The Mindstream Centre is a genuinely holistic yoga and wellness centre based in Emerald.
SERVICES
Enhance your wellbeing
Bringing yoga and wellness to the community while working from the basis that there is an integral connection between mind, body and spirit. We believe that a person is understood in the context of their family, community and social environment.
The centre offers different styles, levels and types of yoga including meditation to suit everyone. We also offer a range of wellness therapies such as naturopathy, life coaching and acupuncture.
The business has been set up by Lisa Baker and Katie Beale who met at playgroup. They discovered that not only did they share the joys and challenges of energetic young children but that they also trained at the same yoga school a year apart. It was a match made in heaven. They soon started offering yoga classes to the communities of Emerald and Cockatoo. They have been able to gauge the strong and increasing interest in yoga and meditation and Mindstream Centre is the result of wondering how to bring yoga to more people.
We are just so passionate about making people feel good and sharing the many many benefits of yoga with everyone. We want to put it out there in the community so that it isn’t about getting into weird positions or being a bit “hippie” but a real tool for personal development that people can take off the mat and into their daily lives.
Classical Yoga
In classical yoga classes we practice the whole of yoga - that is letting go of everyday concerns (shavasana), bending and stretching (asana), breathwork (pranayama) and meditation - to give you the tools you need to take yoga off the mat and into your daily lives.
It is an holistic practice balancing the mind, body and energy. We practice the physical aspects of yoga which stretch and strengthen the body, to nourish and protect it, and increase flexibility and durability. The breathwork connects us with the energy of life and optimises the bodies capacity to be nourished as we learn to control and release. Both the posture work and the breathing help us to find steadiness and ease within the body so that we may sit in meditation. And in meditation we find an ability to observe the mind and look in more detail at the stillness beyond the thoughts.
Katie and Lisa teach the classical yoga classes. They are both YTAA accredited and studied with Swarmi Shantananda at Australian College of Classical Yoga, Victoria.
They are passionate about making people feel good.
Classical Yoga Classes- Classical Yoga - Beginners - Tuesdays, 8.00 - 9.30pm
- Classical Yoga - Beginners - Wednesdays, 9.30 - 11.00am
- Classical Yoga - Beginners - Saturdays, 10.00 - 11.30am
- Classical Yoga - Beginners - Mondays, 8.00 - 9.30pm
- NEW CLASS Classical Yoga - Beginners - Thursdays, 6.30 - 8.00pm
- Classical Yoga - General - Mondays, 6.30 - 8.00pm
- Classical Yoga - General - Sundays, 10.00 - 11.30am
- NEW CLASS Classical Yoga - General - Thursdays, 8.00 - 9.30pm
- Prenatal Yoga - Tuesdays, 6.30 - 8.00pm
- Seva Yoga - All - Fridays, 6.00 - 7.30pm
Iyengar Yoga
Iyengar yoga is a dynamic style of yoga which is accessible to all levels of experience and fitness. To list just some of the benefits of the practice, it can increase flexibility, reduce stress, relieve insomnia, detoxify the body, increase energy levels, and boost confidence.
B.K.S. Iyengar is one of the world's most revered masters of Yoga, having devoted a lifetime to its study. He began teaching in 1936 at the age of 18, and has spent his life developing his own style and discipline of yoga practice. Today he continues to practice, teach, and inspire his students throughout the world.
In lyengar yoga there is precise and careful attention paid to physical alignment, an insistence on balanced and integrated development, and an emphasis on postures to develop strength, endurance and suppleness - physically, mentally and emotionally.
Iyengar yoga is well known for its use of “props” (such as blocks, straps and chairs) which allow the postures to be practiced by everyone, regardless of age or physical ability. Its careful remedial application can help with many ailments and injuries.
Clare Pritchard has been practising yoga since 1995 and began teaching in 2002. She is a Certified Iyengar Yoga teacher, and has also completed Level 1&2 in the Radiant Child Yoga Program.
Clare has been to study four times in India, most recently at the Iyengar Yoga
Institute in Pune, and she continues to study regularly with senior teachers from Australia and abroad.
Her aim is to create a warm, friendly environment where students can relax and enjoy their yoga practice. In her classes, personalised attention is paid to each student, ensuring that individual needs are catered for.
Iyengar Yoga Classes- Iyengar - General - Mondays, 9.30 - 10.45am
- Mums & Bubs - Mondays, 11.00am - 12.00pm
Astanga Style Yoga
Ashtanga Yoga is a powerful system of practice designed to purify the body, nervous system and mind. One of the main distinguishing features of Ashtanga yoga is that it links a set series of postures together in a flowing sequence that is synchronised with the breath. This is called vinyasa.
Leah Kazuko Casey is a devotee of yoga and healing. She teaches a dynamic flowing style of yoga - a synthesis of iyengar, astanga and krishnamacarya which she has developed over her 13 years of study.
Leah's yoga and bodywork evolved from her russian ballet training and study of iyengar, japanese ki and astanga styles. She has studied with Sat Guru Hanuman Das (Dharmikan Ashram, South India), Mark Whitwell (Heart of Yoga, USA), Greg Cooper & Eoin McCarthy (Astanga Yoga Centre of Melbourne, Victoria), Simon Borg-Olivier (Yoga Synergy, NSW), Nicky Knoff (Knoff School of Yoga, Queensland) and Swarmi Shantananda (Australian College of Classical Yoga, Victoria)
She looks forward to seeing you on a mat!
Astanga Style Yoga Classes- Astanga Yoga- Wednesdays, 6.30 - 8.00pm
Meditation
Meditation is practise by which one goes beyond the reflexive, "thinking" mind into a deeper state of awareness. Meditation often involves turning attention to a single point of reference.
Meditation practise has many proven benefits for the body, mind and spirit. These include...- Builds self-confidence
- Improves focus and concentration
- Enhances mood and behaviour
- Lowers high BP
- Decreases muscle tension
- Assists pain management
- Enhances mood and behaviour
- Reduces emotional distress
- Connect you with instinctive self
We offer both daily meditation drop-in sessions for which there is no need to book just come along and try it out with no need to commit, and a bookable meditation course which runs for eight weeks which will be more structured. As time goes by we hope to open up more meditation opportunities so keep checking the website or sign-up to our e-newsletter The Supplement to keep up to date.
Meditation Classes- Meditation Drop In - Mondays, 12.30 - 1.00pm
- Meditation Drop In - Tuesdays, 12.30 - 1.00pm
- Meditation Drop In - Wednesdays, 12.30 - 1.00pm
- Meditation Drop In - Fridays, 12.30 - 1.00pm
- Meditation Drop In - Saturdays, 12.30 - 1.00pm
- Meditation Drop In - Sundays, 12.30 - 1.30pm
- Meditation Course - Wednesdays, 8.00 - 9.00pm
QUALIFICATION DETAILS
Acupressure, Acupuncture, Aromatherapy, Ashtanga Yoga, Beauty Therapy, Chinese Massage, Flower Essences, Hatha Yoga, Herbalists, Iridologists, Life Coaching, Meditation, Naturopaths, Nutrition, Pregnancy Yoga, Raja Yoga, Stone Therapy Massage, Swedish Relaxation Massage, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Vinyasa Yoga, Weight Loss, Womens Health
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