North Perth Yoga Room

In July we freed the shoulders. In September we turn them upside down.

Djilba Weekend Workshop, 18 to 20 September. Shoulders Part 2.

Part 1 opened tight shoulders and necks. Part 2 takes that new range and makes it hold weight — strength and stability through the shoulder girdle, then into the inversions. Salamba Sarvangasana. Sirsasana. Their variations. Built step by step, with props, in the order the body can actually take.

Most people who avoid inversions aren't avoiding the pose. They're avoiding a neck that has never been prepared for one. That preparation is the whole weekend.

Four sessions:
Friday 18th, 5.30–7pm — restorative, preparing the shoulders
Saturday 19th, 7.30–9.30am — strength and stability for the shoulder girdle
Saturday 19th, 3.30–5.30pm — inversion anatomy: neck and shoulders in Sarvangasana and Sirsasana
Sunday 20th, 7.30–9.30am — into the inversions or their alternatives

Twenty places. Priority to those booking the full weekend. $110 at the current rate, down from $130, and a $33 deposit holds a spot.

You don't need Part 1 to take Part 2. You need a working practice and some curiosity about what's below your head.

Book the workshop → https://www.northperthyogaroom.com.au/workshops/p/spring-2026.

Ann
North Perth Yoga Room

Same pose you'd do any day of the week at NPYR. Different window. Bali 2027 is open: 1 to 9 September 2027, Hidden Paradise, Amed. Twenty places.

Who is a retreat for? It isn't only for 'advanced' students. It's for anyone with a working practice who wants nine days where the practice comes first, and everything else waits its turn.

The shape of it: class at 7.30am, two-ish hours of asana and pranayama. Brunch. Then the day is yours — the water at Amed is right there. Restorative 4:30 to 6. Sunday off entirely.

Eight nights, welcome dinner, airport transfers, every class included.

Thirteen months away, and that's the point.
It's a year of today's away to build the practice you'll take with you.

A retreat gives back most to the body that's been turning up all along.

From $1,500. A $300 deposit holds your place.
Details and booking: northperthyogaroom.com.au/workshops/p/bali-2027

Ann
North Perth Yoga Room

Yoga Retreat Bali Indonesia 1 - 9 September 2027 | NPYR | North Perth Yoga Room Join Ann Dragon in Bali for Yoga September 2027

Early on, you're taught what to see and correct — the gross mistakes, the obvious ones.

Develop a practice, and the teaching turns inward. You start to feel what's happening before it shows.

That's when we stop just doing the pose and start investigating it.

Mr Iyengar put it plainly:
"Reposing is meditation. Posing is action. Then you have to reflect: what has come, what has not come." source -A Talk to Teachers, published in Astadala Yogamala, Volume 3, p.207. Photo - RIYMI, Pune

Each pose gets done again and again, and each time you ask those same two questions. Not a beginner's question. The one that never stops being useful.

That's where the regular students I mentioned in an earlier post are now — Kerry, Lisa, Clare, Judy — not chasing harder poses, doing the same ones with sharper eyes.

Available to anyone willing to keep showing up long enough to start asking.

New to it all?
Start at the foundation — your first class is free.
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Ann
North Perth Yoga Room

Open to ideas ....love to hear yours - this Fri, 430pm.

We want to transform the harsh built environment around Blake and Little Walcott / Mable St into a greener walkway by slowing down traffic, improving street lighting, installing street art and murals.

The Blake Street Corner Collective have received a Streets Alive grant to pilot and trial a few initial ideas. We're planning a native garden planting in early Sept, more on that soon.

We'd love to hear from you, whether you live close by or within our NP wider community. Please join us this Friday, 4.30pm, 5a Blake St.

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Clare. Kerry, Ruth ... some of the steadiest shoulders in that workshop room belonged to people who've been turning up on a Tuesday, a Friday, a Sunday morning, for years.

That's not an accident. It's the whole method. A weekend intensive can open something in three days that a single class can't touch — but what makes it stick is the unglamorous part: same mat, same time, week after week, long before and long after the workshop poster comes down.

New faces are doing exactly the same thing, on day one of the rhythm instead of year five. Roy. Rowena. Katie. Sara. Different starting points, same decision — show up again next week.

Twenty-five years of teaching this method have taught me the shoulder doesn't change in one class, and neither does anything else worth changing. It changes in the hundredth class, built on the first.

If year five looks like Clare and Judy, day one looks like a complimentary first class — same door, same room, same steady work ahead of you.

Booking link in the comments.

Ann
North Perth Yoga Room
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Your shoulder is not one joint. It's four.

Glenohumeral, acromioclavicular, scapulothoracic, sternoclavicular — four joints working as one system. The ball-and-socket at the centre, the glenohumeral, is the most mobile joint in the human body. That mobility is the problem. The bones offer almost no stability of their own. The surrounding muscles have to do the job the skeleton can't.

That was the thesis behind this weekend's intensive: stability enables freedom. Four sessions, one thread — arriving, activating, releasing, integrating — building the muscular intelligence that lets a hyper-mobile joint actually be used well. The coming weeks will include rope work for traction through the spine. Chair and belt for scapular action.x

"Always try to extend and expand the body. Extension and expansion bring space, and space brings freedom. Freedom is precision, and precision is divine."
— B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

You don't need a workshop to start this work. You need a foundation — the steady, regular class that builds this kind of intelligence over months, not a weekend. That's exactly where a complimentary first class begins.

Booking link in comments

Ann
North Perth Yoga Room