Breath

SPACE…

I read an interview with Tim Winton this week that captured something meaningful to me…
Australia is a continent where there is more space than people.
Many of us have grown up with a wide sky and therefore we are wired differently, our brains recognising vast spatial awareness. Overtime, the visible Australian horizon changes your brain and your character.

As Australians, we have become accustomed to a sense of physical, personal and to an extent mental space. Our responsibility may be not only maintain this pristine space externally, but also internally.

BREATH…

We need mental space, time to ponder and take a breath, to be reminded of our own a vastness.

Internally breath creates space; mental space, physical space, and emotional clarity.
The breath, steady and slow, affects our heart rate, our nervous system, and our brain. Breath is medicine.
It is the easiest way to create space within when the skyline is not as vast and visible to our wide scope. Treasure it.

Photography: The remote Pilbara with a lone tree in foreground, red earth and distant ranges under blue sky. Pilbara Australia…its vast open spaces, courtesy ABC.

Pranayama Breath Retreat

Pranayama weekend with Craig Smith is next weekend:

Asana, yoga psychology, sutra study, & philosophy. Craig will link everything together to emphasise the immense physical and psychological benefit of breath as well as the aim of pranayama to reach the subtle essence of who we are through the combination of everything we will practice.

Early Bird rates by Saturday through YIMI: Yoga and Integrative Medicine Institute: http://www.yimi.com.au/2014/06/04/pranayama-short-course-early-bird-extended/
21st June and 22nd June Brookfield Retreat…
Saturday 12 – 5pm and 9- 4pm Sunday.
12 CPD hours with Yoga Australia
“A yoga pose has no end point. Neither does the breath.”

Grass Roots Yoga by donation

7.30am-8.30am Sunday at Northey Street Farmers Markets
Your Teacher: The magnificent Trina Robbie, a fine teacher with a lot of enthusiasm for Yoga and its benefits.

NEW WEST END LOCATION: Boundary St Markets on the Village Green.
Next Saturday onwards from 21/6/2014 8-9am.
Your Teacher: Celia Roberts, founder, will take the first class.

With Grass Roots donations, we hope to be able to raise $50,000 in one year for CAPS, Community Action for Prevention of Suicide, http://www.caps.org.au/.
You can help by spreading the word and coming along.

School Holiday Classes

Monday to Thursday 9.30am-11.00am 30/6-10/7.
Casual visit $20 (teenagers also welcomed). Come along!
Teacher Trainers welcome to attend as part of teaching hours.

Ayurveda Retreat

A reductive science, simple by nature, that looks to healing with the help of our natural environment. Ayurveda uses local herbs, nutrition, yoga postures, psychology and the ‘breath as medicine’ to heal. Literally, the science of life! Hope you can make it.

Sunday 15 June, Last places: https://celiaroberts.com.au/events/sunday-yoga-andor-meditation-retreat-5/

Treasure your space.

Celia Roberts

Celia Roberts – Yoga Meditation and Ayurveda
www.celiaroberts.com.au
Yoga and Integrative Medicine Institute – YIMI
www.yimi.com.au
Grass Roots Yoga Movement
www.grassrootsyogamovement.org