Great Ocean Healing Centre

27/06/2025

Book now - spots limited!

https://tickets.thewag.com.au/Events/Yoga-in-the-studio/Thu-Jul-3-2025-18-00

17/10/2023

“I get razed, frayed, broken edges often as a quiet-seeking introvert roaming a planet that celebrates noisy ‘more-ness’. My first yoga Nidra experience taught me the skills I didn’t know I could have to soothe and calm these edges leaving me feeling as though I’d been lovingly put back together by the most caring of hands. Yoga Nidra is a powerful, gentle medicine I know now and such a gift.
Thankyou Peta.” KW

You’re welcome to join us on Friday 10th November at 7:30pm, booking link in Bio.

Hari Aum Tat Sat

-yoga

10/09/2023

Impart Wisdom ~ Part 3 of 3.

This one I've been contemplating for a while since this conversation took place. Isn't it funny how we overthink these things, which returns me to David's last point of 'Lighten Up'.

So here I go...
Wisdom to me is born from action, reflection, and change.

When you don't reflect, you miss the chance to understand and forgive yourself, when you don't forgive there is no growth, no change, only hindsight and we live in the same old, same old.

It reminds me of A Poem from The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - Sogyal Rinpoche.

I walk down the street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I fall in.

I am lost, I am hopeless.

It isn't my fault.

It takes forever to find a way out.

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I pretend I don't see it.

I fall again.

I can't believe I am in the same place.

But it isn't my fault.

It still takes a long time to get out.

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I see it is there.

I still fall in, it's a habit.

My eyes are open.

I know where I am.

It is my fault.

I get out immediately.

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I walk around it.

I walk down another street.

Sogyal Rinpoche 🙏

Holding hands with vulnerability and curiosity I ask, what is wisdom to you? If you could impart any wisdom in this lifetime what would it be? Can you comment?

Hand on heart, mine would be FORGIVE ~ LET GO ~ LOVE ~ LAUGH ~ FORGIVE ~ LET GO ~ LOVE ~ LAUGH ~ FORGIVE ~ LET GO ~ LOVE ~ LAUGH on repeat.

Thank you David XO

Hari Aum Tat Sat
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05/09/2023

If you need some support with pelvic pain management then this is your go to event.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2022, Jean Hailes for Women's Health week. Is Australia’s largest event dedicated to the health and wellbeing of all women, girls and gender-diverse people.

This year's the theme is Grow your knowledge. It's all about supporting women to make informed decisions about their health with information that's easy to understand.

Physiotherapists Jess & Bri are running a Pelvic Pain workshop alongside Peta Jolley from Great Ocean Healing Centre to deliver a wellbeing workshop with the focus on mind body connection and giving you the tools to manage persistent pelvic pain.

You can find more information and book at www.greatoceanhealingcentre.com

05/09/2023

WARRNAMBOOL WELL-BEING DAY FOR WOMEN WITH CANCER

DATE: Sept 13th
TIME: 10am-2:45pm
LOVATION: The Green Room, Ground floor, Lighthouse Theatre, 185 Timor St.

This is a FREE event!

If you have had or have a diagnosis, this is just for you, come and treat yourself.

It’s going to be a beautiful day.

I’ll see you for some Restorative Chair Yoga, Breathing & Meditation.

Peta do

05/09/2023

Warrnambool wellbeing day for women with cancer
Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2023
Time: 10.00am – 2.45pm

Location: The Green Room, Ground floor, Lighthouse Theatre, 185 Timor St, Warrnambool

This free event has been organised by Counterpart, a service of Women’s Health Victoria, in partnership with staff of South West Healthcare, Barwon South Western Regional Integrated cancer Service, Warrnambool Icon Cancer Centre and a community member. Women who have experienced a cancer diagnosis (recent or in the past) are invited to come along and try some wellbeing activities and chat with other local women. You are welcome to bring a friend, partner, family member or carer along too.

Register by 5pm Wednesday 6 September. Go to counterpart.org.au/events/warrnambool-wellbeing-day/ or call 1300 781 500.



Counterpart is supported by the Victorian Government

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02/09/2023

How good is this SUN!

Part 2 of 3 part in this guidance for life spontaneous conversation with my friend and teacher David.

'Lighten Up!'

We get far too serious in our attachment to our identity, Vairagia.
How we 'should' be, need to be, and think we have to be. Blah blah blah. 😱

If we reflect on this saying, 'Lighten up' it may instantly lift your heart, it may spark an 'aha' feeling inside your mind, or it could really p**s you off and make you feel like crawling further into the dark to brew and stew. Either way, it has an impact, maybe one, that even if not well received, at first, once said can not be unheard.

I like to remind myself of impermanence most mornings when I wake, thankful for the light of the morning sun and for the deep dark of a restful night. We need both in this duality called Life, and it's easy to forget that we humans are impermanent, all this stuff is one big beautiful illusion.

Each breath, each heartbeat, each sound, thought, blink it's gone.

Sometimes to begin again and sometimes not.

We, as our true nature, are never-ending, never beginning, never lost, always found. When we can see things through those eyes, the eyes of the one who is seeing, a lightness, a release from attachment to which we cling to life and stuff may arise.

Either way, however, this insight lands with you right now, like it or not, it's good advice.

Thanks again Mr. Burgess

Hari Aum

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23/08/2023

You can find relief within this space.

Book In today and send any questions our way 🙏

15/08/2023

This education can be life changing.

If any of this rings bells for you come along and learn how you can help yourself and make some changes.

We will help you.

Peta X

26/07/2023

Move

What is the question here?

To move or not to move, that is the question.

It depends on what you are moving or not wanting to move.

I’m sure you’ve all heard the saying ‘move it or lose it’, and you know that sitting still for long periods of time at a desk or driving a car or watching Netflix with a bucket of KFC, over and over again, day in day out without any other form of physical movement that raises our heart rate or moves our muscles and makes us sweat, is a fast track to losing it.

In yoga we have Asana (pose) as a remedy for this type of physical stagnation; releasing wind, strengthening bones, and lengthening muscles, all while striking a pose. Moving your body in and out of each pose, time and time again, is a discipline; you may even consider yourself a disciple of Yoga, and if so, you know that moving your body to release identification to your body is a choiceless choice.

Then you have the mind, not an organ or a tissue, not a muscle or a bone. What is it? Where is it? What do we do with it?

Your mind is an activity of thinking, thoughts in all their glory running wild and untamed through your brain. Thinking is like riding a bucking broncho most of the time, hanging on for dear life not knowing that letting go of thought, this moving wild beast, is the path that will lead us home.

Chittavrittinirodha – The cessation of the fluctuations (movement) of the mind. Patanjali Sutra 1.2

When you learn to practice Dharana, concentration, through the practices of yoga, you can begin to tame the wild beast and reign it in and teach it to focus.

In the case of the mind, we need to find ways to slow it down and still it. As the body moves, the mind follows chatting away or daydreaming about KFC, distracting you from the present. You learn to use drishti points, yantra, mandalas, breath or mantra throughout your practices to train your mind to be as still as the body sitting in the asana. This takes time, and discipline.

You saturate the mind with the mind, the body with the body to go beyond them. It’s like when everyone else at the party gets blind drunk and you don’t, so you slip away when nobody is looking. The mind, busy chatting up the body, doesn’t even notice you’re gone, and you get to take home the Divine.

Move what needs moving, and train what needs training, to find the still quiet light shining within.

Hari Aum Tat Sat

23/07/2023

We breathe as we are, and as we are so shall we breathe.

The rolling swell of the Breath.

Your breath shows you, tells you when you are in shock, stressed, joyous, happy, grieving, or resting in deep peace.

Your breath rolls through like waves, you feel it, connecting you, from this life to the next, one moment after another, step by step. Your ocean of Prana, speaks to you in its own way as it wraps itself around your heartbeats, working together, finding a rhythm, and harmony.

Do you listen?

Have you listened today?

Pause, find, and follow your breath, let it lead you to your source, replenish you, release you from your stuckness, and build the path to your joy.

For a moment

Breathe

Can you hear its call?

There is still space in our Breathe and Restore Gatherings in August and September you are welcome to come along, the link too book is in our Instagram bio.

We look forward to breathing with you soon.
Hari Aum

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23/07/2023

We breathe as we are, and as we are so shall we breathe.

The rolling swell of the Breath.

Your breath shows us, tells you when we are in shock, stressed, joyous, happy, grieving, or resting in deep peace.

Your breath rolls through like waves, you feel it, connecting you, from this life to the next, one moment after another, step by step. Your ocean of oxygen, speaks to you in its own way as it wraps itself around your heartbeats, working together, finding a rhythm, and harmony.

Do you listen?

Have you listened today?

Pause, find, and follow your breath, let it lead you to your source, replenish you, release you from your stuckness, and build the path to your joy.

For a moment

Breathe

Can you hear its call?

There is still space in our Breathe and Restore Gatherings in August and September you are welcome to come along, the link to the book is in our Instagram bio.

We look forward to breathing with you soon.
Hari Aum

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