Yin Yoga Poetry (2026)

05/10/2022

Alignment Workshop

Saturday 29th October 2022
2pm- 4.30pm

There is so much more to alignment than straight lines!

Would you like to learn more about alignment in your yoga practice?
Would you like a better feel for your own practice and how to adjust your poses to prevent injury and for greater ease in your practice?
Do you want to build your confidence and build your strength and flexibility in your practice?
If you are interested in diving deeper into alignment and gain a better understanding of how alignment can support your practice, join Maria as we workshop the most common forms in your yoga practice, misalignment issues and questions that come up in your yoga practice.
This will be an amazing way to fine tune your practice, build awareness, improve your confidence and strengthen your practice.
This is a 2.5 hour interactive afternoon to problem solve together and explore key concepts of alignment in yoga.

16/08/2021

My heart, my brain …. my brain and
heart divorced

a decade ago

over who was
to blame about
how big of a mess
I have become

eventually,
they couldn't be
in the same room
with each other

now my head and heart
share custody of me

I stay with my brain
during the week

and my heart
gets me on weekends

they never speak to one another

- instead, they give me
the same note to pass
to each other every week

and their notes they
send to one another always
says the same thing:

"This is all your fault"

on Sundays
my heart complains
about how my
head has let me down
in the past

and on Wednesday
my head lists all
of the times my
heart has screwed
things up for me
in the future

they blame each
other for the
state of my life

there's been a lot
of yelling - and crying

so, lately, I've been
spending a lot of
time with my gut

who serves as my
unofficial therapist

most nights, I sneak out of the
window in my ribcage

and slide down my spine
and collapse on my
gut's plush leather chair
that's always open for me

~ and I just sit sit sit sit
until the sun comes up

last evening,
my gut asked me
if I was having a hard
time being caught
between my heart
and my head

I nodded

I said I didn't know
if I could live with
either of them anymore

"my heart is always sad about
something that happened yesterday
while my head is always worried
about something that may happen tomorrow,"
I lamented

my gut squeezed my hand

"I just can't live with
my mistakes of the past
or my anxiety about the future,"
I sighed

my gut smiled and said:

"in that case,
you should
go stay with your
lungs for a while,"

I was confused
- the look on my face gave it away

"if you are exhausted about
your heart's obsession with
the fixed past and your mind's focus
on the uncertain future

your lungs are the perfect place for you

there is no yesterday in your lungs
there is no tomorrow there either

there is only now
there is only inhale
there is only exhale
there is only this moment

there is only breath

and in that breath
you can rest while your
heart and head work
their relationship out."

this morning,
while my brain
was busy reading
tea leaves

and while my
heart was staring
at old photographs

I packed a little
bag and walked
to the door of
my lungs

before I could even knock
she opened the door
with a smile and as
a gust of air embraced me
she said

"what took you so long?"

~ John Roedel (johnroedel.com).

25/04/2021

BELOVED MOTHER OF ALL THINGS
Dear Mother Earth,

I bow my head before you as I look deeply and recognize that you are present in me and that I’m a part of you. I was born from you and you are always present, offering me everything I need for my nourishment and growth. My mother, my father, and all my ancestors are also your children. We breathe your fresh air. We drink your clear water. We eat your nourishing food. Your herbs heal us when we’re sick.

You are the mother of all beings. I call you by the human name Mother and yet I know your mothering nature is more vast and ancient than humankind. We are just one young species of your many children. All the millions of other species who live—or have lived—on Earth are also your children. You aren’t a person, but I know you are not less than a person either. You are a living breathing being in the form of a planet. Thich Nhat Hanh

15/07/2020

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22/05/2020

Give yourself permission to take a breath, to be present and to just be. . .
Join me on the mat for a serene practice with poetry and yoga nidra. nice way to send a Friday evening at home “Breathing in I calm myself, breathing in I smile”.

17/05/2020

ZOOM - ONLINE - LIVE CLASSES
WEEK 18 MAY - 23 MAY

Yogis join me for Yoga this week.
We are well into our isolation phase and although some restrictions have eased, we can still enjoy yoga in the comfort of our own homes. Are you missing your yoga practice?

I am offering online classes... so let's spread loving kindness and work towards our self care practices whilst we are in our home environments. The pace for some of us has slowed and for others it is quite full on, so at whatever stage you are at, take a moment to ask yourself what is it that I need right now.?... How can I support myself to be in a nurturing space and develop a practice of self care I can continue once out of isolation?

Online Yoga Classes … take advantage of practicing in your own home at your regular yoga class times.

This week’s schedule is:
Monday 18 May 18.30 Vinyasa Yoga Flow
Wednesday 20 May 8.30 Slow Flow
Thursday 21 May 9.30 Morning Yoga Flow
Friday 22 May 18.30 Yin Yoga & Yoga Nidra
Saturday 23 May 9.30 Dynamic Yoga Flow

(times are AEST Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney)

Check out the time zone converter for your location and time of classes!
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CONTACT ME BY INBOX FOR YOUR ZOOM LINK AND MEETING CODES FOR THE CLASSES YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND.

Classes start as little as $8 per class, per person. You are also welcome to purchase a class pass pack 5 classes for $35 per person and 10 classes for $65.
(all prices are per person)

If however your financial situation has been impacted upon by the COVID-19, please contact me in a private message so that we can come up with a plan that allows you to continue to practice.

Payments can be made via bank transfer
Australia: ING BANK
BSB: 923100
Account no: 302271015

Yogis μου! Πάμε μαζί να κάνουμε γιόγκα αυτή την εβδομάδα. Είμαστε όλοι στη φάση της απομόνωσης και παρόλο που κάποια μέτρα έχουν χαλαρώσει, ακόμη μπορούμε να χαρούμε τη γιόγκα στο σπίτι μας. Σας λείπει η πρακτική της γιόγκα?

Προσφέρω τα online μαθήματα. Ας συνεχίσουμε να μοιράζουμε αγάπη, καλοσύνη και να δουλέψουμε προς την αυτό-φροντίδα μας ενώ είμαστε στη ζεστασιά του σπιτιού μας. Οι ρυθμοί σε κάποιους απο εμάς έχουν πέσει και σε κάποιους άλλους τρέχουν σαν τρελοί. Σε οποιοδήποτε σημείο και να βρίσκεστε, σταθείτε για ένα λεπτό και ρωτήστε τον εαυτό σας "τι είναι αυτό που χρειάζομαι τώρα?" Πως μπορώ να υποστηρίξω τον εαυτό μου και να δημιουργήσω μια πρακτική αυτο-φροντίδας ??

Online Yoga Classes ...

Monday 18 May 18.30 Vinyasa Yoga Flow
Wednesday 20 May 8.30 Slow Flow
Thursday 21 May 9.30 Morning Yoga Flow
Friday 22 May 18.30 Yin Yoga & Yoga Nidra
Saturday 23 May 9.30 Dynamic Yoga Flow

Εκμεταλευτέιτε κάνοντας την πρακτική στο ίδιο σας το σπίτι στις συνηθισμένες ώρες γιόγκα.

Επικοινωνήστε μαζί μου σε μήνυμα για τα zoom links και τους κωδικούς για τα μαθήματα που θα θέλατε να παρακολουθήσετε.

Κόστος μαθημάτων:
Το κόστος του μαθήματος θα είναι στα 5€.
Προπληρωμένα πακέτα μαθημάτων:
Τα 5 μαθήματα στα 20€. Τα 10 μαθήματα 35€ (ανα άτομο)

Οι πληρωμές μπορούν να γίνουν στον παρακάτω τραπεζικό λογαριασμό:
Europe: Piraeus BANK
IBAN: GR54 0171 5960 0065 9613 9089 997
BIC: PIRBGRAA

Αν η οικονομική σας κατάσταση έχει επηρεαστεί από την τρέχουσα κατάσταση του COVID-19, παρακαλώ μη διστάσετε να επικοινωνήσετε μαζί μου με προσωπικό μήνυμα και θα βρούμε μια λύση να συνεχίσετε την πρακτική σας.

10/05/2020

a mother’s love is like no other ....be what you will be, be magnificent, soar and excel in everything you do, fall and raise up and I will be there every time without question and without fail ... We are born out of love. love is our mother - Rumi. @ Black Rock, Australia

02/05/2020

yin yoga reading for the wintery weekend .... new delivery to further broaden my personal practice and teaching in the area I love. I’m addicted to books and i particular yoga books! These three little gems just arrived and look amazing. Bernie Clark has a number of books which I have read and love and Norma Blair has received amazing reviews for his perspective. I’m super excited to delve deeper and to bring this into my teaching. @ Black Rock, Australia

24/03/2020

AND THE PEOPLE S T A Y E D H O M E

And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.
And the people healed. And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.
And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed.

-Kitty O’Meara

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