Cultivate Calm Yoga

09/10/2025

Be the person your Yoga Mat thinks you are.

Be the person your Yoga Teacher thinks you are:

🙌 Amazing
🤩 Capable
💪 Strong
🤓 Wise
🫶 Worthy
🥰 Lovable.

09/10/2025

Feeling Safe Again

The root chakra is the body’s anchor. It is what gives us a sense of safety, stability, and trust in ourselves.

When it is out of balance, we feel anxious, scattered, or constantly on edge.

We struggle to relax.

Everything feels urgent.

We feel unsafe in our own skin.

Grounding practices reawaken the root chakra and remind the body it is safe to rest.

In our Grounded Workshop, we will use movement, breath, meditation, and sound to help you:

✨ Calm your busy mind
✨ Relax your body’s survival response
✨ Reconnect with a deep sense of stability
✨ Leave feeling centred, grounded, and safe

08/10/2025

If you’ve been feeling anxious, scattered or stuck in constant survival mode, you’re not alone.

When life feels unstable, it’s often because we’ve lost our connection to the ground beneath us.

You might notice it as:

• Racing thoughts that never stop
• A tight chest or knotted stomach
• A feeling that everything is urgent
• Exhaustion that rest can’t fix
• A quiet sense of unease that follows you around

That’s your Root Chakra calling for attention.

Your Root Chakra is the foundation of your energy body.

It governs your sense of safety, belonging and stability.

When it’s steady, you feel calm, strong and at home in yourself.

In Grounded, we’ll gently guide your body and mind back to centre using yoga, breath, movement, sound and meditation.

You’ll release tension, soothe your nervous system and reconnect to a deep inner sense of safety.

You’ll leave feeling:
• Calm and centred
• Rooted in your body
• Clear and steady inside
• Ready to meet life with quiet confidence

This workshop is for anyone who feels like life has been moving too fast and needs a moment to stop, breathe, and return to themselves.

✨ Sunday 19 October 10am
✨ All levels welcome
✨https://www.facebook.com/events/1026493466084698

Come home to your body. Feel safe again. Feel grounded.

04/10/2025

PSA - if you can remember going to a video store to rent movies then your body NEEDS Yoga.

03/10/2025

The Root Chakra is the body’s anchor. It is what gives us a sense of safety, stability, and trust in ourselves.

When it is out of balance, we feel anxious, scattered, or constantly on edge. We struggle to relax. Everything feels urgent. We feel unsafe in our own skin.

Grounding practices reawaken the root chakra and remind the body it is safe to rest.

In our Grounded Workshop we will use movement, breath, meditation, and sound to help you:
✨ Calm your busy mind
✨ Relax your body’s survival response
✨ Reconnect with a deep sense of stability
✨ Leave feeling centred, grounded, and safe

02/10/2025

Next week is Mental Health Week and we are partnering with our friends Wings to offer this special event for bereaved parents.

If you or someone you know has lost a child, we'd love to support you at this event.

As part of Queensland Mental Health Week, in recognition of the impact of child loss, join Precious Wings for a gentle afternoon of movement, mindfulness, and connection.

🧘‍♀️ Precious Wings + Cultivate Calm Yoga
📅 Thursday 9 October 2025 | 11:45 - 2:30pm
📍 Cultivate Calm Yoga, 963 Stanley St, Brisbane
💲 $10 per person

Enjoy a calming yoga session, a talk by Clinical Psychologist Kate Shelper on movement and grief, afternoon tea, and the chance to create a memory box in honour of your baby or child.

Proudly supported by the Queensland Mental Health Week Community Events Grant Program.

Currently this event is open to the Precious Wings community but will be opened to the wider community Friday – book your ticket early to avoid missing out.

Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/manage/events/1704434231669/details

01/10/2025

Here for You in the Hard Times

At Cultivate Calm, we know that life is not all light and laughter.

Many of our clients come to us while navigating the hardest seasons of their lives.

Grief. Loss. Overwhelm from caring for others. Chronic pain. Mental health challenges that feel too heavy to carry alone.

You are welcome here exactly as you are.

You do not need to be fit or flexible.

You do not need to put on a brave face.

You do not need to hide your pain from us.

This is not a space for “good vibes only.”

This is a sanctuary for ALL OF THE VIBES (the good, bad and UGLY).

The joy and the heartbreak.

The strength and the fragility.

The hope and the heaviness.

We will help you soothe your nervous system and calm your busy mind.

We will help you feel better in your body, so you can move more freely and sleep more deeply.

Yoga can be the glue that holds you together when everything else feels like it is falling apart.

One scholarship recipient told us:
“I was grieving and had extreme anxiety. The teachers, the practice, and the space became a refuge that was truly healing. Literally an anchor and a lifeline. Cultivate Calm continues to be my grounding.”

If you need rest, healing, or just a moment to exhale, we are here for you.

Always.

30/09/2025

Today marks the studio’s 12th birthday.

I still remember the first class on the day we opened. It was me, my Mum and my dear friend

The last 12 years have been a Baptism of FIRE.

Honestly, if I had known what the last 12 years would entail, I probably wouldn't have started this business.

Running a business is hard at the best of times.

I can't tell you how challenging it is when you're also dealing with the extreme personal challenges I've had (I mean, who gets cancer 3 times?)

There were many times when I wished I didn’t have the responsibility and run from my problems.

But I didn’t.

I stayed.

The studio has taught me so much about life and myself over the years.

It has been a catalyst for huge personal growth.

To the students who are busy: Thank you for your time.

To the students who are nervous: Thank you for teaching me about courage.

To the students who laugh when I fumble my words: Thank you for teaching me that it’s ok to be myself.

To the students who offer criticism: Thank you for teaching me humility.

To the students who seem bored and restless: Thank you for teaching me about facing my fears.

To the students who struggle: Thank you for teaching me to face insecurity.

To the students who watch the clock: Thank you for teaching me to confront inner doubt.

To the students who left early without explanation: Thank you for teaching me the importance of offering space and understanding.

To the students who never returned: Thank you for teaching me to let go.

To the students who stuck by me: Thank you for teaching me the value of loyalty and community.

To my wonderful team of teachers (past and present): Thank you for teaching me the importance of support and generosity.

I'm excited to be back at the helm again and looking forward to the next 12 years.

Monica xx

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20/09/2025

PSA - if you remember this sound your body (and mind) need Yoga.

07/09/2025

Need to clear the head?

That’s the whole point of Yoga.

It also comes with a side of soul soothing.