Kindred Movement

Aaaand that’s a wrap! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all the well wishes and outpouring of love and support, cards, pressies, hugs. Until we meet again ♥️

The Front Row Crew - bonded by their love of being pole position in the front row of classes, have been members at the Abbotsford studio for a total of 24 years between them - some dating back to the very very very beginning when I had little to no idea what I was doing.

They even created a little local social group by the same name and caught up often outside of the studio.

They followed us online into the depths of hell and back, showing up for themselves, rolling out their mats wherever they could and wherever the yoga took them, whoever was teaching.

Between them they’ve practiced 2,388 (not a typo) classes in the studio - not even including all the classes they did online during the 18 odd months we were closed.

Connections, lifelong friendships like these and the love and dedication for the practice of yoga born at Kindred make me incredibly grateful for the time we had together rather than dwell on what will no longer be (although it’s tempting) - the spirit of Kindred will undoubtedly live on

To our beautiful community,

It is with immense sadness that I announce the closure of both the Richmond and Abbotsford studios from Friday 21 October.

In part due to the realities of small biz in a post-Covid world, but largely due to a great deal of personal burnout combined with circumstances with our Richmond landlord that were out of my control .

I know this will feel like a monumental loss for many of you and for that I can't help but feel like I've let you down, although I know you will not feel that way.

Words will never be enough to express my gratitude to our absolutely phenomenal teaching faculty and every student who has walked through the doors over the last 7 years - it has been an experience beyond my wildest dreams and one I'll cherish forever.

As a community your support, encouragement and sense of togetherness was really the cornerstone of the magic at Kindred and I'm filled with pride and gratitude when I reflect on what we created together.

Despite this not being the ending I hoped for, I know the learnings & friendships forged within the walls of Kindred will live on forever in each of you.

Please read below for further information and let us know if you have any questions - keeping in mind it will be a busy time administratively, but we will definitely get back to you.

All my love and so much more,

Mandy and the greater KM team ❤️‍🔥

LINK FOR MORE INFO AND FAQs: https://mailchi.mp/81bd3472eae2/kindred-movement-wellbeing-news-6150573

Boss is back! 😍 Mandy is back at Abbotsford for her usual Saturday 9:15am Vinyasa Flow. Start your weekend with a bang. Come to flow, move and even groove with 75mins of Mandy's playful, light-hearted and straight up fun flows 💁🏽

Reminder that it’s about that time to change your clocks! Sunday 2am, clocks spring forward an hour ⏰

Have you tried Mat Pilates with Amy?

Amy see Pilates as a broad movement library with endless opportunity for creative programming. It can be characterised by sequences of exercise that are joined together seamlessly. This style encourages students to find a flow state within their session. Pilates combines both strength & stretch to create fantastic moments of challenge & relaxation thereby delivering a feel-good, wholesome workout.

Amy's teaching style is lighthearted, encouraging, and uncritical. You'll feel right at home with Amy. Beginners are welcome!

Try Mat Pilates at our Abbotsford studio:
🏋🏼 Tues 12:15pm (50mins)
🏋🏼 Thurs 6:30am
🏋🏼 Sat 8am

You'll see some new faces across our studios over the next few weeks while some of our teachers take a well deserved break! 💆🏽‍♂️ Check the Kindred App to keep up with the latest!

PUBLIC HOLIDAY SCHEDULE 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 We are open across the long weekend with a few tweaks to the schedule.

RICHMOND --------

THURSDAY 22.09
7:30am Vinyasa Flow w Sally
9:30am Vinyasa Slow w Sally
5:00pm Vinyasa Slow w Dhini

FRIDAY 23.09
7:30am Vinyasa Flow w Amelia
9:30am Vinyasa Slow w Amelia
5:30pm Yin (75min) w Sam

SATURDAY 24.09
8am Vinyasa Flow w Sam
9:30am Vinyasa Flow (75min) w Sam

SUNDAY 25.09
9:30am Vinyasa Flow (75min) w Dhini
4pm Vinyasa Slow w Amy
5:15pm Yin + Medi (75min) w Amy

ABBOTSFORD --------
THURSDAY 22.09
12:15pm Vinyasa Slow (50min) w Sally
6pm Vinyasa Flow w Sam

FRIDAY 23.09
12:15pm Vinyasa Slow (50min) w Amelia
5:30pm Yin + Medi (75min) w Jess

SATURDAY 24.09
9:15am Vinyasa Flow (75min) w Britt

SUNDAY 25.09
9am Vinyasa Slow (75min) w Sally
4pm Vinyasa Slow w Amelia
5:30pm Yin + Medi (75min) w Amelia

We'd love to see you stop by! We do recommend allowing extra travel time over the next week as traffic builds up around Richmond 🏉

A wee treat for our Kindred fam! 👐🏽 Our friends on Bridge road, Melbourne Muscular Therapies are offering a 10% discount for the Kindred Movement family to indulge in a bit of self care, whether that be a Deep Tissue Remedial Massage 💆🏽‍♀️ or Kinesiology with .kinesiology 💫 Just mention Kindred when you drop by!

Check them out! 👇🏽
https://musculartherapy.com.au/

HANDS ON ADJUSTMENTS 👐🏼 In the next few weeks we'll be re-introducing hands-on assists for those requesting them.

Hands-on assists can be likened to the use of props whereby they can help you experience stability, alignment and expansion in the body. They are often used by teachers as a teaching tool along with verbal cues to assist you in your practice and involve hands-on contact (with consent from you - the student).

🟤 You'll see permission tokens with a 'yes please' and 'no thank you' option at both Richmond and Abbotsford studios - please grab one each time for your mat.

✋🏼 Boundaries and choice are important in a yoga class, and this is a way of ensuring you feel safe and that your boundaries are respected. Not everyone likes or wants to be physically touched which is totally fine.

✋🏼 No token? We'll assume this to be a no thank you.

Questions? Dm us, or have a chat with your teacher!

BEGINNERS YOGA 🌱 Join Elese for a 4 week intro course to yoga!

This is a gentle introduction to yoga, breathwork, and meditation for anyone new to yoga. This course isn’t about perfection! It’s about exploration, trying something new, and preparing you to feel confident in attending a general yoga class.
All humans of all shapes, strengths and flexibilities are welcome.

🌱 Tuesdays (27/09, 4/10, 11/10, 18/10)
🌱 Kindred Movement Richmond
🌱 $99 - includes 4x classes

🖱️ Click the link for more info - https://bit.ly/3TJuVAC
💌 Questions? Send us a DM

KAT & MANDY 👯 Join Kat & Mandy for a flow at our Richmond studio over the next two weekends!

Like PB and Jam these two are a couple of must haves to add to your morning. If you haven't had the pleasure of joining them for a class, Kat will bring you the 🔥 and spice through the asana (postures), but wrapped in teachings that bring balance, and guide you inwards. Mandy teaches with a fluidity and playfulness like no other 🤸🏽 that guides you back to self with ease. Kat & Mandy's classes are always coupled with a banging playlist to tune in deep and flow freely!

Sat 03.08
8am Vinyasa Flow w Mandy
9:30am Vinyasa Flow (75min) w Mandy

Sun 04.08
8am Vinyasa Flow w Kat
9:30 Vinyasa Flow (75min) w Kat

Sat 10.08
8am Vinyasa Flow w Mandy
9:30am Vinyasa Flow (75min) w Mandy

Sun 04.08
8am Vinyasa Flow w Kat
9:30 Vinyasa Flow (75min) w Kat

Book via the Kindred Movement app! 🤳🏽 Or via our website
https://kindredmovement.com.au/timetable-3/

WOMEN'S CIRCLE 🪷 Join Sally for an evening of community, yoga, meditation, and reflection. We welcome people identifying as women to come together in an intimate group to process, reflect and release in a meaningful way. Very limited spots available so book now to avoid missing out!

✨Friday 16th September
✨7:30pm - 8:45pm
✨$30 Members* - $35 Drop In
✨Tea & Snacks Provided
🏠️ Kindred Movement Richmond

Link to more info here - https://bit.ly/3AdAVZp

Have a question? Send us a DM! 💬

*Members = Autopay and Prepaid (3, 6 & 12 month)
**Fully subsidised spots are available for all our events – please enquire within if finances are a barrier to accessing the studio.

NEW CLASS 🙌🏼 Sunday's just got a whole lot juicier with a 4pm Slow Flow added to the schedule at Abbotsford.

Round off your week with a moment for you. 🫵 Take time to slow down, focus on mindful movement, experience gentle stretching while building strength and flexibility, and focus on the breath as a tool to ground and self soothe.

Vinyasa Slow 4pm Sundays now at both studios. Beginners welcome!

Richmond - 4pm w Amy
Abbotsford - 4pm w Amelia

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DISCO FLOW 🕺🏼 with Leigh! Enjoy progressive flows set to a fun and upbeat playlist under the disco ball. The perfect opportunity to let loose and shake things off.

Email us to BRING A FRIEND FOR FREE [email protected] 👯‍♀️

Meet you Saturday 27th August at 4:30pm under the disco ball!

PARENTS & BUBS 6 WEEK YOGA PROGRAM 👶🏽🧘🏼‍♂️

New parents we see you and know that caring for a bub makes it tricky to find time for yoga. That’s why we’re here to support you to carve out time to connect to your body, take some deep breaths and weave sacred time into your week and build a sense of community connection.

Join Sally for a nourishing 6-week Parents & Bubs Yoga program. Bring your baby, meet other parents and dedicate 45 minutes a week to filling your cup. Think mindful movement, bonding with bub, gentle breathwork and an exploration of sound healing.

Starts August 18th.

More info and book visit - https://bit.ly/3JrymY6

Feeling a little overwhelmed at the moment, we get it! 😅

We know it's important to do the things for ourselves but when we're feeling overwhelmed, taking time out can feel like a big task or something we don't have time for. But self care can be as simple as pausing to breathe.

Can you take a moment for yourself now to just simply breathe. 🌬️

Be present with your breath, connect back your body, and nourish yourself. 🤍

MEET AMY👋🏼 Bright, bubbly and bursting with energy. We are excited to introduce our pilates teacher Amy. She has such a warmth about her we just know you'll love her classes.

Amy wants her students to feel a sense of freedom, and encourages her students to explore their body without worry or criticism.

You'll find her at Abbotsford for Warm Mat Pilates, practiced in residual heat at a snuggly 23degrees. Beginners are most welcome!

Tuesday 12:15 pm - Warm Mat Pilates Express (50mins)
Thursday 6:30 am - Warm Mat Pilates
Saturday 8:00am - Warm Mat Pilates

What would you like to see at Kindred? 💭 We're working away at bringing you some new courses and events but we'd love to hear from you! Drop us a comment, a dm, an email or have a chat with our teachers and let us know what you'd like to see on the schedule. Big or small, we wanna know what you're craving! 💌

YOGA TEACHER TRAINING ⭐️ We’ve got new dates for our 50 hour postgrad Sequencing & Theming Yoga 31 Aug - 11 Sep! Take your teaching and your practice to new depths and soak up all the juicy learnings from Mandy O'Keefe & Kat Harvey-Barakat 👩🏽‍🏫 This will be a goodie! Learn more here - https://bit.ly/3OZSgeR

Last few chances to catch the ever radiant Rowie before she jets back to Japan 😭🇯🇵 What a dream it's been to soak up some of her sunshine over the past 6 weeks, we hope you agree!🌞Be sure to mark the date 👉🏽Sat 16/07👈🏽 9:30am for a final Vinyasa Flow a.k.a pretzel party so we can say さよなら (sayonara/goodbye) to our dream girl.

RICHMOND
Mon 11th - 5pm Flow
Tues 12th - 5pm Slow & 6:15 Flow
Thurs 14th 6:30 Flow & 9:30 Flow
Fri 15th 6:30 Flow & 9:30 Slow
Sat 16th - 8am Flow & 9:30am Flow (75min)

ABBOTSFORD
Wed 13th 6:30 Flow

MEET LIZZIE 🌻 This sweet soul brings to the crew a special interest in yoga mythology and Sanskrit which are peppered through her Vinyasa & Yin classes. Her classes are designed to help you feel safe, so you are free to explore, play and be creative. Lizzie loves yoga as it guides her out of the head space 💆🏼and into the heart space 🫀 Lizzie invites people of all experiences to join her in moving mindfully with breath, and finding strength in body and mind.

You'll find Lizzie sprinkled through the schedule, otherwise catch her regularly at Abbotsford from next week:

ABBOTSFORD
Tues 6pm - Vinyasa Flow
Tues 7:15pm - Yin
Wed 6:30am - Vinyasa Flow
Sun 5:30pm - Yin + Medi

Mark the date 👉🏽 Sat 9 July 👈🏽 for a juicy 90 min Vinyasa Flow with our main squeeze Kat before she takes a well deserved 6 week break! ⁠
⁠Soak up all the goodness as you are guided internally by our queen Kat in this 90min journey to self. Naturally there will be heat 🔥 but balanced with moments of rebound and rest 💆🏽‍♂️ ⁠
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Come see her before she goes! 9:30 - 11am Sat 9 July, or catch her 60min Vinyasa Flow at 8am. Both @ Richmond. ⁠
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Can't make Sat? Join her other classes this week! ⁠
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ABBOTSFORD⁠
Tues 5 Jul - 6pm Flow (waitlist only)⁠
Tues 5 Jul - 7:15 Yin⁠
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RICHMOND⁠
Wed 6 Jul - 5pm Flow⁠
Wed 6 Jul- 6:15 Flow

NEW WORKSHOP ☀️ Join Sally for a 2hr experiential designed to teach you the foundations of your nervous system and the power of yoga to balance and nourish your entire being.

Saturday 6 August - 11:30-1:30 @ Richmond.

FREE for members or $35 drop in. This won't be one to miss! Book here: https://kindredmovement.com.au/news/yogaenergyworkshop/

*Members = 3, 6, 12 month prepaid or autopay.

MEET AMELIA 🏋🏻‍♀️ Another legend to join our teaching crew! Amelia was first introduced to yoga in 2012 and her adoration and curiosity for the practice has only grown.

Currently studying Naturopathy, she weaves a holistic approach through her teaching, and is fascinated by movement as a therapeutic and felt experience.

You can expect an embodied, dynamic, and playful practice, with an emphasis on intuitive movement and exploration wrapped in an inclusive and welcoming approach. 👐

Her love of movement began at the age of 5 when she first started practicing martial arts. She's also a black belt in Taekwondo!

Find her Friday mornings and Sunday afternoons at both studios from August.

$15 yoga classes? 😮 Yes please! Did you know our 9:30am Mon-Fri classes at Richmond are only $15!

Slight schedule change - Tuesday 9:30 is now Vinyasa Slow.

Book via the Kindred Movement app or via our website. Bring cash or eftpos to pay in studio!

https://kindredmovement.com.au/timetable-3/

MEET DHINI 🌸 We welcome Dhini to the Kindred Crew! A creative soul, Dhini has been teaching since 2016 and has 500+ hours of training under her belt including experience not only in Vinyasa but Yin & Restorative Yoga & Meditation. Expect challenging yet fluid classes guided in a compassionate way, carefully curated playlists and a sprinkling of philosophy to take her students on a journey physically, mentally and spiritually. ⁠
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Dhini’s permanent classes at Richmond: ⁠
Sun 8am + 9.30 (from 19 Jun)⁠
Thu 5pm Slow & 6.15pm Flow (from 30 Jun)⁠
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New to Yin? Looking for a nurturing and restorative practice? 🧘🏽❄️ Winter is a great time to cultivate a Yin practice. Come join us in the warmth of the studio.

Richmond - Mon, Tues, Fri, Sun
Abbotsford - Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sun

WINTER SALE ☃️ until 12 June. Whether you're a sporadic practitioner or ready to commit to an unlimited membership - we've got a little somethin' for everybody.

Now is the perfect time to snap up a great offer - this will be our last sale until later in the year. 

10 CLASS PACK $180 (Save $30)
3 months validity

20 CLASS PACK $320 (Save $60)
6 months validity

3 MONTHS PRE-PAID $384 (Save $96)
Equates to $32 per week

6 MONTHS PRE-PAID $648 (Save $72)
Equates to $27pw

Offer ends midnight Sun 12 Jun.

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN A 3 & 6 MONTH MEMBERSHIP?

- a complimentary 5 class pack for a friend or partner (2 week validity)
- 10% off all Kindred Movement workshops 
- complimentary mat rental or storage if you'd like to BYO 
 - full access to both studios and over 50 classes a week
- free access to our online library of over 250 classes

All purchases commence from the date of your first class and are available for use at both studios. If you have an existing pass, your new one will begin when that ends!

Cooler weather means warmer studio! Come hibernate with us. 🧣Vinyasa classes are heated between 23-27, Pilates and Yin warmed to 23 🔥