STOIC YOGA, 274 The Grand Parade, Ramsgate Beach NSW, Ramsgate Beach (2026)

27/12/2025

💫The Inspiring quote from the 13th-century Persian poet and mystic, Rumi:

"Before you speak,
let your words pass
through 3 gates;
Is it true?
Is it kind?
Is it necessary?",

invites us to pause, examine and qualify our words before they come out into the ether and shape and influence our reality and those around us.

💫 Our words have power.⚡️

🗣 Whether you're speaking to yourself/internal dialogue, to another person directly, either verbally or writing/texting/emailing or even if you're posting comments on social media,
this "3 gate buffer/check-list" has the potential for positive transformation and/or for saving us from regret/negative consequences due to thoughtless, conditioned or impulsive expression.

⏳ Acting as a filter, it allows time, reflection and more importantly, enables emotional regulation, so before you open your mouth or press send, this invitation encourages the practical application of virtue, reason, and aligning with core Stoic principles of being able to control our internal environment of our thoughts/words/actions and not over the external world, so helping us create mindful and harmonious dialogue within ourselves and out toward others.

❌️ This is not about muzzling expression or policing every word, ✅️ but rather empowering, meaningful and mindful communication and strengthening relationships, be it personal or professional, on or off your mats.

💬 By asking these questions:
❓️Is it true?
(Is what you're about to say based on facts? Gossip? Or Assumptions?)
❓️Is it necessary?
(Is what you're about to say add value? Have purpose? Or improve/help the situation?)
❓️Is it kind?
(Or is it cruel? The old "do no harm" principle teaches to speak with tact, empathy and respect. It is not about avoiding conflict, rather learning to speak from the heart truthfully with care, integrity and compassion.

⚡️Words are powerful tools — they can create joy, heal, build, hurt, break or cause us pain.

🙏 Always choose them wisely.

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🩵 Nia

24/12/2025

✨️🕊
I need not wait an instant more to be at Peace.
I choose Peace, now.
Not later. Not tomorrow.
Now.
✨️
✨️🕊✨️🙏✨️🕊✨️
In your thoughts, words, actions, reactions. Moment to moment.

🎄Make this your holiday mantra🎄
✨️ Wishing everyone peace, connection, contentment and love this Christmas.
These are all free gifts we can bestow upon eachother. In any moment. In an instant✨️

✨️ BE the change you want to see in the world🕊

🩵🕊
Nia

🧘‍♀️ 🧘‍♂️ CLASSES RESUME
TUESDAY 13th JANUARY
2🌟26

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🌊 enjoy the festive season and summer break 🌊

18/12/2025

🧘‍♀️ Keep yourself aligned and balanced before Christmas🎄

Bookings still open for:

🧘‍♀️Friday @ 10am - 19 Dec
🧘‍♀️Saturday @ 7.45am - 20 Dec
🧘‍♀️Tuesday @ 10am - 23 Dec

🎄 The greatest gift to give yourself during this holiday season. 💫 Come with friends or on your own. Peace, grace, ease and flow is a mindset🙏 🧘‍♀️🎄🎅 so take the opportunity to balance, align, relax, and find inner calm with Stoic Yoga before we break.💫

🎁 Gift Certificates are still available for purchase right up until Christmas Eve, so consider giving the Gift of WellBeing this Christmas 🎁

▶️ Text/call Nia on 0403 276 133 for all bookings and Gift Certificate purchases.🙏

03/12/2025

☀️ Join Nia for a unique

𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝘾𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨
Inspired by Plotinus'
"Return to the One"

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💫 7pm - Tuesday 16 December '25
💫 Bookings essential. Text 0403 276 133.
💫 Limited places.
💫 $25 / 1 hour
💫 Ramsgate Life Saving Club

Overlooking beautiful Ramsgate Beach 🌊

💫 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩:
Class will involve slow flow movements to begin with to prepare the body and mind for a nourishing breath centred / meditation practice with focus on unique and practical breathing and visualisation techniques to calm the nervous system and bring about a harmonious connection between breath, body, mind, heart and soul, with the hope to reach a peace within that surpasses all understanding.

🏛 𝙒𝙝𝙤 𝙞𝙨 𝙋𝙡𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙨?:
Plōtînos / Ancient Greek: Πλωτῖνος; was an ancient philosopher who lived in the 3rd-century CE, regarded by modern scholars as the founder of Neoplatonism school of philosophy, whose ideas had a deep and lasting impact on Western thought and spirituality.

🏛 In a nutshell, Plotinus's philosophy was centered on the spiritual journey of the soul towards mystical union / unification (Henosis /Ancient Greek: ἕνωσις) with "The One",
the ultimate, the supreme being, described as ineffable, transcendent, beyond the limitations of the human mind, essentially the source of all existence and from which all things emanate.

💫The "Return", the journey of Epistrophe / επιστροφή, (turning back) is not a physical journey, rather an internal journey, a process of Remembrance, an internal awakening, of going inward, re-orientating consciousness and transcending the senses to reach the deepest, most divine part of oneself, ones own core, to re-establish contact and connection with this bliss, higher source, divine Love.
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🧘‍♀️ In this Stoic Yoga meditation, we will strive and surrender to attain even a glimpse of this mystical, ineffable wonder, stillness and peace💫🙏

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🩵Nia

27/11/2025

🦋 “Everything's destiny is to change,
to be transformed, to perish.
So that new things can be born.”
- Marcus Aurelius

🏛 Our old Stoic friend, guide and philosopher Marcus Aurelius reminds us in his quote that sometimes an old version of ourselves has to die for the new one to be born. The butterfly after metamorphosis doesn't mourn the death of her old self the caterpillar. It understands that life is constant change.

🙌 Pain and suffering often result in us clinging onto old ways that no longer serve our highest good.

🐛 🦋 Metamorphosis, change, transformation, and endings don't have to be perceived as negative events but more positively and necessary as a natural part of life that creates space for the new to emerge.

🐛🦋💪 The word "metamorphosis" / "μεταμόρφωσις" was formed in Ancient Greek from the roots μετά (meta), meaning "change", "after" or "beyond," and μορφή (morphe), meaning "form" or "shape".

🦋 As we are in our last days of Spring in the Southern Hemisphere, use this weekend to reflect and release any old negative patterns and habits that is imperative for your positive growth, expansion and evolution.

🏛 Stoicism teaches us that change is not only necessary, but inevitable and when we live in accordance with nature, with the seasons, within the cosmic order of things, we are more than likely to find this elusive inner peace and tranquility we all strive to attain.

🧘‍♀️ In our Stoic Yoga lessons, we see each lesson as a potential metamorphosis, an opportunity for growth and change, moving from releasing the old to making room for the new. One breath, move, thought and feeling at a time.

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🩵 Nia

#μεταμόρφωση

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22/11/2025

🙏 Always remember,
it's a luxury to have
zero health problems.

💫 You only have one body, one mind, one heart. Take care of them all, daily. As much as you can.

🙏

30/10/2025

Happy Friday fellow humans💪🌊🧘‍♀️🌞

"Stop drifting… Sprint to the finish.
Write off your hopes, and if your well-being matters to you,
be your own savior while you can."
Seneca

"Αδράξτε τη μέρα"
"Seize the Day"
"Carpe Diem"

No matter what language you speak, humans across the world have the same sentiments.

Stoicism emphasizes focusing and immersing yourself in the present moment, what's before us and on what is within our control.

It encourages attention, action and effort in the present moment, on today, rather than worrying about the future or dwelling on the past. Two eternities we have no control over but the NOW.

Seize your now moments today!

Happy Friday🌞💪🌞💪🌞

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🩵 Nia

#Αδράξτετημέρα

21/10/2025

👥️ For many of us, it seems as though our lives are lived and experienced from two perspectives:
the past, either in negative recollection or idealised nostalgic reflection, the other,
the unborn future, burdened with uncertainty, false fears, or high hopes,
both having the potential of robbing us of one thing in our current control, the fleeting present NOW.

Furthermore, most of the things we really "need" are right under our noses but do we see them while we have them?

🔹️Our wants? Desires? Endless!
🔹️Our needs? Essentials? Perhaps already in your current experience but the power of your insatiable desires may overshadow your ability to clearly see the difference.

💪 There is nothing wrong with wanting to level up in life and look forward. Growth and expansion is a natural part of the human experience and also, it's perfectly natural, to fondly recall and reminisce the past.

❓️The key questions are you mostly here or over there? Are you content where you are while eager for more?

For eg, when on holidays are you really there?
Or too busy snapping selfies and not immersed in the fleeting moments? Or is your mind on bills?
Or when you're playing with your kids are you thinking of work? Or when in traffic are you dreaming of getting away?

❓️ So when are you ever really content and thankful for what you have or where you are?

🏛 The Stoics, emphasised the most precious time of all, the holy NOW which is in our control and made a thankful heart a daily habit, regardless of circumstance. Our Stoic guide Marcus Aurelius reminds us:

✨️"Do not indulge in dreams of having
what you have not,
but reflect upon the blessings
you do possess,
and then thankfully remember
how you would long for them
if they were not yours."✨️

🧘‍♀️ In our Stoic Yoga classes we try and practice presence, create contentment and move mindfully by focusing on the task at hand, just as we are. Immersed in the breath that we are currently breathing, inhabiting the pose, appreciating what's infront of our nose, the moment before us.

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14/10/2025

❔️Ask yourself at every moment,
'𝙄𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙧𝙮?'

🏛 To the Stoics, 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 itself was not the ultimate goal, rather it was the result of pursuing a virtuous life or an "eudaimonic life", which means a state of human flourishing that can be achieved by living in accordance with virtue, self-mastery and focus on what is within one's control such as your thoughts, actions and reactions regardless of external circumstances.

🦉 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙢 teaches us to be wise, deliberate, and discerning with our decisions and attention, and not yielding indiscriminately to the countless unnecessary distractions, disturbances, temptations and pursuits that plague us every day and not for our highest good.

😬 In a world of more, more, more, go, go, go, do more and faster than ever before, no wonder so many people are overwhelmed, underwhelmed, dissatisfied, stressed, burdened, wired and tired.

🦉 Our Stoic guide Marcus Aurelius, whispers to us from the past:

"'𝙄𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝙙𝙤 𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨.'

𝙊𝙧 (𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮) 𝙙𝙤 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩’𝙨 𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙡 —
𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙤𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙨𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙧𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙨,
𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙮.

𝙒𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙖 𝙙𝙤𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣:
𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙤 𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨, 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧.

𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙤
𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙡.

𝙄𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙞𝙩, 𝙮𝙤𝙪’𝙡𝙡 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚,
𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮.

𝘼𝙨𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙖𝙩 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙢𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩,
'𝙄𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙧𝙮?'"

🧘‍♀️ In our Stoic Yoga lessons, we focus on what is essential for the individual, by only taking the necessary steps that would help them grow, ideally moving safely, steadily and progressively with the flow. Ultimately, we learn that humility, physical, emotional and mental stability helps to bring about this prized tranquility.

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23/09/2025

💫 One of my favourite movies of all time, and literally ahead of its time, is 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙩 starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey. The film was based on 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙡 𝙎𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙣'𝙨 novel of the same name.

💫 I can honestly say, I've watched it so many times, I've lost count. 😜 Specifically, the opening scene which takes us on a breathtaking, epic, mind-blowing journey from our home planet, through the universe, and back to the eye of the protagonist of this magical story.

💫 Why do I love it so? Because it covers all of my favourite subjects, like space, stars, galaxies, stargazing, astronomy, the unknown, the universe, God, faith, humanity, consciousness, eternity, infinity, existence, possibilities, adventure, exploration, life, love, fear, relationships, connection, meaning, purpose, the mind, heart, soul, psychology, philosophy, science and our insatiable and eternal quest for truth and understanding this mysterious experience of Life and our place in it.

✨️ 𝙌𝙪𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙩 / 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙡 𝙎𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙣:

💫 The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space.

💫 You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.

💫 Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

💫 She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.

💫 Small moves, Ellie. Small moves.

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🧘‍♀ In our Stoic Yoga classes, we explore, challenge, and align the body, breath, heart, and mind, acknowledging that we are all uniquely one of a kind, each with purpose and value, we strive to make that Contact and connection to the highest and deepest parts of ourselves, one small move and breath at a time.

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13/09/2025

✨️ The ancient Stoics believed that true peace and tranquillity came from 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣, not from the external environment with all its triggers, conditions, attachments, delusions, and distractions.

🏛 A fundamental principle of 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙞𝙘 𝙥𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙤𝙥𝙝𝙮 is understanding the difference between what you can and can't 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙡 in life. While easier said than done, key concepts include surrender, letting go, and acceptance.

❓️So, HOW do we accept and surrender during times when we feel wronged, trapped in bad habits, procrastinate, resist, blame others or external circumstances for our thoughts, feelings, and actions?

💪 One way Stoicism can guide us is by encouraging us to observe 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚. Whether we like it or not, the universe and life are constantly changing, in flux, with 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙨 and cycles.

🏛 Stoicism puts us in the driver's seat by applying Stoic wisdom daily, we can recognise that we too are part of Nature and we can learn to 𝙛𝙡𝙤𝙬 with the ever-changing, cyclical nature of life.

🏛 Stoic Philosopher Seneca reminds us: "𝙇𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙚 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚'𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩."

🧘‍♀️ In our Stoic Yoga classes this September, coinciding with the new season 𝙎𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 in the Southern Hemisphere, we are invited to examine the areas of our lives, minds, bodies, and habits that need "𝙨𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜" with focus on cultivating deeper and longer 𝙚𝙭𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙨, allowing ourselves to 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 the old for the new.

There is nothing to fear in releasing what no longer serves our well-being. Something new awaits to be received and experienced, but we must make room for it.

▶️ Try this little exercise regularly whenever you need to get back into the driver's seat, to reset or release: Take a deep breath in 1, 2, 3, 4, hold, now exhale longer, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, hold and repeat.

🌬 Out with the 𝙤𝙡𝙙, in with the 𝙣𝙚𝙬!
🌬 Only you can breathe for you!

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31/08/2025

🦋 Hello SPRING!! 🌼

🦋 To those inhabitants of the Southern Hemisphere of our planet, September marks the beginning of Spring. The butterfly and its 𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙥𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙨 are a perfect symbol for 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙗𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 and fresh starts as it emerges from its chrysalis, melting the winter cold of stagnation, darkness, and hibernation with warm hopes for change, growth, and regeneration.

🏛 Living in accordance with nature is a fundamental pillar of Stoic Philosophy. The ancient Stoics taught that the 𝙘𝙮𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙨 was a metaphor for life's constant changes.

🏛 Most importantly, they advocated that the point of power was always in the present moment, and all experiences were opportunities to act virtuously regardless of the seasons, phases and changes that unfolded in life.

Marcus Aurelius, a Stoic Philosopher, reminds us of the perfection of Nature and that Life itself is change, with his quote:

"𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚, 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙮: 𝙉𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙤𝙤 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙤𝙤 𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙚. 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚, 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙪𝙞𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚: 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙮𝙤𝙪, 𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪, 𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪."

🧘‍♀️ In Stoic Yoga, every lesson is a new beginning, a reset, a renewal and an opportunity for growth, metamorphosis, and 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣.

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