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Serenalouiseyoga, Mandurama (2026)

31/12/2025

2025 that’s a wrap! 🌯

Thank you for trusting me with your bodies, thank you for sharing your stories with me and allowing me to be part of your Yoga journey. It is a privilege to teach you something I am so passionate about 💖 this year was a year of sooooo much learning for me, bring on more learning and growth in 2026 🩵

🥳 ###x

14/12/2025

I’ll be offering a small series of group classes to close out the year with intention and care. 💖

The final classes for 2025 will be held at in Blayney, and because these sessions are intentionally small, each class is limited to just 5 spots.

✨ 4-Day End-of-Year Yoga Series

Dates: 28th December – 31st December (New Year’s Eve)
Location: Sage Beauty, Blayney
Spots: Only 5 per class

Each day will focus on a different theme to help you gently shed what you’re ready to leave behind in 2025, and welcome what you wish to call in for 2026.

Daily Schedule
🧘 Vinyasa Flow
8:30am – 9:15am

🔔 Sound Healing + Yin (Rest & Digest)
9:30am – 10:15am

You’re welcome to join one or both classes each day as we move, breathe, soften, and reset together.

I would absolutely love to share this mindful transition into the new year with you.

Book your spot here:
https://slyoga.squarespace.com/classes/sagebeautyclasses

Hope to see you there xx

07/12/2025

🌿 Y O G A & B O U N D A R I E S 🌿

Just like we honor our edge on the mat, we can honor it in our relationships too.

Personal boundaries are the quiet lines we draw to protect our energy, our values, and our peace. Healthy boundaries allow us to say “no” when we need to… and to open gently when connection feels safe and aligned.

🧘‍♀️ Know Your Boundaries
Your boundaries come from what you value.
If family time, rest, creativity, or stillness matter to you—protect them.
Your boundaries don’t need to match anyone else’s. They are yours alone.
Know them before you step into a situation so you don’t abandon yourself.

🗣️ What to Say
You have the right to speak your needs with clarity and compassion:
✨ “I’m not comfortable with this.”
✨ “Not at this time.”
✨ “This doesn’t work for me.”
✨ “I’ve decided not to.”
✨ “I’m drawing the line at ___.”

🌱 What to Do
• Stand tall, breathe deep, and use confident body language.
• Stay respectful—firm never has to mean harsh.
• Plan ahead for hard conversations; clarity brings confidence.
• Compromise when it feels right, but never at the cost of your well-being.

Remember: honoring your boundaries is an act of self-love.
On the mat, we listen to our body. Off the mat, we listen to our heart. 💚

06/12/2025

Today I had the privilege of presenting my case study for my final Yoga Therapy module ✨
And you might be wondering… what exactly is yoga therapy?

Think of a regular yoga class like going to a buffet or ordering off a menu—there’s something for everyone, and you choose what feels good in the moment.

Yoga therapy, on the other hand, is completely case-specific.
It’s for the moments when:

✨ You’ve lost touch with yourself
✨ You’ve received a new diagnosis and need support navigating it
✨ You want to improve mobility, reduce pain, or enhance flexibility
✨ You’re seeking a more holistic approach to your physical and emotional wellbeing

Yoga therapy uses the wisdom and systems of yoga—movement, breath, philosophy, lifestyle, and awareness—to support you as a whole person: body, mind, and spirit. It’s not about “fixing” or “healing” anyone. I’m not here to heal you… but I am here to help you alleviate some of your suffering, reconnect with yourself, and find tools that support your life.

I’m officially halfway through the final module, and my intention is simple:
To share these ancient teachings in a way that helps you understand yourself more deeply, so you can get the very most out of life 🌿🤍

Feeling grateful, inspired, and excited for what’s ahead.

30/11/2025

✨ **Final Intensive Begins** ✨

*“You have the right to your actions, but never to your actions’ fruits.”* — *Bhagavad Gita 2:47*

This week marks the beginning of my **final intensive** in my journey to become an accredited Yoga Therapist — a path that weaves together psychology, yoga philosophy, asana, movement, Ayurveda, and body-based therapeutic practices. 🌿

For the past two years, I’ve been immersed in study while raising my two little girls (now 1 and 3). It has been busy, expansive, humbling, and deeply transformative. Motherhood and study side-by-side… what a practice in presence, patience, and surrender. 💛

As I step into this last chapter, preparing to present my practical case study, I feel an incredible mix of gratitude and excitement. This work feels like a calling — supporting others who are moving through tough seasons, seeking holistic approaches to healing, or exploring therapeutic paths that honour both the mind and the wisdom of the body.

I’m ready to dive deep one more time.
And I know this is only the beginning — there is always more to learn, more to grow into, and more ways to serve. ✨

🙏💛🧘‍♀️

09/11/2025

Somewhere between toddler snack negotiations and breastfeeding … I found a breath. 🌿

Staying at with my two tiny gurus and Campbell has been the perfect reminder that peace doesn’t appear when the chaos stops — it’s what we create within it.

I’ve been sitting with the kleshas lately — the mental afflictions that fog our clarity — and exploring the manomaya kosha, that subtle sheath of mind and emotion. Both feel very real when your “meditation music” is the constant chanting of ‘mummy!’ in the background. 😅

Even a few mindful breaths can shift your nervous system from fight-or-flight into rest-and-digest; a hidden essential which has been perhaps the most important part of my Motherhood journey so far, my breath has been the anchor which has kept me grounded.

Yoga and meditation literally rewire the brain’s stress pathways — which might explain why most days, I do actually drink my coffee without it going cold.. ☕️

And can we talk about how had yoga mats waiting in the hut? 🙏

So this week, my yoga isn’t about perfect poses — it’s about pausing between them. Finding stillness between the mess, giggles, and love. 🧘‍♀️💛

Peace isn’t found — it’s practiced. Even with a baby on your mat. 💓

23/10/2025

YOGA CLASSES ON SUNDAY 16th NOVEMBER 🙏🏼🌸

🌞 Sunday Morning Vinyasa Flow
🗓 Sunday, 16th November | 8:30 AM – 9:15 AM

🌿 Slow Sunday Hatha Flow
🗓 Sunday, 16th November | 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM

💤 Restorative Yoga + Sound Bowl Bath
🗓 Sunday, 16th November | 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM

Follow the link to book or tap the link in my bio xx

https://www.serenalouiseyoga.com/classes

15/10/2025

🧘‍♀️ The Four Virtues of Mental Peace 🧘‍♂️
(from the lens of Yoga Therapy)

In a world that often pulls us in many directions, the ancient wisdom of yoga offers a grounding reminder: mental peace isn’t found—it’s cultivated. One of the most beautiful teachings from the Yoga Sutras (Patanjali 1.33) outlines four inner attitudes that serve as gateways to peace of mind and emotional resilience:

🌿 Maitri (Friendship / Loving-Kindness):
Meet others with warmth. Extend friendliness not just to those you love, but to strangers, to yourself, and even to your flaws. Maitri softens the heart and dissolves judgment.

🌿 Karuna (Compassion):
See the suffering of others and respond with tenderness, not pity. Compassion doesn’t mean fixing everything—it means being present, open-hearted, and willing to hold space.

🌿 Mudita (Joy in Others’ Joy):
Rejoice in the success, happiness, and progress of others—without comparison. Mudita frees us from envy and reminds us that joy is not a limited resource. What uplifts one, uplifts all.

🌿 Upekshanam (Equanimity / Healthy Detachment):
Sometimes, the best response is neutrality. Not every situation needs your emotional investment. Let go of the urge to control, correct, or carry what isn’t yours. Peace grows where reactivity ends.

These are more than concepts—they’re daily practices.
They soften the nervous system, support emotional regulation, and deepen connection... to yourself and to the world.

🕊️

21/09/2025

🌟 Vijnanamaya Kosha — The Wisdom Sheath 🌟

In yoga philosophy, we’re made up of five koshas — or layers of being — moving from the physical to the most subtle.

✨ The Vijnanamaya Kosha is the wisdom sheath — more subtle than the body and mind, it represents pure knowing and discernment.

This layer guides us towards:
🗣️ Right Speech
🤝 Right Action

It’s where we learn to differentiate between:
🌿 Truth vs. Illusion
🌀 Clarity vs. Confusion
⚖️ Wisdom vs. Attachment

Unlike the more reactive layers clouded by desires, fears, and past experiences, the Vijnanamaya Kosha is less influenced by these fluctuations. It reveals a clearer, less clouded perspective—rooted in spiritual insight and awakened awareness.

Through spiritual practice and yoga, we cultivate connection with this inner wisdom — transcending personal attachments and ego-driven illusions.

🌸 This sheath invites us to live consciously, aligned with our higher truth, embracing authenticity, clarity, and balance.

20/09/2025

🧘‍♀️✨ Yoga & The Polyvagal Theory: Healing Through Nervous System Awareness ✨🧠

Your nervous system holds the key to your healing.
Let’s talk Polyvagal Theory – the science of how we feel safe, connect, and recover.

🌀 According to the Polyvagal Theory (Stephen Porges, via ), our autonomic nervous system has three states:
1️⃣ Safe & Social (Ventral Vagal)
2️⃣ Fight/Flight (Sympathetic)
3️⃣ Shutdown/Freeze (Dorsal Vagal)

When we feel danger, our sympathetic system activates – racing heart, shallow breath, anxiety. This isn’t in your head – it’s in your nervous system.

💨 But here’s the shift: through conscious breathing, yoga, and body-based practices, we can notice and influence these responses.

🧘 Yoga teaches us to move fluidly between emotional states, helping us build:
✔️ Flexibility
✔️ Resilience
✔️ Nervous system regulation

🎭 Practices like dance, play, and performance also activate healthy regulation. A regulated nervous system seeks connection, not rejection.

But when our system is dysregulated, especially due to early trauma, it sees closeness as unsafe.
🚫 You might push people away, not because you don’t want love – but because your body is trying to protect you.
💔 Trauma isn’t just what happened. It’s also what your nervous system learned about safety.

👫 Surrounding yourself with calm, regulated people is powerful. Our systems co-regulate.
→ Unhealed people with unhealed people = trauma cycles continue.
→ Healing happens in safe connection.

💓 Yoga + Polyvagal Theory remind us:
Your body isn’t broken.
It’s just doing its best to protect you.
And you can teach it a new way.

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