Samatah Yoga is a small home Studio, catering to intimate groups and private classes. Lisa also passionately teaches Pre/Post natal.
Lisa’s yoga practice has always been a sacred place of ‘coming home to self’. Over time as her practice developed and deepened, it has been her anchor, allowing her freedom to draw strength, internal awareness and most sacredly - grounding. From this space, Lisa offers the intention in her classes for students to feel nurtured and nourished, drawing in a sense of inner calm with an explorative practice for students to be present ‘in their own body’. Lisa’s grounding in her hatha practice, form the essence of her teaching - as she holds space by honoring traditional yoga practices. Intentional awareness on deepening poses, aligning energy within to find a deeper spiritual connection. Weaving into her teachings, Lisa heartfully shares knowledge gained from her further training in Yin (Chinese medicine & Myofascia release) and Restorative yoga. Guiding students using postures as a meditative experience to find deep release, honoring skeletal variations and cultivating a sense of internal awareness. In her teachings offering a space for women to evolve with their changing bodies, tapping into their feminine essence and supporting them physically and emotionally during their pregnancy journey. Lisa’s essence is in guiding students to move physically, emotionally and spiritually from a place of inner trust and self-awareness. Her heart sings when she has facilitated space for a student to find release, and surrender in a deeply held yin pose, a long embracing restorative posture, finding a meditative breath connection in a hatha practice or the stillness and space of a much yearned for savasana
30/11/2025
FIND ME ON THE MAT THIS WEEK
Monday 6am - UQ, Cromwell College, St Lucia
Monday 9:30am - Seniors - Kingsford Tce, Corinda
Tuesday 6am - UQ, Cromwell College, St Lucia
Tuesday 6:30pm - Hatha - KDK, Kenmore
Wednesday 5:30am - Hatha, Jindalee 24/7
Wednesday - 11am - Hatha - Westside HQ, Corinda
Thursday 1pm - Aqua Yoga, Dunlop Memorial Pool, Corinda
Sunday - 8am - Hatha- Girl Guides, Middle Park
Sunday 10am - Hatha - YMCA, Jamboree Heights
28/11/2025
Yogi's that lunch 🍽
🎄It has become a little bit of a tradition, with my Wednesday yogi's - that we stay & have a lunch together towards the end of the year
🎄Always with lots of laughs, stories and conversation - flowing from a genuine sense of friendship within the group.
🎄Three years now & about to begin our 4th in 2026. Westside HQ, has been such an amazing space to teach in, we have very much made it our 'Wednesday home'
🎄Quite often a few giggles in the back row of the class, when I have asked them to attempt a yoga shape or pose, they are not too keen on - but are still willing to try!!
🎄I do love the openness and trust that this beautiful group has put in me. Every week, always arriving with a smile & ready to have a chat and check in with each other before class begins.
I look forward to guiding you again in 2026 @ Westside HQ. We've created our own amazing community here in this space. So much gratitude to you all. 💕💕
28/11/2025
🎄🎅🏻Always such a nice surprise to receive a Christmas gift.
I love Poinsettia's - as they are so vibrant & festive.
But I love the card even more!
💕I can't believe I have been teaching Aqua yoga for almost 3 years now!
Aqua, is one of the most fun filled classes of my week, as I get to be super creative and adaptive, truly reflecting that yoga is defiantly not a one size fits all practice.
💕But most importantly, it is the sense of community shared within this space. I have especially seen, even moreso this year, so many of our group members being there for each other & offering support when life has had a few bumps in the road. May we continue to thrive in 2026, support one another & enjoy our time in the pool.
28/11/2025
🌬️ The Sacred Pause Between Breaths
In every cycle of breath, there is a moment we often overlook —
a soft, spacious pause.
The quiet gap between the inhale and the exhale.
The still point where nothing is required, and everything is felt.
This pause is more than a break in the rhythm.
It’s an invitation.
A place where we can gather ourselves back in…
where the mind slips into silence,
the body loosens its grip,
and the heart remembers its own steady beat.
When we notice this space —
the gentle fullness after the inhale,
or the calm emptiness after the exhale —
something inside settles.
We reconnect with our centre,
our presence,
our truth.
In the pause, we meet ourselves.
Not as we were or as we think we should be,
but exactly as we are in this breath, this moment, this life.
Today, take a few mindful breaths.
Linger in the gap.
Feel the stillness that holds you.
Let it draw you home.
🌿 The breath moves us…
but the pause restores us.
27/11/2025
🌾 Understanding the Stomach Meridian in TCM
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Stomach meridian plays a powerful role in how we nourish and sustain ourselves — not only through food, but through life itself.
Here are some beautiful and important facts about this meridian:
✨ It governs digestion and transformation.
The Stomach meridian helps break down food, extract nutrients, and supports the body in turning nourishment into usable energy (Qi).
✨ It works closely with the Spleen.
Together, this pair is known as the “Earth element,” responsible for grounding, stability, and the ability to feel centred.
✨ It influences our muscles and overall vitality.
When Stomach Qi flows well, the limbs feel strong, energy is steady, and the body feels supported.
✨ It helps us ‘digest’ life experiences.
Emotionally, the Stomach meridian relates to how we process what comes our way — thoughts, worries, transitions, and change.
✨ It runs from the face down to the second toe.
This long pathway means it affects areas such as the jaw, chest, abdomen, hips, and legs — shaping posture, energy levels, and how grounded we feel.
✨ When out of balance…
We may notice worry, overthinking, fatigue, sluggish digestion, bloating, or feeling ungrounded.
Supporting the Stomach meridian through mindful movement, breath, and nourishment helps us return to centre, stability, and ease.
🌿 When the Earth element is steady, we feel steady.
26/11/2025
Already!!
Holiday timetable begins the end of this week....
25/11/2025
🌏 The Earth Element — The Still Point Between Seasons
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Earth element is the quiet centre of the wheel — the pivot point where all seasons turn.
It is the spacious pause, the soft exhale, the moment where nature leans into itself before shifting into something new.
Earth is the invitation to slow down.
To soften the edges.
To return to the ground beneath your feet and remember the steadiness that has always held you.
Between each seasonal transition, there is a subtle stillness — a hum in the air that asks us to listen.
This is Earth.
The reminder that change doesn’t have to be hurried.
That nourishment happens in the in-between.
That our bodies and hearts also need these gentle pockets of pause to recalibrate and gather ourselves.
As we move toward a new season, may we honour this sacred middle place.
May we root into simplicity, savour what sustains us, and allow the sweetness of the Earth element to restore our centre.
🌾 Return to the pause. The Earth will meet you there.
24/11/2025
✨Such a beautiful day on Retreat yesterday
🔥Igniting your inner glow
💕The essence of Pitta Dosha
Expressed in so many different ways:
🩵 A rainy, cosy morning to open the day, when then morphed into a gentle sunshiny afternoon
🩵A moment to pause, gather, to sit & watch the rain fall, as we sipped some freshly brewed chai
🩵A slow and cooling morning flow, to balance out the internal heat that Pitta creates
🩵An opening circle, setting a collective intention into 'surrender' - a trait that quite often us 'Pitta' yogi's resist
🩵Some togetherness in the kitchen - prepping overnight Ayurvedic soaked oats, which were delicious and much appreciated this morning & freshly distilled rose water - I can't believe how vibrant the colour was
🩵The best, vibrant, belly full lunch. Pitta inspired Kitchari & coconut cake for dessert
🩵 Time to unwind, by melting into the mat. Restorative, was just what our bodies called for
Always eternally grateful for the blessing to hold this space. I often pinch myself, witnessing the capabilities of women coming together, friendships forming, conversations flowing, as ease.
Can't wait to do it all together again in 2026
24/11/2025
24/11/2025
🌿 Re-anchoring into stillness
Qigong & Yin immersion - The earth element
Sunday 30th November - 4-6pm
🩵Will you be joining us?
A practice to restore, reconnect and return home to yourself.
You’re invited to an afternoon of deep nourishment as we weave together the ancient wisdom of Yin yoga and Qigong — two slow, intentional practices rooted in the heart of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Together, we’ll harmonise with the rhythms of the five elements and the subtle transition between seasons, awakening chi, softening held tension, and creating space for clarity and renewal.
🌾 What You’ll Experience
✨ A gentle arrival practice to settle your energy and awaken chi
✨ A flowing Qigong sequence to harness, circulate and revitalise your meridian pathways
✨ A deeply grounding Yin practice to release layers of holding and reconnect to your inner steadiness
✨ Guided meditation and moments of stillness for integration
✨ Elemental sound healing to restore your whole being on a deeper level
🌏 Why This Practice Matters
This immersion honours the Earth element — the sacred pivot point between Yin and Yang and the grounding force that helps us feel centred, steady and supported. When Earth is balanced, we feel more “at home” in ourselves, no matter what life is shifting around us.
🤎 Come Join Us
If you’re craving a full-body energetic reset, a deeper dive into self-care, or simply a slow and spacious afternoon of mindful movement, this practice is for you.
A subtle, soothing, transformative experience awaits —
the perfect way to spend your Sunday, and the kindest gift you can give yourself.
🌬️ Slow. Intentional. Healing. You’ll love this practice — I promise.
22/11/2025
💛 Anahatasana – Melting Heart Pose
A beautiful shape to soften the upper body, open the chest, and melt into the deeper layers of the heart space.
I’m sharing this gentle YouTube practice with you today — a soothing exploration of Anahatasana, perfect for creating spaciousness through the shoulders, upper spine, and the emotional centre of the heart. This posture invites surrender, tenderness, and the release of held tension in a safe and supported way.
As always, honour your body first. Here are some variations to help you find the version that feels nourishing:
🌿 MODIFICATIONS
• Shoulder pain: Take the arms wider apart.
• More flexibility: Bring the chin to the floor and gaze forward (only if the neck feels comfortable).
• Lower back sensitivity: Widen the knees or place forearms on the ground instead of lifting the elbows.
• Knee discomfort: Place a blanket underneath the knees.
• Feet: Tuck the toes under if having the feet flat creates strain.
• Gentler entry: Reach one arm forward at a time and fold the other beneath the forehead.
🌿 PROPS
• Bolster: A small bolster under the chest for support.
• Block: To rest the forehead on.
• Blanket: Under the knees for comfort.
🌿 MERIDIANS TARGETED
• Urinary Bladder: Upper + mid spine
• Stomach & Spleen: Across the chest
• Heart & Lung: Through the inner and outer arm lines
This practice is a reminder that opening the heart doesn’t require force — only softness, breath, and the gentle willingness to melt into yourself.
May this pose bring you ease, expansion, and a sense of inner lightness. 💛
21/11/2025
So, I wanted to share a little about 'letting go' this week
Most people that know me, know that I always tend to put my hand up!
Just this year alone:
🌞I've been Team Manager for my daughters Netball team
🌞Class level rep for my son's school & a school change (fingers crossed this is 'the one')
🌞I've jumped into Pilates training, with many, many hours or practice & study
🌞Taught my first ever Qigong & Yin immersion series (still 2 to go!)
🌞I've been recording videos in every spare minute for my online course, (sometimes several times over, as I've either forgotten to switch my mic on, or had the camera the wrong way round)
🌞Joined the gym again & stuck with it. I've never smiled or laughed so much in Zumba. I forgot how much free movement lights you up. Pure release.
🌞Been part of a seven-month Soul ascension Mastermind, which took me way beyond my expectations, in every possible way
🌞Hosted three-day retreats, the first one on the weekend we moved house - timing!
🌞Joined Digital course Academy - only 6 weeks ago, which is fast tracking my tech & marketing skills big time!
🌞Re-located my Sunday morning class, 3 times.
🌞The big one - Moving house!!
When I say it out loud, it looks like ALOT & I definitely know that I have left quite a few smaller things off the list.
So, I've had many internal conversations over the course of the year - Is this too much?
I've defiantly had moments when my body has arrived in this place. Especially last Saturday, which was a huge decision for me to cancel an online class that I'd promised to teach. But I listened - that's a BIG step for me. I almost lost my voice, which is defiantly a sign
So, what do I feel like I can take from the course of this year? At the beginning of the year, I had nooooo idea. In some ways, it feels like everything has 're-set' in many ways. It's given me a lot of time for self-reflection.
🩵I have learnt to listen to my body (in amongst the moments, that have really stretched me - especially in the house moving phase...(when we were on such a strict timeline)
🩵To be ok, with not such a heavy teaching schedule, that I don't always need to be racing from one class to the next. Even though some weeks, I've still put hand up just that little bit 'too much'
🩵To grow stronger in my teaching voice- I'd become so accustomed to only teaching yoga, so to this was a step well out of my comfort zone. To find my rhythm in other modalities, has really brought me back to basics - I can still be me but teach 'my way'
🩵To make new friendships and build new communities, not just within my local area, but in both of my children's schools, and through all of my new offerings - has been beyond heart-warming. There is so much strength is holding space for another. I know this is what my heart needs
🩵To not feel too weird or let self-doubt overwhelm me in front of the camera (it came back again today, so I took a break & re-set). To remind myself that it's all a teaching & learning journey. Perfection isn't the goal. But sitting on your hands & not having a go, is not moving forward. It's better to just be honest & show up.
🩵That writing has helped me immensely, putting pen to paper has been extremely therapeutic. A sign of relief.
🩵To trust expansion!
So, in, the wind down for the year -in the letting go phase, I feel as all of these shifts have been intentional. The shedding, the letting go, is paving the way for expansion. Yes, it's stretched my resources a lot of times, but it also feels cathartic.
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Lisa’s yoga practice has always been a sacred place of ‘coming home to self’. Beginning her teaching journey after the birth of her daughter, she was led by a heartfelt desire to delve deeper into her practice.
Yoga, for Lisa has always been an anchor in keeping her centred and calm - especially as a busy Mum.
From this space, Lisa offers the intention in her classes for students to feel nurtured and nourished, finding inner calm and clarity whilst exploring a practice that supports students to be present ‘in their own body’.
Beginning her studies in 2013 at VIYETT, Lisa completed a Diploma & Advanced Diploma in Hatha yoga. Her passion for guiding pregnant women led her to complete Pre & Post Natal training with Bliss baby. Drawn into the practice of Yin - Lisa has completed studies with Jo Phee specialising in myofascia release and the Chinese Meridian system. Also complimenting her studies, Lisa has completed Restorative training also with Bliss Baby.
Lisa’s grounding in her hatha practice, form the essence of her teaching - as she holds space by honoring traditional yoga practices. Intentional awareness on deepening poses, aligning energy within to find a deeper spiritual connection.
Weaving into her teachings, Lisa heartfully shares knowledge gained from her further trainings in yin (Chinese medicine & myofascia) and restorative yoga. Guiding students using postures as a meditative experience to find deep release, honoring skeletal variations and cultivating a sense of internal awareness.
Lisa also passionately teaches Pre/Post natal. In her teachings offering a space for women to evolve with their changing bodies, tapping into their feminine essence and supporting them physically and emotionally during their pregnancy journey.
Lisa’s essence is in guiding students to move physically, emotionally and spiritually from a place of inner trust and self-awareness.
Her heart sings when she has facilitated space for a student to find release, and surrender in a deeply held yin pose, a long embracing restorative posture, finding a meditative breath connection in a hatha practice or the stillness and space of a much yearned for savasana
Her intimate home studio, in the leafy suburb of Sinnamon Park has been created to offer a cosy and friendly environment in which small groups can embraced and nurtured. Lisa also teaches at various yoga studios in the Brisbane city region and is open to travel for private sessions.
