Yoga with Stanja

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My name is Stanja and I'm certified teacher of yoga and meditation practices.

🔹 Yoga 🔹 Breathwork 🔹Systemic Constellations🔹

🧘🏻‍♀️ Somatic Yoga
🌬️ Breathwork Workshop 👉🏼 14 Jun
🌳 Systemic Constellations
⏳ 2000+ sessions
📍 In person & Online | Groups + 1:1 ⬇️
🌐 www.stanja.yoga My classes are in person and online - I welcome you to move, breathe and meditate with me. Please check my website stanja.yoga to learn more about me and my approach to yoga practices. My down-to-earth

yoga teaching style is born from my experience of living with chronic illnesses and through adverse life events, and enhanced by 25 years of practice with extensive and ongoing education. I am passionate and dedicated to assist you to reconnect with your body & mind by teaching you how to move your body the way that suits your uniqueness, and by inviting you to explore breathing and meditation practices that will allow you to breathe in ways that cultivate a calmer and clearer mind. I am honoured to welcome and celebrate you, exactly as you are.

11/06/2026

Your nervous system has a range it can operate within comfortably. Inside that window you can think clearly, respond rather than react, and feel relatively grounded even under pressure. That window is called, the window of tolerance.

When something pushes you outside that window, either too high (overwhelmed, anxious, reactive) or too low (shutdown, flat, disconnected), your capacity to cope drops significantly.

Most people in chronic stress are living at the very edge of that window. Which means it takes almost nothing to tip them out.

How to know where you are right now:

Too high —> jaw tight, shoulders up, thoughts racing, easily irritated, can’t slow down even when you want to.

Too low —> flat, foggy, unmotivated, disconnected, going through the motions.

Inside the window —> present, able to think, breathing without noticing it, capacity to choose your response.

The goal of nervous system work isn’t to eliminate stress. It’s to widen the window. So more of life fits inside it.

Breathwork, somatic practice, and systemic work are three effective ways to do that. Each one works differently. Together, they work deeply.

Save this and notice today which end of the window you’re sitting in. ✨





09/06/2026

One thing 30 years of practice has taught me:

The goal ISN’T to feel good all the time.

For years, I thought progress meant getting rid of discomfort.
Less stress, fear, uncertainty.

What I discovered instead is that strength isn’t built by avoiding difficult experiences.
It’s built by learning how to stay connected to yourself while moving through them.

The challenges don’t disappear, but your relationship with them changes.

You trust yourself more. You recover more quickly.
You stop believing every thought that passes through your mind.

And little by little, life feels less like something happening to you and more like something you’re participating in.

That lesson still follows me and it continues to shape the way I teach today. ✨





Thank you.To everyone who has booked a spot.To everyone who has trusted me with their practice, their time, and their Su...
07/06/2026

Thank you.

To everyone who has booked a spot.
To everyone who has trusted me with their practice, their time, and their Sunday afternoon.

I never take that lightly.

Every workshop brings together people from different walks of life, yet the reasons for coming are often surprisingly similar.

A busy mind.
A tired body.
A sense that something needs to change. Just enough to feel more like themselves again.

The workshop is now fully booked.

If you’d like to hear about the next date before it’s announced publicly, join the newsletter through the link in bio.

I’d love to see you there. ✨





05/06/2026

A tight chest isn’t always about today. Neither is the frustration.
Or the strong reaction that feels bigger than the situation in front of you.

Most of us have been taught to ask:
“What’s wrong with me?”

A more useful question is often:
“What might this be connected to?”

The moment we stop seeing ourselves as the problem, our perspective begins to shift.
Curiosity replaces judgement. And curiosity often reveals what judgement never could.

The next time you notice yourself having a bigger reaction than the situation seems to warrant, get curious. Instead of asking:
“Why am I like this?”

Try asking:
“What else might be influencing this?”

That single question can open a very different conversation and it’s worth sitting with. ✨





04/06/2026

One of the biggest misconceptions about breathwork is that breathing is always the first step.

Sometimes it is.
Sometimes it isn’t.

Sometimes the body has been sitting at a desk for ten hours.
Sometimes the jaw is clenched.
Sometimes the shoulders have been creeping towards the ears all day.
Sometimes there is simply too much energy moving through the system to sit still and breathe comfortably.

In those moments, I often introduce movement first.

A few simple arm movements.
A gentle shift of posture.
A chance for the body to participate.

Then the breath follows more easily.

People think they need to force themselves to relax.
Often they simply need a different entry point.

The breath is powerful.
So is movement.
And when they work together, something changes.

The body stops feeling like a problem to solve and starts becoming something we can work with.

That’s why my sessions rarely focus on one thing alone.

Breath.
Movement.
Awareness.
All connected. ✨





One of the biggest shifts in my own practice happened when I stopped treating my body like something to push against.For...
02/06/2026

One of the biggest shifts in my own practice happened when I stopped treating my body like something to push against.

For years, I thought progress meant achieving the shape.
Going deeper.
Holding longer.
Trying harder.

But the body keeps score of force.

And many people already spend their entire lives overriding themselves:
pushing through exhaustion,
ignoring tension,
disconnecting from discomfort,
trying to “keep up.”

Yoga was never meant to become another place where we abandon ourselves.

Real practice begins when attention moves inward.

When breath matters more than appearance.
When awareness matters more than performance.

When you stop asking,
“How should this look?”
and begin asking,
“What is this teaching me?”

Strength still matters.
Mobility still matters.

But without awareness, people lose the relationship with themselves while trying to perfect the pose.

And from my experience, that relationship is the whole point. 💕





31/05/2026

My breathwork workshops are not about chasing wellness trends.

And I’m not taking people through emotional rollercoasters for the sake of intensity either.
I teach practical breathing skills people can actually use in everyday life.

Because for decades, breathing didn’t feel calming or supportive to me at all.

My diaphragm was so tight and restricted that trying to “take a deep breath” could trigger a severe asthma attack. So when people used to say, “Just take a deep breath,” it felt frustrating more than helpful.

Over time I learned that a tight diaphragm is far more common than most people realise and creates:
Chest tightness.
Neck tension.
Digestive issues.
Anxiety.
Most people never realise how connected breathing is to all of it.

Learning how to work with my breath slowly changed my life.
Not overnight.
Steadily.

That understanding now sits at the core of how I teach.

At this Workshop we’ll begin with the foundations first:
practical diaphragmatic breathing, simple postural support, and breathing techniques to help regulate stress, anxiety, and calm a busy mind.

No complicated techniques.
Practical tools you can continue using long after the workshop finishes.

This is my final Breathwork Workshop for the year and only two spots remain.

📍 River Canoe Club, Marrickville
🗓 Sunday 14 June | 2–4pm

Link in bio. ✨





29/05/2026

A new private client came to me recently.
Sleep apnoea diagnosis. CPAP machine by the bed.
And one question, can breathwork actually help?

The short answer is yes. And here’s why.

Most people with sleep apnoea are mouth breathers.
During sleep, the mouth falls open. The airway becomes less stable.
Breathing becomes shallow, interrupted, effortful.

The body never fully rests. So you wake up exhausted even after a full night in bed.

Nasal breathing changes that. The nose filters, humidifies and regulates airflow.
It keeps the upper airway more stable during sleep.
It allows deeper, more restorative rest.

Breathwork retrains that pattern, consciously, gradually, during waking hours, so over time the body starts to carry it into sleep naturally.

Try this tonight:
Lie down before sleep. Mouth closed, jaw relaxed.
Five slow nasal inhales. Each exhale TWICE as long through your nose.

Just that. Five breaths. Mouth closed. Every night.
Small habit. Real shift. Over time.

Share this with someone who wakes up tired no matter how long they sleep. ✨





28/05/2026

If every time you try to meditate your mind goes into overdrive, you’re not failing at it. Meditation might just be the wrong starting point.

Most people approach meditation the same way.
Sit still. Try to clear the mind. Focus on nothing.

And within thirty seconds the grocery list arrives.
The conversation you should have had differently.
The thing you forgot to do yesterday.

So you try harder. Which makes it worse.

A busy mind can’t meditate its way to calmer state.
The mind follows the body. The body follows the breath.

Start with the breath and the mind has something real to follow.
Something physical. Something it can actually do.

Three minutes of conscious breathing before meditation, longer exhales, slower pace, hand on belly, changes everything that comes after.

The mind quiets because the breath in the body led the way. Because you gave it a signal first.

Try this tomorrow morning. ✨





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