Gena Kenny Yoga

11/05/2026

Every human carries a measurable electrical field shaped by the heart, nervous system, and fascia. The heart’s electromagnetic field extends beyond the body and changes with emotion — coherent in calm and gratitude, chaotic in stress and fear. We do not move through life untouched by one another; we constantly influence each other.

Fascia, the body’s connective tissue, generates tiny electrical currents when stretched or compressed — a process called piezoelectricity. Stress tightens these tissues and disrupts communication, while safety and calm restore flow. What many call “energy” has real biological foundations.

Our nervous systems are designed to synchronize. Mirror neurons, the vagus nerve, breath, posture, and tone all allow us to absorb the emotional states of those around us. Even our cells emit tiny pulses of light called biophotons, which shift with our emotional and physical state.

Like tuning forks, humans resonate with one another. Calm spreads. Fear spreads. Presence matters because your emotional state affects the space around you long before words are spoken.

We are electrical beings living in constant exchange, shaping each other through every interaction, every emotion, and every breath.

You are not separate from the world around you.
You are part of its signal, its resonance, its living field in motion.

17/04/2026

Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled --
to cast aside the weight of facts

and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.
I want to believe I am looking

into the white fire of a great mystery.
I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing --
that the light is everything -- that it is more than the sum
of each flawed blossom rising and fading. And I do.
- Mary Oliver

Join my next yoga retreat in the Whitsunday Islands off the great barrier reef.

August 15th - 20th

Book now as we have only 8 spots remaining.

15/04/2026

An interesting article on Interoception; the sensing mechanism in which your brain receives information from your body through receptors of your internal organs and systems. Interoception is less well known than the 'outward facing' senses such as sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell, but it has an enormous effect for your well being.

Through the practices of restorative yoga and somatic movement you learn to enhance your awareness of this sensory system and therefore improve your health.

There’s growing evidence that signals sent from our internal organs to the brain play a major role in regulating emotions and fending off anxiety and depression

14/04/2026

The time will come
When, with elation,
You will greet yourself arriving
At your own door, in your own mirror,
And each will smile at the other's welcome,
And say, sit here. Eat.
You will love the stranger who was your self.
~ Derek Walcott

Join us in Noosa for a Donna Farhi Intensive March 19th - 23rd, 2027. Book early to secure your spot as we will be limited the spaces to 50 students

A Yoga Intensive Just for Teachers

13/02/2026

Foundations of a healthy back with Donna Farhi
March 20th - 24th in Noosa.

We have had one spot become available for pur March intensive.

Please send me a message directly if you would like to join us. Gena@genakenny.com.au

In this intensive Donna will help you to understand the structure of your vertebral column and its intimate relationship to the rest of the body. This can help you to orient your yoga practice in a direction that not only leads to a pain-free back but also to a sense of wholeness and integration throughout your body. You can achieve amazing results for yourself (and your students) with gentle practices that can have surprisingly powerful effects!

To help you become your own back expert, Donna will share detailed anatomical PowerPoint presentations. She is renowned for being able to communicate complex concepts in simple, accessible language that can create a bridge between theory and practice. She will also elaborate on many of the common “alignment cues” that have perpetuated misinformation and injury within the yoga community, offering alternatives that reflect how the body works.

This workshop is for anyone who has been practicing Yoga consistently for at least a year and is especially recommended for teachers working with others. The focus of this workshop is on creating spinal health through integrated movement throughout the whole body.

Dates: March 20 – 24, 2026

Location: Noosa, Queensland

Schedule:
Friday, March 20

6:00-8:00 pm

Saturday - Tuesday

10:00-1:00 pm and 2:30-4:30 pm

Fee $875

24/01/2026

The beauty of the Whitsunday Islands gets better with each passing season. Join us for our Whitsunday Yoga and Adventure retreat from August 15th to 20th, 2026. Our own private resort ...twice daily Yoga and meditation, kayaking, stand up paddle boarding and a boat trip out to Whitehaven Beach..if that is not enticing enough...enjoy breakfast, lunch and dinner prepared by a 5 star chef. Message me for more details.

18/01/2026

Don't Hesitate

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy,
don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty
of lives and whole towns destroyed or about
to be. We are not wise, and not very often
kind. And much can never be redeemed.
Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this
is its way of fighting back, that sometimes
something happens better than all the riches
or power in the world. It could be anything,
but very likely you notice it in the instant
when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the
case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid
of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.

Mary Oliver

13/01/2026

What does the term somatic mean?

For me, it is a remembering. Long before it had a name, the body already knew how to communicate—through sensation, rhythm, and response. Somatic work brings us back to that original language, inviting us to listen beneath the noise and honor the intelligence that has always lived within the body itself.

Somatic work is an invitation for the body to speak in its own way, beneath words and stories. Rather than asking the body to perform or correct itself, this work creates space where sensation becomes the guide and awareness becomes the medicine. We slow down enough to feel the subtle tides beneath the skin—the places where the body learned to brace, adapt, or go quiet in order to survive.

Nothing is forced. The nervous system is met with patience, curiosity, and respect. As safety is gently reintroduced, tissues soften, breath deepens, and the body begins to remember its own natural rhythm. Movement returns not because it is demanded, but because it is invited.

Somatic work honors the body as an intelligent, living landscape. Every sensation carries information. Every pause has meaning. Healing unfolds not by fixing what is broken, but by restoring relationship—helping the body feel seen, heard, and safe enough to release what it has been holding.

✨ Join me for restorative and somatic movement sessions
• Live classes in Sunshine Beach
• Zoom classes available
• Or follow my YouTube channel: Gena Kenny Yoga

04/12/2025

We’ve had another fantastic response to the upcoming Donna Farhi Yoga Intensive, taking place next March in Noosa. There are currently just six spots remaining, and the early-bird offer ends on December 10. If you’re interested in attending, you can secure your place with a deposit. We hope to see you in Noosa!

This intensive is open to yoga teachers, students and those who are interesting in developing skills to ease tension and back pain.

Almost everyone at some point in their lives will suffer from back pain which the World Health Organisation calls the “leading cause of disability worldwide .

02/12/2025

Your body is worthy of reverence.....

In this moment of gratitude, I want to turn your attention to the quiet miracle that carries us through the world. The human body is not simply anatomy. It is memory, electricity, intuition, and resilience woven into form. It is the most extraordinary companion we will ever have, and so much of its brilliance happens beneath the threshold of our awareness.

This body regenerates itself without being asked. Bones reshape, skin renews, organs repair, and fascia remodels in response to how we breathe, move, and feel. Even in moments of profound fatigue, the body continues its quiet work of rebuilding us from within.

So today, may we bow to this incredible vessel that has carried us through every hardship and every joy. May we thank the fascia that holds us together, the breath that steadies us, the heart that keeps choosing to beat, and the nervous system that organizes the whole symphony.

Your body is extraordinary.
Your body is resilient.
Your body is worthy of reverence.

And today, on this day of gratitude, may you feel just how miraculous it truly is.

Body artisans..katie bell

17/11/2025

Watering the stones

Every summer I gather a few stones from
the beach and keep them in a glass bowl.
Now and again I cover them with water,
and they drink. There’s no question about
this; I put tinfoil over the bowl, tightly,
yet the water disappears. This doesn’t
mean we ever have a conversation, or that
they have the kind of feelings we do, yet
it might mean something. Whatever the
stones are, they don’t lie in the water
and do nothing.
​
Some of my friends refuse to believe it
happens, even though they’ve seen it. But
a few others-I’ve seen them walking down
the beach holding a few stones, and they
look at them rather more closely now.
Once in a while, I swear, I’ve even heard
one or two of them saying “Hello.”
Which, I think, does no harm to anyone or
anything, does it?

- Mary Oliver