leave, come back.

Yoga doesn’t need announcements. It just happens.

But if you’ve been looking for a reason to return, or a place to begin—this is it.

See you in class sometime, hopefully soon!

26/12/2024

Big big news is here🌼

After being in the making for a little while, our Yoga for Teens course is finally ready to commence on February 10.

This course will offer high school students (Years 7–12) a space where they can learn to manage the ups and downs of life, develop a strong body and a strong mind, and grow into their best selves.

It will allow to build the asana practice from the ground up and give an experience of how physical practice and breath control can be tools that can help manage the stress of exams, and friendships or feel more balanced in the face of uncertainty. It will also gain invaluable insight into the nature of the mind and teach tools for regulating the nervous system.

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💫starts February 10 💫
8 weeks — Mondays — 4:30 pm

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enrollment is essential via website 🔗 in bio

21/11/2024

Sunday, December 1 — TYF End-Of-Year Party 💚

All is quite clear with this one - We will come together, chat, laugh, drink, eat, and appreciate this thing called yoga.

Whether you’re our old studen, a newbie, one of those who moved away or lost track with yoga, a friend or family, please come! Everyone is welcome!

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Sunday, December 1 — 5pm
at The Lady Hampshire
RSVP via 🔗 in bio

15/10/2024

Thankfully, every asana within the system of yogasana has a variation. Gone are the patriarchal systems of yoga in which the students were guided (encouraged, pushed, forced) to fit into these at times difficult asana. Not everyone is the same in size and shape. Most students do not have the god-given space to be able to achieve the asana without struggle.
Experience shows us that until we can work out or work into a posture, it is advisable to try variations. Variations allow us to approach the asana in a different way - a way more suitable for our lack of space, strength or flexibility. The truth is some asanas will never be for us but it’s useful, in the scheme of things, to endure adversity a little whilst we at least try different ways. For most, we want everyone to be safe. And allow all to feel that we care enough to take the time to show modifications of postures so the students feel like they can do this. That they can—maybe via a variation—work into the full posture one day.

This last workshop for the year is suitable for everyone. Yes, everyone: beginners, oldies, newbies, those with reoccurring injuries, everyone. Mick will take us on a trip through the postures that make us feel the struggle is real. What we are hoping is for you to learn how to modify your difficulties and remember how to implement them in the practice. The more we understand the contributions of all parts in asana, the more we can sit back, breath and observe ourselves in the practice. This is a very important goal. So anything we can do to give the asana more balance with effort and ease the more we can get to the important work of concentration and eradicating the many things that keep us on the hamster wheel of mind entanglement.

Join!

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Sunday, December 1 — 9-12pm
taught by Mick
book via 🔗 in bio

13/08/2024

On Friday, August 16, Julian will teach a 90-minute restorative class as our little school is being filled with sound by .ileto .

We are honored, delighted and think we were extremely lucky to get a hold of Corin before she hops on another plane and is off touring the world.

Don’t miss out. Get in early.

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Corin is a Filipina-Australian electronic producer, composer, DJ and performer working in the field of performance art, sound design, theater and club spaces. Her productions are an assemblage of converging styles moving somewhere between trance, and baroque-laden ambience. In her compositions, traditional forms merge with hyper-digital sounds to create new imaginary realms. Coming from a background in classical piano, Ileto is interested in creating a sonic space in which western classical music can be hybridized with contemporary electronic production and non-western forms.

Corin has performed around the world at major festivals such as Berlin Atonal (Berlin), Optimismo (Kaunas), CTM Festival (Berlin), Lunchmeat Festival (Prague), L.E.V. Matadero (Madrid), Robot Festival (Bologna), W.O.S. Festival (Santiago de Compostela) and has performed at locations such as Muziekgebouw (Amsterdam), Berghain and Kraftwerk in Berlin and also at Palais de Tokyo (Paris).

Based in Sydney, she has garnered praise across Australia, and has performed and presented work at festivals and institutions including Unsound Festival (Adelaide), Soft Centre Festival (Sydney), Carriageworks (Sydney) and the Sydney Opera House.

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🌚Friday, August 16 🌚
6pm — taught by Julian

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booking is essential — spots are limited

no additional fees for monthly pass holders / 30$ drop-ins

30/07/2024

Whilst all of us here in Sydney are braving the cold, the gusting winds and other unpleasant manifestations of winter, Mick find himself in the wilderness of , teaching, pondering, philosophizing. There is practically no reception there but he climbed a big rock and sent us his musings from deep in the jungle.

“It’s summer here, much dryer and warmer than the wet season I am used to. There is a beautiful wind that blows through the jungle from daybreak to sunset and carries the sound of a million breathing living things. At dusk last night, which is my favorite time, I stumbled across the herd of elephants🐘, 30 in total. They appeared from nowhere. I stood frozen, so as not to be seen as a threat. They marched in small groups, mother father and babies not 20 feet from me. It was both exhilarating and frightening. This place is full of wildness. For the first time we had a rather large crocodile in our lake. How dare he. It took three attempts feeding him live chickens until he was caught and are-homed somewhere far away, I hope.

My practice and the guests’ practices are going well. My day consists of sunrise waking, practice asana, pranayama and meditation. Students come at 8am and do the same. Morning practice is strong,rajasic and afternoons are slow, time for involution and trying to inquire into the cause of the effects that lead us to misery and sorrow. In between classes I’ve been self studying. Reading scripture, contemplating and searching for truths.

The teachings are given slowly to the students. A lot of them say: “Oh yes I’ve done lots of yoga” but as we know they have not. Or if they have, it’s some hybrid nonsense. It makes me think of you all, dear students. How wonderful you are. How diligent , curious and committed.

We have many nationalities here once again. I have to talk slow or no one understands me😂Bloody Australians.

I wish some of you could experience these retreats. I try to inspire and encourage you all but to no avail. I shall not give up.

I think of you daily and wish you all well.

Much love,
Mick”

21/06/2024

We are coming to the end of our third week of the Strength Intensive.

It’s been nothing short of amazing to see all these people commit to a 6-day-a-week practice, to commit and to actually see it through.

There’s something powerful in the simplicity of repetition, in trusting the process, putting the hard work in and noticing, witnessing the quiet, steady improvements each day.

To those who keep at it - your progress is incredible🤍Believe us. There is newfound grace in your effort, mindfulness in the way you move and that special twinkle in your eyes, signaling the state of pure bliss that the practice gives us. Sometimes it is hard to gauge improvements because yoga is a practice of small gains. If you are after instant gratification, then you’ll be disappointed. This makes it all the more special.

You all are now witness to the fact that if we start our day regularly with some yoga, then our days, lives, relationships and outlooks are so much better.

Yoga is a shift in perception🌀

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