Consider this your official Happy Buddha love note 💌. Once a month, we share inspiration from our Happy Buddha Retreats crew — exploring themes of yoga, life, and joy. This edition comes from the Alli ~ our bookkeeper and quiet powerhouse behind the scenes. My name is...
Consider this your official Happy Buddha love note 💌. Once a month, we share inspiration from our Happy Buddha Retreats crew — exploring themes of yoga, life, and joy. This edition comes from the Khanh ~ one of our beloved crew and long-time friend of Happy Buddha. It...
Consider this your official Happy Buddha love note 💌. Once a month, we share inspiration from our Happy Buddha Retreats crew — exploring themes of yoga, life, and joy. This edition comes from the Gil ~ one of our cherished crew members and facilitator of the...
Ever noticed how time slows down a little up here? The mountain air feels cleaner, the stars a little brighter, and the mind... a little quieter. If you’ve ever left Happy Buddha Retreats thinking, “I wish I could bring more of this into my everyday life,” you’re not...
Consider this your official Happy Buddha love note 💌. Once a month, we share inspiration from our Happy Buddha Retreats crew — exploring themes of yoga, life, and joy. This edition comes from the gorgeous and grounded Vanessa—retreat yoga teacher and Blue Mountains...
Consider this your official Happy Buddha love note 💌. Once a month, we share inspiration from our Happy Buddha Retreats crew — exploring themes of yoga, life, and joy. This edition comes from Yara, our radiant resident chef. At just 24, she brings soulful wisdom and...
Yoga, Lunch, Nature & Clarity — and all Before 5pm There’s something quietly powerful about pressing pause. Tucked in the Blue Mountains at Wentworth Falls, Happy Buddha’s half-day retreat offers a soul-soothing circuit-breaker — a few unhurried hours of movement,...
We all dream of getaways but sometimes even a 2-night retreat away can feel out of our reach… And if you feel like you can’t be inspired by just one day away, we can prove you wrong. It may not always be feasible to fly across the globe to unwind at a Yoga Retreat....
Consider this your official Happy Buddha love note 💌. Each month, we share an inspired reflection from someone in our Happy Buddha Retreats community. This Musing comes from Claire (or CC, as we affectionately call her), our freelance marketer and long-time retreat...
Consider this your official Happy Buddha love note 💌. Welcome to our monthly inspiration drop — a love note from the mountains exploring themes like yoga, life, and joy. This edition comes from Athil, the heart behind Happy Buddha Retreats. A yoga teacher, rhythm...
Consider this your official Happy Buddha love note 💌. Welcome to our monthly mountain missive – a space for inspiration, reflection and gentle reminders to live with joy and intention. This edition is from Natalie Ristoski – yogini, retreat facilitator, and founder of...
Consider this your official Happy Buddha love note 💌. Once a month we share our current inspiration, covering topics like yoga, life and joy. We’ll also provide writing prompts, motivation, or simply food for thought… for you to ponder over the month ahead. These...
Letting go. It’s a gentle, soft sounding idiom that floats frequently from the lips of yoga teachers, weaves itself through the texts of ancient yogis, and has no doubt made an appearance or two on your social media feed. But what does it really mean? Let go of what,...
The term 'digital detox' is buzzing around more than ever. Why? Perhaps because our lives are becoming increasingly impossible to detangle from technology. From our phones and laptops, social media to Netflix - we're constantly being surrounded by screens vying for...
Seasons are a natural way to self-regulate, and now with Winter around the corner it’s time to slow down…
Yoga Nidra first entered my life whilst travelling. I was visiting a tiny Peruvian town full of alternative healing wonders. Upon seeing a poster for Yoga Nidra class I thought, why not? The sleeping woman pictured looked blissful. I was the only participant later...
2020 was a year of hurdles, shocks and radical change, for all of us – and on many levels. It was an unprecedented year that many of us are still recovering from to varying degrees. With the initiation of any new year, we move to set goals and resolutions. Though,...
According to many schools of Eastern philosophy, on the most basic level our bodies are made of energy. This energy structures itself into our physicality, emotions and thoughts… but before this, it structures itself into meridians and chakras. In other words,...
Yoga is an amazing practice. Its deep, ancient wisdom carries the potential to benefit anyone. This beautiful tool heals and strengthens both body and mind. A wonderful perk is that yoga requires no equipment, except for the body. Still, there are yoga accessories...
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if creative ideas flowed effortlessly any time we needed them? Unfortunately, for most of us this is not the reality. We often feel stuck, replaying the same situations in our minds again and again with the same results (or lack of results)....
When we need to make a decision, we often ask everyone around us what to do. We ask our friends, our families, the experts, strangers and even our dogs, but we forget to ask ourselves. Yet, deep inside, we all have the answers. It’s just matter of being quiet long...
There’s no denying the magic of lazy summer days. You know, the ones where soft sand calls our name, and we spend our eating fruit and drinking in sunlight. It’s the time of the year where adventure beckon us, to create some of our most treasured memories... On the...
At Happy Buddha Retreats, we look to the yogic principle of ahimsa; meaning “non-violence” - to guide how we treat ourselves, each other and our planet. This is why we’re all about practising small acts of kindness around the Happy Buddha home that benefit the earth...
Happy Buddha is on TV!Talk about happiness!! In the midst of winter a film crew retreated with us and here's the final result. We can't thank Angie Hilton and the crew from Destination Happiness enough for having a laugh and experiencing what it's like to...
Feel renewed after some time in the bush? Find out how to use the nature connection to boost mood and restore mental energy.
Is there anything more endearing than watching a baby bop up and down to a tune on the radio? As humans, we are born with an innate joyful response to music. We naturally tap our feet, hands and bob our heads when a good song comes on. But somewhere along the way we...
If you have spent any time in the Blue Mountains, you will know that there is a special kind of energy in this area. We look into the indigenous heritage of the area….
‘What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.’ ― John Steinbeck While our neighbours in the northern hemisphere move into summer this weekend, June 22 brings us the Winter Solstice. A solstice describes the annual moment when the...
"IGNITE YOUR SPIRIT" ~ Our new tagline. But what does this mean, we hear you ask? Do you want me to set myself of fire, I hear you ask? Well, not literally, but metaphorically, YES! Come sit down with us beside our beautiful cosy Happy Buddha fireplace and we will...
Sometimes when we wake up in the morning, our alarm screaming at us, and responsibility smacking us in the face… it seems like we’re immediately being forced to run a hundred-meter hurdle race. Flannelette pyjamas flailing in the wind as we rush around our busy...
Spotted at Happy Buddha Retreats, this bee, doing what he does best!!
"Your attention is your currency, practice how you spend it, save it, give it." - Elena Brower Living with Intention This morning a kookaburra sat on my veranda for close to an hour. He was completely still – but far from idle – his attention never strayed from the...
Mindfulness is very much a buzzword in our society today. People today live life at a much faster pace than every before, thanks to instant connection and instant messaging, and mobile phone technology meaning that people are somehow ‘on’ all the time. The lines...
Derived from Hatha yoga, the practice of Yin yoga is based on the Taoist concepts of Yin and Yang; the opposite and complementary principles of reality. Simply put; as an energetic state, yin is feminine. It’s stability, passivity, downward moving and cold. Yang on...
Chia seeds are native to Mexico and Guatemala and come with an ancient history. They were staple crops in the Aztec and the Mayan civilization and, for a period of time, they were even used as a form of currency. The word ‘chia’ is said to originate from Mayan meaning...
Are you currently in a relationship? Whether you’re married or dating, at times your connection with each other can suffer. Most times it’s no fault of your own, it’s the result of not having adequate time to focus on spending that high quality time together. One of...
According to many of the great Eastern spiritual traditions, our inner awareness or energy is exactly the same as the energy that creates and sustains all life. If we quieten our mind we can sit within this energy, experiencing stillness and a deep sense of peace. In...
In our modern world, it seems that our pursuit of high achievement can sometimes detour us from true and lasting happiness. But what if there was a way for you to use yoga to increase both? Your Yoga Retreat: Downshift To Dominate That’s right… in order for you to...
It's easy to rattle off the main functions of our physical bodies without encountering much debate at all. You may have noticed however, it's not the same case when we look at the Mind. In fact, it’s quite baffling to consider the different ideologies surrounding the...
When it comes to you deciding to kick start your healthy lifestyle… step one right out of the gate is to change your thinking. Just like that pic above says… same old thinking, same old results. So if you’re looking for a fast track to change your thinking and give...
“Dare to be selfish first so that you can become truly selfless always.” Jason “J-Boom” Legaard This is a quote that tends to shake up a lot of people when they read it for the first time. The initial reaction is wait a minute… be selfish first? But we’ve all been...
When people think of yoga, the first thing that comes to mind is impressive flexibility and body contorting postures. But did you know that stretching with a yoga practice can help you also push beyond your limiting beliefs? Stretching For Success If you’re like most...
Ahhhh the new year has arrived and we’re all fired up and excited about our new year resolutions. This is going to be YOUR YEAR right?! At least that’s what you’re thinking right now I’m sure. But what if you could learn to stop in order to go, go, go? Because in...
What if you could travel to a weekend getaway for 3 days and by the time you left for home, you’d gained a community of inspiration? Imagine walking away from your experience knowing you’ve connected with your own go-to group of high minded friends. With the hustle...
How many mornings do you wake up feeling like you’ve been hit by a tidal wave of anxiety? For most, I’d guess that it happens far more than they’d like. And in this world of so much to do with too little time, how can you end the onslaught of anxiety using...
The highs of life mean that inevitably, there will also be lows. Though this fact alone usually doesn't tend to bring us solace, darker times almost always lead us to a place of metamorphosis, depth and growth. They draw out our otherwise untested inner strength, love...
What if you woke up tomorrow and the only thing on your agenda was… Nothing. Absolutely nothing. For most of us, that might be quite the shock to our system. In fact, we might even have ourselves a little breakdown from not being busy. But what if mastering the art...
Go, go and go. We never seem to have even a moment to spare for ourselves… it’s all about striving and grinding for the next big win in our lives. And for most high achievers, that next big win never seems to be quite enough. But what if stepping back and slowing...
Are you feeling sluggish as you return to work after lunch? Do you feel more aches and nagging pains then you have before? Or does your body feel like a tightly coiled spring of stress ready to burst? If so, it might be time to put your health puzzle back together...
When you think of the benefits of yoga, the first thing that normally rushes to mind would be increasing your flexibility am I right? All those flowing stretches and extending and holding a variety of yoga postures awakening a vibrant elasticity to your body. But...
