Free your mind

A FEAST of sensorial experiences will be on offer at Dudley House and adjacent venues in the View Street precinct over the weekend of 26 to 27 October at the Bendigo Yoga Festival.

For a flat fee, attendees can pick from more than 80 classes over the two days, catering to those with zero experience right through to advanced practitioners.

Apart from Yoga-related sessions, they can also choose from sound and Tibetan Buddhism meditation, mantra chanting, Garba dancing, Qigong, somatic healing and an Ayurveda alternative medicine workshop.

Festival organiser Rosie Richards said the great thing about a yoga festival is there’s lots of different options so attendees can find the right yoga that fits them.

“Often we conjure up an idea of what yoga is or we go for the first time and that experience doesn’t resonate with our bodies and it doesn’t feel right, so we don’t return,” she said.

“The idea is that people come and get an opportunity to experience lots of different types.

“The goal is to offer yoga for everybody and to support everybody’s journey, whether it’s stillness or activation and movement, or slow flowing, or focusing on one particular pose and finding an affinity and stability in that.

“We’ll also have a few left-of-field classes that you can’t often access in Bendigo, such as Himalayan yoga and Ocean Flow.”

Tickets for the Bendigo Yoga Festival, which runs from Saturday 26 October to Sunday 27 October, plus the full schedule are available at bendigo.yogafestival.com.au.