Yoku Yoga

Namaste Yoku Community ✌🏻
Announcement ~ When the weather shifts to warmth in the evening we will recommence our practice in an outdoor setting, underneath the beautiful changing sky and delicious breeze. Until then, there will be no classes at the Ashgrove Bowls Club. Stay tuned to emails from Yoku and the updates on FB and IG 🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏻‍♂️🌿🌄

No classes during school holiday period Yoku Community 🍃 Be sure to get some home stretching and breathing prioritised from what you’ve learnt in practice 🧘🏻‍♂️🧘🏻‍♀️

Hello there! For those who are new to Yoku Yoga and are just joining our yoga family, I thought I’d share a little about me...Your teacher and creator of Yoku Yoga ~ I’m Alex 👋🏻

I started my yoga practice with great hesitation at the end of 2013. I was very nervous about it all and not confident I could even “do it” as I had been suffering with a chronic back problem for 14 years. I had no flexibility, couldn’t touch my knees when standing up. That little bend was not an option 😬 I had been to every kind of doctor and healer. Had all the tests. Nothing was really “wrong” and yet that was not how my body was feeling. Soooo...yoga was next on the list. Honestly it felt like the last resort. And if it wasn’t the last resort, maybe I wouldn’t have stuck at it! I kind of just gave myself all the time in the world because I felt there was nothing else I could try to help heal myself.

I must say, I was doing a lot of inner work alongside this. I was changing my thought patterns, my long standing beliefs that no longer served me. It was not just a physical problem and I knew that. My physical self was a manifestation of my thoughts and associated vibrations and I became highly aware that my yoga practice was complementing the “real work” which was an inner job.

Moving my body in yoga was hilarious. I was so clunky (still am a bit 😂😂) and felt unsure and worried I would hurt myself. I was of course highly frustrated with not being able to “do the poses” but listened intently to my teachers always saying things like, “This is YOUR practice. Don’t compare yourself to anyone else in the room”. The thing....THE THING....that really kept me around the camp fire (which I hear all the time now as a teacher) is not the physical asana practice! It’s how you FEEEEEEL in yoga. It’s the letting go. It’s the mental chill out factor you get from focusing on the breath. That relief from constant chatter and in my case a lot of negative background noise I had going on was the greatest selling point for me. It brought me back to the mat like a healthy addiction.

Slowly, slowly my body relaxed. My flexibility and strength increased. This was just so exciting knowing that I was becoming the person I could see in my mind. I felt strong, I felt flexible and with that clarity in the mind, the body must follow.

And as I look back now, I have not had ONE SINGLE BACK ISSUE since November 2014. So that was a year of practicing yoga and changing my mindset and still experiencing some very painful stuff. Patience and optimism is the key. I hung in there. No problems whatsoever since end of 2014! Total freedom! It is truly exhilarating. I am so unbelievably thankful 🙏🏻

I chose to immerse myself in a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training in Nov 2018 to enhance my own personal practice and to add this amazing yoga philosophy and physical practice to my teaching tool belt as someone who loves to help people step back into their personal alignment! It had such a profound effect on me and I so love creating the space for people to begin or continue their personal journey with yoga as a player in their evolution.

I love to bring elements of personal development into the classes I teach. Offering suggestions of how to reframe thinking and how we can mirror what we practice on the mat with our real world living.

I also find myself having a laugh in class and hope my students feel the lighthearted nature that I believe is where healing can occur. We don’t need to be serious to achieve anything. Alignment and happiness is felt when we chill out, smile more, laugh at ourselves and find peace with where we are at.

I hope to meet you all one day and flow with you in class.

Thank you for reading my little yoga journey so far. Yoga means so much to me. I’m excited where it will continue to go. And I’m equally excited to witness your yoga exploration and how it can benefit your life’s alignment.

Namaste 🧘🏻‍♀️🌿

Namaste Yoku Yoga Community,

Bardon Yoku this Monday, 6th May 9.30am class is still running on Labour Day Public Holiday.

Bookings via www.golifestyle.me/yokuyoga --> link to Bardon page from there. Parking and entry at rear of hall.

Have a joyful weekend!

See you on the mat soon beautiful Yoku community!

Namaste ॐ

That feeling at the end of practice...Connection with self. Nothing beats it ✨🧘🏻‍♀️✨

Ashgrove vinyasa this Wednesday 6.30pm! Booking form via www.golifestyle.me/yokuyoga 👆🏻

Namaste Yoku Yoga Community!
Join us on the mat in ASHGROVE this Wednesday, 10th April, 6.30-7.30pm!
🌿 AND exciting news.....on the 22nd of April we LAUNCH in BARDON on Monday mornings 9.30-10.30am!
All details via our website www.golifestyle.me/yokuyoga

We are off for a few weeks on a little adventure down south! Next Yoku Yoga class will be Wednesday 10th April, 6.30pm! Stay tuned for some exciting announcements in April also! 🌿🧘🏻‍♀️✨

or the 'withdrawal of the senses' is the fifth element among the Eight stages of Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga. I’ve just allowed myself to focus inward, withdrawing my senses and finding that deep, floating, vibrating, detachment of meditation. I like the notion of pratyahara as it is something you can practice at anywhere, anytime. If you’re working a desk job, sitting back in your chair for 1-2mins, close your eyes, focus on the feeling of your breath, perhaps listening to the air conditioner or something gently constant that has no real meaning to you. And quite quickly you will feel this withdrawal from the outside world. And by giving yourself this space, a rejuvenating experience, a rise in your vibration can occur and you can feel so much improved so quickly. Have a play ✨

Acting in alignment with our goals, thoughts turning to things. Let’s come together on the mat this Wednesday evening, 6.30-7.30pm, and find our flow. Yes it’s an hour of yoga asana and making shapes, but the reality is that taking time to breathe and reconnect with your inner being impacts your whole life! The more in tune you become with YOU, the better everything is! 🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏻‍♂️🌿 bookings via www.golifestyle.me/yokuyoga 😙

With each new week comes opportunity to reset or re-establish habits that serve you. Take a moment to breathe, remember what is important to you and move in the direction that is in alignment with this. See you on the mat this Wednesday . 6.30-7.30pm. Bookings via www.golifestyle.me/yokuyoga 🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏻‍♂️