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Hatha, Yin & Postnatal Yoga Instructor
Yoga Therapy & Aryuvedic Practitioner student
Wellness Enthusiast

02/08/2025

You’re warmly invited to join me for the September Carcoar Mini Retreat, a nourishing morning of connection, movement, and stillness to gently welcome the spring season.

This retreat is designed as a peaceful reset — just a few mindful hours to bring you back into your calm, restorative state. We’ll gather in community, meet like-minded people, and finish with a deeply healing Sound Healing Restorative Yoga class.

🌿 Spring Mini Yoga Retreat in Historic Carcoar 🌸
Sunday, 14th September 2025 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Carcoar School of Arts

Step gently out of winter’s hibernation and into the light with a nourishing morning of movement, connection, and renewal.

Join us in the beautiful, historic village of Carcoar for a soul-soothing Spring Mini Yoga Retreat designed to awaken your body, uplift your spirit, and prepare you for the vibrant energy of the warmer months ahead.

Your morning will include:
✨ Gentle, all-levels yoga to energise and open the body
🎶 A deeply calming sound healing and restorative yoga session
🌱 An inspiring Ayurveda in Spring discussion – tips to balance your body and mind as the seasons shift
☕ A nourishing morning tea with warm drinks and seasonal treats

Whether you're a seasoned yogi or just beginning your journey, this retreat offers a welcoming space to reconnect with yourself, shake off the winter heaviness, and plant seeds for a revitalised spring.

All levels welcome. Just bring your mat, an open heart, and a readiness to bloom.

https://www.serenalouiseyoga.com/events/yogaretreatthehiltonhomestead-z5z9a

11/03/2025

Hotel room Yoga, solo with my two little ladies ❤️

I flew to the UK with my two girls and untapped a whole new world of personal resilience 💪🏼 And strangers are so kind, faith in humanity is definitely restored ☺️

“When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience.”
― Jaeda Dewalt

As I said to my husband, its not the faint hearted but wow 😮 I’m so lucky to be able to make this trip with my daughters and show them my motherland ✈️ Yoga and meditation helped me tremendously with the journey, jet lag, early morning wake ups and change in environment - I’m forever grateful for this ancient practice 🙏🏼

Now to settle into British life again for the next month 🇬🇧 xx

05/01/2025

Hello 👋🏼🦜 Many of your will be returning to work today so I wanted to talk a little bit about stress and burn out.

We have four stress responses, Flight, Fight, Fawn and Freeze - similar to those of animals.

These responses may look a little bit like this..

Freeze - running out of the room or needing to leave the room during a stressful situation or dissociation
Fawn - Giving in to your toddler or co-worker for the tenth time even when it doesn’t align with your values or you’re just ‘fed up’
Flight - Shouting
Fight - Anger

These stress responses are completely normal, natural and instinctive however there are some practices which we can all do (tried and tested) to help us respond better in situations of stress. Research shows that we usually respond to stress in the way we first responded to our first stressful situation as children and everyone’s stress response is different according to our constitution, family history, genetics etc so not everyone will respond in the same way. Burn out can occur when we don’t manage our stress correctly and burn out can occur if we don’t release our stress. The strategies below can help you learn about your own individual stress responses and help you to manage them yourself instead of using others to release that stress. It all starts with you 🦦

Strategies:
- Start to observe yourself rather than be consumed by yourself when you feel yourself in a stress responses, almost as if you’re watching yourself perform. That way you will be able to learn about the emotional and physiological responses that you have in response to stress. That way you will start to understand which situations make you feel that way and over time you’ll learn how to avoid being in those situations.
- Stop yourself before you react to a stressful situation and use the 444 breath, inhale, hold, exhale - no one needs to know you’re doing this so if it’s personal, keep it personal.
- Walking, Yoga, Meditation.. whatever gets you out of your mind and into your body. Connecting in with that will help you here!

Research taken from .. How to build a healthy brain, Kimberly Wilson.

29/12/2024

At the beginning of all my classes I always invite you to ‘be kind to yourself and move at your own pace’ this is something I like to remind you of because no one but you knows what it has taken you to get to this day, onto the mat.

No one knows what prejudices it has taken you to get to today. No one knows what it’s like to be you and what your unique experience of life is, no one knows all that you have survived to be here today. We can control how we talk to ourselves, we can control how much self compassion we have for ourselves. It’s how we support ourselves, it’s how we are our own best friends and how ultimately we love ourselves. This narrative is not only important on the yoga mat but also through life.

Be kind to yourself, you are no exception ❤️

16/12/2024

In 2025 I am opening myself up to teaching some classes…the classes will be held at The Millthorpe School of Arts in Millthorpe on a Thursday morning.

There will be an 8am class which will run for 45 minutes and will be a Vinyasa Flow, suitable for all levels but more suitable to those of you who have practiced Yoga before…however it is never too late to start something new so please book in and I’d be honoured to guide you on your Yoga journey if it is new to you.

The second class will run after Vinyasa, it will be a Gentle Flow Yoga class starting at 9am through to 9:45am, this class is suitable for all levels, ages and abilities. Whether you are an experienced Yogi or a complete newcomer, this is for you.

I am extending this offer to mums with babies too however if you are booked in for the class, I will let you know with lots of notice if there will be mum and babies attending as I know this is not for everyone.

Classes are $30 pp for a casual drop in or $200 for the term which will run for 8 weeks, noting there will be no class on Thursday 9th January, I’ll set a reminder for this too so you don’t turn up by accident.

Bookings are essential and spots are limited. If you book in for the term, I will automatically add you to each class. The term is designed as a progression week to week and term 2 will commence in May 2025 so there will be a little break between terms.

I am SO excited to see you all back on the mat and for those of you who were interested in a class in Mandurama, I will be running these towards the end of January but will open bookings for these in due course..

Click on the link in my bio to book in or DM me and I will send you the booking link ✨🙌🏽

04/12/2024

Flowing through a yoga sequence and listening to the waves 🌊 crashing onto the beach is seriously my idea of complete bliss 😍 and nothing makes me feel more grounded in a place than going to a local yoga class especially when I’m away from home. This class was a great mix of strength and stretch with .coast.soul ✨🩷

As the holiday season is upon us, I wanted to share some yoga poses which help me feel grounded and settled when things start feeling a bit stressful, I know through these early stages of motherhood, I had felt my body in a stress response more frequently than I’d like 🫠 so these are a few poses of flows which don’t take long but have helped to calm nervous system.. I hope they help you too in whatever phase of life you find yourself in 🫶🏻

✨ simple flow, table top.. cat cow.. downward dog.. step up to the top of your mat.. rise to standing.. reverse the sequence three times.
✨ Chanting the mantra OM 🕉️ AAAAAA…UUUUUU…Mmmmmmm
✨ Seated Cat and Cow, repeat three times
✨ Savasana, hand on belly and heart.. feel your body and breath
✨ Place a rolled up blanket along your spine go open your Heartspace and chest, raise one leg at a time and move with the breath ❤️

26/11/2024

Happy 4 months to you Ellidy 🌈 you have brought so many new perspectives to my world and I feel incredibly grateful for what you’ve taught me about life and myself already 🩷 thank you for choosing our family 🥹 your little soul is so sweet, gentle but full of power 🫶🏻

Ellidy was born at 42 weeks and the wait towards the end was tough but taught me a lot of lessons about patience, an attribute which I absolutely lack 🫠 but I’m learning.. I wished for a natural birth and was guided and supported so beautifully by an incredible midwife and friend 🩷 but what I got what a c-section which in the end was the safest delivery for both Ellidy and me 🌸 though it’s been a long recovery and I’m slowly rebuilding my strength day by day, it was the slowing down which helped support my connection to my new dependant ✨ I spent the first 40 days at home, nourishing, resting and connecting with my two girls which may seem crazy to some but it was the best thing I did for my healing - I was guided by the book ‘The First 40 days’ which also incorporates tradition Chinese medicine and ancient Chinese recipes for healing a new mum .. I would recommend it to anyone embarking on this journey 👌🏽

To prep me for birth .newton.midwifery graced me with her knowledge and assisted me in understanding more about Matresence and my own birth trauma 🩷 and thank you for supporting me postpartum, for the guidance, the delicious nourishing meals and just your presence in our household made me feel incredibly held. Thank you to my beautiful community for helping me navigate life as a mother of two 2️⃣ and for being there for me when I was in the thick of the trenches .. Motherhood.. what an awakening time, some days I feel completely insane but I’ve never felt so much like myself or in love .. madness!

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Mandurama, NSW
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+61415099497

Website

http://www.serenalouiseyoga.com/

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