Expanding Wings - Holistic Yoga

14/12/2025

Ending the year well 🌿

This is our final week of yoga classes for 2025, and I’m really feeling the invitation to soften and land.

🪷 Thursday 5pm — a gentle, letting-go practice to wind down and release the year

🪷 Friday 10am — our final class: nature-inspired meditation, gentle movement, and shared morning tea. Everyone welcome.

Lately my body has felt less like a “temple” and more like a compost pit — holding so much. Some of it mine, some of it not. Composting isn’t neat, but given time, space, and care, it transforms.

Yoga, nature, breath, and connection help us process what life throws our way so it doesn’t stay stuck inside.

This week the ocean helped. On a beach walk with a close friend — between tears, laughter, and even screaming out to the sea — we realised our people-pleasing hasn’t disappeared… it’s just matured.

These days it likes to call itself peace-making. So we decided to try something new: people-pleasing ourselves for a while 🤍

🌸 End-of-year offering
This is also the final week of my daughter Samaya’s body scrubs in the studio. A Christmas-inspired peppermint & rose salt scrub — fresh, grounding, and divine.
$12 per jar | studio this week | local Port delivery available (message or email before Friday).

I’ll be taking two weeks off over Christmas & New Year, returning in January and sharing more about 2026 soon.

Deep gratitude for this community — now growing for over two years and more than 100 beautiful humans connected. Thank you for being here 🙏

End gently. Please yourself. Let it be enough

❤️ Michelle

08/12/2025

Slowing Down & Sharing Together 🌿

What a full week — and a powerful full moon — we’ve just moved through. As we head toward the end of the year, I’m inviting you to pause with me… even in the midst of the growing busyness.

Like the moon softly waning, we, too, can choose to slow down. Not by doing less necessarily, but by being fully here — feeling the breeze, the sun on your back, noticing the tiny moments that bring you home to yourself.

💚 This week’s classes:
🪷 Gentle Holistic Yoga — Thursday 5pm
🪷 Holistic Chair Yoga — Friday 11:30am

🪷 Bookings: https://www.momoyoga.com/expanding-wings/schedule?date=2025-12-08

And… I’m so excited to invite you to our final gathering for 2025:

🌸 Friday 19th December — 10am at Roto House

A gentle nature-inspired movement practice, meditation under the trees, and a beautiful morning tea together. Everything is included with your booking — just come as you are.

🍃 Bookings: https://www.momoyoga.com/expanding-wings/event/4aa3eb52-0146-44a7-9637-7547d7df42a3

A little personal share: I’ve just completed my 50-hour Advanced Trauma Sensitive Yoga Teacher Training, with a focus on trauma, mental health, and body image. These themes are close to my heart, and I’m looking forward to gently weaving this wisdom into our classes as we move into the new year.

Let’s carry this intention together — slowing down in the midst of doing, being present with our breath, our steps, and the small beauties that surround us.

I can’t wait to practice with you this week, and to close our year together on the 19th.
All are welcome — feel free to share this with someone who might need a peaceful pause.

With warmth,
Michelle xx

03/12/2025

Full Moon Gentle Holistic Yoga
Today at 5pm ✨

As we move toward the end of the year, the energy around us can feel busy, chaotic, and a little overwhelming.
Tonight’s full moon invites us to pause… to soften… and to come back home to ourselves.

Join me at 5pm for a gentle, holistic practice designed to help you slow down, restore, and breathe a little deeper.

A quiet space to land amidst the festive season, where your nervous system can settle and your body can exhale.

If you’re craving a moment of calm, connection, and grounding, you’re so welcome to join us. 🌕🤍

https://www.momoyoga.com/expanding-wings/lesson/24142584/Gentle-Holistic-Yoga

30/11/2025

🌿 Reflect, Release & Move Forward 🌿

As November ends, I’ve been reflecting on the lessons, challenges, and moments of gratitude this month. It’s been intense — including a kidney stone (ouch!) — but I’m so grateful for the love and support of our yoga community. Even small acts of care remind me how powerful presence and compassion can be.

I’m also nearly finished my 50-hour advanced trauma-informed yoga training, which has inspired, expanded and encouraged me in so many ways. Look out 2026!!

As we enter into this final month of the year you may find these Journal Prompts supportive for Reflection:

• What am I most grateful for this month?
• What challenge taught me the most?
• What am I ready to release as I step into December?
• How can I nurture my body, mind, and heart next month?
• What small moments brought me joy, and how can I carry them forward?

🧘‍♀️ Classes this week:
• Thursday Gentle Yoga 5:15 pm
• Friday Chair Yoga: 11:30 am


Take a moment this week to pause, reflect, and journal. Give yourself this gift of presence and self-compassion. 💛

16/11/2025

This week has reminded me how grounding it is to notice the tiny moments…

Dinner chats led by my youngest child — what we loved, what felt tricky — tiny anchors for the everyday.

A visit with a dear family friend who cared for me as a child… her wisdom about all the stages of motherhood felt like a warm hand on my back as life continues to shift and unfold.

Jacaranda blossoms.
Board-game giggles.
A wave flipping someone upside-down reminding me to “go with the flow” 😅

We are all just doing our best… finding our breath… again and again.

Wishing you soft support beneath your feet this week 💛

Michelle x

Thurs 5pm — Gentle Holistic Yoga
Fri 11:30am — Holistic Chair Yoga
🪷 Link in bio to book

16/11/2025

🌸 This week has reminded me how grounding it is to notice the tiny moments…

Dinner chats led by my youngest child — what we loved, what felt tricky — tiny anchors for the everyday.

A visit with a dear family friend who cared for me as a child… her wisdom about all the stages of motherhood felt like a warm hand on my back as life continues to shift and unfold.

Jacaranda blossoms.
Board-game giggles.
A wave flipping someone upside-down reminding me to “go with the flow” 😅

We are all just doing our best… finding our breath… again and again.

Wishing you soft support beneath your feet this week 💛

Michelle x

Thurs 5pm — Gentle Holistic Yoga
Fri 11:30am — Holistic Chair Yoga
🪷 Link in bio to book

11/11/2025

Coming Home to Ourselves

This week’s classes hold space for both — the lightness and the heaviness, the energy to show up and the need to slow down.

Life often asks us to hold contrasts — joy and exhaustion, connection and solitude, doing and simply being. Yoga helps us find steadiness in the middle ground, where both can belong.

Join me this week as we soften into that balance — grounding through breath, movement, and stillness, and coming home to ourselves with compassion and curiosity. 🌿

🪷 Thursdays - Gentle Holistic Yoga 5pm
🪷 Fridays - Holistic Chair Yoga 11:30am

🪷 Book via the link in bio

02/11/2025

Honouring Change, Nourishment & Flow

This week, I’ve been revisiting a beautiful practice dedicated to Lakshmi — the goddess of preservation and prosperity. 🌸

Lakshmi reminded me that true abundance isn’t found in what we gain, but in how we cherish what already exists — the love, connection, and beauty that continue to flow through every season of life.

Her mantra, “Aum Shrim Maha Lakshmiyai Namaha,” was a gentle reminder that through yoga I can find support and strength, even as things around me shift and transform.

As Glennon Doyle writes:

“The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one. We need to let go of the lie that it’s supposed to be.”

🪷 Please note: there are no yoga classes this week while I take a short pause for a medical procedure (all is well — just a little health maintenance!).

Classes will return Thursday 13th November, renewed and ready to flow again.

May we all remember that when it feels like love, nourishment, and abundance have changed — there’s a possibility they may have simply taken new forms.

With warmth and gratitude,
Michelle 🌸

26/10/2025

Embodied Empowerment

This week in class, we explored what it means to truly come home to the body — to move with curiosity, kindness, and awareness.

As I reflect on this theme, I’m reminded of this moment by a river in New Zealand — my daughter gently braiding my hair while I sat with my eyes closed, feeling the cool air, the sounds of the water, and her quiet presence behind me.

It was such a simple, sacred moment — a reminder that embodiment isn’t just found on the yoga mat, but in these small, everyday experiences of love and presence.

You might like to bring a little of this into your week — through gentle, mindful movement like a few Pavanmuktasana (joint-freeing) exercises, slow ankle circles, shoulder rolls, or soft wrist movements. Move with tenderness and notice how it feels from the inside out.

Join me this week to continue exploring this beautiful theme of embodied presence 💛

🪷 Thursday 5pm – Gentle Holistic Yoga
🪷 Friday 11:30 am – Holistic Chair Yoga

https://www.momoyoga.com/expanding-wings/schedule

With love,
Michelle x

23/10/2025

🪷 Weekly Gentle Holistic Chair Yoga

Fridays - 11:30am

A soft, supportive practice for body, mind and soul — beautiful for easing tension, improving mobility and strength, and finding stillness and calm.

No experience required - come as you are, breathe, move gently, and feel restored. 💛

Fridays 11:30am – Holistic Chair Yoga
The Yoga Studio - Port Macquarie

www.momoyoga.com/expanding-wings/lesson/20097031/Holistic-Chair-Yoga

21/10/2025

🪷 Weekly Gentle Holistic Yoga

Thursdays 5:00pm

Sink back into your breath, soften the edges, and give your body a loving reset.
All welcome—come as you are, leave a little lighter.

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19/10/2025

Lately, I’ve been reflecting on the paths we walk — the ones that wind and twist, rise and fall, and somehow still lead us exactly where we need to be.

This week has been one of deep inner work — honouring boundaries, finding my footing, and remembering to walk gently but firmly in my own direction.

Ever since I was little, I’ve carried the image of a red dirt path as my inner compass — a reminder to check in with where I am and where I’m heading. My time in Spain gave me so many beautiful trails to walk, and each one reminded me that we don’t need to have it all figured out… we just need to keep showing up, one mindful step at a time.

I’m also excited to be diving into Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Teacher Training with the incredible Sarah Ball. Yoga over the next five weeks — learning new ways yoga can help us find steadiness and healing from within.

If you’re ready to reconnect with your own inner path, I’d love to share practice with you this week 🌸

🪷 Thursday 5pm – Gentle Holistic Yoga
🪷 Friday 11:30 am – Holistic Chair Yoga