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Jasmine Matus
Therapeutics and Yoga

"The Success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but how it positively changes the way we live our lives and our relationships."

T.V.K. DESIKACHAR

Your feet are more than just a base of support. They are sensory organs, shock absorbers, your interface with the earth, and a key part of how the whole body organises itself in movement.

When foot function is limited, the effects travel up the chain into the ankles, knees, hips, pelvic floor, and spine.

When foot strength, mobility, and sensory awareness are supported, the whole system benefits.

Barefoot time, foot mobility, toe strength, varied terrain, and conscious walking patterns can all make a difference to how we move through the world and enjoy life.

Healthy feet help us balance, adapt, jump, dance, walk well, feel the ground beneath us, and help us maintain healthy dynamic movement.

Healthy, happy feet will organise the whole body so you can move through your days with more ease and awareness.

My Rouleau Method training can help to address many of your foot challenges. Comment below for more information or to work 1:1 with me.

Visit @solemechanicsfootwear and use discount code JASMINEYOGA15 to receive 15% off an amazing range of barefoot shoes.

#footfunction #gobarefoot #somaticawareness #proprioception #ROULEAUMETHOD

Your feet are more than just a base of support. They are sensory organs, shock absorbers, your interface with the earth, and a key part of how the whole body organises itself in movement.

When foot function is limited, the effects travel up the chain into the ankles, knees, hips, pelvic floor, and spine.

When foot strength, mobility, and sensory awareness are supported, the whole system benefits.

Barefoot time, foot mobility, toe strength, varied terrain, and conscious walking patterns can all make a difference to how we move through the world and enjoy life.

Healthy feet help us balance, adapt, jump, dance, walk well, feel the ground beneath us, and help us maintain healthy dynamic movement.

Healthy, happy feet will organise the whole body so you can move through your days with more ease and awareness.

My Rouleau Method training can help to address many of your foot challenges. Comment below for more information or to work 1:1 with me.

Visit @solemechanicsfootwear and use discount code JASMINEYOGA15 to receive 15% off an amazing range of barefoot shoes.

#footfunction #gobarefoot #somaticawareness #proprioception #ROULEAUMETHOD

Where do the koalas go when it rains?

Blessed by some afternoon sun after days of rain, this little fella out drying his koala coat 🐨🤍🐨.

#magneticisland #rainandkoalas #rainybliss #koalayoga

Where do the koalas go when it rains?

Blessed by some afternoon sun after days of rain, this little fella out drying his koala coat 🐨🤍🐨.

#magneticisland #rainandkoalas #rainybliss #koalayoga

There's mindfulness then there's full body mind awareness and integration.

Our somatic response is the way we perceive our body in a way that allows us to access information that often gets missed.

We become more curious, more connected and feel and learn things about ourselves that we never knew existed or were possible.

We also begin to override the unconscious stress response and gain more insight and control over our reaction process.

Why is this important? The more of us that is wired up and online, the more naturally our body can find balance and heal.

The old niggles and pains and unconsciously tight muscles we find could simply be a trapped emotion or unprocessed event that never got its chance to fully express or release.

Want to explore this further!?

I'd love to share more with you tomorrow morning for a 2-hour deep dive into somatic movement through the lens of hatha yoga and breath work

10.30am - 12.30 pm AEST live on Zoom.

For those who can't make the live the session will be recorded and sent out following the event.

***Bookings and more information in the link in bio***

There's mindfulness then there's full body mind awareness and integration.

Our somatic response is the way we perceive our body in a way that allows us to access information that often gets missed.

We become more curious, more connected and feel and learn things about ourselves that we never knew existed or were possible.

We also begin to override the unconscious stress response and gain more insight and control over our reaction process.

Why is this important? The more of us that is wired up and online, the more naturally our body can find balance and heal.

The old niggles and pains and unconsciously tight muscles we find could simply be a trapped emotion or unprocessed event that never got its chance to fully express or release.

Want to explore this further!?

I'd love to share more with you tomorrow morning for a 2-hour deep dive into somatic movement through the lens of hatha yoga and breath work

10.30am - 12.30 pm AEST live on Zoom.

For those who can't make the live the session will be recorded and sent out following the event.

***Bookings and more information in the link in bio***

When is the last time you felt deeply truly relaxed and rested?

We don't allow ourselves to go there very often, nor do modern industrialised lives and societies support this.

Even as a daily practitioner of movement and introspection, practice can be time bound by what's going on in life.

When I chanced upon Somatics 5 years ago, I was challenged with an old injury. I realised that the practices I was pushing myself to do at the time weren't supporting my healing.

Somatic yoga was in ways I didn't know were possible.

The movement and awareness practices made so much sense to my body, and were gentle enough for me to practice safely with an injury. I was able to reach levels of relaxation that very rarely surfaced.

Within the somatic practices, the pace, the cueing, the long rests in between movement and the body scanning felt like layers and layers of tension were being gently and lovingly peeled back.

And this is what allowed my body and mind to feel free and safe enough to drop deep into higher states of relaxation. One I had never experienced before.

There's relaxation, then there's full body, mind, and being somatic RELAXATION.

I 100% attribute this to the healing of this old injury. Multiple professionals told me would take years if ever to recover due to the damaged ligament tissue nature of the injury.

When our body and mind are relaxed and at ease, we drop into the rest, repair and digest portion of our nervous system. This is the only state where cells and tissues can regenerate and re-build. And in time with the right sensory inputs, tissues will heal and re-build.

Somatic yoga not only invites us to rest and relax deeply. It has the power to bring to our awareness where we store old unconscious survival stress in the body-mind and start to tease it out from its source.

I want nothing more than for all to experience this unique way of approaching practice.

**JOIN ME THIS SUNDAY LIVE ONLINE FOR A 2-HOUR DEEP DIVE INTO THE WORLD OF SOMATIC MOVEMENT **

10.30 - 12.30pm AEST. A recording will be send out after the event.

More information and booking details in the link in bio.

🤍🙏🏼🤍

Xx Jasmine

When is the last time you felt deeply truly relaxed and rested?

We don't allow ourselves to go there very often, nor do modern industrialised lives and societies support this.

Even as a daily practitioner of movement and introspection, practice can be time bound by what's going on in life.

When I chanced upon Somatics 5 years ago, I was challenged with an old injury. I realised that the practices I was pushing myself to do at the time weren't supporting my healing.

Somatic yoga was in ways I didn't know were possible.

The movement and awareness practices made so much sense to my body, and were gentle enough for me to practice safely with an injury. I was able to reach levels of relaxation that very rarely surfaced.

Within the somatic practices, the pace, the cueing, the long rests in between movement and the body scanning felt like layers and layers of tension were being gently and lovingly peeled back.

And this is what allowed my body and mind to feel free and safe enough to drop deep into higher states of relaxation. One I had never experienced before.

There's relaxation, then there's full body, mind, and being somatic RELAXATION.

I 100% attribute this to the healing of this old injury. Multiple professionals told me would take years if ever to recover due to the damaged ligament tissue nature of the injury.

When our body and mind are relaxed and at ease, we drop into the rest, repair and digest portion of our nervous system. This is the only state where cells and tissues can regenerate and re-build. And in time with the right sensory inputs, tissues will heal and re-build.

Somatic yoga not only invites us to rest and relax deeply. It has the power to bring to our awareness where we store old unconscious survival stress in the body-mind and start to tease it out from its source.

I want nothing more than for all to experience this unique way of approaching practice.

**JOIN ME THIS SUNDAY LIVE ONLINE FOR A 2-HOUR DEEP DIVE INTO THE WORLD OF SOMATIC MOVEMENT **

10.30 - 12.30pm AEST. A recording will be send out after the event.

More information and booking details in the link in bio.

🤍🙏🏼🤍

Xx Jasmine

Why do I love, promote and reference Somatic movement so much?

- It has the ability to slowly erase old stored tension and stress in the body without the need to do big exhaustive movements.

- We hold tension at a cellular level. The time we spend doing body scans, breath work and focused on sensory awareness allow us to get to the deeper layers of tension buried under all our day to day busy.

- There is so much scope for exploring different ranges of mobility and sensation this fires up our neurons and brain in a way that it doesn't often get to work. The brain loves this!

- Time stands still. The 2-hours we spend together takes us to a place beyond time. In our reality, we are so mind-bound by time... Somatic work gives us the gift to set that aside for a small moment so we can unhinge and re-calibrate.

- It's deeply rejuvenating and restorative for the mind, body and being. Tense muscles and a busy mind take up A LOT of our energy. When we put this aside for a while and invite our muscles to relax and our mind to quieten, healing can happen more efficiently.

- It provides an opportunity to come back to ourselves. We spend so much time giving our energy out and externally focused in the world. Allowing some space and time to come back to ourselves and our inner landscape means we can go back out into the world better resourced and with more to offer, from a place of wholeness.

- It helps us bring feeling and sensing back online. When we are in a stress response, often we dissociate and disconnect from our bodies and environment, and in this response, the body bears the burden and stores the unconscious tension. When we start to somatically sense and feel, we are more able to be with all sensations pleasant or unpleasant and release old unconscious 'stuff' that can keep us stuck.
It is accessible for all bodies, no matter age or athletic ability.

- It is simple and gentle, you go at your own pace and rest as much as you need throughout.

Come and find out for yourself this Sunday ONLINE!
March 27th, 10.30 - 12.30 pm AEST.
A recording will be made available if you cant attend live.

** Follow the link in bio for more information and booking**

Why do I love, promote and reference Somatic movement so much?

- It has the ability to slowly erase old stored tension and stress in the body without the need to do big exhaustive movements.

- We hold tension at a cellular level. The time we spend doing body scans, breath work and focused on sensory awareness allow us to get to the deeper layers of tension buried under all our day to day busy.

- There is so much scope for exploring different ranges of mobility and sensation this fires up our neurons and brain in a way that it doesn't often get to work. The brain loves this!

- Time stands still. The 2-hours we spend together takes us to a place beyond time. In our reality, we are so mind-bound by time... Somatic work gives us the gift to set that aside for a small moment so we can unhinge and re-calibrate.

- It's deeply rejuvenating and restorative for the mind, body and being. Tense muscles and a busy mind take up A LOT of our energy. When we put this aside for a while and invite our muscles to relax and our mind to quieten, healing can happen more efficiently.

- It provides an opportunity to come back to ourselves. We spend so much time giving our energy out and externally focused in the world. Allowing some space and time to come back to ourselves and our inner landscape means we can go back out into the world better resourced and with more to offer, from a place of wholeness.

- It helps us bring feeling and sensing back online. When we are in a stress response, often we dissociate and disconnect from our bodies and environment, and in this response, the body bears the burden and stores the unconscious tension. When we start to somatically sense and feel, we are more able to be with all sensations pleasant or unpleasant and release old unconscious 'stuff' that can keep us stuck.
It is accessible for all bodies, no matter age or athletic ability.

- It is simple and gentle, you go at your own pace and rest as much as you need throughout.

Come and find out for yourself this Sunday ONLINE!
March 27th, 10.30 - 12.30 pm AEST.
A recording will be made available if you cant attend live.

** Follow the link in bio for more information and booking**

🌴🌿🌴

Outdoor office today!
Enjoying the balmy breeze as I finalise the lesson plans for

NUTURE NOURISH RESTORE HEAL - The Practice and Process of Attending to Your Nervous Stystem.

The six week training I'm holding starting Tuesday on Magnetic Island!

There are only a handful of places left so don't miss out if you're interested in joining.

Townsville Community you still have time, we begin mid-May.

You'll find all the information you need - dates, times, booking info, investment and course breakdown in the link in my bio.

I'm so excited to finally be bringing this to life, it's been building up inside me for the last year and a bit!

🙏🏼

🌴🌿🌴

Outdoor office today!
Enjoying the balmy breeze as I finalise the lesson plans for

NUTURE NOURISH RESTORE HEAL - The Practice and Process of Attending to Your Nervous Stystem.

The six week training I'm holding starting Tuesday on Magnetic Island!

There are only a handful of places left so don't miss out if you're interested in joining.

Townsville Community you still have time, we begin mid-May.

You'll find all the information you need - dates, times, booking info, investment and course breakdown in the link in my bio.

I'm so excited to finally be bringing this to life, it's been building up inside me for the last year and a bit!

🙏🏼

Celebrating all the women in my life, mothers, sisters, soul sisters, aunties, girlfriends, yoginis, friends, daughters, grandmothers, great aunties, great grandmothers and girls.

🌸🌼 HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY! 🌼🌸

So much love, gratitude and respect for all you have shared, inspired me with, supported me through and taught me over the years.

What an honour to walk this life as a woman, supporting other women so we can collectively transform ourselves and the world.

We women also take on a lot, and often feel we need to be strong and hold it all together.

Our roles in society have shifted and stress has increased. The pressure to earn money while raising a family and keep the balance can take its toll.

I'm holding a 6-week course

- NURTURE NOURISH RESTORE HEAL, The Practice and Process of Attending to Your Nervous Stystem -

Starting next Tuesday on Magnetic Island (Townsville in May and Online TBA), to support both women and men in reducing stress and increasing rest, calm and relaxation.

We will be exploring the anatomy of the stress response and its impacts on our nervous system. We will play with awareness exercises, gentle yoga, breathwork, somatic inquiry and movement, relaxation therapy and guided meditation.

All developed to bolster you in the face of pressure and overwhelm.

**Click the link in the bio for more information, dates, times, investment and booking**

Fill your cup so you can go back into the world and give from a more nourished place.

#nurturenourishrestoreheal #nervoussystemrecalibration #stressmanagement #stressless #comebacktoyourself #recalibrateyoga #breathwork #somaticawareness #nervoussystemeducation

Celebrating all the women in my life, mothers, sisters, soul sisters, aunties, girlfriends, yoginis, friends, daughters, grandmothers, great aunties, great grandmothers and girls.

🌸🌼 HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY! 🌼🌸

So much love, gratitude and respect for all you have shared, inspired me with, supported me through and taught me over the years.

What an honour to walk this life as a woman, supporting other women so we can collectively transform ourselves and the world.

We women also take on a lot, and often feel we need to be strong and hold it all together.

Our roles in society have shifted and stress has increased. The pressure to earn money while raising a family and keep the balance can take its toll.

I'm holding a 6-week course

- NURTURE NOURISH RESTORE HEAL, The Practice and Process of Attending to Your Nervous Stystem -

Starting next Tuesday on Magnetic Island (Townsville in May and Online TBA), to support both women and men in reducing stress and increasing rest, calm and relaxation.

We will be exploring the anatomy of the stress response and its impacts on our nervous system. We will play with awareness exercises, gentle yoga, breathwork, somatic inquiry and movement, relaxation therapy and guided meditation.

All developed to bolster you in the face of pressure and overwhelm.

**Click the link in the bio for more information, dates, times, investment and booking**

Fill your cup so you can go back into the world and give from a more nourished place.

#nurturenourishrestoreheal #nervoussystemrecalibration #stressmanagement #stressless #comebacktoyourself #recalibrateyoga #breathwork #somaticawareness #nervoussystemeducation

One of the most powerful practices for rest and rejuvenation I have come across to counterbalance the impacts of stress, brain fog, and overwhelm is Yoga Nidra.

I have heard over the years from multiple sources that 30-minutes of Yoga Nidra is the equivalent of between 2 and 4 hours of deep restorative sleep.

Yoga Nidra has the ability to reduce stress and improve thought patterns, enhance cognitive performance and memory and diminish symptoms of anxiety and depression – to name only a handful of its wonderfully healing qualities.

I’ve recorded Yoga Nidra practice to increase cognition, to start to bring the brain back to a place of harmony, and to offer the mind and body a little reprieve from all the busy-ness and noise.

I’d love to share it with you here for free, follow the link in my bio.

All you need to do is carve out 20 minutes of your time, put on your most comfortable clothes, create a cosy Yoga Nidra nest with blankets and pillows to lay back on, cover your eyes with a light cloth and allow yourself to rest and receive.

It may just help the brain fog or at the very least, provide some fertile ground for you to start unpacking stress and tension.

The effects are cumulative, so the more your practice, the more resilient your nervous system becomes to stress.

Please do let me know how you go with it!

WANT TO GO DEEPER TO UNWIND OLD HELD STRESS AND TENSION?
I’m leading a 6-week program designed to take you on a journey from Stress and Exhaustion to Balance and Ease.

Join the Magnetic Island or Townsville live runs of the program via the

**link in the bio**.

You'll also find more information, costing and dates.

Let me know if you'd like to join the waiting list for the online run of this course.

#relaxationtherapy #yoganidra #stresssupport #nervoussystemrestoration #de-stress #taketimeforyou

One of the most powerful practices for rest and rejuvenation I have come across to counterbalance the impacts of stress, brain fog, and overwhelm is Yoga Nidra.

I have heard over the years from multiple sources that 30-minutes of Yoga Nidra is the equivalent of between 2 and 4 hours of deep restorative sleep.

Yoga Nidra has the ability to reduce stress and improve thought patterns, enhance cognitive performance and memory and diminish symptoms of anxiety and depression – to name only a handful of its wonderfully healing qualities.

I’ve recorded Yoga Nidra practice to increase cognition, to start to bring the brain back to a place of harmony, and to offer the mind and body a little reprieve from all the busy-ness and noise.

I’d love to share it with you here for free, follow the link in my bio.

All you need to do is carve out 20 minutes of your time, put on your most comfortable clothes, create a cosy Yoga Nidra nest with blankets and pillows to lay back on, cover your eyes with a light cloth and allow yourself to rest and receive.

It may just help the brain fog or at the very least, provide some fertile ground for you to start unpacking stress and tension.

The effects are cumulative, so the more your practice, the more resilient your nervous system becomes to stress.

Please do let me know how you go with it!

WANT TO GO DEEPER TO UNWIND OLD HELD STRESS AND TENSION?
I’m leading a 6-week program designed to take you on a journey from Stress and Exhaustion to Balance and Ease.

Join the Magnetic Island or Townsville live runs of the program via the

**link in the bio**.

You'll also find more information, costing and dates.

Let me know if you'd like to join the waiting list for the online run of this course.

#relaxationtherapy #yoganidra #stresssupport #nervoussystemrestoration #de-stress #taketimeforyou

- Life... The highs, the lows, the glories and the challenges... finding the balance and staying level headed at the same time... riding the wave with grace and staying present to the process... connected to the heart... ever a practice.

It can all feel a little overwhelming at times and often we feel like we have to make big changes hard and fast to get anywhere.

It pays to take a step back, and see where you are and acknowledge the resources you already have available to you draw on for support.

We can only do so much at any given time.

It's the pressures and the expectations that we place on ourselves that often create the stress and overwhelm in the first place. Aswell as our thoughts and response to the situation.

What little things can you adjust to create more space and flow in your life? What pressures and expectations are you willing to drop and adopt a kinder approach to the demands you place on yourself?

Stress affects everything we do and every system in the body.

I'm running a 6-week program to help both identify and manage stress and provide education resources and breath, awareness and movement practices to provide fertile ground for healing and growth.

I'd love for you to join me on this journey!

The program "NURTURE NOURISH RESTORE HEAL; The Practice and Process of Attending to Your Nervous Stystem" is running both on Magnetic Island (starting March 15th) and in Townsville (starting May 14th) as well as online (dates TBA).
**Link in the bio for bookings and more information**.

If you'd like to be on the waiting list for the online program, please send me a DM.

This work is so important and has the potential to break the stress cycle so you can reconnect with your kinder, more gentle, rested and well resourced self.

🙏🏼

#nervoussystemrecalibration #restoration #restorativeyoga #breathedeep #stressrelief #stressless #attendbefriend #jasminematusyogaandwellbeing #6weekcourse #yogaformindboyhealing

- Life... The highs, the lows, the glories and the challenges... finding the balance and staying level headed at the same time... riding the wave with grace and staying present to the process... connected to the heart... ever a practice.

It can all feel a little overwhelming at times and often we feel like we have to make big changes hard and fast to get anywhere.

It pays to take a step back, and see where you are and acknowledge the resources you already have available to you draw on for support.

We can only do so much at any given time.

It's the pressures and the expectations that we place on ourselves that often create the stress and overwhelm in the first place. Aswell as our thoughts and response to the situation.

What little things can you adjust to create more space and flow in your life? What pressures and expectations are you willing to drop and adopt a kinder approach to the demands you place on yourself?

Stress affects everything we do and every system in the body.

I'm running a 6-week program to help both identify and manage stress and provide education resources and breath, awareness and movement practices to provide fertile ground for healing and growth.

I'd love for you to join me on this journey!

The program "NURTURE NOURISH RESTORE HEAL; The Practice and Process of Attending to Your Nervous Stystem" is running both on Magnetic Island (starting March 15th) and in Townsville (starting May 14th) as well as online (dates TBA).
**Link in the bio for bookings and more information**.

If you'd like to be on the waiting list for the online program, please send me a DM.

This work is so important and has the potential to break the stress cycle so you can reconnect with your kinder, more gentle, rested and well resourced self.

🙏🏼

#nervoussystemrecalibration #restoration #restorativeyoga #breathedeep #stressrelief #stressless #attendbefriend #jasminematusyogaandwellbeing #6weekcourse #yogaformindboyhealing

"Catastrophizing"
When someone assumes that the worst will happen. Often, it involves believing that you're in a worse situation than you really are or exaggerating the difficulties you face.

Why oh why do we humans put ourselves through such duress?!

I'd love to hear from anyone who hasn't at some stage in their lives had this dialogue or similar.

This kind of internal negative self talk is neither productive or helpful.

When we're future predicting the negative outcome of an event that is yet to have happened, we're operating from a place of fear. And its likely that this has been the default for some time.

Thus creating a neural loop in the brain so that it ACTUALLY sees the negative in situations first over the lighter side of life.

Yoga, breath, meditation and awareness practices can all help us to start to identify and highlight these often unconscious programs and resource us with tools to draw on when we're in the thick of negative self talk.

They can truly assist us in bringing us back to reality, so that we have more insight and a broader perspective.

🌿 I'm running a 6-week program coming up over the next few months to help identify how stress and overwhelm is affects us at a deeper level. The course will be both offered online and in person.
The link is in the bio for you to join the waiting list to be the first to know when bookings open.

#identifynegativethoughts #identifyunhelpfulpatterns #yogaforstressrelief #yogaforemotionalbalance #yogaformentalhealth #yogaforwellness #breathwork #stresssupportprogram #jasminematusyogaandwellbeing

"Catastrophizing"
When someone assumes that the worst will happen. Often, it involves believing that you're in a worse situation than you really are or exaggerating the difficulties you face.

Why oh why do we humans put ourselves through such duress?!

I'd love to hear from anyone who hasn't at some stage in their lives had this dialogue or similar.

This kind of internal negative self talk is neither productive or helpful.

When we're future predicting the negative outcome of an event that is yet to have happened, we're operating from a place of fear. And its likely that this has been the default for some time.

Thus creating a neural loop in the brain so that it ACTUALLY sees the negative in situations first over the lighter side of life.

Yoga, breath, meditation and awareness practices can all help us to start to identify and highlight these often unconscious programs and resource us with tools to draw on when we're in the thick of negative self talk.

They can truly assist us in bringing us back to reality, so that we have more insight and a broader perspective.

🌿 I'm running a 6-week program coming up over the next few months to help identify how stress and overwhelm is affects us at a deeper level. The course will be both offered online and in person.
The link is in the bio for you to join the waiting list to be the first to know when bookings open.

#identifynegativethoughts #identifyunhelpfulpatterns #yogaforstressrelief #yogaforemotionalbalance #yogaformentalhealth #yogaforwellness #breathwork #stresssupportprogram #jasminematusyogaandwellbeing

The nourishing effects of a yin yoga practice can benefit you from a multi layered perspective. Body, mind, emotions, nervous system.

The longer holds provide time and space for the connective tissues to replenish with fresh supply of blood and oxygen.

Being still, so rare in this fast paced world allows time for contemplation and recalibration on many levels. What needs to come up will arise, your focus is to be with it, if if feels comfortable, and if not, it's OK to come out and rest. Being able to discern is a fine balance.

Surrender and softening into your edges builds resilience in a sustainable way. Letting go of holding, pushing and controlling - traps we unconsciously fall into throughout our day to day - become obvious and we're offered an opportunity to reshape them into a more supportive and nurturing approach.

A transformation occurs from tension and stressed to ease and softness and we're gifted the joy of feeling a little more connected to ourselves and life.

I'd love to share more with you on this beautiful practice as well more restorative slower paced somatic and meditative practices.

I'm crafting a 6-week course to help you both recalibrate your nervous system back to a more regulated place and provide you with tools and insights to help you stay more grounded and calm amidst the inevitable fluctuations ad upheavals of life.

The course will be held both in person and online.
PM me if you'd like more information.

#yinyoga
#nervoussystemhealth
#restorativeyoga #jasminematusyogaandwellbeing #slowdown #replenish #soften #yogatherapy #yogaforemotionalbalance
#somaticawarenss #breathedeep

The nourishing effects of a yin yoga practice can benefit you from a multi layered perspective. Body, mind, emotions, nervous system.

The longer holds provide time and space for the connective tissues to replenish with fresh supply of blood and oxygen.

Being still, so rare in this fast paced world allows time for contemplation and recalibration on many levels. What needs to come up will arise, your focus is to be with it, if if feels comfortable, and if not, it's OK to come out and rest. Being able to discern is a fine balance.

Surrender and softening into your edges builds resilience in a sustainable way. Letting go of holding, pushing and controlling - traps we unconsciously fall into throughout our day to day - become obvious and we're offered an opportunity to reshape them into a more supportive and nurturing approach.

A transformation occurs from tension and stressed to ease and softness and we're gifted the joy of feeling a little more connected to ourselves and life.

I'd love to share more with you on this beautiful practice as well more restorative slower paced somatic and meditative practices.

I'm crafting a 6-week course to help you both recalibrate your nervous system back to a more regulated place and provide you with tools and insights to help you stay more grounded and calm amidst the inevitable fluctuations ad upheavals of life.

The course will be held both in person and online.
PM me if you'd like more information.

#yinyoga
#nervoussystemhealth
#restorativeyoga #jasminematusyogaandwellbeing #slowdown #replenish #soften #yogatherapy #yogaforemotionalbalance
#somaticawarenss #breathedeep

How would your life look and feel if you were able to take a step back?
Let go of the grip and bring more ease into all you do? Create a litte more awareness in your days so you had more scope.

Often the fear is that things will fall apart and that we'll lose control if we let go. The reality is that the opposite usually happens. We catch up, we are more focused and more rested, so we're more easily able to show up to life.

Somewhere along the line we adopted the belief that the harder, faster and stronger we go, the more we'll get back.

What's often the case is we're stuck between two worlds - that of our minds wanting to go harder (think foot on the accelerator) and our nervous systems wanting more rest and space (foot on the brake). In this scenario it's almost impossible to move forward efficiently.

Inviting in a little more ease and space into your actions, connections and efforts can feel foreign at first, but once you get the hang of it what can happen is that all our actions become infused with these principals.

I'd love to share more with you on this beautiful way if being as well more restorative slower paced somatic and meditative movement, yoga and breath practices.

***Next Saturday 19th February, Leisa Parker and I are holding a Somatic Movement and Deep Restorative Rest Session live in Townsville where we address just this***
***See bio to book in and for more information***

I'm also crafting a 6-week course to help you both recalibrate your nervous system back to a more regulated place AND to provide you with tools and insights to help you stay more grounded and calm amidst the inevitable fluctuations ad upheavals of life.

The course will be held both in person and online.
PM me for more information and to go on the waiting list.

#somaticmovement #slowdowntocatchup #restreplenish #jasminematusyoga&wellbeing #nervoussystemrecalibration #yourbodyandmindwillthankyou #bekindtoyourself #thegiftofrest #moshefeldenkrais

How would your life look and feel if you were able to take a step back?
Let go of the grip and bring more ease into all you do? Create a litte more awareness in your days so you had more scope.

Often the fear is that things will fall apart and that we'll lose control if we let go. The reality is that the opposite usually happens. We catch up, we are more focused and more rested, so we're more easily able to show up to life.

Somewhere along the line we adopted the belief that the harder, faster and stronger we go, the more we'll get back.

What's often the case is we're stuck between two worlds - that of our minds wanting to go harder (think foot on the accelerator) and our nervous systems wanting more rest and space (foot on the brake). In this scenario it's almost impossible to move forward efficiently.

Inviting in a little more ease and space into your actions, connections and efforts can feel foreign at first, but once you get the hang of it what can happen is that all our actions become infused with these principals.

I'd love to share more with you on this beautiful way if being as well more restorative slower paced somatic and meditative movement, yoga and breath practices.

***Next Saturday 19th February, Leisa Parker and I are holding a Somatic Movement and Deep Restorative Rest Session live in Townsville where we address just this***
***See bio to book in and for more information***

I'm also crafting a 6-week course to help you both recalibrate your nervous system back to a more regulated place AND to provide you with tools and insights to help you stay more grounded and calm amidst the inevitable fluctuations ad upheavals of life.

The course will be held both in person and online.
PM me for more information and to go on the waiting list.

#somaticmovement #slowdowntocatchup #restreplenish #jasminematusyoga&wellbeing #nervoussystemrecalibration #yourbodyandmindwillthankyou #bekindtoyourself #thegiftofrest #moshefeldenkrais

What does slowing down look like for you?

Can you remember the last time you felt truly deeply rested? Where your whole body was pain free, your mind spacious and open?

Or has it been that long that the possibility of that seems like a far fetched reality?

Stress can present in the body/mind in a number of ways either as physical signs and symptoms such as pain, tension or digestive or psychological including mood swings, irritability or anxiety.

We are holistic beings, each element either supporting or affecting the other. And as such applying techniques through our practice in a way that addresses the whole being as oppose to pieces and parts will generate healing from the root of the issue.

I'm holding a 2-hour Somatic Yoga experience tomorrow. The practices we will explore will provide you with tools and insights so you can begin to feel and embody that sense of wholeness.

Not only do we move our bodies to explore where we are holding tension and stress so we can figure out how to release it, we utilise the breath to positively affect the nervous system, we reconnect the neural muscular pathways to retrain the brain to remember what ease feels like and we rest deeply through a process of layered relaxation techniques to allow the entire system to regenerate and recalibrate.

I have two spaces free if this is something that may interest you, **follow the link in the bio**.

What others have said following past sessions:

"...I can't remember a time where my mind has ever been so still before..."

"....I've never experienced going so deep in a yoga session as this!..."

"...this is an amazing way to practice, the benefits have stayed with me days after the session..."

Looking forward to sharing tomorrow and in the very near future in the online arena. DM me if you'd like to stay in the loop 🙂!

#somaticyoga #somaticawareness #healingfromtheinsideout
#sensorymotorawareness #somatics #prakasayogaandyogatherapy #somanaught #nervoussystemrecalibration #deeprest #restorativeyogapractices #selfsupportingyoga

What does slowing down look like for you?

Can you remember the last time you felt truly deeply rested? Where your whole body was pain free, your mind spacious and open?

Or has it been that long that the possibility of that seems like a far fetched reality?

Stress can present in the body/mind in a number of ways either as physical signs and symptoms such as pain, tension or digestive or psychological including mood swings, irritability or anxiety.

We are holistic beings, each element either supporting or affecting the other. And as such applying techniques through our practice in a way that addresses the whole being as oppose to pieces and parts will generate healing from the root of the issue.

I'm holding a 2-hour Somatic Yoga experience tomorrow. The practices we will explore will provide you with tools and insights so you can begin to feel and embody that sense of wholeness.

Not only do we move our bodies to explore where we are holding tension and stress so we can figure out how to release it, we utilise the breath to positively affect the nervous system, we reconnect the neural muscular pathways to retrain the brain to remember what ease feels like and we rest deeply through a process of layered relaxation techniques to allow the entire system to regenerate and recalibrate.

I have two spaces free if this is something that may interest you, **follow the link in the bio**.

What others have said following past sessions:

"...I can't remember a time where my mind has ever been so still before..."

"....I've never experienced going so deep in a yoga session as this!..."

"...this is an amazing way to practice, the benefits have stayed with me days after the session..."

Looking forward to sharing tomorrow and in the very near future in the online arena. DM me if you'd like to stay in the loop 🙂!

#somaticyoga #somaticawareness #healingfromtheinsideout
#sensorymotorawareness #somatics #prakasayogaandyogatherapy #somanaught #nervoussystemrecalibration #deeprest #restorativeyogapractices #selfsupportingyoga

Individuals with high muscle tonus, or stiff tight muscles, do not feel good in their bodies.
Muscular tension, restricted movement weakness, fatigue, chronic pain and postural misalignment are too often and too quickly misinterpreted as "old age".

It IS more than possible to feel genuinely "young" at any age. Read that again.

Somatic pioneer and educator Thomas Hannah boldly labels old age as a "fictitious disease" that presumably leads to physical and psychological degeneration, constant fatigue and weakness - and for the most part we accept this and haul through life with the belief that we're just getting old...

Somatic movement and education teach us otherwise. What is often (mis)labelled/diagnosed as degeneration requiring surgery for any result is simply a case of SMA or Sensory Motor Amnesia.

A glitch in the sensory motor feedback loop of the nervous system.

In other words, chronically tight muscle/s become accustomed to being held in tension as a result of trauma, injury or stress, that the muscle can no longer sense (information coming in) - meaning motor action (movement going out) can't be performed. This results in the muscle to brain to muscle pathways dulling or completely switching off all together.

Somaics re-educate this dulled pathway so the brain begins to re-learn re-wire and re-sense the difference between tension and relaxation so it can self-correct and relax back to its natural state, one that is pain free, at ANY age.

If you're keen to explore this in your own body, join me live on either the 30th January or 19th February for deep dive into the world of Somatic movement, breathwork and guided body scanning.

All practices and explorations are designed to help you release old chronic holding patterns or stress and tension in your body and realign back to a balanced and easeful state.
🧠 💪 🧘‍♀️

LINKS AND MORE INFORMATION IN BIO.

#thomashannah #somatics #somaticyoga #prakasayogaandyogatherapy #somaticeducation #somaticeducator #painfreeliving #gentlesomaticyoga #breathwork #somaticworkshop

Individuals with high muscle tonus, or stiff tight muscles, do not feel good in their bodies.
Muscular tension, restricted movement weakness, fatigue, chronic pain and postural misalignment are too often and too quickly misinterpreted as "old age".

It IS more than possible to feel genuinely "young" at any age. Read that again.

Somatic pioneer and educator Thomas Hannah boldly labels old age as a "fictitious disease" that presumably leads to physical and psychological degeneration, constant fatigue and weakness - and for the most part we accept this and haul through life with the belief that we're just getting old...

Somatic movement and education teach us otherwise. What is often (mis)labelled/diagnosed as degeneration requiring surgery for any result is simply a case of SMA or Sensory Motor Amnesia.

A glitch in the sensory motor feedback loop of the nervous system.

In other words, chronically tight muscle/s become accustomed to being held in tension as a result of trauma, injury or stress, that the muscle can no longer sense (information coming in) - meaning motor action (movement going out) can't be performed. This results in the muscle to brain to muscle pathways dulling or completely switching off all together.

Somaics re-educate this dulled pathway so the brain begins to re-learn re-wire and re-sense the difference between tension and relaxation so it can self-correct and relax back to its natural state, one that is pain free, at ANY age.

If you're keen to explore this in your own body, join me live on either the 30th January or 19th February for deep dive into the world of Somatic movement, breathwork and guided body scanning.

All practices and explorations are designed to help you release old chronic holding patterns or stress and tension in your body and realign back to a balanced and easeful state.
🧠 💪 🧘‍♀️

LINKS AND MORE INFORMATION IN BIO.

#thomashannah #somatics #somaticyoga #prakasayogaandyogatherapy #somaticeducation #somaticeducator #painfreeliving #gentlesomaticyoga #breathwork #somaticworkshop

It's been such an exciting ride collaborating with @thecalmco_ and @ecbell_ as they prepare to launch this amazing online wellness platform.

Link in bio to become a subscribing member to have access to rich yoga and well being practices wisdom and content both on demand and live. With new classes updated on a regular basis.

Launch date
mid February!

#yogaonline
#yogicwellbeing #yogaforeverybody #accessibleyoga #yogaplatform #yogaheals #yogacollaboration

It's been such an exciting ride collaborating with @thecalmco_ and @ecbell_ as they prepare to launch this amazing online wellness platform.

Link in bio to become a subscribing member to have access to rich yoga and well being practices wisdom and content both on demand and live. With new classes updated on a regular basis.

Launch date
mid February!

#yogaonline
#yogicwellbeing #yogaforeverybody #accessibleyoga #yogaplatform #yogaheals #yogacollaboration

You've more than likely heard in your travels "...where our attention goes, energy flows..."

Our friend Aristotle shares this same concept just with different words "...the energy of the mind is the essence of life..." same same but different.

Have you ever paused to really digest this and see it as it unfolds in YOUR life?

What is your mental default modus operandi? Do your thoughts and feelings lean more to the past or the future?
Is their nature fearful, worried, anticipatory, limiting? Rapid, uncontrolled, jagged? Bright, expanded, free, unlimited?

Whatever your mind-stream, the energy of that current will be what you bring to life and will reflect back to you.

It's not to say pretend none of the (perceived) "bad" stuff isn't real or doesn't matter that is called spiritual bypassing. If we're feeling less than optimal of course, that's a signal to pay attention to. Just another clue on the path to discovery.

Avoid pushing down or neglecting, rather lean in, catch yourself, become aware of the habitual, often unconscious trajectory and breathe into it.
It starts with awareness.

Allow it some space so you start to be the guide of it rather than it having you in its grips.

Practice:
Taking 12 slow, deep, diaphragmatic breaths is a good place to start.

EVERY system in our body responds positively to this. It takes roughly this many breaths to completely refresh your lungs and brain of fresh blood and oxygen.
Do it now.... see what happens.

When we slow the breath down, we slow the mind down, this brings us back to the moment and breaks the cycle.

The more you do this, the more you catch yourself, the sooner you become the guide of your own mental energy and can channel it accordingly.

DM me for more information on how to apply simple yogic techniques to help your body, mind, nervous system and immune system stay balanced in times of stress and chaos.

💛
Much love,
Jasmine

#mindhack #lifehack #whereattentiongoesenergyflows #breathe #awarenessiskey
#yogaofthemind #yogaforthemind #Aristotle #simplicityofbreath
#deepdiaphragmaticbreath #breathedeep

You've more than likely heard in your travels "...where our attention goes, energy flows..."

Our friend Aristotle shares this same concept just with different words "...the energy of the mind is the essence of life..." same same but different.

Have you ever paused to really digest this and see it as it unfolds in YOUR life?

What is your mental default modus operandi? Do your thoughts and feelings lean more to the past or the future?
Is their nature fearful, worried, anticipatory, limiting? Rapid, uncontrolled, jagged? Bright, expanded, free, unlimited?

Whatever your mind-stream, the energy of that current will be what you bring to life and will reflect back to you.

It's not to say pretend none of the (perceived) "bad" stuff isn't real or doesn't matter that is called spiritual bypassing. If we're feeling less than optimal of course, that's a signal to pay attention to. Just another clue on the path to discovery.

Avoid pushing down or neglecting, rather lean in, catch yourself, become aware of the habitual, often unconscious trajectory and breathe into it.
It starts with awareness.

Allow it some space so you start to be the guide of it rather than it having you in its grips.

Practice:
Taking 12 slow, deep, diaphragmatic breaths is a good place to start.

EVERY system in our body responds positively to this. It takes roughly this many breaths to completely refresh your lungs and brain of fresh blood and oxygen.
Do it now.... see what happens.

When we slow the breath down, we slow the mind down, this brings us back to the moment and breaks the cycle.

The more you do this, the more you catch yourself, the sooner you become the guide of your own mental energy and can channel it accordingly.

DM me for more information on how to apply simple yogic techniques to help your body, mind, nervous system and immune system stay balanced in times of stress and chaos.

💛
Much love,
Jasmine

#mindhack #lifehack #whereattentiongoesenergyflows #breathe #awarenessiskey
#yogaofthemind #yogaforthemind #Aristotle #simplicityofbreath
#deepdiaphragmaticbreath #breathedeep

Supta Padangusthasana or reclined hand to big toe pose, is so much more than a superficial hamstring/calf stretch.

For sure, it will do this, as well as stretching and lengthening the fascial back line, opening the hips and nourishing the joints and groins. Let's just call these positive side effects of the main event.

We need to move beyond asana being a purely physical experience.

Function over form here is what's important.

On a deeper level, Supta Padangusthasana asks us to feel into the subtle energetics, to tap into patience and surrender. To be able to foster the ability to stay with challenge and the ability to let go when necessary. To feel the internal energetics of the spine and direct our awareness inward.

Technically it's a paschimatana shape meaning forward fold.

With the thigh towards the belly, we're invited guide our breath here, this supports the function of apana vayu. A downward movement of energy that resides in the lower abdomen and governs/supports all physiological functions of the lower abdomen; the function of elimination and removal of waste from the body (physical and mental), sexual functions and menstruation, plus the residual functions of digestion and metabolism.

The gentle pressure of belly to thigh creates an opportunity for the parasympathetic nervous system to come back online if we breathe deeply into it. Our rest, digest, restore capacity becomes revitalised.

The beauty is, EVERY yoga pose has its own unique physical, physiological, psychological and energetic functions. When practiced and sequenced intelligently, yoga becomes a healing art, not just something we check off the "to do" list or to get a good work out.

*Stay Tuned*
In the not too distant future, I'll be releasing trainings that will open your world to the multifaceted functions and energetics of Asana, Pranayama and Meditation for healing and therapeutic purposes. 😀

DM me for more information.

#yogaheals #suptapdangusthasana #apanavayu #functionoverform #yogaforbalance #yogaforthemind #yogaforvitality

Supta Padangusthasana or reclined hand to big toe pose, is so much more than a superficial hamstring/calf stretch.

For sure, it will do this, as well as stretching and lengthening the fascial back line, opening the hips and nourishing the joints and groins. Let's just call these positive side effects of the main event.

We need to move beyond asana being a purely physical experience.

Function over form here is what's important.

On a deeper level, Supta Padangusthasana asks us to feel into the subtle energetics, to tap into patience and surrender. To be able to foster the ability to stay with challenge and the ability to let go when necessary. To feel the internal energetics of the spine and direct our awareness inward.

Technically it's a paschimatana shape meaning forward fold.

With the thigh towards the belly, we're invited guide our breath here, this supports the function of apana vayu. A downward movement of energy that resides in the lower abdomen and governs/supports all physiological functions of the lower abdomen; the function of elimination and removal of waste from the body (physical and mental), sexual functions and menstruation, plus the residual functions of digestion and metabolism.

The gentle pressure of belly to thigh creates an opportunity for the parasympathetic nervous system to come back online if we breathe deeply into it. Our rest, digest, restore capacity becomes revitalised.

The beauty is, EVERY yoga pose has its own unique physical, physiological, psychological and energetic functions. When practiced and sequenced intelligently, yoga becomes a healing art, not just something we check off the "to do" list or to get a good work out.

*Stay Tuned*
In the not too distant future, I'll be releasing trainings that will open your world to the multifaceted functions and energetics of Asana, Pranayama and Meditation for healing and therapeutic purposes. 😀

DM me for more information.

#yogaheals #suptapdangusthasana #apanavayu #functionoverform #yogaforbalance #yogaforthemind #yogaforvitality

It's liberating to remember from time to time that in any situation we have a choice. It seems obvious tapping this out, but in the moment of heat, where life can feel gruelling and you feel like she has you in her grips you get to choose your outcome.

We are never stuck, never bound. Often it's just one thought or shift in perspective that can alter the outcome of your reality. That can put a halt to reactive tendencies and call on a deeper part of us, a part of us that is unconditional, to respond in a way that won't leave a residue in our minds, hearts and lives.

Keep this knowing close to your heart and draw on it next time you feel powerless.

Have a blessed day 🙏🏽

#createyourreality #chooseyourdestiny
#youholdthekey #choiceandfreewill #yogaislife #lifechoices #reactrespond #realitybreak #yogaheals #yogaforthemindbodyandsoul #yogaforthemind #livingwithpurpose

It's liberating to remember from time to time that in any situation we have a choice. It seems obvious tapping this out, but in the moment of heat, where life can feel gruelling and you feel like she has you in her grips you get to choose your outcome.

We are never stuck, never bound. Often it's just one thought or shift in perspective that can alter the outcome of your reality. That can put a halt to reactive tendencies and call on a deeper part of us, a part of us that is unconditional, to respond in a way that won't leave a residue in our minds, hearts and lives.

Keep this knowing close to your heart and draw on it next time you feel powerless.

Have a blessed day 🙏🏽

#createyourreality #chooseyourdestiny
#youholdthekey #choiceandfreewill #yogaislife #lifechoices #reactrespond #realitybreak #yogaheals #yogaforthemindbodyandsoul #yogaforthemind #livingwithpurpose

Truly a dream come true, walking down to Balding Bay in the dark with a head torch to catch the sunrise as the backdrop for my morning's "work".

Moments like these stop me in my tracks with a surge of gratitude knowing that whatever our hearts desire, we CAN create it if we open to it.

Why is it then that so many feel stuck, trapped and don't see that life's offers us limitless possibilities. Life wants us to experience her fullness and richness... literally begs us to.

We can choose whatever paths we so desire. It might not come easily, and in my case (and I'm sure this is true for you too), there has been a cascade of limiting beliefs, old patterns and negative self talk to push through that held me back up to this point, that I've navigated to get here, where I really see it. I really get it. The penny has dropped and there's no going back.

What is holding you back from truly expressing and living your ideal reality?

Happy new NOW people.
🤸‍♀️

#onlineyoga #yogaoffice #prakasayogaandyogatherapy
#unlimitedliving #limitless #yogagram #createyourreality
#liveyourdream #yogaforall #yogaistherapy

Truly a dream come true, walking down to Balding Bay in the dark with a head torch to catch the sunrise as the backdrop for my morning's "work".

Moments like these stop me in my tracks with a surge of gratitude knowing that whatever our hearts desire, we CAN create it if we open to it.

Why is it then that so many feel stuck, trapped and don't see that life's offers us limitless possibilities. Life wants us to experience her fullness and richness... literally begs us to.

We can choose whatever paths we so desire. It might not come easily, and in my case (and I'm sure this is true for you too), there has been a cascade of limiting beliefs, old patterns and negative self talk to push through that held me back up to this point, that I've navigated to get here, where I really see it. I really get it. The penny has dropped and there's no going back.

What is holding you back from truly expressing and living your ideal reality?

Happy new NOW people.
🤸‍♀️

#onlineyoga #yogaoffice #prakasayogaandyogatherapy
#unlimitedliving #limitless #yogagram #createyourreality
#liveyourdream #yogaforall #yogaistherapy

There's such hype about the important of Self-care these days, and I'm a huge advocate of it too.

There really is no right or wrong way to do it. As long as you are honouring your Self in a way that feels nurturing and supportive. That brings you a state of peace, joy, and quiet contentment.

One person's Self-care will differ greatly from the other.

The main thing is that it need not feel forced and it must not be wrapped in guilt or shame around putting yourself first for a moment. This is the antitheses and can only create an energetic disservice.

Self-care is a requirement and it's through this gentle effort that you fill yourself back up so you can step back into your life with more ground to stand on, ready to open to anything than comes into your life.

A little each day goes a long way.

Much love 🤍.

#Self-care
#itsoktobeselfishsometimes
#expansion
#eachtotheirown
#self-love
#healfromwithin
#begentle

There's such hype about the important of Self-care these days, and I'm a huge advocate of it too.

There really is no right or wrong way to do it. As long as you are honouring your Self in a way that feels nurturing and supportive. That brings you a state of peace, joy, and quiet contentment.

One person's Self-care will differ greatly from the other.

The main thing is that it need not feel forced and it must not be wrapped in guilt or shame around putting yourself first for a moment. This is the antitheses and can only create an energetic disservice.

Self-care is a requirement and it's through this gentle effort that you fill yourself back up so you can step back into your life with more ground to stand on, ready to open to anything than comes into your life.

A little each day goes a long way.

Much love 🤍.

#Self-care
#itsoktobeselfishsometimes
#expansion
#eachtotheirown
#self-love
#healfromwithin
#begentle

Best yoga companion ever.

#animaltherapy #yogatherapy #lovemydog #yogaheals #wellbeing

Best yoga companion ever.

#animaltherapy #yogatherapy #lovemydog #yogaheals #wellbeing

Life goes on around us regardless of our internal experience, no matter what, every day, without fail.
What repeted stories and narratives play out in the undercurrent of your day?
⛅
It's easy to get unconsciously caught up in blame, shame, guilt, frustration anger, reactivity and regret.
The vibration of these actions and thoughts is much more gripping and powerful than the more harmonious balanced open minded flow and perspective. And that becomes the ingrained default.
🌱
Yoga teaches us to favour neither. Its not all rainbows and roses just as its not all doom or gloom. We learn to find a common ground. Ground that is balanced, neutral, sustainable, supportive, observant, allowing and accepting. Its a practice.
⛅
Sure, we WILL loose our s#%*t from time to time, but its the bouncing back after the storm, rather than getting caught up in the reliving of the drama over and over again which is the true mark of our progress on the path.
🌱
This is your life
You hold the key, you are driving the bus. Where would you like to go today?
⛅
#yogaforwellness #yogamind #yogavitality #yogaformentalhealth #progressonthepath #itsajourney #yogaeverydamnday #yoginiofinstagran #shineyourlight #bebold #awareness #presence #betheobserver #youchoose #prakasayogaandyogatherapy

Life goes on around us regardless of our internal experience, no matter what, every day, without fail.
What repeted stories and narratives play out in the undercurrent of your day?
⛅
It's easy to get unconsciously caught up in blame, shame, guilt, frustration anger, reactivity and regret.
The vibration of these actions and thoughts is much more gripping and powerful than the more harmonious balanced open minded flow and perspective. And that becomes the ingrained default.
🌱
Yoga teaches us to favour neither. Its not all rainbows and roses just as its not all doom or gloom. We learn to find a common ground. Ground that is balanced, neutral, sustainable, supportive, observant, allowing and accepting. Its a practice.
⛅
Sure, we WILL loose our s#%*t from time to time, but its the bouncing back after the storm, rather than getting caught up in the reliving of the drama over and over again which is the true mark of our progress on the path.
🌱
This is your life
You hold the key, you are driving the bus. Where would you like to go today?
⛅
#yogaforwellness #yogamind #yogavitality #yogaformentalhealth #progressonthepath #itsajourney #yogaeverydamnday #yoginiofinstagran #shineyourlight #bebold #awareness #presence #betheobserver #youchoose #prakasayogaandyogatherapy

Flying above the clouds, a rare treat these days, got me thinking about the wise words of Pema Chödrön: "...You ARE the sky, everything else is just weather..." - a reflection I come back to regularly, and the more I ponder it, the more I believe it, know it and feel it as truth.
🌩
Innately, we really are just like the clear blue sky. We have this enormous wellspring of peace and clarity within us that is open and clear and expansive and as boundless as the sky.
⛈
Why then do so many of humanity play small and identify with the dark clouds, the dampness and the mould in their lives? I believe 100% that we create our reality and we have the power within us to create our destiny.
🌦
We feed our unconscious messages related to our limiting beliefs all the time and that's what ends up running the show. The "I'm not good enough's" "I'm not capable enough" "I'm not worthy" "I'm unlovable" "I'm not smart enough's"... the list is long and its been calling the shots and dictating your trajectory. And these are the messages that power the vehicle of your life.
🌤.
It's time to step into knowing your greatness and realizing that all the rest is just a made up belief. One based on something very old that happened a very long time ago in your life, that's caused you to put up a screen to your access to the limitless blue sky.
🌈
When I catch my self going back into that victim mode (I'm not good enough etc...) these days it feels like really old heavy energy, it doesnt "fit" any more, and that's a beautiful realisation.
☀️
The time is now to step into your power and shine light on all that has been holding you back and connect with the blue sky that you truly are.

🤍💙🤍
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#higherperspective #mindovermatter #thestorieswetellourselves #unconsciousbeliefs #livefromyourhigherplace #blueskiesundertheclouds #yogaforinsight #yogaclearstheclouds #yogaforgrowth #yogaforthemind #yogaismagic #yogaeveryday #yogaeverydamnday #pemachodron

Flying above the clouds, a rare treat these days, got me thinking about the wise words of Pema Chödrön: "...You ARE the sky, everything else is just weather..." - a reflection I come back to regularly, and the more I ponder it, the more I believe it, know it and feel it as truth.
🌩
Innately, we really are just like the clear blue sky. We have this enormous wellspring of peace and clarity within us that is open and clear and expansive and as boundless as the sky.
⛈
Why then do so many of humanity play small and identify with the dark clouds, the dampness and the mould in their lives? I believe 100% that we create our reality and we have the power within us to create our destiny.
🌦
We feed our unconscious messages related to our limiting beliefs all the time and that's what ends up running the show. The "I'm not good enough's" "I'm not capable enough" "I'm not worthy" "I'm unlovable" "I'm not smart enough's"... the list is long and its been calling the shots and dictating your trajectory. And these are the messages that power the vehicle of your life.
🌤.
It's time to step into knowing your greatness and realizing that all the rest is just a made up belief. One based on something very old that happened a very long time ago in your life, that's caused you to put up a screen to your access to the limitless blue sky.
🌈
When I catch my self going back into that victim mode (I'm not good enough etc...) these days it feels like really old heavy energy, it doesnt "fit" any more, and that's a beautiful realisation.
☀️
The time is now to step into your power and shine light on all that has been holding you back and connect with the blue sky that you truly are.

🤍💙🤍
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#higherperspective #mindovermatter #thestorieswetellourselves #unconsciousbeliefs #livefromyourhigherplace #blueskiesundertheclouds #yogaforinsight #yogaclearstheclouds #yogaforgrowth #yogaforthemind #yogaismagic #yogaeveryday #yogaeverydamnday #pemachodron

🤍C R E A T I V I T Y: the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination.
🌼
We are all creators. Anyone who says they don't have a creative bone in their body hasn't dug deep enough. To be human is to be a creative. We thrive on it, it fuels us and keeps life fresh and innovative.
🌼
The most reassuring thing for me upon waking is knowing that I hold the brush to create my day, week, life however I choose to. No matter what arises mentally physically, emotionally or globally, in any moment, I can create my reality.
🌼
You don't have to be an artist or designer to be creative, all it requires is walking a little more on the wild side and seeing the bigger picture. Life is here for us to have an experience so we expand and open. Once we start breaking away from the societal shackles, the bigger picture reveals. The universe is here to support us and nurture us and fun is the driving force.
🌼
When we open our hearts and minds and allow the creative forces to flow through us alchemy happens... or in other words "Let the Force Be With You"...
🙏
#createyourreality #itsalljustenergy #yogaofcreation #theresacreatorinallofus #yogaforlife #yogafuelscreativite #creativedrive #alchemy #lettheforcebewithyou #usetheforce. #creativeforceofnature #theuniverseishereforyou #universegotyourback

🤍C R E A T I V I T Y: the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination.
🌼
We are all creators. Anyone who says they don't have a creative bone in their body hasn't dug deep enough. To be human is to be a creative. We thrive on it, it fuels us and keeps life fresh and innovative.
🌼
The most reassuring thing for me upon waking is knowing that I hold the brush to create my day, week, life however I choose to. No matter what arises mentally physically, emotionally or globally, in any moment, I can create my reality.
🌼
You don't have to be an artist or designer to be creative, all it requires is walking a little more on the wild side and seeing the bigger picture. Life is here for us to have an experience so we expand and open. Once we start breaking away from the societal shackles, the bigger picture reveals. The universe is here to support us and nurture us and fun is the driving force.
🌼
When we open our hearts and minds and allow the creative forces to flow through us alchemy happens... or in other words "Let the Force Be With You"...
🙏
#createyourreality #itsalljustenergy #yogaofcreation #theresacreatorinallofus #yogaforlife #yogafuelscreativite #creativedrive #alchemy #lettheforcebewithyou #usetheforce. #creativeforceofnature #theuniverseishereforyou #universegotyourback

Shine bright and take flight.
☀️
Zoom in and you'll notice a grainy patch if black flecks the left of the sun.
🌏
These are Brolga, also known as Australian cranes. These are not small birds. We witnessed 100's of them riding the wind currents kilometres above the earth, in pure joy just for the sake of it.
☀️
Mesmerised by their effortless grace and ease in the moment, I was reminded that the simple things are the most powerful. When we're in the flow of our life riding that serendipitous wave, there is no struggle, there is no suffering and all will happen when the divine timing decides.
🌏
May your day be filled with wonder and awe and may you be inspired to take flight into the magical unknown.
☀️
#flylikeabrolga #limitlessliving #shinebright #yogaintheeveryday #beinspiredbynature #takeflight #magicalunknown #yogaeverywhere #yogamksemam #prakasayogaandyogatherapy

Shine bright and take flight.
☀️
Zoom in and you'll notice a grainy patch if black flecks the left of the sun.
🌏
These are Brolga, also known as Australian cranes. These are not small birds. We witnessed 100's of them riding the wind currents kilometres above the earth, in pure joy just for the sake of it.
☀️
Mesmerised by their effortless grace and ease in the moment, I was reminded that the simple things are the most powerful. When we're in the flow of our life riding that serendipitous wave, there is no struggle, there is no suffering and all will happen when the divine timing decides.
🌏
May your day be filled with wonder and awe and may you be inspired to take flight into the magical unknown.
☀️
#flylikeabrolga #limitlessliving #shinebright #yogaintheeveryday #beinspiredbynature #takeflight #magicalunknown #yogaeverywhere #yogamksemam #prakasayogaandyogatherapy

We are here to experience life in all her flavours and glory, we are here to grow. We are here to be stretched, challenged and expanded beyond our wildest dreams.
🤸‍♀️
Problem is, we get comfortable, we get lazy and we are chronic habit formers, and we love complaining and finding fault in not only ourselves but others.
🤸‍♂️
It takes a hell of a lot of drive, will and thinking against the grain to step into limitless living. It doesn't necessarily have to be grand and elaborate (but, why not, if you can), rather, more aligned with YOUR personal desires, goals visions and dreams.
🤸‍♀️
Those dreams that so often get swept under the rug or put in the too hard basket because, they're... too hard... And they require you to think for yourself, they demand courage and ask you to go out on a limb and take a risk and that's... well, scarry.
🤸‍♂️
Once you cross that line though, there's no turning back. Once you see that there simply is no end to the palette of possibilities that await you, you become unstoppable and limitless.
🤸‍♀️
In small ways (and sometimes very big ways), yoga presents these opportunities every time we step on the mat. If we meet our practice every day with an open mind, with presence, with compassion, we understand its no different to life. We grow, we're challenged, streatched and most definitely expanded in all planes mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. And that is a seriously beautiful thing. Yoga references life and they enhance each other. Once we've touched that, there is definitely no going back.

🤸‍♂️🙏🤸‍♀️
Namaste

#expand #expandyourcapacity #expandyourlife #yogaasreference #getonthemat #yogaeveryday #prakasayogaandyogatherapy #yogamirrorslife #openheartyoga #yogaforgrowth #yogaismagic #yoginiofinstagran #yogalife #yogafortruth #yogagrounded #staytruetoyourself #bewhateryoudreamtobe #beinspired #inspireothers

We are here to experience life in all her flavours and glory, we are here to grow. We are here to be stretched, challenged and expanded beyond our wildest dreams.
🤸‍♀️
Problem is, we get comfortable, we get lazy and we are chronic habit formers, and we love complaining and finding fault in not only ourselves but others.
🤸‍♂️
It takes a hell of a lot of drive, will and thinking against the grain to step into limitless living. It doesn't necessarily have to be grand and elaborate (but, why not, if you can), rather, more aligned with YOUR personal desires, goals visions and dreams.
🤸‍♀️
Those dreams that so often get swept under the rug or put in the too hard basket because, they're... too hard... And they require you to think for yourself, they demand courage and ask you to go out on a limb and take a risk and that's... well, scarry.
🤸‍♂️
Once you cross that line though, there's no turning back. Once you see that there simply is no end to the palette of possibilities that await you, you become unstoppable and limitless.
🤸‍♀️
In small ways (and sometimes very big ways), yoga presents these opportunities every time we step on the mat. If we meet our practice every day with an open mind, with presence, with compassion, we understand its no different to life. We grow, we're challenged, streatched and most definitely expanded in all planes mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. And that is a seriously beautiful thing. Yoga references life and they enhance each other. Once we've touched that, there is definitely no going back.

🤸‍♂️🙏🤸‍♀️
Namaste

#expand #expandyourcapacity #expandyourlife #yogaasreference #getonthemat #yogaeveryday #prakasayogaandyogatherapy #yogamirrorslife #openheartyoga #yogaforgrowth #yogaismagic #yoginiofinstagran #yogalife #yogafortruth #yogagrounded #staytruetoyourself #bewhateryoudreamtobe #beinspired #inspireothers

"She refused to settle, for she had a wild heart and wild hearts cannot be easily tamed."
- R. G. Moon
💛
How willing are you to open your heart? To feel, to express, to share. To give without the expectation of getting back, to live your truth when needed the most.
🤍
Do you have a dream, a plan, a vision? And how long have you suppressed it for fear of failure, not being "good enough" or a mentality that its "all been done before"?
💛
This suppression creates what we call in yoga Dukham. Often translated as suffering, a more accurate diagnosis is a tightness or restriction around the Hridaya, the spiritual heartspace, better known as Sukham; a good space.
🤍
When we're not honouring our deepest heart desires and living with purpose (and there may purposes along the road and may change), we are literally akin to wilting flowers.
💛
The heart is the dwelling of physical and spiritual being, and calls for a wisdom based around feeling over mind based rationale.
🤍
May you find your raison d'être and live it to its fullest honouring your wild heart!
🙏

#heartoverhead #heartbasedliving #openhearted #honouryourtruth #livetoyourfullest #dukham #sukham #wildheart #hridayam #hridaya #honouryourheartsdesie

"She refused to settle, for she had a wild heart and wild hearts cannot be easily tamed."
- R. G. Moon
💛
How willing are you to open your heart? To feel, to express, to share. To give without the expectation of getting back, to live your truth when needed the most.
🤍
Do you have a dream, a plan, a vision? And how long have you suppressed it for fear of failure, not being "good enough" or a mentality that its "all been done before"?
💛
This suppression creates what we call in yoga Dukham. Often translated as suffering, a more accurate diagnosis is a tightness or restriction around the Hridaya, the spiritual heartspace, better known as Sukham; a good space.
🤍
When we're not honouring our deepest heart desires and living with purpose (and there may purposes along the road and may change), we are literally akin to wilting flowers.
💛
The heart is the dwelling of physical and spiritual being, and calls for a wisdom based around feeling over mind based rationale.
🤍
May you find your raison d'être and live it to its fullest honouring your wild heart!
🙏

#heartoverhead #heartbasedliving #openhearted #honouryourtruth #livetoyourfullest #dukham #sukham #wildheart #hridayam #hridaya #honouryourheartsdesie

Prakāśa.... Whats in a name? When choosing a business name, I hesitated to use a Sanskrit word, as I knew it could bring challenges for some in pronunciation, in remembering it, and it felt a bit pretentious.
☀️
Yet, I kept coming back to this illustrative and powerful word Prakāśa. It's resonance holds such a deep essence and expresses so clearly my goal and purpose as a yoga teacher and therapist. To help others uncover their light.
🌅
It's understood that in each and every one of us, we have an eternal radiant light, our Jyoti. It resides in our spiritual heart. Over time with challenging experiences and life's conditioning, we can build an armor around this light as a means of protection, we don't want to be seen, but its always there. The luminous emanation of this light is Prakāśa.
☀️
It is my hope that through these timeless and ancient more relevant than ever practises and teachings of yoga that you too connect with your light and live from this expanded bright place. We eventually understand and know that what we need is within us and the grip for external seeking lessens.
🌅
In alignment with the full moon and Gurupurinama a spiritual celebration and honouring of our teachers, our Gu Ru. Those who remove darkness, or more aptly, those who show us where our darkness is so through these practices, teachings and wisdom we can uncover it ourselves and realise our luminosity.
☀️
To all those who help us to illuminate our path so that our lights too can shine bright and we too can be beacons for the world. Thank you and blessings, eternal gratitude.
🌅
Namaste 🙏🏼
☀️
#prakasayoga #prakasayogaandyogatherapy #yoga #yogaforlife #shineshineshine #yourlightisbright #gurupurinama #honouryourteachers #luminosity #uncoveryourgreatness #wisdomteachings #yogaoffthemat #yogaeverydamnday #radiateyoutlight #lookwithinyou

Prakāśa.... Whats in a name? When choosing a business name, I hesitated to use a Sanskrit word, as I knew it could bring challenges for some in pronunciation, in remembering it, and it felt a bit pretentious.
☀️
Yet, I kept coming back to this illustrative and powerful word Prakāśa. It's resonance holds such a deep essence and expresses so clearly my goal and purpose as a yoga teacher and therapist. To help others uncover their light.
🌅
It's understood that in each and every one of us, we have an eternal radiant light, our Jyoti. It resides in our spiritual heart. Over time with challenging experiences and life's conditioning, we can build an armor around this light as a means of protection, we don't want to be seen, but its always there. The luminous emanation of this light is Prakāśa.
☀️
It is my hope that through these timeless and ancient more relevant than ever practises and teachings of yoga that you too connect with your light and live from this expanded bright place. We eventually understand and know that what we need is within us and the grip for external seeking lessens.
🌅
In alignment with the full moon and Gurupurinama a spiritual celebration and honouring of our teachers, our Gu Ru. Those who remove darkness, or more aptly, those who show us where our darkness is so through these practices, teachings and wisdom we can uncover it ourselves and realise our luminosity.
☀️
To all those who help us to illuminate our path so that our lights too can shine bright and we too can be beacons for the world. Thank you and blessings, eternal gratitude.
🌅
Namaste 🙏🏼
☀️
#prakasayoga #prakasayogaandyogatherapy #yoga #yogaforlife #shineshineshine #yourlightisbright #gurupurinama #honouryourteachers #luminosity #uncoveryourgreatness #wisdomteachings #yogaoffthemat #yogaeverydamnday #radiateyoutlight #lookwithinyou

The subtle balance between being and becoming is found when we let go of expectation, effort and doing and start existing in the realms of being, allowing and accepting.
🌸
Life has been quite recently. My mind has not. I see now the expectations I place on myself to do more, achieve more, produce more content, art and online yoga. Plan for the future. And an underlying sense of guilt for not.
🌼
And I've now come to see and have found deep acceptance and understanding that this is a time of stillness, of collecting, of planting of stopping and smelling the water lillies. Blooming will come again, the growth will happen, I trust.
🌸
The learning curve can be rich, the awakening profound when we finally surrender and step into being. There will always be periods of becoming, doing achieving. We must not fear the quiet time, the gathering, the learning rather embrace it and relish in the stillness.
🌼
In yoga therapy, we understand the importance of balancing action, doing and achieving; Yogam with stabalization, integration and processing; Ksemam. Only then can we progress to the next phase of growth and learning.
🌸
For if we are forever at full steam focused on becoming, we will only ever eventually burn out, from our own expectation, societal expectations, deplete our prana and never experience the sweet fragrance of being.

🕉☯️🕉

#nomudnolotus #stillness #activestillness #innerpeace #innercalm #meditation #meditativeawareness #beingbecoming #watchthemind #youarenotyourthoughts #eyeofthestorm #grounded #stable #clarity #peaceofmind #balance #yogamksemam #yogalife #yogaforpeace #yogaeveryday #yogaheals #yogaforgrowth #yogaforall #yogapractice #yogaholic #prakasayogaandyogatherapy

The subtle balance between being and becoming is found when we let go of expectation, effort and doing and start existing in the realms of being, allowing and accepting.
🌸
Life has been quite recently. My mind has not. I see now the expectations I place on myself to do more, achieve more, produce more content, art and online yoga. Plan for the future. And an underlying sense of guilt for not.
🌼
And I've now come to see and have found deep acceptance and understanding that this is a time of stillness, of collecting, of planting of stopping and smelling the water lillies. Blooming will come again, the growth will happen, I trust.
🌸
The learning curve can be rich, the awakening profound when we finally surrender and step into being. There will always be periods of becoming, doing achieving. We must not fear the quiet time, the gathering, the learning rather embrace it and relish in the stillness.
🌼
In yoga therapy, we understand the importance of balancing action, doing and achieving; Yogam with stabalization, integration and processing; Ksemam. Only then can we progress to the next phase of growth and learning.
🌸
For if we are forever at full steam focused on becoming, we will only ever eventually burn out, from our own expectation, societal expectations, deplete our prana and never experience the sweet fragrance of being.

🕉☯️🕉

#nomudnolotus #stillness #activestillness #innerpeace #innercalm #meditation #meditativeawareness #beingbecoming #watchthemind #youarenotyourthoughts #eyeofthestorm #grounded #stable #clarity #peaceofmind #balance #yogamksemam #yogalife #yogaforpeace #yogaeveryday #yogaheals #yogaforgrowth #yogaforall #yogapractice #yogaholic #prakasayogaandyogatherapy

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