22/10/2025
Hi it’s me Denise
Mountain Ridge yoga is my business.
It came about with the want to share what I love, yoga and the things that I find cool and interesting.
Yoga has been part of my life since I was in my early 20s. 30 years down the track and I’m still here, loving it even more.
Over time I have added other things to my personal practice. Cold showers or plunges, cacao and maca, meditation, pranayama, chanting, dance, reformer Pilates, weight training and talk Therapy, and essential oils. These are some of the tools I use to help myself, I don’t wait until something has become so big I don’t know what to do. I use these tools, some daily, weekly, monthly or when ever I feel the need.
I do this because I wanted to live a good life, I wanted to be a kind person, I wanted joy and happiness but also honour my needs when I didn’t feel that. Knowing that we can’t always feel joy and happiness sometime we have to know when we just want to stay in bed, that it’s okay to not feel okay. I had to teach myself how to be kind and compassionate towards myself first then to others.
I facilitate in a trauma informed way, inviting you to feel the movement for yourself. Giving you the space to explore the shapes, the muscles, the movement, all while inviting you to choose what your needs are in this moment, on your mat. Not sometime in the future, not a season, not a goal to be achieved. Just you, here right now.
I am not here to judge you, push you or pull you, I’m here to celebrate you, to invite you to begin or continue to realise that you are capable of amazing things, no matter how small or big. Maybe today you are only visualising the movement on the mat, then the next you might be doing it. Celebrating all of it, knowing you are the expert of you, no one knows you better than yourself, if you are able to move from the mind and what it thinks is best and drop into the body and start living in the felt experience. Letting the body be the guide, where would it take you.
For me personally, yoga is living. But it all started on the mat once a week, with some amazing teachers, who lived yoga not just taught it. My hope is that you too find your way to living yoga, to realise that yoga is not about the mat or the shapes, it’s the felt experience of living in the body and the human experience of life, to be kind to yourself and all beings.
Knowing that when I say at the end of class
May our thoughts be kind
May our words be kind
May you feel loved.
This is a genuine wish for you and for myself. That I may meet you once or for a lifetime, but you in that moment have made a impact on my living experience and for that I thank you.
May we meet each other on the mat and in life. Knowing that we are each walking towards ourselves and our own felt experience.
Yangan school of arts Monday
4.30pm Chair yoga
5.30pm Mat yoga
Killarney Tuesday
5pm Mat yoga
Kind regards
Denise
