Smile Within Integrative Therapies

28/04/2026

28/04/2026

In the Garden//Not Only External, but Interior

In the garden,
not only the one we walk through,
but the one we carry.

The way we directly engage with nature
the external garden:
the fauna, the flora,
the scattered debris,
the slow, honest work of decomposition and
life leaning into death,
death returning to life.

This is not separate
from how we engage the interior garden.

There, too,
are habits of tending:
caring, watering,
turning the soil of thought,
sitting with what grows wild,
or what refuses to grow at all.

These acts of engagement ~
small, repeated, almost unnoticed
become touch points,
a kind of kindergarten of being,
where we learn again
how to relate,
how to notice,
how to yield,
how to remain.

The metaphor of the garden is not metaphor alone.
It is a way of inhabiting.

Sometimes inhibit
the textures of external life,
while breathing within
an interior landscape
just as alive,
just as changing,
just as subject
to seasons of growth and decay.

There will be room for clients in the new ‘garden’ from the 15th of May 🍂

I offer client sessions in Integrative Counselling, IFS (Internal Family Systems), Systemic & Family Constellations, and Breathwork journeys, supporting a gentle exploration of inner and ancestral patterns and the wisdom they carry.

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12/04/2026

My why can be personal and professional…

05/04/2026

Today was a beautiful reminder to slow down and make space for play and not just for my children, but for all the parts of me, too.

As we grow up, it’s easy to lose connection with the younger parts of ourselves ~ the ones who just want to laugh, be silly, and feel free. Those parts are still within us, and they deserve, will respond to space, attention, and an invitation to come forward, no matter our age.

Watching my children smile, play, and connect so freely warmed my heart. It felt like an invitation to honour those same playful, childlike parts within myself.

Grateful for these simple, meaningful moments and the blessings of Easter Sunday 🤍

Happy Easter and see you in classes this week.

I offer 1:1 sessions in counselling, IFS (Internal Family Systems), Systemic & Family Constellations, and Breathwork journeys, supporting a gentle exploration of inner and ancestral patterns and the wisdom they carry.

04/04/2026

Happiest of Easters to you 🐣🌸
Hope your day is filled with good food, a bit of chocolate, connection and plenty of moments that nourish you.

31/03/2026

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29/03/2026

29/03/2026

There were caterpillars not long ago, quietly devouring the leaves of a native vine (Hardenbergia violacea) that climbs beside the studio doors. I watched them for days ~ small, persistent lives woven into the edges of this familiar space. Then, almost suddenly, they were gone. In their place, delicate golden chrysalis forms appeared, suspended from the very vine that had nourished them.

It stayed with me.

Nature has always felt like a mirror, a place for context and a guide into the inner unfolding. Sometimes initiating, sometimes being met by what is chosen for us, and offering reflections we may not be ready to see, yet deeply need.

These chrysalis forms feel like a living symbol of this moment in my life.

A stage of metamorphosis.

A space where what once was begins to dissolve. Where every cell, every structure softens and decomposes into something unrecognisable. There is no certainty here, only a quiet, unseen process taking place in the dark.

And right beside them stand the doors of the Shala.

For 23 years, I have been privileged to share my craft and this space has held community, practice, connection. It has been a place of offering, of gathering, of becoming. And now, like the caterpillar entering the chrysalis, this space too will be closing its doors.

I feel myself within this process.

There is grief here. There is unknowing. There is a depth that feels both tender and encumbering, like being held in a darkness where form is no longer tangible. A place where identity, purpose, and familiarity begin to dissolve.

And yet… this too is nature.

This too is the intelligence of transformation.

The chrysalis does not rush. It does not resist the undoing of what it has been. It allows the decomposition, trusting something beyond what it can perceive.

I find myself here ~ within this threshold. Between what has been and what is not yet formed.

Selina Stewart 💛

18/03/2026

If you’re new to this space the gate is open during classes, drive through and down to the studio and there is plenty of parking on your left. See you soon for some wholesome movement 🙏