Evening Workshops run from 5:50pm to 8:00pm SEVEN DAYS A WEEK – 365 DAYS A YEAR

- Bring your own blindfold -

- (Doors open 15 minutes before) –

- Meet and greet for up to half an hour afterwards -

Monday – Question Tennis!

Tuesday – Tanta Tuesdays (Conscious Relating for Couples)

Wednesday – Anger Day

Thursday – Healing Inner Conflict (Parts Work/Split Brain Techniques/Opposite Energies)

Friday – Dance Celebration

Saturday – Mix Bag Saturdays (Various Body Awareness Techniques with Dance and Talk Inquiry)

Sunday – Silent Sundays

Each week has a different structure throughout the month (5 week rolling program). Additional directives appear as variations within the structure of the session.

Three core staples of the Body Awareness Workshops:

1) Question Tennis

o Participants sit facing one another, speaking either directly towards each other, or directly from themselves, with multiple variations.

o Participants speak face to face, with prolonged eye contact and open inquiry.

o The participant who is receiving (listening) is as much a part of the process. Receiving is to be done with openness, centering and grounding, allowing for it’s own process to occur.

2) Five Body Stop Dance Exercises

o Participants stay in their own place, with their eyes closed and a blindfold on.

o Music will then play. Participants are encouraged to react to the music, in whichever way feels natural for them. Music is chosen to explore the full spectrum of body awareness.

o Between each piece of music, there will be a few moments of silence. Participants are encouraged to remain with their full alert awareness and see how the experience is happening.

3) The Goldfish Awareness Movements (Interactive)

o Participants walk around the room at a pace that is slightly slower than their normal walking pace, just like ‘Goldfish in the pond’ swim around one another.

o The structure (as instructed by the facilitator) will dictate directives that bring out various feelings, experiences, insights and experiences, all helping to deepen a connection to the body.

MONDAYS – Question Tennis: Getting over the Lockdown Tingles/Healing Zoom Meeting trauma

[Full Synopsis coming soon]

Week One: One To One on a Five Way Island

Week Two: Inside Island vs. Outside Island

Week Three: Tripple Point Question Tennis!

Week Four: Power Seat – Four Way Question Tennis

Week Five: Hot Seat!

Note: Hot seat may also alternate with REVERSE hot seat.

TUESDAYS – Tantra Tuesdays: Conscious Relating Workshop

[Full Synopsis coming soon]

Week One: (A) Battle of The Sexes (B) Eye Contact Dynamics

Week Two: (A) Force of Will Dynamics (B) Mirroring and Body Awareness

Week Three: Relationship Inquiry (Three-way)

Week Four: Roles of Identify – Embodying Structures of Relating (A/B/C/D)

Week Five: Jealousy Exposure

Note: In addition to the structures mentioned above, certain weeks will work with alternating directives and inquiries. If you find you have attended a certain structure multiple times, you may ask the facilitator for alternative directives to work with within the structure.

WEDNESDAYS – Anger Day: A Moment for Shadow Work

“Anger is the purest form of energy that hasn’t been used” – Osho

[Full Synopsis coming soon]

Week One: One to One Inquiry

Week Two: One against Two

Week Three: Five Way Cyclone

Week Four: Open Horse Shoe

Week Five: The Ancestors Circle/Full Circle

Note: If you are averse to loud and aggressive music, participants are encouraged to bring ear plus and speak with the facilitator. See more under the ‘Music’ heading.

THURSDAYS – Body Awareness and Energy Practice: Resolving Inner Conflict and Opening to Parts Work

Synopsis:

One of the stables of the Focalizing Method is working with opposing energies. Essentially, there are many parts within you and allowing these parts to work as a symphony is the art of personal transformation.

You have a good side. You have a bad side. You have an intellectual side and an emotional/feeling side. You may be pulled in one direction in life, but feel conflicted by other projects and interests. Sometimes you are embodying something more masculine, other times something more feminine, and yet other times something else entirely. There are people you are drawn towards and people that repel you.

Perhaps we could go on all day with examples of inner contradictions…

When working with resolving inner conflict, we take the time to honour and acknowledge the various parts within, exploring how they have their own innate intelligence and way of being, and their own way of sitting inside your larger sense of self.

[Full Synopsis coming soon]

Week One: Resting/Working/Playing – Embodying multiple Modalities

Week Two: Spatial Awareness – Making room for what really matters

Week Three: Split Brain Techniques – Non-binary Techniques – Parts Work

Week Four: Yes/No Meditation – Exploring Opposite Energies – Exploring Boundaries

Week Five: Laughter Medicine

FRIDAYS – Dance Celebration: Resident DJ spinning tracks for Body Celebration

[Full Synopsis coming soon]

SATURDAY – Poser Posing – Mix Bag Saturdays: Various Games and Awareness Techniques (5 week rolling program)

[Full Synopsis coming soon]

Week One: Archetypal Posing – Embodying Multiple forms of Consciousness

Week Two: Judgements – Dispelling the Myth of Labels

Week Three: Tarot Movements and Embodiment

Week Four: NOT FOR KIDS GAMES!

Week Five: Sexy Saturday

Note: Because Saturday only appears for a fifth time in the month three times a year, Sexy Saturday will only run three times a year! Don’t miss it!

Dates for Sexy Saturday: [Yearly dates to be announced]

SUNDAYS – Silent Sundays:

[Full Synopsis coming soon]

Structure:

As you enter the session, soft music will be playing. Find a place to sit, either on a chair or on the floor, making yourself comfortable. Close your eyes, using a blindfold if needed, your eyes remain closed throughout the entire session.

The facilitator will announce the structure of the session, although each section will be announced, so you only need follow the instructions.

Part one: A bell will sound to mark the beginning of this section – A 30-minute guided Meditation as given by the facilitator. Simply remain with your eyes closed, sitting still, guiding your awareness in collaboration with the instructions of the facilitator. There is a five-week rolling program for the theme of the guided Meditation (see below). A bell will sound the end of this section.

Part two: 25 minutes of silence. Remain seated, as still as you can, embracing the silence. Remain open and alert to anything that arises within your experience.

Part three: 15 minutes. Music accompanies this section. It starts softly at first, then moves into something that encourages more movement. You may stand up and move your body, moving with a free flow, dancing however much in whichever way you feel to. When the music stops, it is the end of this section and you are to sit down again and become still.

Part four: Soft piano music will play for approximately 5 minutes. Sit still and listen. Embrace the silence. Remain alert to your experience.

Part Five: For approximately 40 minutes, an Osho quote will play, either from one of his discourses, or as a collection of shorter quotes. Remain still and listen. Embrace the silence.

Part Six: There will be compete silence for approximately two or three minutes.

Closing: Three Gong sounds will signal the end of the Meditation. Unlike other evening workshops, this session does NOT have space for a meet and greet afterwards. There will be no further music as participants leave and participants are encouraged to carry their silence with them.

Weekly themes for Silent Sitting guided Meditations:

Week One: Body Awareness

Week Two: Time Travel

Week Three: Heart Awareness

Week Four: Space Travel

Week Five: Self Inquiry

Each workshop has it’s own structure, however, you will recognise a few core processes which make a regular appearance in various forms.

Morning Sessions – From 7:30am to 8:30am 7 days a week, 365 day a year.

Monday – Tai Chi with Dosta

Tuesday – Yoga (Facilitator to be announced)

Wednesday – Tai Chi & Chi Gong with Dosta

Thursday – Yoga (Facilitator to be announced)

Friday – Tai Chi with Dosta

Saturday – Yoga (Facilitator to be announced)

Sunday – Nei Gong/Energy Practice with Dosta

Fees:

For weekly sessions, fees are paid by what is possible for you – “pass the hat around” donations.

This is to cover hall higher and overhead.

Once we become established in our own space full time and the full program becomes available, the following fees will apply:

Active Meditations - $5 (Dynamic/Kundalini and daily active Meditations)

Morning Sessions - $15 (All Yoga and Tai Chi/Chi Gong Classes)

Evening Sessions - $25 (All Evening workshops from 5:50pm to 8pm)

Monthly Membership - $85 (Includes participation in all active Meditations and all daily sessions)

- Express your interest in Monthly Memberships via the contact page

Individual Sessions - $190 (60 Minutes one on one session with your chosen facilitator)

Rhodium Membership – [Speak directly with the founder]

Free Participation to all Sessions for OPEN WEEK during the GRAND OPENING

Once we become established with a full-time studio of our own, MELBOURNE BODY AWARENESS will be operating from 6am to 8:30pm, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. The full program with include over a hundred different techniques of Body Awareness, Healing, Dance, Group Workshops, Perception Dynamics and Active Meditations.

Each workshop is designed to meet you where you are, to allow new growth and healing from what is happening for you and what you need next.

Note: Sessions are limited to THIRY PARTICIPANTS only, so arrive on time to ensure your place.

Yearly Events:

(B/W)itches Brew – Gathering Women of the occult

Halloween Celebration – A night of Dance, Fashion and Archetypal Embodiment

Christmas Eve/Christmas Day – A gathering for seasons greeting

New Years Eve/New Years Day Dance Celebration

The Secular Exorcism – A Collective Experience of Transformation

Tea Drinking Ceremony – An afternoon of relaxation and celebrating multiculturalism

Cacao Ceremony – A night of enlivening drinks and dance

The Prayer Burn – A Day for the Divine

Additional Events from visiting international facilitators will also be added to the program as we expand.

Register your expressions of interest in yearly events via the contact page.

Active Meditations:

Beyond the Morning Sessions and the Evening Workshops, participants are invited to join the Active Meditations. See the program for a full schedule.

Dynamic Meditation: From 6am to 7am – 7 Days a Week, 365 Days a year. (Doors open 15 minutes before, instructions start 5 minutes before).

(Overview):

Part one: Chaotic breathing, out the nose, without rhythm, without pattern.

Part two: Catharsis

Part three: With arms raised high above your head, jump up and down shouting the mantra “HOO!”

Part four: STOP! Freeze where you are

Part five: Celebrate – carry your aliveness with you throughout the day

Kundalini Meditation: From 4:30pm to 5:30pm – 7 Days a Week, 365 Days a year.

(Overview):

Part one: Allow the shaking

Part two: Dance, any way you feel

Part three: With eyes closed, sit or stand and observe

Part four: Lay down and be still

Morning Active Meditation: From 10:00am – 11:00am

(Overview):

Monday – Mandala Movements (Running/Swirling/Eye Mandala Movement/Silence)

Tuesday – Nadabrahma Meditation (Hum chanting/Hand energy movements/Silent sitting/Resting)

Wednesday – No-Dimensions Movements (Centering Movement/Whirling/Silence)

Thursday – Laughter Meditation (Laughter/Silence/Dance Celebration)

Friday – Chakra Sounds (Sevel levels of sound awareness/Silent sitting/Resting)

Saturday – Laughing Drum Stop Exercises (Warmups/Body Awareness/Dance Stop Movements)

Sunday – Silent Sitting

For all Active Meditations, doors open 15 minutes before, Instructions begin 5 minutes before. You may also speak with the facilitator afterwards, should you have any questions.

Tai Chi and Chi Gong Classes:

Tai Chi and Energy Practice is absolutely foundational for Body Awareness. As you practice, you find a new sense of grounding, you come into contact with your center and relaxation happens more naturally. Everything feels crisp.

Dosta runs Tai Chi and Chi Gong classes 7 days a week from 7:30am to 8:30am.

These classes are appropriate for all skill levels with a focus on just one or two moves from the Yang Style 24 Tai Chi form. In addition to Tai Chi, there are sessions involving Chi Gong. These run on alternating weeks on the following forms; Crane Chi Gong, 8 Brocades Qigong and Five Animals Qigong (see program and speak with Dosta for more information).

From an early age I was noticing things aren’t quite what they seem…

Being raised in a conservative Christian family, I was certainly the black sheep, causing trouble, speaking out, acting confrontational with many of the adults in my life.

After school I went to study Jazz Piano full time at the Australian National University, and for a few short years, things were tremendously colourful. I ran my own bands, learned all the tricks of jazz and composition, having many chances to make and break my friends.

But it all crashed and burned because I had something in me, something like a little black cloud in the back of my mind that haunted each moment of the day.

I turned my creative flair to graffiti and for over ten years it was my passion and outlet. It was a thrilling sport, getting into tight situations, playing cat and mouse with the cops, crossing all sorts of boundaries of society, having no regard for anyone or anything else but for my own craving for the feeling.

It all came to a head again when I almost got hit by a train – a near death experience which I walked away from without a scratch on me, but as someone who had received an undeniable wakeup call.

From there my life turned towards learning, personal development and walking the path of knowledge.

While working as a regional manager for a chain of fast-food restraints, I buried myself in as many books as I could, often attending the local book fair with a wheelbarrow.

As I walked the path of knowledge, a grew to have an immense appreciation for the importance of Meditation, which became a critical component of my daily routine. I also regularly attended the 10 day Vipassana courses in the Blue Mountains.

Meditating more, reading more, came across the work of Osho and was completely blown away. I had heard all sorts of speakers before, but this guy was something else – a rascal of existential proportions!

I knew there was a Meditation resort where he had been, a place that offered Awareness Workshops and techniques of personal transformation. I knew there would be people there, people who understood, people who lived with the deeper experiences of life, the people I longed to meet and connect with.

But I kept putting it off. I didn’t hear the call. I was someone who was set in my ways, set in my job, stuck in my lifestyle, afraid to take the step to change.

But when life knocks on the door and you ignore it, life has a way of bringing it all down around you. Which is exactly what happened, making it impossible for me to deny my next move.

I went to India to learn Meditation and Awareness Techniques at the Osho International Meditation resort.

My first time there, I was there for a total of 9 months, participating in dozens of active meditations, awareness programs and classes, learning Tai Chi, attending Awareness Intensives – some as long as 21 days!

Over the next few years, I regularly went back to Osho International Meditation Resort, becoming a qualified facilitator, meeting like-minded people, attending Awareness Intensives and all around having an absolute blast. I met people there who completely changed everything I could have ever imagined about life and soul and what it means to be alive.

I have seen it again and again; in all the various workshops I have attended, someone comes in with that look in their face, the look that says “I have tried everything else, and it didn’t work.” And as the process unfolds, the transformation happens. By the time they come out the other side, they have light emanating right out of their being, they have found something undeniable. They have that look in their face that says “Yes… this is love, this is who I am, this is my truest self...” – They are filled with a gratitude that is far deeper and far higher than anything they had known before.

I have seen people grow like this not just a few times, not even just dozens of times, but hundreds of times. At this stage it is an irrefutable fact – these techniques work!

Those years have been etched into my soul. I feel those experiences, those people, that place, from right down inside my bones. More has happened in India than I could ever talk about, and even now it brings tears to my eyes.

My story doesn’t fit into a few small words on a screen. And I have written my novel-length autobiography, which may some day yet be released.

But since my time in India, I could sense a new chapter unfolding. I could hear the call to be grounded again, living in a place and working on a core project.

In 2025 I moved to Melbourne with the sole intention of founding MELBOURNE BODY AWARENESS – a place for workshops and community, a place that offers the same opportunity that was provided to me during my time in India.

This is my core directive, my prime passion, my North Star – to be sharing all I have learned and discovered for myself, to be a facilitator for anyone who is ready to take the next step.

Melbourne is my place. This city resonates with me in untold ways and I intend to stay. I will be here for as long as it takes. Whatever it takes, mark this point here as my new beginning. Mark this moment here as my first step in the next chapter.

For you to read these words, to have found my website is nothing short of a chance coincidence. This may be the calling you have been waiting for.

MELBOURNE BODY AWARENESS needs YOU to take the next step and join the path of personal transformation. We need a juicy participant like you to bring what you are to the game. Together we can work towards a new kind of healing, a new depth of clarity, a new age of compassionate understanding.

We need YOU to join now, as an active participant who is ready to bring a higher awareness, a higher intelligence, a way of showing up that is relentless, authentic and loving.

This is my call for YOU to see something remarkable and jump at the chance to get involved in the program.

Join now and discover who you are

What is an Awareness Intensive?

Your day-to-day life lacks acute experience. You are always somewhere between profound experience, boredom and uncomfortable difficulties.

An Awareness intensive is the chance for you to get right with what needs to be right. It is a good, hard, honest look at what needs to change in your life. It is a process that provides support, within a structure that is specifically designed to allow for personal transformation.

You can process your life over years and years of therapy, sometimes flabbling around the issues, sometimes getting to the issue, many times missing the point entirely… or you can cut right to your core in a matter of moments.

An Awareness Intensive is structured to bring you into the truth of the matter in such a way as to make it undeniable. There is no more beating about the bush. There are no more excuses. It is simply a good hard hit at what really matters.

An awareness intensive also brings you new skills, new understandings, new realisations that carry over into your life. You have a sense of deep profound experience even when you’re in an every day normal kind of scenario. You no longer feel bored without the excessive stimulation and distraction of all that society has to offer. You find a new sense of grounding and peace in moments of uncomfortable difficulties. You make your way through challenges with grace and understanding.

An awareness intensive is an opportunity to grow into your higher self, to realise all that you are, to let go of everything that is holding you back.

MELBOURNE BODY AWARNESS will be bringing in international facilitators from around the world to run the awareness intensives as our capacity expands. Many of these facilitators have decades of experience, having worked in many countries, across cultures.

All Awareness Intensives include preview sessions where participants are invited to try out the techniques and get a sense of the effect. You will also have many opportunities to speak with the facilitators about the process.

Upcoming Awareness Intensives – DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED

Time Travel & Time Dilation Methods: (3 Days)

Eternity is always here and always now. You sit within the infinite vastness of time. So why is it that we so often get caught up in the little things? We are, all of us, timeless beings. So why is it that we so often get caught up in the person standing right in front?

This course works with the perception and experiencing of time in all the many ways it shows up in life. Participants are introduced to dozens of techniques of experiencing time and bringing oneself into the present moment. Touching upon both the every day moments of life and larger existential realizations, this course reveals a new way of making your way through life.

Primal De-Conditioning Awareness Intensive: (7 Days)

This course works to undo the conditioning that was place on you from birth by you parents, family and friends, local community and society at large. By following the process, participants are shown the various aspects of their conditioning that are impressing upon them. Participants see how a voice is following them, how a behaviour is repeating itself, how a feeling is holding back higher growth. The Primal De-Conditioning Awareness Intensive tears away layers and reveals the pure self within, the self that has been with you since before you were born.

The Rebel Awareness Intensive: (6 Days)

This course works as an extension of the Primal De-Conditioning Awareness Intensive, working with family conditioning, intimate relationships, sexuality, desire, vision of future self, and many aspects of identity and conditioning.

Osho Mystic Rose: (21 Days)

This Awareness Intensive works on an emotional and energetic level, bypassing the analytical mind. It is entirely non-verbal, allowing for explorations of mind, heart, body and soul as an individual process of transformation.

For the first week, in the core session of three hours, participants are instructed to laugh. Continuous laughter for three hours, no matter what! Participants may support one another by interacting and moving about. Perhaps every kind of laughter may make its appearance in it’s own time: Deep laughter, crazy laughter, fake laughter, weak laughter, strong laughter, evil laughter, exhausted laughter, existential laughter. There is no telling how far this laughter can take you.

For the second week, in the core session of three hours, participants are instructed to cry. Tears work wonders for healing. Tears cleanse things on a level so profound some may say it even extends beyond your own entire life. Every tear contains a story. And there are not just tears of pain and sorrow, but also tears of beauty. It is when you have experienced every kind of tear you come to know all that you are.

For the third week, in the core session of three hours, participants are instructed to remain in silence. This week is also known as ‘Watcher on the hill’ – a process of allowing everything to be in silence. Whatever arises, allow it to rise. Whatever passes, allow it to pass.

“I have invented many meditations,

but perhaps this will be

the most essential and fundamental one.” – Osho

Let the Scars of the Past Be Dissolved

Whenever any experience is not fully lived in the moment, it leaves a residue inside us. It may be a small thing or something really significant but those residues or scars stay in the unconscious blocking our natural ability to flower to our full potential. Whatever is left in the unconscious remains, waiting for an opportunity to be expressed, accepted, and resolved.

No Need for Words, Discussions or Analysis. When we allow all our un-laughed laughter, our un-cried tears, and our un-lived silence to be experienced, we can allow whatever is in the unconscious to flow freely and be lived now – and be resolved forever.

The laughter, tears and silence do their work without the need for words, discussion, or analysis as is typical of conventional “therapy.”

You just participate with totality and sincerity, and the rest happens by itself.

Dynamic Meditation, Kundalini Meditation and Evening Meeting Meditation also form part of this course.

Osho No-Mind: (7 Days)

In this course participants are given space to explore the full spectrum of body and mind awareness. The central technique is that of gibberish. Anything you wish you could have expressed, but couldn’t, can now be expressed in gibberish. Beyond the expressions of the voice, there is also the gibberish of the body. Each part of the body has an energetic expression, a connection to feeling and expressing. By working with body gibberish, participants are opening to new feelings and new abilities of awareness.

The core session of this course runs for two hours a day, every day for a week. In the first hour, gibberish, in the second hour sit silently with eyes closed.

Dynamic Meditation, Kundalini Meditation and Evening Meeting Meditation also form part of this course.

Osho Born Again: (7 Days)

Some people didn’t have a childhood. Some people have completely lost any sense of the meaning of the phrase ‘to play’. Behaviour has a vast range of potentiality to it, there is an infinite range of possibilities, and yet we so often get suck in old habits. The Born Again course is an invitation to explore your own natural way of being.

The core session of this course runs for two hours a day, every day for a week. In the first hour, participants are instructed to behave how they wanted to behave as a child. Whatever you feel you wanted to do, go ahead and do it! It is a non-verbal interactive process. For the second hour, participants are instructed to sit silently with eyes closed.

Dynamic Meditation, Kundalini Meditation and Evening Meeting Meditation also form part of this course.

Who Is In? – Awareness Intensive:

In this course participants work with a Koan as instructed by the facilitator. The sessions work in ‘brackets’ where participants work in pairs, taking turns to express and inquire into the Koan. It is a radical turning inwards, a passionate dive into the mystery of who you are. It is a process of throwing away all that is fake, all that is inauthentic, all that is frivolous, to reveal your truest nature.

The core structure works with multiple brackets throughout the day, from early in the morning to late at night, as instructed by the facilitator.

"Koan is a puzzle that cannot be solved. Doesn't matter what you do. Not a question of intelligence, it's simply impossible to solve. The moment you realize that all your efforts have been wasted and nothing else is possible, a great silence engulfs you. In that silence, you are no more. The puzzle remains, but you solved it. And that is the purpose of the koan itself. The puzzle stays forever. And that's why the same koans have been used for thousands of years. That's because a proposal can never be solved. However, a koan unties the person. Problems, doubts, questions, everything just disappears. When the mind completely fails to solve a small puzzle, the mind stops. The mind has tried every way, but there is no way out. And the moment your mind loses, you encounter yourself... Beyond your mind, beyond your words" – Osho

Dynamic Meditation, Kundalini Meditation and Evening Meeting Meditation also form part of this course.

Because of the extensive preparation and infrastructure that is required for an awareness intensive, these events will NOT be happening every year, but rather, by demand and interest.

Register your interest via the contact page.