Quiet Waves . Zenthai Shiatsu & Yoga, 754 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne (2026)

03/02/2026

It’s hard to express in words how it feels to be in the collective energy of a community clinic, as a therapist, and as a receiver.

There’s something palpably nurturing and unique about meeting each other through the connection of touch, and music, and without needing words: a somatic understanding that you are being held just as you are.

Join us for our February session, held just after the new moon of Chinese New Year (17 Feb), this time at the earthy and spacious 🥰

This is not ‘just a massage’. It is aligned, therapeutic bodywork shaped to meet you, in your current intention for and season of life.

(With respect towards those attending, we don’t have cameras on during the treatments... and, it will never be the fullness of direct experience~ )

Zenthai Shiatsu Community Clinic

Sun 22 Feb
Session One: 11.30-1pm
Session Two: 1.30pm-3pm

Spots limited and can fill up quick. A perfect chance to offer your being an holistic Lunar New Year integration, and perfect to share with a friend or loved one!

See bio for links to book in for either session via GSY 🧡

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03/02/2026

Moments from Spring, 2025. It all flies by. Cold ocean dips, planting new avocado seedling, constantly in awe of nature, and consistently pulling at old skins so I can learn anew.

These words have been with, and continue to stay with me, as I try to live each day as a journeying of growing the loving kind of power.

To implementing justice, and standing for the kind of care which honours Life in all its forms.

Thank you to all the dear ones near me, and less easily loved ones out there, for being teachers along this path.

“Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites — polar opposites — so that love is identified with resignation of power, and power with a denial of love.

We’ve got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realisation that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our time.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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12/01/2026

I am struggling to give words to the experience of India last October: its pulsating energy, its streets of stark paradoxes, the infusion of wakeful reverence and prayerfulness that sings out every hour of day.

The more years I have experienced this earth, this life, the more it feels true that the capacity to behold paradox is a central pillar of becoming ‘real’. Traversing different lands always lends new perspective, and potential for realising more ways of inhabiting a body, a being.

Some reflections to read or listen to alongside a few photos now on Substack - a sliver of the learnings which are still digesting within me.

Link via my profile.

Thank you for the many stunning captures! ⚡️

07/01/2026

Thrilled to share the first Sound, Yin, Massage session of 2026 with our first ever exploration of Late Summer.

This period is seen in Chinese Medicine as a season of its own: nestled between the expansion and connection of Summer time, and the ripe gravity of Autumn. The associated element of Earth reminds us to cultivate attunement; to come back to our own centre, within the constant flow of change.

Join and Emma in a playful communion of Qi Gong inspired movements, voice, breathwork and yin yoga shapes, to encourage a sense of stability, integrity and belonging in community. Receive hands-on massage from Lucy and fellow zenthai shiatsu practitioners including , to enrich your experience through the nourishing connection of touch.

These sessions are designed so you can carry what resonates into your life, and fertilise a more focused, rooted state of being, wherever you go.

Sound, Yin, Massage: Centering into Earth
Sat 21 Feb, 3pm-5.30pm |
$77 (members -15%)

Bookings via link in profile! 💛

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02/01/2026

We must de-condition ourselves from the ingrained story that power is forceful, is hard, is un-feeling.

A fortress comes from the Latin root ‘fortis’, meaning ‘strong’.

A fortress doesn’t have to be of stone.
The life-breath of love, and its force field of care also creates strength: a boundary, protection, power.

True power understands change. Holds it. Is able to contain and to flow, to receive and to give, accordingly with the seasons.

Sometimes it’s hard to remember this wisdom and capacity rests within us, when there is so much noise all around. Which is why bodywork centred practices like can be potent medicine. It gives an opportunity to be fully held, physically, energetically, emotionally. It offers a sense of possibility, increased spaciousness, effortless flow, and trust in innate intelligence - while being supported unconditionally.

When we can remember how to yield to the current of life that carries us, it offers a profound and heart-felt fortress of intimate presence that words cannot fully express.

If you’re looking to explore, or return to the medicine of zenthai, I have one more spot available this month, on Thursday 15th Jan - and, plenty of skilful therapists to recommend in my absence.

Gratitude to all who are trusting me with your journey so far. I’ll be back in mid-Feb from Bali, and would love to keep helping you build your inner fortress, as we move towards each emerging seasons of the life we have.

Link to booking page and info in profile 🌻

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Thank you Pete for these joyful captures of and I from 2025

01/01/2026

Last year was about flow. To fall into life, and all its flavours, fully - and trust how the waterways always return to the ocean. It has been a vastly different year to the decade prior. A gateway into a new chapter.

My attempt to fit the last 9 months into 90secs was not successful. But it also highlights how much the details of life enriches us. How lush being present with even a moment of the breath can be. A reel is far from reality, but it does serve to pass on a sprinkling of the moments, quiet and bold, which transform us. And these are treasures we can share, through the way we live a life.

Nirvana means to blow out. To shed skins like the snake, let go and empty, so that we can be full of renewal and deep awareness. A bow to all of the lessons as we move more into the mystery of what might be revealed next. The fire of transformation is happening right now, through you, through me - as we dance together, embodiments of aliveness.

So much respect, love and cherishing of the many new and treasured friends I have encountered along the path. An inspiration and honour to walk alongside each of you.

To motivation, power and determination, and the flame we can keep brightening for the year of the fire horse ⚡️

28/12/2025

If you’ve ever received, or heard about the gifts of - here’s your chance to delve deeper!

Come join .luke and I in April 2026, to learn more attentive, skilful ways of giving and receiving touch.

This 4-day foundational training is well known for being far more than a bodywork program. Through playful, embodied movement, guided demonstrations, hands-on practice, discover techniques, confidence and capacity to offer a considered, fluid, 90-min full body sequence to friends, family, or clients.

This four-day immersion is the pre-requisite for the nine-month Zenthai Shiatsu Therapist Training; it’s also a transformative experience on its own.

Come drop into the richness of an open-hearted community. We quieten, listen, play, and practice embodying what is most true when the unnecessary falls away.

Deep bows to the sunlight of and all of the teachers who have shared and contributed to this language of care. Cannot wait to share more with you all!

Zenthai Shiatsu Level One Training
Thursday 9th - Sunday 12th April, 2026
| Carlton, Naarm

$595 / earlybird $550 until 31 Jan, 2026

Booking link and full info via profile 🙏🏽 payment plans available and questions are welcome via email or DM ✨

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26/12/2025

It’s the time again where ‘New Year Resolutions’ become a common topic of discussion. This requires us to first consider what commitment means - and it is definitely not a quick fix or an overnight resolve.

Commitment - or sub the more heartfelt word, devotion - to any practice necessitates an investment of time, energy, attention. It asks us to let go of something else/s, so we can fertilise the most important thing.

Whether it’s a project, a person, a place, a vocation, the land you’re tending to, the habit you’re developing… the capacity to be in devotion to something bigger than one’s momentary preferences is essential and powerful to seeing something through.

We cannot possibly have all of the things. It scatters, divides, disperses our power.

I recently worked with on an extension of my chest piece also by the same magic hands. Along with a few moments captured by the light-artistry of , I share some words and a letter from love on substack, emergent from committing to this new marking, recent contemplations on what devotion means, and how we might connect to what matters most in the season of life we are meeting.

Wishing you the expansiveness of curiosity, and the support of knowing what’s important, so we can let the rest go. Travel light where you can, friends, as we trot into the year of the fire horse - committed, steady and powerful on our course.

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09/12/2025

The practice of yoga has been an intimate conversation partner in how I live a life for the past 11 years. Recently, I had the honour of assisting and in their 200hr yoga training, which included a pilgrimage to Rishikesh, India, in October, in the joyful presence of ❣️

This comes at a time of questioning my relationship to yoga (as with all relationships, they contract and expand with season of life!), with a feeling of uneasiness about how yoga is so commonly (mis)represented in our modern uptake of a long wisdom lineage.

Photos and words alone cannot express the potency of this journey; the sensory, spiritual vibrance of a land and people saturated in so much cultural richness and historical significance.

I arrive back now with more embodied understanding of the soil and roots out of which yoga is birthed, and with a little more clarity on my personal relationship to the many branches of yoga.

There are still so many unknown valleys and misty fields in the terrain of how to share, what to share, what is relevant and where the line is between appropriation and appreciation. Yet I sense conviction about my own relationship to living yoga, and all that can be birthed through its guidance.

To me, yoga is a devotional practice; devotion to care for life, in all its forms, through all its flow and friction. The only way to live out this attentiveness, its unifying and yoking, is to experiment and explore these boundaries as a community. To centre authenticity — our individual and collective authorship of life — while holding the technologies, treasures, and histories of this practice with deep respect and reverence.

I am so energised to start supporting spaces for practice again. The soil and seeds are being prepared. Watch this space for 2026 😘

Many bows to all my upaguru, the teachers around and beside me: my mentors, guides and ancestors, newly blossomed magnolia, students I get to hold space for, the ocean currents - everything has something special to offer, if we meet the world as an eternal student of life.

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13/11/2025

Together with 20+ zenthai shiatsu therapists, and I are so thrilled to be part of this community event at Ashtanga Yoga Centre, in Fitzroy/Naarm.

Sunday 30 November

Two sessions | 90 luxurious mins each
(book yourself into one - or both!)

Session 1: 3.30pm-5pm
Session 2: 5.30pm-7pm
$160 / session

Arrive 10-15m early to settle in, savour hot spicy chai, and immerse yourself in the ambience of the space before you drop into receiving.

Booking links via profile ⚡️

— What is Zenthai Shiatsu? —

Zenthai Shiatsu draws on the energetic approaches of Zen Shiatsu and Traditional Thai Massage, the remedial techniques of Osteopathy and the
key principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda.

Zenthai Shiatsu works not with ‘fixing’ ailments. Instead, it utilises a variety of techniques to support the body towards its most harmonious state and clear way for our powerful innate healing capacity. It has evolved over the past 25 years to be widely recognised as a structurally comprehensive and energetically profound form of therapy, particularly useful in working with issues of the musculo-skeletal, digestive and nervous systems.

In simpler words — it feels like giving and receiving deep care.

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Since my therapist training in 2023, it has been an honour to keep honing my own capacity to share this beyond-bodywork therapy with others. After 18 months of organising smaller scale community sessions, where many can come together to receive the magic of this experience, I am so thrilled to be part of coordinating something even more expansive.

Can’t wait to see familiar and new faces coming together 🥰

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11/11/2025

Almost 12 years alongside this teacher. A gift to know beings who are simply as they are, and loved for all of it.

Happy 13th orbit round the sun Aria — you are growing silver in your wisdom and years of long naps, yet always a pup in my heart. 🤍

📸 thank you for capturing such sweet candid moments. Last pic by me - typical day in the savasana office 🥰

12/10/2025

When I stumbled into the ecosystem of the zenthai shiatsu community in 2022, I knew I had discovered something potent and meaningful. Drawing together zen shiatsu, thai massage, osteopathy, chinese medicine and a colourful array of other modalities, is a sweet balm and a medicine for remembering deep energetic and physical connection, with Self and with all that we are part of. For me, it wove together my love of yoga, eastern medicine, embodiment, and the care for spirit and body as inseparable threads in the experience of being. Underneath what you can see, it is the living principles of zenthai, cultivated by and now so many other wholehearted humans, which has now spread this practice throughout the world.

Since my therapist training, it has been an honour to keep honing my own capacity to share this beyond-bodywork therapy with others. After 18 months of organising smaller scale community sessions, where many can come together to receive the magic of this experience, I am so thrilled to be part of coordinating something even more expansive — coming to in Naarm, on November 30th!

Keep eyes open for more info ahead. Thank you to for being such a force in their unrushed attentiveness, care and authenticity in co-midwifing this upcoming event; inspired and excited to be alongside you on this path 🪴

Bowing to .natural.therapies and so many others for expanding the culture of care, in all of its textures and flavours.

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Photos by the legend 📸 thank you for your lush space!

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