Yoga is not one-size-fits-all
Yoga is not a one-size-fits-all practice. This ancient practise brings so many benefits to our modern busy lives. In fact, we believe it’s more relevant than ever.
We’re here for you if you’re:
- Looking for a supportive, inclusive community of people who loves to laugh and enjoy themselves
- Needing to learn how to quieten your thoughts, relax your mind, and properly relax and unwind
- Wanting to strengthen your body and move with minimal pain or discomfort
- Managing an old injury or health condition and know that you need movement
- Looking to reignite your interest or passion in yoga
How we started
Our founder, Allison Dearling was involved in a serious car accident in her teens which needed many years of rehabilitation. A Mount Isa local, Allison discovered yoga when living and working in Glasgow, Scotland.
Then working as an accountant, Allison was amazed by the strength she built through practising Ashtanga yoga at the Chi School of Yoga. Her journey led her to India to deepen her practice in Ashtanga, later returning to Townsville (with her husband Harry!) with a dream to help others through her story.
Since 2010, we’ve had the pleasure of welcoming thousands of students coming together to practise. We’ve hosted SO many workshops with international yoga teachers over the years to bring the best of the world to our students.
And we’ve enjoyed countless hours together, blissed out in Savasana, ommming in union, or gasbagging over a cup of chai or coffee after class.
Whether you’re looking to unwind at a tropical yoga retreat in far north Queensland, an authentic teacher training or yogic studies immersion to explore the depths of your practise, a highly qualified and experienced yoga therapist for tailored one-to-one yoga, or simply a new group of friends to downward dog with, we can’t wait to welcome you!
Your body, your story, our community.
Our team
Our teachers are the best around! All of them are devoted to their own yogic lifestyle and continue to further their studies with yoga teachers from all over the world.
We’re known for our high level of care for our students – this is always our priority. We invite you to explore the different classes, styles and teachers on offer. See you on the mat.
Our yoga styles
We offer many different styles of yoga to suit individual preferences, but pay homage to our lineage as an Ashtanga Yoga studio. Allison, our principal teacher has been practicing Ashtanga yoga for 23 years, having studied at the Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore India on several long term trips. She deeply reveres Ashtanga as paramount to her healing from a serious car accident in her teens, and Ashtanga is the foundation of her extensive yoga knowledge.
Ashtanga Yoga is a dynamic style with an equal emphasis on strength as well as flexibility that’s designed to heat the body, so be prepared to sweat! Ashtanga offers set sequences of postures that, over time, allow the body to become supple and strong. The flowing nature of the practice becomes a moving meditation, calming the mind.
To compliment the dynamic nature of the ashtanga yoga practice we offer restorative yoga, meditation and pranayama breathwork to bring balance and help with down regulation of the nervous system.Our overall Elements program across all classes is a uninque yet practical way to ensure our students are safe and supprted to progress.
We’re a membership studio
We’re a membership studio, rather than a drop-in studio, because we want you to get to class as often as possible! Ideally, at least twice a week.
We intimately know the transformative power of a regular yoga practice AND we know exactly how busy life is and how other things crowd in, if you let them.
We’ve designed our memberships to make it as easy as possible to get to class – and reap the benefits. The more classes you take every week, the better value this is.
Our two memberships are lovingly designed to offer the best value and motivate you to practice regularly. We run on a school term basis, but your membership payments are spread across the year, to make cashflow easier.
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