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Movement, massage and coaching to connect body, mind and soul - supporting you to feel joy, balance Simply call Uschi on 0484 540 362.

Wellness & selfcare coaching, yoga, pilates, thai massage, meditation and dance. Workshops and retreats combining mindful movement, creativity, connection with others and time in nature. My classes, workshops and retreats aim to connect mind, body and soul. Through movement, mindfulness and time in nature the experiences support you to uncover your passion, your confidence and your innate sense of joy and purpose. Private and small group sessions are specifically designed for each individual and are scheduled by appointment. For more information on all of the offerings visit www.uschisteedman.com

28/09/2025

I don’t particularly like hiking on my own … I’ll be honest. But … blue skies mingled with misty rain washed out the mental chatter.

Glad I kicked myself out the door!

…Just move. It’s never a poor choice! 😉

17/08/2025

I’ve never understood folks who say they don’t like winter!… Why on earth not?
It’s STUNNING!

🏔️

20/06/2025

I don’t ‘release’ your muscles … I just help your body to remember what release feels like.

You do the releasing.

I don’t believe someone outside of you can ‘fix you’.
But I do believe that touch and presence can support you to recalibrate.

There’s always a reason. There’s always a message.
Our bodies are always speaking - if we listen.

And when we offer what’s needed. They respond.
❤️

22/05/2025

Resilience isn’t just the ability to ‘keep going’ or ‘bounce back’.
Nor is resilience something you either have or don’t have.

Resilience is linked to our ability to soak in what’s here. To receive. To connect. To reach and be met. To play. To express. To rest. To enjoy a challenge. And to celebrate when it’s done.

If we have blocks to any of these things. Our resilience will be diminished.

Those blocks have likely developed as a result of past experience or cultural/familial upbringing. (We may have learned they weren’t safe.)

The great thing is, these are all things we can practice and learn to bring into our lives. We can gradually build our capacity to receive the resources that nourish our sense of self, belonging, ability and trust.

And it all happens through the body.

When we touch on our fear or self-doubt (as it appears in the body), we touch on the very thing we NEED to overcome it.

As we allow ourselves to experience our fatigue or depletion - we discover the very things we need to regenerate.

And bit by bit, it’s through the body that we learn to ask and receive. To be known in our vulnerability and seen in our strength.

If you’ve struggled with fatigue, chronic pain, self-doubt, anxiety or the inability to rest - then somatic therapy could support you to befriend your body and its messages on the pathway back to resilience.

Your body offers a direct pathway back to aliveness and resilience, once you begin to learn how to work WITH its signals and stress response.

16/05/2025

Many of us grew up in a society that labelled ‘mind’ and ‘body’ as two distinct things. And ‘feelings’ as unruly and difficult aberrations from a logical and reasoned approach to life.

Many (if not most) of us also learned to ignore (or repress) the truth of our experience - as reflected in the sensations of our physical form.

To do so we partially disconnect from our moment to moment bodily experience … As it doesn’t always conform to the polite, acceptable social mores of our upbringing. Our bodies speak our truth (our authenticity); and our authenticity can seem risky - like it will rock the boat.

And so (sometimes without noticing) we subtly disconnect from our bodies, we disconnect from ourselves.
And when we disconnect from our ourselves we inevitably begin to seek a sense of groundedness elsewhere and in other people/things.

Somatic therapy is therefore a journey of coming back home to self… Back home to the wisdom, aliveness and resilience that exists in us.

It’s sometimes uncomfortable, and often leads us into uncharted territory. But the more we practice attuning to ourselves, returning to our bodies and offering attention to what we find - the more aliveness, expression and freedom we discover in our lives.

The journey is gradual and marked by small, daily actions and practices. But it’s worth every step.

My studies in Somatic Stress Release with Dr Scott Lyons of the have changed my life - and the way I relate with myself and others.

I’m still a work in progress (as we all are)! But it’s an honour to now share this work with others as a Somatic Stress Release Practitioner.

27/04/2025

There’s still space left in next weekend’s Move & Create workshop.
If you’re wanting to loosen up and invite more creativity in life, this is for you.
You don’t need to be ‘arty’ or have any skills. Just a desire to open up to your own creativity.

We’ll start with a gentle flowing yoga practice.
Followed by a guided painting activity together (it’ll even involve a bit of working together so as to take the pressure off!)

Come play with Felicity Hayward and I next Sunday .
👉🏽Link in bio to register

And yes, the workshop will go ahead even though the power is off… Why waste an arvo doing nothing at home with no electricity when you can come jam with us 😉😉

22/04/2025

WHEN LESS IS MORE

What if the greatest act of kindness
was doing less
trying less
pushing less
efforting less.

And what if, that was the pathway to forgiveness.
🙏🏼

*****
My mind has been trying to wrangle things of late. Resisting what IS, with all sorts of effort.
So this post is a reminder to me …

Lay down the words and the labels
and the neat, but false stories they weave.
Lay down the mental machinations and the efforts to understand.

Lay down
and just let it all land.

The truth of a thing.
The beauty of a thing.
The wisdom of it, and the gift of it.
Even when it’s not what you sought.

Lay down and let Life sink in.
Where it can begin to teach you
exactly what you need.

Lay down and stop beating yourself up.
Try less, and simply confess
to your humanness.

Acceptance, is forgiveness ❤️

16/04/2025

GRATEFUL ☺️🙏🏼

This evening on a ride with a beautiful friend, I saw the sky for the first time in weeks (maybe months).
Like, REALLY saw the sky. And FELT its expanse… And gratitude filled me.

Not just for the beauty, but for the feeling of gratitude itself - which can only arise when we land where we are, and RECEIVE what’s here.
…The simple things.
That nourish at the deepest level.

And I realised that part of me had been GUARDING against gratitude for a while.

Perhaps believing that if I let it in, the things that ached in life wouldn’t change (I’d be single forever, never have a secure home of my own, never feel true fulfilment in my work.) If I let myself be grateful (or content), nothing would shift. It’d all just remain as it is - because I wouldn’t be ‘trying’. So I’d best block the gratitude and feel the ache (or lack) instead… So that it could motivate me to ‘improve’.

And the belief that if I guarded against gratitude, I’d somehow make myself impervious to loss or disappointment.

…It’s funny how the mind works sometimes.
We protect and guard against hurt in all manner of ways… And yet generally, the protective mechanisms only amplify the hurt. Severing us from the life and love and connection that’s here - just patiently waiting.

Today I somehow landed back in the remembering that my willingness to OPEN to gratitude and contentment and appreciation is the very thing that gifts me the trust and strength to also open to change. To feel supported, to feel safe, to feel held and nourished in life.

And yes, when I allow gratitude, I allow love and connection - and all the risk of loss and grief that it can entail.
But by golly it’s relieving to open. (To receive what’s here and let it be a nurturance - rather than strain against life)

It’s funny how gratitude also makes space for the aches in life. It doesn’t erase them - it just means they have space to breathe and a soft landing place.

So I hope sunsets and friendships fill your hearts out there.
And that the simple things satiate you at the deepest level 🙏🏼

mbs

15/04/2025

Come move and create with me!
If you need a little creativity in life join me on Sunday May 4th for a workshop combining yoga and painting.

Art has always been one of my happy places.
And it breaks my heart when I hear people say “I’m not creative.”

We’re ALL innately creative. It just gets hammered out of us with comparison, judgment and the desire to ‘fit in’.

At the workshop I’ll be joined by art therapist Felicity Hayward who’ll guide us through a fun, painting round robin.

Art is a place to let go, play, nourish, express, day-dream, delight in the accidental and unplanned of life … and have fun along the way. 😉

Link to register is in my bio.

22/03/2025

It’s back! We’re running our next Yin Yoga & Thai Massage Workshop on Friday 11 April.

For 90 minutes Shayne will guide you through a yin yoga practice while Uschi moves around the room offering individual Thai massage treatments.

This is a chance to soften, unwind and deeply reconnect with your body and breath - through movement, gentle grounding touch and reiki energy healing.

Maximum 6 people

Friday April 11th
5:30pm-7pm

$55

Tickets via: https://events.humanitix.com/yin-yoga-and-thai-massage
(Link in bio too).

20/03/2025

WHY DO I LOVE THAI MASSAGE?

It’s active. It’s dynamic. I’m mooooving you.
And at the same time, it’s deeply grounding.

🍃 If you’re feeling generally tired, flat, tight, listless in the body - it’s amazing.
🍃 If you have fear around movement - it can be amazing (as we move slowly, gently and with deep support and respect - we BUILD safety).
🍃 If you think of yourself as ‘inflexible’, it’ll get things moving.
🍃 If you simply want to feel more ALIVE in your body it will promote reconnection and flow.

*** Thai massage is an ACTIVE conversation with your body.

You’re not just lying there getting your muscles poked around. Instead I’m MOVING you and sensing how your body responds.
When/where do you guard?
What supports you to stop guarding?
What amount of movement IS available - and how can we gently expand it?

Sessions are honestly like having yoga done FOR YOU - while getting a massage at the some time. (Feels so good! And I love sharing this form of bodywork!)

❤️

16/03/2025

So love getting messages like this from clients.

Our bodies are amazing. A little attention and they often respond so swiftly.

This client was experiencing breath-stopping pain in her hip out of nowhere. It was causing caution and hesitation in movement that was limiting her ability to do things she loved - like dance and dog walks!

Thai massage can be a really effective approach for pain.
My way of treating means I meet your body where it’s at. We don’t force movements, nor go straight for the deepest trigger point.
Instead we invite a gradual softening and aim to provide the level of intensity and feedback that the body (and nervous system) need, in order to begin to come back to a more healthy level of tone.

It’s always a joint exploration. One in which you can give me feedback along the way. (In fact it helps if you do!)

I love seeing the journey unfold.
🙌❤️

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+61484540362

Website

http://www.uschisteedman.com/

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Yoga, pilates, thai massage, meditation and dance. Classes, workshops and retreats combining mindful movement, creativity, connection with others and time in nature. My classes, treatments, workshops and retreats aim to connect mind, body and soul. Through movement, mindfulness and time in nature the experiences support you to uncover your passion, your confidence and your innate sense of balance, joy and purpose. Private and small group sessions are specifically designed for each individual and are scheduled by appointment. Simply call Uschi on 0484 540 362. For more information on all of the offerings visit www.uschisteedman.com

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