Retreat for a few days into a forest location to relax, have meaningful reflective time and enjoy a daily program of yoga.  

Yoga @ the Ashram
Rocklyn Ashram Gallery

If a weekend retreat is not possible a Personal Retreat can be taken at any time for as many days as required. 

Retreat General Information & Weekend Daily Timetable

Please bring your own bedding, yoga mat and blanket/shawl

Weekend Retreat comments

 

Silent Yoga & Meditation Retreat

02 - 04 Oct     $385 Book Here Early Bird 27 Sep
02 - 04 Oct     $450 Book Here
03 - 04 Oct     $310 Book Here

“Silence is essential. We need silence, just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

The ashram situated on the edge of the Wombat State Forest is a perfect silent retreat environment.  

A short Silent Yoga & Meditation retreat offers precious time and space, not always available in other forms of living, for quieter and deeper self-reflection and self-enquiry. 

Silence is an opportunity to quietly and objectively look within. With systematic practice, you will be able to give a new orientation to your feelings and experience enhanced connection with your quieter self. 

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Managing Anxiety Yoga Lifestyle Retreat - 1 week

05 - 09 Oct     $750 Book Here Early Bird 27 Sep
05 - 09 Oct     $850 Book Here

In turbulent times the need for balance and wellbeing at all levels is highlighted. It is a basic need of humanity to learn to manage uncertainties and apprehensions, and develop confidence in oneself and in life, irrespective of the circumstances. 

Experience a dynamic and traditional ashram yoga lifestyle to develop inner strength, energy and resilience, and to cultivate the innate positive qualities. In the face of challenges and difficulties, a connection with our inner strengths will guide our actions and responses in a positive direction.

When the limiting and constricting tendencies of the personality are cleared, the inner light can shine freely.

The daily yoga practices and the ashram lifestyle are a complete, practical system for harmonising the whole being, illuminating the path, and supporting personal evolution.

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Yoga Relax Retreat

Don't carry today's stress into tomorrow

10 - 11 Oct     $180 Book Here   Monthly Special
OPTION - stay an extra day or two on a Personal Retreat to consolidate the benefits of relaxation
10 - 12 Oct     $279 Book Here
10 - 13 Oct     $378 Book Here

Invest in Yourself - spend time in nature, yoga for body/mind and rest

No rush:  arrive at 10.30am

Daily Program

Restore and rebalance oneself with yoga and breathing practises focused on eliciting the relaxation responses for body mind and emotions.  These practices can reveal a greater appreciation of oneself and give a wider perception for managing change and diversity.  

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Annual Sadhana Retreat

Fully online. 4 days of personal immersion and shared experience of yoga

08 - 11 Oct     $208 Join Us Early Bird - 4 Oct
& discount SYTA & YAV members
08 - 11 Oct     $255 Join Us     

This special Sadhana Retreat supports sangha and is open to all who have a keen interest in expanding their yogic knowledge. 

As pure water poured into pure water becomes the same, so does the Self of the one with knowledge. Katha Upanishad (2 - 1 – 20)

with Rishis Nityabodhananda and Yoga Diwali, Swami Vimalratna, Swami Atmamuktananda and other senior teachers.

This year’s program features Katha Upanishad, the classic dialogue between the boy Nacheketa and Yama, Lord of the Underworld. It explores the relationship of life and death, and the truths that transcend time and one individual’s life. Apart from anything else it is a great story. The course will lead us through the story to the jewels of wisdom hidden within.  

A key feature of the approach to the text will be to consider the application of these jewels in the context of every day life.

Chakra Shuddhi is an important part of experienced practitioners’ sadhana. An essential part of a regular yogic tune up. We will explore how to include this practice as a simple regular part of sadhana.  

Morning classes, yoga nidra, meditations and group discussion will follow through on these themes in the context of maintaining and developing personal practice.

Short interactive sessions on the nature of sadhana will be part of the program.

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Navaratri 9 days of Devi Celebration & Sadhana

• 3 days – Durga, bestows vigour upon all aspects of your personality.  She removes all your obstacles and destroys the vicious samskaras that hinder your spiritual progress.
• 3 days – Lakshmi, fills you with divine virtues and blesses you with material prosperity too, so that, freed from mundane anxieties, you may pursue the spiritual ideal.
• 3 days – Saraswati, unlocks the gates of wisdom and reveals the realm of spiritual knowledge.  She opens your inner eye of intuition and discrimination.

The Mother in these 3 forms bestows the shakti energy for transformation in redirecting the mind away from the unnecessary habitual patterns that create distress in life to sattwic – harmonious qualities that create peace and balance in everyday life. 

The last day is called Vijaya which indicates victory over the negative to the positive or tamas - darkness to sattwa - illumination. 

23 - 25 Oct     $70 Book Here
24 - 25 Oct     $50 Book Here

"Karma Yoga prepares the mind for the reception of light or knowledge.  It expands the heart and breaks all barriers that stand in the way of unity or oneness."
Swami Sivananda

Heart in the Hands & Hands in the Moment
(full participation)

Please arrive before 5pm on the 23rd or by 9.00am on the 24th and depart after lunch clean up - 1.30pm on the 25th. 

More Information

"It was pure joy to be involved in the Ashram lifestyle"

"Fantastic, thank you so much for the lovely opportunity to lend a hand. Rocklyn changed my life a few years ago, so I’m thrilled to give back in some little way."  Penny

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Power of Awareness Meditation Retreat - with Sw. Anandakumar

30 Oct - 1 Nov     $385 Book Here Early Bird 25 Oct
30 Oct - 1 Nov     $450 Book Here

Meditation is the need of the times

Lay the groundwork or extend your understanding of your meditation practice. 
With a focus on an accurate understanding of the purpose of meditation and how to go about it, backed up by practices along these lines.
This acts as a constant point of reference and will serve well as we grow in our own inner experience.
In this way we are able to contact and rely on our own inner strength to better come to terms with uncertainty and change.

Meditation and the Mind Part 1

Meditation and the Mind Part 2

There are also some recorded meditation practices posted. 

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Living Consciously Retreat

1 week     $250 Book Here
1 week to 1 month
10% discount for Health Care Card Holders
No further discounts apply
Sun 2pm – Sun 2pm