Find Your Groove

ᴡʜᴀᴛ'ꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅɪꜰꜰᴇʀᴇɴᴄᴇ ʙᴇᴛᴡᴇᴇɴ ʟᴇᴅ ʟɪɢʜᴛ ᴛʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏ ᴠꜱ ʀᴇᴅ ʟɪɢʜᴛ ᴛʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏ??

I get asked this quite a bit, so I thought I'd explain it as best I can.

First up, LED light therapy is the technology used to produce the light. Red light therapy describes the type of light being used and the therapeutic purpose.

LED stands for light-emitting diode. An LED device can produce different wavelengths of light — red, near-infrared, blue, yellow and others. So when someone says they are having “LED therapy”, that doesn't necessarily tell you what wavelength they're actually receiving.

And I guess wavelength matters.....

Red light therapy specifically refers to using red and/or near-infrared wavelengths of light to interact with the body's cells. Red light is generally used at wavelengths around 630–660nm, while near-infrared light commonly sits around 810–850nm.

And this is where it gets interesting, in a fun geeky kind of way.

Different wavelengths pe*****te to different depths. Red light is absorbed more superficially, while near-infrared can pe*****te deeper into the tissues. This is one of the reasons I have a full body machine that has both red and near-infrared wavelengths.

The goal isn't to simply make your skin glow under a red light.

The idea behind photobiomodulation (PBM) is that specific wavelengths of light can interact with cells and influence cellular processes, including how cells produce and use energy.

𝑺𝒐, 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝑳𝑬𝑫 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒅-𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒉𝒔 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒃𝒊𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏.

It's worth looking at and/or asking about the actual wavelengths a device uses rather than just going on the words “LED” or “red light”.

And if you're coming in for Red Light Therapy with me, that's exactly what I’m using, specific red and near-infrared wavelengths designed for photobiomodulation, rather than simply sitting under a red-coloured light. 🏮

Light is light… but the wavelength matters!

More on Red Light: https://shannonclare.wordpress.com/redlighttherapy/

Yoga Yoga Yoga.
PLUS our Saturday classes kick off with 5 weeks straight of Satudays at 8am at CWA Hall!

Our second Cape Hillsborough lookout hike was equally as fantastic! We even saw whales 🐳.
The weather was divine and so was the company. Thank you everyone for coming along and exploring nature and this amazing region we live in!
Checkout the September hike in my events.

Next weeks appointments...better late then never. Whoops.
DM or text to book in.
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Celebrations and sale ends tonight! 🥳

Let's celebrate my Birthday together!
So we can all feel some joy, I've decided to offer my 10 pass yoga card TODAY only for $180!!
So for those who come casually, nows your chance to save and for those ready to renew...now is the time.
If you would like to know how many sessions you have left drop me an email.
Woohoooooooooooooooo
Offer ends midnight tonight August 22nd.
Here' the link to CELEBRATE: https://shannonclare.wordpress.com/yoga/

Happy Birthday ME! 🫶🎁
While it is all about me today!!
I wouldn't be half the person I am without these beautiful humans who continually love and support me...even in my more neurotic moments. 🤪
And when I make them take 'cringe' photos everywhere we visit around the world.
Want to see some nice scenery?
Come hiking tomorrow SUNDAY 23RD AUGUST 9AM at Cape Hillsborough Lookout. Meeting in the first car park to the LEFT when you arrive at the Cape.
More detail on my event listing.

Let's celebrate my Birthday together!
So we can all feel some joy, I've decided to offer my 10 pass yoga card TODAY only for $180!!
So for those who come casually, nows your chance to save and for those ready to renew...now is the time.
If you would like to know how many sessions you have left drop me an email.
Woohoooooooooooooooo
Offer ends midnight tonight August 22nd.
Here' the link to CELEBRATE: https://shannonclare.wordpress.com/yoga/

𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗗𝗼 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗲
I’ve been teaching yoga for nine years now. Wait What?!
And if I’m really honest, for probably the first five or six of those years, I carried around a pretty strong case of impostor syndrome.
If you haven’t heard of it, keep reading....

The funny thing is, people could tell me I was a good teacher. They could encourage me, compliment my classes, tell me they loved my teaching… but none of it really made that feeling go away.
Because the problem wasn’t what other people thought of me.
The problem was what I thought of me {insert some ah ha moments for a few of you}

For a long time, I believed I wasn’t good enough because I didn’t know everything there was to know about yoga.
I hadn’t studied in India.
I hadn’t experienced every style of yoga.
There were teachers who knew more than me.
There were students who knew things I didn’t know!
And somehow, in my head, all of that meant I wasn’t quite qualified enough to stand at the front of the room and call myself a yoga teacher.

Please note: I still did.

Looking back now, I think working through that feeling was actually part of the work of becoming a yoga teacher and becoming a human being.

𝑰𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒚𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆.

It’s incredibly common. You can be experienced, qualified and genuinely good at what you do and still feel like you’re somehow faking it.

And I think that’s important to talk about.

Because no amount of someone else telling you “You’re good enough” necessarily makes impostor syndrome disappear.

At least, it didn’t for me.

So what changed?
Well… I kept teaching.
I’ve now taught more than 2,500 hours of yoga.
I kept studying…still am!
I kept learning.
I kept sitting down and creating classes.
And eventually, something shifted.

I accepted that I will never know everything there is to know about yoga.

And actually, why would I?

There will always be someone who knows more than me about something.
There will always be another teacher with more experience in a particular area.
There will always be another philosophy to explore, another lineage to learn from, another perspective that I haven’t considered.

That doesn’t make me less of a teacher.
It just makes me a human who is still learning.
I also had to accept something else: I can only be me.
My teaching style isn't for everyone.
And that's okay.
I don't need every person to love my classes.
I don't even need everyone to enjoy them.

For a long time, I thought part of being a good teacher was making people feel a certain way. I thought if someone didn't enjoy the class, perhaps I had somehow failed them.
Eventually I realised that I can't make another person feel anything.

What I can do is create a space.
I can offer movement.
I can offer breath.
I can offer options.
I can create a theme, a sequence and an environment where someone has the opportunity to explore their body, their mind and their breath.

But what they experience from that offering ultimately belongs to them.

That was a huge shift for me.

I stopped needing everyone to love what I do.
I realised that I don't have to be the best yoga teacher.
I just have to be my kind of yoga teacher..honest, real, friendly and a little clumsy at times. 🤪

And perhaps that's what finally cleared my impostor syndrome.

Not someone else telling me I was enough.

But me finally believing it!!

Because you can have 1,000 people tell you that you are good enough.

𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘆𝗼𝘂.

You got this. x

PS: IF you read to the end, this is an image of me doing my final teaching exam in 2017. Oh my. 🫣

Whist this still relates to my "benefits of relaxation massage" series. It is also true to Yoga.
My massage is inviting and while you may feel your ouchie bits here and there, the body is not being intimidated, it's being gently invited to release.

Cape Hillsborough lookout community hike this morning.
Oh. My. Gosh. So good.
The weather turned out way better than we thought. Thanks everyone.
Let’s do it again next Sunday 23rd 9am