20 years of Kookaburra Creek!
Christmas Solstice Celebration
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Sunday 18 Dec 4pm-8pm Celebrate life, share your light. Join Mandy and Robert as we celebrate 20 years of Kookaburra Creek Yoga Centre, the Summer Solstice and Christmas. This free family-friendly event includes kirtan, meditation, an earth prayer, chanting, a joyful circle dance, a giving circle, some musings and reflections on 20 years of service at our beautiful sanctuary, and a shared dinner at beautiful Kookaburra Creek. Bring a gift for the giving circle, and vegetarian food to share. Come alone, come with friends, come with kids, all are welcome.
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the joy of giving and receiving
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Our annual Christmas & Summer Solstice Celebration at beautiful Kookaburra Creek in the Perth hills is a joyous event, and even more so this year as we celebrate 20 years! This event is our way of bringing together a community connected by yoga, compassion, kindness, joy and optimism for the future year ahead. Together we share our light and love for the earth, and take this moment in time to simply connect and be content.
Over the years many wonderful people have graced our studio, attended programs and retreats, and we would love to celebrate with you all at this joyful, soulful and deeply meaningful end-of-year event. Come alone, come with family, come with friends - everyone is welcome. The program is family friendly - you are welcome to bring kids, grandkids, parents, friends. The more the merrier! The program commences at 4pm with music, chanting, a solstice meditation, an earth puja (offering to the earth), followed by a giving circle where everyone receives a heart-felt gift. Following this is a yoga circle dance where we come together in a circle to sing the Gayatri and join in a solstice inspired circle dance. Giving Circle Everyone brings a gift for the giving circle which is something you've created from the heart. There is so much energy and beauty in the creation and sharing of gifts. Please make your gift yourself - it could be hand-drawn, handwritten, found in nature, planted, baked, edible (vegetarian) - so everyone leaves with an earth-friendly and meaningful gift from the heart (no plastic or waste). For the kids Within the main giving circle, kids will be invited to form an inner circle with Rainbow Pammy to give and receive a child-friendly present. Please help your kids to create something special to bring joy to the heart of another. Shared dinner Bring a plate of vegetarian food to share for a lovely, festive Christmas dinner. Summer Solstice The solstice is actually on the 22nd. We celebrate the longest day of the year early, leading up to the peak intensity of solar energy here in WA. Solstice in Latin means sun-stopping, and as we gather and pause for a moment, we feel connected to nature, each other, and to the earth itself. The ancients believed that the solstice was an important moment for meditation when the veil between this world and the spiritual grew thin. In the yogic and vedic traditions the sun is revered as a symbol of the Divine - an eternal source of light, nourishment and giver of life. Gatherings and rituals at this time are a way of harnessing the revitalising energy of the Sun, expressing our gratitude for the abundance of nature at the peak of its annual cycle and celebrating the pinnacle of our own annual cycle of growth and renewal. |
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Song to learn for circle dance
Festive Gayatri Mantra
Have the words of this song handy for the event, or even better listen along and learn it in advance! Download the pdf for the words, music and dance details.
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Om Bhuhr | Om Bhuvaha | Om Swaha | Om Maha | Om Janaha
Om Tapaha | Om Satyam | Oh Oh Om | Om Tat Savitur Varenyam Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi | Dhiyo Yonaha Pracho oh dayah “O Self-effulgent Light that has given birth to all the lokas (spheres of consciousness), who is worthy of worship and appears through the orbit of the Sun, Illumine our intellect.” Invoking (connecting to) the seven spiritual planes (lokas) of light and asking for spiritual assistance from all beings who have ever been enlightened.
This Sanskrit mantra is used by many yoga practitioners, Hindus and even Buddhists all over the world. 
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Event Details
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Sunday 18 December. 4pm-8pm. Kookaburra Yoga
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What to bring
- gift for the giving circle. Everyone to bring something (even kids) to give. It could be home-made, hand-drawn, handwritten, from nature, planted, grown, edible, baked (vegan) - so everyone leaves with an earth-friendly and meaningful gift from the heart (no plastic or waste)
- vegetarian food to share for a community dinner
20 Years of Kookaburra Yoga
Stories of the Self, Stories of the Soul, Stories of the Whole.
As part of our anniversary celebration we are putting together a compilation of stories, anecdotes and photos of all the people who been part of Kookaburra - 20 Years of Kookaburra Yoga Stories of the Self, Stories of the Soul, Stories of the Whole.
We would love to have a record of all your personal stories, memories, any photos, poems, art, anecdotes - even if our paths only crossed briefly, or deeply. Everyone who who has practiced with us, studied us, visited us, journeyed with us, has shaped Kookaburra Yoga, and contributed to the sanctuary which Kookaburra Creek has been and continues to be for many seekers on the path of life.
Please do share your experience, perhaps what Kookaburra Creek means to you, how yoga here with us has helped you or transformed some aspect of your life. It may have been in the distant past, perhaps you met the love of your life here! Perhaps your time with us was one of great healing. Whether recent, in the distant past, perhaps just briefly or more enduringly, all of the stories contribute to the whole.
Your contribution could be in the form an A4 page already formatted with your images, text etc, or you can send through the raw images and text and we will put it together. Please include your first name and approximate year/dates you attended. Whatever it is we would love to include it and will treasure it!
Thank you so much. We are so grateful to you, to everyone who has supported our work, to everyone who we have served over the years. It is a privilege and honour to live and work in a place of such profound beauty, to do our soul work, to live in harmony with our dharma and values, and to have had this opportunity to give, serve, uplift and contribute positively to the wellbeing of the people, beings and the earth in our own small way.
To be included, please send your contribution to Mabel at info@kookaburrayoga.com by the 12th January.
We would love to have a record of all your personal stories, memories, any photos, poems, art, anecdotes - even if our paths only crossed briefly, or deeply. Everyone who who has practiced with us, studied us, visited us, journeyed with us, has shaped Kookaburra Yoga, and contributed to the sanctuary which Kookaburra Creek has been and continues to be for many seekers on the path of life.
Please do share your experience, perhaps what Kookaburra Creek means to you, how yoga here with us has helped you or transformed some aspect of your life. It may have been in the distant past, perhaps you met the love of your life here! Perhaps your time with us was one of great healing. Whether recent, in the distant past, perhaps just briefly or more enduringly, all of the stories contribute to the whole.
Your contribution could be in the form an A4 page already formatted with your images, text etc, or you can send through the raw images and text and we will put it together. Please include your first name and approximate year/dates you attended. Whatever it is we would love to include it and will treasure it!
Thank you so much. We are so grateful to you, to everyone who has supported our work, to everyone who we have served over the years. It is a privilege and honour to live and work in a place of such profound beauty, to do our soul work, to live in harmony with our dharma and values, and to have had this opportunity to give, serve, uplift and contribute positively to the wellbeing of the people, beings and the earth in our own small way.
To be included, please send your contribution to Mabel at info@kookaburrayoga.com by the 12th January.
