Quiet Waves . Zenthai Shiatsu & Yoga

Quiet Waves . Zenthai Shiatsu & Yoga Gathering space for care to grow. Yoga + Zenthai Shiatsu with Lucy Lawes.

When I stumbled into the ecosystem of the zenthai shiatsu community in 2022, I knew I had discovered something potent an...
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!

“Stop waiting for the right moment.Stop waiting for the better options. The less or more or perfect.Stop waiting for ins...
09/10/2025

“Stop waiting for the right moment.

Stop waiting for the better options. The less or more or perfect.
Stop waiting for inspiration.
Stop waiting for readiness.
Stop waiting until every detail of the plan is rendered in full colour.

Because growth is happening, anyway.

What changes is how much we are attuning to and participating with the guidance of our innate intelligence.

How intentional we can be in exploring which orientation yields the most generous, gracious offerings to collective being.

What we pay attention to is what we choose to grow.”

New post on substack :: read the full share via link in bio.

Celebrating .events .wren , and all who are helping to inspire creativity, courage and community which takes us beyond.

Thank you .fitzpatrick for the stunning captures! 🌓

Life moments, Winter 2025 🐍
22/09/2025

Life moments, Winter 2025 🐍

I met the sunrises almost every morning in Bali. Some days, the grapefruit glow was shrouded with mystical luminescence....
09/09/2025

I met the sunrises almost every morning in Bali. Some days, the grapefruit glow was shrouded with mystical luminescence. Some days, thick clouds obscured the light. Whatever the weather and mood, the light pours through - just like awareness is always present regardless of the specific emotion, experience or season we are currently moving through.

If the sun represents our awareness, I wonder what they would see, looking upon us? And when taking a bigger view of the world, what no longer feels important, and what is revealed to be essential, or extraordinary, in this life-walk?

Grace flows more easily when our hands can be free to stay open, not grasping, not resisting — simply allowing the water of each moment to be truly known - so that we can be changed by Life, as we too, leave our footsteps on its shores.

Every beginning and ending, sunrise and sunset, love and loss, dissolving into the cycle of all things. It all evolves and regenerates, in new and often surprising ways.

🤲🏽 A treasured moment from Amed, Bali, Aug 2025.

“Silence knows nothing of pettiness. It only understands wholeness. That everything is one evolving process. That every ...
08/09/2025

“Silence knows nothing of pettiness.

It only understands wholeness. That everything is one evolving process. That every part is part of everything. And all is held in the womb of possibility.

Allow your soul to be pregnant with silence.
Labour not from fear, but from love.
So that what you bring into the world shines, not for performance or propriety, but for the purity of wild, unabashedly beautiful nature, awake to itself.”

Link in bio to read or listen in full on 💛

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The seasons are shifting… we can change with the dance. Spring is a time of creativity, possibilities, renewal and deter...
06/07/2025

The seasons are shifting… we can change with the dance.

Spring is a time of creativity, possibilities, renewal and determination. We bring attention the Wood element from a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) lens, gathering a sense of vitality, adaptability and flow within, so we can bring this out into our lives.

Emma (Happy Axe) and Lucy guide you with sound and voice through breathwork, Qi Gong forms and yin shapes, to encourage fluidity, spaciousness and ease. Receive hands-on massage from Lucy and fellow zenthai shiatsu practitioner/s, to enrich your experience through the incomparable connection of touch.

This session falls on the weekend of a solar eclipse - symbolic of a period of transition, and the play between dark and light, in cycles and seasons.

We’re extending the duration of this session to 2.5hrs so there is even more room to soak into the enlivening of awareness in stillness, motion and sound.

The Chinese Medicine-inspired offerings in this session are shared as pathways to centre and settle the individual and collective being. Take what resonates into your life, as supports towards a calmer, more steady and life-giving radiance.

Sound, Yin & Massage: Emerging into Spring
Sun 7 Sept
1-3.30pm

Investment $69
(All Access Members -15%)

Come for solo time, or bring a friend. We can play with the concept of emergence, together.

“Anything you can plan is too small for you.”Remembering these words from while receiving the grace of his offering. ...
06/07/2025

“Anything you can plan is too small for you.”

Remembering these words from while receiving the grace of his offering. To live with this remembrance offers a degree of ease, or sometimes profound liberation, from expectation, from the fear of the unknown, from the parts not yet visible yet starting to be felt.

There is a sense of spaciousness, and increased capacity to meet the new with curiosity. So even hard edges are met with a softer, more watery touch.

What do you behold in this moment, and what space is available for the unfolding of the not-yet-known?

Thank you for the grace you reveal through the lens ❤️ for your magic with ink 🥰

07/06/2025

A song of courage and affirmation, that a path away from the main road of Expectation is created only by the walking of each step, one at a time. 🌿

Written in Winter 2024. A year yields much change and whole new landscapes. Thankful for everyone I get to encounter and learn with in this mirage we call Life.

Some snippets from China: moments of in-learning, re-learning, allowing, integrating, marvelling, delighting, dedicating...
28/04/2025

Some snippets from China: moments of in-learning, re-learning, allowing, integrating, marvelling, delighting, dedicating to understanding of what holds true within all cultures and beings despite our different expressions.

I hadn’t played the piano for a loooong time (this piano is a little out of tune..) and this is me sight-reading a piece I haven’t learnt before but have heard many times. This whole month has felt a bit like that - figuring out something new yet familiar, and re-finding my connection to ways of making music within the unknown. Grateful, renewed, feeling cherished and held by the power of family and of grace.

Ready to step onto an always changing path, with clearer eyes and heart. 💛

Winter is a time of downward and inward energy: retreat, introspection, and the wisdom which arises from quietude. We ca...
14/04/2025

Winter is a time of downward and inward energy: retreat, introspection, and the wisdom which arises from quietude. We can nourish this process of rebuilding vitality through encouraging warmth and circulation within, whilest attuning to and the spaciousness and support of the back body.

Emma and Lucy will guide you with sound and voice through breathwork, Qi Gong forms and yin shapes, to encourage fluidity, spaciousness and ease. Receive hands-on massage from Lucy and fellow zenthai shiatsu practitioner/s, to enrich your experience through the incomparable connection of touch.

The Chinese Medicine-infused offerings in this session are shared as pathways to centre and settle the individual and collective being. Take what resonates into your life, as supports towards a calmer, more steady and life-giving radiance.

Sound, Yin & Massage: Warming into Winter
Sat 31 May, 3pm-5pm

This will be one of the last workshops I am co-facilitating at Estuary Yoga for a few months. Would love to share the immersing with you!

Bookings via link in bio 🤍

New Sunday session for our next in community!We are often taught to mark feats of action as more momentous; yet so many...
12/04/2025

New Sunday session for our next in community!

We are often taught to mark feats of action as more momentous; yet so many of our most poignant moments arise when we let go, trust, and allow ourselves to be held in the wave of what moves through us.

Allow yourself to be moved through an extended 90mins of one-on-one zenthai shiatsu bodywork in a tranquil sanctuary of candlelight, alongside a small group of other receivers; savour a warm tea and rich earthy treat to follow.

To receive Zenthai Shiatsu is to provide your body and being with a chance to clear the dams and debris of everyday life. Not to run away from it, but to allow the innate intelligence within to be awakened through touch, fluidity, and stillness. It’s a little bit of magic.

No experience required, all bodies welcome.

Sunday 4 May, 2pm-3.30pm
$160 (All Access Members -15%)

Bookings via link in profile. 🥰

Power is the capacity to be spacious, playful, and potently alive in connection to the world. It can also be a knife, ca...
12/04/2025

Power is the capacity to be spacious, playful, and potently alive in connection to the world. It can also be a knife, capable of deep wounds.

You want power.
We all do.
But power also comes in many flavours.
And the kind of power which stirs the heart and spirit is different from the kind of power which cages and constricts.

To take power away from oneself, and place it in the hands of another, is fear. It says: I do not want to be accountable for this choice, this action, so instead, let it be seen as fate, as imposed by life upon me.

Each choice we make has an innate relationship to power, and how we hold it with our attitudes, beliefs, and stories. It is an on-going practice to build a conscientious relationship with the power we get to cultivate.

Where are your hands, where is you heart, in this moment? How are you gathering, sharing and relating to the power within, and around you?

An invitation, in each moment and day, to pause, and be curious how you might entice the feeling of self-empowerment into each choice you get to make. To live deliberately. And see what might shift 🫶🏽🌿

📸 , Jasri, Bali 2024

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