Australian Week of Yoga is an inspiring initiative by Yoga Australia, the peak body representing yoga teachers, therapists, and trainers across the country. This special week honours the invaluable role yoga professionals play in nurturing the health, wellbeing, and spirit of our communities. For decades, Australian yogis have helped shape the cultural landscape by bringing ancient wisdom from the East to our shores. Today, we’re privileged to stand on the shoulders of these pioneers and this week, we celebrate their legacy and the vibrant yoga community they helped create.

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    Yoga is not a Religion

    To call yoga simply a religion is too blunt, just as calling it ‘just exercise’ is too shallow. Yoga is better understood as a disciplined path of human development arising within a larger philosophical and cosmological vision of life. Yoga does not isolate the body from the mind, the mind from character, or character from consciousness. It offers a whole vision of human possibility. For this reason, yoga is best understood not as a religion in the narrow and sectarian sense, but as one of humanity’s great paths of inner development, self-knowledge, and freedom. Yoga is best understood as a methodology for self-awareness, inner refinement, self-mastery, and ultimately liberation.

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    In Memory of Ailsa Gartenstein

    Ailsa Edith Gartenstein taught yoga across Brisbane for half a century, and she passed on 28 November 2025 at the age of ninety-two. During Yoga Week, her students remember a teacher who lived what she taught. The teachers she trained are in their rooms across Brisbane, turning up and learning and handing on what she handed them, the same willingness she brought to every conference now theirs to keep. She made yoga an ordinary part of a well-lived life, and a great many lives are better for it. Yoga Australia thanks Ailsa Gartenstein for half a century of making yoga available to the everyday Brisbane person, and for the teachers she leaves to hand it on.

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