Samastah Yoga

Samastah Yoga Samatah Yoga is a small home Studio, catering to intimate groups and private classes. Lisa also passionately teaches Pre/Post natal.

Lisa’s yoga practice has always been a sacred place of ‘coming home to self’. Over time as her practice developed and deepened, it has been her anchor, allowing her freedom to draw strength, internal awareness and most sacredly - grounding. From this space, Lisa offers the intention in her classes for students to feel nurtured and nourished, drawing in a sense of inner calm with an explorative practice for students to be present ‘in their own body’. Lisa’s grounding in her hatha practice, form the essence of her teaching - as she holds space by honoring traditional yoga practices. Intentional awareness on deepening poses, aligning energy within to find a deeper spiritual connection. Weaving into her teachings, Lisa heartfully shares knowledge gained from her further training in Yin (Chinese medicine & Myofascia release) and Restorative yoga. Guiding students using postures as a meditative experience to find deep release, honoring skeletal variations and cultivating a sense of internal awareness. In her teachings offering a space for women to evolve with their changing bodies, tapping into their feminine essence and supporting them physically and emotionally during their pregnancy journey. Lisa’s essence is in guiding students to move physically, emotionally and spiritually from a place of inner trust and self-awareness. Her heart sings when she has facilitated space for a student to find release, and surrender in a deeply held yin pose, a long embracing restorative posture, finding a meditative breath connection in a hatha practice or the stillness and space of a much yearned for savasana

FIND ME ON THE MAT THIS WEEK Monday 9:30am - Seniors - Kingsford Tce, Corinda Tuesday 6:30pm - Hatha - KDK, KenmoreWedne...
09/11/2025

FIND ME ON THE MAT THIS WEEK
Monday 9:30am - Seniors - Kingsford Tce, Corinda
Tuesday 6:30pm - Hatha - KDK, Kenmore
Wednesday 5:30am - Hatha, Jindalee 24/7
Wednesday - 11am - Hatha - Westside HQ, Corinda
Thursday 1pm - Aqua Yoga, Dunlop Memorial Pool, Corinda
Friday 9:30am - Seniors - Kingsford Tce, Corinda
Sunday - 8am - Hatha- Girl Guides, Middle Park
Sunday 10am - Hatha - YMCA, Jamboree Heights

This just lights me up, inside
06/11/2025

This just lights me up, inside

FIND ME ON THE MAT THIS WEEK Monday 9:30am - Seniors - Kingsford Tce, Corinda Tuesday 6:30pm - Hatha - KDK, KenmoreWedne...
02/11/2025

FIND ME ON THE MAT THIS WEEK
Monday 9:30am - Seniors - Kingsford Tce, Corinda
Tuesday 6:30pm - Hatha - KDK, Kenmore
Wednesday 5:30am - Hatha, Jindalee 24/7
Wednesday - 11am - Hatha - Westside HQ, Corinda
Thursday 1pm - Aqua Yoga, Dunlop Memorial Pool, Corinda
Friday 9:30am - Seniors - Kingsford Tce, Corinda
Saturday - 4pm - Yin & Qigong immersion, Illuminating the spirit of the heart
Sunday - 8am - Hatha- Girl Guides, Middle Park
Sunday 10am - Hatha - YMCA, Jamboree Heights

CULTIVATE COMPASSION 🌿💛 Today in class, I felt the spark... as I sat & waited for everyone to find their seat, I just ha...
02/11/2025

CULTIVATE COMPASSION 🌿

💛 Today in class, I felt the spark... as I sat & waited for everyone to find their seat, I just had this wave of kindness inside of me, that spoke loud & clear.

🌊 After a week of uncertainty, with some crazy stormy weather conditions, I could sense that energetically (& it's been very much across the board in all classes this week and probably will still be for a few more days), there has been a stirring inside.

The words speak loud and clear
🩵May we be safe
🩵may we be happy
🩵may we be healthy
🩵may we live with ease.

This is the transformative power of Loving-Kindness Meditation (Metta) 🌿💛, a practice that ignites the fire of compassion within us. Loving-kindness meditation is one of the most empowering practices we can offer ourselves.
It awakens the heart, calms the mind, and reconnects us to what truly matters — compassion, presence, and our shared humanity.
Metta invites us to send warm wishes of safety, happiness, health, and ease to ourselves and others. With each phrase, the heart begins to open, tension melts, and we feel more grounded, generous, and at peace.

✨ Some of the benefits of a regular Metta practice include:
• It reduces stress and quietens a busy racing mind 🙏
• Softens self-criticism and strengthens self-acceptance 💪
• Deepens emotional resilience and patience 🌈
• Increases empathy, connection, and compassion for others 🌎
• Supports a more steady and loving relationship with ourselves 💕

In a world that often pulls us into distraction and disconnection, Metta leads us back to warmth, softness, and presence. A simple practice… with a profound ripple. 💛

If you’d love to experience this practice in community, I’d be honoured to guide you. 🌿

❤️

🌿 Yoga Is Not One-Size-Fits-All 🌿I quite often get asked - So 'What style of yoga do you teach?' My simple answer, which...
02/11/2025

🌿 Yoga Is Not One-Size-Fits-All 🌿

I quite often get asked - So 'What style of yoga do you teach?'

My simple answer, which often confuses most people, is that I teach to the students in front of me'.

I teach intuitively based on the students that arrive.

Over many, many years my curiosity into the depth of yoga, has led me to many, many hours of various training - such as Hatha, Yin, Restorative, Pre & Post natal, Yoga therapy, Ayurveda & even a little broader into Qigong & now Pilates. It sounds like many different directions - BUT my soul purpose, is to meet my students where they are at. This has never been about qualifications, but a genuine love and yearning for the practice. One that I know changes lives.

I know that I have experienced many seasons in my own practice, so I completely understand that to stay consistent and to keep showing up - you need to evolve with and alongside your students. I might sound like a broken record, but I always reiterate - 'This is your practice first'

I'll never lose my curiosity, and I'll never lose my heart. I'll forever be a student and assume that there is still more room for growth, expansion and evolution. Having said that, I am determined, even if I do blend two styles of practice together, or I do introduce new concepts in class - it will always be through my voice. That part remains true.

As teachers and practitioners, our role is to listen — to the body’s whispers, the mind’s needs, and the rhythm of our energy. By blending different modalities, we create space for true harmony — meeting ourselves exactly where we are.

✨ Yoga isn’t about perfection or a single method. It’s about presence, compassion, and honoring the ever-changing flow of life. ✨


YIN POSES TO SUPPORT THE SPIRIT OF THE HEART *Think any of the upper body shapes, involving the arms The small intestine...
01/11/2025

YIN POSES TO SUPPORT THE SPIRIT OF THE HEART

*Think any of the upper body shapes, involving the arms
The small intestine and heart lines run parallel to each other in the inner & outer arm, finishing at the small finger

💕Childs pose
💕Eagle arms
💕Closed wing
💕Open wing
💕Sphynx
💕Side lying stretch
💕Heart opening over a block
💕Camel pose
💕Melting heart

💗 Opening the Heart in Yin Yoga 💗In Yin yoga, heart-opening postures do far more than stretch the chest and shoulders — ...
01/11/2025

💗 Opening the Heart in Yin Yoga 💗

In Yin yoga, heart-opening postures do far more than stretch the chest and shoulders — they awaken the deeper layers of emotional and energetic flow within us. The Heart is the home of Shen, our spirit of joy, love, and awareness. When we soften into backbends or gentle chest-openers, we release the protective tension that often forms around this sacred space.

Opening the Heart in Yin invites vulnerability, compassion, and trust. It allows stagnant energy, old emotions, and fatigue to move and dissolve, leaving a sense of spaciousness and calm. With each slow breath, we reconnect to what is real and tender within us — our natural capacity to give and receive love freely.

✨ When the Heart opens, the spirit shines. Practice gently, breathe deeply, and allow yourself to feel — this is where healing begins. ✨

🌙 Returning the Shen to the Heart Before Sleep 🌙In Chinese medicine, our Shen — the radiant spirit of the Heart — govern...
29/10/2025

🌙 Returning the Shen to the Heart Before Sleep 🌙

In Chinese medicine, our Shen — the radiant spirit of the Heart — governs clarity, peace, and emotional balance. During the day, Shen moves outward, engaging with the world through thought, feeling, and action. But at night, it needs to return home — to rest quietly within the Heart — so we can experience deep, nourishing sleep and wake with renewed vitality.

When the mind is restless or emotions are unsettled, Shen struggles to settle, and sleep becomes light or disturbed. A beautiful nightly ritual is to consciously invite the Shen home. Before bed, slow your breath. Feel your awareness drop from the head into the chest. Soften your shoulders and allow your Heart space to open gently. Imagine a warm, soft light glowing there — your Shen, settling peacefully back into its sanctuary.

Practices like gentle Yin poses, a few moments of Qigong, or simply placing a hand over your Heart can help guide this return. As Shen finds its rest, the whole being harmonizes — body, mind, and spirit.

✨ Tonight, may your Shen return home, and may your sleep be deep, calm, and full of quiet radiance. ✨

To✨ Intertwining Yin & Qigong — A Seasonal Immersion ✨There is a quiet kind of magic that happens when we slow down…When...
27/10/2025

To✨ Intertwining Yin & Qigong — A Seasonal Immersion ✨

There is a quiet kind of magic that happens when we slow down…
When movement becomes breath, and breath becomes awareness.
When the stillness within begins to hum with life. 🌿

This immersion is an invitation to restore, reconnect, and come alive.
Two ancient practices — Yin Yoga and Qigong — woven together in harmony, drawing from the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the five elements of nature: Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal.

Through mindful movement, conscious breath, and deep stillness, we’ll call in the energy of the season — awakening chi flow, dissolving stagnation, and returning balance to body and spirit.

Our shared practice will gently unfold:
🌬 Grounding breath & arrival
🌳 Flowing Qi Gong to cultivate and direct energy
🌸 Deep Yin to soften and release
🕯 Stillness, sound & meditation to restore the heart

This is a moment to pause — to nurture your Shen, the spirit of the heart — and to remember what it feels like to live from a place of joy, peace, and inner harmony. 💛

📍 Witton Barracks, Indooroopilly
🕓 Saturday 8th November 4–6pm
💫 $40 per session

A sacred afternoon of stillness, energy and renewal awaits.
Come home to yourself. 🌺
— From my heart, Lisa

All details in the event link below:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1782797636450408

Cultivating Shen — The Radiant Spirit of the Heart 🌸In traditional Chinese wisdom, Shen (神) is the spirit that resides i...
26/10/2025

Cultivating Shen — The Radiant Spirit of the Heart 🌸

In traditional Chinese wisdom, Shen (神) is the spirit that resides in the Heart — the seat of consciousness, awareness, and compassion. When Shen is bright and stable, our mind feels clear, our emotions peaceful, and our presence radiant. In Yin and Qigong practice, nurturing Shen transforms movement and stillness into a deeply spiritual experience.

Through gentle breath, mindful awareness, and the soft opening of the Heart space, we invite Shen to settle and shine. Yin postures that calm the nervous system and Qigong flows that harmonize Qi help the spirit rest in its true home — the Heart. This balance supports emotional stability, restful sleep, deeper intuition, and a natural sense of joy.

When Shen is disturbed by stress, overthinking, or emotional turmoil, our light feels dimmed. But when we practice with sincerity, compassion, and presence, Shen becomes luminous — guiding us toward harmony with ourselves and the world.

✨ Take time to move slowly, breathe deeply, and rest in stillness. In doing so, you are not just nourishing your body — you are tending to your spirit. ✨

A little on how my Yin journey began...So, I was first introduced again to Yin, funnily enough at the same studio where ...
24/10/2025

A little on how my Yin journey began...

So, I was first introduced again to Yin, funnily enough at the same studio where I came across Qigong...

At the time Yin felt like an emerging practice, not as common as it is on many timetables as it is today. But some of the sensations I first remember experiencing, which have set the tone as to why I love yin just as much to today, as I ever did then..

🩵 The depth within the holds. The deep, deep trust in my own body to go deeper into the more superficial layers. Quite often we feel safer (& rightly so) with a surface level practice, but when we go deeper, we begin to unlock, to unravel, to release...it quite often still surprises me.

🩵The greater level of awareness to your body. Not just your physical body (that part is quite obvious) but the subtle layers, the way that your breath shifts and adapts to accommodate the depth and range in your body. But how your body holds for so long, and then eventually it releases. So slow, so gradual, so freeing.

🩵How meditative it is. Especially in the more 'Yin' of the yin poses, when you can really drop in physically, such as our forward folds. It surprised me, and still does, how much capacity there is within the stillness. Deeply, deeply meditative. A true connection within.

🩵The awareness of holding patterns in our body. For a long, long time - I was oblivious that trauma could be stored in our bodies. In my early 20's , I probably felt more physically resilient and more pliable, but in my 30's & definitely into my 40's I have now felt and acknowledged that if overlooked, trauma accumulates. Burying it deeper within doesn't equal coping. It's not a badge of honor. But vulnerability and realisation, are the beginning if the unravelling - we just have to allow.

Who knew... all this just from a Yin practice. There is still sooo much more I could share & I will in time, but it's defiantly a felt experience.

🌿Planting the seed....Leading Day Retreats, is something that fills my heart with joy.,,✨ One Day Can Make a World of Di...
23/10/2025

🌿Planting the seed....
Leading Day Retreats, is something that fills my heart with joy.,,

✨ One Day Can Make a World of Difference ✨

There’s something deeply magical about stepping away — even for a single day.

To soften the edges of busyness, to breathe again, and to create time just for you.
These moments of retreat remind us how essential it is to pause… to listen… and to return home to ourselves. 🌿

Come & join me for this Ayurvedic-inspired seasonal day retreat at the serene Temple Retreat. Surrounded by nature’s stillness, we’ll explore the radiant energy of Pitta — the fire of transformation and vitality — learning how to soften its intensity and restore harmony through yoga, stillness, nourishment and reflection.

Our day will weave together gentle movement, Ayurvedic wisdom, soulful connection, and deep rest. You’ll receive a nourishing Ayurvedic lunch and a keepsake booklet to carry the teachings home with you.

Let this be your time to refill your cup, rekindle your inner light, and realign with the rhythm of the seasons. 🌞

Come rest, reset, and return to your heart. 💛

Full details in the event link below:
https://www.facebook.com/events/9170929646263257

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11 Lauren Court
Sinnamon Park, QLD
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Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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Lisa’s yoga practice has always been a sacred place of ‘coming home to self’. Beginning her teaching journey after the birth of her daughter, she was led by a heartfelt desire to delve deeper into her practice.

Yoga, for Lisa has always been an anchor in keeping her centred and calm - especially as a busy Mum.

From this space, Lisa offers the intention in her classes for students to feel nurtured and nourished, finding inner calm and clarity whilst exploring a practice that supports students to be present ‘in their own body’.

Beginning her studies in 2013 at VIYETT, Lisa completed a Diploma & Advanced Diploma in Hatha yoga. Her passion for guiding pregnant women led her to complete Pre & Post Natal training with Bliss baby. Drawn into the practice of Yin - Lisa has completed studies with Jo Phee specialising in myofascia release and the Chinese Meridian system. Also complimenting her studies, Lisa has completed Restorative training also with Bliss Baby.