Sincere practitioners / friends are invited to deepen their practice through residential retreat. You are invited to stay on the land of Taveuni in informal traditional learning style, living together peacefully for a week or two.

This retreat is not structured, and is community led. We may practice yogasana together or individually, as the unique combinations of people and their needs and interest suggest. The yoga of relationship is at the heart of simply being together.

This gathering of friends on Taveuni is a non-commercial celebration of life and yoga, by invitation to those in the extended family / sangha of the heart of yoga. Taveuni is a largely untouched wilderness, the ‘garden island’, lush and powerful.

You can expect to contribute to karma yoga.

If you are interested please write to rosalind@heartofyoga.com.

There must be active practice connection with the Heart of Yoga in order to come on retreat.

Reflections

There was something so powerful about meeting on your land as a community. I can't describe it, but I am sure you know what I am talking about. The place was absolutely beautiful of course, but that wasn't what it was. I definitely felt a power so much stronger than the come and go system and energy of Bali earlier this year. Coming along was the best thing I could have possibly given to myself, family and community moving into this next phase of life.

I have walked away with the most powerful lessons this week being community and the importance of tribes and how we all be together. How when people come together in love and trust, naturally the most beautiful gifts that they are just pour out of them and into each other effortlessly. It became obvious to me this isn't something to be manufactured or created to "do to others." That’s what the week felt like to me — just hanging out at a friend’s house with a bunch of awesome friends — completely natural, uncontrived, human and at the same time divine. Thank you for teaching me that and helping me to feel the power and simplicity of that Mark in all of your actions.

Thank you for sharing your Yoga and helping me truly understand mine. 

—Kory McAvoy, Australia

In 2018, I went to Fiji to attend the gathering with my friend Mark, a treasure place on this earth, I have never felt more home. It was not easy but my journey of life had been taken a great turn. The rawness of Life breathing under my feet. You feel so very welcome and at ease, (or I do but I’m sure I speak for many) . You don't have to wear make up, shave or brush your hair, you can totally come as you are, you don't need to smile or know any sutras front and backwards, put your foot by your ear or be a sex goddess charisma who smells desire…you can just simply be quiet and transparent if you wish…that’s why It has been so precious […] there are no words needed actually to describe that.

—Shirin Ghoreishi, China/Sweden

Coming to stay with you both in Fiji has allowed me to embrace my feminine power and sexuality. I have broken old patterns of being manipulated by men due to my own poor self worth and lack of understanding. I am able to feel my self-worth, my power, understand the array of different feelings I experience with sacred discernment. Having an intimate relationship with myself, I am able to look out into the world and see who is right for me. I now know what I want and deserve.

—Vanessa Hollebone, New Zealand

As the two weeks of my time staying at your place went by, I found myself completely enthralled by the technology of love. As we went about our day together we did some asana, pranayama, mantra, and yantra—conceived of as pleasures, as tools that allow us to relax into our natural state, unhooked from the fitness industrial complex and the hysterical struggle to get somewhere or become someone. I loved how each aspect of practice flowed seamlessly into the next, and then flowed outwards into relationship with others, which is what the gathering of friends and family was ultimately about.

There were no exams, no mistakes, no certificates, no early starts, no doctrines, no boring meditation sessions, no competition, nothing commercial, and most of all, no hierarchy! It wasn’t like Mark was lecturing us, or being a special person at the front of the room. Rather, he passed on to us what had been passed on to him, in a very natural way, as a friend. It wasn’t like any learning or community experience I’d ever had.

—Andrew Raba