With over 30 years of practice, 25 years teaching, and 12 years of teacher training experience including mentoring, Flo is now a registered mentor with Yoga Australia. Mentoring is a required part of many teacher trainings. You can use these sessions towards the mentoring hours required to complete your Level 1 or 2 registered Yoga Australia teacher training. Or, as a post graduate student, deepen your expertise, answer questions, and gain required CPD points as a registered Yoga Australia teacher.

Specialities:

• Teaching of asana in intelligent steps-modifying asanas, use of props, adjusting skills
• Teaching of pranayama-progression, working with prana in asana, pranayama practice yoga as therapy
• Meditation techniques Yoga Nidra-practice, mantra practice
• I am happy to do either open or curriculum-based sessions.

Mentoring sessions can take many forms:

• Small group classes are offered to Post Graduate students in which we practice together, enhance our asana and pranayama, refresh our prop use and teaching techniques, and afterwards discuss the practice with time for questions.
• Private sessions of a practical nature which can focus on anything that you are having difficulty with in teaching or in practice
• Private sessions (face to face or via zoom, phone or email) which may be simply to ask questions and receive ideas about any issues that may have come up as a teacher
• Assisting in classes or on retreats where you get ‘on the job’ training.

Small group classes for Post Graduate students. Refresh your practice , enhance your asana and pranayama, revise your prop use and teaching techniques, and afterwards discuss the practice, and any other issues coming up regarding teaching and/or practice!
Wednesdays –8.30am-11.45am
(Suffolk Park address supplied on request).

$40 – In person
$25 – Live online or receive recorded practice.

Next Practice:
Wednesday August 21st , 8.30-11.45am AEDT.

Exploring The Hindu Deities and Bhakti Yoga

• Sutra 1.23

• Ishvarapranidhanadva

• ‘Or by devotion to god (asamprajnata samadhi can be obtained.)’

4. Hanuman the Monkey God-Devotion and Trust

• Hanuman appears in the Ramayana, which is an epic tale of the life of Rama
• Rama is one of the avatars of Vishnu, the preserver. Each avatar is sent to earth when the earth or humanity is in need of saving•
• Lord Rama epitomizes the highest cultivation of all human virtues and their expression in relationships.
• His wife Sita represents the highest form of purity and virtue in marriage
• In the Ramayana, Sita is abducted by Ravana, the evil lord of Lanka
• Hanuman the Monkey God was the son of Vayu, the God of the Winds.
• Hanuman, with his monkey army, (all of whom are divine beings who have taken birth as monkeys in order to assist Rama in his earthly incarnation) fearlessly search out Sita and after many trials, and at the cost of much pain and danger to themselves, ultimately free her from captivity.
• Hanuman is a powerful figure of selfless service.
• He is often pictured leaping through the air carrying a mountain upon which grew healing herbs to help Rama’s brother Lakshmana.
• Another common image is of Hanuman opening his chest to reveal Rama and sits inside his heart.
• Hanumanasana, or Monkey Pose, in its full expression, is the forward splits, a challenging pose that represents the pose Hanuman took as he leapt from the southern tip of India to Sri Lanka to rescue his good friend Ram's wife, Sita, who had been kidnapped by the evil demon Ravana