Yoga Brave

❄️ Winter Solstice at Yoga Brave

As we move deeper into winter, nature is asking something simple of us - to slow down, soften, and return inward.

This Sunday we gather for our Winter Solstice Restorative Yoga + Yoga Nidra Immersion. There are just a couple of places remaining.

This is a practice of deep rest. Supported Restorative Yoga and Yoga Nidra, aligned with the hibernation phase of the seasonal cycle. A time to pause the doing, and remember the intelligence of rest.

If this season has felt full or fast, this is your invitation to step out of momentum and back into yourself.

Alongside this, we’re delighted to welcome Aracelli, who is now offering a weekly Sunday morning Vinyasa class at 9am at Organic Feast starting June 28th. A steady, spacious way to meet the week through breath and movement.

Bookings via the schedule link in bio.

See you on the mat 🤍

Does your practise feel repetitive?

One of the great misunderstandings about yoga is that learning only happens when something new is introduced. Yet some of the deepest teachings emerge through returning to the same breath, the same pose, the same transition, again and again.

Yoga is not designed to entertain us. It is designed to reveal us.

When novelty fades, there is nowhere left for the mind to run. What remains is an opportunity to notice our impatience, our restlessness, our resistance, and our capacity to be present with what is here.

This is the essence of Aabhyasa - steady practice. In Yoga Sutra I.14, Patanjali reminds us that practice becomes firmly grounded when attended to for a long time, without interruption, and with devotion.

The nervous system learns through familiarity. Through repetition. Through experiencing something enough times that it can soften, trust, and begin to feel more deeply.

This has been one of my own enduring teachers. The tendency to seek the next insight, the next experience, the next breakthrough, while overlooking the profound wisdom available in a single breath or a familiar sequence.

John Maeda writes that simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. (read that again)

Perhaps yoga invites the same.

The pose may not have changed.

The breath may not have changed.

The practice may not have changed.

Yet we have.

And perhaps that is where the learning lives.

Join us this week on the mat:

🧘‍♂️ Monday - 6.00pm Yin Yoga with Fy
🙌 Tuesday - 9.30am Gentle Hatha with Ange
🧘Wednesday - 8.30am Yin Yoga with Kylie
✨Wednesday - 6.00pm Nourish with Fy
🧘Wednesday - 7.15pm Meditation with Fy
🧘‍♀️Friday - 8.00am Strong and Slow with Janis
💪Friday - 9.30am Bliss Out with Janis
✨Saturday - 8.00am Hatha Yoga with Kylie

Where do you feel most like yourself?

Not the version of you who is rushing, achieving, fixing or carrying everyone else's needs.

The version beneath all of that.

This week we arrive at the final layer of the Koshas: Anandamaya Kosha -the Bliss Body.

Not bliss as endless happiness.

Bliss as remembering.

Remembering who you are when you feel connected, present and deeply at home within yourself.

As I reflected on this theme, I realised I'll be teaching five classes this week.

Many yoga teachers will understand when I say that teaching is one of the places where I feel most whole. It is where service, connection, purpose and presence come together.

It made me wonder:

✨ Where do you experience that feeling?

✨ What helps you remember yourself?

A walk in nature?
A conversation with a friend?
Time on your yoga mat?
A moment of stillness?

Perhaps this week is an invitation to seek out more of those moments.

Because Anandamaya isn't something we need to create.

It's something we uncover.

💛 I'd love to know: Where do you feel most like yourself?

📷A beautiful reminder of the power of service.

I have no idea who took this photo, but I will always remember the day.

Grace Elkin and her dad were riding an incredible distance for Camp Quality, and we gathered to share a yoga class in support of their efforts. Seeing Grace's joy as family, friends and community showed up for her was something special. It brought tears to my eyes.

Moments like these remind me that the real practice isn't always on the mat -it's in the way we show up for one another. 💛

PUBLIC HOLIDAY CHECK IN 👑

As Monday 8th June is the King’s Birthday public holiday… would you still like me to run our usual evening class?

I’m happy to open the space if there’s interest ✨

Pop a 👑 or “yes please” below if you’d love to come along.

Something beautiful unfolded through our recent Meditation Course… and by popular request, it is now becoming a regular weekly offering.

✨ New Weekly Meditation Circle ✨

Join us Wednesday evenings for a guided practice designed to help you slow down, regulate your nervous system and reconnect with yourself within a supportive group environment.

These sessions may include:
🧘 Meditation — guided, silent, mantra or movement-based
🧘‍♀️ Pranayama — breath practices to support clarity and calm
🧘‍♂️ Gentle reflection — understanding and deepening your practice
✨ Nervous system support — cultivating safety within the body
🙌 Rest practices — perhaps not what you expect

This is a space for consistency, connection and practice - not performance.

🕰 Wednesdays 7:15pm
⏳ 45–60 minutes
📍 Inner Health Centre at Organic Feast
✨ Included in existing class passes & memberships

A beautiful companion to our Nourish class, or a standalone practice to close your day with intention.

Bookings essential.
Link in our bio.

We can’t wait to share this space with you ✨

We continue our journey through the Koshas this week with the Pranamaya Kosha - the energetic sheath.

In yoga, prana is our life force energy. It is carried through the breath, through movement, through the spaces we inhabit and the way we meet life itself.

When prana flows well, we often feel clear, grounded and connected.
When it becomes stagnant or depleted, we can feel restless, fatigued or disconnected from ourselves.

On that note...

You may have noticed our class bookings have been a little fuller lately. We are deeply aware of this, and while we continue searching for a more spacious, permanent home for Yoga Brave, we are trusting the process of finding a space that feels truly aligned for this community.

For now, we keep practicing in the in-between.
Breathing together.
Making space where we can.
Trusting that what is meant for us is unfolding in its own time.

This week’s classes will explore the Pranamaya Kosha through Pranayama, Asana, Meditation in awareness of the subtle body.

Join us!

✨ Monday 6.00pm Foundations
✨ Tuesday 9:30am - Gentle Hatha
✨ Wednesday 8.30am - Yin Yoga
✨ Wednesday 6pm - Restorative
✨ Friday 8.00am - Strong and Slow
✨ Friday 9:30am - Somatic Yoga
✨ Saturday 8am - Hatha

We are currently offering 3 week for $75 🙌
https://www.momoyoga.com/yoga-brave/member/orderstartdate/117858

📷Humming Puppy Yoga Studio in Sydney - I have practised here and can attest to the beautiful energy!

MEDITATION

In practice, we begin to notice that not all thoughts carry the same quality.

In yogic philosophy, the mind is described as citta, and its movements or disturbances are called vrittis - the fluctuations of the mind.

Patañjali reminds us: “yogaś citta vṛtti nirodhaḥ” -
yoga is the softening, or settling, of these fluctuations.

Not by force.
But through awareness.

Some vrittis arise from fear and projection - the mind moving into imagined futures, amplifying uncertainty, creating contraction in the body. These can pull us away from presence, often leaving us feeling overwhelmed, stuck or anxious.

Others arise with more clarity and steadiness.
They are grounded in what is here, now - and gently guide us toward what is supportive, practical, and aligned. These are shaped by buddhi, our inner discernment.

Meditation is not about removing thoughts,
but about learning to recognise their nature.

To pause.
To notice: Does this thought contract me, or support me?

And over time, to place less attention on what agitates the mind…
and more on what leads us toward steadiness, clarity, and right action.

This is the practice.

🧘

If your rhythm has drifted lately, you’re not alone.

Life moves… routines soften… and before we know it, the body feels a little further away.

This is your invitation to return.

To support you in finding your way back, we’re offering:

✨ 3 Weeks Unlimited Yoga for $75 ✨

A simple doorway back into movement, breath, and consistency.
All classes. All levels. No pressure.

Come as you are.

📅 Book via Momoyoga

📷Cat Mead

This morning looked nothing like the version of me I like to believe I am.

I was sitting at my desk, halfway through paying my teachers…
with folded washing on my lap - an awkward reminder I’d already started something else and not finished it.

And truthfully, that wasn’t the only thing.

My mind felt scattered.
My energy pulled in too many directions.

Why?

Because I didn’t begin my day the way I know supports me.

A friend called early - a dear friend I haven’t seen in ages.
We were both free… so I jumped at the chance. And I loved every minute.
But it tipped the morning off course.

No meditation.
No pranayama on the grass.
No warm water.
No abhyanga.

Just a jolt of coffee… and into the day.

This is the part we don’t often speak about.

When the rhythm is lost before it begins.

And how much those simple rituals matter - not as something to get right, but as anchors.

So today isn’t about catching up.

Just noticing…
and gently returning.

Because this is the practice too.

Join me for Meditation - a returning home. Details in the bio 🙌

📷 Floyd Mallon