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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.


I see you
I keep reading about the 'invisibility' of women 50+ and how this is a supposed benefit of getting older and no longer 'drawing the male...
Apr 22, 2023
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Worry Warriors
Sometimes I feel like a worry doll. I hug my kids and absorb their angst, then they trip out the door and on with their lives, oblivious...
Feb 23, 2023
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Clear the decks and make space for yourself
When was the last time you were completely immersed? In something you love, in sensations within your body, where time seemed to...
Jan 31, 2023
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Be here to have an experience
I have just returned from 10 days in Queenstown NZ with my man and 3 x 18 year olds. We did every adrenalin fuelled activity we could. I...
Jan 20, 2023
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A love letter from me to you ❤️
Indulge me. These are the things I would love to say to you, in person in the studio, but I would most definitely cry and that could be...
Dec 9, 2022
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Picture this ...
I say some weird things in class. Things like: Imagine your armpits are giant nostrils Turn your butt smile to the ceiling Imagine you...
Nov 23, 2022
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Love ❤️
I want to talk about love. I went to a funeral last week. A close friend had lost her Dad, and the church was full, overflowing, with...
Oct 10, 2022
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Will you risk being disturbed and changed?
Are you brave? When you want to do something do you grab the opportunity and wring the life out of it? Or do you overthink,...
Sep 17, 2022
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Candlelit attention
We had a lovely evening out with friends recently. It was dinner and live music, in an intimate, atmospheric space in Fremantle. The food...
Aug 13, 2022
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More ice cream, less beans
By around age 50 (or somewhere on either side), we have done the same things many, many times. I did some maths for fun (said no one...
Jul 23, 2022
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Why Yoga?
When people ask what I do and I reply that I teach yoga, 99% of the time the replies are "I would love to do yoga but I am not flexible...
Jul 14, 2022
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The Mundane and the Mysterious
'Live each day as if it was your last'. We have all heard this. And we may have thought about what that last day may look like. But for...
Jun 30, 2022
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Pay attention ~ be astonished
I don't know if this is an age thing, a yoga thing, a meditation thing, or a state of the world thing, but I find myself becoming...
May 28, 2022
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Mothers around the Bench
I have a lovely Mum. Alot of my commonsense parenting I learnt from her. She was a nurse, and anyone who had a nurse for a mother will...
May 6, 2022
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Gracious Humans
I have been thinking this week about grief and loss and heartbreak. So often after class, when we are having our tea, our conversations...
Apr 9, 2022
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Where can I release?
Where can I release right now? What thoughts are on a continual loop that is not serving me? I ask myself these questions over and over -...
Apr 4, 2022
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A love letter to our teens ❤️
I have been talking to alot of year 12’s lately, and my goodness, what alot they have going on! I just want to give them all a big hug...
Mar 22, 2022
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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...
Mar 19, 2022
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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....
Feb 2, 2022
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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...
Dec 24, 2021
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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...
Dec 21, 2021
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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...
Dec 21, 2021
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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...
Dec 21, 2021
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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...
Dec 21, 2021
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