Qi by the sea

Movement is a tool for pesonal and collective change.🌏☮️
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12/08/2026

So much of what I’m interested in now is about what it means to actually inhabit a body in the world we live in.

Not to transcend it, not to “rise above” what’s happening, or use practices to become better at putting up with things that need to be felt and questioned.

Which is why the next book we’re reading with the Amnesty Port Macquarie Group feels particularly timely.

Returning Home to Our Bodies explores how we relate to our bodies, how the world shapes that relationship, what we learn to ignore or push through — and the wonder of being alive.

The book is grounding and expansive, a reminder that our bodies are not separate from nature. They are, in fact, part of the miracle of it.

The book group itself is called Bound Together and explores each book slowly, reading only a few chapters each fortnight, so there’s time to digest, reflect and talk about what we’re reading together.

If this sounds like the kind of conversations you’ve been wanting to have, we’d love to have you read along with us. We start this Sunday.

Click here for updates to RSVP: https://bookclubs.com/the-slow-read-revolution/join

04/07/2026

This equation from Radiant Lotus Women’s Qigong honestly feels like medicine for these times: VA + NC = SLE

Vertical Alignment (VA) means remembering we’re a living conduit - Heaven above, Earth below.

When we stand in VA - feet grounded, connected by a line of energy all the way through our open crown to a star in the sky - we become a living bridge between worlds.

And our body remembers we are held and belong to something vast and interconnected.

Neutral Compassion (NC) is harder because the grief is endless.

But NC doesn’t mean apathy or indifference.
It means remaining present without being consumed. It’s how we hold our humanity - without burning out, numbing out, or lashing out.

Together the result is, Stable Lead Energy (SLE).
The kind that stays centred in chaos.
That knows when to act, and when to pause.
And can hold pain without turning away.

Because this is how we outlast the systems trying to break us.

This is our power. 🪷

Come practice with me tomorrow as part of Home at Roto House’s wonderful Recharge Sunday offering. I’ll be under trees at 10am 🤍

10/05/2026

There’s something about a circle of women that creates its own magic. Yesterday we gathered for a session on the Metal Element - autumn, breath, scent. We connected with our Lungs, Large Intestine, and skin. We breathed in frankincense and blue cypress. We held space for what wanted to be released.

There’s never enough time, but I’m grateful for the time we did have together. Thank you to the women who came.

The first Winter/Water session - Deep Listening - is on Saturday, 6 June 🖤

👉 https://events.humanitix.com/deep-listening-a-winter-seasonal-session

26/04/2026

It can feel hard to be human right now. When we try to navigate the space between potential and beauty, and pain and injustice, the chasm can feel wide and insurmountable.

The Lungs know this feeling. In Chinese medicine, this meridian governs grief and our capacity to release — and sometimes that means releasing what we cannot control.

One of the acupressure points I return to when I need this reminder is Lung 9, Supreme Abyss (Tai Yuan 太淵). It’s a source point, meaning it tonifies and balances the whole meridian — not just physically, but at the psycho-emotional and spiritual level too.

This can be deepened when used with an essential oil. Aromatic plants have a long history in Chinese medicine, and although the pairing of essential oils with acupressure points is a more recent practice, teachers like and have developed this integration beautifully.

As writes about the pairing of Atlas Cedarwood with Lung 9, an oil sourced from the heartwood of the tree: “By connecting the Lungs with the Heart, the oil of the resilient, tall and upright tree helps to transform our resistance to change and fear…into an acceptance of and receptivity to mystery.”

That feels like medicine for right now. 🌿

If you’d like to explore this and more, join me on May 9 🤍

👉 https://events.humanitix.com/release-and-refine

🖐️ image from A Manual of Acupuncture

21/04/2026

Our sense of smell is unlike any other. It is the only sensory information received directly by the cerebral cortex and limbic regions of the brain — the parts responsible for memory, emotion, and instinctual response. Every other sense passes through the thalamus first, but smell arrives without the detour.

Smell is also our most ancient sense — present in the earliest forms of life, long before language, long before thought. It evolved not to analyse but to orient. To know what is safe, what is sacred, and what is home.

Is there a scent that stops you? That returns you somewhere, or someone, or some version of yourself you had almost forgotten?

That’s not coincidence. In Chinese medicine, the nose is the sensory organ of the Metal Element — the element of Autumn, of clarity, of what remains when the noise falls away.

Working with scent intentionally — not as a fix or a formula, but as an invitation to pause and arrive — is a practice of returning to the one that already knows.

We’ll be exploring this at Release & Refine on 9 May at Flow State Yoga. I’d love you to join me.🤍

👉 https://events.humanitix.com/release-and-refine

PS. This image is from my time working as an aromatherapist and pamper expert with . Look how young I look 😄

20/04/2026

We live inside systems designed to keep us overwhelmed, tired, and doubting ourselves.

The Metal Element cuts through that.

Autumn is the season of discernment — of letting the non-essential fall away until what is genuinely precious becomes visible again. The noise, the striving, the weight of what was never truly yours, can be released so what remains is clear.

This is the invitation.

If you would like to feel it, join me on 9 May🤍

https://events.humanitix.com/release-and-refine

05/04/2026

More than two years of genocide, and the accumulating weight of what’s happening in the world, have asked me to re-examine everything. Although my qigong sessions aren’t political conversations, the raison d’être is entirely bound up with something I keep coming back to: why are we here if not for each other?

Self-care is a form of community care and political resistance in a world that tries to keep us distracted, disconnected, depleted. We need to look after ourselves so we can look after each other, and that will always remain the foundation of the practice.

If you would like to join me, I will be running a monthly circle at the beautiful 💖

👉 https://events.humanitix.com/awakening-awareness-an-introduction-to-qigong

03/04/2026

It can be hard to make time for yourself when the to-do list is seemingly endless. But we carry so much, sometimes we just need to lie down and let the earth take our weight.

Taking time for yourself is a practice in receiving - allowing someone else to hold space so you can simply be. It never ceases to amaze me how, given that opportunity, we respond. The mind stills, time stretches, and sometimes, by the end, our body softens too.

If this sounds like something you need, join me next Saturday at where I’ll be sharing a few simple principles in from Chinese philosophy. Nothing to memorise, nothing to get right, just a couple of hours to slow down. We’ll do a little standing, some gentle movement, and a whole lot of lying down.

No practice can fix everything, but it might just help us move through things a bit easier. 💖

👉 https://events.humanitix.com/awakening-awareness-an-introduction-to-qigong

31/03/2026

There’s a lot to hold right now and in times like these, the qualities we need most - the ability to see what is true, to stay present, to trust, to know what matters, and to remember who we are - can feel hardest to access.

Qigong is from one of the oldest systems we have for cultivating these capacities, not just for ourselves, but so we can show up for each other.

If you want to resource yourself from the inside out, I’d love to have you join me as we explore how the Five Elements in Chinese philosophy offer us a way to embody these qualities through movement and breath.

Saturday, 11 April, 4-6pm
Sliding scale pricing.💖

👉 https://events.humanitix.com/awakening-awareness-an-introduction-to-qigong

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