RITUAL · OCT 2026
Ritual Stars
Ritual Yoga & Pilates · Palm Beach & Robina
Our monthly note to theRITUAL COMMUNITY
Our September recap and what’s ahead for the rest of 2026
October 2026Gold CoastIssue No. 10
Ritual Stars Deepen your practice
A slow, supported forward fold at Ritual
Inside · Ritual Stars · the November intakes · Open Day in review · what we have changed
✶ Ritual School · November ✶ 200hr Yoga 13–30 Nov · 50hr Yin 27–30 Nov · a $500 deposit holds your place and opens your classes today Hold my place
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Ritual Stars

The appeal

Five classes for you. $5 for Stars.

Two Stars Foundation girls smiling, arms around each other

Practise for a purpose.

Stars Foundation

Stars Foundation mentors First Nations girls through school and into work or study. In 2025, 90% of Stars girls finished Year 12 — nationally, it is 68%.

Here is how you help: grab a Stars 5 Pack. Five classes for $99, with $5 from every pack going straight to Stars. Same practice, bigger reason.

Plus a classic raffle and more ways to give: coming soon.

In this issue

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A very full Sunday

Open Day & our 11th birthday

On Sunday 27 September we opened both studios to everyone. Eleven classes across Palm Beach and Robina — Yoga, Reformer and Mat Pilates — all free, with no pass or membership needed. 145 of you came through the doors, and eight of our teachers shared their regular Sunday classes with you.

It was the best way we could have thought to close out our birthday month. Thank you to everyone who came, and to everyone who brought someone along. If you were new that Sunday, we would love to see you again soon.

Open Day at Ritual
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First for yourself, then for others.

Ritual School · November

Most of us first come to the mat for ourselves — to move, to slow down, to have an hour that is just ours. Over time, the practice starts to shape the rest of life too. Ritual School is where you go deeper: into the practice, its philosophy, and the art of sharing it with others. Some graduates go on to teach. Many come simply to deepen their own practice.

A $500 deposit holds your place and gives you access to your classes and online learning straight away, and we are happy to work with you on a payment plan. If you would like to know more first, join our free 200hr info session on Zoom.

Practice at Ritual
How it works
$500 deposit — opens your classes and online content the same day
Payment plans available — we will work one out together
Study for your own practice first — teaching can come later, if and when it feels right
Ongoing support after you graduate, with teaching opportunities at both studios
Hold your place Free 200hr info session · Zoom
200hr Yoga Teacher Training
$4,600
or $500 down · payment plans available
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Until the intake begins

Our foundational Yoga certification, offered as a hybrid: three in-person long weekends on the Gold Coast, supported by six months of online study you can complete in your own time.

Enrol any time and you can start using your 50 class credits and online content straight away.

  • Weekend 1 · Friday 13 – Monday 16 November
  • Weekend 2 · Friday 20 – Monday 23 November
  • Weekend 3 · Friday 27 – Monday 30 November
  • Classes run between 8:00am and 5:00pm
  • 50 Yoga classes at Ritual included · 1:1 session · instructor toolkit
  • $500 deposit, then a payment plan we work out together if you would rather pay over time
  • 6 months to complete · ongoing support after you graduate

Not sure yet? Join our free 200hr info session on Zoom — meet the team, hear how the training runs and ask anything.

Course details & enrolment
Yoga Teacher Training at Ritual
$4,600Or $500 down · payment plans available

Open to everyone — whether you are brand new to Yin or already deep in the practice and ready to share it.

Alex brings together biomechanics, Traditional Chinese Medicine and acupuncture, study in Rishikesh, and Zen meditation. You will explore Yin through the body and through the energetic theory behind it.

  • 4 in-person days · Friday 27 – Monday 30 November, 8:30am–5:30pm
  • 25 Yin classes at Ritual included, online or in person
  • 10 class observations (5 for YTT graduates)
  • Yin training manual + learning platform access
  • $500 deposit, then a payment plan we work out together if you would rather pay over time
  • 6 months to complete · teaching opportunities & ongoing support
Course details & enrolment
Yin Yoga Teacher Training
$1,800Or $500 down · payment plans available
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You asked, we listened

Late cancellations
A Mat Pilates class at Ritual, seen through the doorway
A change to the late cancellation policy

We want it to be easier to keep the promises you make to yourself. Your practice only works if you can get to it — so we have made the rules bend a little more around real life.

What it was

An eight-hour late cancellation window.

What it is now

A four-hour late cancellation period.

One more thing

Those with Ritual Memberships can now cancel ANY time.

No-shows stay as they are. And this is the first of several changes you will see roll out through October — among them, more room to breathe, with class sizes reviewed across both studios, and more events for members and the wider community.

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How to begin

Memberships

New to Ritual, or met us at Open Day? There are three easy ways to keep going. A month for $99 if you have never been. A weekly membership if you already know you are staying. Three classes for $49 if you would rather have another look first.

Never been

99 Unify Month

One month of everything for $99, starting from your first class rather than the day you pay.

  • Unlimited Yoga, Mat Pilates, Barre and Reformer
  • Both studios · Palm Beach and Robina
  • One workshop during the month
  • A guest pass every week — four in all
  • New members only · one per person · no contract
Start for $99
Most popular
Two weeks free
Staying

Unify membership

Mat and Reformer, unlimited, at both studios. One free week when you join, and another after your first twelve.

  • $69 a week on the 12-week plan · $79 a week flexible
  • 5 guest passes every month
  • Free monthly workshops · 25% off everything else
  • Free seasonal challenges · pause any time
  • Balance membership from $55 a week if Reformer is not your thing
Join — two weeks free
Just looking

Passes & packs

No commitment at all. Come a few times, see whether the rooms suit you.

  • Starter Pass · $49 · any three classes, ten days
  • Discovery Pass · $99 · two weeks unlimited mat plus six Reformer
  • Hybrid 10 pack · $250 · five Reformer, five mat, three months
  • 10 mat classes $250 · 10 Reformer $300
  • Fitness Passport accepted at Robina
See the intro offers
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A slower start to the week

Restorative
Restorative Yoga at Palm Beach
A supported restorative shape

Restorative Yoga with Rose Lamont

Monday nights · Palm Beach · 5.30pm · 90 minutes

The ninety-minute Restorative class that opened in September has settled into the timetable, and it is doing exactly what it was put there to do: taking the run out of Monday. Long, fully supported holds — bolsters, blankets and blocks doing the work so your body has nothing left to brace against.

Restorative is the slowest practice we run, and the one most people underestimate. There is no effort to it and no flexibility required. You settle into a number of thoughtfully chosen postures, stay a while, and leave feeling grounded, revived and alive.

ONENinety minutes, Monday evenings, 5.30pm at Palm Beach
TWOEvery prop provided — you bring nothing but yourself
THREESuitable for absolutely everyone, including complete beginners

If one of your Open Day guests is still deciding, this is the easiest class to bring them back to.

Book Monday night
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A practice to take home

Three shapes

Twenty minutes on the floor, no class required.

Spring on the Gold Coast is when everything speeds up at once — the light, the diary, the training calendar. Three supported shapes you can set up tonight with whatever is on the couch: cushions, a folded towel, a rolled blanket. Hold still, let something else take the weight, and give the body long enough to notice.

Supported child's pose
5 minutes

Supported child's pose

Knees wide, big toes together, a bolster or a stack of cushions running along your chest so your torso is held rather than hanging. Turn your head one way for half the time, the other way for the rest. Let the jaw go.

Supported reclined twist
6 minutes

Supported reclined twist

Knees bent and dropped to one side onto a bolster — the prop is the point, so the knees land on something rather than pulling you over. Three minutes, then the other side.

Legs up the wall
8 minutes

Legs up the wall

Sit side-on to a wall, swing the legs up, shuffle your seat as close as is comfortable. A folded blanket under the hips if the low back grumbles, another under the head. Arms wide, palms up. Do nothing at all.

The one to do after a long day on your feet, or the night before something you are nervous about.

The rules, such as they are
  • If it aches, come out.
  • Props over effort, every time.
  • Hold each shape a little longer, rather than rushing through more of them.
And if you would rather someone else set it all up for you — that is what Monday nights are for.
Book Monday night
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Journeys for 2027

Retreats

Two journeys in January, both into their final places. The Everest Base Camp trek in April has already sold out.

Rose Baudin
Four places left

The Cardamom Hills — Kerala

6 – 11 January 2027

Six days in the hills of southern India with Rose Baudin and Rose Lamont. Practice twice a day, eat what grows there, and do very little on purpose. All meals, sessions and transfers included.

View the retreat →
Mitch Hunter
Sixteen places only

Arunachala

24 – 30 January 2027

At the foot of the sacred mountain of Tiruvannamalai, one of the great pilgrimage sites of self-inquiry. Strictly limited to sixteen places.

Register your interest →
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Two studios, one community

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Hatha · Vinyasa · Yin · Restorative · Mat Pilates · Reformer · Barre · Meditation. Palm Beach at 9 Palm Beach Ave; Robina at Suite 3, Easy T Centre, Level 1/514 Christine Ave.

Welcome to Ritual
One last thing

Eleven years, together.

Thank you for choosing to practise your ritual with us.

Eleven years ago we set out to make a home for Yoga and Pilates on the Gold Coast — and you are the ones who made it so.

Thank you for spending your mornings and evenings with us, for bringing your loved ones, and for sharing the practices we love.

Here’s to the next eleven years!

Rose & Sophie
Ritual Yoga & Pilates · Palm Beach & Robina