Autumn Equinox: a time where light and dark come into balance. The traditional pagan celebrations are a wonderful opportunity to tune in and listen to what the season may be whispering into our inner ear. The global pandemic situation is so loud and prevalent in […]
Free Meditations And Resources For your Lockdown Practice
As we navigate our way through these extraordinary and anxiety provoking times that will impact us all we must find ways to stay calm and take care of ourselves and our Whanau (family and community). This is easier said than done in times of social […]
Obstacles: What’s getting in the way of your practice?
I am passionate about self-practice; both keeping my own going, as well as supporting others to develop and own their personal yoga. The reality for many yogis, is that life gets in the way of self-care and valuing the commitment of a yoga practice. In […]
The Resting Power of Nature
Just being outdoors elicits a sense of presence. When I’m in the moment, a feeling of rest simply and easily arrives not to mention the restoration of diaphragmatic breathing and connection to Spirit. These benefits that we receive from being in nature and this innate […]
Restorative Body Shapes with minimal props and time
During my travels this year I was forced to come up with some ways of doing Restorative Yoga without my usual stack of blankets, bolsters, blocks and sandbags. I have developed a little sequence that has the constraint of using just 3 blankets. Even when […]
The Yoga Journey as a Mountain Hike
Whenever I feel lost or stuck in my practice and there isn’t a peer or a teacher around to talk with I return back to the ancient handbook on yoga practice; Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. It is a non-dogmatic text and doesn’t say that we must […]
Falling Awake
There’s a moment when we wake up as well as when we fall asleep, before we are unconscious or fully alert that is a gateway into the state of pure conscious ‘Being’. The trick is to be awake enough to notice it but asleep enough […]
The River of Wellbeing
What does it feel and look like to be in a state of Wellbeing? The recent retreat that I facilitated with my colleague Karla Brodie was based around this inquiry. One of my favourite ‘Wellbeing’ models is the one offered by the psychologist Daniel Siegel, […]
Channeling Wonder Woman
I will admit that I thoroughly enjoyed the Wonder Woman movie featuring Gal Gadot. I loved watching a super-goddess with powers of courage, strength and age defying perfection on the big screen. It makes a change from the usual hollywood male dominated super heroes anyway. […]
Somatic Yoga
My new classes starting in February 2018 include a ‘Nourishing Moves’ session. I sometimes find it hard to describe the approach that I’m offering as it is outside of a particular yoga lineage or style. I draw from all kinds of influences when teaching but […]
