Pranayoga Bathurst

06/12/2025

WOW Yogis !!!! memories🥰
Community Yoga
11 years @ Mayfield Garden 🧘‍♀️

Yoga with Jan Green from Praynayoga by the Obelisk Pond

06/12/2025

I hope you live louder
Shine Brighter ✨✨✨
& have a wonderful Sunday 🩷

05/12/2025

Christmas Community Yoga Sunday 10am -11am
Machattie Park
EveryBody is welcome
BYO friends family & yoga mat 🧘‍♀️🎄🙏🏿

03/12/2025

Full moon 🌕 in Gemini ♊️
Gemini asks you to listen to the voice you keep quiet when the world is loud.
There is truth in your softness.

Let this moon show you where you are carrying what was never yours
to hold.
Lay it down.
You are allowed to.

Your wildness has not left you.
It only waits for the moments you stop abandoning yourself.

You do not need to become more.
You only need to return to the woman you were before you learned to hide.

What feels heavy now is simply a truth you've outgrown.
And this Gemini Full Moon makes it impossible to ignore.

Remember this.
Your inner voice is the truest one you have.
Let it lead you home.🙏🏿

03/12/2025

Gift of Yoga 💝
This Christmas, why not skip the socks and give something that actually nourishes the heart?
A yoga gift voucher is an instant exhale... a quiet moment in a noisy world...
a loving nudge back to self 💞

Vouchers can be used for:
• Yoga classes
• Workshops
• Or as a deposit/payment toward a Yoga & Wellness
Retreat 🧚🏻‍♀️🌴

Let's sprinkle this season with calm, connection, and a little bit of magic through yoga ✨

Namaste, beautiful souls
Jan 🙏🏿

02/12/2025

Softness Opens Doors That Force Cannot Move -
In a world that often glorifies hustle and striving, it's easy to overlook the power of softness.
We're constantly bombarded with messages telling us to push harder, grind more, and never give up.
But what if the key to unlocking our true potential lies not in forceful effort, but in gentle embrace?
Yoga teaches us that softness is not weakness; it's strength.
It's the ability to yield without breaking, to adapt without resisting.
It's the subtle force that moves mountains, the gentle breeze that changes direction.
When we approach our yoga practice with softness,
we create space for transformation.
We allow our bodies to release tension, our minds to quiet chatter, and our hearts to open to new possibilities.
As we cultivate softness on our mats, we carry it off into our lives.
We become more compassionate, more understanding, and more forgiving.
We learn to approach challenges with patience and grace, and we discover the resilience that lies within.
So, let go of the need to force and embrace the power of softness.
Allow your practice to be a journey of gentle exploration, and watch as doors that were once closed begin to open
🧘‍♀️
Namaste
Jan 🧘‍♀️🙏🏿

01/12/2025

Tuesday yogaflow 9.30 Jan 🌺I'm back on the mat today at Pranayoga after two magical (and slightly wild) weeks in Sri Lanka - yes, safely and soundly home, after the cyclone decided to make an appearance 🙏🏿
Sending so much love to Sri Lanka...
May the land be held, the hearts be safe, and the skies be kind🙏🏿

December is busy, loud, sparkly and a little chaotic...
so let's meet it with breath, movement, stillness and a whole lot of bliss.
Come stretch out the year with me and gently welcome the festive season, one
conscious inhale at a time.🧘‍♀️💜

See you all on the mat soon
Jan 🧚🏻‍♀️🌺

01/12/2025

Fascia and Yoga 🧘‍♀️ 🙌🏻 🌺
Your fascial system is as important as any other system in your body. Practicing yoga can keep it healthy—and even reshape it for better flexibility and stability.
A leg stretch softens your tight shoulders, a hip-opener relieves your low-back pain. This happens by nature's design: We each have a body-wide collagenous web, commonly called “fascia,” and when something happens to one part of the web we can feel its effects elsewhere.

Fascia surrounds structures in your body, including muscles, organs, and bones. It also occupies the space between your cells, interstitial space. Fascia both integrates and separates your body's structures and systems. This way of thinking about the body moves away from identifying isolated parts. Rather, you work as a whole,”
Fascial Elements and Yoga
Movement, including yoga asana, keeps fascia healthy, by keeping it active, hydrated, and resilient. Yoga affects four key elements of fascia:
💥Water. Fascia is mostly water. When you stretch or contract muscles, or hold a yoga pose, water squeezes from your fascia. When you stop the movement or exit a stretch, your tissue rehydrates—with a boost: Scientific evidence shows that fascia soaks up more water than it lost when you squeezed it out through movement. “The water moves, the water changes position, and the water carrying all kinds of chemicals in and out of your tissue. Yoga is especially good at facilitating this renewal because its postures move your body systematically through full ranges of motion.
💥Hyaluronan. is spongy and soaks up water. When well-hydrated, it has a gel-like texture similar to egg whites. “There's almost zero friction inside your joints because of the really good lubricative properties of this hyaluronan when it's in its wet stage. But when hyaluronan is less hydrated, it's sticky. When you stop moving, or through natural aging, the fascia is less lubricated and joints start rubbing on each other, moving then toward arthritis. . The actual chemistry inside the joints moves it toward an arthritic state, a degenerated state. Overuse can be problematic too: inflammation from too much friction can cut up hyaluronan chains, making it harder for the tissue to stick together and keep water at bay. “Water comes rushing in, and we call that swelling
💥 Glycoaminoglycans. capture moisture. They unfurl like ferns when near water, drawing water molecules along their edges. Inactivity keeps them curled in on themselves. “The movements that you're doing in yoga, especially when you're going into a (body) part that you don't use normally, are cracking open these glycoaminoglycans so they open up and accept the water,”
💥 Collagen. (the white sinewy stuff you can see in meat) is stronger than steel. Its fibers lie alongside each other.“When you put this under stretch, these sticky molecules can let go, The bonds between these fibers melt. The fibers slide on each other and then the bonds reform in a longer way

“What we do on the mat is the stimulus, Your body is more interested in what happens when you get off the mat.
In other words, it’s more interested in the remodeling, or re-knitting.
Over time, remodeling can help build healthier patterns in fascia, correcting the poor posture of a forward head jut (aka text neck), for example.
🙌🏻🌺🧘‍♀️💥⚡️✨🧘‍♀️🙏🏿

01/12/2025

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I am a yogini & a lover of life
I have been practicing & teaching yoga for many years, traveling hosting Yoga & Wellness Retreats & workshops✨🧘‍♀️

I feel in some ways my entire
life was leading to these particular practices 🌍
I believe in yoga like I believe
in the power of love ❤️
It is my path,
my practice,
my dharma 🧘‍♀️✨🙏🏿
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30/11/2025

Happy December Yogis 🧚🏻‍♀️
As the year slowly exhales and the holiday season twinkles louder, don't forget to give yourself the most generous gift of all... rest ✨
Not the kind you squeeze in between errands — the kind that actually fills your cup.
There are seven types of rest that help soften burnout,
ease stress, and gently restore your energy.

When you honour them,
your mood lifts, your focus sharpens, and your
resilience grows , even on the busiest, most chaotic December days.
Rest isn't laziness.
It's love.
It's wisdom.
It's your nervous system
finally being heard.

So go softly... the world can wait.

💜 Physical rest
Let your body melt a little.
Deep sleep.
Slow stretches.
Gentle, loving movement.
Repair happens in the quiet.
💜 Mental rest
Put the thinking cap down.
Fewer decisions.
Fewer tabs open.
Give your mind some empty sky to drift across.
💜Sensory rest
Lower the volume of the world. Ditch the screens, dim the lights, soften the sounds.
Your nervous system will sigh in relief.
💜 Creative rest
Feed your imagination without forcing output.
Walk in nature.
Stare at the ocean.
Let beauty rewire your brain, one tiny miracle at a time.
💜 Emotional rest
Speak your truth without the mask.
Feel what's real.
Honour the heart's weather instead of pretending it's always sunny.
💜 Social rest
Choose your people wisely.
Balance connection with delicious solitude.
Remember: alone doesn't mean lonely.
💜 Spiritual rest
Return to the bigger pulse.
Through prayer, meditation, ritual, nature, or stillness.
Feel yourself held by something ancient and kind.🙏🏿

So go softly
The world can wait 🧚🏻‍♀️💜
Jan 🧘‍♀️