Yoga 4 Living

05/04/2026

This is not about perfect poses 🤍
I’m Monica.

Through travel, freedom, and time in India, I share yoga and meditation as a way of living — grounded, embodied, and real.

As a cancer survivor and experienced mentor, I offer heart-centred spaces to reconnect with your body and inner wisdom.

A return to yourself — just as you are.

I’ll be returning to Australia soon — if you feel called to practise together, I’d love to welcome you. ✨

24/03/2026

A spontaneous, unscripted 20-minute grounding meditation, shared from the shores of India. ➡️ Open YouTube and search for “Return to Stillness | Beach Meditation from India” Channel: -monica
It’s not perfect, it’s spontaneous, it’s real

22/03/2026

Sri Mookambika Temple. Inside the inner sanctum, Garbhagriha, the Goddess MookAmbika holds Shanka 🐚and Chakra☸️as well as Abhaya (right palm 🤚protection) and Varada (left palm fingers point down, blessings boons for devotees)

🙏In front of this is the Jyothirlinga divided by fine line, larger left side expressing Adhiparashakti MahaKali MahaLakshmi MahaSaraswati, smaller right side Consciousness through Trimurti Brahma Vishnu Shiva. The Jyothirlingam symbolising the union of Shiva & Shakti; Formless & Form. Purusa & Prithivi, Consciousness & Power, Action, Strength

The reel showcase some of the daily rituals circling this sacred temple.

17/03/2026

🔱🙏Om Namah Shivaya 🕉️
Barefoot upon ancient stone, I walk into Shiva’s cave temple — where silence speaks and the unseen is felt.
Here, devotion becomes embodied… breath, body, and spirit woven as one.
A gentle remembering of who we are beneath it all.

15/03/2026

🌹 Nine years ago my life changed forever with an aggressive cancer diagnosis.

🇮🇳 This year I find myself in India for the Ninth time.

🕉️ In the sacred traditions here — and in many cultures — the number Nine is considered deeply auspicious and symbolic of transformation and completion.

🔻🌺During Navaratri, the nine nights honour Durga and the Nava-Durgas — nine expressions of the Divine Mother. Each form represents the power to overcome inner obstacles and transform qualities such as fear, anxiety, anger, and spiritual ignorance. Together they symbolise a journey of purification, transformation, and self-realisation.

🔱 Here at Bhadra Kali Temple, I’m reminded of Bhadrakali — the fierce and protective Mother who brings both chaos and transformation so that new life can emerge.

🌺Cancer, Yoga, and Ta**ra remind us that the deepest journeys are the ones within. 🌿

13/03/2026

🕉️Yoga is not something I simply teach — it is a path I continue to live, explore, and grow within.
🇮🇳Time in India always reminds me that yoga is a living tradition, woven through daily life, community, ritual, and quiet moments of reflection. Being here nourishes my own practice and deepens my understanding.

🧘‍♀️I remain a lifelong student of this path — always learning, listening, and allowing the wisdom of the practice to unfold.
🌺🔱🔻Bhadra Kali is a fierce and compassionate form of the Divine Mother who represents protection and the transformative power that helps dissolve what no longer serves so new life can emerge.
What I share in my classes and circles grows from this lived experience.
🙏Embodied yoga and meditation woven through life, practice, and the quiet wisdom of the path.
Photos taken outside Bhadra Kali Temple, Gokarna, India.
♥️May we all have the courage to grow, transform, and walk our path with an open heart. 🌿

03/03/2026

Why India 🇮🇳 again they ask!!
My love for travel began with backpacking in my late teens, and it continues to shape the way I explore the world today; Mother India—the birthplace of ancient wisdom, spiritual traditions, and countless yoga lineages. India has profoundly shaped my life, particularly during the year I spent there, spread across the late 80s and early 90s. It was a formative period that nurtured my growth, solidified my beliefs, and instilled a deep sense of gratitude on so many levels feels a bit like coming home. Bharat Mata ♥️🇮🇳

19/02/2026

The phrase ‘to meditate’ does not simply mean to examine, observe, reflect, question, weigh; it also has, in Sanskrit, a more profound meaning, which is ‘to become’.
Krishnamurti (1895-1986)
Join me; There are still spots left in this Sunday’s Meditation, Mantra & Movement Immersion 22 February 10 am - 12 pm Belmont Geelong
Bbookings through Yoga 4 Living’s website https://yoga-4-living.com

03/02/2026

Will you join us 18 February at the Geelong Wellbeing Day for Women with Cancer (free) sign up through links in article

Julie Hope was diagnosed with an aggressive type of brain cancer two years ago. She speaks with Jena Carr about [...]

30/01/2026

🙏Meditation, Mantra & Movement Immersion
A nourishing immersion into Meditation, Mantra, and gentle Movement. Together we’ll explore the benefits of meditation, spend time in guided practice, and play with mantra as a form of meditation through chanting. We’ll also move through gentle postures and movements designed to circulate energy through the body and prepare us to sit with greater ease and comfort.

This offering is open to all — whether you are new to meditation or looking to deepen an existing practice — and is held as a supportive, accessible, and heart-centred immersion. Held in an intimate space, places are limited and bookings are essential.

🧘‍♀️ Sunday 22 February, 10 am - 12 pm
📍 Heart Chiropractic, Belmont
🛋️ Bring note book, waterbottle, optional yoga mat (yoga mats and bolsters and chairs available)
💲 $65
✨ Easy bookings via my website, find it listed under Events on the Yoga schedule & location embedded booking page:

https://yoga-4-living.com/yoga-schedule/

13/12/2025

Read this to the end...you may get goosebumps... Inspiration flows, ideas pop up, from nowhere… No it is She … when words flow like music from our lips, it is Her… Not separated, yes it is you but also Her. Is it really that important to make it about You, Ahamkara (the “I”)? “I did this” me… me .. .me… of course She lets you… to a point.
🕉Ever experienced that emotion of absolute abundance, sweetness, joy, bliss, like you do not need anything else … moment … stillness. Feeling grateful to experience this… life…
🔱Felt that instantaneous Courage? Like a flash you step forward or speak up or take the jump…. It is Her.. yes it is Her. She is You too. Courage, comes from Coeur in French, meaning Heart.
🌺❤In Hridaya, your spiritual heart you can find, connect and listen to Her. The Divine Mother, Mother Earth, Goddess, Gaia, Devi, Shakti, Bhumi, Saraswati, Matangi, Bhuvaneshwari, Tara, Durga, Kali, Lakshmi, Padma… like a loved child She has soooo many names, so many divine energies; the Loving Fearless Courageous One…Mother. She is Everything, the Absolute, the primordial.
🕉Meditate in your Heart, Hridaya, expansiveness, light, a hum, beyond what the mind can comprehend, so Listen with your Heart. She is Your Intuitive voice. She is You. You are never alone. Feeling sad. She embraces and holds you.
After I let the above pour out... I pick this Oracle card, No 13 Eostre, She looks like Saint Lucia with Her Crown. Today 13 December is the day we celebrate St Lucia in Sweden. She brings light in the darkest days of winter. St Lucia was a 4th century Christian Saint. Eostre also reminds me of other special Devis with beautiful crowns. Jai Mā
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09/12/2025

🌙 Presence & Embodiment — Pañca Vāyus
💜 In class we explore movement not just through muscle and mind, but through the currents of the five vāyus — the “winds” of our subtle body.
We ground through Apāna (earthy, downward energy), lift through Prāṇa and Udāna (heart, breath, and upward expansion), ignite our centre with Samana, and feel Vyāna coordinating the whole body.
These energies help us shift from effort to embodied awareness — connecting with the subtle layers beyond the physical.

💜 Join me in practice and experience how this feels in your body, heart, and spirit — a gentle return to centre and oneness.

https://yoga-4-living.com/yoga-schedule/