Lighten Up Studio

Dear Ritual community! We want to inform you about an important change. Effective Friday, 14th of July at 12pm (brisbane time), we will be transitioning from our current booking software, Mindbody, to a new and improved software called MOMENCE.

This means that as of Friday, you will no longer be able to book classes using the Ritual app or the Mindbody app. Instead, we kindly request that you download our new app, which will provide you with a more user-friendly and smoother interface.

To ensure a seamless transition, we will be sending you an email tomorrow at 12pm containing detailed instructions on how to download and start using the new Ritual app. This email will guide you through the setup process, as well as how to explore and book classes. Please note we will be transferring everything for you.

We know that there has been lots changes lately, and this will be the final change, and we sincerely apologise for any disruptions caused. We believe that this transition will significantly improve your booking experience, providing you with greater convenience and a more user-friendly platform.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this transition, our team will be more than happy to assist you. You can reach us by replying to this email or contacting our support line at 0483863819.

We appreciate your understanding. Thank you for being a valued member of our community.

With love,

Rose, Soph & Susie

It’s been a wild and crazy ride these past few weeks!

Last week we officially opened our Robina studio and in a surreal turn of events we will be opening our Mermaid Beach studio at the old space on the 17th of July. A huge thank you to for this opportunity ❤️

Our opening party will be on the 22nd and 23rd of July and we’ll be running free classes and workshops all weekend along with loads of giveaways and special offers.

We are super grateful for everyone’s support and patience during this time! If you have emailed, texted or sent us a DM and we’ve some how missed you, so sorry! We will get back to you asap, OR please message us again :)

We’re so excited for the future of the Ritual Community.

We love you x

Rose & Soph ❤️

Join us Sunday 9th of July, 630pm-8pm for a Sound Healing with at our Palm Beach studio.

Everything has a vibrational frequency, including ourselves. So to shower our entire being with Sound can have a profound impact on how we feel, how we think, how we relate, how we connect and how we are.

Sound Healing is an ancient technique that uses tonal frequencies to bring the body into vibrational harmony, balance, and a return to your unique symphony.

Book via our Bio!

We will be running classes only over Saturday for the Easter break.

We hope you can enjoy some downtime & a little indulging with family & friends.

Wishing you all a safe & Happy Easter.

LIGHTEN UP CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE IS HERE🎄🎁

Please keep an eye on our schedule as there will be a reduced timetable from the dates between December 22nd - January 6th, 2023.

Wishing you all a wonderful Chrissy & a very Happy New Year. 🎅

Love the Lighten Up team. 🤍

How is your challenge journey going?
How are you feeling mentally and physically?
Have you set some goals over this period?
Have you been using our recipes and sleep mediations?
How many classes have you prioritised to keep your body moving and feeling at its best?

DON’T FORGET - if you have signed up for our challenge, you are in the draw to win our two prizes.

🥇 1ST PRIZE ~ Our biggest mover
🏅 2ND PRIZE ~ Our biggest supporter

Help spread the love and post your journey with us by tagging the studio each time you attend a class to win yourself a luxurious pamper session.

Goodluck on with your final week of our Nourished challenge.

Lots of love LUP. 🤍

30 DAY NOURISHED CHALLENGE STARTS MONDAY.

$155 for 30 days of unlimited mat & yoga classes, x6 reformer classes, recipe books, sample plans, stress reduction practices and more!

Hit the link in our bio ~ click on the link ‘nourished’ ~ buy now.

1 3 d a y s l e f t t i l l s p r i n g 🌸

Let’s celebrate & get started with our 14 day intro offer of unlimited mat, yoga & reformer classes for just $39!

▫️AUGUST REFORMER SALE ▫️

x 10 Reformer classes for $145!

Let’s celebrate our last month of Winter and kick start your Spring with with this incredible offer!

If you’re looking to tone, sculpt, strengthen or even rehab an injury, this is the pass for you.

▫️Valid for 6 months
▫️Sale ends August 7

Jump onto our website or MindBody before it’s too late.

See you in the Studio. 🌸

GET TO KNOW OUR LIGHTEN UP TEAM // TAMMI BASKETT

👯 Share with us one of your funnest memories with your family or bestie/s?
Probably would have to be some friends and family surprising me for my 30th birthday with a cute beach picnic set up in Byron. This was after I had to hike 3km up the beach because my friend got the pin point wrong 😂🤦🏼‍♀️ trying to hide the surprise, her excuse was “there’s a really cute spot by these rocks I want to get some photos at.” I’m a pretty chilled person, but I was ready to turn around at this point haha. But it was such a special surprise!

⛸What hobbies do I have outside of the studio?
Anything outdoors! I’m always out riding my bike, or doing anything beach related. I also play a bit of soccer too.

🤚 Current addiction?
I’m a sucker for some trashy reality tv shows🤦🏼‍♀️ I know, it’s terrible. But give me an episode or 10 of RHOBH or Below Deck and a cheese platter, and I’m done for the day.

🤍 What is your fav class to teach and why?
I love teaching mat Pilates because it’s so accessible and adaptable to all fitness levels. I also love using body weight as resistance.

🐶 Tell us about your fam (human and fur babies)?
I have a sister and 2 brothers! And my 2 nephews belong to my older brother. We’re all pretty close and love a good roast, and not just the food kind! So family time is always fun!

🍩 What treats do u cave in for?
Always a sucker for chocolate and a cheese platter….also donuts, can’t forget those.

🙂 What’s special about the lighten up community?
I honestly feel like I’m going to hang out with my friends when I go to teach. Everyone is so friendly and open for a chat, it just creates such a fun environment.

• Join Tammi Wednesday nights for 4:30pm Reformer & 5:30pm Mat Pilates •

PLEASE WELCOME ONE OF OUR BEAUTIFUL NEW INSTRUCTORS TO THE LIGHTEN UP TEAM // KALI RETALLACK

Kali is a Mover, Creator, Teacher and Performer.
Kali has toured the world as a circus performer and started with yoga and Pilates as a way to cross train and manage injuries and fell in love with it.
Kali has certifications in and teaches circus, pilates and yoga. Kali also DJs and runs womens circles and dance events.
Forever a student, Kali is endlessly interested in the human body and mind and how she can teach in a way that is accessible and benefits humanity.

👯 Share with us one of your funnest memories with your family or bestie/s?
I went to the Amazon in Brazil with my best friend and his husband when we were on a tour break. It was an unforgettable experience ✨

⛸What hobbies do I have outside of the studio?
Walking on the beach and patting all the doggos! Dancing and improving my DJ skills.

🤚 Current addiction?
Listening to the Elvis movie soundtrack.

🤍 What is your fav class to teach and why?
I love teaching yin yoga ❤️ I think the slowness and awareness of the practice is a great antidote to the stresses of everyday life!

🐶 Tell us about your fam (human and fur babies)? I have a beautiful cat named elvie and lovely community and family.

🍩 What treats do u cave in for? Hmm chocolate pudding and coffee ☕️

🙂 What’s special about the lighten up community?
Everyone is so down to earth and friendly 🤍✨

You can find Kali on the schedule teaching Yin Yoga on Thursday nights at 6:30pm.

GET TO KNOW YOUR LIGHTEN UP TEAM // AIMEE FERGUSSON

👯‍♀️ Share with us one of your funnest memories with family or bestie/s?
Having my family come celebrate my 30th Birthday in Bali with me. My brother and his wife flew from Canada and my parents and sister from Australia to meet while I was live there.

⛸ What hobbies do you have outside the Studio?
Free diving, mandala drawing and watercolour painting

☕️ Current addiction?
My business, can’t stop painting new textile patterns, pick new sustainable fabric and designing new apparel items. And Brene browns podcast

🤍 What is your fav class to teach and why?
Yoga and Reformer: I love the alignment and the creativity of movement when teaching reformer and my Yoga classes are an expression of my current internal journey. I love being able to share and hold space for other on the same path.

🐶 Tell us about your fam (human and fur babies)?
I have travelled extensively for 10 years so I don’t have any pets, but I am very close with my immediate family.

🍩 What treats do you cave in for?
Chocolate and I enjoy a glass of good wine

🙃 What’s so special about Lighten Up?
I love the lighten up members as they are open minded and love any movement I throw their way.

You can join Aimee on Tuesday nights for 4:30pm Reformer, 5:20pm Mat Pilates & 6:30pm Yoga Flow.

GET TO KNOW OUR LIGHTEN UP TEAM // OLIVER CROSSLEY

😎 Share with us one of your funnest memories with your family or bestie/s?
Travelling to Ubud for an Ashtanga Yoga intensive and living there for a month with my best mate Aaron. It’s one of my favourite spots on earth and I’m itching to get back to visit.

🏄🏼‍♂️ What hobbies do I have outside of the studio?
I love surfing, and we’re pretty lucky to have so many amazing spots to surf along the Gold and Tweed Coasts. As a Physio im a bit of a nerd and spend a lot of my spare time reading scientific research on neuroscience, pain and movement. I like condensing the information I find and posting it on my Instagram.

☕️ Current addiction?
Tahini on nearly all foods for ever and always haha. My girlfriend thinks I’m weird, but tahini is life.

🧘🏼‍♂️ What is your fav class to teach and why?
I always love teaching Flow Yoga classes, especially when I get to throw in more challenging Ashtanga elements.

🐶 Tell us about your fam (human and fur babies)?
I’m very lucky to have my amazing girlfriend Bec and our fluffy Samoyed Appa. He’s more of a child than a dog really, we try and take him on all our trips away.

🥐 What treats do u cave in for?
Can’t go past an almond croissant. Especially one from Lune in Brisbane.

🙂 What’s special about the lighten up community?
I’ve taught at Lighten Up since its inception in Townsville. Bec has created a wonderful community, that makes Yoga, Pilates and barre accessible to all bodies of all ages.

You can book in with Oliver Monday nights for 5:20pm Flow Yoga.

GET TO KNOW OUR LIGHTEN UP TEAM // MARCELLE BUIST

👯 Share with us one of your funnest memories with your family or bestie/s?
The last trip to we had to Europe was the best! The planets aligned for the three months we were there and everything was perfect...the experiences, the cultures, the people, and the food...all combined to be forever etched as a happy memory.

⛸What hobbies do I have outside of the studio?
I love being out in nature- bush or sea. Clichéd I know, but being present in our natural environment brings a serenity and grounds me in an otherwise crazy world.

🤚 Current addiction?
The reformer is my happy place 😊

🤍 What is your fav class to teach and why?
Reformer Pilates. The perfect combination of strength training, cardio and stretching - all done safely on the reformer bed.

🐶 Tell us about your fam (human and fur babies)
My family are my besties...husband, two daughters, a border collie and tortoiseshell cat.

🍩 What treats do u cave in for?
I do love chocolate (and red wine 😊)

🙂 What’s special about the lighten up community?
The other instructors. Such beautiful, caring souls who work so hard to provide members with the most amazing experience they can.

Join Marcelle Thursday nights for Reformer Pilates. ✨

GET TO KNOW OUR LIGHTEN UP TEAM // DANI TEVELUWE

👯 Share with us one of your funnest memories with your family or bestie/s?
My memory jumps straight to hanging with my bestie, Beth and her husband during covid lockdowns.
At the time we both worked together as teachers at the same school and I was living on my own.
I spent many days and nights hanging with her over lockdown having laughs, drinking wine, doing silly dance videos and watching our doggos play- should I also mention our fur children are totes our besties too! 🦮❤️🦮
I’m so grateful for all of those times, because I often got a bit lonely on my own and she was really there for me- and we had a blast!

⛸What hobbies do I have outside of the studio?
I LOVE singing and music and am actually a releasing and gigging musician- I can gratefully say it’s no longer a hobby. I do music professionally now.

I also enjoy painting, writing, hanging with my partner and our two glorious golden retrievers Huey and George, bushwalking, the beach, seeing bands and musicians I love, learning.

Life is truly an adventure!

🤍 What is your fav class to teach and why?
I love a Pilates/Yin combo. There’s something incredible and empowering about working hard in a Pilates class and giving it your all, then surrendering into the bliss and meditation of Yin- it’s a divine combo (you should join me on Thursday nights!)

🍩 What treats do u cave in for?
Chocolate. Red wine. Margarita and tacos

🙂 What’s special about the lighten up community?
Honestly the clients and community at LU are so lovely, so lovely. Your salt-of-the-earth kind of people. The ones who are genuine and caring and want to be the best they can be. It’s a pleasure to teach at LU.

You can join Dani for both Yoga and Pilates on Thursday and Saturday mornings. 🧘🏼‍♀️

GET TO KNOW OUR LIGHTEN UP TEAM // PLEASE WELCOME TRISTAN ST REYNOLDS

👯 Share with us one of your funnest memories with your family or bestie/s?
When I tried to wash toothpaste out of my eyes with shampoo.

⛸What hobbies do I have outside of the studio?
I love studying and if I’m not working I spend lots of time with my Partner.

🤚 Current addiction?
Bubble tea stores is something I love

🤍 What is your fav class to teach and why?
Yin Yoga because it’s so deep beyond the physical. There’s so much to learn about you and your body by just being. I like to teach most styles though.

🐶 Tell us about your fam (human and fur babies)?
It’s just me and my husband at the moment. He and I really learn a lot and share a lot with one another. We both enjoy helping others and have successful businesses. We are both authors and hope to expand into having children of our own very soon.

🍩 What treats do u cave in for?
I love flavoured milks. I do try to keep to milk almond though.

🙂 What’s special about the lighten up community?
Lighten up is special because it’s a gorgeous space. The students come with a purpose but also aren’t afraid to have fun. The instructors are all so talented and have such amazing souls.

We’re excited to have Tristan on our team teaching Monday 5:30pm Reformer and finishing of with 6:30pm Yin Yoga 🧘🏻

“It’s truely something special to really understand what a client might be going through and being able to completely sympathise and help them through their healing journey”.

We would like to welcome Gyan as the new face of our Robina Studio.
Gyan has taken on the leadership role of 2IC and will be helping things run smoothly, ensure you feel welcome, looked after and will attend to any inquiries you may have.

Gyan has been been teaching at Lighten Up since the Gold Coast Studio opened in 2021 and has worked in the industry for over 6 years and can’t wait to take on the next step in her career.

Gyan found Pilates whilst she was training as a dancer to help rehab chronic back pain and reoccurring injuries. She gained a very strong passion for Pilates after not only seeing but feeling the results of rebuilding a strong and pain free body after 5 years of wondering if that was her ‘norm’ now.

You can attend Gyan’s classes Tuesday, Thursday & Friday Mornings otherwise you might see her floating around the Studio so please come say hello, feel free to share any feedback, queries and ideas you may have for the Studio.

GET TO KNOW OUR LIGHTEN UP TEAM // SOPHIE SISKO

👯 Share with us one of your funnest memories with your bestie/s?
The first thing that comes to mind is travelling with my two besties (my now husband and my brother

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1 ½ parts red clover flowers
1 part rooibos
1 part calendula
1 part cleavers
1 part mullein leaf
1 part echinacea flowers
½ part ginger pieces

If you want to make a big batch each part might be ¼ of a cup which you can keep in a jar and boil up each time you want tea, or for a smaller batch each part could be just a tablespoon. If you don’t have all the ingredients you can still combine those you can get your hands on. I get most of my herbs from my garden or from . You will be surprised how much cheaper it works out to be when you blend your own teas, and if you make extra you can make up a few little jars to share with friends as a surprise gift (or stash away for their birthday).

When you are ready to have a tea, just take a heaped teaspoon or two out of your jar and pour over boiling water and let it steep until the herbs soften and start to smell amazing!

Have you recently been feeling stressed?

You're not alone, stress and anxiety are everywhere. If they're getting the best of you, you might want to hit the mat and give yoga a try. You could call yoga a saviour for your nervous system. Especially when you combine the yoga postures with the breathing exercises tapping into our rest and digest.

The more you practise yoga, the more you’ll find you can reduce stress in everyday life.

If you find it hard to settle your mind each night before bed then our "Yin & Sleep" Workshop will be the most relaxing regenerative thing you've done all year.
An hour and 45 minutes of pure bliss to refill your cup. You will spend time in gentle yin poses with props to support you, as well as massage balls to release trigger points in tight muscles. All poses are seated or lying down so you can really relax and calm your nervous system right down.

There will be studio made tea on arrival to help you settle into the space and a guided savasana with essential oils at the end.

Limited spots available. Book your spot via our website

A great way to re-centre and ground is to remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. So take a moment today to sit still, breathe and let go. Thank you Oprah for your wise words.

What are you doing for Mother's Day?
For me after spending the morning with the family, the best present would be to have an hour by myself either in my garden or relaxing in a hot bath.

Watch this space for our up and coming "Yin & Sleep" workshop.

Barry or commonly known as Baz- If you don't already know him, he’s the residential Yoga addict.

You’ve most likely seen him in the Studio at the front of every class. He lives and breathes yoga and practices daily to rejuvenate his body, mind, and soul which in turn helps him feel young, strong and flexible. We reckon Baz can still do all the poses that he could do back when he was 25. Thanks to the benefits of a regular yoga practice. Baz is super welcoming and loves meeting all the new Yogis. Book in today and meet him for yourself!

Would you rather have high tea or spend the day outside?
Mother's day's events at cafes and restaurants can be hectic and busy for mums that are already overwhelmed, why not plan some soul nourishing time outside?

🌳 Plan a picnic at the botanic gardens
🏔️ Go for a scenic hike with beautiful views
🏖️ Go to the beach and keep the kids busy so mum can go for a walk and a swim

So mum doesn't have to prepare a lunch, pack some healthy treats from a local cafe like Squeezeme Townsville or The Beet Bar Cafe

Give me more ideas please!