aimee.yoga

13/04/2024

To weave consistently 🌿

I remember clearly the morning I went into labour with her: it had started in the night, and at dawn I still rolled out my mat and sat down to my daily practice, albeit a simplified version: my breath and focus became the rhythms that kept me together over the hours to come. I hadn’t missed a day’s practice in years, nor did I that day, nor have I since.

Today it’s her job to blow out the candle when practice is done. I’m up at 4am (or 3:15am if I teach a morning class). And she usually wakes and joins me towards the end. She pulls up her cushion, a Bali sarong, and settles in until I’m done, right next to my mat. And somehow, intuitively, she has never interrupted the process. She’s also watched it evolve into one where the seated portion exceeds the rest. Where through intense grief, intense sickness, and busy schedules, Practice still happens.

These girls are growing up understanding the value in yoga being more than just something we do with our bodies twice a week: it can be the very foundations from where we live each day. As regular as brushing teeth or making warm Weetbix with honey: it’s how we connect with ourselves, with God, and how we align and realign with where we are going in life. And you can absolutely do it in your pyjamas.

Imagine a generation of calm, clear, aligned, self-healing, and self-empowered humans looking to support and contribute the best of themselves to the world? I think something that great needs to begin with a daily meeting with the Self, no matter what. ❤️‍🔥

“Sutra 1.14: स तु दीर्घकाल नैरन्तर्य सत्कारा असेवितो दृढभूमिः Practice becomes firmly established only when attended for a long time unceasingly and with devotion.”

09/04/2024

Join us next Friday! 🌺

MONTHLY KIRTAN: Friday 19 April 6.30pm 🌺

Kirtan is a form of Bhakti Yoga, a devotional practice that helps uplift the mind, open the heart, and bring a deep sense of joy and connection. In Kirtan we use our collective voices to offer praise, gratitude and acknowledgement to that which we hold to be divine.

No experience (or musical talent!) necessary. You will leave feeling vibrant and connected. Aimee and Chris will lead this month.

Tea + sweets provided.

Please book your spot via MindBody, link in bio. Free for DH Members, $15 for non-members.

08/03/2024

Swami Rama tells us that cultivating a happy mind is the greatest of all spiritual practices. 🪷

This is because it’s not an easy feat — true happiness takes great self understanding and commitment to our own evolution. The human mind is both complex and magnificent. We have one mental faculty to assess our sensory experiences, another through which we operate as an individual and perceive ourselves as separate from everything else. Another, through which we assess and make all our decisions — for better or for worse — and another, where not just memory, but our entire subconscious resides. To get all of these faculties not only to work harmoniously but to be guided by the light of our higher mind, we must at the very least start with an understanding of how it all works. “To map the terrain.”

If you’d like to know more about the ancient yet incredibly advanced psychology system of the great yogis, join me in the studio for (my all-time favourite!) FREE lecture on the mind this Saturday 2pm. Bookings essential via MINDBODY.

This lecture is a great way to lead into our upcoming meditation training which will empower you to master your own personal practice and through it, master your mind and your life.

Send me a DM to join the meditation training waitlist, or the link to this weekend’s workshop is below. ❤️‍🔥✨

https://thedharmahouse.yoga/events

08/03/2024

“If you are willing to experience the gift of life instead of fighting with it, you will be moved to the depth of your being. When you reach this state, you will begin to see the secrets of the heart. The heart is the place through which energy flows to sustain you. This energy inspires you and raises you. It is the strength that carries you through life. It is the beautiful experience of love that pours through your whole being. This is meant to be going on inside you at all times.

The highest state you have ever experienced is simply the result of how open you were.” 🌺

~ Michael A. Singer

27/02/2024

Join Aimee for another insightful Dharma Talk: an afternoon of wisdom and tea. 📚☕️

This session will explore The Psychology of Yoga:

We’ll take a fascinating dive into understanding the human mind and its functions through what Vedantic philosophy calls The Antahkarana: the ‘inner instrument’. In Vedantic literature, the Antaḥkaraṇa is organised into four parts: the ego, the intellect, memory, and the mind. Understanding how they work allows us to more clearly see our own internal processes.

We will also explore yoga’s perspective on neuroplasticity: the karma chakra, and the process through which mental patterns and beliefs are created. Understanding this theory better positions us to drop old unhelpful tendencies and craft new helpful ones.

Tea and sweets provided, as always. All welcome.

Investment: free! Because we want you to live a life of joy + freedom.

Bookings essential via MindBody. Link below:

https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/main_enroll.asp?studioid=5733842&tg=25&vt=14&lvl=&stype=-8&view=day&trn=0&page=&catid=&prodid=&date=2%2f28%2f2024&classid=0&prodGroupId=&sSU=&optForwardingLink=&qParam=&justloggedin=&nLgIn=&pMode=0&loc=1

17/02/2024

“Most of us who start out on the yoga mat do not realise that, if we dedicate ourselves to the practice, it is only a matter of time until the mat becomes an altar.” ~ Stephen Cope ✨

CLASSES over the next couple of days:

SATURDAY
4pm ~ Restorative Hatha with Aimee

SUNDAY
8am ~ Hatha Yoga (Sun) with Aimee
4pm ~ Yin Yoga with Kellie

MONDAY
6am ~ Hatha Yoga (Sun) with Aimee
5:30pm ~ Hatha Yoga (Moon) with Sharna
6:45pm ~ Monthly Women’s Circle with Sharna & Aimee

See you on the mat, friends. Bookings via Mindbody. 🙏🏽

03/02/2024

“You may be able to hide yourself from the rest of the world, but you cannot conceal yourself from yourself from your soul. The only way to achieve real peace and happiness is to know yourself at every level of your being.” ~ Pandit Rajmani Tigunait

These are more or less the classes I teach during the week — every one of them intended to guide you home to knowing your true Self. I’d love to see you for practice. 🧡

MONDAY
✨ 6am Hatha Yoga (Sun)

TUESDAY
✨ 5:30pm Hatha Yoga (Moon)
✨ 6:45pm Meditation

WEDNESDAY
✨ 6am Hatha Yoga (Fire)

THURSDAY
✨ 5:15pm Hatha Yoga (Moon)
✨ 6:30pm Restorative Hatha

FRIDAY
✨ 9:30am Gentle Hatha Yoga (fortnightly)
✨ 5pm Hatha Yoga (Moon)

SATURDAY
✨ 7am Hatha Yoga (Sun)
✨ 4pm Restorative Hatha

SUNDAY
✨ 8am Hatha Yoga (Sun)

02/02/2024

Words for this week, I’ve been sharing them in class. This is yoga’s promise of liberation, inner freedom. There’s a direct correlation between our perceived limitations and our potential to grow and evolve. In all the ways we think we can’t, aren’t, or don’t have/know/etc enough, we create limitation. But when we remember that we are an individual expression of an infinite and boundless collective, and then we practice dissolving the wall that separates our piece from the whole, then we see that freedom is always there. Practice is the way we reclaim an eternal inner freedom. ✨🔥

29/01/2024

Our job is not to comprehend or control everything, but to learn which story we are in and which of the many things calling out in the world is calling to us. Our job is to be fully alive in the life we have, to pick up the invisible thread of our own story and follow where it leads. 🌸✨
~

23/01/2024

Calm grace 🌿

These two words have been arising together regularly in my mind. Which is interesting because I thought that ‘calm’ wouldn’t be my primary vibe right now! My plate is very full.

But lately when I pause — which I am careful to do consciously in between navigating many new responsibilities, and still wearing all the hats of my previous life — I’m met with an unexpected but very natural wash of calm and ease. And somehow, in those moments, even though the list of ‘to do’s’ is long in the back of my mind, I feel effortless.

The spark and the kindness in the eyes of the many, many people I’ve connected with over the past short weeks has touched me in a way I did not anticipate.

The word ‘grace’ echoes my experience of being held and led by something beyond myself. Despite it all, it’s simply not just me at the wheel of this new ship.

I voice recorded these reflections on my walk one evening this week, under the vibrant red setting sky. I have much less time to sit down and write for/ scroll on Instagram! (a good thing).
Every moment, and the ones in between are richer and more sacred than ever.
Grateful for people.
For connection.
For growth.
For practice.
For calm, and grace. 🌿💛

08/01/2024

Decide that no matter what happens, you will do what you set out to do. If you are determined, possible distractions will still be there—but you will continue on your path and remain undisturbed. Sankalpa (determination) is very important. You cannot change your circumstances, the world, or your society to suit you. But if you have strength and determination you can go through this procession of life very successfully. 🌺
~ Swami Rama

04/01/2024

Two qualities enhanced greatly (and likely, only) through a consistent quality meditation practice are Intuition and Discernment.

INTUITION is our ability to receive facts and perceive reality through a felt inner knowing, rather than mental analysis. It's guidance that comes from within, rather than from the outside world (…which is sort of the opposite of what we're taught at school).

DISCERNMENT is our capacity to clearly differentiate between right & wrong; pick reality from the facade, to make smart and aligned choices.

Together Intuition & Discernment empower a person to erase the need to always depend on the outside world to guide them, to fulfill them, to approve of them, or give them the answers they seek. These qualities re-empower us to realise that under it all we are each a fully equipped, perfectly designed operating system capable of much more than we've ever thought or been led to believe.

For me, intuition has always been strong & loud – but today instead of receiving its guidance with a rush of fear & urgency, I receive it calmly as a clear wave of certainty about the step to take next. This calm receptivity has gently grown alongside my ever-deepening meditation practice.

Now more than ever, as the world continues to dish out more & more of the unexpected, we each need a very ‘clear inner knowing’ to guide us forward to our own understanding about what is happening, and how we should respond — rather than simply being fed the next step. Yoga is about re-empowering ourselves to be self-sufficient, to make choices based on a certainty in our heart rather than fear in the mind.

If you don't yet have a daily meditation practice, get one. Make it a precise, potent, & consistent one – because a fluffy one that changes each day only distracts us from truly seeing ourselves & creating the right kind of change. If this world has any hope for a newer, stronger future it can only be built by self-sustained authentically empowered humans who are aware of their potential to do big things, & what life really can be like when the higher aspect of the mind is calling the shots.

Now more than ever, do your bit: Practice, Practice, Practice.❤️‍🔥