5 - Day Backbend Retreat April 2026

With Frank Jesse

April 8 - 12, 2026

Location: Griffins Hill Retreat

Address: 170 Victoria Valley Road Dunkeld Victoria 3294

Contact: Frank Jesse
info@griffinshill.com.au
0425768039

For You and Your Lovely (with ensuite) – AUD $3,600.00
For you and your Yoga Buddy Twin Share (shared facilities) – AUD $3,600.00
For you and your Yoga Buddy Twin Share (with ensuite) – AUD $3,600.00
Lux Garden Glamping – AUD $1,890.00
For You and Your Lovely King Room (shared facilities) – AUD $3,600.00
Just for You King Room (shared facilities) – AUD $2,590.00
Just For You: Mountain-View King (with ensuite) – AUD $2,590.00
Just For You: Queen room (shared facilities) – AUD $1,890.00
Yoga & Food Package (for those staying elsewhere) – AUD $1,490.00

Keep moving with your yoga by joining expert Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher Frank Jesse on a backbend yoga immersion. Over the five days, Frank will teach you how to ease into backbends without overstretching and help improve your yoga practice and teaching. With a maximum of 12 participants, there is plenty of opportunities for individualised expert attention and Q&A.

This retreat is suitable for experienced yoga practitioners, teachers, and teacher trainees.

Be your best self: refreshed, relaxed, invigorated.

“Griffins Hill remains a gracious home away from home for me. I am both renewed and inspired by my retreats to this wonderfully hospitable and friendly rural sanctuary. Frank, an Iyengar yoga master, is both gentle and knowledgeable, imparting individualised instruction to all. His warm sense of humor assures everyone gains from every session. The food, skilfully prepared from the large kitchen garden, is a memorable and integral part of the experience.” David, Coochiemudlo Island, Australia

Meals: Retreat meals are vegetarian cuisine with home grown organic produce forming the base ingredients. Quality coffee and black or green tea are provided. Feel free to bring your favourite herbal teas and soy milk (cows provided). Please let us know if you have specific dietary requirements.

Your five schedule is as follows

Your retreat schedule
Day One
12:30 pm Welcome lunch. Retreat gates open
2:30 – 5:30 Coming Together Backbend Preparation Yoga Workshop
7:00 pm Damn delightful dinner
9:00 Rest

Day Two and Day Four
7:30 Light refreshments
8:00 – 11:00 am Deep Bacbend Workshop
11:30 Brilliant brunch
1:00 Explore, rest or enjoy a warm fire
4:30 – 6:00 pm Restorative yoga
7:00 OMG dinner
9:00 Deeply satisfying rest

Day Three
7:30 Light refreshments
8:00 – 11:00 am Very Deep Backbend Workshop
11:30 pm Scumdumptious brunch
1:00 pm Explore, rest or indulge in a massage
4:30 – 6:00 pm Restorative yoga
7:00 – 9:00 pm Divine dinner

Day Five
7:30 Light refreshments
8:00 – 11:00 am Bringing it Together Yoga Workshop
11:30 pm See you next time brunch
2:00 pm Farewell (feeling fabulous)

About the Teacher

Frank Jesse

Frank Jesse : All classes at Griffins Hill yoga retreat are taught by Frank Jesse, who is one of just 27 Senior Iyengar Teachers in Australia. Senior Teacher is the highest designation that a teacher is accredited by the BKS Iyengar Association of Australia. Frank has spent more than 40,000 hours teaching and practicing yoga in the past 25 […]

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Category : Backbend Yoga Retreat