Ruby 9 - Yoga, Chant, Stories

23/07/2025

Musings

“The dirt under my fingernails speaks in a language older than words, darker than the loam I’ve turned this morning. Each seed I plant carries the feel of my Grandmother’s hands, her mothers before that—generations of women who understood that hope requires burial first.”
Brigit Anna McNeil

pic: Sally Riddell

16/07/2025

"Poets are the stone-cutters of the psyche"
Maria Popov

STONE
by Charles Simic

Go inside a stone
That would be my way.
Let somebody else become a dove
Or gnash with a tiger’s tooth.
I am happy to be a stone.

From the outside the stone is a riddle:
No one knows how to answer it.
Yet within, it must be cool and quiet
Even though a cow steps on it full weight,
Even though a child throws it in a river,
The stone sinks, slow, unperturbed
To the river bottom
Where the fishes come to knock on it
And listen.

I have seen sparks fly out
When two stones are rubbed.
So perhaps it is not dark inside after all;
Perhaps there is a moon shining
From somewhere, as though behind a hill —
Just enough light to make out
The strange writings, the star charts
On the inner walls.

pic: Sally Riddell

11/07/2025

Here is my latest newsletter/blog.
I hope you enjoy it.

July 2025 Newsletter

09/07/2025

Thoughts and Musings

"For all the distractions of life, the noise of news, for most of us, "there is only the unattended moment, the moment in and out of time.""
Stan Grant

pic: Sally Riddell

02/07/2025

Thoughts and Musings

I want to be closer to ipsum esse. I want to wonder at the turning seasons and be attentive to the souls of those with whom I share a breath, the water, the stars and this land.
Stan Grant

pic: Sally Riddell

27/06/2025

Mid Winter Early Morning Yoga Intensive

June 30-July4 - 6.15-7.15am
online
Bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/DBRDV

Let the sun greet you as you greet the sun.
Let your body, mind and explore an evolving practice.
Let yourself embrace the joy and wonder of mid winter and find warmth and spiritedness

Start the day, greet the sun, warm the heart and soul with a week long early morning yoga intensive. Each morning (6.15-7.15am) we will meet online...

25/06/2025

Thoughts and Musings

"Never give a sword to a man who can't dance."
An old Irish saying

pic: Sally Riddell

23/06/2025

How do you feel about the middle of winter? How do you experience the short colder months of the year?

Mid winter yoga intensives are a great way to embrace the cold and the dark, to welcome the dawn and to explore an evolving practice over a week digging deep into experiential practice.

Come and join me online
You don't even need to get out of your pajamas!

Bookings:

Start the day, greet the sun, warm the heart and soul with a week long early morning yoga intensive. Each morning (6.15-7.15am) we will meet online...

20/06/2025

The great thing about online early morning intensives is that you don't even need to get out of your pajamas.
And you get to follow an evolving practice over a week - a time in which to explore, refine, focus. And a time to greet the sun as the sun greets you.

Bookings:

Start the day, greet the sun, warm the heart and soul with a week long early morning yoga intensive. Each morning (6.15-7.15am) we will meet online...

18/06/2025

Thoughts and Musings
“A threshold is not a simple boundary; it is a frontier that divides two different territories, rhythms, and atmospheres...”
John O’Donohue
art:Sculptures by the Sea WA - many years ago
pic: Sally Riddell

17/06/2025

Help me celebrate mid winter.
This intensive is an opportunity to dig into what mid winter feels like and what it means for you.
You get to greet the sun, to work with an evolving practice that refines your experience and focus.
Come and join me in you pajamas - online

Bookings:

Start the day, greet the sun, warm the heart and soul with a week long early morning yoga intensive. Each morning (6.15-7.15am) we will meet online...

14/06/2025

The Yoga of Stories

Come and join me on June 15th - 9.30-12.30
at Canning Bridge Community Space
Kishorn Rd, Mt Pleasant.

A morning of story, yoga practice and chant.
It's a great morning devoted to experiential listening, practice and reflection.
$25
Booking:

The Yoga of Stories Experiencing a yoga practice through the lens of story and chant is deeply experiential. Storytelling can lead us to an...