We have a long history of offering high quality education, support and retreats. Below is just a sample of some of our offerings. Please contact chandrika@suryahealth.com.au to express your interest or with any questions.
By arrangement
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Cost: $160
“Mentoring” is a modern word that describes an integral part of the tradition of yoga throughout history. It includes the guidance given between teacher and trainee or student, as well as the ongoing professional and personal guidance necessary for all yoga teachers, at all levels of seniority and experience, as part of the continuing journey of yoga.
Formal and informal mentoring were an integral part of yoga teacher training, ongoing teacher education and support in traditions that relied on ‘apprenticeships’ with one-one relationships or in communities or ashrams. Now that teacher training occurs more in courses and teachers are increasingly teaching in isolation or in small studio-groups we need to expand the fabric from which teachers can draw support and seek advice. Not all teacher training courses create networks for guidance, reflection, and ongoing learning. Professional development opportunities, meetings, conferences, and workshops through Yoga Australia and other avenues, go some way to meeting the needs but there are times in our life-cycle as a yoga teacher that we need more specific support to develop, refine and reflect on our teaching and the issues it brings us.
If you would like to be supported in your teaching journey, Chandrika is a Senior Yoga Teacher and registered mentor with Yoga Australia. Mentoring hours can be used as CPD/CE points with Yoga Australia and can help you move up the levels eg if you have a 200hr TT, mentoring can help you register as a Level 1 350 hr Teacher.
Contact chandrika@suryahealth.com.au to book in.
Oct 11th - 13th
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Cost: $895+
Waking up from the colder months, we usher in the indigenous season of Kambarang. Vivid wildflowers and fresh inspiration abound in this tranquil Avon Valley retreat.
Moving and breathing with awareness is a path to cultivate greater self-compassion and body acceptance. Settle into the deep peace within, allow yourself to replenish, and sense inspiration arising naturally.
Enjoy delicious plant-based meals, walk the trails, experience gentle yoga, and open to the radical acceptance that comes with time in nature.
Your host is naturopath, yoga therapist and cancer researcher, Dr Chandrika Gibson PhD ND C-IAYT
By arrangement
Time:
Cost: $160
Supervision is an ongoing activity of mental health practitioners and central to their professional identity and growth across all roles and organisational settings.
Taking a person-centred, holistic view, accredited mental health social worker, Satyam Brown provides mentoring and supervision for people in the helping professions.
To enquire further, contact satyam@suryahealth.com.au
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The yogic and Ayurvedic texts provide facsinating insight into the energetics of food, and offer traditional wisdom insights about how to nourishing yourself on all levels. In this workshop you will learn how to identify your dosha in Ayurveda, what that may mean for your constitutional strengths and weaknesses, and what foods bring balance to the doshas. We will also examine the sattvic diet, or diet for consciousness prescribed by the yoga texts, and compare it with evidence-based nutrition science.
The afternoon will include gentle movement, mindfulness meditation, and reflections to help you understand your food philosophy in light of yoga and Ayurveda.
Light refreshments, and handouts all included.
Contact chandrika@suryahealth.com.au to register your interest.
Expressions of Interest welcome
Time: Saturday Afternoons 3pm - 5pm Perth time (AWST)
Cost: $1440 - $1600
Expressions of Interest welcome
Time: Saturday Afternoons 3pm - 5pm Perth time (AWST)
Cost: $1440 - $1600
End of Life Doula Training
Walking people home with dignity and compassion.
An End of Life Doula is a person who provides companionship, support, education and advocacy for a dying person and their significant others throughout the end of life process. Do you want to become an End of Life Doula? You are welcome to undertake this training for your personal development, to help friends and family members. It is equally well suited for you if you are wanting to add to your professional skillset. This training is a trauma-informed 55 hour, 5 module program designed to be completed over three months, with flexibility for people with work and other commitments. You will have access to on demand educational videos, discussion forums, and live online class discussions to support your learning as you work through the modules which follow the phases of end of life from diagnosis of a life-limiting illness, through symptom management, deterioration, active dying, and bereavement.
For a prospectus contact satyam@suryahealth.com.au
Starts Feb 21, 2025
Time:
Cost: $1800
Yoga for Chronic Illness
Chronic illnesses impact the lives of many people worldwide.
There is a growing body of evidence showing that yoga can be an effective way to maintain health and improve wellbeing when living with a chronic illness. However most yoga teachers do not feel well equipped to help a student with debilitating arthritis, chronic pain, or a cancer diagnosis, and nor should they, certainly a 200 hour or even 500 hour teacher training is unlikely to have given them the tools to do so safely, effectively, and in alignment with best practice health care. This is where Yoga Therapists come in – a Yoga Therapist is an experienced yoga teacher who undertakes further study in order to better support people with complex health conditions. Our 800 hour Wisdom Yoga Therapy programme is designed to graduate competent, compassionate, ethical, evidence-based complementary health practitioners who are able to skilfully build a client base as private practitioners, within yoga studios, in health care settings, and in their communities.
For more a Yoga Therapy prospectus contact chandrika@suryahealth.com.au
Awaken to your inner light with 4 days in sacred Ubud. You are invited to experience twice daily gentle yoga, guided meditation, embodied writing, sound healing, nature walks, massage and the culinary delights of Bali. Our small group retreat experiences are an opportunity to step out of daily life, dive deeper into your inner world, and be supported by mature, grounded facilitators.