Smile Within Yoga

21/12/2025

Be safe and create many happy memories as we close this year together.
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As this year gently comes to an end, I want to personally thank each of you for your support, kindness, and commitment to your practice. Sharing space with you on the mat and beyond, has been incredibly meaningful to me. Your openness, trust, and willingness to show up for yourselves is what makes Smile Within Yoga such a special community, and I feel truly grateful to walk this path with you.
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I’m really looking forward to beginning fresh with you all in 2026, with curiosity, warmth, and renewed energy.

Please note my services are closed until the 26th January 2026🙏

14/12/2025

Reflections after our Breathwork Journey yesterday.

A new humming for homecoming.

Some gentle takeaways:

I feel new, and breathing itself felt new ~
opening insights and reflections where my past touched the present.

Inside me live the blessings of the ones I love.

There was freedom to feel the expressions of energy and sensation within my body,
to meet them with curiosity and allow interaction.

Tapping into personal resilience and
It felt like a calling home.

Thank you to the wemon who joined and made this gathering possible. I am constantly reminded of the healing and growth that comes with sharing our experiences together🧡

Last week of therapeutic movement & client love and the Xmas 🎄 holidays.

07/12/2025

The Collective Whispers

The collective whispers
of my sisters
the women who walked before me
rise softly in my ears.

I feel them in the steps I take
as I try to move forward.
I feel them in the tightening
of my chest
when I attempt to stand tall.

I feel them in the words
I reach for
when truth needs to be spoken.
And I feel them
as I bow my head,
turning away in regret.

These pieces of us—
gathered,
ancient,
tender
come together,
intertwined in a shared experience.

And rest assured,
as I find my way,
your ways
move through me.

~Selina Stewart 🫶

02/12/2025

Upcoming Group Conscious Connected Breathwork Journey

I’m opening space for a small, intimate group to experience a guided, trauma-informed Conscious Connected Breathwork session. If you’ve been curious about how breathwork can support the nervous system, emotional processing, or deeper self-connection, this is a beautiful place to begin. Bookings in bio link or contact me directly.

🌀December Saturday 13th, 3pm – 6pm

Investment $50.00

What is Conscious Connected Breathwork?

This modality uses a continuous, rhythmic breath to gently shift us out of everyday thinking and into a more embodied, receptive state. When guided safely, the breath becomes a doorway, allowing the body to release old tension, integrate stored experiences, and reconnect with its natural sense of balance and wholeness.

How Breathwork Supports the Nervous System

Conscious Connected Breathing can help bring awareness to automatic patterns and those reflexive fight, flight, freeze, or fawn responses that develop from past experiences. Through the breath, the body may begin to:

• Interrupt habitual stress responses

• Strengthen the pathways associated with safety, presence, and connection

• Release physical tension held from old protective patterns

• Build capacity to stay connected during emotional sensations

• Enhance neuroplasticity and your ability to create new patterns and responses

• Healthy relationships with activated energy and arousal

Over time, this practice helps soften the “autopilot” reactivity of the nervous system and expands your ability to meet life from a resourced, centred place.

30/11/2025

Sometimes it requires us to stay quiet, to say nothing and allow the silence to be heard so that we can finally listen. How we embody our experience of listening is intertwined with the natural rhythms of life ✨

Please join us for yoga.
With just 3 weeks until the Christmas 🎄 holidays, it’s the perfect time to nourish your body and connect with our community through therapeutic movement.

Monday
9:30am Joint Mobility & 5:30pm Hatha Yoga

Wednesday
5:30pm Yin

Thursday
9:30am Yoga in the Park proudly supported by Sunshine Coast Council’s Healthy Sunshine Coast program.
Where: Martin Rungert Park Mooloolah/If raining in the studio.

1:1 sessions Family Constellations, Breathwork journey, Parts Work(for more details message or link in bio) 🫶

23/11/2025

For me, it brings to mind the process of birth & an experience in which new life bursts forward only after a deep, intimate, and sometimes arduous internal unfolding. There is a place where what was once known is shaped, nourished, protected, and held. From that place, transformation demands a movement outward.

To move from one side to another, something must also break down. There is a falling away, a destruction, a dissolution of what once felt safe. And within that breaking, there can be a reclaiming ~ a return to wholeness, to a living system in which each part breathes, feels, and lives through the others.

Within the framework of systemic and family constellations, we are invited to explore these interpersonal and intrapersonal movements. It can be a magical, revealing process and one that mirrors the symbolic or experiential act of opening a door.

I offer 1:1 sessions in Systemic & Family Constellations, IFS and also Breathwork journey’s to gently support the revealing of ancestral patterns and the wisdom they hold.

Pic Door to the universe ~ Martina Stipan

18/11/2025

09/11/2025

Keep it simple ✨

Weekly Therapeutic Movement Sessions
Monday
9:30am Joint Mobility & 5:30pm Hatha Yoga

Wednesday
5:30pm Yin

Thursday
9:30am Yoga in the Park proudly supported by Sunshine Coast Council’s Healthy Sunshine Coast program.
Where: Martin Rungert Park Mooloolah/If raining in the studio.

1:1 sessions Family Constellations, Breathwork journey, Parts Work(for more details message or link in bio) 🫶

02/11/2025

Boundary violations have been showing up, and there seem to be recurring themes in the personal and professional areas of my life—maybe even deeper, within the whole constellation of my being. I have found a disregard for my agency to decide how I act, how I spend my time, how I live my life, and how I protect my privacy. That is important to me.

It seems the confrontation of saying out loud, “Please don’t contact me. Please get in touch through this avenue, and I will endeavor to get back to you,” is not enough for some. What the f**k have we become, that we cannot hear another when they say, “Please don’t. Please honour my decisions. Please—I choose not to participate. Please do not call me. Please don’t. Please—no!”

I want to acknowledge our basic human right to have autonomy and agency over our own bodies without guilt, pressure, or punishment. Every single human being deserves this: the freedom to choose what is best, how we spend our time, who we socialise with. Boundary violations—subtle or blatant—have existed in the shadows of our collective psyche. Have we become blind to this because our own neurosis of urgency and entitlement—what we want, need, or desire—has become the devil we refuse to confront?

Do not avoid the responsibility of owning your actions when you violate another’s space, their safety, or their personal, energetic or professional boundaries. We are all being called to inner reflection of self and truth. I know what is mine, and I hand back what is yours. This allows a loving witness to exist in relationship with others and, fundamentally, within oneself.

Moving forward, may we f**king have the audacity, courage, and fire to hear another’s request—to say no, to say, “Please don’t.”

In essence, a boundary violation is when someone steps into your life where they don’t have permission to be. It’s not always loud or aggressive. Sometimes it’s subtle, silent, or culturally normalised, which is why recognising it is the first step toward protecting your autonomy and inner peace.

Work with me - 1:1 sessions Systemic & Family Constellations, Breathwork journey, Parts Work(for more details message or link in bio) 🫶

19/10/2025

Dear Selina,

So I’m at another threshold,
of birth,
celebration,
and death.

This season has been a quiet quickening,
a deepening,
as I arrive at the ripened age of 47.

I often pause
as I don’t recognise myself
and yet I see myself in others.

I never truly knew I could have a life like this.
And even though it’s real,
it still feels unreal at times.

If I hold too tightly
to the things I embodied,
that I call my own ~
the love, the people, the places, the feelings
that give me a sense of security

will they fuse into something fixed?

Or
if I soften my grip,
breathe a longer exhale,
will I discover they were never mine to keep?

Here, in this stage of life,
I’m learning to hold both.

To feel what is real
and be both deliriously grateful
as painful the reshaping.

Finding a softer,
more spacious place ~
something less tangible,
but deeply reliable.

As you learn
you have unlearned,
because where you are going
you cannot take it with you.

Your desires are a coming home,
silky skin,
curvy edges,
all bodily, godly, and or****ic.

Your soul is calling ~
dearest body
scream, cry, laugh
be all in and of this
your process
of a different kind of traction.

☀️

12/10/2025

Lately I’ve been thinking about what I want to normalise in my relationships. These are reminders to myself and maybe they’ll resonate with others.
In my intimate relationships I want to normalise~
• honest conversations about our personal needs
• alone time that’s about spaciousness, not disconnection
• intentional moments of togetherness, presence, and quality time
• pausing before trying to fix things ~ reflecting on my own actions, learning, and growing
• doing things that might not come naturally to me, but that matter to the person I love
• working together, not against each other, to create meaningful change
For a long time, my attachment patterns leaned toward avoidance ~ creating space felt safer than closeness. Distance was how I protected myself.
But over time, and through personal work, I’ve practiced and leaned into a feeling of safety that can be redefined.
Now, it looks like choosing to stay.
To be with the discomfort rather than run from it.
To trust that closeness doesn’t mean losing myself.
Practice of Staying.
This is the heart of what I practice and what I share in my work. Attachment isn’t fixed. We can learn new ways of relating.
We can create safety not just in relationships, but through them.

1:1 sessions Family Constellations, Breathwork journey, Parts Work & Trauma informed Movement movement (for more details message or link in bio) 🫶