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Our mission:

To assist students in the development of physical, mental, and spiritual well-being in a non-competitive and encouraging atmosphere.

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Melton Yoga Timetable

Melton Yoga teaches a heart-oriented, spiritually inspiring style of contemporary Hatha Yoga, grounded in a deep knowledge of anatomy and optimal body alignment. Students are encouraged to listen to their body, respect its wisdom, and to progress at their own pace.

Every Yogasana class, a Yoga exercise class during which Yoga postures or poses are practiced, includes breath awareness, relaxation and meditation.

Class descriptions can be found under Classes.

You can download the timetable onto your device, by right clicking on the timetable and selecting "save image as."

Class Descriptions

Our studio offers you the use of a variety of props to provide you with the best possible yoga experience.

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Beginners Yoga

Melton Yoga offers Beginners Yoga classes from which you can progress to Power Flow. Although every class includes breath awareness and relaxation, the main focus of these classes are yoga exercises or Yogasana.

These classes are designed for beginners (those completely new to yoga), but they are also suitable if your fitness level is poor, if you are returning to exercise after a break, or following recovery from an illness or injury. In beginner’s Yoga you learn to connect to your core, your breath, and your bandhas. You also learn how to position your joints to protect them during Yogasana (Yoga postures or exercises). For those who would like to move on, you can then practice and deepen your knowledge in Power Flow. Beginner’s Yoga is suitable for all shapes, sizes and fitness levels. If on completion of 10-Beginner’s Yoga classes you don’t want to move on, you don’t have to, you can stay in beginners as long as you would like. If you would like to move on to Power Flow but are not yet fit enough you might like to try Group Reformer classes. If you would prefer something gentler than Beginner’s Yoga you might like to try Yin Yoga instead.

What do Beginners Yoga Classes cover?

  • Surya Namaskar – The Core Yoga Flow learnt pose by pose

  • Breath awareness

  • Energy Locks

  • Relaxation

  • Meditation

What will I learn about The Core Yoga Flow?

  • The English and Sanskrit names of The Core Yoga Flow

  • The anatomy of your core and breathing

  • Ideal posture

  • Functional shoulder movement

  • How to strengthen and protect wrists and and knees

  • Bending forwards and backwards safely

  • Contraindications – when a yoga pose might be unsafe

How will I remember what I learn?

  • Through persistence and a commitment to practice

  • You will get the best results if you commit to both a regular studio and home practice.

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Power Flow

What do Power Flow Classes Cover?

  • Learn to Power Flow Classes offer you the opportunity to practice, expand and refine what you learnt in Beginner’s Yoga.

  • Surya Namaskar – The Core Yoga Flow as a Vinyasa (movement with breath)

  • The Core Yoga Poses

  • Pranayama and Bandhas

  • Mantra and Mudra

  • Meditation

What will I learn about the Core Yoga Poses?

  • The English and Sanskrit names of the Core Poses

  • Essential anatomy for Yoga

  • Correct alignment – how to position your joints to protect and strengthen them

  • Contraindications – when a yoga pose might be unsafe

  • The many and varied physical, mental and emotional benefits of the poses

How will I remember what I learn?

  • Through persistence and a commitment to practice

  • You will get the best results if you commit to both a regular studio and home practice.

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Yin Yoga

Yin Yoga classes include meditation, traditional Yin Yoga poses, and flowing movements inspired by Tai Chi.

The Yin Yoga experience is shaped by the Taoist concepts of Yin & Yang and express 4 powerful energies: the Dragon, Tiger, Ninja, and Monkey. These energies have traditionally been used for health and mind-body harmony.

Some of these practices will challenge you to move in new ways but everything is done within a comfortable range of motion and at a relaxed pace - all levels welcome.

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Prenatal Yoga

Prenatal Yoga runs as an 8-week course and is advertised on this website under Short Courses, in studio, and on Facebook/Instagram.

This short course is particularly suitable for the last 8-weeks of pregnancy. But you can attend at any point of your pregnancy and repeat the course if you would like to. Birthing partners are encouraged to attend at no charge.

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Meditation - Moving into Stillness

At the very center of our being… beyond thought… emotion… or physical sensation… is Self… Atman… our Soul…

We recognize our Self… because the Self is a place of stillness… of deep peace… and loving compassion… and when we are in that place… we are at once everywhere… and nowhere… everything… and no thing… we are at one not just with our Self… but with all that is…

The intention for this class is to move into stillness… But how do we do that..? How do we connect with our Self..?

The practice of Hatha Yoga… as described in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika… yokes or joins together… the physical or gross… so the body and the mind… with the metaphysical or subtle… the spirit or soul… so the manifest or tangible… with the unmanifest or intangible…

And the yoke is the breath…

Hatha Yoga integrates mudra… mantra… pranayama… and bandha… with specific asana to facilitate a journey from and through movement… to an experience of deep inner stillness…

Moving into Stillness runs as a short 4-week course. Course dates will be advertised on this website under Short Courses, in studio, and on Facebook/Instagram.

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Sound Journeys with Reiki

Sound Journeys with Reiki are Melton Yoga’s homegrown Sound Bath/Sound Meditation/Sound Healing. Relax to the sounds of Japanese temple bells, Tibetan bowls, crystal singing bowls, gongs, chimes, poetry, mantra, and silence.

Reiki will be channeled throughout the session by Jon, a level 2 Reiki practitioner.

Sound Journeys are a special event and run once a month on the Saturday closest to the full moon. Dates are pre-released in groups of 3.

Special events are advertised on this website under Events, in studio, and on Facebook/Instagram.

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Private Classes

A Private Class allows you to ask all the questions you need to ask but often don’t get a chance to. If you are confused about alignment or not sure whether a particular pose or exercise is right for you, or want to learn to meditate but don’t know where to begin or just want to relax but don’t know how, a Private Class is the answer. Come away with a completely personalized Yoga or Pilates program designed for your body and goals.

Bookings:

  • Bookings are essential.

  • To book please text 0403 822 446.

Cost:

  • 1-to-1 PC $110/hour.

  • Bulk Purchase 4 classes for $360 (save $80).

Pay via: PayID, direct bank transfer or cash. We do NOT offer credit card facilities.

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Corporate Wellness

Are you looking for a lunchtime well-being activity or a team bonding  workshop with a difference?

Book our Spacious and Calm Yoga/Meditation Hall, with our 1300-hour qualified Yoga Teacher (Advanced Diploma), or fully equipped Pilates room, with government accredited Pilates Instructor, and feel the difference!

  • $180/hour

  • Maximum of 12 per class.

  • Bookings are essential

To Book: please call or text your enquiry to Caroline on 0403 822 446.

Thank you!

Short Courses

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Prenatal Yoga

Saturday February 15th - Saturday April 5th, 11 - 11:45 AM

Ideal for the last 8-weeks of your pregnancy - give or take a week or two! But can be attended at any stage of your pregnancy and repeated if you would like to. Repetition will help with integration of the tools and techniques you will learn to support your birthing.

The Yoga of Birthing - an 8 Week Course

  • Week 1: Love

  • Week 2: Strength

  • Week 3: Fear

  • Week 4: Breath

  • Week 5: Energy

  • Week 6: Expectations

  • Week 7: Happiness

  • Week 8: Surrender

Each week we will explore the topic listed for that week, and how it applies to your birthing, through breath, meditation, asana, mantra, and mudra. Join all 8 weeks, or do just the weeks you that you can. Your birthing partner/support person is welcome to attend with you (cost is per person/couple - so partner/support person attends at no charge).

Where: Melton Yoga Factory 4 at 10 Collins Rd

Cost: $25 per class or use your class pass

Bookings are essential. Please text Caroline on 0403 822 446 to book your space.

Special Events

Yoga Poetry Circle

Join Amanda Racanovic of Kindred Circles, Saturday 1st of Feb for a Poetry Circle, Yin Yoga, and Woman's Circle; 3 - 5PM; cost $20.

Amanda is a gifted poet whose collection of poems, presented in her book Rising in Love, captures the heart, and takes you on a journey of self-discovery. Amanda will read a selection of her poems, then guide you through a Yin Yoga practice, before rounding up the event with a Sacred Women's Circle.

Sound Journey with Reiki

Saturdays Feb 15th; March 15th; April 12th - 3-4:30PM at Melton Yoga 4/10 Collins Rd.

General Public: $35; Current Students: use your class pass (one class); Movement Club: included

Relax to the sounds of Japanese temple bells, Tibetan bowls, crystal singing bowls, gongs, chimes, poetry, mantra, and silence.

Reiki will be channelled throughout the session by Jon, a level 2 Reiki practitioner.

Bookings are essential - text 0403 822 446 to book. These events regularly book out, so please book as soon as you can.

Meet our Team

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Jon - Co-Director and Lead Yoga Teacher

I am a Yoga Australia Level 1 Yoga Teacher and meditator of 25-years and hold the Yoga Alliance International Holistic Meditation® Teacher Diploma (2015). I am a graduate of Transcendental Meditation® (1993) and the Silva Method™ (2003); and an Akido practitioner of more than 20-years. I was graded Shodan by Seiichi Sugano Sensei in 1991. My interest in yogasana was sparked when Caroline began her Yoga Teacher training. My curiosity translated into a regular yogasana practice following gains in strength, flexibility and coordination that have greatly enhanced my Aikido practice.

I completed my Yoga teacher training following the traditional path of a 6-year apprenticeship at Melton Yoga within the Yoga Australia teacher training framework.

In 2020 I completed Jennifer Crescenzo’s (Muse in Motion) 60 hour Yin Yoga Teacher training certification (30 hours of Yin fundamentals and 30 hours of Yin sequencing).

I then went onto complete my Reiki practitioner certification Level 1 (2020) and Level 2 in (2021).

I feel Yoga offers another path to continued self-development.

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Caroline - Founder, Co-Director and Lead Meditation Teacher

Caroline is an experienced Yoga Teacher, a certified Pilates Instructor/Clinical Pilates Instructor, and Remedial Massage Therapist.

I have a left sided sacralisation and experienced lower back pain and a reduction in the range of movement and flexibility in my left hip and lumbar spine from a young age. Already a regular meditator I discovered Yogasana at age-14, and began practicing yogasana and Pilates regularly in my 20s. My daily yogasana/Pilates practice has strengthened my lower back, maintained my flexibility and kept me relatively pain free. As a medical scientist I gained a comprehensive understanding of human anatomy and physiology, and musculoskeletal pathologies and their associated pain mechanisms. I went on to study Remedial Massage at Victoria University before studying to become a Yoga Teacher through CAE in Melbourne.

I have practiced complete-Yoga (asana, pranayama, and meditation) for more than 40-years and I am a graduate of the Silva Method™ (1992) and Transcendental Meditation® (1993).

  • Caroline’s Adult Yoga qualifications include: Silver Age Yoga Teacher certification through SAYCO (2009); Adv. Dip. Y.T. (1300 hours) through CAE  and the Academy of Yoga Learning (2010); Hypnobirthing Certification (2012); Prenatal Yoga Teacher Certification through Anahata Giri (2013).

  • Caroline’s Children’s Yoga qualifications include: Foundation and Advanced Certificates in Kid’s Yoga Teaching through Zenergy Yoga (2011).

  • Caroline’s Pilates qualifications include: Stott Essential, Intermediate, and Advanced Group Reformer training (2012); Stott Injuries and Special Populations training (2012); Certificate IV Pilates Instructor (2020); Clinical Pilates Instructor (2020).

  • Caroline’s other qualifications include: BSc. (Hons., 1989), MSc. (Medical Science, 1991), Dip. R.M.(2007).

The Journey

The Journey

We opened the doors of Melton Yoga on Monday January 10th, 2011, on Smith St in Melton. The studio quickly outgrew the space, so a year later we moved to Unitt St, Melton, where the studio continued to grow, becoming Melton Yoga and Pilates in 2014, and further expanding to include Melton Aikido in 2024.

The initial success of Melton Yoga and Pilates was in part due to our committed and passionate group of yogis and Pilates enthusiasts and a wonderful team of teachers including Jon (who is now the lead Yoga teacher), Kim, Krystina, Clare and Rene.

But then COVID...

We survived! And not just in part, but largely because of, our committed and passionate yogis and Pilates practitioners!

We learnt many lessons during COVID and moved and expanded in 2023. And we are now hopeful that we will rebuild both our beautiful team of teachers, and our community of guest teachers and workshop presenters, so we can start to offer you all the opportunities and experiences that you enjoyed pre-covid.

Today, 14 years later, the studio is split across two warehouses at 10 Collins Rd, Melton. Melton Pilates (factory 3) and Melton Yoga (factory 4).

Our beautiful Yoga studio now includes Melton Yoga, Melton Meditation Centre and Melton Aikido. Our Yoga and Meditation Hall is spacious and calm, and the studio includes a meditation cell for those who would like to experience sitting in isolation for meditation, prayer, contemplation or simply some time alone (me time).

Besides Yogasana (Beginner's Yoga and Power Flow) and Pranayama classes, we also offer, Sound Journeys with Reiki, Meditation Classes (Moving into Stillness) and special events, both those run by us, but also events and workshops run by visiting teachers.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • For the comfort of all participants please do not come to class smelling of strong perfume/aftershave/deodorant and/or cigarette smoke. If you smoke do not smoke in the clothes you wear to class.

  • Please ensure that mobile phones are switched off or on silent.

  • Classes start and finish on time. As a courtesy to the teacher and other students please arrive 5 to 10-minutes before the start of the class to allow yourself time to settle in.

  • Please practice mauna when you arrive for Yoga classes. Mauna (sacred or noble silence) is a practice of pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses) the 5th yogic limb. The practice of pratyahara teaches us to quiet our mind and internalize our awareness enabling us to see and feel at a deeper level making us more sensitive to others and the energy around us.

  • Please stay for the entire class. If you need to leave early please speak to the Yoga teacher before class starts.

  • The studio door will be unlocked 15-minutes before the class start time and the door will be propped open. The door will be closed and locked at the start of class.

  • If you do find yourself running late don’t rush – this is your time – take time to settle yourself in, however, once the studio door has been locked students will not be permitted to enter the class unless they have contacted the teacher via text and reached an agreement beforehand.

  • Melton Yoga does not offer Prenatal Yoga Classes as a general class. It runs as a special 8-week course when enough students are registered (max 12 per class). And is best undertaken in the final 8-Weeks of your pregnancy.

  • The next date for Prenatal Yoga is TBA.

  • Caroline holds both prenatal Yoga and Hypnobirthing certifications.

  • Yoga is best practiced on an empty stomach. Your last big meal should be 1 to 2-hours before class unless a specific medical condition prevents this.

  • When you arrive at the studio please remove your shoes in the studio foyer and place shoes and bags in the pigeon holes provided.

  • Please pay the teacher/get you class pass punched and take this opportunity to advise the teacher of injuries/health concerns/pregnancy.

  • Wear comfortable loose (not baggy) or stretchy clothing.

  • Yoga and Pilates are practiced in bare feet. please remove your shoes in the studio foyer and place shoes and bags in the pigeonholes provided.

  • For hygiene reasons: please do not walk into the main studio areas while wearing shoes.

  • Please avoid wearing watches and tight belts. Also, avoid wearing jewellery. Jewellery that might catch in the studio equipment and injure you or damage them.

  • If you are a new student please bring a completed registration form or fill one out on arrival.

  • Please arrive at your first class 15-minutes early so the teacher can go through the form and show you around.

  • There are studio yoga mats and blankets available for use – however, if you have your own please bring them.

  • The studio floors are concrete – strictly no glass in the studio. Please feel free to bring a metal water bottle, however, glass bottles, drinking glasses and ceramic cups are not to be brought to class.

  • In hot weather please bring a small hand towel.

  • Eye-bags are supplied for relaxation. For hygiene reasons always place a tissue from the box provided between your eyes and shared eye-bags. If you have your own eye-bag please bring it.

  • The studios have an adjoining toilet and small change area.

  • To be treated with respect and compassion by both the teacher/instructor and the other students.

  • To practice in a non-competitive atmosphere where you progress at your own pace.

  • To learn to accept yourself for who and where you are, and treat your body with love and ahimsa (non-violence).

  • Everyone – regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, experience, and flexibility.

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Address

4/10 Collins Rd, Melton VIC 3337, Australia

Phone

+61403 822 445

Email

meltonyoga@ihug.com.au

ABN

27328718763

Operating Hours

Monday 5-9PM
Tuesday 9-11AM 5-9PM
Wednesday 5-9PM
Thursday 9-11AM 5-9PM
Friday Closed
Saturday 9-11AM
Sunday Closed