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We hope that for those of you currently in lockdown that you are faring well with again the changes that are required to be made.

Let’s face it, perhaps we are getting more used to change as everything does seem to constantly be changing. A great learning that we can’t be attached to anything being a certain way.

Body Awareness Meditation for Sleep

This is a Body Awareness Meditation to support people to prepare for sleep, or if they wake in the middle of the night and have difficulties falling back to sleep.

So often we think that we can leave our day behind when we go to bed. However, the truth is that energetically how we live within our day will have a direct impact on the quality of our sleep. As an example, if we live in a state of anxiousness or tension through our day, we take that quality with us when we go to bed. Therefore it may take longer, or be more difficult for the nervous system to quieten to allow us to have a deeply restful sleep.

The key therefore is to build a deeply nurturing and loving relationship with our body in that we hold our connection with our body and being in all that we do throughout our day. Then, when it comes time to rest and prepare for sleep, our body is ready to receive the repose that is on offer.

This 13 minute Body Awareness Meditation offers your body and being supports you to let go of nervous tension that you may be carrying from your day and to be present with all that you are feeling in your body to and to help with rest and restoration. We hope that you enjoy it!

To learn more about how to support your sleep visit our blogs; Top 10 Tips for a Good Nights Sleep, An Introduction to Rhythms and Cycles around Sleep, Do you have difficulty with sleep?

Donna Nolan · Body Awareness Meditation For Sleep

The Yoga of Stillness, Esoteric Yoga – My introduction

I was first introduced to The Yoga of Stillness, Esoteric Yoga, nearly ten years ago by some friends who were practitioners of this modality. Over the years I had already explored many styles of yoga and had been teaching yoga myself for nearly seven.

The practice of Esoteric Yoga, The Yoga of Stillness was unlike any other yoga class that I had attended and I must say it was a game changer for me in that I experienced everything that I had always been looking for in yoga, but had not yet found up until that point.

Yoga for Breast Cancer

By Donna Nolan.

Yoga is the practice of connecting to the innate preciousness, tenderness, beauty and stillness that we already are and resides within us all.

Yoga for breast cancer is about re learning as a woman how to connect to our inner beauty and stillness – to live a life of true joy and harmony.

Chemotherapy, yoga for cancer support Sydney

Top 5 Tips for supporting you through chemotherapy

Embarking on the road of chemotherapy treatment for cancer can be a difficult and trying time for anyone to endure. Having been through chemotherapy and radiation for breast cancer just over 5 years ago, here are some tips that I can offer to support you through treatment.

Yoga – more than just exercise

Commonly today, the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions yoga is the postures or exercises. However, yoga is more than this.

In essence, yoga is about how to be with our self in any given moment in a quality of energy that is true in connection.

Taking yoga into your daily life

In our classes, we often mention the importance of yoga not just being a practice that is on the mat and suggest ways as to how can we take the practice into our everyday life. After all, that is what yoga is – the quality of presence that we bring to all we do, say and think. It is not just about the postures or putting our bodies into strange shapes.

For us, the practice is first of all about our connection. We spend the first 7 – 10 minutes of every class guiding people to re-connect with their bodies via feeling different body parts and also through gentle breathing to assist them to come back to the essence of who they are. It’s then about taking this connection into movement with the qualities of being steady, comfortable, gentle and at ease.

Yoga and Healing – how ‘healing’ brings us to ‘yoga’

I have been pondering of late about what I do for a living (Yoga and Esoteric Healing) and feel grateful to share what I love and am passionate about with others.