Navigating Life’s Challenges: Transforming Stress into Growth Life is a journey with its fair share of ups and downs. While we’d all prefer more ups than downs, the reality is that we all face challenging times. For those experiencing a rough patch and seeking answers, this blog is for you. Here are two common sources of stress and anxiety. The Gap Between Expectations and Reality: Many of us have a vision of where we thought we’d be in life by now — whether in our careers, relationships, or personal achievements. When reality doesn’t match our expectations, it can lead to significant stress ..read more

Living with a chronic illness takes a toll on us physically, but also mentally and emotionally, affecting our ability to live life the way we want. Pain, poor sleep, inflammation, mental health challenges, loss of self and identity are some aspects to consider working with. Kundalini Yoga as a therapy offers tools and techniques to assist with the management of living with a chronic health condition. The National Institutes of Health scientific evidence shows that Yoga as a therapy can support relaxation, mental health, pain management, mindfulness & quality sleep. Yoga encourages us to re ..read more

Pluto (in May) and Saturn (on 30 June) are retrograde and Neptune joins this backwards shuffle on the 3rd of July. This is a time to listen to your heart and act compassionately. Importantly Neptune has been at the final degree of the zodiac (30 degrees of Pisces) since early May and will remain at that precise degree until September. The Sabian Symbol for this degree speaks to the power of clearly visualised ideals to mould the life of the visualiser, while reminding of us of the importance of knowing what we want. The retrograde journey suggests that we have more work to do to shape the drea ..read more

If All Realities Exist in This Present Moment, Why Isn’t the Reality I Want Showing Up for Me?  Have you ever wondered why, despite your best efforts, the reality you want just doesn’t show up?  While I don’t claim to have all the answers, I can share my perspective on this intriguing question. Perspective One: Filtering Our Reality We experience the world through our five senses, and our unconscious mind processes an astounding 12 to 15 million bits of information from these senses every second. However, our conscious mind can only handle around 7 plus or minus 2 bits of this inform ..read more

We are very excited to be working with Massage Therapist Justine Zerwas at Kundalini House. She has had a successful career in the Health Industry as a Massage therapist in the US and we feel lucky to have her here in Australia. Below Justine shares a little bit about how she came to this therapy and also provides us with her insights on how to improve our immune systems this winter! How did you first become interested in massage therapy? When I was a teenager I babysat for a massage therapist. She worked from home and I would look after her daughter while she saw clients. I remember she had o ..read more

One of the dilemmas of our modern way of living is the silencing of our emotions. Seeing them as inconvenient – we are encouraged to clamp down on our feelings, or even encouraged to see them as a problem.  What if I were to tell you that our emotions and our felt sense in the body was in fact a valuable resource which works to inform us, not in words but in a language of feelings and sensations? This language is our timeless inheritance which we cannot forget and can all access, especially when it comes to pleasure. Like any language, it is one that when shared with another can lead to p ..read more

If it takes a village to raise a baby, perhaps we can use the same train of thought to consider that it takes a team of health practitioners to assist one individual’s healing journey living with chronic illness. Below I discuss the concept and need for an integrative model of healthcare in our society, that sees a multidisciplinary team manage an individual’s health condition, noting that Yoga therapy is a valuable component of this model. The health technologies of the past century focused on a reductionist-based, cure-orientated model of healthcare with, no doubt, phenomenal scientific adva ..read more

Embarking on Shamanic Journeys for Holistic Wellbeing As a Crystal Dreaming® shamanic journey practitioner I am always in awe at how Shamanic journeys are a profound avenue for holistic wellbeing, they offer a sacred passage to explore the depths of our existence and to find inner harmony. Essentially these soul voyages hold transformative potential beyond words. Central to the shamanic journey is the quest for healing — healing that encompasses the body, mind, and spirit. Within the safe container of the journey, individuals are invited to confront and release energetic blockages, ancestral w ..read more

Chinese Medicine: Pre-conception and Fertility When seeking assistance in fertility, modern medicine often takes centre stage. However, amidst the array of contemporary methods, there’s profound knowledge to be found in ancient practices. Chinese Medicine, with its rich tapestry of herbs and acupuncture, offers a holistic approach to fertility. Chinese Medicine theory has revered pregnancy as a pivotal moment, where the delicate balance of Jing, Blood, and Qi holds the promise of profound transformation. Pre-conceptual health is foundational, shaping not only the mother’s vitality but also the ..read more

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. ~ Seneca To comprehend how transformation occurs in yoga, it’s essential to grasp the mechanics of the human body-mind-soul complex. While the medical field offers a universally accepted scientific understanding of human anatomy and physiology, Yogis have a model that extends beyond it. The Yogic model encompasses subtler aspects that exceed our current scientific comprehension, delving into the energetic or pranic body and our relationship with existence, encompassing inner and outer worlds on a continuum with our environment and the cosmos. S ..read more