Holly Shoebridge Holistic Health

01/11/2025

Tonight 7pm AEDST

Anyone welcome. Via Insight Timer app.

In this session, we'll walk through how our function and quality of breathing can be impacted during our monthly cycle, and especially during perimenopause and menopause. We'll go through some gentle breathing practices that can help work with our hormones, and also optimise the Bodymind as we move....

30/10/2025

During this sacred transition through perimenopause, into menopause and beyond, there are many changes unfolding within the miraculous bodymind.

And many women may experience any range of symptoms. These symptoms could be viewed as the bodymind’s way of asking for our loving attention, to offer the body greater support during this time.

Gentle, intentional & accessible breathing practices done on a regular basis can be one way to offer immense support during this time, and ongoing for greater vitality.

The quality & function of our breathing can impact our underlying mitochondrial health, our nervous system, our digestive, endocrine and immune systems. It can also influence our quality of sleep and overall stress resilience.

Join me this Saturday 2nd November over on the Insight Timer app at 7pm AEDST for a brief talk on what is happening in the body during perimenopause & menopause, how we can support the body using functional breathing practices, we will touch on lifestyle factors that impact our underlying mitochondrial health & function, and then we’ll finish with a relaxation meditation.

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23/09/2025

This Thursday evening 7pm AEST

Anyone welcome. Group meditation via Insight Timer app

Loving kindness meditation, can be also known as Metta meditation. This kind of practice can be used in a few different ways. Towards yourself, towards others, towards all beings and/or as an intentional way of living. In this meditation practice, I will guide you through offering loving kindness to...

18/09/2025

The miraculous bodymind holds onto all sorts of memories, beliefs and perceptions for us, they may arise over time in various ways, offering messages, insight and/or asking for loving attention.

These messages might show up in the form of niggling feelings, dreams, thoughts, emotions and behaviours, or they may present in the form of physical tension, constrictions, injuries, illness, blockages and/or sensations. 

Bodymind is always communicating with us. Its language can be both subtle and/or at times, very direct. I often refer to the “feather, brick or train analogy” to give a practical example.

If we may not hear, listen or attune to the body’s messages the proverbial volume (intensity) can get turned up, to the point we can no longer ignore them.

As a result, what may have been niggling feelings to start with can become a more notable bodymind event such as illness, disease, chronic ailments or injuries and so on. 

The bodymind does not speak with words & verbal language, rather it will talk to us through these subtle symptoms.

We may start to deepen our attunement to this innate body wisdom and its often subtle messages through many differing kinds of quiet introspective practices, through gentle breathing and/or movement practices etc. Even just closing your eyes for a few moments and observing the sensations that may arise within bodymind can offer deeper insights.

To nurture & nourish the psyche (mental, emotional & spiritual) & physical body and appreciate all it does for us.

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11/09/2025

I’ve always loved the saying “tend to your garden and the butterflies will come”.

And perhaps as we may slow down to tend to our proverbial garden, we may witness/observe the vast interconnected ecosystem (the unified whole) that supports & welcomes the butterflies (unity).

The world consists of Yin and Yang; in every shadow on snow, a glimmer of light awaits.

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31/08/2025

What a gift it is to be here inhibiting these miraculous bodily vessels, these conduits for the Divine.

Whatever we do for Self permeates, ripples into the Whole.

As within, so without.

Localised consciousness is a wave within the ocean of consciousness.

In a more practical sense, perhaps we may view it as how we may nourish, hydrate, move & care for the body day to day can be deeply interconnected to how we may care for the that which surrounds us - our environment, our people, our animals, our land etc.

And the vitality of one can be felt and experienced by many, this can take so many different formats & contexts, yet arguably, all as beautiful and impactful as the other.

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I absolutely love this quote from Thich Nhat Hanh. Even the seemingly smallest gesture of Self care & Self kindness, whatever we can manage for today, is speaking to the Whole.

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22/08/2025

Tomorrow 8pm AEST

All welcome. Free for anyone Insight Timer app

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Whether you're a seasoned meditator, or this is your first time using the breath to anchor into a meditative practice, this is suitable for all. We will walk through a very gentle & accessible practice, using the breath to cultivate stillness, mindfulness and to sink into, and deepen our meditative....

17/08/2025

A personal anecdote that I hope may be relatable in some way for someone, and maybe even inspire a call to sit quietly, go for a solo walk in nature, read a book, spend some time creating for the sake of creating, play (whatever that may look like for you), give back to Self in whatever way feels good for you. ❤️

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Ever so grateful (beyond words) to Mitch for (greatly) deepening the inspiration to sit quietly, and the truly unparalleled embodied guidance/teachings. 🙏🏽😌💛

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Join me on August 23rd at 8pm AEST on for How To Use The Breath To Anchor Into Meditation

12/08/2025

Utilising nasal breathing to, ultimately & potentially, shift our state of mind, decisions, perception & experience of day to day life.

Nasal breathing to sloooow the rate of breath, correlatively sloooowing our brainwaves.

Slower brainwaves such as alpha (relaxation) and theta (meditation, enhanced creativity, deepened relaxation & restoration) are powerful states to experience on a regular basis for the restorative impact on bodymind (mental, physical & emotional, feeling safety, healing) and also for deepening spiritual practice.

See the slides above for some simple actionable steps you can try anytime.

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Join me on August 23rd at 8pm AEST on Insight Timer for How To Use The Breath To Anchor Into Meditation

03/08/2025

“If the mind falls asleep, awaken it.

Then if it starts wandering, let it fall quiet.

If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.”

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Early morning image creations (meditations). Blending a photograph of a textured ocean sunrise with another photograph of a firey sunset to depict a feeling from within. Such a joyous process of dreaming & creating 💛🙏🏽😌

13/07/2025

LIFE AS AN OFFERING

Most beautiful & deeply felt words & sentiment from Toko-Pa Turner, Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home (shared above).

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We all embody a divine essence, and when we welcome in a freedom of expression, it can be truly beautiful to see what arises. Go gently, because in the process we may also be welcoming up emotions & parts of Self that have long been suppressed. Let it flow without constraints, limitations or judgement, with love, self compassion & curiosity.

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This image was created a few years back using photographs taken of different Northern Beaches ocean sunrises, combined with various silhouettes. An expression of something deeper within 💛💫🙏🏽