BODY BEING, Giralang, Canberra (2026)

14/02/2026

Today I’m stepping slightly outside my usual therapeutic lane.

To speak plainly about something I’ve watched for 25 years in the health and fitness world.

I’m professionally retired from movement coaching now but I’m still part of that world and there are a few myths quietly running the show that I still see everywhere.

1. ‘Fitness’ and ‘health’ are not the same thing.

For a while, they travel together.
You get stronger and you feel better.

But somewhere along the road, many people stop listening to their bodies and start chasing performance.

The heavier lift.
The longer run.
The bigger muscles.
The faster sprint.
The lower body fat percentage.

That is often the tipping point.

Recovery shrinks.
Stress load climbs.
Burnout creeps in.
Endocrine and gastrointestinal systems wobble.
Emotional health gets sidelined.
And wholeness suffers.

Wellness is about internal harmony.
Fitness is about output and aesthetics

They can overlap. They are not identical.

2. The ‘fit’ look does not equal the ‘well’ feeling.

We’ve been taught to equate “lean and sculpted” with “healthy.”

But a body can look powerful on the outside and be inflamed, depleted, hormonally dysregulated or emotionally frayed on the inside.

Wellness is not just what you see in the mirror.

It is:
• how our gut feels
• how our hormones are functioning
• how our nervous system is coping, how we sleep
• how our emotional body is travelling
• how it actually feels to live inside our skin

Chasing a look can quietly compromise all of that.

And then the bonus one, especially for women and anyone with a menstrual cycle:

3. Your cycle matters!

Training without considering our hormonal landscape is like ignoring the seasons and wondering why the harvest fails.

There are phases that favour power.
Phases that favour endurance.
Phases that require restoration.

When we train in relationship to our cycle, we work with our body’s intelligence.
When we ignore it, we can create hormonal stress instead of resilience.

There is more research and info available now than ever before. Go explore it. Get curious about your own rhythms and balance.

Look after yourselves.

Love yourself harder every single day.

11/02/2026

Last Saturday we gathered in my studio for something quietly nourishing and fun.

A heartfelt thank you to Leah from for guiding us through a beautiful Basket Weaving Workshop. Leah holds a lovely teacher rhythm, offering just the right balance of gentle guidance and spacious allowance for our own hands to find their knowing. Calm, steady, relaxed.

There was something deeply satisfying about spending a slow Saturday morning learning an ancient craft amongst friends. Fibre, laughter, stories. Hands busy, nervous systems unwinding. Time softened around the edges.

If you have been curious about basket weaving, I wholeheartedly recommend reaching out to Leah for a private group booking. You can also wander through her online shop and bring a little woven beauty into your world.

Thank you to everyone who came along and shared the day. I am officially hooked.

18/01/2026

LAST 4 PLACES

Over the years, RECLAIM has quietly become something deeply grassroots.

Not a polished “retreat experience” — but a living, breathing reclamation of what sisterhood, community, and healthy relating can actually feel like in real life.

This is a space where women gather not to perform, fix, or bypass — but to be human together.

To practise honesty, boundaries, care, listening, repair, laughter and presence.

To remember that community isn’t something we consume — it’s something we create.

Held 27 Feb – 2 Mar on Yuin Country at a private primitive camp-site on the Clyde River Camp (NSW), RECLAIM weaves:
- Conscious Connected Breathwork
- Embodiment & nervous-system-aware practices
- Circle, ritual & shared responsibility
- Simple living in nature and nature connection practices
- Shared wholesome vegetarian meals
- Real conversations. Real connection. Real relating.

Many women return again and again — not because it’s perfect, but because it’s real.

This is where sisterhood is practised, not promised.

Only 4 places remain

If you’re longing for community that feels grounded, honest and alive — this may be your moment.

- DM or email amber@bodybeing.com.au to join
- Link in bio for full details
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19/12/2025

BODY BEING will be closed for a big beautiful recharge.

Closed 19 Dec to 1 Feb.

I am sending much love and gratitude to all the incredible humans I've had the pleasure of working with this year.

Big holiday love to ya'll

Amber

10/12/2025

The power of kind self talk.

11/11/2025

ONE SPOT AVAILABLE FOR THIS FRIDAY!

I've had a late cancellation for this Friday's Special Women's Breathwork Ceremony which focuses on cultivating the qualities of the wild warrior heart.

The ceremony will feature
- ritual tea
- light embodiment & emplacement movement practice (inclusive)
- moon breathing
- heart attunement
- full Transpersonal Breathwork Journey
- supported sharing and connection
- light intentional refreshments
- trauma trained, highly attuned facilitation from one of Canberra's most experienced Breathworkers.

Friday 14 Nov (6-9-30pm)
Giralang, Canberra (Ngunnawal Country)

More info via link in profile

31/10/2025

HEART WARRIOR

A Breathwork Ceremony for the Wild Hearted

A special intentional women’s Breathwork ceremony

What happens when strong becomes soft,
when courage takes the shape of tenderness,
when capacity moves like water,
and growth whispers through silence?

What if to feel fully alive,
we must embrace loss —
and let joy and grief dance as equals
in the chambers of our hearts?

This is a ceremony for those who long to live from the heart —
not the feeble heart, but the warrior-esque heart.
The one that opens to all of life.
The heart with a strong, grounded backbone.
The heart that knows true power is shared — not taken —
and that love can be both fierce and gentle,
boundaried and supple.

Through breath, embodiment, presence, and collective intent,
we’ll explore what it means to be both fierce and tender,
strong and soft, scared and brave.

💗 Heart Warrior: A Breathwork Ceremony for the Wild Hearted
📍 BODY BEING Private Studio (Giralang, Canberra - Ngunnawal Country)
🕯️ Friday 14 Nov: 6-9:30pm
🎟️ Tickets via [link in bio / Humanitix]

Bring your heart — in whatever shape it’s in —
and breathe yourself home to its fierce softness.

26/09/2025

And we are off...

Rewild Your Child Spring 25 camps here we come.

What time is it....adventure time!

See y'all on the flip side

19/09/2025

Part Four of Fu@K Perfect: A Way Forward

I’m coming at you from my grotty kitchen, in my grotty clothes, with my grotty dishes. Hair and teeth unbrushed, zero prep. Just me. Raw. Awkward. Imperfect.

And here’s the thing: this is the practice. Not waiting until it looks shiny. Not waiting until we look shiny. Just showing up. Cringe and all.

Our challenge (should we choose to play):

Say the thing we’ve been holding back (messy words and all).

Show up to school/work without the extra armour of “looking good.”

Share our half-baked poem/song/idea before it feels ready.

Let ourselves be seen in our edges, not just our highlight reel.

Because every time we flex the imperfect muscle, it gets easier. And slowly, the fear of being “not enough” loses its grip.

So… how are you gonna f**k perfect today? Drop it in the comments Let yourself be part of this cutting edge culture repair of enoughness.

Let’s boogie with our awkwardness and shake up the bu****it story that we need to be flawless to belong.

Whilst this is the final video I'm going to do on this topic, for now, I want to share that unravelling this pattern, this pressure, is a lifetime journey but that it is also an incredibly rich exploration of our deep authenticity, our reclaimation of power and part of a broader movement of cultural repair for us all.

So thank you dear friend for whatever part of this movement you can be part of. As a woman I thank you, as a mother I thank you, as an aunty, and one day hopefully as a grandmother.

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Have you been following along on this f**k perfect journey. I'm dreaming into pulling together an embodied, supportive and playful exploration of this for interested womenfolk here in Canberra initially. Let me know if this would interest you in 2026.

08/09/2025

Awareness is a Solvent!

Anger, when held with care, can fuel action. Instead of burning us up from the inside or spilling out sideways, it can become the spark that helps us create change.

But how do we begin?

By noticing

Awareness itself is a powerful medicine. It dissolves the unconscious patterns that keep us stuck in cycles of judgment, perfectionism & shame.

- When I notice the tightness in my chest before showing up in a body that feels bloated or tired.
- When I catch the thought that I won’t be “enough” unless I look or perform a certain way…
- When I simply see how these external expectations play out in my body and my choices…

Something shifts.

Awareness brings light to the dark & births choice.
Often, it’s not the big dramatic gestures that liberate us. It’s the small, tender, clumsy steps. The slow reclaiming of our bodies, our sovereignty & worth

So if this feels overwhelming—start here:

Just notice:
- the pressure
- the compulsion to be perfect
- what the fear or shame would say if you turn up imperfectly or make a mistake
- Notice how it feels in your body
- Where you feel it in your body

It is not just a mentalised concept, this is an internalised adaptation to external pressures & it is most effectively transformed when we take the time to feel it beyond the words.

Your attention is a nutrient. It’s a first, beautiful act of RESISTANCE.

How might you bring awareness to the places you feel pressure to be perfect most strongly this week?

Here’s a gentle practice you can try:

1. Pause + Notice
Take a breath. Notice where you feel the pressure of expectation in your body. Is it tight shoulders? A knot in your belly? A squeeze in your heart?

2. Stay With It
Instead of pushing it away, simply bring your attention there. You don’t need to fix it. Just notice. Awareness dissolves.

3. Offer Support
If it feels good, place a hand where you feel it most. Breathe into that space. Offer your body presence, warmth & compassion. Tell this part of you it is lovable, worthy, safe just as it is.

4. Choose Slowly
From this place of awareness, you may feel a little more choice. A little more sovereignty. Small steps matter. Even clumsy ones.

27/08/2025

F**K PERFECT!

A MAP FORWARD - Part 1

I was so grateful to feel the fire and resonance from my last post — thank you for the love, the comments, the courage you shared. 🔥

And I want to bring a little nuance to the conversation. Because yes, it’s powerful to say what we don’t want… but then what? How do we move forward.

Of course there is many ways to work with this perfection pressure. I'm going to share with you a few of my reflections, strategies and processes in case people find them helpful.

Here’s the first piece I want to name 👇

It’s actually normal that we adapt to social expectations.

We’re wired for it. We’re social mammals — we survive, thrive, and find belonging by being attuned to one another.

But in a healthy community, that belonging comes through celebrating our unique shape — my gifts, your gifts, all woven together so we can lean on each other’s strengths.

In our modern world though, instead of being supported in our uniqueness, we’re handed a pre-cut mold and told to squeeze into it. That’s where the distortion happens. That’s where some of the pressure to be “perfect” sneaks in.

So the first step? Compassion. 💜

For ourselves. For our teens. For every woman who’s ever felt she had to contort herself to fit. This isn’t a moral failing, it’s not that we’re “doing it wrong.” It’s part of being human… but the system got corrupted.

This is just the beginning of the conversation — I’ll share more as we go. But I’d love to hear from you:

👉 Where do you notice the pressure to fit the mold in your own life?

👉 And what helps you return to your own shape?

PS: This pressure to be perfect is ABSOLUTELY not limited to female identifying people. This post is coming from a personal experience as a woman, a mother of a teen girl, and someone who works with teen girls and the waves we ride together.

**kperfect

20/08/2025

🔥 F**K PERFECT 🔥

I'm angry today. And I'm letting that anger breathe — because it's necessary. Because sometimes, anger is the most honest response to a world that keeps asking women and girls to shrink, contort, and please. I'm adding my voice to the wave of cultural repair fighting against this unseen force squashing so many from the inside out.

This constant pressure to be perfect — whatever that even means. Its damaging. It's painful and worst of all it feels like it's who we are and how we need to be in order to matter and be loved. We don't even realise we have a choice....but we do.

Perfect body. Perfect grades. Perfect social energy. Perfect emotional control. Perfect but effortless. Sexy but not too sexy. Strong but not too strong. Shiny but not too shiny. It's exhausting. And it’s bu****it.

We’re told:
- Be confident, but don’t make others uncomfortable.
- Be thin, but not too thin.
- Be strong, but keep it feminine.
- Be smart, but not too opinionated.
- Be successful, but don’t outshine.
- Be emotionally literate but don't actually have feelings
- Love your body, but still fix it.

We’re told to be everything — and not too much of anything.

And underneath it all?

A deep, unmet need: to be seen, loved, and worthy just as we are.

No filter. No façade. No performance.

Just us.

So today, I’m saying it loud:

🔥 F**K PERFECT.

We don’t need to perform worthiness. We are worthy.
We don’t need to be palatable. We are powerful.
We don’t need to shrink. We are sovereign.

If you're tired of the pressure, the pretending, the punishment — you’re not alone. Let the fire rise.

Let it burn away the bu****it. Let it light the path back to your own enoughness.

Because you are already whole.

BODY BEING

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