Sananda Yoga

I’m looking for a small group of participants to join me for an 8-week Yoga Therapy program - no fee!

Together we’ll cultivate more ease in the body & more peace in the mind—creating a much-needed space to slow down, reconnect with ourselves and process the demands of modern life through evidence-based practices including movement, breath, relaxation, mindfulness. Simple practices that can be woven into everyday life.

🔸 Starts Wednesday 8 July, 7.00 pm in Freshwater
🔸 1.5-hour sessions over 8 consecutive weeks
🔸 Guided home practices
🔸 No yoga experience needed

This program is offered free of charge as part of my final Yoga Therapy practicum. Participants are only asked to contribute towards venue hire costs.

As the program builds from week to week, I’m looking for people who can commit to attending all 8 sessions.

If this resonates with you, I’d love to hear from you. Please get in touch via [email protected]
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A book has been my companion for these past few months: Hold Nothing by Elena Brower .
Instead of subscribing to someone else’s concept and teachings, I find a lot of wisdom and joy when contemplation is offered.
The book is a reminder that emptiness is not something to fear, but sacred ground. A place to rest our assumptions, listen more deeply and learn from the silence, the space around us.

Perhaps emptying is a practice in itself—not of losing, but of simplifying.

The shortest day. The longest night. The yin-est time of the year.
I’m grateful for the beautiful Nest & Nourish gathering yesterday and the opportunity to pause together in a season that so often asks us to do the opposite.

Winter invites us into qualities that have little space in our modern lives: stillness, darkness, emptiness, rest, not knowing—and trusting anyway.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, winter is associated with the element of water. Water doesn’t force. It adapts. It yields. Yet over time it shapes landscapes, carves canyons and always finds its way to the sea.

A gentle reminder that not everything needs to happen now. Life unfolds in its own time.

May this season offer moments to soften, rest and return to what nourishes you.

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Are you ready for your winter cocoon?
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Pause long enough to ask: am I forcing it or avoiding it?

I feel uneasy with the certainty some people speak with in the wellness world.
“You got cancer because of suppressed emotions.”
“Your illness is the result of unresolved trauma.”

There is a difference between empowering people and making them responsible for their suffering.

Life is complex. Some things may simply be beyond our control or understanding.

Words matter.

May we speak with more humility, care and compassion.

The more I know the more I realise how much I don’t know.
Me paraphrasing Socrates ;)

What a joy to be a student.
What a relief to continuously learn.

Immersing myself more deeply in the philosophy, technique and application of Yoga Nidra in the recent TT with .of.alchemy.online was in many ways, surprising. Rather than simply floating in bliss, I found myself meeting unexpected layers within.
Of course, something begins to shift when we start working with the subconscious mind.

I need to be inland regularly. As much as I love a sunrise over the ocean, sometimes the energy of the open water feels too much. Too vast, too wide, too deep. I’m drawn to the bush with its mighty gumtrees, creeks, lakes and dams.
The stillness of an enclosed reservoir of water is soothing. The steadiness of a small creek’s gurgling feels peaceful.
Perhaps it’s my upbringing in landlocked Austria that stirs that craving.
Lucky I’ve got Manly Dam around the corner.

Anyone else resonates?