Rocklyn, Australia
393 Dean-Barkstead Rd
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+61 353457434
I have been going to Rocklyn Yoga Ashram for over twenty years. I have always found the people to be welcoming and friendly. Rocklyn Ashram provides unique insights into yoga as a way of life. It provides skills and strategies for managing life's ups and downs and is an ideal place to retreat and solve some of life's puzzles. There is a strong emphasis on tradition yet everything is also approached in an accessible way, very beneficial to meeting the needs of contemporary people. The unique yoga programs it offers, available nowhere else, range from active and dynamic to quiet and reflective. All have the capacity to transform and renew. There is much to be learnt about yourself in this place.
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9th March 2020 - Following the Bega Valley NSW fires, I needed to reset; I enrolled in the Yoga & Meditation retreat to Reshape and rebuild patterns of positive thought and action. I live a yogic lifestyle and am an experienced practitioner but was not able to release the burdened of trauma & stress alone. The Ashram & course gave me a truly anchoring experience, I received so much more than reset. A reconnection to my own foundation and this wonderful practice of Yoga. Swami Atma's sharing of knowledge on the systematic approaches to meditation and the instilling of positivity into the moment was a gift. Thankyou from the depth of my heart. OM Carolyn Beaucaris, Yoga for Life, Sapphire Coast NSW.
I must say I was very disappointed with my stay here. I felt like a child again being chastised and order to help with Karma yoga. I was under the impression that Buddhists are welcoming and loving of all life however I felt as though I was intruding. Majority of staff especially the female Swami no: 1 was incredibly unwelcoming to the point of being rude. Volunteers or not, your visitors are the reason you are able to follow a calling that many of us do not have the luxury to follow. Show gratitude in the way of informing guests of your very high expectations before making them feel like an ignorant intruder. Very uncomfortable weekend.
The Director of this ashram, Atmamuktananda, was unfavourably mentioned in the Royal Commission on Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse. Not only did she call the victims 'provocative', she has offered no apology to any of the victims, nor addressed the recommendations of the Royal Commission. Indeed, she still refuses to converse on the matter. The yoga may be good but the culture is one of hiding abuse and ignoring criticism, and this continues to this day.
I went for a mindfulness retreat and loved the stay but it is challenging. Great vegetarian food and an experience outside of your comfort zone.
I was at the Ashram on a volunteer weekend. The person who showed me around the ashram wasn't the most friendly person, but I thought ok, that's just one person here. But really it turned out that almost everyone was like that. In fact some people were actually hostile if I didn't do something correctly, even though I'd only been there 24 hours and had never been in an ashram before. It was made very clear to me what my place in the ashram was, and that was at the bottom, and I would be treated accordingly. I believe some people actually enjoyed letting you know this. The leader of the ashram, Atma, is probably one of the coldest people I've ever met, and I think this is reflected in the behaviour of everyone else who is in the position of some sort of authority there. As a volunteer I was required to work to pay for my stay, which I initially thought was fair enough. But in doing so I had a strong sense that my only value there was in what labour I could do for the ashram, to the point it was actually quite dehumanising. Sexual and physical abuse has taken place in Ashrams before (something I learned after being there), and although nothing like that happened to me, I can very well see how it could. The culture is unfortunately ripe for it. It made me think that when you are putting your spiritual wellbeing in the hands of others who wield some power you make yourself vulnerable to abuse. And that was what I took away with me during the time there. Hardly a peaceful and healing weekend away. Needless to say I won't be going back!
I am a crisis worker and have worked with sad and desperate people for many years and not cared for myself all that well, although I have always found comfort in yoga and meditation. A few years ago I was feeling pretty broken and went to the ashram to heal. It is just something that happens - you spend a day crying to let all the sadness out. that's all. then it is gone. I was told that as I snored I had to pay for a single room and did so even though the rooms with two bunks were less money and many empty. When the day of crying came the woman who runs the ashram told me I propably had organic changes in the brain - i.e the beginnings of dementia. I paid 5.00 a day I think for glutin free food and was repremanded when I ate white rice which they said had glutin in it. However there were many peopel there with a strong spiritual practice and the food was organic and very good. Little chanting and even less meditation.
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