Sue Hawkins - Yoga Retreat Operator
Sue Hawkins' experience is based upon her
own journey through Yoga. From the high profile, fast paced life in
Sydney as a TV Producer to her life in Byron Bay now, she is a full
time yoga retreat operator,
and runs Yoga Holidays and Yoga Retreats in Byron Bay and Bali.
At a Sue Hawkins Yoga Retreat you can experience yoga, meditation,
pranayama, chanting, massage, pampering and healing sessions.
 Sue
discovered yoga 21 years ago and has studied Iyengar Yoga in
Sydney and completed a teacher training course at Yoga Arts in Byron
Bay in Astanga and Hatha yoga. She decided to further her studies
and traveled to India to study with BNS Iyengar in Mysore. Practicising
Astanga 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.
Yoga means 'union'. To practice yoga is to unite the body with the mind
and the mind with 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).
Motivated by an inner feeling of emptiness,
Sue realised she needed to find her centre. Something was missing in
her highly stressed life in the city. She needed grounding and her
soul like a cup needed to be refreshed and filled at a deeper level.
'Yoga for
me has been a life saver. When you are leading busy stressful life
there is no room for the soul to feel connected in any way. You are
on a treadmill blindly running from deadline to deadline. There was
not much connection with spirit or myself. Finally I came to a point
where I had all the money and material things around me but an incredible
feeling of emptiness and depression. I was dissatisfied at a deep level.
I decided to take up yoga again and from that day onward have continued
to integrate it into my daily life. Becoming a Yoga Retreat Operator
has allowed me to bring my passion for Yoga to people from around the
world"
 Yoga is
a way of life, it is a lifestyle choice and the benefits that come
into your life are so rewarding once you begin this path it is virtually
impossible to change! You feel better, look better, your skin is different,
your diet changes and your outlook changes. Your heart starts to open
and your attitude becomes more flexible and tolerant. Yoga is the key
to opening up was is truly underneath the armour. Once the body becomes
flexible it starts to release pent up emotions and helps to correct
defects in the posture caused from old injuries over the years. The
body very soon becomes more agile and lighter and a sense of wellbeing
and confidence takes over. This is when the alchemical changes begin.
It frees us of disease and brings the body, mind and soul together
in harmony.
Now more than ever people need a place in
this unsettled world, to go and feel calm and stillness within themselves.
What better way than on a yoga Holiday with Sue.
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