Trauma-Informed Yoga Australia

Want to practice some brain-bicep-curls? (AKA body movement that has wonderful brain benefits for people who’ve experienced trauma, are experiencing chronic stress or that would like to focus on their body/brain connection and nervous system health).

Come practice Yoga with me!

Every Sunday at 8am AEST (virtual) with Frontline Yoga Inc

Every Monday at 12 midday in Ocean Grove at Zero Point Yoga . Ocean Grove .

The link to book both is in my bio - feel free to dm any questions about accessibility or if it’s right for you. (I usually reply within 2 days max)

Want to learn more about how we make decisions (and how we can set ourselves up to make ones more aligned with what feels good and safe to us?)

This Saturday, we’re exploring what happens to our capacity for choice when we’re grounded, when we’re stressed, and when our nervous system is responding to what’s happening around us.

We’ll explore choice-making somatically, paying attention to how decision-making actually feels in the body.

Suitable for yoga facilitators, yoga practitioners, and anyone curious to learn more about choice decision-making and the body - at the beautiful Zero Point Yoga . Ocean Grove . in

Whether I am presenting within a yoga teacher training, professional development for psychologists, working with sports and fitness professionals or leadership teams discussing psychosocial safety these are the constants that I always come back to.

Trauma-informed practice isn’t just about getting a framework right or (God forbid!) reducing it to taking a deep breath before meetings. It’s psychosocial safety in action.

Coincidentally, what I think many trauma-informed (yoga, social work, education, justice) frameworks leave out is a focus on how safety shows up in the body, our nervous systems and brain/body connection, and how power structures, hierarchies and systems can help or hinder genuine implementation.

Hope is the constant.

Hope is so easy to give up on when trauma, significant life experiences, mental health challenges and the demands of everyday life feel overwhelming.

Learning how trauma and chronic stress affect our bodies, brains and relationships helps us see that there is hope beyond what we are feeling today.

Understanding that healing is possible is a big part of why I do this work. And that means drawing on educators and live experience from a number of different disciplines - one of my favourites being Dr Peter Levine, whose work on healing after trauma is exceptional.

We can’t erase what has happened to us, but we can learn to better support our nervous systems, reconnect with ourselves and move towards healing/integration.

Things that have been filling my cup this past week:

- having a “study week” where I immersed myself back into some of my favourite authors and subject matter experts I admire for my program rewrite

- Having the capacity to be kind to myself when stuff does get triggered / even when it’s something I feel like I’ve read a 1000x before. Much less things do trigger me nowadays but it’s an inevitable part of doing this work. Some days I have capacity for it and others I don’t.

- I’ve been enjoying the lead up to the school holidays and am stoked they’re here! This is my favoured part of this work is that I get to schedule around and decrease my work over the school holidays so I get to hang out with the kid.

It’s Winter (!.) and the start of Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

To every one of my LGBTQI+ friends and family: I see you, I love you, and you make the world a better place.

Loving you means wanting you safe, in every workplace and community space you walk into. That is what my work is for. Person-centred, trauma-informed practice is how I believe we can get there.

Because understanding that safety feels different in every body, and that how others treat us, like homophobia has a real impact. Building safety builds interoception, our connection to our physical and emotional state. As both grow, spaces become more psychologically safe. More people feel included. More collaboration and creativity happens. People bring more of themselves, because less of them is bracing for harm.

When we grow up in a world, family or community that doesn’t accept us for who we are it can be so easy for shame and self-hatred to take hold. Even years down the track when it seems like we have everything together it can still be there, lurking.

Ready to go deeper into trauma-aware and trauma-informed yoga facilitation? It looks different in every community, every studio, for every teacher - so I’m not here to hand you a formula and ask you to follow it blindly.

Drawing from the social model of disability, a trauma-informed perspective on health and healing and a healthy dose of lived-experience-inspired dry humour / I’d love you to join me.

Also with a fabulous guest lecture from neuro-affirming practice expert 🙌🏼

Join me in Melbourne at the for my 30-hour trauma-informed yoga facilitation training

Starts 22 Jul

3x live webinars
2x in studio weekends

I thought it was time to reintroduce myself and share what I do alongside facilitating yoga and teacher training.

My work connects nervous system recovery with organisational design. I consult with boards and senior leadership teams to help embed trauma-informed principles into their systems and decision making.
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These slides provide context on my research into organisational drift and why I view this work as a structural framework for performance.
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Details on current workshops and consulting are available at the link in my bio.