Tahnee Taylor, South Golden Beach (2026)

05/01/2026

My first son’s birth in 2022 set of a wild cascade of shifts that I am only just starting to fully integrate. I left to focus more on motherhood (with a bit of teaching on the side), I started my studies with and I began the work of being a boy mum! We also traversed death, natural disasters anda renovation during his pregnancy. 🤪 That whole time was so huge.

Leo was a more challenging baby than my daughter had been - with her I could pretend I was still a maiden, do all the things, defer the transition but with Leo he asked me to pull my socks up and pay attention. I learned a lot about coming into full presence through his birth and early postpartum. It wasn’t hard if I wasn’t try to be somewhere else. Trying to do a million things and be everything to everyone. Something had to give and he taught me how to let go. I healed a lot of deep stuff around intimacy and I learned how to find grace in places I have never even thought to look prior. I learned how forceful a presence a small child can have. My daughter was fully present and a wise little glow worm bug, but Leo was intimidating and present in a way I didn’t know a baby could be. His birth taught me that I can handle anything and also that I don’t need to; that allowed me to have a pain free birth and I’ve found so many of the lessons from his birth have made my life so much sweeter. It’s funny cos while it was the most hectic time of my life, I wouldn’t change anything. It’s cliched but true, it made me the woman I am!

I know not everyone gives birth - if you’ve read this far, I’d love to know your moments as woman that shaped you.

03/01/2026

I know it’s not for everyone but damn, it’s for me. I love being a mama. 🩵

02/01/2026

I come back to that Zen phrase “before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water, after enlightenment, chop wood carry water” a lot.

It doesn’t matter how healthy you are or how spiritual you are. It’s all the same. You still have a body that will one day become dust. You have a life with endless chores, responsibilities, a house that never seems to stay clean. I find the wellness world is so s**t at bridging to the real world. There’s so many shiny things, but not much of it sticks around. Not much integration. Not much follow-through.

The older I get the more I realise it’s the day-to-day grit that does the real work. The ordinary stuff. The things that don’t look good online. That are boring. Even the spiritual stuff. You don’t need a new meditation technique. You just need to sit on your ass and be still. You don’t need a new fancy workout. Just something you can do most days of the week. I love our mushrooms ( if you don’t know). But if you buy them and don’t take them, don’t bother.

I know how easy it is to get swept up and I have tried lots of things, of course! But it’s the things I’ve been doing for decades that have made the difference. I especially see the fruits in this season of little kids and no spare time and busy busy life. It’s not some trend that gets me through. It’s sleep, yoga nidra and meditation and Yin, some bodywork and a sauna if I can swing it and some sunshine, as much movement as I can squeeze in, spring water and 3 square meals a day and and herbs and some of the nourishing Taoist energetic practices I’ve been doing for a long time. Most of this stuff is free (or free once you’ve learned it). We spend a lot of money on food and good quality water and supps when needed. On our movement and our education. Otherwise we have a pretty simple life. I know saunas and herbs sound fancy but they’ve been a part of human life just about forever (though saunas used to be hot rocks and you had to gather herbs yourself)! I’m not saying don’t try things but if you DO try things, let them stick for a while. After the high wears off, keep doing them, and see. Is this for me? Will it last? How do I make it a part of my life?

31/12/2025

Since having my first son I’ve felt something alchemising in me that sort of coalesced with the birth of my second son. I’m still feeling my way through, but I feel a clarity of purpose more than I have in a long time. I also turned 40, and last night was talking to a friend about how potent 40 is, how expansive. Not a common cultural conversation but one I think we could have more! 40 is great, you guys!

I show up to share what I can online because the work that I’ve committed to over the last 15 years has changed me - as a woman, a mother, and a teacher.

And firstly, always firstly, I am a mum. My life is full, noisy, messy, a bit chaotic. And showing up online in this way allows me to be the mother I want to be while still honouring the teacher in me. I feel like I am always saying to people that I’m going to be a weapon when I’m 60, just watch out haha. But first I have to grow some little people and keep the home fires burning.

People talk a lot of s**t about the online space. I get it. But mostly I am just grateful (these days). Online lets my work travel without me having to. It lets my home stay slower, quieter, more intact. It lets my nervous system remain anchored to my family and they need that more than people need another yoga teacher out there in the world.

I share what I’ve lived, studied, questioned, and practiced, not to convince anyone of anything, but to offer a map for those who are curious and trying to find their own way.

I love it when someone leaves the light on for me. I hope my presence here is something like that for you. 🩵

30/12/2025

When I teach yoga or do massage I transmit energy through my hands. I used to do it by accident and now I have more control over it. It’s taken years to control it. Studying Taoist healing helped. There’s a well known qigong point called Laogong (on the Pericardium channel) and a Heart point called Shaofu and these sites and around them are the sort of portals where the healing energy or qi can be transmitted (and received). Shaofu means the place where love can radiate from the inner chambers of the heart, where all can be given (and received). Laogong is a place where the weary can rest and be returned to vitality - nourished by the warmth of the steady Fire element. To become masterful (and I am by no means a master, but I’ve noticed this is true) one needs to learn to ‘control the burn.’ It’s like holding a flame in the palm, too hot and it burns you, too cold and it’s ineffective. Being able to maintain steadiness, control, ease, a sense of committed service that is free from needing an outcome is important. It’s harder with your own people, kids, partners. You’re invested. You have to maintain your own inner fire (you need to have a strong cultivation practice) and you must maintain your connection to the source of that fire, which is not you. You never use your own energy. And if you feel yourself start to take too much on you need to stop. There’s a lot to learn, and I’ve found it hard to find practical information. A lot of it is woo but not super helpful. The more stable your energy body and field the better, and your relationship to the earth and cosmic qi matter. I don’t practice professionally at the moment as I find it too difficult to maintain my energy with small children, it’s not my season to support others in that way, I have realised. But I do love working on my kids and on friends from time to time. 🤗 And yes! You can use this energy on yourself. Meditating on these points can help cultivate your relationship with them.

30/12/2025

I’ve been sitting on this course for years, never really ready to teach it. I thought it would be the first thing I taught, after leaving SuperFeast, but that ended up being Taoist Energetics. And I tried to pull it out of myself a few times and it never worked. I don’t find there is much rhyme or reason with my creative process unfortunately lol - it’s just whatever comes through! And so I sat it in my Notes app where many of my ideas go to die haha

But after finishing Praxis I was looking over the bones of this program in my notes and I realised that this was it, the original course, just a few years down the road, named, structured (ish) and the woman I’ve become is ready to teach it.

As always, it’s hard to say what it is. An experience? A journey? A way to connect through the wisdom I’ve exposed myself to and gathered and to have me hold your hand as you access your own? I am not completely sure to be honest (how’s that for a sales pitch) but I do know it’s going to be epic!

This is the synthesis I was seeing on vision quest when Leo was little, the thread I’ve been pulling since I realised that so much of what I’d been taught was just someone else’s attempt to explain what they’d read about or heard some guru say but never actually experienced. I’m here for experiencing it. All of it.

Your consciousness arises from within the greatest technology ever created - your body. You get to inhabit a world of magic and wonder and awe. And your body is the most potent and precious thing you ‘own.’ And if you’re a woman, well, it’s even better than you know. I can’t wait to share this work, I can’t wait to be with women who want to expand what is possible for themselves, and who want to take this to women in their lives and help expand them.

There is a mix of mental stuff (lectures, pre-recorded content), embodied stuff (practices, all very accessible) and community stuff (Q&A and circle calls) to ensure we cover bases and we touch on a lot of topics - check out the link in bio for the full list.

I can’t wait to see some of you there ❤️

22/12/2025

At the Summer Solstice (it was at 2:03 am today, Monday), also known as midsummer), Yang peaks and Yin begins to grow. Life extends itself out and flourishes!

In Taoist thought, the Summer Solstice is a time to regulate one’s vitality so as not to overextend our life force. We start to pull back a little from the excesses of Summer as we turn (ever so slightly) towards the descent.

In some Taoist texts, you should not make love on the solstices to avoid upsetting the balance of Yin and Yang. (This does not apply for equinoxes, to my knowledge.)

This is the longest day of the year!!!
The shortest night.

You’ll notice that the sun sets late and rises early and at midday it sits at the highest point in the sky. Pay attention. You don’t need a Taoist text to orient yourself to these shifts.

Midday naps are GREAT! This mirrors the time when Yang turns to Yin in the daily cycle (that is, the ‘summer solstice’ of the day).

Green tea and reishi are supportive, and red dates are popular to support the Qi, as well as cold noodles and salads, if you’re into such things.

This time of year correlates to the 5th thoracic vertebra (T5) aka the back of the Heart. Heart rules Fire the element of Summer in this system. We want to be open-hearted but not too hot through the heart and focusing on this point in meditation can be helpful.

Xiàzhì is the name of this time in China, and it means ‘summer extreme.’

The days will get hotter as Summer pushes its last heat upon us, and darkness is reborn as the days get shorter and the nights longer, until we hit Winter Solstice in June (long nights, short days).

It’s important to get lots of sun (appropriate to your skin and the place you live, of course) at this time of year to set your system up for health. Light is medicine.

The light we take in now will support our vitality in Winter (serotonin being the Yang hormone of this season, and melatonin being the Yin of Winter).

This is a bit steam of consciousness cos my kids are climbing on my but those are my notes on Summer Solstice! Enjoy!

20/12/2025

Spleens need love too! lol. When I was 16 I remember my friend’s partner hurt his spleen in a bicycle accident and I had no idea what a spleen was! In fact, I’m pretty sure at that time medical science thought the spleen was perhaps vestigial and most likely useless (guess what! It’s not!). As the Yin organ (Fu) of the Earth element (tǔ 土) the Spleen (capitalised to represent its energetic function as well as its biological function) assists us in extracting the nutritive elements from our food and our lives. Our ability to learn, to make meaning and to integrate come from the Spleen. The Stomach receives the food, continues the process of breaking it down (this process begins in the mouth which is considered a part of the Stomach’s energetic domain) and it governs receiving, rotting and ripening. The Spleen governs transformation and transportation. I enjoy doing this practice when I’ve been studying too much, holding too much mentally, feeling a bit anxious or just to amplify the qualities of the Earth element I want to enhance - to metabolise life rather than just endure it! Perhaps helpful as we all charge into the silly season, no? ❤️

18/12/2025

In a world of scrolling and information overload and blue light and a lack of discipline and discernment it’s pretty easy to get to the point of overwhelm. Coming back to the body is a useful practice to prevent these feelings becoming a dominant part of our inner narrative. Typically these mental rumination issues come from unprocessed past experiences (aka trauma aka undigested old stuff) or too much recent input (for example news media, or even studying) or something our system is struggling to integrate and absorb (which could be any or all of the above or something else). Remember that it’s not just what goes into our mouths - every single sense organ takes in ‘food’ that needs to be ‘digested’ by the body. True rest requires we close the sense organs and turn inside, or allow a natural pattern to absorb our sense organs (eg the ocean or a tree or something not man-made).

Lifting weights strengthens the muscles of the body and in turn supports our ability to stabilise and digest our lives; walking activates the meridians of digestion and helps us process (there’s a reason walking is a spiritual practice in many indigenous and traditional cultures). There are also Yin Yoga poses, energetic healing practices and acupuncture points to support our Spleens - I’ll share some more soon.

Maybe just for a few hours today you go on an ‘information’ fast and let your body catch up. See how it feels. It might not feel great immediately, especially if you’re addicted to the quest for information, but as you catch up with yourself I’ll bet it starts to feel great.

Good luck!

18/12/2025

Liver 3, Tai Chong. Great Rushing (or Supreme Rushing). The name tells the story. This is the source (yuan) point on the Liver meridian (which means it directly dialogues with the liver organ) where Liver Qi remembers it is meant to move in an upright and purposeful way and helps us find action and clarity. I sometimes feel it as an almost violent surge rushing up the inner leg. Great rushing indeed! Tai Chong sits in the valley between the metatarsals of the first two toes (usually about two fingers-width from the webbing between your big and second toe - I kept saying first in the video cos I don’t sleep enough lol). When paired with the point I shared the other day, LI4, He Gu, they become the a a Four Gates, one of my favourite energetic conversations in the body. Metal meets Wood. Metal gives the Qi a boundary and ensures it flows smoothly throughout the body. The two are a great choice for helping kick the early stages of a sickness or as a kind of ‘recharge’ for the system (it’s a bit like a factory reset, in my body). It’s also good for menstrual issues, digestive issues, tension in the body incl headaches, the eyes, it’s a good one. Press gently with your finger and I like to circle around into the sensation, breathe for a few breaths, and let the Great Rushing do what it does best: restore flow, restore agency, restore vision (both literal and metaphorical), restore your sense of inner direction.

17/12/2025

A woman’s life is not linear. Just like the Earth, we have seasons.

In the maiden years, like Spring, spirit pulls us outward.
In the mother years, like Summer, we blossom and ripen whatever it is we are growing.
In the threshold years, we turn back toward ourselves to capture our harvest, to share with the world. Like Late Summer.
In our menopausal years, like Autumn, we refine and excavate the wisdom of our lives to uphold our values, discernment and boundaries.
And the crone years, Winter, call us to our innermost selves to prepare for the biggest journey of all.

This Saturday I’m teaching a free class on the shamanic phases of womanhood through the lenses of yoga, Taoism, and ancient seasonal wisdom.

December 20, 10 am Sydney time.
Recording available with registration.

Link in bio. Hope to see you there!

16/12/2025

He Gu Union Valley or LI-4 is one of those points I come back to again and again, partly because it’s so humble and partly because it’s so powerful. This little valley between thumb and finger is a junction where inside and outside, self and world seem to have a quiet conversation - we visited a place in New Zealand called the Resurgence or Te Puna o Riuwaka and for some reason I am reminded of it when I work this point. In the Classics He Gu is said to move Qi and Blood, to open the gates, to help things shift when we’re stuck, but on an esoteric level I feel it as a point of consent and courage. When you press He Gu you’re saying yes to movement, yes to change, yes to letting the body speak rather than forcing it. It can soften headaches, tension, grief held in the chest, but it also seems to remind the spirit that we are allowed to participate in our own healing. I’ll share one of my favourite points to pair it with soon, LV3 or Tai Chong. Watch this space!

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