3 Years! A Tribute to Community + Spiritual Hope

A short tribute to our community, the current changes, and a resource for spiritual hope.

practice, yoga, meditation, conscientious livingLucy Lawes19 August 2020Estuary Yoga Spacerestore, community, peace, practice, Tara BrachComment

Ojas-Building Bliss Slice

A delicious and easy one-bowl slice; nourishing, rich and energizing.

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Smooth Golden Ojas Tonic

A thick, creamy and deeply nourishing tonic for your senses and your body.

conscientious living, create, nourishLucy Lawes23 May 2020simple, natural, ayurveda, recipe, almonds, dates, tonicComment

Yoga Nidra for Sleep | Relax with Gill Forsyth (Favourite, revisited!)

Yoga Nidra, sometimes known as yogic sleep, is a practice where the body-mind is guided into a sleep state while the mind is intentionally led through a meditative journey. This time to refresh ourselves on a cellular level is integral for taking action in a wise, discerning and effective way.

A 17 minute practice for anyone, anytime you wish to soak into a deeper, more rejuvenating rest.

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The Evidence of your Practice | Part 4: A Discerning Self

To reveal and unravel our stories is also to liberate ourselves from being stuck in the same grooves or patterning. This is a pathway towards new possibilities, and deeper layers of understanding.

Part 4 of a series of reflections on how our practice can flow into our lives - and how we can direct these ripples conscientiously.

The Evidence of your Practice | Part 3: The Witnessing Self

To re-frame a situation through a clearer lens of conscious awareness is to become the witnessing Self.

Part 3 of a series of reflections on how our practice can flow into our lives - and how we can direct these ripples conscientiously.

The Evidence of your Practice | Part 2: Agency in your Choices

Cultivating agency in your choices. Part 2 of a series of reflections on how our practice can flow into our lives - and how we can direct these ripples conscientiously.

The Evidence of your Practice | Part 1: Manas, the Mind

To reflect on how and why we practice is to investigate how these transformations ripple into our lives, and all the lives we intersect with. This is svadhyaya - a form of self-study.

Part 1 of a series of reflections on how our practice can flow into our lives - and how we can direct these ripples conscientiously.

Your Natural Self: Open, Present Awareness

'Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize you're always standing at the centre of the world.'

- Pema Chödron

On coming home, moving forward, and the challenging ease of simplicity.

Journeying Together | A Reflection, 2 Years on

Our gratitude to you, Estuary yogis. Happy 2nd birthday to this wonderful community!

A reflection and prayer. Let’s continue to journey, together.

Little self and big Self | 3 Minutes to Re-membering

In the yogic tradition, Self (as opposed to little 's' self) refers to the state of a vast consciousness.

You may have felt this inter-connected, seemingly boundless feeling of peace or contentment as glimpses in your day - when you are most rested, most joyful, most at ease.

What if you’re able to inhabit this space more frequently, and more purposefully?

This practice involves few simple gestures, a few intentional breaths. It won’t ‘fix’ everything, but it will offer you an invaluable wider lens, past habits, fears and habits, on what is truly integral right here.

The Sacred Pause | How Stopping Helps Us Move, With Purpose

We are all too frequently taught to seek what is comfortable, averting from discomfort or challenge. We get caught in this loop of avoiding the things which will eventually need to be dealt with. It's a bit like leaving dishes in the sink, hoping that when you come back they will be a little easier to clean...

A short reflection on the power of pausing at the crossroads of each moment. A way to create purpose in how you direct the course of your day - and thus your life.

Moon Piercing Breath: A Return to Calm

Chandra Bhedana, or Moon Piercing Breath, is a simple, quietly powerful pranayama. It involves taking mindful breaths through your left nostril.

Learn how to guide your body-mind towards o a more intuitive, steady state of being. A place from which we can make decisions and take action more patiently, wisely and kindly.

meditation, practice, conscientious living, pranayama, yogaLucy Lawes26 June 2019pranayama, presence, breath, moon, calming, nurture, sleep, restComment

5 Minutes to Cool Your Insides: Sitali & Sitkari Pranayama

Sitali means ‘cooling’ or ‘soothing’. It only takes a few minutes, through the powerful medium of breath, to still your body, gather your awareness, and draw a clear stream into your inner landscape.

Learn how to practice this accessible pranayama anywhere, to centre and calm the body-mind.

Yoga Nidra for Sleep | Relax with Gill Forsyth

Yoga Nidra, sometimes known as yogic sleep, is a practice where the body is guided into a sleep state while the mind is intentionally led through a meditative journey. A 17 minute practice for anyone, anytime you wish to soak into a deeper, more rejuvenating rest.

practice, yoga, meditation, conscientious livingLucy Lawes12 December 2018Estuary Yoga Spaceyoga nidra, sleep, rest, restore, meditationComment

3 Simple Words That Will Change Your Day

Our words - especially towards ourselves - hold immense power.
Change your thoughts, change your story, change your perspective.

It happens one breath, once choice, at a time. Here’s one way to anchor your presence.

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DIY | Simple, Earth + Human-Friendly Cleaning Potion

Simplicity, ease, freshness. Free of unnecessary chemicals, just as effective.

One small way to honour your home and wellbeing, as well as the Earth.

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Sankalpa : Clearing a path for Focus

Whatever you focus on, you will feel.

How often do you notice your focus drifting towards the noise of the day? When so much stimulus is pulling our attention in different directions, it is important to have a tool to help us refocus. To create a space of more clarity, so we can choose what is important in this moment. This is the anchor of your Sankalpa.

Your Yoga, Your Practice: Awakening to daily life

What you are practicing matters. How you practice it gives meaning.

An enquiry into the nature of the yoga practice; less about making bendy shapes, and more about getting better at living life.

3 Tips: Establishing your Yoga Practice

A steady yoga practice holds a myriad of benefits for body and mind. It can help set the tone early in your morning, reconnect you in the evening, and provide a watchful oasis from the noise any time of day.

But how do we cultivate this rhythm within each busy day?

Here are 3 tips to help guide you towards a more intention-led practice - one that stays.

We live, work and co-create on the sacred lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Worrong people, of the Kulin Nation.

With deep gratitude, respect and commitment, we endeavour for an on-going practice of solidarity and reciprocity with land, sea and sky, informed by the guidance of its innate harmonious wisdom.

Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.