Our Yoga Walks are an embodied awareness practice immersed in nature. Unlike a yoga class, this experiential movement practice requires no equipment. Rather than walking for exercise, Yoga Walks offer participants a guided awareness experience, utilising various yoga techniques, including yoga āsanas (physical movements), prānāyāma (breathing practices) and mindful walking meditation. 

Each 60 minute walk is unique, based on participants’ experience and ability, along with the season and current weather conditions, with the intention to support individual awareness and greater ease of self-regulation, in relation to to inner and outer conditions. No prior experience of yoga is necessary, as each walk is adapted to the individual needs of walk participants. If participants have mobility issues, walks can be adapted to meet their needs: Yoga Walks are designed to be inclusive of all, and ideal for seniors.  We take small groups of up to 10 people only.

Facilitators

Mischa Telford: Senior Yoga teacher & IAYT accredited Yoga Therapist. Mischa has designed and refined this experience over three years.

Jacqui Jarrett: Jacqui is a First Nations Yoga teacher and a proud Dharawal and Gumbaynggirr woman and Elder, known to have multiple kinship and clan links in the Sydney basin as a Sydney coastal woman.  Jacqui will facilitate a connection to Country with the combination of a grounding yoga practice, incorporating “junga-ngarraanga miinggi” (hearing, listening, learning, feeling, thinking, understanding. Knowing from the heart.). This is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about how First Nations people perceive Country, nature and our environment.

Each Yoga Walk experience is about the journey, not the destination.

WHEN: Yoga Walk dates 2024: Saturday 9 March, Saturday 13 April, Saturday 11 May, Saturday 8 June. Each walk takes place at 10-11 am.

WHERE: Yoga Walks start and end at The Gunyah, 335 Old South Head Road, Watsons Bay and the walk follows some of the Tramway Path, Gap Park. This activity is designed for seniors. Please see the FAQs here.

REGISTER: To sign up and attend any of the Yoga Walks please complete this form and waiver and we will email you a confirmation. Places are strictly limited to 10 people. This is a free activity. Yoga Walks is proudly supported by Woollahra Council. We are very grateful for their support of this project.


With the huge rise in time spent indoors and associated hours devoted to screen time, numerous studies * show the health benefits of time spent outdoors. 
Yoga Walk participants may experience a sense of deeper connection with themselves and the communities they belong to. 


”Research has shown that access to green spaces, nature-based wellbeing interventions, or a walk in a nature setting, all led to increments in positive affect and better mental health. This has led to the use of the phrase ‘Vitamin G’ (G for green) that captures the beneficial role of natural and green environments in regular doses.” Natural Benefits, Australian Psychological Society

First Nations people consider Country not as a physical environment but as “a deeply symbolic and spiritual place” (Australian Indigenous Health Info). You can read more here.

A sensory experience, externally and internally

Yoga Walks are essentially a pratyahara practice - initially expanding the 5 senses outwards before gradually drawing them inwards through awareness practices. 

The 5th of the 8 limbs of yoga, pratyahara is the often overlooked ‘bridge’ between the externally focused aspects of yoga practice, and the more internal practices of dharana - focus, dhyana - concentration and samadhi - meditation. Paradoxically, consciously widening our sensory perception, can support our ability to direct our senses inwards and gradually cultivate a mind capable of clarity.

Yoga Walks is proudly supported by Woollahra Council. We are very grateful for their support of this project.