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Yoga Therapy at Yoga Australia

Yoga Australia holds the largest community of yoga therapy qualified professionals in the country, and over the past three years that community has been doing…

Structural Advantage

In 2023, Yoga Australia published Becoming a Yoga Professional, a competency-based curriculum spanning all four levels of teaching membership from Provisional Teacher at 200 hours through…

Yatra in Nepal

In this article, Tamblyn Lord, a long-standing Yoga Australia member, reflects on what it means to undertake a yātra and why this particular trek, winding…

Voluntary Registration and Positive Duty

Years ago, Yoga Australia did a great deal of soul searching and arrived at the position that we recommend voluntary registration. The alternative would be…

From Yoga Teacher to Teacher Trainer

Why Curriculum Design Is the Foundation Everything Else Is Built On You know your craft. You have years of practice, meaningful teaching experience, and a…

Rivers of Reiki, Mountains of Yoga

In this article, we explore the relationship between yoga and Reiki, reflecting on shared concepts such as prāṇa, cakras and sādhana. Josh considers the extent…

Shared Language and Protected Terms

Providers of Teacher Training Courses operate within Australia’s broader education landscape. While our primary focus is on sharing the transformative practice of yoga, the language…

Managing Back Pain with Yoga

In your weekly yoga classes, you are very likely to find that most of your students will have experienced back pain at some stage in…

History of Yoga and Tantra

Yoga Is So Much More Most of us were taught that Patañjali wrote the definitive text on yoga philosophy. The Yoga Sūtras as source, foundation,…

Navigating Endometriosis with Yoga

For many, Endometriosis is a challenging journey. Years of dismissed symptoms, delayed diagnosis and interventions that offer only temporary relief or band-aid solutions. Pelvic pain…

The Hyper Mobile Yogi: Teaching Internationally 

If you have ever imagined yourself teaching in India, Greece, or London, you’re in good company. Yoga is a global practice, and qualified Australian teachers are welcomed in studios and…

Yoga: An Ontological Perspective 

What is Yoga? The word “yoga” denotes both the state of nonduality and the collection of practices from India that help us reach it. Unlike…

Yoga Coverage for Workshops and Retreats 

There comes a point in every dedicated teacher’s career when regular classes can no longer contain everything you want to share. Workshops let you go deeper into a subject…

Permission to Believe

A reflection on yoga, colonisation, and the strange fate of living traditions  I was in a café in Gokulam, the Mysore neighbourhood that has become a kind…

Yin and Restorative Yoga: Stillness, Surrender, and the Science of Safety

We live in a culture that glorifies motion. In our yoga practice we seek longer holds, deeper stretches, stronger shapes. Yet the true edge of…

Yoga is Peak Experience: 2025 Wrap Up

Yoga is Peak Experience We don’t need to explain consciousness to someone who’s just tasted it. The experience itself becomes the teaching, the proof, the…

Karma and Yoga Practice

Often mistaken as cosmic judiciary, karma in yoga is something far more personal. It speaks to the conditioning we create within ourselves, the emotional imprints…

Ashtanga’s Daily Repetition Cultivates Skill Beyond Thought 

In the half-light of early morning, practitioners roll out their mats in the same spot they occupied yesterday, and the day before, and countless days…

Reflections on Two Years Sanskrit Study

Sanskrit holds the vibrational essence of yoga’s deepest teachings. In this reflection, Julian Singh shares how formal study transformed his relationship with the language, revealing…

The Credibility of Yoga as Evidence-Based Health Intervention

Open letter to healthcare decision makers, policy advisors, and insurance providers. This statement presents the evidence supporting yoga as a credible health intervention within Australia’s…