Yoga Circle

13/01/2026

Welcome Back -

Welcome back! I hope your summer has offered moments of joy, light, fun, rest, and reconnection. We are back in the flow of our regular timetable from this week, and I’m really looking forward to seeing you on your mat again soon. This year we began with a very simple daily reflection, designed to...

11/01/2026

Did you know you can join me six days a week online, live from your own home, and practise yoga in a way that truly supports your life?

We even have 7.00am morning classes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday — a calm, grounded way to begin your day before the world gets noisy.

No rushing to class.
No commute.
No need to find a car park.

Just roll out your mat, login to zoom, your connect with your body and breath.

This weekly habit creates a steady rhythm that builds strength, balance, and ease over time.

So if you’ve been craving consistency when it comes to movement and are looking for more ease.

If you want to feel supported and connect with a wonderful community, this is your invitation.

Even if you have tried to be consistent before you can always begin again

And this is your time.

DM me or comment Yoga below and I will give you the details for a free trial.

27/12/2025

“We are what we repeatedly do.” — Aristotle

Not what we do occasionally.

So if you’ve noticed a little more indulgence over the holidays and have felt guilt or shame creep in, you can chose to "let it go."

You are shaped by what you repeatedly think, feel, and practise.

You are not defined by a few festive days.

Enjoying yourself doesn’t mean you’ve lost your way.

It simply means you get to begin again, right where you are, with what you have, when you’re ready.

Guilt and shame only slow the process.

So practise trusting yourself instead.

Remember you always return to the habits that care for your future self, because your health and wellbeing matter to you.

And you are someone who keeps the promises you make to yourself.

Keeping promises is built through small, repeated acts of care rather than bursts of motivation and therefore it helps to have a place where those habits are quietly supported.

That’s exactly what we do inside Yoga Circle an online yoga membership designed to help you return to your mat, build strength, flexibility and balance, and keep showing up for yourself in a way that fits real life.

If you are already you are in the right place :-) if you would like more insight, DM me or comment below.

We would LOVE to welcome you in 2026!

24/12/2025

Merry Christmas everyone.
Wishing you a joy filled day, however it looks for you whether you’re surrounded by family, sharing a meal with friends, enjoying your own peaceful space, or quietly holding someone you love in your heart today.

May there be small moments of warmth, ease, and gratitude sprinkled through your day.

18/12/2025

One Thing I Want for You -

As a woman who has juggled career, family, caregiving, and running a business, I know exactly how easy it is to put yourself last.

17/12/2025

Here’s something I’ve learned over many years working with thousands of students and coaching clients:

Self-sabotage is normal. We all do it from time to time.

It isn’t self-destruction.
It isn’t a fundamental flaw.
It serves a purpose.

That purpose is safety.

Whenever we up-level; in our wellbeing, our work, or our lives, we are asked to let go of old versions of ourselves. And that can quietly activate feelings or beliefs (often unconsciously) around safety.

There are different types of sabotage patterns.

One of the most common I see, especially in women who come to yoga, is the Over-Giver.

The Over-Giver learned that:
• caring for others was safe
• being needed mattered
• self-care could wait

So when it’s time to show up for yourself, to come to a yoga class, to rest, to move your body, to prioritise yourself something “gets in the way.”

Not because you don’t want to it.
Not because you lack willpower.
Not because you’re lazy.

But because an old belief is being triggered… and it’s doing its job.

It might sound like:
• “Everyone else needs me first.”
• “I’ll do it later.”
• “It’s not that important.”
• "I'm so busy"
• "I don’t have time"

This is why our yoga practice isn’t just physical.

Every time you come to the mat, "you practise keeping the promises you make to yourself."

Every time you keep a promise, you gently rewire safety, self-trust, and self-belief.

This isn’t about pushing through or fixing yourself.

It’s about healing.

Healing the part that feels it has to over give in order to "be enough."

And it's time

You are enough.
And you do enough.

So here's permission to gift yourself time for YOU today and a gentle reminder to apply grace when ever you notice your saboteurs in action.

I hope this helps tx

12/12/2025

A moment that shaped who I am today…

I ran a face-to-face yoga studio for 18 years.

Then around 2022, something happened that quietly changed the trajectory of my life and business.

I got a quiet message: you know that internal whisper, that you know is right.

The message was:
“It’s time to close the studio. Someone else needs this house more than you.”

I ignored it for months.

It couldn’t possibly be true.
Yoga Circle needed that space.
I needed that space.

Then one day, the clock in my studio, the very first thing I bought when I opened, suddenly stopped.
Not the batteries.
Not a loose screw.
Just stopped.

And what is more, it had stopped at the exact time my grandmother passed… a moment I remember clearly, because I was teaching yoga in that room when it happened.

I couldn’t ignore the whisper anymore.

Not long after, I came across a Facebook post from a woman in her 80s.
She had 10 days to leave the home she’d lived in for 21 years. She had a dog and nowhere to go.

This was the moment everything clicked.

She was the “someone” who needed the house more than me.

I closed my studio and moved my yoga and coaching online.

She moved in.
She still lives there today.

Moving online meant stepping into a new version of myself. Of course, there was doubt and the voice inside that asked,
“Who do you think you are?”

To which I consistently responded
“I am in the process becoming exact who I’m meant to be.”

Sometimes letting go isn’t a loss, it’s an act of becoming. A quiet trust in the next chapter even when you can’t see it.

I have now been running an online Yoga Membership for 3 years

Has this ever happened to you?

When something inside you knew it was time… before your head caught up?

I'd love to know... drop in the comments below

10/12/2025

The number one thing I want for you is to care for your future self through the body you live in today.

As a woman who has juggled career, family, caregiving and business, I know how easy it is to put yourself last.

To skip breakfast.
To say later and mean it…
only to crash into bed at 10pm.
To cancel the class you booked because life needed you more.

I’ve been the woman who sacrificed herself just to keep everything running.

And I’ve watched women do the same — not because they don’t care, but because we learned everyone else comes first.

Every time we cancel on ourselves, we chip away at self-trust.
We reinforce the quiet belief: My needs can wait.

But you matter.
And your future self needs you now.

I want you to feel at home in your body — to listen, to nourish, to hydrate, to breathe.
To rebuild trust by keeping the promises you make to yourself.
To treat your body like someone you love.

Yes — inside my yoga membership we have nine live online classes each week, replays, and a beautiful community of women over 40…

But the real magic is this:

When you join, you declare I matter.

We practice showing up gently and consistently — and when you do that?
Everything changes.

Women who tend to themselves rewrite their futures.
We model self-care for our daughters, our families, our lineage.
Ease becomes normal.
Self-worth becomes inherited.

If you’re ready, comment “it’s time” or DM me.
After all… it is time. ✨

09/12/2025

I love my life. Truly.
And I’m grateful for it all.

There was a time I thought I needed so many things to feel “complete.”
And like most driven women, I went out and created them.

A loving relationship ✔️
A family ✔️
A meaningful career ✔️
Teaching at universities ✔️
Coaching incredible women ✔️
Properties ✔️
A thriving online business ✔️
A daily yoga practice that anchors my life ✔️
And now… homeschooling our daughter in a way that honours curiosity and freedom ✔️

The younger me would be so proud.

And yet, the deeper I grow, the clearer it becomes:
Wholeness doesn’t come from ticking boxes.
It comes from who you become.

My early life taught me resilience and shaped my commitment to understanding healing and human behaviour. It’s why I’ve taught psychology, sociology and business for decades. It’s why I’ve trained thousands of social workers. It’s why I care so deeply about women rising.

And here’s the truth:
When women grow, we meet our saboteurs.
Our upper limits.
The quiet stories that hold us back from our next level of ease, expansion and visibility.

I’ve met mine at every new season of growth.
I understand them now and I’ve learned how to move beyond them.

This year’s injury slowed me down just enough to hear the whisper:
“It’s time.”

Time for a different kind of success.
A richer alignment.
A deeper contribution.

It’s time for me to teach women how to rise through their upper limits, understand their saboteurs, and create the lives they’ve been longing for, in bodies they love.

Because when you know your patterns, you can change them.
When you see your saboteurs, you stop sabotaging.

And when you rise beyond your upper limits, you step into a life that feels complete from the inside out.

It’s time.
Drop a ❤️ if this resonates.

yogacircle

09/12/2025

I love my life. Truly.
I’m grateful for it all.

There was a time when I thought I needed so many other things to feel “complete.” And like most driven women, I set out to create them.

A beautiful, loving relationship ✔️
A family ✔️
A meaningful career ✔️
Teaching at universities ✔️
Coaching incredible women ✔️
Properties ✔️
A thriving online business ✔️
A daily yoga practice that anchors my life ✔️

And now… I get to homeschool our daughter in a way that honours curiosity and freedom too ✔️

When I look at my life today, I often think, “The younger versions of me would be so proud of how far we’ve come.”

The more I’ve grown, the more I’ve realised something important:

Wholeness doesn’t come from what you tick off the list.
It comes from who you become.

My early life taught me a lot about resilience and the ways we learn to protect ourselves.
Although I’m not ready to share those details publicly, I will say this: those experiences shaped my lifelong commitment to understanding human behaviour, healing, and change.

It’s why I’ve spent decades teaching psychology, sociology, and business.
It’s why I’ve trained thousands of social workers.
It’s why I care so deeply about women rising.

And here’s the truth:
When women grow, we inevitably meet our internal saboteurs, the parts of ourselves that try to keep us “safe,” yet inevitably hold us back from stepping into our fullest lives.

I know this intimately, because every time I’ve grown into a new level of my own evolution, I’ve had to meet my own saboteurs there. I understand them now. I know how to work with them and ultimately grow beyond them.

This year, I had an injury that slowed me down. It invited a pause and created a profound shift.
A deeper clarity.
A steadiness I have felt before.
A knowing.
A whisper that says,
“It’s time.”

It’s time for a different kind of success.
A richer form of alignment.

In this clarity, I could finally see what had been there all along:

It’s time for me to teach other women how to rise through their upper limits, to understand their saboteurs so they too can create the lives of their dreams in bodies they love.

All of us, including the most capable, successful, self-aware women have saboteurs
upper limits…
old stories…
internal narratives that quietly hold us back from our next level of ease, expansion, and visibility.

When you know your patterns, you can change them.
When you see your saboteurs, you stop sabotaging.

And when you rise beyond your upper limits, you step into a life that feels not just successful but complete from the inside out.

So yes…
It’s time! And I am ready for this step.

Drop a ❤️ If any part of this resonates

08/12/2025

One of the wildest things I ever did…
Was pack up my life in NZ, with my newborn, and move to the Middle East.

Nothing about it made sense on paper.

At 27, I had a surprise pregnancy.
No maternity leave, no pay, no job protection.

Keeping the baby meant giving up my swanky research job…and suddenly my whole life felt pre-written:

Buy the house.
Have the baby.
Get married.
Repeat.

One night, in the middle of that emptiness, I said to my partner,
“Let’s apply for jobs around the world.”

So after the baby was asleep, we sat by the dial-up internet and sent applications to places we could barely pronounce.

Then it happened:
Dubai.
A contract offer.
A city no one we knew had ever been to.

We ordered a Lonely Planet guide and waited three weeks to find out where we were moving.

And then… the day after we signed the papers, the planes hit the towers.

Everyone told us not to go.
But something in me knew:
If I didn’t take this chance, I’d stay stuck in a life that didn’t feel like mine.

So we went.
New baby in my arms, one giant leap into the unknown.

That decision changed everything.

* I learned I was braver than I thought.

* I learned reinvention is always available.

* And I learned that intuition is the quiet whisper beneath the noise.

Fear is loud.
Fear is dramatic.

Fear and intuition can coexist.

*You can feel terrified and still know what’s right.

* You can hold fear in one hand and self-trust in the other… and keep moving anyway.

The big lesson:
If your intuition whispers “there’s more”

Listen.

It might just lead you to a whole new world.

Afterall, It’s time to create the life of your dreams in a body you love.

08/12/2025

One of the wildest things I ever did....

Was pack up my life on NZ with my newborn and moved to the Middle East. Nothing about it made sense on paper.

At 27, I had a surprise pregnancy.

Back in the 1990 there was no maternity leave, no pay, no job protection.

Keeping the baby meant giving up my swanky research job.

So I went from career woman to mum … and suddenly it felt like my whole life had been pre-written:

Buy the house.
Have the baby.
Get married.

Go back to work.
Build the portfolio.
Repeat.

I remember thinking, “Is this it? Is this all there is?” with gut wrenching despair.

Then one night, in the middle of that emptiness, I said to my partner:

“Let’s apply for jobs all around the world.”

We didn’t overthink it.
We didn’t have a strategy.

I just knew something needed to change.

So every night, after the baby was asleep, we turned on the dial-up internet and sent applications to places we could barely pronounce.

Then it happened:
Dubai.

A contract offer.

In a city nobody we knew had ever been to.

We literally had to order a Lonely Planet guide and wait three weeks to find out where we were moving.

And then…the day after we signed the papers, the planes went into the towers.

The whole world stopped.
Everyone told us not to go.
People said we were reckless, irresponsible, naïve.

But something in me knew:
If I didn’t take this chance, I’d stay stuck in a life that didn’t feel like mine.

So we went.
New baby in my arms I boarded a jet plane and took one giant leap into the unknown.

That single decision changed the entire direction of my life.

I learned I was braver than I thought.

I learned that reinvention is always available.

I learned that intuition is the quiet voice. The wiser whisper beneath the noise.

Fear is loud. Fear is dramatic. Fear is disruptive.
And yet… fear and intuition can coexist.

You can feel terrified and still know what’s right.

You can doubt yourself and still sense the path.

You can hold fear in one hand and self-trust in the other and keep moving anyway.

The wildest part of this move is that it became the foundation for every bold move I’ve made since: my career, my businesses, my freedom, my life.

The big lesson:
If your intuition whispers
“there’s more,”

Listen.

It might just lead you to a whole new world.

It's time to create the life of your dreams in a body you love.