What is the purpose of a yoga retreat?

'Retreats are a good way to re-start a fallen yoga practice, or to deepen an existing one. ' They're even great for those people who have no experience at all. Young or old, flexible or stiff as a broom handle, a yoga retreat will give you a chance to get away and to spend some time taking care of yourself

What are yoga retreats called?

The retreat is designed to improve your physical and mental wellbeing through healing practices. Spiritual or healing yoga retreats often embrace local or regional traditions. THE ART OF SELF-CARE Ayurveda, Yoga & Meditation Retreat.

How long are yoga retreats?

The minimum stay is two nights and you can also extend it longer if you want a full month of relaxation in California

What is the benefit of retreat?

A retreat helps all the distractions fall away so you are free to work on the projects that are most inviting to you. As an added bonus, this causes us to actually follow through, making us our most productive selves. Being away from our routines, comforts, and amenities, is difficult.

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Retreats and Events

Really, the child is the master of the Parents. If they listen, the child will guide them to Heaven.

That is their chance to reach to the Heavens from the jaws of hell.

To break the cycle of reincarnation. If the parent fails to understand this they will destroy their creation.

What is required is a brake… to slow down and appreciate. To see the truth. Speed is, in effect, a violence to the soul.

The very nature of sentimentality is LOVE. And love, by its nature, is irrational, patient, kind and slow. Put rationality into love, and you will end it. You will accelerate it. That is what kills love. That is where you must step off the cliff and enter the abyss of no mind. Let go of the rational mind that tortures us with endless reasons leading nowhere.

That irrational love is the strongest force in the Universe. It is by mercy, grace, surrender to the Unknown beyond our mind...

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Fri, 20 June
Helpout Volunteer Weekend
Nymboida
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20 June 2025, 11:57 pm – 22 June 2025, 11:57 pm
Nymboida, Nymboida NSW 2460, Australia
Come and help muck in with cleaning the house and beautifying the grounds and gardens here on the 100 hectare private valley. Yoga, prayer and meditation every day. No cost but donation appreciated and food contribution.
Fri, 27 June
Massage Workshop Detox De-Stress Rejuvenation Weekend
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27 June 2025, 6:40 pm – 29 June 2025, 8:40 pm
Nymboida, Nymboida NSW 2460, Australia
This weekend will focus on holistic massage where you learn how to give and accept a massage. Escape to 100 secluded hectare private valley to relax, do some yoga, meditation, prayer and walk on bush trails as you please. Sunbake, swim in the dam. Humid hot time of year.
Fri, 04 July
Nymboida Yoga Boot Camp 8 days
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04 July 2025, 7:08 pm AEST – 11 July 2025, 11:08 pm AEST
Nymboida, Nymboida NSW 2460, Australia
Get fit, rough it in bootcamp and lift the spirit. Help out. Test Your Limits. Feel love and nature deep in the Nymboida forest. You need to be prepared for hard yoga workouts and trail runs. Early start. You won't have time to think. Yama-Niyama vows taken first day.
Fri, 11 July
Spirit Filled Writing and Poetry Inspiration Weekend
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11 July 2025, 3:40 pm – 13 July 2025, 3:40 pm
Nymboida, Nymboida NSW 2460, Australia
Escape to 100 hectare private valley to relax, do some yoga, meditation, prayer and walk on bush trails as you please whilst opening your mind to your inner author and poet.
Fri, 18 July
Chronic Disease De-Stress Rejuvenation Weekend
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18 July 2025, 4:56 pm – 20 July 2025, 6:16 pm
Nymboida, Nymboida NSW 2460, Australia
If you have a chronic disease this is your perfect retreat. Escape to 100 hectare private valley to relax, do some yoga, meditation, prayer and walk on bush trails as you please.
Fri, 25 July
Art Photography Ascension Yoga Retreat 8 days
Nymboida
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25 July 2025, 4:40 pm AEST – 01 Aug 2025, 8:40 pm AEST
Nymboida, Nymboida NSW 2460, Australia
One week to delve into your artist and photographer self, by connecting to nature - but do have to get up early, do yoga, help out on the ashram, learn art yoga photography with meditation. Get fit and healthy with vegan feasts and juices.
Fri, 01 Aug
How to make a Forest Change: Vegetable Garden and Orchard Yoga Retreat 8 days
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01 Aug 2025, 4:40 pm AEST – 08 Aug 2025, 4:40 pm AEST
Nymboida, Nymboida NSW 2460, Australia
One week to experience how to live rural, garden and find your green thumb back to nature environment - get up early, do yoga, learn how to make a raised vegetable garden, put in irrigation, learn enviro-yoga philosophy and finish with meditation. Get fit healthy with vegan feasts and juices.
Fri, 08 Aug
Ascension Yoga Retreat 8 days
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08 Aug 2025, 4:40 pm AEST – 15 Aug 2025, 4:40 pm AEST
Nymboida, Nymboida NSW 2460, Australia
One week to ascend your Self in a back to nature environment - get up early, do yoga, help out on the ashram, learn yoga philosophy and finish with meditation. Get fit and healthy with vegan feasts and juices. Chant and sing. Lift your spirit with communal love.
Fri, 15 Aug
Music Singing Ascension Yoga Retreat 8 days
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15 Aug 2025, 4:40 pm AEST – 22 Aug 2025, 4:40 pm AEST
Nymboida, Nymboida NSW 2460, Australia
One week to find your musical soul and ascend your Self in a back to nature environment - get up early, do yoga, help out on the ashram, learn to sing, play drum, guitar and didge -meditation. Get fit and healthy with vegan feasts and juices. Chant and sing. Lift your spirit with communal love.
Fri, 29 Aug
Art Painting Zen Yoga Retreat 8 days
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29 Aug 2025, 4:40 pm AEST – 05 Sept 2025, 4:40 pm AEST
Nymboida, Nymboida NSW 2460, Australia
One week to delve into painting and art - get up early, do yoga, help out on the ashram, learn yoga art painting and philosophy and finish with meditation. Get fit and healthy with vegan feasts and juices. Chance to try kayaking if you wish. Chant and sing.
Fri, 05 Sept
Helpout Volunteer Weekend
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05 Sept 2025, 9:54 pm – 08 Sept 2025, 5:54 pm
Nymboida, Nymboida NSW 2460, Australia
Come and help muck in with cleaning the house and beautifying the grounds and gardens here on the 100 hectare private valley. Yoga and meditation every day. No cost but donation appreciated and food contribution.
Fri, 12 Sept
Dance Ascension Yoga Retreat 8 days
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12 Sept 2025, 4:40 pm AEST – 19 Sept 2025, 4:40 pm AEST
Nymboida, Nymboida NSW 2460, Australia
One week to find your dancing shoes and musical soul and ascend your Self in a back to nature environment - get up early, do yoga, help out on the ashram, learn to dance, sing, play drum, guitar and didge -meditation. Get fit and healthy with vegan feasts and juices.
Fri, 19 Sept
Adventure Kayak Yoga Retreat 8 days - overnighter on Nymboida River
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19 Sept 2025, 4:40 pm AEST – 26 Sept 2025, 4:40 pm AEST
Nymboida, Nymboida NSW 2460, Australia
One week to delve into last 4 limbs of Patanjali's system - get up early, do yoga, help out on the ashram, learn yoga philosophy and about the Zen of Kayaking with a trip on white water rapids. Get fit and healthy with vegan feasts and juices.. Chant and sing. Lift your spirit with communal love.
Fri, 26 Sept
De-Stress Rejuvenation Weekend
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26 Sept 2025, 4:40 pm – 28 Sept 2025, 4:40 pm
Nymboida, Nymboida NSW 2460, Australia
Escape to 100 hectare private valley to relax, do some yoga, meditation and walk on bush trails as you please. Sunbake and swim naked in the dam. Be at total peace in a secluded stress free nature environment. Complete privacy assured.
Tue, 26 May
Ascension Yoga Teacher Training One Month Intensive
Nymboida
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26 May 2026, 4:40 pm AEST – 24 June 2026, 8:40 pm AEST
Nymboida, Nymboida NSW 2460, Australia
Learn to teach the Ascension Yoga path to others. Go to the highest limits of your potential in spiritual awareness of who you are and how you fit into this planet's ecosystem.
Mon, 20 July
2025 South India Pilgram Tour
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20 July 2026, 7:00 pm – 20 Aug 2026, 11:00 pm
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Escape the Winter cold to glorious spiritual South India to pamper yourself at Ayervedic resorts, drift through the Cochin backwaters on a houseboat, sunbake on the Arabian Sea, do yoga at Naga Dam and explore Pondercherry's French scene and Auroville city of the future. Small group only.
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Nymboida Yoga Retreat, Nymboida NSW 2460, Australia
Join the team here and have fun helping out! Learn yoga and meditation, while you work here in the garden, cleaning, doing maintenance jobs, making tracks. Mix with the guests and eat delicious vegan meals. Try kayaking. And if you are a yoga teacher, teach some classes here,
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ONLINE Ascension Yoga Studies 101 UOCA
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Delve into last 4 limbs of Patanjali's system - Yamas, anatomy of the chakras, pranic energy system and learn yoga philosophy and finish with understanding how meditation works and fits into the true redemption to bring you eternal peace by understanding who You really are.

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About the teacher

Dhyan is your yoga teacher to train and guide you through your retreat and bush experience in his Home. Teach you Ascension Meditation and like Arjuna and Buddha, find inner peace in the chaos of life. Trained in Hatha and Ashtanga yoga in Rishikesh, India with renowned yoga master Vipram. Dhyan teaches how yoga is the path to the truth - residing in all of us.