I have a special mantra, given to me by a Yogiraj that I repeat to change myself. To stop habits that are no longer serving. To make me different. To make me more perfect. Better than yesterday. For a while I was ok with it, good with it even. But nothing changed. My habits stayed [...]
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Mirror Mirror
We place so much emphasis on what is outside. How we look, what we are wearing and what the scales say. But we only ever see a reflection of ourselves. If we don't know where to look for it, we often miss our true beauty. I had a conversation with a few women the other [...]
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Materialism Is Just A Call For Help
We are all just looking for peace. That place where the mind stills and we feel content with who we are and all we have. What I find in meditation can be satisfied for hours, maybe minutes maybe seconds by submitting to our wants. To the calling of the mind to buy this, to buy [...]
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How To End Your Bad Habits In 4 Easy Steps.
What would it look like to stop analysing what we are doing right and what we are doing wrong? How would it feel to not have a list at the end of each day assessing our successes and failures? To close our eyes each night with the joy of moments in our lives instead of [...]
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Too Much To Do? Read This
I know you're busy. I know you probably don't have time to read this. But indulge me. Indulge yourself. What if you didn't have to be busy? What if the most exhausted person you know, wasn't you? What if you slowed down. Stopped? What would happen? Would your world fall apart or would the fun, [...]
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How To Create A Life You Love
Today I am reflecting on my life and how it came to be. Today is the first day in seven and a half years that I am on my own, during a weekday. My two eldest are back to school and my littlest Elijah has started his little pre-kindy program. I was a very different [...]
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The Benefits of Teaching Meditation and Mindfulness to Children
I am currently undertaking my yoga teacher training at Tamara Yoga in Perth and as part of my course we are asked to complete a research assignment on a suggested topic or a topic of our own choosing. I decided to choose my own, going with the area I was most interested in. Having three [...]
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How To Deepen Your Meditation
I was at a yoga workshop yesterday on pranayama, the work of controlling or restricting your breath, or life-force in yoga. The beautiful teacher was talking about the breathe, the mechanics, the different types of breath work we can do in our practice and then she said something that struck me as profound. I knew [...]
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The Parent I Want To Be
I am always learning. Sometimes it gets a little uncomfortable when you realise the chasm between who you are now and where you want to go. I'm reading a book called Conscious Parenting by Dr Shefali Tsabary at the moment. I don't read parenting books that tell me when my children should go to bed [...]
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Mums Just Want To Be Appreciated
Did you read that hilarious post by Brad Kearns about being Mum for the day? It was so well written, hilarious and right on the money, but you know what I, and probably most of the Mums out there, loved the most about it? The perspective it gave him to appreciate how hard his wife works. [...]
