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Blog | The Tea Sessions
Our conversations in the studio are wide ranging and vulnerable and enlightening. Often hilarious. Between us all we have experienced joy, grief, trauma, rage, body image crisis, mind boggling menopause, teenagers, ageing parents, relationship ups and downs. Sometimes I write about it, to help make sense of the weird and wonderful world we live in.


What are your truths?
Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or memoir written; or you didn't go swimming...
Jan 29, 2024


On a river, somewhere ...
Reflections on whitewater rafting the Franklin River, Tasmania: Paddling was the easy part - 'paddle left, paddle right, hold on, get...
Jan 16, 2024


How much do you care?
I sat down to write a New Years post about intention setting. But I just read the news, and as I scrolled past devastating floods and...
Dec 28, 2023


Up and Down - The Metronome of Life
I am at the top of a mountain, my shirt sticky with sweat, pack heavy on my back, and I can't stop crying. A bit embarrassed, I move away...
Oct 2, 2023


Together we are our best selves
I call it feel good yoga. But it could just as easily be: Yoga to calm a busy mind Yoga for improved digestion Yoga for pelvic health...
Aug 5, 2023


Let them know, over and over again ❤️
I am thinking of the richness that friends bring to different stages of our lives. We have our school friends. Our young adulting...
Jun 8, 2023


The Imperfect Art of Being Yourself ~ Retreat Reflections
What happens when you put 15 women together, allow them to rest, suggest gentle movements, feed them nourishing food, offer the...
May 24, 2023


I see you
I keep reading about the 'invisibility' of women 50+ and how this is a supposed benefit of getting older and no longer 'drawing the male...
Apr 22, 2023


Worry Warriors
Sometimes I feel like a worry doll. I hug my kids and absorb their angst, then they trip out the door and on with their lives, oblivious...
Feb 23, 2023


Clear the decks and make space for yourself
When was the last time you were completely immersed? In something you love, in sensations within your body, where time seemed to...
Jan 31, 2023


Be here to have an experience
I have just returned from 10 days in Queenstown NZ with my man and 3 x 18 year olds. We did every adrenalin fuelled activity we could. I...
Jan 20, 2023


A love letter from me to you ❤️
Indulge me. These are the things I would love to say to you, in person in the studio, but I would most definitely cry and that could be...
Dec 9, 2022


Picture this ...
I say some weird things in class. Things like: Imagine your armpits are giant nostrils Turn your butt smile to the ceiling Imagine you...
Nov 23, 2022


Love ❤️
I want to talk about love. I went to a funeral last week. A close friend had lost her Dad, and the church was full, overflowing, with...
Oct 10, 2022


Will you risk being disturbed and changed?
Are you brave? When you want to do something do you grab the opportunity and wring the life out of it? Or do you overthink,...
Sep 17, 2022


Candlelit attention
We had a lovely evening out with friends recently. It was dinner and live music, in an intimate, atmospheric space in Fremantle. The food...
Aug 13, 2022


More ice cream, less beans
By around age 50 (or somewhere on either side), we have done the same things many, many times. I did some maths for fun (said no one...
Jul 23, 2022


Why Yoga?
When people ask what I do and I reply that I teach yoga, 99% of the time the replies are "I would love to do yoga but I am not flexible...
Jul 14, 2022


The Mundane and the Mysterious
'Live each day as if it was your last'. We have all heard this. And we may have thought about what that last day may look like. But for...
Jun 30, 2022


Pay attention ~ be astonished
I don't know if this is an age thing, a yoga thing, a meditation thing, or a state of the world thing, but I find myself becoming...
May 28, 2022


Mothers around the Bench
I have a lovely Mum. Alot of my commonsense parenting I learnt from her. She was a nurse, and anyone who had a nurse for a mother will...
May 6, 2022


Gracious Humans
I have been thinking this week about grief and loss and heartbreak. So often after class, when we are having our tea, our conversations...
Apr 9, 2022


Where can I release?
Where can I release right now? What thoughts are on a continual loop that is not serving me? I ask myself these questions over and over -...
Apr 4, 2022


A love letter to our teens ❤️
I have been talking to alot of year 12’s lately, and my goodness, what alot they have going on! I just want to give them all a big hug...
Mar 22, 2022
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