About

It is my pleasure to invite you to an inspiring and life changing experience. Yoga Health Retreats are an opportunity to reflect and re-evaluate your life from a different perspective. At times a retreat is a journey to the heart of quiet, at other times it is a spontaneous feeling of inner joy or a sense of profound connectedness. Our experience and understanding of the energy systems of the body provide a unique opportunity to develop and maintain focus, clarity, joy and peace; reduce physical symptoms and restore you to your natural state of balance and harmony. The effects are often felt for months after retreats finish. It gives all of us at Yoga Health Retreats great joy to see the positive changes in each individual at the completion retreats.

Sue Hawkins experience is based upon her own journey through Yoga. Sue and her team of facilitators regularly run Yoga Retreats in Byron Bay Australia and internationally where you too can experience yoga, meditation, pranayama, chanting, Pilates, massage, Ayurveda treatments, detox and more.

Sue discovered yoga 26 years ago and has been teaching for 12 years. She studied Iyengar Yoga in Sydney and completed a teacher training course in Byron Bay in Ashtanga and Hatha yoga. She decided to further her studies and traveled to India to study with BNS Iyengar in Mysore. Practicing Ashtanga and deepening her understanding of the spiritual aspects of yoga. This also involved a Mantra Initiation with a Vishnava Guru to deepen her connection with spirit and to move her life path even deeper in the direction of teaching Yoga and healing. Sue was given a spiritual name Sudasi - meaning Servant of God. Sue also trained with Dharmavirsingh Mahida in Pune studying yoga asanas, Ayurveda and yoga philosophy and has studied with other renowned yoga teachers.

Yoga means 'union'. To practice yoga is to unite the body with the mind and the soul. Yoga is more than putting the body into interesting postures (asanas) it is a combined journey into learning how to use the breath (pranayama) to move deeper and open the body, preparing for meditation and allowing time for deep relaxation (Yoga Nidra).

"Yoga for me has been a life saver. When you are leading a busy stressful life there is no room for the soul to feel connected in any way. There is not much connection with spirit or yourself. Finally I came to a point where I had all the money and material things around me but a feeling of emptiness. I decided to take up yoga again and from that day onward have continued to integrate it into my daily life."

Over the years as the retreats have grown, Sue has built up a team of experienced professionals providing a wide range of yoga and healing services. Sue is very confident of her team and the nurturing and healing environment they provide. From Yoga and Pilates professionals, to chefs who prepare every meal with love and attention, to dedicated healers and detox professionals, the entire team at Yoga Health Retreats is committed to providing participants with a safe, nurturing and rejuvenating retreat experience.

When you attend one of Sue's yoga health retreats, it's an opportunity to reflect and re-evaluate your life from a different perspective. At times it is a journey to the heart of quiet and other times it's an experience of freedom in a spontaneous expression of inner joy, or a sense of connectedness. Not only do the retreats offer detox and healing treatments, but they encourage students to continue their yoga practice with a new vigor and inspiration while feeling relaxed, mentally refreshed and uplifted. The effects are often felt for weeks after the retreat has finished creating an opportunity for a life changing experience.

Namaste

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