Yoga for Prana

11/01/2026

Today's vision board workshop left me feeling uplifted and inspired. Maya saw what was created and was motivated to create her first one! Powerful and purposeful 💖

02/01/2026

We grow for one of two reasons: a compelling vision or a breaking point.
One is empowering. The other is urgent. Either way, change demands movement.
Which one’s driving you right now: inspiration or desperation?

28/12/2025

To my dear friends on the path,

Two years ago, I pasted on my vision board, the image on the left. 4 weeks ago, I took the photos on the right.

My goal of getting a six-pack wasn't a vanity project, it was a personal challenge to affirm my belief that I could do anything I set my mind to. I worked at it—consistently, intentionally, wholeheartedly. Two years of focus and dedication.

Along the way, I grew. I learned that discipline is a form of self-respect … and that sometimes the goals we set evolve as we evolve.

To get visible abs, I needed to loose body fat, as I started to lessen calories, small signals began to appear. Migraines. Fatigue. Mood changes. Hormones shifting. I noticed I wasn’t showing up in the world—or on the mat—the way I truly want to.

I found myself at a crossroads.

My mind was clinging tightly to the goal. It wanted to prove something. To myself… and if I’m honest, to the people who laughed when I first said I wanted this. Pride whispered, “Keep going. Don’t let them be right.”

But my heart knew better.

The cost was beginning to outweigh the benefit.

Yes, I could have continued on, pushed harder, got more definition. I know my nature, when I commit, I follow through. But pressing on would have meant trading the very essence of what I value most - health, strength, joy, presence, and authenticity - for a goal that no longer served the whole of who I am.

It’s taken me some time to fully admit this. A part of me, perhaps the little girl who fears failure, worried that letting go of this goal meant my word would lose its power. That somehow everything else would unravel.

But yoga teaches us discernment.

There is a difference between giving up and letting go.

Giving up comes from fear.
Letting go comes from wisdom.

So I am choosing to let go. Not because I can’t achieve this goal, I know that I could, but because achieving it would require sacrificing what matters more.

For today, choose alignment over attachment. Place the wisdom of your heart above the grip of the mind. Know that you are capable of achieving any goal you commit to—when it is aligned with your values, your wellbeing, and your truth.

With love and integrity, Christina x

14/12/2025

To my dear friends on the path,

I hope this finds you and your loved ones healthy and well.

At home this week, our little Elf on the Shelf has brought so much joy. Watching the children wake up each morning with that sense of awe and wonder ... eyes wide, hearts open, completely captivated by the possibility of magic.

There’s something so precious about seeing the world through their eyes. That innocent belief that anything can happen. That life is full of surprises, delight, and sparkle.

It made me think about how much our minds love magic, even as adults. We crave the feeling that something extraordinary could happen at any moment.

And, of course, our modern world knows this.
We are constantly bombarded by promises of “miracle solutions”:

Get happy, get rich, get thin, get organised. The 12-week course that will transform your life.
The cream that turns back time. The “before and after” photos that insist you could become a new person in the blink of an eye.

So much of our marketing taps into this longing. It tells us: The magic is out there — buy it, achieve it, become it.

But yoga offers a different kind of magic.

It’s not loud or flashy. It doesn’t promise instant transformation or a shiny new version of yourself.
There’s no “before and after,” only “here I am, and here I am again.”

What it does offer is far more real:

✨ Tools that support us, gently and consistently
✨ Practices that create change from the inside out
✨ Awareness that helps us see ourselves more clearly
✨ Space to breathe, soften, strengthen, and grow
✨ Presence that reconnects us with what matters
✨ Wisdom that unfolds slowly, like dawn light
✨ A return to ourselves

This week our focus is on magic. The magic of presence. The magic of breath. The magic of simply showing up.

03/12/2025

This month's newsletter... the power of vision

There’s a quickening in the air, a fullness in my days, a feeling that everything is happening all at once. The calendar packs itself, the to-do lists seem to grow overnight, and even the joyful parts; celebrations, family traditions, end-of-year gatherings, can leave me feeling stretched in more ...

02/12/2025

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18/11/2025

To my dear friends on the path,

I hope this finds you and your loved ones well.

Two years ago, I was lying in bed after wrist surgery, wondering if I would ever be able to use my arms without pain again. The simplest actions, brushing my hair, holding a cup of tea, supporting myself on the mat, felt impossibly far away. After months of pain prior to surgery and the uncertainty after, I wasn’t sure how, or even if, my body would recover, repair, and renew.

I have to be mindful of the way I use my hands, wrists and arms but today, I’m reminded what a privilege it is to move freely ... to feel both capable and connected.

When we bear weight through our arms, we’re reminded of how much they do for us, not only in the shapes we create, but in the way they connect us to the world. They hold, lift, push away, pull close. They are the bridge between effort and expression, between our heart and the space around us.

In this way, our arms mirror our relationships. They teach us how to extend without overreaching, how to support without losing ourselves, and how to open our hearts while staying grounded. Just as in the body, harmony arises when strength meets softness, when we balance giving and receiving, holding and releasing, action and rest.

This week’s practice is all about the arms ... finding that delicate balance between stability and surrender. It’s an invitation to explore what it means to be supported from within, so that our connections with others can flow with more ease and authenticity.

As we prepare for The Art of Harmonious Relationships workshop in Braidwood on Friday night, may our physical practice remind us that every relationship - with others, with our body, with life itself - begins in the same place: the willingness to move from the heart.

May your arms, your actions, and your presence be guided by both strength and grace.

18/11/2025

Today's class we focused on the arms and gratitude, perfect way to start the day 🌞

29/10/2025

To my dear friends on the path,

I hope this finds you and your loved ones well.

This past week, I’ve noticed myself quick to anger ... a sharp tone in my voice, a tightness in my chest, a low hum of irritation lingering in the background.

After a few days of trying to think my way into a more zen state of mind, I finally pulled out my trusty notebook and began to write. As the words spilled out, I realised the anger wasn’t the root, it was a shield. Beneath it sat sadness. Sadness for the things I can’t control, for the moments that feel too heavy, too much. Seeing that truth softened something inside me. It created the space I needed to breathe and let the emotion move through.

It’s similar when I sit with Kailash in his anger. His emotions can be intense and unpredictable, and sometimes mine rise right alongside his. But when I can see past his anger, to the hurt or frustration beneath, I’m reminded that what he needs most isn’t my correction, but my calm. My listening. My steady breath.

Yoga keeps teaching me this again and again: emotions are not problems to fix, but energies to move through. When we meet them with curiosity rather than judgement, they begin to unravel on their own, revealing what they’re trying to show us.

In this week’s classes, we’ll explore both anger and sadness, how they move through the body, how we can meet them with breath and awareness, and how understanding them can bring a quiet kind of healing.

24/10/2025

Tonight's workshop to explore the subconscious and doorway to deeper self-understanding through dreams. Leaving inspired and full of gratitude for those who joined 🙏🏼

10/10/2025

Beautiful start to the day! I am so blessed to do what I love ❤️

04/10/2025

To my dear friends on the path,

So much of life invites us to rush, to plan, to predict, to know what comes next. With the long weekend, school holidays and routine shifts I have been working to loosen my grip on the “shoulds” and expectations, to instead allow space for life to unfold.

There is comfort in perceiving it's all figured out, but as much as we can try to prepare and control what's to come, we never really know.

In this weeks classes I am going to ask what you would like to focus on – body part, topic, theme. Together we can see how it unfolds, bringing a sense of curiosity and presence.