Sundara Yoga and Wellness

28/11/2025

💙 Blue Lotus Vidhi — A Ritual for These Vedic Times 💙

Beautiful Souls, as we close out the final breaths of Spring and gently cross the threshold into the radiance of Summer, the cosmos is offering us a rare moment of awakening.

These current Vedic astrology energies — the very frequencies you felt so deeply in our recent Blue Lotus class — are inviting us into clarity, softness, and soulful blooming. They whisper: Slow down. Ritualise. Receive. Awaken.

This is why I am so delighted to support and share the 'Blue Lotus Vidhi', a sacred ritual oil created by Holy Sanity, our beautiful Ayurvedic product supplier. It has become one of the most loved blends in our community.

💙 What the Blue Lotus Vidhi oil offers:

* a gentle third-eye opening

* a softening and steadying of the heart

* clarity as we leave the winds of Spring and enter the radiance of Summer

* a way to remember who you are beneath the noise

* a sacred moment to pause, anoint, and come home to your own light

Use it in your daily practice… before meditation… at your altar… or anytime the world feels a little loud.
One drop on the third eye, wrists, and heart — breathe, soften, and blossom.

✨ A thoughtful and sacred Christmas gift

If you’re looking for something meaningful, intentional, and aligned… this is the perfect offering.
A gift for the soul — for someone who loves ritual, or someone who needs it.

🌿 How to purchase

My website payment portal is still having a little “silly season wobble,” so for now:

📩 Message me directly
💰 Direct deposit
🌼 Pick-up from the studio

50ml — $75
15ml — $36

For those who joined the Blue Lotus class, you already know how beautiful this blend feels on the body, mind, and subtle heart.
And if you missed the class — trust your intuition. This is a powerful moment in the cosmos to deepen your rituals and let yourself bloom into Summer.

💙 A reminder from the Blue Lotus:
You rise from the depths. You bloom in your own timing. Your light is your vidhi.

24/11/2025

Checking in after that massive storm yesterday… 🌧💨

To my beautiful yoga community – are you all ok?
I’ve been thinking of you and hoping you and your families are safe, with minimal damage or disruption.

I also wanted to let you know that I’ve had no phone service since Sunday and still don’t, so if you’ve tried to call or text and haven’t heard back, that’s why. 💛

For now, please contact me via WhatsApp if you need to reach me about sessions, classes, or anything at all. It’s the only thing working reliably at the moment.

Sending love and calm through the chaos,
Jo 🤍

24/11/2025

💛 Deep Gratitude + A Nourishing Finale 💛

As we wrap up this incredible year, I want to take a moment to thank each and every one of you who has joined me on the mat. Your presence and energy have made this journey so special, and I’m truly grateful for the trust you’ve placed in me.

Tonight, we close the year with something extra special:
✨ Yin Shoulder Therapy ✨

This deeply nourishing practice is designed to melt away tension, open the heart space, and bring a sense of calm and release before the holiday season. It’s gentle, restorative, and perfect for anyone craving softness and stillness.

This class is fully booked (just waiting on a few final payments), and I can’t wait to share this beautiful experience with you before we take a short three-week break.

Thank you for making this year unforgettable. Here’s to more healing, connection, and growth together in the new year. 💛

17/11/2025

✨ Blue Lotus — Rebirth, Awakening & the Journey of the Soul ✨

This week, we turn toward the Blue Lotus — the ancient symbol of awakening, rebirth, and the soul’s timeless journey toward self-realisation.

Across cultures, but most vividly in ancient Egypt, the blue lotus (Nymphaea caerulea) was revered as a flower of the sun and of the soul. It was said to open with the rising light and close again at sunset, embodying the eternal cycle of renewal. This daily unfurling made it a powerful symbol for the mysteries of life, death, and rebirth — the same inner cycle we meet again and again on our yoga mat. And its relevance in our season of Spring needs no connecting.

The lotus invites us to remember that we too rise from the mud.
We grow through density, emotion, the unconscious, and the unintegrated parts of ourselves… and yet we open — again and again — to light.

The Blue Lotus was often placed in tombs and sacred rites, a guide through the afterlife and a companion for the soul as it crossed thresholds. Some traditions even suggest it was used ceremonially for its psychoactive qualities — a way of softening the boundary between the physical and the divine, enhancing states of insight, communion, and deep presence.

But beyond myth or ritual, the lotus teaches the same lesson echoed in yoga:
✨ Your soul unfolds in layers.
Each petal is a realisation.
Each opening is a moment of truth.

A New Moon Invitation
As we enter the quiet, reflective energy of the New Moon, the Blue Lotus becomes an especially potent symbol.

The New Moon invites us inward — into darkness, into mystery, into the fertile soil of potential. It mirrors the closed bud before the bloom. It is the pause before the next chapter of light.

Just like the lotus rests in the depths before rising, this is a time to:
• sit with the heart
• acknowledge emotional truths
• honour what has shaped you
• release what no longer needs to be carried
• allow your inner petals to gently unfold
There is no forcing here. Only soft revelation.

The Lotus as a Map for Inner Healing
The petals of the lotus flower blossom one by one, each holding a lesson, a memory, a wisdom-gift earned through lived experience. Yoga honours this unfolding.
Your soul lessons are the petals.
Some are tender.
Some are fierce.
Some are ancient.
All belong.

On the mat, we meet them through breath, through sensation, through the subtle movements of fascia and energy. The meridians that run beneath the skin hold stories of the past — and when we stretch, breathe, and soften into them, the body releases what the mind is ready to understand.

This week in practice, we will move slowly and deliberately:
✨ exploring the meridian lines that tend to feel congested during times of emotional transition
✨ nourishing the spine
✨ opening the hips and inner thighs
✨ massaging the back-line meridians connected to held tension, kidneys, adrenals, and unspoken memories
Each posture becomes another petal opening.

As always, I am in awe of the alignment of the sacred — the way nature, myth, and the wisdom of the body weave together to guide us home to ourselves.

16/11/2025

Our last class before I break will be Monday 24 Nov with a promise of my special shoulder therapy class!!!
And we shall return back on the mat Monday 15 Dec 🌿

The Yoga Shala will be closed during this time for a little spring clean and refresh while I’m away supporting family — ready to welcome you all back with renewed energy and a fresh, grounded space.

See you on the mat soon 🤍

15/11/2025

See you tonight 🌟🙏🌿❤️

12/11/2025

10/11/2025

🌿 Late Spring Yin ~ The Flow of Renewal

As spring begins to soften into summer, we enter a sacred space of transition — a time to integrate the growth that’s already begun and to steady our energy before the next expansion.

This week’s Yin practice invites renewal that is both gentle and grounding — a return to the natural rhythm of flow in body, mind, and spirit.

Like the rain nourishing the earth, we’ll encourage the movement of fluids through deep tissues and organs, helping to release stagnancy and replenish vitality. This practice massages the inner thighs, lower back, and side body — awakening the river of life within and restoring our connection to the body’s innate intelligence.

Through stillness, we attune to the deeper current of the season — the quiet pulse of renewal that reminds us:
🌸 life continues to move,
🌿 new seeds are still growing,
☀️ and energy always finds its flow again.

We’ll close by grounding the light of this season into the heart — feeling the essence of renewal settle within as clarity, new promise, and peace.

Join us as we honour this late spring transition — to move fluidly, rest deeply, and return to flow.

Monday 5.30pm
Tuesday 6.00pm
Wednesday 9.30am

03/11/2025

🌱 Yin Yoga | The Wood Element | Cycles of Becoming 🌧️

This week we journey through the Wood Element — the expression of Spring, of movement after stillness, and of the will to grow toward the light, no matter how many times life asks us to begin again.

After so much rain, the earth softens — and beneath the surface, new shoots find their way upward. 🌿
This is the nature of Wood: growth, flexibility, renewal, and vision.
It reminds us that even after pruning, something in us still knows how to reach for the sun.

Two Zen poems guide our Yin practice this week:

“The plants and flowers I raised about my hut
I now surrender to the will of the mind.”
— Taigu Ryokan

A whisper of letting go — of releasing control over how things grow, and trusting that life itself will tend the garden of our becoming.

And this one, quietly luminous:

“I write, erase, rewrite, erase again,
and then a poppy blooms.”
— Hokushi

Here, we are reminded that creation and loss, effort and surrender, are all part of the same cycle. That even after erasure — after endings, grief, or uncertainty — life blooms again in another form.

This week’s Yin is an invitation to feel those cycles within your own body:
🌳 The stretch of renewal through the Liver & Gallbladder meridians
💧 The soft surrender that makes space for new beginnings
💚 And the quiet trust that every pause, every letting go, is already preparing the ground for the next bloom.

Join me as we move gently, breathe deeply, and allow what wishes to grow — to rise.

Monday 5.30pm (2 spaces left)
Tuesday 6.00pm
Wednesday 9.30am

RSVP via SMS to 0403 274 576. Bookings essential. Everything supplied. Beautiful sacred intimate space, with air conditioned comfort.

27/10/2025

🌟 Awaken Your Vital Life Force 🌟

As the winds blow strong outside, our minds and emotions can feel scattered or restless. Step into our beautiful, sacred, intimate space—air-conditioned, protected, and comfortable—where you can ground, restore, and reconnect with your energy.

This week, join us for a Yin & Yoga Nidra journey designed to harmonise and awaken your seven sacred chakra centres. Through gentle yin postures, sacred bija mantras, and a deeply restorative guided meditation, we will flow from root to crown, nourishing your body, mind, and spirit.

Our chakra system connects to the pranamaya kosha—the energy sheath of the body—and is the gateway to your vital life force (prana), emotions, and spiritual vitality. This practice will soothe emotional turbulence, dissolve tension, and restore balance, leaving you feeling grounded, energised, and radiant.

✨ Begin with mindful yin postures for each chakra, opening pathways for energy to flow freely.
✨ Conclude with a Yoga Nidra meditation, inviting life force to circulate through your body, heart, and mind, creating calm, clarity, and inner harmony.

As the practice settles in, feel energy awaken in your spine, in your heart, and in every cell of your being. Let the flow of prana guide you back to balance, to light, to your natural radiance.

🌿 Gentle. Grounding. Transformative.
🌿 From root to crown, awaken your inner vitality.
🌿 Rest. Receive. Shine.

Come, return to your natural flow and let your energy bloom.

Monday 5.30pm
Tuesday 6.00pm
Wednesday 9.30am

25/10/2025

Leaving now (well nearly lol 😘) for our beach walk today. Just a wee reminder or maybe you need the inspiration to wind down, be with nature, walk with new friends, bring your partner or your bestir...... blessings on your weekend!

21/10/2025

✨ New Moon in Chitra • Diwali • The Light of Dharma ✨

As we arrive at this New Moon, we stand at the threshold of Diwali — the Festival of Light — a time to honour the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, and hope over despair.

Traditionally, a candle or lamp is placed at the doorway — a symbolic gesture to invite illumination, wisdom, and opportunity into our homes and hearts.

This New Moon falls in Chitra Nakshatra, the star known as the “shining jewel,” symbolised by a radiant diamond.
Chitra’s light cuts through the darkness with piercing clarity — a spark of divine inspiration and a reminder that the truest wealth is the wisdom to know what is uniquely right for you, moment to moment.
When the mind is illuminated by dharma — by right purpose — one is truly wealthy.

This festival of Diwali begins with celebrations of Dhanteras, which is the story of Lord Dhanvantari, the divine healer who arose from the cosmic ocean holding a pot of amrita, - the nectar of immortality and honoured as the lord of Ayurvedic medicine.
So this is also a sacred time to honour the wisdom of Ayurveda — and a beautiful opportunity to cleanse, restore balance, and invite vitality.

We also call upon Lakshmi, the divine mother and nourisher of the world, and Ganesha, the remover of obstacles — energies that together awaken abundance, compassion, and peace within.

As you light your candle this Diwali, remember:
💫 Light shines brightest in the darkness.
💫 Prosperity, compassion, and peace radiate from within.
💫 Each spark you ignite is an offering to your higher purpose.

On this subject of LIGHT, it is perhaps important to note, that astrologically, from October 18, expansive Jupiter brings his heightened divine grace — a time when faith, opportunity, and spiritual support increase for those who are open to it.
On November 11, Jupiter turns retrograde in the constellation of Punarvasu, the “return of the light,” bringing renewal, reflection, and a deep reconnection to spiritual truth.
Throughout November, Jupiter’s aspect with Saturn offers a healing influence for relationships, an energy for learning and teaching, and a supportive current for service, devotion, and spiritual practice.

🪔 A Diwali Ritual for Heartfelt Purpose 🪔

✨ Light a candle
Choose a small candle or lamp and place it at your doorway or sacred space.
As the flame steadies, feel it as a symbol of your own inner radiance — the spark of clarity, purpose, and possibility that lives within you.

🌟 Be Open to opportunity
Take a few quiet breaths. Ask yourself gently: What new opportunity, purpose, or heart felt inspiration is ready to arise?
Trust the whispers that come — they are the voice of your heart calling you.

💛 Offer gratitude
Bring to mind the blessings that have guided you to this moment — your teachers, your growth, your resilience.
Let gratitude soften your heart and expand your awareness.

🙏 Set an intention
Let your heart speak. What quality do you wish to carry into the months ahead — openness, courage, compassion, ritual, spiritual discipline, self care, deepening your knowledge, charity or humanitarian work?
Whisper it softly to the flame and let the light hold it for you.

🎇 Celebrate together — from within and afar
Know that across homes, mats, and oceans worldwide, we are joined in this moment and celebration of LIGHT — a shared remembrance that illumination begins within.

May this Diwali and New Moon fill your path with radiant clarity and divine purpose.
May you walk forward with a heart open to grace, aligned with opportunity, and guided by the quiet brilliance of your inner flame.

🕯️✨ Happy Diwali ✨