STOIC YOGA, 274 The Grand Parade, Ramsgate Beach NSW, Ramsgate Beach (2026)

13/10/2026

📜 The popular and philosophical poem "Instructions Before Visiting Earth" by James McCrae shares a massive overlap with Stoicism, a Hellenistic philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium.

🏛 The Stoics viewed life through the lens of logic, cosmic nature, and the mastery of one's own mind, which is beautifully mirrored in the poem with its core advice, almost identical to the teachings of ancient Stoic philosophers like Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus.

🏛 Stoic principles & key themes of the Poem:

💫 Impermanence and "Borrowed" Life
💫 Temporary Incarnation
💫 Memento Mori (Remember death)
💫 Detachment / Returning to the Universe
💫 Virtue and Quiet Inner Awareness
💫 The Inner Citadel
💫 Acceptance and Grace (Amor Fati)
💫 The Dichotomy of Control
💫 The Role of a "Good Guest"
💫 The Cosmopolitan Ideal
💫 Embracing the Journey
💫 The obstacle is the way / Growth via adversity

🧘‍♀️ In our Stoic Yoga lessons, week after week, Stoicism is weaved throughout our lessons, inviting students to breathe, move and flow while they muse, meditate, contemplate, reflect, release, allowing them to become the best "Good Guest" version of themselves day after day while temporarily visiting our planet Earth. 🌏

🩵 Nia STOIC YOGA
🏛 ancient wisdom for modern life 🧘‍♀️

# instructionsbeforevisitingearth

🙏 Poem Credit James McCrae
🙏 Video Credit Graham Weaver

04/10/2026

⌛ 𝙏𝙄𝙈𝙀 is the one 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙮 we 𝘈𝘓𝘓 have.

No matter who, what or where we are on this planet, the moment we draw our first breath till the last one we take, we are 𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 a certain amount of this transitory and fleeting 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙮. ⌛️

⏰️ How much do you think you have?
⏰️ How do you use it?
⏰️ How much do you waste?
⏰️ How do you spend it?
⏰️ How much do you save?
⏰️ Are you always running out of time?
⏰️ Are you never on time?
⏰️ Do you need more time?

✋️🕘 Wouldn't we all just like to stop the clock for a moment, to be able to do all the things we want to do?

🕑 This long weekend in Sydney we have Daylight Savings. We lost an hour by putting the clock forward and changed the hands of the clock in a way to make better use of our sunlight time.🌞

🧘 In Stoic Yoga, we try to make 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 for ourselves, by 𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 in our well-being, we try to 𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 so we can get some perspective and 𝙚𝙣𝙟𝙤𝙮 the 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 we have in this life as a Well-Being that has 𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 to do all the things that bring joy, meaning and contentment so we can have a 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 while on Earth.

📖 In his book Meditations, Stoic Philosopher and Emperor Marcus Aurelius asks us:

"𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧, 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘥𝘴 𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮. 𝘈𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰; 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘪�

20/09/2026

🌱 SPRING CLEAN your MIND + BODY class

🌊 Overlooking beautiful Ramsgate Beach

🧘‍♀️ Join me this new season for my upcoming deep SPRING CLEAN
Meditation + Breathwork + Slow Flow Yoga Class — a dedicated longer practice to clear out, release, reset, renew, refresh, detoxify, awaken and bloom the new you.

🌬 Just like we open the windows to let out the winter dust, our minds and bodies deserve a fresh start for the new spring season. It’s time to sweep away stagnant energy, aches and pains, heavy thoughts, old stale patterns and residue from the cold winter fog and fatigue. As the season transitions, nature reminds us of the power of renewal and fresh starts. ✨️🦋✨️

What to expect:

✨ Cleansing Flow: Intentional slow flow yoga sequences featuring twists and gentle inversions to stimulate your system, release stagnation, improve circulation, and open up the body allowing fresh, new vibrant energy to flow.

✨ Combination of calming, cleansing and energising Breathwork techniques to safely open up and clear air passageways, optimise respiratory function, boost physical energy and eliminate mental lethargy and fatigue, restoring cognitive balance.

✨️ Mindful Decluttering: Guided meditation throughout to release old thoughts, patterns and mental clutter that no longer serve you. Ending with a grounding savasana to leave you feeling light, free, spacious, and renewed.

🙏 Come as you are, shake off the heavy layers, and step into spring. All levels welcome. 🤗

🧘‍♀️ Like all Stoic Yoga classes with me, these monthly spring sessions will provide a welcoming, supportive environment and a safe space to feel and heal.

When:

🗓 TUESDAYS - Spring season:
▶️ 29 September +
▶️ 27 October +
▶️ 24 November 2026

⏰ 7.00 - 8.15 PM
🪙 $35
📞 Text 0403 276 133
* Bookings essential *

📍STOIC YOGA @ RLSC
Ramsgate Life Saving Club
🌊 274 The Grand Parade, Ramsgate Beach
(ample parking around).

🩵 Nia STOIC YOGA
🏛 ancient wisdom for modern life 🧘‍♀
Namaste kala 🙏

31/08/2026

🦋 Hello SPRING!! 🌼 Hello September!

🦋 To those inhabitants of the Southern Hemisphere of our planet, September marks the beginning of Spring. The butterfly and its 𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙥𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙨 are a perfect symbol for 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙗𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 and fresh starts as it emerges from its chrysalis, melting the winter cold of stagnation, darkness, and hibernation with warm hopes for change, growth, and regeneration.

🏛 Living in accordance with nature is a fundamental pillar of Stoic Philosophy. The ancient Stoics taught that the 𝙘𝙮𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙨 was a metaphor for life's constant changes.

🏛 Most importantly, they advocated that the point of power was always in the present moment, and all experiences were opportunities to act virtuously regardless of the seasons, phases and changes that unfolded in life.

Marcus Aurelius, a Stoic Philosopher, reminds us of the perfection of Nature and that Life itself is change, with his quote:

"𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚, 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙮: 𝙉𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙤𝙤 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙤𝙤 𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙚. 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚, 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙪𝙞𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚: 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙮𝙤𝙪, 𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪, 𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪."

🧘‍♀️ In Stoic Yoga, every lesson is a potential new beginning, a reset, a renewal and an opportunity for growth, metamorphosis, and 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣.

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14/07/2026

🏃‍♂️ "All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief,
for you’re travelling in the company of your own emotions,
followed by your troubles all the way."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca,
Letters from a Stoic

✨️ I love these little reminders.
We all need them now and then.
Little bursts of timeless Philosophy and wisdom to keep us in check and on track to remind us of our mortality and that all things come to pass eventually, life is change, here now, gone tomorrow so why rush.

✨️ Throughout your days, as often as you can, pause, be still, take in, soak in, observe, all the beauty that you can, reflect, let go and like I say in all my classes, "be here now".

✨️ As much as you can. As often as you can. In any and all conditions.

✈️ Whether you're on holidays or in your regular routine, how present are you?

🏛 Seneca reminds us that all the hurrying in the world achieves nothing, you'll miss precious moments if the mind is elsewhere, because ultimately you take yourself with you wherever you go and all the rushing around and changing locations offers no relaxation, solace or relief, because we always "travel in the company of our own emotions" with the internal baggage we lug along with us.

🙏 True peace is fundamentally an internal state rather than an external condition.

📍You can change your location, but inner peace is your true and ideal destination.

💫 Remember, wherever you go, there you are.

🩵 Nia STOIC YOGA
🏛 ancient wisdom for modern life 🧘‍♀️

28/06/2026

⏳️ "Keep in mind how fast things pass by
and are gone — those that are now, and those to come.

Existence flows past us like a river: the “what” is in constant flux, the “why” has a thousand variations.

Nothing is stable, not even what’s right here.

The infinity of past and future gapes before us — a chasm whose depths we cannot see."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

🧘‍♀️ My students often hear me say in class "we are not here forever", "be here now", "nothing lasts forever, good or bad".

🏛 The Stoics remind us repeatedly of the fleeting nature of existence. One season, gives into the next, one feeling gives into the next, one breath gives into the next. Think of how many emotions you go through in a day. Life is always in flux.

🧘‍♀️ Learn to go with the flow, on and off your mats. No matter how difficult or easy a pose is, it will give way to the next. No matter what good or bad thing you're experiencing currently in your life, Nature promises to change it and never let you rest.

✨️ Nature is our greatest teacher.
🙏 Blessed are the free flowing ones.

🌊 🌞 🌧 🌳 Whatever season or stage of life you're in, the passage of time, will always win.

🩵 Nia STOIC YOGA
🏛 ancient wisdom for modern life 🧘‍♀️

18/05/2026

🧘‍♀️ Join Nia @ Stoic Yoga’s upcoming
"𝙄 𝘽𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚, 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙄 𝘼𝙢"
guided meditation and breathwork classes designed to regulate the nervous system, clear, and calm the mind, and reconnect with the body through conscious breathing.

Simple, practical, and suitable for all levels.

🏛 Inspired by Stoic philosophy, we explore the breath as both a practical wellbeing tool and a way to return to what is within your control—one conscious inhale and exhale at a time.

🌬 We come into this life on an inhale and leave it on an exhale. 🌬

❔️But what about all the breaths in between?
❔️How deep, healing, and expansive are your inhales?
❔️How slow, long, and freeing are your exhales?

🌬 Just one conscious breath can change the way you feel. 😇

BOOK NOW:
"𝙄 𝘽𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚, 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙄 𝘼𝙢"
𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 / 𝘽𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝘾𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙨

🌊 Overlooking beautiful Ramsgate Beach

🌬 Tuesday - 26 May & 23 June 2026
🌬 7pm
🌬 Bookings essential. Text 0403 276 133.
🌬 Limited places.
🌬 $25 / 1 hour
🌬 Ramsgate Life Saving Club - 274 The Grand Parade, Ramsgate Beach

🧘‍♀️ In class, you’ll learn practical conscious breathing techniques to support relaxation, calm, clarity, and connection .

The session begins with a brief yoga and movement warm-up, followed by breath and body awareness, and a guided breathwork and meditation practice in a supportive in-person setting.

🌬 Most importantly, experience true presence, by learning to anchor yourself entirely in the "here and now", focusing on the rhythmic flow of air entering and leaving the body rather than being at the mercy of the programmed overthinking mind. A potentially transformative offering to reset mind, body, and emotions.

🌬 Conscious diaphragmatic breathing can act like a natural reset button. It is one of the most effective ways to stimulate the vagus nerve and support the autonomic nervous system—helping to either calm or energise the breath, mind, and body.

Looking forward to meeting you on your mats. 🙏

💙 Nia @ STOIC YOGA

🏛 ancient wisdom for modern life 🧘‍♀

23/04/2026

🌷Anzac Day
Long Weekend Timetable🌷

🌷 Friday 24/4 - NO class
🌷 Saturday 25/4 - Anzac Day NO class

💫Classes resume normal:
🧘‍♀️ Tuesday 28/4 - 10am
🧘‍♀️ Wednesday 7pm
🧘‍♀️ Friday 10am
🧘‍♀️ Saturday 7.45am

🧘‍♀️ New Monthly Meditation Class
💫 Taking bookings 0403 276 133
💫 Tuesday 26 May '26
💫 $25 - 1 hour
💫 Details tba
💫 Bookings essential - Text 0403 276 133

🩵 Nia
🏛 ancient wisdom for modern life 🧘‍♀️

05/04/2026

✝️ Happy Easter to everyone celebrating today—or next Sunday for Orthodox Easter ✝️
Καλό Πάσχα 🙏🙌

✨️ Easter celebrates:

🙏 Hope, renewal, mercy, and forgiveness

🙏 Love over fear and light over darkness

🙏 Surrender and release of the ego to the light of truth

🙏 Our eternal and divine nature — the crucifixion of ego and body, but not our eternal Spirit

🙏 Resurrection — awakening from the amnesia and the illusion of separation

🙏 Recognition that God is within us

🙏 The symbol of Jesus the “Christ” — his role as an ultimate example, who teaches "I Am the Way, the Light, and the Life", and that we too can save and spare ourselves the suffering, like him, choose this path as well

🙏 When we forget that we are all worthy aspects of God — small like grains of sand, yet holy parts of a vast whole — we suffer under the illusion of separation

🙏 When we hurt another, we hurt ourselves. As we let go of the illusion and perceived separation from God — either by choice or by grace — we can reawaken, reconnect, and remember that the Kingdom of God is also within us.

🙏 Choose Love. Choose peace. Choose forgiveness — for yourself and others. Not just at Easter: now, always now, in any moment and under any conditions. Take the highest conscious path, whether by choice or by grace, you have the free will to ask.

✝️🙏🙌✨️

31/03/2026

T I M E T A B L E
E A S T E R

💫 Good Friday - 3/4 - CLOSED
💫 Easter Saturday - 4/4 - OPEN
7.45 am class on 🧘‍♀️

💫 ALL other classes continue as normal throughout school holidays
See timetable
Bookings essential

Text 0403 276 133

https://stoicyoga.com.au/index.php/classes/

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