Sangha Yoga Studio

20/07/2025

Namaste 🙏
Our Term 3 Studio Timetable is here ✨

As we move through the stillness of winter, we invite you to come back to the mat — to breathe, to soften, to move in community, and to be held.

May this term’s offerings support you in exactly the ways you need. 🕊️

🌀 Class bookings via:
www.sanghastudiowagga.com
or directly here:
https://sanghastudiowagga.as.me/

Class Passes & Memberships:
🌿 3 Month Membership — $44 p/wk
🌿 5 Class Pass — $100
🌿 10 Class Pass — $180
🌿 20 Class Pass — $320
Valid for all regular classes

🌈 Explore all events & offerings via booking link in bio or our website:
https://www.sanghastudiowagga.com/blank-page

We look forward to sharing space with you this term — on the mat, in the breath, and in the heart of Sangha.

With love 🤍

15/07/2025

We are so excited to have join the Sangha family this term. Josie will be teaching two back to back classes on Tuesdays - 5:45pm Sun Flow & 7pm Restorative Yoga.

Josie’s Bio

Hi! I’m Josie.

Yoga Teacher and Student infatuated with the connection of Yoga to Life. Starting as a curious teen, my practice has ebbed and flowed with life ever since. It wasn’t until I delved deeper into Pranayama and Breathwork where (in the least cliche way possible) - everything changed.

I have completed training in Breathwork Facilitation, 200 Hr Traditional Ta***ic Hatha Yoga and more recently, 60 Hr Myofascial Release and Yin Yoga. All of which are practices that opened me up more deeply and honestly to my own inner world and as such; my connection to everything else. And that’s exactly what you can expect from me as a teacher: to show up with depth, honesty & a little bit of humour here and there too.

I offer grounded practices rooted in tradition, in unity with breath that are both deep and accessible. I can’t wait to meet you on the mat.

“Do you want to be flexible, or do you want to be free?”

Josie is also facilitating an event this Saturday afternoon at 2:30pm - Pause - An afternoon of deep rest.
Book via link in bio

14/07/2025

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN...?

What would happen
if you removed the word ‘anxious’
and just paid attention
to these flickering sensations in the belly?

What would happen
if you took away the concept ‘lonely’
and simply became fascinated
with this heavy feeling in the heart area?

What would happen
if you deleted the image ‘sick’
or ‘broken’ or ‘bad’
and just got curious about
the tightness in the throat
the pressure in the head
the ache in the shoulders?

What would happen
if you stopped looking for solutions
and checked to see
if there was actually a problem here?

Come out of the exhausting storyline, friend.
It’s not true. It was never true.

Commit sacred awareness to a single living moment.
Come closer to yourself, Now.

Bring warmth to the tender places inside.
Infuse sensation with the light of attention.

It’s never as bad
as you think.

– Jeff Foster

06/07/2025

Winter is the season which calls us to turn inwards, reflect, and conserve our energy.

It is not uncommon to feel depleted and stagnant this time of year. With the freezing morning weather urging us to just stay warm in bed just a little longer, the lack of sunlight leaving us feeling unmotivated, and the shorter days making it harder to fit things in, it's no wonder we can feel exhausted.

💫 Yin yoga offers us guidance to press pause, give ourselves permission to slow down, and receive rest 💫

The stillness and silence that is created within a Yin practice offers a deeper layer of space for us to drop into and rest. The nervous system can breathe a sigh of relief as we finally allow ourselves to stop "doing", and instead we can simply "be".

When we are constantly "doing" and forever "on the go", the nervous system switches to its fight/flight mode in order to sustain the energy that these states require. This fight/flight mode opposes the rest/digest mode, which then leaves us feeling tired, restless, and often causing digestive issues over time.

Stay suspended in the fight/flight mode for too long, and we eventually switch over to "autopilot" - we are no longer in our body. We are existing above the neck only.

Here are 3 reasons why Yin is an excellent practice for winter:
✨ Yin is a meditative practice of yoga. Its very nature calls us in to presence, invites us to notice, and become more aware of the body's experience and sensations.
✨ Yin is an excellent practice to clear stagnation in the body's subtle energies, and to gently nourish and re-charge.
✨ Yin challenges the restless, fidgety energies that resist coming into stillness and present awareness. With consistent practice, we work that meditative "muscle", and leaning into present awareness becomes easier and more accessible with time and patience.

Let us know what you love about Yin Yoga in the comments below!

💫 "The power of Yin Yoga is time, not effort" 💫
- Paul Grilley

03/07/2025

03/07/2025

David is one of the many incredible teachers who have recently joined the Sangha family during this current Term Two. He is currently offering a 5:45pm Sun Flow on a Tuesday afternoon, and next term will be teaching a 6:30am Monday morning Sun Flow class.

💫•💫•💫•💫•💫•💫•💫•💫•

“Yoga is a learning for a positive and heartfelt life. Remembering the joy of being, letting go of what may bind us, and feeling into the gift of our existence.

My yoga classes borrow from the insights shown to me by various teachers over the last 20 years. An emerald field of gentle insight from numerous kind hearted souls.
Our movements into the asanas and our devotion to the moments when we unify body, mind and breath, is our focus. At such moments, the lotus of our heart opens & shines. We gain so much from this opening, and like a reciprocal wheel of light it spills from us into our community & feeds back to us with the soft light of connection.

May we feel & express kindness from our heart always.
Safe journey, Namaste.”
- David 💫

30/06/2025

“Yamas” - the first limb of the yogic-pathway.
The Yamas are our ethics for how we interact with the world.

Aparigraha, pronounced “Ah-puh-ree-grah-ah”, is the fifth and final Yama (yogic social ethics) is Aparigraha, which is interpreted as non-greed or non-attachment.

This ethic teaches us discernment of what is serving us within the present moment, to honour this thing that serves us, and allow all else to be let go.

What are some things we may unintentionally “attach” ourselves to in a yoga practice, which Aparigraha guides us to let go of?

🌿 Attachment to feeling a certain way after the practice -
The intelligence of the body will give us what we need from a yoga practice, which is not necessarily what we may have been wanting.

🌿 Attachment to what we “should” be able to do in the practice -
This may show up in comparing ourselves to the person on the mat beside us. We might feel we have to ‘do as well’ as they are, or become attached to certain ‘results’ of the practice.

🌿 Attachment to material things -
The yoga clothes with the highly esteemed brand name stamped on them... The expensive yoga mat... All of the ‘things we need’ to do our practice.

“Aparigraha offers us so much freedom - the freedom to work and do what we love without worrying about the outcome, the freedom to rely less on external and material possessions to bring us happiness, and the freedom to experience everything life has to offer, whatever that may be.
See what happens when you apply this yama to your life, what happens when you just let go?”
- Emma Newlyn, yogaeasy.com

26/06/2025

Join Karen Pike for a Mini Winter Retreat, as space to Rest & Recalibrate.

Acknowledging the energetics of the full moon through honouring and allowing the affects of these energies, to be felt, witnessed and nurtured in this deeply nourishing mini retreat.

Winter is a time for hibernation, gestation, for becoming quiet. And in the quiet, in the stillness, is an integration of the previous seasons. This day, through grounding and nourishing food and practices, is an honouring and recalibration, like preparing the soil for planting new seeds, we are preparing our internal landscape for the following season of spring, re-emerging as the energetics shift once again.

Mini retreat will include:
💫 grounding moon flow practice
💫 sharing circle
💫 outdoor nature meditation
💫 wisdom talk
💫 nourishing grounding lunch together
💫 yoga nidra
💫 journalling session
💫 yin yoga

What to bring:
💫 journal
💫 water bottle
💫 mats and props are provided but feel free to bring an extra blanket or pillow to personalise your space

✨ Details ✨
When: Sunday 10th August
Time: 8:30am - 2:30pm
Cost: $111
Book online: https://www.sanghastudiowagga.com/event-details/rest-recalibrate-mini-winter-retreat-with-karen

23/06/2025

Join Josie for an afternoon of Gentle Breathwork, Restorative Yoga & Nidra on Saturday 19th July 2.30 - 4pm.

In our fast paced & ever-changing world - This offering is an invitation to Pause. Through Breath, Restorative Yoga and Nidra, you’ll be guided into a state of rest that is not only physical, but emotional and energetic.

This is an afternoon to soften the edges, to release effort and to reconnect with the constant, grounded presence that exists within you. Beneath the roles, to-do lists, and the pace of daily life.

All are welcome. No experience necessary.

I can’t wait to see you there.
Josie x

💫 Details 💫
When: Saturday 19th July
Time: 2:30-4:00pm
Cost: $35
Book online: https://www.sanghastudiowagga.com/event-details/pause-an-afternoon-of-deep-rest

15/06/2025

✨ Yin Yoga 25hr Continued Education Training with Lyssa Breeze ✨

Join Lyssa for a journey into the deeper language and practice of Yin Yoga.

In this 25hr Yoga Alliance Certified training you will learn:
✨ How to work with different body types, modifications for poses and correct use of props including working with injuries and pregnancy
✨ How to assist students so they can experience more depth in their practice using yoga bodywork techniques
✨ How to sequence to different themes and philosophies depending on the time of year, month and day
✨ Anatomy of the physical (fascia) and subtle body (chakras, meridians, koshas and the 5 vayus)

This training is for anyone (teachers or students) interested in deepening their knowledge of yin yoga.

✨ About Lyssa ✨
Lyssa Breeze has been teaching yoga since 2013. Her fascination with the body both physically and energetically has lead her to train with an eclectic range of teachers including Pandit Rajmani, Ana Forrest, Jambo Truong, Rod Stryker, Mantak Chia, Tiffany Cruickshank and Octavio Salvado

Lyssa strives to make her teachings relevant to the people in the room. Her style is inclusive, practical and very experiential.

✨ Details ✨
Dates: 10th - 13th July inclusive
Price: $1250
(Payment plans available. Please contact us for more info.)
Book online: https://www.sanghastudiowagga.com/event-details/yin-yoga-25hr-cet-training-with-lyssa-breeze
ONLY 3 SPACES LEFT

✨ FREE Info Session via Zoom on Wed 18th of June ✨
See here to RSVP & for more details: https://www.sanghastudiowagga.com/event-details/free-yin-training-info-session-online-via-zoom-2