Tahnee Taylor, South Golden Beach (2026)

06/03/2026

For a long time I thought creating an online course had to be this huge, polished, perfectly mapped out thing.

Like you had to disappear for six months, record everything in advance, build the perfect sales page, figure out your “ideal client avatar”, and only then could you put it out into the world. But that’s not actually how it works.

Every course I’ve created has gone on to make real money (5 figures or more) in my business and they all started with something I knew deeply, something I cared about teaching, and a willingness to let the first version be a little bit messy.

Instead of trying to build the perfect course in isolation, I built it with people.

I ran founding rounds. I taught live.
I listened to the questions people were actually asking.
And each time the course became clearer, stronger and more valuable.

If you’re sitting on an idea for a course, here are the 5 non-negotiables I’ve learned along the way:
1. Know your s**t. Teach what you actually know and care about.
2. Test the idea on real humans. Run a founding round and build it with your students.
3. Be transparent about the founding round. Over-deliver and gather the feedback.
4. Learn how to launch. A great course still needs people to hear about it.
5. Solve a real problem. The best courses help people move from where they are now to somewhere they genuinely want to be.

Courses don’t have to be complicated.

They just need to be useful, honest, and created by someone who’s a few steps ahead and willing to teach the path.

If you’re a wellness practitioner, teacher or creator who has knowledge that could genuinely help people, there’s a very good chance there’s a course inside you already.

You just have to start building it. Back yourself! You’ve got this.

05/03/2026

I remember the first feedback I got as a yoga teacher was to stop trying to be in control and ‘perfect.’ That it was boring, disconnecting and took me out of being present. Learning to be in the moment as a teacher meant that my classes became energising, emergent, and fun for me to teach. I learned to trust myself and from what I heard from my students it made my classes much better.

It was hard - I used to be TERRIFIED of public speaking because I was afraid of being criticised and shamed and it still makes me laugh that I’m a teacher, sometimes podcaster and often online filming myself!

Moving online and into educating at a higher level, sharing content that I’m creating from my own experiences and research (and that are more of a synthesis of my areas of interest and expertise than rooted in any true lineage has brought up a lot of my perfectionism!! Wanting to make everything overly comprehensive, prove myself, teach everything I know, instead of just being with what is ready to be shared, what each group needs, what is truly alive and asking to be brought forth. I have had to rediscover that confidence and also connect in to the part of me that is open to sharing the path I’ve walked to get to be here, in this moment in time. It feels both bold and humbling to teach from this place, but I feel like a much better teacher for it and also feel like I’m finally finding my voice in sharing what I think the world needs now, what women need now.

I haven’t felt this inspired a long time, and a lot of it has been just claiming my path, my history, my strengths and weaknesses and teaching what has worked for me and being honest about what hasn’t. It’s called me to deeper integrity too - I’ve not chosen paths you can ever fully know, they’re full of mystery and I plan to be walking them for the rest of my life (and maybe other lifetimes). So I can only teach what I know from this moment, and the constant evolution of my work is inspired by my constant quest to deepen both my academic and my embodied understanding of what I learn.

04/03/2026

I don’t think we’ve ever lived in a time with more access to information. More knowledge about healing, more language for the nervous system, more ways to ‘regulate’ (that’s another post entirely), more supplements, protocols, diagnoses and labels.

I’ve not met anyone in the last five years who doesn’t know more about health and psychology than the average person would have in the 80s.

And yet it doesn’t seem to have taken us very far. There is still so much malaise.

I sometimes think we know too much. All that understanding can become its own little cage. A cage full of insight and awareness and rhetoric. Still a cage.

Which makes me think the issue isn’t that we don’t know what’s wrong. The issue is that the rubber hasn’t hit the road.

Or perhaps even more simply: we’ve lost the ability to meet our lives directly, with discernment and honesty.

We know a LOT. We analyse a LOT. We talk about trauma and patterns and attachment styles and nervous system states and ancestral wounds.

But knowing isn’t the same as doing anything about it.

Sometimes the solution isn’t another yoga class or a new supplement or a breathwork practice.

Sometimes it’s quitting the job. Leaving the relationship. Setting the boundary you’ve been avoiding. But change doesn’t always look like that. Sometimes the real shift is quieter, less external.

Sometimes the shift is to stop searching for a way out. To stop looking outside yourself. To stop looking for the next breakthrough, the next hack.

And instead to double-down on the life you already have, the life you’re already building, the work you’re already doing.

Sometimes the work is simply to change the way you meet your life.

To act when you need to act.
To stay when you need to stay.
To commit to the life you’re already living.

Sometimes you just need to be exactly where you are.

03/03/2026

I’ve been self-employed since I was in my mid 20s (I’m 40 now), and owned my own businesses since 2013. I’ve made every single mistake in the book (and some exciting new ones not yet in any book).

Moving into the digital space was a bit of a stretch for me - I am quite shy and not actually very comfortable on camera or talking in public (lol that I’ve ended up here) but weirdly enough the stretching into this space has been one of the most satisfying and rewarding experiences in my career.

I taught a lot of workshops and trainings and retreats irl before this online caper, so I know how to ideate and build out training plans, but delivering content digitally and the whole process of marketing and selling online has been a learning curve.

I’ve had so much fun researching and trying things out, and have never had a launch do less than 5 figures (my lowest ever was 11k).

If I were starting from scratch these are the things I’d focus on. Anything I’ve missed?

02/03/2026

I tried to be the best at birth the first time I gave birth - and I had an amazing birth but was humbled - dropped to my knees - by the fact that efforting was not the way through. It took me another birth to learn that lesson fully, a much harder birth. It was like the universe was saying, “if you can’t surrender to this, I don’t know if you’ll ever learn.” I got the message!

That it doesn’t need to be hard! That the beliefs I had about (everything) were showing up in my births and in my mothering. What I believed hard work looked like. Where my worth came from. The story of pain and suffering as proof that I’d done something worthwhile. I had a lot of unpicking to do.

Third time round I was a different woman - and it showed in my birth. Pleasant, fast, pain free. I would even say easy. Go figure.

The things I learned from all my births (for every birth is a teaching) are now a blueprint I use for all creative work. For solving problems. For raising my kids.

I give great thanks for Jeannine and and the for teaching me how to play Nancy Drew and connect the dots.

This is what’s missing from birth prep, in my opinion. What do you think?

(And for more on this I have a course on birth called Birth Magic, no matter where you want to give birth I think this level of inquiry is helpful. I’ve had women say the self-inquiry prompts in Birth Magic were the most helpful thing they did in preparing to give birth. Link in bio.)

25/02/2026

I have vivid memories of being woken as a young person by the intense light of the full moon shining on my face - we lived on a hill facing the ocean and the moon rises were stunning. I was always magnetised out of bed to stand on the edge of the terrace our house was built on, just to watch her. Now I have little kids we try to catch the full moon rises at our local beach. Still magnetic!

But it’s not just full moons! It’s all her phases, from the time she disappears, her first luminous reappearance as a crescent (always makes me gasp), the whole cycle is an incredible lesson in archetypal energy, in Yin Yang and their dance, and in embracing change.

The moon represents the mercurial mind in spiritual tradition - the receptive, changing, watery being in the sky that so greatly impacts our planet and our people - especially women. It moves our blood and our ‘waters’ (given we are mostly space and water, this is not insignificant) and has a cleansing effect on our bodies, minds and emotions.

Part of our practice this month is noticing - because paying attention leads to insight leads to wisdom.

Can you see the moon where you are tonight? Want to join us watching the moon as she grows?

24/02/2026

I have such vivid memories of each and every leap into my next phase of my work and my life being really scary, full of self doubt and definitely not particularly pretty. lol. But I always trust myself, even if it makes no sense and even if everyone else thinks it’s the wrong move. I think learning to bet on ourselves, to trust our instincts and our intuition (which can take some discernment if we’re used to being moved forward by fear or anxiety) is such a crucial life skill.

For me, distinguishing fear from intuition is about naming all my fears, calling them out and holding them close to me, honouring them, and then seeing if once the fear is presented to the light of day if I still want to do it anyway. For example freebirth, of course I had some fears, but when I named them all (the worst were me and baby dying, obviously), I still wanted to proceed. This made me trust myself more than if I’d tried to pretend I didn’t have those fears.

Opening my yoga studio I feared being judged, being bad at it, failing publicly, being broke, not being good enough, I mean, all of it. And still I knew I had to do it.

I guess all of this is to say if there’s something that’s pulling you and it’s not really making sense but when you really feel into it and are honest about all your fears, if you still think it’s for you, do it!! I never would have thought science and communication and yoga and Taoist practice and shamanic womancraft would all weave together and yet, here we are. Those strange tangents that seem disconnected and weird do eventually make sense (in my experience, anyway).

23/02/2026

Probably my fave ‘science’ topic and one of the not exciting areas of research IMO due to its huge potential to impact health, movement, psychology, human potential/spirituality and so much more! Fascia is where it’s at.

If you want to learn more about this amazing topic, I have an on-demand course available. It’s full of quantum and Taoist wisdom as well as science and if you teach movement or are into understanding consciousness or spirituality you might find it illuminating.

Comment fascia to get the link ✨

22/02/2026

I have been feeling a lot of ‘birth’ energy lately (though more in my work than in my reproductive capacity lol) and I was reflecting on what birth has taught me. I could probably write a 45 page essay but I shan’t cos I don’t have time!

Here are some things I’ve noticed that are showing up in my teaching that are directly from birth. What has birth taught you??

And I’ve included my fave birth video - Leo’s birth, before the placenta was born, I think, Goji at the foot of the bed, Aiya on the camera. Bless.

20/02/2026

I’ve been up late processing an ‘Innerview’ for a Shamanic Womancraft Session - the work I recently certified in and am slowly finding my feet in.

And every damn time I do this I am in awe of the process! working in Jeannine Pavarti Baker’s lineage has gifted us something immensely valuable. You can learn more via

This is a post on one of the ideas foundational to the work. That we have an energetic imprint from our red thread that will echo through our lives until we make it conscious, affecting us both positively and negatively.

The theory here is both biological and energetic.

The o***y that produced the egg that became your mother was forming while your grandmother was inside your great-grandmother’s womb. And the o***y that formed you was forged in your mama while she was inside your grandmother’s womb (at around 12 weeks the ovaries form and around 20 weeks primitive egg cells form).

So in a very real way, you were present in your grandmother’s pregnancy. You were carried through your mother’s gestation and birth, and her childhood.

Which means you are not just shaped by your mother’s pregnancy with you - you are shaped by the environment of her mother’s pregnancy with her, and even the one before that. You lived her childhood, her mother’s birth of her.

And if there were babies conceived or carried before you, their gestational imprint also lives in the terrain of your mother’s body - which means it lives, subtly, in you as well.
This is where it can feel a little vague, because we’re not just talking about genetics. We’re talking about energetic imprints.

So now you know. You are part of a continuum of wombs.
And while that doesn’t mean you are bound by what came before you, it does mean that some of what you carry didn’t begin with you. And it also means that you can claim the strengths and the gifts of your lineage and know that they already vibrate within you. You can enhance them by bringing them into consciousness.

And you can choose not to carry forth their vulnerabilities and weaknesses as you become aware of them and their origins. We repeat what remains unconscious.

19/02/2026

“The energy that gets the baby in, gets the baby out.”

I first read that quote when I was pregnant with my first baby 10 years ago. I loved it, and I thought it meant that the s3xual energy of lo******ng was the key to experiencing a blissful and beautiful birth. That if I could access that erotic aliveness, that softness, that pleasure, then birth would simply be an extension of that.

Then I gave birth and I was like whoa, thats not s3x, that’s something else completely.

It was akin to being flooded with the strongest, most potent and consuming energy I’d ever experienced, energy that was determined to bring life forward in an almost impersonal way. I learned that I needed to be able to hold that energy with more grace (for my own explorations, not for anyone else). It was not relational energy or playful or even particularly pleasurable in the conventional sense.

When I really sat with what it was ACTUALLY like, I realised it was closer to desire than to pleasure. Not desire as fantasy, but desire as gravity. Desire as the culmination our collective will that this baby be here. There was also surrender, delight, wonder, awe.

But not desire in the performative, end-goal, culturally-scripted way we often mean when we say that word. It was life desiring to experience itself - through me, through my baby, through my husband, through our intention to grow a family. It was generative, creative force moving through matter.

And while I absolutely acknowledge that s3x can involve all of those qualities - devotion, surrender, field-creation, calling something in - what I learned is that birth isn’t about making it s3xuql. It’s about being able to rest in the original desire that underlies conception. The field that was created when three souls locked into alignment. That something (I Ami is what I call it) was created.

I wish more families could experience birth like this! It’s something else. ✨

18/02/2026

I know, I have a few! lol. You just wait!

What are your thoughts on this? What resonates? What doesn’t?

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