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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.
Oct 10, 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...
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Sep 17, 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,...
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Aug 13, 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...
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Jul 23, 2022
More ice cream, less beans
By around age 50 (or somewhere either side), we have done the same things many, many times. I did some maths for fun (said no one ever),...
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Jul 14, 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...
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Jun 30, 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...
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May 28, 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...
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May 6, 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...
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Apr 9, 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...
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Apr 4, 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 -...
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Mar 22, 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...
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Mar 19, 2022
The Power of Savasana
There was stillness. A sense of time suspended, breath hovering, minds drifting. As I rest my gaze on each body sprawled out on the...
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Feb 2, 2022
Can you feel your quiet centre?
Sometimes, more often than not, there is magic in the stillness of the studio. There is a sense of weightlessness, but also groundedness....
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Dec 24, 2021
What do you believe?
WE ARE OFTEN TIRED AND IMBALANCED NOT BECAUSE WE ARE DOING TOO MUCH, BUT BECAUSE WE ARE DOING TOO LITTLE OF WHAT IS MOST REAL AND...
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Dec 21, 2021
Calmness + books + movies
The body is so smart. It toils away, digesting and cleaning up and clearing out, renewing, replacing and rebuilding. It does this with...
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Dec 21, 2021
Are you looking up or down?
Are you looking up, or down? When we don't know where we are going, when we are on uneven, unstable ground, we tend to look down and be...
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Dec 21, 2021
Fall to the floor ...
‘What good is energy if I can't lend mine when yours is spent? This isn't weakness or charity, this isn't dependence, but simply sharing...
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Dec 21, 2021
Such value in tea & chat
The movement we do in the studio is such a small part of the magic of a class. There is so much goodness in the coming together of...
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Dec 21, 2021
So Much Sweetness
Some weeks it feels like there is an extra layer of sweetness in the studio. The breath is deep, the sighs are long, and bodies roll...
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Dec 21, 2021
How do we let go?
Last week, all yogis were given the option to practice blindfolded. In the dark, the movement is simplified, and the experience...
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Dec 21, 2021
Functional Stillness
Space to breathe. Time to pause. A chance to reflect. I had a week up at El Questro recently. It was for the start of the 'Festival of...
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Dec 21, 2021
Are you feeling a bit fragile?
Fragile is a bit of an old-fashioned word. The dictionary defines it as 'the quality of being easily broken or damaged'. Which makes it...
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Dec 21, 2021
A letter to my body
I find it so easy to be generous and loving to those around me. I see beauty in all of you. Considering that I look at women's bodies...
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Dec 21, 2021
Are you listening to your body?
This week - all of the feels, all of the big thinks. We don't need more stuff. We don't need to be busy all the time to have value. We...
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