Stress Monkey Solutions

13/01/2026

Beautifully put 👏

13/01/2026

12/01/2026

New Class highlight!

Starting Tuesday 20th, join us in the Clan Macquarrie Centre for a 6-week Gentle Yoga and Somatic Mobility Series!

A soft, accessible yoga series designed especially for those who want to move more easily, breathe more deeply, and feel more at home in their bodies.

This class blends gentle chair-based yoga, floor options, fascia-friendly mobility, and slow somatic unwinding. If you're living with stiffness, fatigue, tension, pain, or just simply needing a calmer approach to movement, then this class is ideal for you!

Come as you are - movements are adaptable for all levels, with freedom to stay on the chair or explore some gentle floorwork if you're comfortable 🧘‍♀️

This class is also part of SUNND 2026, with subsidised tickets for those residing within the Galson Estate area.

Booking via our BookWhen site: https://bookwhen.com/stressmonkey

08/01/2026

January isn’t only about beginnings.
For some of us, it’s a month of remembering.
Of carrying what — and who — brought us here.
This time last year I was organising a funeral and clearing a flat.
Before that, years of caring — learning how invisible grief can be when you’re the one holding everything together.
No one tells you how exhausting it is to be a voice for someone who no longer has the strength.
How unfeeling systems can be.
How deeply those final moments stay in your body.
I kept going by being “normal” — travelling, working, running projects — while the world I knew was quietly falling apart.
January asks us to move forward.
But it also asks us to remember what it took to get here.
If you’re starting this year feeling tender, changed, or less willing to tolerate what once felt acceptable — you’re not behind.
You’re remembering.

Full reflection in this month’s Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/stressmonkeyclub/p/january-and-remembering?r=5fnsrr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

07/01/2026

Fascia is not just packaging around muscles. It’s a living, sensing network that runs through the entire body.
Before the brain forms a thought, fascia has already registered sensation. Pressure. Stretch. Threat. Safety. It’s one of the primary ways the body knows where it is and how it feels inside itself.
Fascia contains an enormous number of nerve endings. It listens for movement, responds to pain, and carries information about our internal state. This is why experiences like stress, injury, illness, or trauma don’t just live in the mind. They register in the tissues.
When fascia becomes dehydrated, held, or overloaded, the body can feel stiff, disconnected, painful, or oddly numb. When it’s supported through gentle movement, breath, rhythm, and variability, people often report feeling more fluid, grounded, and at home in themselves.
This is also why slow, mindful practices can be so powerful. They don’t just “work muscles”. They communicate directly with the sensory system that helps us feel safe, coherent, and present.
The body is always listening. Sometimes healing starts not with effort, but with learning how to listen back.

06/01/2026

Some days break us open.
Some days teach lessons we didn’t ask for.
And yet, there are still soft mornings, kind faces, second chances. I’m holding onto that balance as this year begins.
All of it shapes us. None of it is wasted.