Yoga 4 Living

03/02/2026

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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/

04/12/2025

Join us for Oncology Yoga Yoga4cancer at Andrew Love Cancer Centre in person or via zoom every Thursday at 10 am; afterwards we share a cuppa and/or a light snack lovingly prepared by the volunteers in the Wellness Lounge. Whether you’re in active treatment or post treatment you’re welcome. And if mornings don’t suit I offer an Oncology Yoga class Wednesdays 6 pm via zoom. You can participate from the comfort of your own home. It’s easy to book via my website.

27/11/2025

🌿Starting this Saturday 29 November; A nourishing outdoor Summer morning yoga class beneath the eucalyptus trees 🌿🌳 in Highton. A 75-minute practice will be offered starting 8.30 am this Saturday 29 November. Inviting you to move, breathe, and begin your weekend grounded in fresh air and the calming green around you. Designed to bring more calm, clarity, and resilience into daily life at this often stressful and busy time, give yourself the gift of time to pause and nurture your own wellbeing.

🧘‍♀️ Saturdays 8.30 am for a 75 min class
📍 Bellevue Avenue x Patern St corner, in front of Girls Guide Hall, Highton
🛋️ Bring yoga mat, cushions/blanket for comfort, waterbottle
💲 Cash Donation $10, $15, $20, $25 ... or more or less you choose
✨ Easy bookings via my website or contact me directly to let me know

Please wear something comfortable, remember there could be mosquiotos.

Please accept this invitation to pause, breathe, and connect. This festive season should not just be about chores, lists and tasks and doing, doing.
But simply Be-Ing. Lets embody the joy of the Season

25/11/2025

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25/11/2025

🌿 Kitchari w Ginger Miso sauce 😋 this Ayurvedic dish is so delicious and simple to prepare, and easy on the digestive system; mung beans, rice, mixed vegetables, herbs and spices (fennel, cumin seeds, mustard seeds, turmeric salt). The Ginger Miso has super ingredients too, apple cider vinegar, organic Ayurvedic black sesame oil (calcium, magnesium etc) lemon juice, fresh mint, sesame seeds… The amazing whale jug is a creation by our son Josh

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06/10/2025

✨ Before Asana, We Cleanse ✨ Before moving into postures, we begin with Apana Kriyas — gentle movements to cleanse and awaken the physical and energetic bodies (such as nadis, energy channels). These practices help release toxins and metabolic waste, ease stiffness and inflammation in the joints, and bring clarity to the mind.

☹️Pain, aches, and brain fog can often arise from cancer treatments, hormone blocker medication, or menopause, as declining estrogen affects joint lubrication, causing dryness and stiffness and loss of concentration.

🙏In yogic understanding, Apana is all that needs to be expelled from the body — through the breath, urine, and other forms of elimination — while Kriya means action or movement. Apana balances Prana, our vital life force that comes with the inhale, sunlight, and nourishing fresh foods.

In my classes, we gently circle, stretch, and flex every joint — toes, heels, knees, hips, fingers, wrists, elbows, shoulders, neck, spine — and finish with Kapalabhati Kriya, a cleansing breath to release stagnation and invite fresh energy. 🌿

After warming the joints and releasing stiffness and tension, we move into asana — postures that strengthen, open, and bring mobility and balance to the body, guided by a calm and focused mind. Noticing the bhav — how does it feel, what is the state of our being? 🕊️
Not all yoga is the same!

28/09/2025

💜 After moving through cancer in 2017 (pictured practising yoga with my puppy Peppa on my back), I changed, and the things that used to matter simply didn’t anymore... At the end of 2020, I made a Big Life Decision — I left my nicely paid full-time job to follow my heart and dedicate myself to teaching yoga, especially Oncology Yoga (Yoga4Cancer).

I knew I didn’t want to look back one day with regrets, so I stepped forward into this path wholeheartedly. I felt called, I wanted to support others affected by cancer and all the side effects. Life is so precious ❤

💬 If you feel called to share, I’d love to hear about any changes you’ve made in your life after moving through a major health scare. Your story may be just the inspiration someone else needs. 🌸

You can read a little more about my journey in this Geelong Advertiser article (if the link doesn't work (Meta may not allow it), please head to my website and look on the Oncology Yoga page)

https://yoga-4-living.com/wp-content/uploads/Monica_Moore_GT_Mag.jpgOncology Yoga is offered Tuesdays 10 am in person, Belmont and Wednesdays 6 pm AEST online
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26/09/2025

This October and November, I invite you to join me for budget-friendly meditation classes - come for one or two evenings, or enjoy all five and save. Each class is designed to bring more calm, clarity, and resilience into daily life — while also supporting me on my path to becoming an Accredited Meditation & Mindfulness Teacher. The most important part is giving yourself the gift to pause and nurture your own wellbeing.

Research shows that regular meditation helps regulate and protect our bodies from stress (adrenaline and cortisol) while increasing levels of endorphins (happiness), dopamine (reward), and serotonin (lack of is linked to fatigue, insomnia, depression, and anxiety). And this is just the start of the many benefits.

Experience greater calm and clarity by joining me five Tuesdays (in person) at 7:30 pm in Highton, starting 7 October (concluding 11 November). We take a break for Melbourne Cup 4 November!

Each week we will explore different themes and types of meditation techniques 🌿

🧘‍♀️ Tuesdays at 7:30 pm
📍 Girls Guide Hall, Highton
🪑 Chairs available
🛋️ Bring cushions/blanket for comfort
💲 $12 per class, or $45 for all five sessions
✨ Easy bookings and payments via my website

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

💝 Give yourself — or someone you know — this gentle gift, and create space for calm and serenity now, before the busyness of end-of-year activities and celebrations begins.

13/09/2025

🔱At its heart, Navaratri is both a cosmic story—told in the Devi Mahatmyam, where the Divine Mother conquers the forces of greed, pride, injustice and more afflictions—and an inner journey of connecting with the Divine Self inherent in us all.
✨ Invitation where we will enter into this living tradition together. During 2023 and 2024 I was blessed to celebrate Navaratri in Mother India herself, immersed in the devotion of thousands, and it is with that inspiration that I now bring this offering to our community, which I last did in 2021.

🕉Through mantra, storytelling, mudras, meditation and gentle flow symbolising Her battles and Her love, we will attune to the energies of the Divine Mother, opening our hearts to Her presence as countless devotees around the world do during these nine sacred nights.

🌺This gathering is an offering of devotion, community, and inner transformation, a chance to align with the timeless rhythms of the Goddess and celebrate Her victory within and around us.
🙏Early Bird $65 until 21 September thereafter $80, refreshments will also be provided
When: Sunday 28 September 10 am - 12.30 pm Belmont Geelong
Cancelled due to Geelong Cats Grand Final