How Yoga Found Me (and why I think it might be looking for you too)
Ten years ago, yoga found its way into my life not through intention, but through desperation and what followed was a journey I never could have predicted. If you've ever tried yoga once and quietly given up, this one is for you.
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The 5 Stages of Burnout: How to Know Where You Are
One of the most disorienting things about burnout is that you often don't see it coming. Not because it isn't happening, but because many of its early stages look, from the inside, like exactly the right thing to be doing.
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What Biohacking Gets Wrong About Wellness: Why You Can't Optimise Your Way to Okay
Most of us turn to biohacking hoping that the right protocol will finally make us feel like ourselves again, but what if the very premise of optimising your body is part of what's keeping you stuck? This piece gently unpacks why measuring and fine-tuning can only take you so far, and what we might be missing when we treat wellness as an engineering problem.
Without apology: the freedom in walking away
I let my life quietly slip out the back door. I said, " See you later," and never returned. It isn't something you plan, and it isn't something I'll ever be able to explain away. I just needed to leave.
How Yoga Found Me (and why I think it might be looking for you too)
Ten years ago, yoga found its way into my life not through intention, but through desperation and what followed was a journey I never could have predicted. If you've ever tried yoga once and quietly given up, this one is for you.
Without apology: the freedom in walking away
I let my life quietly slip out the back door. I said, " See you later," and never returned. It isn't something you plan, and it isn't something I'll ever be able to explain away. I just needed to leave.
What's happened since I started this blog, and why I'm still here
Five years ago, I started this blog with curiosity and a half-finished manuscript. What followed changed everything, and what I discovered on the other side might just change something in you too
I Took the Hard Road, They Said It Had the Best Views
Here is a question I have been sitting with: If someone offered you a shortcut - not a cheat, not a bypass, but a genuine, faster way through - would you take it? Or would you need to feel your way there first? Would you need to walk the whole long road, with its wrong turns and its weather, before you trusted where you'd arrived? I have been asking myself this honestly. And the honest answer is: I think I needed the long road. Not because suffering is noble or because hardship is a prerequisite for growth. But because of something more specific to how I am wired. I needed the felt sense.
The Quiet Heartbreak of Watching People Stay
There is a particular kind of heartbreak that does not come from loss. It comes from watching someone you love remain in a life that is slowly dimming them. You see it in the way they speak about themselves. In the exhaustion that never lifts. In the habits they defend but quietly resent.
The Contemplations App is here
Your body already knows the way back. The Contemplations App helps you listen.
Guided meditations, breathing practices, emotional check-ins and a journal, woven into the quiet spaces of your day. Rooted in yoga and somatic wisdom. Designed to feel like coming home.
How Yoga Found Me (and why I think it might be looking for you too)
Ten years ago, yoga found its way into my life not through intention, but through desperation and what followed was a journey I never could have predicted. If you've ever tried yoga once and quietly given up, this one is for you.
Box Breathing or Samavritti: How to Practice It and Evolve Your Technique Over Time
Discover the ancient art of box breathing, a deceptively simple practice rooted in yogic tradition that can calm your nervous system, sharpen your focus, and transform the way you move through stress. Whether you are a complete beginner or a seasoned practitioner, this guide will show you exactly how to begin and how to grow with it over time.
Hindu Deities in Yoga: The Ancient Stories Living Inside Every Pose and Practice
Every yoga class I loved as a student, truly loved, the kind where you roll up your mat a little changed, had one thing in common. A story. Not the anatomical kind ('now we're going to create external rotation in the hip socket'). The ancient kind. The kind where a teacher would begin with: there is a story about...And something in the room would settle. Everyone would shift slightly on their mats. A collective leaning in.
Fascial manoeuvres: what they are and why your body holds tension
Yesterday I attended my second fascia experience. The first was a few weeks ago in a workshop where the idea of fascia was introduced. There are only three people in Victoria holding these sessions, and if you're interested in the body, how it holds tension as well as trauma, this might be for you. My second session was a one-on-one, an opportunity to delve into something specific: the recurring shoulder injury, the headaches, and the way the lines of the body stiffen when the fascia hasn't been opened or hydrated.
How I Finally Got My Dream Body (And Why It Had Nothing to Do With a Diet)
A Warning and an Invitation: if you are here for a quick fix, read on no more. I mean that kindly. There are plenty of places on the internet that will sell you one. This is not that place. But if you are exhausted by quick fixes. If you have tried them, lost count of how many, and arrived here with a particular kind of tired that goes deeper than fatigue, the tired that comes from fighting something for decades and not winning, then you are exactly where you need to be.
The Architecture of Awareness: Using Yoga as a Framework for Self-Study
Self-awareness is rarely accidental. It is built: slowly, deliberately and through practice. What drew me to yoga was movement. What kept me there was something far less visible: the framework it offered for understanding myself.
Meditation
What chanting mantra actually does, and why I fell in love with it
Five weeks of sitting in a room learning the correct pronunciation and tonality of mantra. The beautiful practice of chanting in a group is something I unexpectedly fell in love with.
Living Untethered: a Michael Singer book review on letting go of control
Michael Singer finds me again. His books seem to appear exactly when I need them, and this one was no different. Both of his previous books held me through times I needed holding, and this one is doing the same.
Meditation Myths Debunked: How to Actually Begin (Or Begin Again)
I have lost count of how many people have told me they can't meditate. Sometimes they say it with a kind of proud resignation, I've tried, I'm just not that kind of person. Sometimes, with a frustration that suggests they genuinely wanted it to work. Sometimes with a faint embarrassment, as though they've failed at something that seems to come easily to everyone else.
The 5 Stages of Burnout: How to Know Where You Are
One of the most disorienting things about burnout is that you often don't see it coming. Not because it isn't happening, but because many of its early stages look, from the inside, like exactly the right thing to be doing.
Without apology: the freedom in walking away
I let my life quietly slip out the back door. I said, " See you later," and never returned. It isn't something you plan, and it isn't something I'll ever be able to explain away. I just needed to leave.
Burnout by Emily Nagoski: The Book That Changed How I Understand Stress Cycles
Burnout, written by Emily Nagoski and her sister Amelia, published in 2019, is the book that gave me the clearest framework I've found for understanding why rest alone doesn't resolve exhaustion. Why a holiday can end and the weight return within days. Why doing less isn't always the same as recovering.
What's happened since I started this blog, and why I'm still here
Five years ago, I started this blog with curiosity and a half-finished manuscript. What followed changed everything, and what I discovered on the other side might just change something in you too
What Slowing Down Really Taught Me This Year: Coming Back to My Body, My Life and Myself
As this year comes to a close, I’ve been reflecting on what “slowing down” really ended up being for me. When I imagined it, I pictured beaches, sunrise yoga sessions, sunsets with salty hair, and the kind of inner peace that glossy wellness posts make look effortless. And yes, there were moments that felt like that. But most of the time, slowing down wasn’t glamorous. It was messy, humbling, grounding and honest. It looked like a compromise. It asked me to make choices I didn’t always expect. It made me meet myself in ways I had never truly allowed before.
Habits & Rituals
The 5 Stages of Burnout: How to Know Where You Are
One of the most disorienting things about burnout is that you often don't see it coming. Not because it isn't happening, but because many of its early stages look, from the inside, like exactly the right thing to be doing.
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Why Having a Practice Matters More Than Having the Right Practice
I want to dismantle something the wellness industry has worked hard to construct: the belief that the practice you are doing is probably not quite the right one. Not evidence-based enough. Not the current best approach. Meditation is good, but have you tried breathwork? Breathwork is useful, but only at the right time of day. Yoga is lovely, but have you considered cold exposure?
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Softening the New Year: A Devoted Approach to Wellness
This isn’t a fitness routine. It isn’t a fad diet, calorie counting, or a 30-day reset. It’s something quieter, deeper, and far more sustainable. It’s a relationship. A relationship with your body, built on understanding rather than control.
Removing the Habits That Keep You Stuck: Do A Habit Audit: Hard Questions, Small Changes, Big Shifts
We all have habits that serve us, and habits that don’t. The tricky part is: sometimes the ones that don’t serve are the ones we cling to because they feel familiar, safe, known. This post will guide you through an honest audit of your habits, apply research from behavioural psychology (including key ideas from Atomic Habits by James Clear) and offer a list of very practical, gradual changes you can make — changes you control, sustainable and within reach.
Ebooks
Book Reflections
Burnout by Emily Nagoski: The Book That Changed How I Understand Stress Cycles
Burnout, written by Emily Nagoski and her sister Amelia, published in 2019, is the book that gave me the clearest framework I've found for understanding why rest alone doesn't resolve exhaustion. Why a holiday can end and the weight return within days. Why doing less isn't always the same as recovering.
Living Untethered: a Michael Singer book review on letting go of control
Michael Singer finds me again. His books seem to appear exactly when I need them, and this one was no different. Both of his previous books held me through times I needed holding, and this one is doing the same.
Seeing Desire for What It Really Is
We often look to others to decide what we want. We glimpse a moment in their life — a success, a lifestyle, a relationship - and imagine that having what they have will complete something in us. In truth, what we’re seeing is never the full picture. It’s a snapshot lifted out of a much longer, messier, deeply human story.
Learning to Trust Through Love
We often speak of love as something we either have or don’t, something we fall into or out of. Yet few of us pause long enough to consider its deeper purpose. What if love is not the destination, but the lesson itself?
Sanctuaries of the Self: Finding Rhythm and Ritual on the Road
Travel has a way of unravelling us. It stretches our boundaries and expands our horizons, but in the movement, we often lose the steady pulse of our daily rituals. After eight months on the road, I’ve realised that protecting your practice isn’t about rigid adherence to a schedule; it’s about finding the spaces that help you return to yourself—the ones that feel less like a workout and more like medicine.
When Coming Home Feels Different: How Space, Change, and Perspective Shape What “Home” Means
Sometimes, stepping away from everything you know is the only way to truly see it.We all have places we’ve outgrown, or thought we had. The home that once felt heavy, the routine that seemed suffocating, the four walls that turned into a mirror for our restlessness. But what if it wasn’t the place holding you back? What if it was what you carried inside it?
The Things I thought I needed (and what I actually found)
When I set out on what I half-jokingly called my adult gap year, I had a very clear picture of what I was chasing. I wanted adventure. Something new every day. A change of scenery. Access to incredible things for my photography.
Chance Encounters That Change You: How Travel Brings the Right People Into Your Life
There are people in our lives who remind us to play; the ones who make you want to cartwheel on the beach, run along the sand, or balance, laughing, in a rock pool in warrior three. On my Koh Samui retreat, there was one such person: Bronte.
Exploring How Culture Shapes Your Experience: A Reflective Guide to Wellbeing and Place
There are places in the world that make you feel whole, grounded, and deeply nourished, and there are places that quietly take from you, chipping away at the equilibrium you’ve worked to cultivate. It can feel as though the culture of a place seeps through your skin, shaping your energy and attitude before you’ve even noticed.