Touch Heart Yoga

28/01/2026

May your wisdom cradle compassion

28/01/2026

May your silence give birth to wisdom

26/01/2026

Taking the Heavy Stones From Your Pockets
A meditation series designed to restore ease, clarity, and forward movement
If life feels heavier than it should —
not chaotic, not broken — just effortful —
this series was designed for you.
Many people don’t feel distressed enough to seek help.
They just feel:
• slower to start things
• less motivated than they used to be
• emotionally flatter or more irritable
• stuck in coping mode instead of growth
What’s often missing isn’t insight or willpower —
it’s ease.
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When ease is missing, motivation dries up
Motivation doesn’t disappear because you’ve failed.
It fades when the system is under load.
Research increasingly shows that chronic low-grade inflammation and prolonged stress are associated with:
• fatigue and low drive
• reduced emotional resilience
• higher likelihood of anxiety or depressive episodes
• difficulty breaking habits or moving forward
You don’t feel “unwell”.
You just don’t feel resourced.
When the body is busy protecting itself, it stops investing energy in change.
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Imagine effort feeling optional again
This meditation series is built around one simple aim:
To restore enough internal comfort that growth becomes natural again.
Drawing from Swara Yoga and modern nervous-system psychology, the practice develops awareness in a way that:
• gently settles internal strain
• restores internal rhythm
• allows motivation to return without pressure
As comfort increases:
• clarity improves
• choice widens
• old coping patterns lose their grip
Not through force —
but because they no longer feel necessary.
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This is not a “push through it” program
There is:
• no demand to improve yourself
• no fixing or self-correction
• no guilt if change feels slow
Instead, the work removes the internal weight that made effort feel required.
That’s why this series is called:
Taking the Heavy Stones From Your Pockets
When the weight lifts, movement follows.
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Why this works when other approaches don’t
Most people aren’t stuck because they lack discipline.
They’re stuck because the familiar feels safer than the unknown.
This work — what we call pathway work — helps by:
• creating new internal reference points
• normalising expanded awareness
• letting change feel expected, not threatening
As the new becomes familiar, the old begins to feel uncomfortable —
not because it’s judged, but because it no longer fits.
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What you may notice as the series unfolds
People often report:
• more energy without stimulation
• increased emotional steadiness
• a return of quiet motivation
• less reliance on coping behaviours
• a sense of moving forward without efforting
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Who this series is for
This series is for you if:
• you want to feel more comfortable in yourself
• you’re tired of managing rather than living
• you sense that growth is possible, but effort feels expensive
• you want change to feel integrated, not imposed
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You don’t need to become someone new.
You don’t need to push harder.
You may simply need to put the weight down — and let ease lead the way.

25/01/2026

How's life working out?
The whole thing with yoga keeps getting bigger as your awareness of what it actually does begins to expand.

Yes, posture work is valuable. It keeps you flexible, healthy, and — more importantly — connected to your body. That connection sharpens your internal feedback systems, helping you notice things like pain, fatigue, or when you’ve simply eaten more than you need.

But that bodily awareness is only one small part of a much larger framework known as sensory intelligence.

Sensory intelligence grows from awareness. It continuously informs the brain and works alongside our thinking mind when we make decisions. In simple terms: when something feels right, we move toward it; when it doesn’t, we hesitate or pull back. That information stream is not random — it’s intelligent, trainable, and deeply practical.

Seen this way, yoga isn’t about escaping life or chasing altered states. It’s about developing clearer awareness, better emotional regulation, and a wider, calmer range of choices — choices that support authenticity, family harmony, and meaningful contribution to community.

As someone who has learned slowly and often the hard way, I’ve come to deeply respect just how powerful this sensory connection really is.

After 14 years studying some of the most demanding yoga texts, I’m now teaching a set of simple practices drawn from that work — methods designed to reduce unnecessary inner load and restore a sense of steady progress. The aim isn’t force or self-improvement, but learning how to stop carrying what no longer serves you.

Our new meditation series, “Taking the Heavy Stones from Your Pocket,” is a self-paced practice built on one principle: simplicity that can be understood and applied.

If you’re comfortable staying exactly where you are, this probably isn’t the right class for you. But if you’re ready to replace repetition and strain with a sense of forward movement, clarity, and ease — this work offers a practical place to begin.

Classes run Tuesday evenings, 6:30–8:00 pm.
Cost is $20 for a 90-minute session.
Please book using the message button.

25/01/2026

From Deepening Nothingness to Progress and Success in Life

During mid-2025, I experienced something new in meditation (new for me, at least). Explaining it simply is challenging, but I trust the description will become clear as I share.
There are many meditations focused on empty space: some treat it as a void of pure nothingness, others as an inner "kasha" (space) within you, with various other approaches.
I was using the area inside the cap of my skull as that space. Because it's inside your body, it feels like a room—a created meditation space blending with parts of your physical form. In this space, there are walls, a ceiling, and a floor.
Then, in a completely organic way, the roof fell to the floor, the floor pushed down to another level, and a new top level came down in its place. It happened not once, but three times in quick succession—until my awareness caught up and could fully comprehend it.
As soon as my mind registered what was happening, it felt not only safe but profoundly beautiful. The process continued until it naturally stopped, leaving me amazed and transformed.
Here come some big words—get ready. I'd never really considered how a single profound experience could deepen my own capacity for profundity (the ability to experience and express depth). Yet something shifted. I don't know if it's directly connected, but shortly after this "deepening nothingness" where the roof met the floor.....I began to truly understand a book that's been sitting on my desk for 14 years. It took me 4 years just to learn how to read it properly—it's a classic on yogic mysticism (focused on Swara, the science of breath rhythms and prana).
This breakthrough understanding has directly led to the new Swara-based meditations we're now teaching.
Many of us have wondered: Did the ancients—who lacked modern science and psychology—discover something vitally important that they struggled to describe? I believe they did, and we're bringing it forward in practical ways.
We're introducing this teaching into our regular classes as the first in a series called "Taking the heavy stones from Your Pocket". This opening practice is designed specifically for normalizing progress and success in your life—in expansive, balanced, and sustainable ways. The full series builds life skills that support long-term well-being.
No rigid programs, no large upfront payments, and no requirement to attend every class. This is self-paced personal development that gives you time to identify, nurture, and expand the parts of yourself that create a valuable, worthy path forward.
We're also actively developing a gentle stretch and meditation class to make these benefits accessible to those who may not want (or need) full, intense yoga asana practice

19/01/2026

Update for 26

One of the valuable ideas that comes from yoga. Is that the practices have the purpose of aiding in your living the most healthy life you can, this covers physical and mental enduring health.
The next part of the sentence from the old texts says, “to live as long as you can, to fulfil your karmas”

Personally, I’m very taken by the idea of living as long as possible as healthy as possible. But the end of the sentence “to fulfil your karmas,” I am happy to take that as “be of service to others and avoid doing harm.

Personally, as a teacher, I like to call out anything that seems to be a part of a faith system. The idea of fulfilling your karmas has been used as a part of various faith systems. Which I tend to be cautious about.

But it has a second side, that is philosophical, and, I think a more valuable side. For example, the idea of karma of course, is consequence: do good, good returns, do harm, harm returns. It is not going to far to say that in a world where there is ongoing change, having a reasonable level of awareness and cognition of “consequence” in situations and circumstances will aid in psychological stability.

We are introducing a new meditation segment, perhaps temporarily, into the class until I am able to start a meditation-only class.
If you're interested in reading on, I’ll tell you about how this segment was developed

I have a book that has been on my desk for 14 years, it took me 4 years to understand how to read the book, and until mid 25 to begin to understand it. It turns out the book teaches you to be aware of your next progressive state in such a way that it normalizes healthy progress.
If, through situation and circumstances, there has been and absences of healthy progress and that absence has been normalized, it is usual for people to feel stuck or regress

18/01/2026

There are of course many reasons for doing yoga.

It’s highly likely that in this current culture the most current reason for doing yoga is, the somatic way it cohesively integrates the mind and body, or, put another way, “the integration of the cognitive mind or our higher levels of thinking, with our embodied consciousness, which integrates sensory intellect for decision making.

We are beginning to introduce small levels of Swara Yoga into the class, for the reason of expanding the awarenesses that gives you greater access to using these awarenesses to balance and refine your decision making and develop clarity of mind, from meta-awareness skills that are taught in the class.

There are factors in this swara teaching that balance and refine our emotional regulation. Emotional regulation begins to repair when you develop a stronger integration of cognitive and sensory intellect.
At the present moment, the Swara teaching will be only a short meditation. However, we are working towards opening a class just for Swara meditation.

If you would like to be notified when and if we start the class, please just leave the word follow below

17/01/2026

Forgiveness & growth
So much of how we operate as humans with our human relational interactions carry levels of poorly informed cultural and familial care-based awareness.
In the area of primary relationships, often, to often, the roles each person plays becomes fragmented. The access to equitable couples nurture and honest communication doesn’t just disappear from the relationship. Its more true that the foundations that maintain them were never adequately there.
The absence of both committed partner nurture and honest communication are most often products of a complete absence of their worth.
If your culture if your childhood experience never gave you the awareness of how important the committed and ongoing preservation and expansion of these qualities are. Then how likely is it that they will be diminished by the demands and seemingly endless challenges of life?
I sent this video to my 14 year old granddaughter and said, “I wish I knew this 40 years ago”
Life is full of lessons. The question is how do you need to learn them, the easy way or the hard way?
The unfortunate truth is the price of learning the hard way is the price each next generation pays for the absence of this awareness.
Make a choice, break the cycle.

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14/01/2026

Is this true
"The deeper the well the sweeter the water"

This saying has many variations. it would be interesting to know if its true or if the people who dig wells just say it to make their clients happy to spend the extra money because the well diggers have not yet struck water.

What do you think? Please comment.

Its a little the same with wisdom, do you really have to dig deep or have a lot of hard experiences to gain the insights that lead to your actually doing the work of evaluating merit and consequence in such a way that your decisions are well made.

Or is something else true?

13/01/2026

Google says this about swara yoga,

Yoga is an ancient practice for mind-body union, using postures, breath, and meditation for health, while Swara Yoga is a specific, secret branch focused on breath awareness through the nostrils (left for calm, right for active) to align with cosmic rhythms, predict outcomes, and guide daily actions for success, acting as a sophisticated "science of breathing" beyond typical pranayama for spiritual and practical benefits.

After 24 years of teaching, I am going to slowly introduce some of the swara teachings in our class meditation.

The first swara-based meditation will be on the topic of "Success & Prosperity.

Putting today's meanings in the ancient Sanskrit language, the three things that this practice embodies us into are 1. enhances "magnetic" social value. 2. Developing "Charisma," repairing relationships, and grace. 3. Scaling business, moving goods, and rapid financial expansion. Number 3 is a very modern equivalent of a farmer doing well at their marketplace stall and planning to plant a few extra crops.

I love the idea that there is a place we can play in the field of our minds, expanding the valuable things that we control in our lives.

I love that I learned that from Swara.
We really have enough people in the class, but if you are interested in having more details, please let me know

08/01/2026

Classes starting back, 20th

30/12/2025

News.
We are trialling a new very strong, very fast, new yoga style. It won't be cheap; it's going to be $20. If you don't have a reasonable level of fitness or you have injuries, this class is not for you.

The trial classes are free to attend, and we are still looking for a suitable flat shaded area on Bribie. Please help with your suggestions.

You will need your own mat a water bottle, and you can't have eaten a full meal 2 hours before start time. You will need to sign in, and yes, our sign-in is a waiver

We are hoping to provide the trials as an open area morning class.

One of the main aspects of the class is adding flexibility to existing strength.

The innovator and teacher of this course has been active in yoga for 25 years and if you feel like you need something to bring out your potential, I suggest you apply for the trials now.

The yoga style is heading for trademarking; we are not yet inviting other teachers, and you are expected to uphold your satya practice and not borrow from this course. However, you can apply to train and teach under licence.

Leave your interest and comments below, cheers