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23/09/2025

Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training Complete!

A week has passed and I’m finally finding words for the magic that unfolded.
My head, heart, and body have been deeply immersed for the past 18 months planning, writing, and preparing for this training.

So blessed that eight incredible goddess-students joined me on this journey—together we explored, learned, released, and grew. 💫

My word for this training is Wholeness—
trusting the process, expanding our capacity to hold space,
and affirming that we are enough just as we are.

Our final weekend was a beautiful, emotional closing circle overflowing with gratitude, laughter, and love.
A joyful Art Therapy session let us embody the “play” state, perfectly balancing the deep nervous-system work. 🎨

To my radiant trainees: thank you for your courage, your hearts, and the sangha (community) we co-created.
This is only the beginning—may you share these teachings far and wide.

And a heartfelt thank-you to Amanda at for believing in me and planting this seed 18 months ago. I’m so deeply grateful to you. 🌟

26/08/2025

Today, I’m holding the hard copies of my training manuals in my hands, it is all feeling so real now ✨

18mths I’ve poured my heart and soul into crafting, planning curating this course.

I cannot wait to share this rich, important work, and to walk alongside those who feel called to it 💫🩵🩵🩵

25/08/2025

✨ “Do you make regular visits to yourself?” – Rumi ✨

This has been my focus in practice this month: coming home to yourself.

We show up for our yoga, meditation, or devotional practices daily… but how often do we pause outside of that?

Life pulls us into work, emails, chores, the endless to-do list—and it’s easy to forget to check in with you.

A visit to yourself doesn’t have to be long:
✨One conscious breath.
✨Stepping outside to feel the sun or air on your skin.
✨Sensing the earth beneath your feet.
✨Pausing to notice a single sensation in the body.

These micro-moments give us a break from constant input, clearing the head and softening us back into presence. They are little doorways home.

I share this as much to remind myself as I do for you. I need these sacred pauses, too. And every time I remember, it shifts everything.

How do you pay visits to yourself during the day? 💫

23/08/2025

Rituals of Arrival

Before my students step into their breathing space, I prepare the room with intention. I arrive early—unroll my mat, place the props, light candles, set crystals, touchstone, and bells—then gently smudge to clear what has been, so together we can create the energy we need.

These quiet moments are my own grounding… time to breathe, move, and regulate before holding space for others. 🌱

This ritual reminds me: the way I arrive matters. When I tend to my own energy, I can hold space with presence, steadiness, and care. 💙

21/08/2025

Things come together, and they fall apart.
Sometimes at the same time.

If you’re in a season where it feels like everything is breaking, please know—you’re not alone. Healing doesn’t mean never falling apart again.
It means making space for all that shows up: grief and joy, relief and struggle, tenderness and pain. None of these cancel each other out.

They all belong.

We don’t have to rush to fix life.
Can we soften into it, together, with compassion for ourselves and each other. 🩵

16/08/2025

✨ Resistance & Practice ✨

Each day, I arrive on my mat.

I light a candle, burn incense, smudge.
I lay down on the earth and listen — asking the part of me that has arrived today: What do you need?

Sometimes words come. Sometimes only sensations. This is my guide, my intention.

And yet, resistance often shows up too.

My mind says there’s too much to do.
My body doesn’t always want to be here.
In the past, I chased perfection on the mat — performance, achievement, striving.

But life, age, and my own journey through mental health distress have taught me another way.

Now, I honour the version of me who arrives.

Some days it’s child’s pose.
Some days dynamic movement.
Some days draped over bolsters.
Some days 5 minutes.
Some days 90.

When resistance arises, I don’t push it away.

I acknowledge it. Honour it.
And still, I arrive.
Allowing, accepting whatever unfolds.

Because this practice is not about doing more.
It’s about being with what is — with compassion.

How does resistance show up for you? 🩵

15/08/2025

The Medicine of Yin for Your Nervous System ✨

Yin Yoga is more than just long-held shapes.
It’s a deeply introspective practice — a space to slow down, be still, and gently meet yourself where you are.
By holding postures for time, we soften the muscles and access the connective tissues and fascia — places where unprocessed tension, stress, and emotions are often stored.
As the body releases, the nervous system begins to settle, moving from fight/flight into rest and restoration.

When self-regulation feels hard, our fur babies can be beautiful co-regulators — simply being near them can help bring us into safety and ease. 🐾

In Yin, we learn to ride the waves — of sensation, of discomfort, of agitation — without being swept away.
We explore titration — gently coming in and out of the shape, giving the body time to adapt.
Because pushing too far, too fast can tip the nervous system into further dysregulation.

This practice is not about pushing ~ striving.
It’s about listening, adjusting, and honouring your own pace.

Stillness can be powerful medicine — when it’s offered in safety and choice.

✨ Come breathe, soften, and rest. Your nervous system will thank you.

14/08/2025

Lotus Mudra. Soft hands, open heart.

"Nicole Sanders is a bright light. I cherish practicing yoga under her guidance, as her warmth and centredness create a genuinely safe space to connect more deeply—to practice, and to self. Her classes weave multiple healing modalities, with a focus on breath and nervous system regulation that helps me slow down, let go, and remember to ‘do less, not more.’ Her wisdom has been an anchor as I heal from trauma and chronic illness. I’m deeply thankful for her passion and dedication to sharing yoga’s wisdom."

Words like these are the heartbeat of my work. 💙

My 35hour Introductory Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training isn’t just for yoga teachers—it’s a self-care immersion for you, your loved ones, and your community. Learn to hold safe, healing spaces, regulate your own nervous system, and share practices that truly nurture.

✨ Only a few spots remain ✨ This group is intentionally kept small to support safety, sharing, and deep connection. We’ll gather over two nourishing weekends: 29–31 August and 12–14 September. Held at .
This is a space to slow down, be curious, move mindfully, reflect, grow, feel empowered, and connect.

Please reach out if you’d like more information or a chat to see if this training is for you.

Link in Bio for more information or to register. 💙🙏

10/08/2025

Gratitude 🌱

To everyone who arrived yesterday with open hearts and curious minds — thank you.
It was such a joy to gather, explore, and embody the art of breathing, weaving simple yet powerful breath practices through a Yin Yoga sequence to gently guide our nervous systems back into regulation.

It’s always an honour to share these ancient yogic practices, interwoven with modern science — and to witness the quiet shift that happens when we slow down, soften, and come home to ourselves.

With my own lived experience navigating complex mental health challenges, these practices have been my anchor through the beautiful messiness of being human — and they always will be. Sharing them with others is a deep privilege.

Here’s to more moments of presence, deep rest, and breathing ourselves back home.
With so much gratitude 💙

05/08/2025

✨ Last few spots remaining! ✨ Our small group 35Hr Trauma Informed Training is less than a month away.

This course is not just for yoga teachers. It's for:
Health care workers
Counsellors
Parents & carers
Anyone curious about how to be more trauma-aware - for yourself and for others.

We all need to be trauma-informed. Over 80% of people will experience at least one traumatic event in their lifetime. Let's learn how to support healing, connection and safety - together.

This training is space to:
Slow down
Be curious
Move, breathe and reflect
Learn, connect and feel empowered

Only a few spaces available - this group is kept small and intimate to support safety, sharing and deep connection.

You don't have to be a Yogi. Every body is welcome. We'll meet over two nourishing weekends (29-31 August & 12-14 September).

You receive Two carefully curated manuals ~ one full of theory and practices and the second manual Tools ~ which you can take to your workplace, studio or office.

For more information and to secure your spot visit sohoyoga.com.au/trauma-informed-yoga-teacher-training. 🩵🙏

31/07/2025

🌿Breathe. Slow. Restore. 🌿
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Join me for a 2.5-hour Yin & Breathing Workshop ~ Embodied Nervous System Reset ~ a journey designed to nourish your nervous system and support your inner vitality.
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This is a space to slow down, soften inward, and experience the calming power of Yin Yoga and conscious breath.
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Yin is quiet, still, and deeply grounding — it gives us time to feel, to listen, and to unwind. When paired with gentle breathwork, it becomes a powerful way to stimulate the vagus nerve, building vagal tone and supporting your body's natural capacity for rest, recovery, and emotional regulation.
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You’ll experience:
— Grounding movement to expand breath capacity
— Yin postures held with support and softness
— Simple breathing techniques to calm and regulate
— Guided mindfulness body scan to integrate and restore
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✨ No yoga experience needed — just a willingness to pause and breathe.
✨ Taught through a trauma-informed lens
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Bookings essential — link in bio and can be booked at SoHo Yoga.
Saturday 9th August 1-3.30pm at SoHo Yoga.

only a few spaces left.
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This is your invitation to be still, to soften, to breathe… and to come home to yourself.

28/07/2025

Today

Today I’m flying low and I’m
not saying a word.
I’m letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep.

The world goes on as it must,
the bees in the garden rumbling a little,
the fish leaping, the gnats getting eaten.
And so forth.

But I’m taking the day off.
Quiet as a feather.
I hardly move though really I’m traveling
a terrific distance.

Stillness. One of the doors
into the temple.

Poem by Mary Oliver ✨💫

Photo from my recent Retreat ~ in which we took several days off to Rest into stillness bluegreenbyronbay

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Albion, QLD

Opening Hours

Monday	9:30am - 10:30am
Wednesday	9:30am - 10:30am
	4pm - 5pm
Thursday	9:15am - 10:30am
Friday	6am - 7am
	9am - 10:15am
Saturday	4pm - 5pm

Telephone

+61438748055

Website

https://www.sohoyoga.com.au/whats-on/yoga-for-mental-health, https://www.sohoyoga.com.au/trauma-informed-yoga-teacher-tr

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