The Seasons Within

The Seasons Within YOGA | AYURVEDA | CONSCIOUS NOURISHMENT

For a long time, I practiced Ashtanga. The same sequence, every morning, in the same order, beginning with the same brea...
27/04/2026

For a long time, I practiced Ashtanga.
The same sequence, every morning, in the same order, beginning with the same breath. People who don’t know the tradition sometimes raise an eyebrow when I describe it, as though doing the same thing day after day so rigidly suggests a lack of imagination or a failure to keep things interesting.
But I was actually drawn to Ashtanga because of that. What I found in that fixed sequence was this deep, almost physical relief of already knowing what was coming next.

Life is unpredictable in ways we can’t always prepare for. The groundlessness of that can be exhausting, even when nothing is obviously wrong.
So to me there was something that felt almost medicinal about stepping onto the mat and knowing, with complete certainty, what the next 90mins would hold. Surya Namaskara A, then B, then the standing sequence unfolding in its familiar order.
My body knew the way. I didn’t have to think much or decide. I just had to show up, and the practice would receive me and carry me through, the same as it had the day before and the day before that.

Over time, so much was actually changing within all that sameness. Because the sequence never changed, I began to notice everything else that did.
Poses I had done hundreds of times could suddenly feel completely different because…well, I was different.

The sequence held still while I moved through it and in that stillness, I could actually see myself fully.

Ashtanga taught me so much and I am forever grateful for the tradition and its ethical guidance. I found so much ground and safety in it when I needed it the most.

I don’t think we talk enough about how much we need to feel safe before we can actually dive into our practice, in the real sense of that word. We arrive at the mat carrying everything and if the practice keeps asking us to figure out something new, part of us never quite settles.
What the repetition gave me was permission to land.
To be done deciding. And from that place, things could actually move.

Dear ones,I am hosting an evening ritual on the last day of autumn. In Ayurveda, the threshold days between seasons are...
26/04/2026

Dear ones,

I am hosting an evening ritual on the last day of autumn.

In Ayurveda, the threshold days between seasons are considered some of the most potent of the entire year : the body is already shifting, the old season completing, the new one arriving.
Vata Dosha will be at its peak and with it, the nervous system is at its most sensitive. And the tissues are asking, quite literally, for warmth and ground.

So that is exactly what the evening offers ☺

We begin with a self-Abhyanga, a guided warm oil self-massage that nourishes the skin and settles the nervous system before we move onto the mat.
Then a slow Ta***ic Hatha practice woven through with mantra and Pranayama. To conclude with a restful Yoga Nidra written specifically for this threshold into winter.

| You leave with a small bottle of sesame oil and a seasonal self-care guide for the months ahead.

This is a quiet, intimate evening. Limited to 15 people.
No prior yoga experience needed.

https://www.state-of-zen.com.au/events/2026/4/13/ritu-sandhi-an-autumn-closing-ritual

I think about this a lot. How we inherited a wellness culture that handed us tools for the self and called it healing. W...
21/04/2026

I think about this a lot.
How we inherited a wellness culture that handed us tools for the self and called it healing.
Watching how wellness became another performance. Another thing to get right. Better sleep, better boundaries, better frequency. The body as a project. The soul, somehow, also a project.

And I don’t say this to dismiss any of it. This world of practice gave many of us something real. It gave us language for our experience, tools for our nervous systems, permission to take ourselves seriously.

But I believe it also told us that if we were in pain, the answer was deeper inside us. More self-awareness. More inner work. More refinement of the self.
What if some of what we’re carrying isn’t a personal failing at all? What if it’s the ache of genuine disconnection from each other? (and ultimately from Nature)

I have noticed, in myself and the people I work with, something that no amount of inner work seems to reach. This ache of a system, an intelligence that knows it was built for something more porous and interconnected than the life most of us are actually living.

We optimised inward. We forgot to tend outward.

And I wonder sometimes if the most radical act available to us right rather than another layer of self-inquiry is the terrifying, utterly unglamorous work of letting ourselves need each other again.

What would your practice look like if it was preparation for that? If every session, every moment of hard-won self-awareness was pointing you back toward the people around you?

I don’t have a clean answer although I do have an idea :)
But I think those kind of questions are worth living inside for a while.

Every month, a woman’s body moves through distinct seasons. Each with its own energy, its own wisdom, its own way of ask...
13/04/2026

Every month, a woman’s body moves through distinct seasons. Each with its own energy, its own wisdom, its own way of asking to be met.
You shouldn’t need to perform the same version of yourself every day. You were designed to change : to rest, to rise, to radiate, to release.

And yet.
We live in a world built for a different kind of body. A linear body. A body that wakes at the same hour, produces at the same rate, shows up with the same energy, Monday through Monday, month through month, year through year.
A body that doesn’t bleed. That doesn’t soften. That doesn’t need to go inward.
We were handed a system designed around a 24-hour hormonal cycle and told to perform within it as though our own 28-day rhythm was an inconvenience.
As though rest was laziness. As though sensitivity was weakness. As though the week we need to disappear from the world was something to push through, medicate or apologise for. No wonder we’re sick and exhausted.

But the body is nature and nature does not produce without pause.
It does not give without first receiving.

And I have to be honest : moving through these seasons is not always graceful or easeful. The physical pain, the emotional weight, the mental fog, the feeling of going insane or completely falling apart is real, is valid and it deserves to be named.

I am not here to romanticise our cycle. I just want to stop the war against it.
Because the war against our own bodies is exhausting.
And most of us have been fighting it for a very, very long time.

so what if we stopped asking “what is wrong with me” and rephrased this as “what does this season need from me?”

Start by simply tracking. For one full cycle, note which season resonates with how you actually feel each day not how you think you should feel. Then begin to adjust, even slightly. Rest a little more in winter. Schedule difficult conversations in summer. Let autumn’s heightened sensitivity be an insightful messenger.

Your cycle is actually one of the most precise teachers you will ever have ✨

Tell me,
What season are you currently in and how do you respond to it ? 👇🏽

07/04/2026

The body was never seen just as a physical structure ; it’s always been understood as an energy system : layered, intelligent, responsive.

The sequencing question matters so much because of this. The asana you place your body into, is doing something, not just to your muscles or your flexibility….but to your energy, to the quality of your inner world.

If you understand that each pose is an intervention on and in the energy body and that you’re working with something real and responsive then throwing poses together randomly is a bit like taking a handful of different medications and hoping for the best.

The ‘krama’, the progression, is part of the intelligence. How you arrive at a pose, what came before it, what follows… all of that shapes what the pose actually does.

Unfortunately, that’s what gets lost when yoga becomes primarily a fitness practice. The poses still work on the subtle body whether you know it or not but without the understanding, the intention, the awareness…you can’t use the system with any real precision or true benefits

And this is also why your yoga practice should change depending on the time of the day/year and the season you’re in✨

Stay tuned as we will explore this further in the next few weeks !

**rayoga

Save this for every full moon 🌕If you’ve been feeling it in your body today the restlessness, the heightened emotions, t...
02/04/2026

Save this for every full moon 🌕

If you’ve been feeling it in your body today the restlessness, the heightened emotions, the sleep, the absolutely crazy sleep full of weird dreams lol, you’re not alone in this.
The full moon amplifies everything.

Swipe for some tips on how to support yourself tonight (and every full moon moments).

And if you want something to actually lie down and receive tonight, I recorded a full moon meditation just for this moment. 15mins of rest, available on my website 🤍

How is the full moon landing in your body tonight? Tell me below 🫶🏽

There’s an industry built on making you feel like you’re almost there...but not quite.Almost healthy enough.Almost disci...
29/03/2026

There’s an industry built on making you feel like you’re almost there...but not quite.
Almost healthy enough.
Almost disciplined enough.
Almost well enough.
So you keep following endless rules, buy the products, optimise the routine...

That gap, between where you are and where wellness culture tells you that you should be, is exactly where the industry lives.

True wellbeing looks quite different. It isn’t a protocol to follow or a product to purchase.
It doesn’t sell well because it isn’t really something you can sell at all to be honest.

What it may look like is this : moving your body from a place of joy rather than fear.
Eating in a way that nourishes you, without a set of moralistic rules telling you what that should mean. Resting not because you’ve finally earned it, but because your body asked and you listened. Setting boundaries not as a performative act of self-care, but because you understand, deeply, that your energy is precious.
The wellness industry is extraordinarily good at disguising control as empowerment. At making restriction feel like self-respect. At making exhaustion feel like dedication. At repackaging the very things that deplete you and selling them back to you as « healing ».

True wellbeing requires you to stop outsourcing your knowing for a minute and get back into yourself.
To trust that your hunger, your tiredness, your need for stillness are not some sort of flaws or weaknesses to overcome.They are your body in conversation with you, if only you’re willing to listen.

This is not the easier path. Unlearning the belief that you are perpetually not enough... that is slow, unglamorous, deeply personal work.
But it begins with a single, radical shift in perspective.

Perhaps you don’t have to optimise yourself into wellness.
Perhaps you just need to unlearn everything that told you
that you weren’t already worthy of it.

This is one of the foundational truths of Ayurveda and once you really feel it, within yourself, it changes everything a...
23/03/2026

This is one of the foundational truths of Ayurveda and once you really feel it, within yourself, it changes everything about how you relate to your body.

You are not separate from nature. You are nature.
The same forces that move through the cosmos move through you : the same cycles, the same seasons, the same rhythms of expansion and contraction, light and dark, fullness and release.

The earth moves through spring, summer, autumn, winter. So do you.
Every single month.

When Ayurveda speaks of the Doshas and the Gunas, it is describing the same elemental forces that govern everything else in the universe. These are not abstract concepts. They are the literal composition of your body, your mind, your emotional state etc.

This is why Ayurveda never separates the individual from their environment. What season are you in? What time of day? Where are you in your cycle? What is the weather doing?
All of it matters, because all of it is YOU.

Your body is cosmically, precisely, intelligently patterned.
And this is why the invitation of Ayurveda is not to override the body but to learn its language.
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If you want to learn more about Ayurveda and your self, I am available for Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultations both in person and online ✨
DM me or visit our website

I’ve had this post sitting in my drafts for a while (like many others!), and I am not sure I have it fully figured out b...
20/03/2026

I’ve had this post sitting in my drafts for a while (like many others!), and I am not sure I have it fully figured out but I think that is kind of the point.

Something I want to be clear about, embodiment matters. Deeply.
A teacher who genuinely lives the practice, who has been doing the inner work, who shows up with real presence and integrity etc... that is felt immediately by students and it makes an enormous difference. This is not an argument against that.

But embodiment is not the same as performance. And I think that line gets blurry more often than we admit.
Because the thing about being human is that it does not pause once you step into the teacher role. You will still have seasons of real darkness. You will still get triggered by ordinary things. You will still doubt yourself, lose your practice for a while, go through periods where nothing feels integrated and you are just surviving. You will still be affected by grief, by relationship, by your own unresolved patterns surfacing at inconvenient times.

None of that makes you a bad teacher. It makes you a person.

And actually, the teachers who have stayed most alive in their own practice, in my experience, are the ones who never stopped being students first. Who kept asking honest questions. Who allowed themselves to not know. Who understood that the most important relationship they have with yoga and spirituality in general, is the private one, the one that has nothing to do with what they are offering anyone else.

The role can be held lightly. You can teach with genuine skill and care and still remember that you are not the archetype. That you are allowed to be in process. That your humanity is not a contradiction of the work ; it is, if you let it be, the very thing that makes the work real.

If you are a yoga teacher, I would love to know if this resonates. Have you felt this? How do you navigate it?

The season of letting go has arrived. And with it a gradual exhaling of everything you were in summer. The pace, the out...
12/03/2026

The season of letting go has arrived.
And with it a gradual exhaling of everything you were in summer. The pace, the output, the staying up late because the light invited you to do so.
The version of yourself that was expansive and outward and always slightly in motion.
That version served you but now she is ready to rest.

This is what Vata season actually means in practice. Not that you become less but that you go deeper.
Down from the surface and into the root.
Away from the edges of yourself and back toward the centre. The energy that was moving outward all summer begins, slowly and naturally, to descend.

You may have sensed that shift. I certainly do. The feeling of being…done.

Done with the pace, done with the fullness of summer, done with being on and available and in motion all the time. And then you feel guilty about it lol because nothing has technically gone wrong. No, nothing’s wrong ; a new cycle has begun.

Your body, your whole self is part of nature, even when you forget it is, and it reads these changes whether you consciously do or not.

So if you have been feeling the pull toward quieter, slower, smaller lately, that is not something to push through. Simply follow that.

Let summer go. It will come back 🌞
Right now the roots are asking for your attention and what you start tending to in the slowness of this season is what will grow come spring.

Being there made me feel small in the most comforting way.Not diminished but just relieved of the need to be anything ot...
21/12/2025

Being there made me feel small in the most comforting way.

Not diminished but just relieved of the need to be anything other than present.
Wrapped in abundance, held by life that grows freely, unapologetically.

Breath deepens. Thoughts space out.
Nature just has this ability to “reorganise” us.

Indigenous wisdoms have always known this, that the body and the world outside are made of the same elements. Earth, water, fire, air, space.
We aren’t separate from them. We’re shaped by them. Regulated by them. Nourished by them.

And through studying and living more in alignment with Ayurvedic principles, I’ve come to understand how much balance has to do with alignment.
Nature is alignment, made visible.

Everything moves according to its own intelligence
And maybe that’s the invitation. To sit close enough to life that we remember how to naturally move within it again.

When Yoga is approached only as a physical discipline, it inevitably loses its capacity to nourish the deeper layers of ...
14/12/2025

When Yoga is approached only as a physical discipline, it inevitably loses its capacity to nourish the deeper layers of our being.
The body may grow stronger or more flexible but the practice never quite reaches the place where yoga was always meant to do its real work.
Without that inner dimension, even the most complex or advanced asanas start to feel hollow. Beautiful shapes, perhaps, but empty.
And naturally, interest fades.

The soul is never satisfied by form alone.

What sustains the practice is meaning. And meaning is, I believe, born in subtlety.
In the energetic refinement.

Yoga is the meeting, the union of form, attention, Prana and intention. One unified field.
A field of coherence allowing us to sense the pulse of life itself.
Spaciousness that underlies all experiences.

And eventually we begin to feel the difference between the self we habitually perform and the deeper Self, that simply is.

This is why the practice matters.
This is the Yoga that endures.
This is the Yoga that nourishes.
This is the Yoga our world is longing for.
✨

**ra

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