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We are a school, not a business. We teach yoga, that solely is our aim. The Yoga Factory has 2 locations in Sydney: Annandale and Central (Surry Hills).

17/06/2026

Mick is hard to write about.

Partly because he is not a typical glossy yoga teacher. He can be blunt, very funny, and might make you roll your eyes. He will say the thing no one else wants to say. He has no interest in looking spiritual, which is probably why people trust him with the work. But mostly he is hard to write about because what he knows has not come from image, theory, or clever language. It has come from decades spent teaching.

Mick has been teaching yoga for more than 20 years and training teachers for over 15. Which means he has seen a lot. People who can’t touch their toes. People who think being hypermobile means they’re “good at yoga”. People recovering from injuries. People scared of being seen. People who want to teach but don’t yet know how to speak in front of a room. People who think they know everything. People just trying to get through the week.

You don’t teach that many people for that many years and stay interested in making shapes. Eventually you become interested in what is actually going on.

Ask anyone who’s spent time at The Yoga Factory and they’ll probably say some version of this: Mick is very good at getting underneath the pose, underneath the plan, underneath the performance of being a yoga person. Not always delicately. Sometimes very directly. But usually in a way that makes you go, annoyingly, “yes, okay, fair.”

That is where the teacher training comes from.

It is not about becoming a smaller version of Mick. Please don’t.

It is about learning how to teach what is in front of you. To understand what sits behind a sequence. To know not only how to assist, but when. To modify for different bodies. To keep your head when the class in front of you is not the class you planned.

Many of our teachers started here as students. They practiced, did the training, stayed with it, and eventually began teaching. They are all different, which is the best thing about it.

That probably says enough.

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starts September 14 2026 — facilitated by Mick Barnes
enrolment is open — just 2 spots left
more info via the link in bio

03/06/2026

Our four-week winter intensive is back!
Four weeks. Twenty-four classes. A month of practice, together💚.

Sādhanā means practice taken up with intention. A period of time where practice is given a proper place and not left hanging around the edges of the day, waiting for the perfect mood, perfect weather, perfect sleep, perfect life. Good luck waiting for all that in July.

For four weeks, students commit to morning practice six days a week.

And this is where doing it together matters.

There will be mornings where you feel clear and ready. There will be mornings where you absolutely do not. But when you know other people are getting up too, walking in cold and sleepy and human, it changes something. The room starts to carry a bit of the work. We carry each other through.

So if you enrol and one morning your mind begins preparing a long legal case for staying in bed, please remember the others putting on socks in the dark and making their way in. Come for them too!

At the end of the four weeks, we’ll finish with a longer two-hour Sunday practice, followed by coffee and treats at the school.

Regular pricing applies. Monthly pass holders are covered. Students not currently on a monthly pass are encouraged to take one up for the duration of the intensive.

For those, who are no longer in Sydney and cannot attend in person, joining via Zoom is possible!
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Monday, June 29 — Sunday, July 26
🌀more info and enrolment via website🌀

18/05/2026

Another YTT is coming up!

A lot of teacher trainings give you a certificate and a sequence. Then you’re sent out to “find your voice”.

A certificate isn’t the hard part though. Teaching is.

This training is 350 hours over 12 months. It’s built around the work: a method you can stand on, the ability to read a room, pacing, cueing, assists, modifications. You teach, you practice, you do it again.

It’s fully in person and begins with a residential immersion week in the Blue Mountains. The point is simple: get the foundations in place properly, then carry the work back into the school in Sydney as the year unfolds.

If you want a reference point, look at the school. Our teachers didn’t arrive here as teachers. They arrived as students, stayed with the work, did the training, and grew into teaching over time. Each in their own way.

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starts September 14 2026 — facilitated by Mick Barnes
enrolment is open — just a couple of spots left

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more info via the 🔗 in bio

07/05/2026

Our wondrous Julian turns 40 today!

Julian first appeared on The Yoga Factory radar in the very early days, back at the old Camperdown school. Him and a few mates from the inner west started coming along to the Jivamukti Spiritual Warrior class and, like a lot of people who end up at TYF, he never really left.

Since then we’ve watched him somehow move through many lifetimes in one — inner west boy, husband, father, yoga teacher, and one of the people that helps hold the whole place together.

Anyone who knows Julian will know the feeling. Soft heart. Gentle spirit. Always smiling. Slightly mysterious. A kind of wandering mystic in shorts. Never too important for a conversation, a laugh, or helping someone feel at ease in the room.

There are certain people that become woven into a place over time and Julian is undoubtedly one of them.

We wish him all the strange and profound insights life has to offer!

🖤🖤Thank you for all the love you bring to this space and the world. The school wouldn’t be the same without you! 🖤🖤 We appreacte you beyond words!🖤🖤

13/03/2026

108 Sun Salutations returns. 
The same sequence repeated 108 times. Reach, fold, lift, step back, lower, up, back, forward… again and again. 
In yogic lore, 108 is said to mark a complete cycle — beads on a mala, distances between celestial bodies, and various other cosmic measurements. Whether you take the mythology literally or not, repeating something that many times has a way of simplifying things. The body settles into rhythm, the mind stops negotiating quite so much, and the practice becomes very direct. 
You’re welcome to move steadily, pause when needed, skip rounds, or lie down briefly before returning.  
A demanding, oddly satisfying morning. 
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✨Saturday, March 21 — 7am✨ led by Mick 
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booking essential via website 🔗 in bio spots are limited

26/12/2025

Teaching yoga is a craft.
It takes time, repetition, and a willingness to stay with the work.

Our 350-hour Yoga Teacher Training is back in April 2026, starting with a residential immersion week in the Blue Mountains and continuing with in-person study throughout the year.

This is a training for people who value depth over speed and are after throroughness over instant gratification.

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starts April 13 2026 — facilitated by Mick Barnes
enrollment is open — early commitment rate applies until December 31.

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more info via the link in bio

15/12/2025

For anyone who could use a quiet and steady space, the school is open this evening.

6pm — Level I w/ Kaz
7:30pm - Meditation, Breathwork, Gentle Movement w/ Paul

If you don’t have an active pass, tonight’s classes are free and open for all🤍

27/10/2025

Happy Birthday to Mick🤍

The one who started it all — who made The Yoga Factory a thing, shaped what it stands for, and carried this school — and so many of us — through everything.

Never one for illusions or performances, Mick has always taught with honesty, humour, and care — the old-fashioned way, the real way.

Even though he only teaches a couple of times a week these days, the essence of the school — the humour, the honesty, the discipline, the care — still carries his imprint.

He made it a place where people with real lives and real personalities roll out their mats and remember what’s worth showing up for. We’re endlessly grateful for that — and for so much more.

🖤 Thank you, Mick. Happy Birthday. We all love you.🕺🏽🐕

01/10/2025

For the month of September, our community committed to a 4-week Tapas Intensive. The intensive wrapped up on Sunday, and we just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who attended.

Some came every day, some two or three times a week—but what united you all was your dedication. It’s through regular practice that we build attention, concentration, and a deeper connection between body and mind.

Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras define practice as continuous and unbroken over a long period of time. It really is that simple. We hope the intensive has firmly grounded you in your practice and that you are beginning to notice a change in perspective—a pause between the constant wandering of the mind and a different view of this life experience.

Practice is like a bank account. As long as we make regular deposits, our balance improves. The moment we stop, we begin to draw more and more from our savings until, one day, it’s empty. Our practice works in much the same way. Depositing in your “yoga bank account” builds clarity, peace, concentration, compassion, selflessness, gratitude, love… the list is endless.

Our message: keep at it. You’ve done the hard work and established the foundations. Now, just keep it in your life. Don’t be the person who goes to the bank one day and finds the account empty—maintain it.

This past month with all of you was such a buzz. Our community was humming. Thank you, truly, to each and every one of you.

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Photo documentation excellence by Mick to be found in the carousel (:

05/05/2025

How do we act in the world with clarity and steadiness, even when we are uncertain? How do we stay connected to what matters most?

The Bhagavad Gita is one of yoga’s essential texts — a conversation on action, responsibility, and the nature of the Self. As part of Svadhyaya Series — a series of yoga philosophy workshops — we’ll gather for a two-hour workshop exploring the heart of this teaching: how to move through life with integrity, and how to practice not just on the mat but in every part of our lives.

You don’t need any prior knowledge to attend — just curiosity and a willingness to reflect.

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✨May 10, 3:30pm✨
led by Julian Boswell
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booking is essential via 🔗 in bio

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1 Booth Street, Annandale
Sydney, NSW
2038

Website

http://theyogafactory.com.au/

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