Join us and celebrate New Year’s Eve and Day with ceremony, kirtan, yoga, sound healing and a sound and movement workshop. This will be a powerful and soulful way to release 2024 and call in our dreams and visions for 2025 and also offer our collective prayer to nature and the wellbeing of all.

You can come for the whole program (New Year’s Eve + Day) or New Year’s Eve night or New Year’s Day only. 

BYO camping if you wish to spend the night, even if you don't join the day program. Limited Hut or room accommodation will be available. That would incur an additional cost. Please email contact@meandervalleyyoga.com to request this and check availability.

The evening is a family friendly event; parents/carers need to watch their children at all times to ensure a safe and respectful environment for all. The day program is not suitable for children. 

31 Dec: New Year’s Eve Dinner, Havan & Kirtan:

6pm Dinner

7.30pm Havan (mantra ceremony)

8.45pm Kirtan

10pm Break with chai + prasad.

10pm - 12.15am Kirtan + New Year celebration

This special event begins with a delicious vegetarian dinner followed by a mantra ceremony (havan) giving us a potent opportunity to let go of what no longer serves us and invite in what we want for 2025 to keep growing spiritually.

There will be an extended period of kirtan (singing mantra together) to help us raise our vibration on into 2025. Kirtan is a joyful and simple way to calm a busy mind and transform stress into a state of peace, joy and deep inner connection.

Members of the local community will also be offering kirtans and percussion - Let Karuna or Sivapriya know if you wish to get involved! 

This is a safe space to feel, let go, release and express whatever you need to through these yogic practices. No previous yoga or singing experience required! 

1 Jan: New Year’s Day Yoga, Sound & Movement Workshop + Sound Healing:

8am Gentle Hatha Yoga with sound + live music

9.15am Warm nourishing breakfast

10am Karma Yoga

10.45am Sound & Movement Workshop

1pm Lunch

2.30 - 4pm Yoga Nidra Sound Healing

Rejuvenate body and mind with a gentle morning Hatha yoga session with sound and live music. After a nourishing breakfast, learn some simple take-home sound (nāda) yoga practices, which are great for calming the nervous system, energising your chakras and pranic body, and uplifting your emotions. 

In the morning workshop, you will also be exploring integrative mindful movement to help free up your energy flow and your singing voice, bringing a deeper sense of embodiment into how you move through life. Be held, surrounded by nature, in a supportive and non-judgemental environment so that you can feel safe to freely explore and express yourself. This will be a beautiful opportunity to uplift your vibration, open your voice and expand your hearts through sound, mantra and movement practices.

This workshop is suitable for those who have had some prior experience as well as absolute beginners who might feel very shy about singing! Nāda Yoga, the yoga of union through sound, helps purify and harmonise our gross and subtle energy fields in alignment with our natural vibration.

After lunch, lie down and receive a wonderful mantra yoga nidra sound healing for deep rest, release, and renewal. Instruments include Tibetan singing bowls, harmonium, crystal singing bowls and sansula.

Benefits of Yoga, Mantra, Kirtan & Yoga Nidra:

• Rebalances and restores our energy.
• Improves mood and wellbeing
• Decreases stress, anxiety and depression.
• Increases our feeling of connection to ourselves, others and the world
• Reconnects us to our joyful and blissful nature.
• Cultivates compassion for self and others.
• Regulate breathing, heart rate and blood pressure and settles the nervous system
• Makes us smile!

More about Geeti & Gyan

Geeti & Gyan are a kirtan and conscious music duo who bring a joyful presence to their innovative fusion of mantra, heart song, meditation, yoga and sound healing to celebrate the beauty of the heart. They love offering inclusive spaces through their music and facilitation which support people to relax, let go, express, heal and feel deep nourishment and peace.

Geeti is a certified Nāda Yoga teacher with the ‘Heart of Sound’ teacher training. She continues her music and vocal training with her teacher Sudhanshu Sharma. She holds a diploma of sound healing and is also a qualified Soul Motion conscious dance and Kiryuho movement facilitator.

Gyan (Gyanananda or Jon Parry) is an accredited hatha and mantra yoga and meditation teacher, kirtanist and singer-songwriter. He also holds a diploma of sound healing.

Geeti & Gyan’s original East-meets-West conscious music fuses contemporary and traditional kirtan and mantra with uplifting English lyrics, and features vocals, guitar, harmonium, sitar, cajon, manjira and flute.

They are based in Sydney and offer regular classes, workshops and retreats both in person and online and also love invites! They are core members of the Northern Beaches based kirtan group “Sound Samadhi”.

They look forward to releasing some of their recently recorded music soon. For more information: www.geetiandgyan.com

What people say:

“It was so awesome. Loved the gentle movement. The yoga nidra was the best I’ve ever had and well needed.” (Emma)

“Loved Geeti and Gyan. Friendly and loving energy coming from them. Beautiful music and yoga perfect for our needs. The yoga nidra and sound was the best!” (Kaz)

“Thank you (Geeti) from the bottom of my heart. You inspired me to think differently yesterday. All my life I've believed and been told I can't sing in tune so don't bother. Now I will bother and listen with different ears guided by your experience that can release my voice. How liberating and magical that thought feels.” (Annette)

Early Bird Discount $15: Pay in full by 17th of December and enter code NYEEB25 when checking out.

Health Care Card Concession $10: Applies for Health Care Card holders; enter code NYEHC25. 

If both apply, enter code NYEHCEB25.