Studio Classes

Yoga for Perimenopause, Menopause & The Great Beyond - Saturday 27 July, 2024

I’m delighted to let you know of another of my women's workshops at Soulspace on Saturday July 27. Yoga for Perimenopause, Menopause & The Great Beyond.

This is about more than a hot flash. From our forties to our sixties and beyond we are in a position to affect the way we move through the tricky road of mid-life by focusing on what we can address, and yoga has so much to offer to do just that.

Yoga for Perimenopause, Menopause & The Great Beyond is a three and a half hour workshop at Soulspace in Wonthaggi to offer you simple and practical tools and ideas to support yourself through this time in your life. Because what we do now has an impact on the present, and also on the way we will be in our senior years.

And I for one intend to hold onto my vitality, my independence and my well-being. My Great Beyond will be just that. Great.

As a fifty-seven year old woman, I am very intentional about how I show up for myself. I wish I knew what I know now when I was forty. In fact I wish I knew it when I was thirty. But wishing isn’t helpful. Positive, pro-ageing choices and actions are!

In the workshop I will offer gentle and specific movement tailored to the experience of the menopause transition, as well as breath work, self-soothing practices and meditation. Self-compassion, humour and connection can be so powerful to navigate the challenges we face with grace.

There will be kinship with like hearted women, a sharing circle in which you can offer your experience and insights or remain quiet if you prefer, and just actively listen with an open heart.

To close the session there will be herbal tea, a blend that is exactly what we need right now!… and yummy healthy treats.

I hope you’ll join me for this curated workshop on Saturday 27 July. It’s $110 for the three and a half hour workshop.

All participants will also leave with a Fern & Frost organic linseed filled eye pillow, to continue the practice of relaxation and self-care at home.

I’m looking forward to moving through the transition towards The Great Beyond with you.

The Samkalpa Sessions - Saturday June 8, 2024

Samkalpa ( pronounced Sun-kalpa ) simply means intention.

And I’ve been finding more and more that establishing a clear intention for every spell of time I spend in practice helps keep me focused and present for whatever arises.

Intention, I find, is well supported by the use of Mudra.  Placing the hands this way or that may seem superfluous until you start working with it regularly. Each time you form the specific shape with your hands in practice you’re reminded of the intention you set at the start of the session. You plug right into it and consequently Mudra is a great tool to keep you present and clear of distraction. And energetically, the five elements of the body are harnessed in finger placement to support intention.

The use of sound is also a powerful tool to lean into different chakras to assist that immersion in intention. I have returned to sound personally after a spell in the wilderness of a kooky little hearing issue. Music was an integral part of my upbringing and it’s use in healing and supporting wellness can be quite profound. It feels like coming home to be integrating my voice in mantra and using crystal bowls and other beautiful elements of sound into my sessions.

The Saturday afternoon sessions will start with Yin-spired gentle movement interlaced with Mudra, followed by a restorative Yoga Nidra meditation,  layered with sung mantra and sound vibrations, bringing together all the elements that I know affect all the Koshas, the layers of our being so deeply. We will weave heartfelt intention into the entire practice.

The Samkalpa Sessions run from 3pm til 5pm. Lots of time to really become really immersed in your practice.

Each session works with chakra energy specific to what is relevant at that time, and the elements of mudra and mantra will be tailored accordingly and threaded through the session.

The next Samkalpa Session is on the June Long Weekend, Saturday 8 June 2024 and it is $50 for the two hour classes at Soulspace, Wonthaggi. There are limited places available.

I hope you’ll join us for this super special class again. I feel such a calling to offer these sessions.