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21/01/2026

Over the weekend I attended a 2-day Meisner Workshop run by

WOW! What an incredible experience. I am so deeply grateful for all that I gained, the parts of myself I got to embrace, and the deeper levels of authenticity I was able to lean into.

Honestly, I didn’t quite know what I was walking into… I did know it was an acting tool, which made me nervous! I also knew that it would be out of my comfort zone and guessed that it would force me to meet and embody more of my shadow parts.

When I was young, I used to LOVE performing. I loved attention and being in the spotlight. I remember that one of my highlights of primary school was being one of the lead characters in a school play. Another was being school captain and getting to speak at school assembly regularly!

My sun sign is a Leo 🦁 so it made sense that I wanted to shine and be seen…

But as I got older, I became more shy. I got more socially anxious, quiet and started to shrink. I didn’t take opportunities to be in the spotlight, in fact I HATED public speaking or being the focus of attention in a room full of people in high school and uni.

A lot has changed since then and I’ve stepped back into my star archetype in different ways. I now love facilitating, speaking and teaching. I’m yet to re-embrace the part of me that loves to perform though.

This weekend felt like a beautiful step of reclaiming lost parts of myself. Of remembering the power and magnetism of true authenticity and realness. I loved learning Meisner and now I want to do more!

It feels like such a beautiful addition to Authentic Relating, which and I have been diving deep into

All this time in authentic spaces has really made me see how much more of this is needed. I don’t know how I went so much of my life with surface level convos, lack of self awareness and wearing masks rather than being myself and allowing myself to be deeply met and seen!

So grateful for the incredible group of humans I got to share this with!! The authenticity, vulnerability and intimacy we shared over this time was next level 🙌🏻

12/01/2026

More time in nature, less time on screens.
Something I’m committed to living by this year 🌿

Last year, I went 313 without watching any TV (no shows or movies) and I plan on doing something similar this year.

But more than that, I’m focusing in on reducing social media usage, particularly ditching mindless scrolling!

This year I’ll be shifting to much more intentional use of social media, which mostly just includes posting on my accounts and interacting with those of you here ❤️

In the last few months of 2025, I installed some social media blocking apps and drastically reduced my usage…

I actually went 59 days of less that 10 minutes on Instagram, with weeks at a time where I didn’t even open the app!

In one way this was great, in another way it meant I was a whole lot less active on here and I do love to share 😅 and I’ve been absolutely shocking at replying on here as a result (sorry guys).

So this year I’ll be finding more of a balance. Sharing more and engaging often, but consuming less.

And while this alone feels like a beautiful intention, I’m shifting some of the time I would have spent on a screen to being outdoors.

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been waking up and going for a sunrise walk and it is absolutely divine. Would recommend!

What are your intentions around screen time and social media this year? Let me know in the comments and please feel free to join me on mine!

I also plan on reading a lot more this year, so if you have any epic recommendations on topics of healing, spirituality, psychology, etc. send them my way 📚

P.S. How special is this tree!!

06/01/2026

Fun start to the year crafting our visions for 2026 on 1/1 🤎

7.5 hours later and pictured here was the almost finished product! I made a few final touches to it the next morning and now it’s happily sitting on the wall in our kitchen so I can look at it while I nourish my body at mealtimes each day.

To me, a vision board is like a compass, guiding me in the direction that I want to go 🧭 It’s less about ‘what’ I want and more about how I desire to feel.

I use it to remind myself of the habits and traits required for me to create the life that I desire to live and become the version of myself that can hold it.

While vision boards can be heavily focused on the light, I like to have it there as a North Star. A way to remind myself of who I am and who I am becoming, so that regardless of whether I’m going through ‘good’ times or ‘bad’, I develop the devotion and discipline to stand strong within myself.

Some of my intended themes of 2026 are:
- MIRACLES (meeting every moment with love)*
- FULFILMENT (prioritising all that this means to me)
- FOUNDATIONS (nailing foundational habits)
- PURPOSE (building our legacy )
- AUTHENTICITY (embracing and sharing what’s real)

*I’m continuing my daily studies of A Course In Miracles this year and intend for the wisdom from this text to be something I come back to again and again.

Some other themes include: meeting the moment, following the aliveness and LIBERATION through the same kind of alchemy and healing work I take my clients through.

So glad we decided to attend the final event of ’s first chapter! 2026 will not be the same without my favourite community centre, which has brought me immense gifts over its 5 years (including my beloved ). Felt very special to be at the first event all those years ago and the least event just a few days ago.

Sending you blessings and love as we enter 2026 ✨

05/01/2026

BOTH

A huge theme of the last year for me has been polarities.

2025 was both a wonderful year and a difficult year.
It was a year full of celebration and a year of struggles.
A year of light and of dark. Of love and of fear. Of heaven and of hell.

The human ego sees things in black and white. Good and bad. Wright and wrong.
Applying labels, which are really just judgements… stories.

So when I say 2025 was wonderful and difficult, they’re also just stories.
In truth, 2025 was. And now 2026 is.

But, even though polarities are still judgements, I’m celebrating how far I’ve come.
I used to see it as just one or the other. Unaware of the polarities of intricacies of life.
Generally I’d just turn towards the light… ‘it was a great year’, ‘a wonderful year’, ‘full of amazing memories’.
Partly because I wasn’t aware of the darkness and partly because I wasn’t willing to look at it, so instead I suppressed it, ignored it or denied it.

In truth, we can’t have one without the other.

Because while the ego/human sees the illusion of separation…
The divine sees oneness. Unity. Wholeness.

Oneness contains it all.
Both sides of the coin. The full spectrum.

& while we are human, we are also divine.
We are both. Oneness AND full of polarities and contradictions.
We contain multitudes.

Even though I’ve spent a lot of time in the shadows recently…
I can honestly say, life gets a whole lot better when we allow ourselves to acknowledge and embrace both. The light and the dark.

I haven’t been sharing much here for fear of being misunderstood, particularly while traversing the shadows. But 2026 is a year I show up and embrace both. Showing you how life goes to another level when we allow ourselves to experience it all.

So here I am, one foot in the light, one foot in the dark.
Curious, open, ready.

10/10/2025

Every month I journey deeply with the theme we’re exploring at . Not always intentionally… usually life has a mysterious way of delivering me the lessons I need so that I can more deeply embody the chosen topic before sharing it with others.

This month our theme is the sacral chakra and a friend asked me about how my journey had been with it…

At first I thought I hadn’t really journeyed with it and felt confused because usually the monthly theme shows up SO strongly.

When I think of the sacral chakra I think of sensuality and creativity 🧡 This month, I feel like my creativity has been offline and while sensuality has been present, it hasn’t felt like I’ve gone to new depths with it.

Then I remembered, the sacral chakra is associated with the element of water 🌊

Water is associated with emotions… and boy have the emotions been coming up for me this month. I have been riding big waves of emotion. Traversing deep sadness, grief, anger, frustration, confusion and more. Releasing almost daily in the way of tears 💧 So much has bubbled up since India!

It made so much sense when it clicked! I thought I hadn’t journeyed with the sacral, I just hadn’t journeyed with it in the way that I expected, or had hoped.

So, as we head into our monthly transformational event this evening, I see the ways that I have descended… more into my body, more into my emotions. Becoming more embodied in all that I teach.

When we think of the spiritual journey, we often think of ascension. But what I have come to learn is that descent is just as important. As above, so below. The deeper I can go into the depths of my body, the higher I can rise in consciousness.

I love that we’re descending through the chakras this time around and that as we do so, I have been descending too. Bringing the ethereal into the material. Anchoring spirit more deeply into the human.

Through this descent, through the release and purges I’ve experienced, through my connection to my body and emotions, I become a clearer channel for the divine 🕊️

Can’t wait to share another powerful evening with the community tonight!

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19/09/2025

I wasn’t expecting to have so much growth of my own on this India retreat 🤯

As a support space holder, the trip photographer / videographer and doing less of the spiritual practice than the retreat participants (but still 2-4 hours per day), I underestimated the transformation I myself would receive!

I don’t even know if I can adequately put it into words…

The increased self awareness
The wounds that arose for healing
The patterns and conditioning that I watched play out
The emotional release and processing
The deep connection and bonds that were formed
The authenticity and truth that was shared
The challenges we faced individually and as a collective

It was DEEPLY healing and I got SO much from it ❤️

I’m beyond grateful for the advanced tools and timeless wisdom we received from throughout the retreat. As if Vedic Meditation wasn’t already powerful enough, this has taken things to a whole other level!!

After being immersed in the practices and wisdom for the 10 days, I can really see how they will (and already are) contributing to me living a life of deep fulfilment.

I was initiated as a Vedic Meditator around a year ago and have seen so much value in the practice, but if I’m being completely honest I’ve still had a lot of resistance to my daily practice and seen it as more of a chore.

After this retreat, my view of it has completely shifted. Now, not only do I feel excited to continue and deepen my practice, it feels like an absolutely fundamental part of my life… especially if I want to live a life of fulfilment, freedom, love, peace, connection and authenticity! (Which I absolutely do).

Vedic meditation, the Vedic wisdom and the advanced practices are absolutely life changing and I feel like I want to scream it from the rooftops so you can receive the immense benefits too 📣

Feeling so so grateful for , this incredible retreat, the Vedic wisdom and spiritual tools, the beautiful souls I journeyed alongside and the sacred land it all unfolded on!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you 🙏

Can’t wait to do it all again next year !

11/09/2025

Living my dream life right now!

In India, supporting my amazing fiancé on his retreat (which is at the most beautiful venue, with the most delicious food and the most amazing group of people), getting to capture the magic of this experience through my camera lens, learning deep spiritual wisdom, healing and spending lots of time in spiritual practice 🧘🏻‍♀️

The craziest thing is, I started living my dream life when I stopped chasing it. When I stopped focusing on my external reality and instead focused on my internal reality. When I made fulfillment my priority!

So grateful for this incredible chapter and what’s to come for and I ❤️

One of my intentions this year was ‘life artistry’ which involves making my life a work of art. Funnily enough I’ve been feeling so lit up by making art again - in my case photography and videography 📸

Absolutely loving what’s been captured of this retreat so far! I’ll be sharing heaps of the retreat pics and behind the scenes over on

Now excuse me while I go bask in the beauty of this experience 🥰

Also, how cute are we in our matching outfits! The amount of times we accidentally dress the same is wild

05/09/2025

Absolutely loving our time in India so far! 🇮🇳

Our first week, we stayed down south in a town called Vellore, at a Holistic Ayurvedic Centre and Ashram devoted to Amma, the reincarnation of Narayani (the divine mother).

While our time here consisted of a lot of rest and rejuvenation time so that could recover from the sickness he got the night before our flight, we did a whole heap of epic things too!

🛕I experienced my first Hindu Ceremony, known as a Pooja! We watched a special Vishnu Abhishekam and Aarti on a giant statue of this diety.

🧎🏻‍♀️Watched another couple of Pooja ceremonies performed by Amma - one at her house and another at a Narayani temple nearby. It was beautiful to see her level of presence and devotion in these ceremonies.

🙏 Met Amma, the goddess incarnate herself and was blessed by her!

⭐️ Explored the golden temple and all of the beautiful temples within this complex, including the ‘star path’, which goes around it and is literally in the shape of a giant star.

⚱️ Woke up at 4:30am one morning to attend a Lakshmi Pooja and get all the abundance codes.

🐘 Visited a temple dedicated to Ganesha.

🐮 Watched a ceremony dedicated to a cow and another dedicated to an elephant. We also got blessed by an elephant in one of the temples!

💆🏻‍♀️ I got an Abhyanga massage, a traditional Ayurvedic oil massage.

🍛 Ate lots of delicious Indian / Ayurvedic food. Including the Prasad (blessed food) from the ceremonies we attended, some of which is pictured here.

🧘‍♀️ And of course kept up our regular meditation practice, which we’ve ramped up in preparation for our retreat starting on the 7th.

I’ll be sharing a vlog with lots of the behind the scenes from our time here. Subscribe to my YouTube channel to be notified when it goes live!

Now, we’re spending a few days exploring Rishikesh before we kick off the Advanced Spiritual Retreat is running and I’m supporting.

30/08/2025

I recently completed another Rose Dieta, this time journeying with the wisdom of this beautiful plant for 3 weeks 🌹

To say rose dietas have been life changing for me is no exaggeration. I’ve gained so much from creating the spaciousness and stillness to tune into her energy, wisdom and guidance.

This time around, I vlogged the whole experience and theres a 3-part series over on my YouTube channel.

In part 1, I introduce this sacred journey, sharing what a rose dieta actually is, what it involves and an insight into my intentions for this one ✨

Part 2 takes you behind the scenes of a day in the life when I was on this dieta. This was a beautifully spacious day when I was away in Hepburn surrounded by nature and all of the elements 🌿

Last but not least, part 3 breaks down the lessons and learnings that I experienced this time around, as well as an insight into some of the biggest take aways I got from my last dieta with rose ❤️‍🔥

I had so much fun documenting this journey and am loving having this new creative outlet. Head over to the channel to get all of this inside scoop!

Grateful for the powerful wisdom of this master teacher and so excited for the changes and shifts this dieta brought about

12/08/2025

Love this snap from two weeks ago today! It was taken at the last at , while I take a sacred pause, complete my rose dieta and prepare to head over to India for a month ✨

I ran at every Tuesday night for 10 months, from the start of October 2024, to the end of July this year, with the exception of only a few weeks. That’s over 40 events 🤩

I’m so grateful for all of the incredible evenings we shared. From the nights with only one person in the room, to those with a full house! I appreciate every single person that walked through that door, whether just once or numerous times. Definitely missing this beautiful community already 💜

I personally got SO much from a weekly shake off and saw so much growth within myself, with the health of my nervous system, with my emotional fitness and with my personal expression.

& I know I wasn’t alone, I got an abundance of incredible feedback from community members about how these events impacted them on so many levels 🥹

I mean, who doesn’t love a safe space to scream, punch pillows, throw tantrums, sob, growl, laugh, play, feel, shake and dance?!

Shake It Off is a celebration of authentic expression, a reclamation of the full spectrum of human emotions and a return home to ourselves.

I’m not sure what will happen with the at , I’m really tuning in to what my next chapter holds (more updates coming soon), but for now I’m still running them every Saturday morning at Saint Haven 💃🏻

Did you come along to one of these special events? Please make yourself known in the comments 😍

10/08/2025

After months in a death and rebirth portal… being called to wait, reflect, pause, hibernate…So much has shifted. So much is changing….

This phoenix is rising!

There is so much to update you on…

🌹 I’m in the midst of my second rose dieta.
To say it’s been life-changing is an understatement…

⏸ I’m taking a sacred pause.
I’ve created space to stop and listen, Which means all business activity is paused.

🌪 Shake it Off at COY is on hold.
Part of my sacred pause means taking a break from my weekly Tuesday night classes.

🎥 I entered my content creator era and started a vlog!
After the longest time thinking about it, I decided to do something about it and am now posting vlogs over on my YouTube channel.

🌊 I spent a few days down the Great Ocean in a creative portal.
The amount of epic shifts and I had is wild, watch these spaces.

📸 I’m getting back behind the lens.
I’m playing with photography again and I’m excited to shoot my first retreat next month! I’ll be posting more of my photography over on

I’ll share more detailed updates into each of these over the coming week, so stay tuned for those.

There are other things changing, including some which I can’t share quite yet 🤫 But all I’ll say for now is I am feeling so excited, inspired and aligned.

For now, I’m off on another nature retreat in Hepburn tomorrow afternoon with !

Oh and the next is this weekend, yay 💃🏻

And I get to see my love (for 6 hours) on Wednesday after 3 weeks apart!!!

Let me know in the comments which update/s you’re most excited to hear more about…

24/07/2025

Stepping into 33 🪽

Remembering how much of a miracle it is to be ALIVE. To be here, living, breathing, feeling, seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, talking, singing, dancing, walking, running, moving, sitting, experiencing. What an absolute gift!

Choosing to live with gratitude for this miracle of life 🎁

Remembering that I am divinity, in human form. Human and divine. Spirit and matter. A spiritual being having a human experience.

& with this remembrance, choosing to live in such a way.

To live with reverence and devotion.
LIFE AS A CEREMONY ✨

With my body as the altar.
My heart as the compass, guiding the way.
❤️🧭

Declaring this year to be one of magic and miracles. Because magic and miracles are literally everywhere, when we allow ourselves to see it. When we open up to them.

This year I’m playing in the limitless 💫
The infinite potential. The unseen. The mystery. The subtle realms. The energetics.

& also the physical. The matter, the material world. The WHOLE human. The light and the shadow. Riding the waves of life.

Holding the duality.
Fully human & fully divine.

Present, open and alive.

Here’s to a year of fulfilment first. Choosing presence, gratitude, love, peace, authenticity, truth and connection.

& having a whole lot of fun in the process!

It’s Leo season and this lioness is about to turn it up 🦁

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