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These deprescribing guidelines are a great leap forward in health and wellbeing. Changing medications or tapering off them can be difficult and destressing. The signs and symptoms of your bodies chemistry trying to adjust to the changes can be painful and hard to navigate to say the least.

I have found yoga therapy to be a great help when people are adjusting or reducing their medications. A gentle supportive practice to help with stabilising the nervous system, cultivating positive emotions, hope, and inner peace. This helps to stimulate endogenous chemicals for wellbeing and remind the you of the path and journey to recovery is there.

Weekend retreats, weekly group classes or individual sessions are available. ✨

Book in for February trauma sensitive yoga retreat. Kickstart 2024 with a healing weekend of yoga, breath and energy work, deep relaxation, nourishing food and hands on healing. 🧘🏽‍♂️🍲🥕🌽🍎

Late summer season emphasis on digestion, absorption, and transformation of food, ideas, feelings, and experiences. 🧘🏽‍♂️

Grounding, centering and nourishing practices to set you up for the year to come. 🪷💖

Retreats | Kylie Hennessy Yoga I acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people, and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands and waterways on and around which I live and work. I would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, ackno...

A beautifully simple practice to cultivate a more peaceful mind. The wisdom of yoga. 🙏🏼🪷

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Amazing work and powerful stories from survivors of child sexual abuse. Skip through 10 mins or so to the start of the live stream recording and listen to the courageous survivors stories.

Support the National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse. Listen to the stories at the launch of their first annual report. 🙌❤️💔

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The National Centre's first Annual Report launch Join the National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse as we launch our first Annual Report and look to the future of change for victims and survivors.Fol...

Healing trauma requires a sense of safety. Many experts recognise three phases that are important to heal trauma. The heart chakra's innate qualities are: compassion, humility, patience, love, kindness and care. The qualities of the heart are the key for safety and healing. The magic ingredient for any healing process. xx
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A Trauma-Informed World Yesterday, October 26th, was . A day to recognise and support the millions of people in Australia who have experienced complex trauma. The impacts of trauma on our human system is huge. In the yoga framework mind and body are not seen as separate. At a biochemical level of scale, the min...

A twin room has just become available for the October Spring retreat if anyone feels the calling for some healing, connection, nature and yoga 💖

Trauma-Sensitive Spring Yoga Retreat Join me for a weekend of healing

Yoga training offerings - taster course, pre and post natal trainings coming up.

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Through the panca kosha lens of yoga, this is how I visualise yoga practices (the whole diverse range on them from lifestyle, to attitudes to meditation) helping to restore our sense of well-being, happiness, serenity and harmony again. 💖 ✨

The fae were around today ✨💚 Perhaps more accurately I think, I am back in my open heart and I could see them again 💚✨🍀

Spring Yoga Retreat - Wentworth Falls, Blue Mountains
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Trauma-Sensitive Spring Yoga Retreat Join me for a weekend of healing

Goddess Tara, 💖goddess of compassion and healing. 💖The last time I spent quality time with my friend and teacher .peter we went to a beautiful workshop on the Goddess Tara @ The Temple on the Park in Newtown. Tara was the deity on the alter at the studios as she is the female buddha. She is on my alter at home. She is the goddess of compassion and healing amongst other things. These are the qualities I practice in my teaching always. I always had the intention that the studios and my classes were and are a place of healing and compassion and called in Tara to assist. 💖 Ask Tara for some assistance in healing and enlightenment. She is said to be swift with her responses. 💖

Last healing yoga retreat for the year. Only a small group retreat with max 10 participants for a Spring cleansing and regeneration weekend. We will be doing practices to support the Spring energy of renewal and growth. Bush walks, meditation, yoga asana, pranayama, meditation, and deep relaxation. Nutritious vegetarian food and more. Join me in the Blue Mountains, Oct 21 - 22nd, 2023 xx
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Oh beautiful Ganesha 💖

Into Your Heart is a trauma recovery training which includes somatic, affective and spiritual learnings alongside the cognitive learning. Training therapist is to develop compassion, presence and body-breath-energy awareness. These are key qualities of a therapist when supporting people who have had their sense of safety in relationships impacted through abuse and/or neglect. Over a decade ago .house.au .peter and I collaborated to create and facilitate a holistic, heart centred and scientifically based trauma recovery training for social workers, psychologists and therapists. I am looking forward to running this again with Peter in spirit alongside Mary Jo and I 💖💖💖 Stay tuned for dates 💕🙏🏼💕

We had such a beautiful time on retreat on the weekend. Lots of connection, laughter, relaxation and nourishing, delicious food by and from the . Everyone looked relaxed, refreshed and renewed with smiles on their faces by Sunday. 🥰 I felt my dear teacher .peter around me whilst I taught. ❤️Many of my teachings were taught to me by Peter and I have eternal gratitude for that. 🙏🏼 Stay tuned for the next retreat dates. ❤️🧘 Thank you for hosting us at your beautiful venue 🙏🏼

I wanted to share with you the news that my dear friend, teacher and beautiful man .peter has left this world. Peter came and shared many practices, stories and laughs with us at the studios for our yoga communities. He will be missed and I hope his teachings carry on with you all. When I think of Peter I think of the heart sutra which he led me in chanting countless times. Peter was a seeker, a teacher, a healer and a dear friend. “Gone, gone, gone to the other shore. Gone completely to the other shore. Svaha” 💖🙏🏼

The Vayus, “winds” describe the different flow of life force through our systems. Prana vayu - inspiration (inward and forward) Apana vayu - elimination (downward) Vyana vayu - circulation (all around, pervasive). Udana vayu - speech (upward) Samana - digestion (inward, towards centre). Balancing the vayus brings health, vitality and wellbeing. 🕉️ In yoga therapy we investigate how the energy is flowing and seek to rebalance and/maintain balance through lifestyle changes and a wide range of Yoga practices and techniques. Here is a lovely Vedic chant to honour the life forces and meditate on them. This is an excerpt from The Healing Sounds of Vedic Chants - Hamsa Hyder (2015)

Putting trauma-informed principles into practice supports better service outcomes and client experience (Blue Knot, 2021). When we experience events in our life that are traumatic and espeically if events are reoccurring, it can affect our send of safety, empowerment and dignity. Trauma-informed help to restore our sense of safety and dignity. These principles are simple however, require practice and awarness to embody them as a way of being and relating to others.

All paths become one.

Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Retreat.

Nourishing food, gentle yoga and lots of rest. 🙏🏼💖

Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Retreat Join me for a weekend of healing

Thank you Dhara for capturing some of the beauty of the weekend retreat. For those who missed it, here is a simple practice to harness the energy of Autumn to enhance your well-being.

Bowral in Autumn - a perfect place to let go Thank you Dhara for these beautiful photos! :) Thank you so much to everyone who joined us on the retreat on the weekend. Thank you to the beautiful Lyn Moyce for sharing some lovely, nurturing, and fun yoga practices with everyone. The country air was so fresh and crisp and the autumn leaves were a...

If anyone can join me this will be a really fun evening raising money to support young people recovering from trauma. 💖

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For those who missed out on May retreat… join us for the winter retreat in July. Cozy up in Bowral for some yoga, deep relaxation, meditation, and nourishing food. Winter is the time for deep reflection and deep rest. Your body, mind and soul with thank you. ❤️ PM me or visit the website for more details and bookings.

Aura soma, massage, acupressure and reiki. 💖

I have had a beautiful first Saturday morning . I am doing a February special to introduce you to my services here and the space. Two sessions for the price of one. Yoga therapy, private yoga or meditation session, bodywork and massage or a combination if you like. PM me to find out more or to book. Website in bio for more info. 💖

The yamas are “restraints” and are practiced as attitudes so through thoughts, words and deeds (cognitive behavioural so to speak). As with the other 8 limbs of yoga such as asana and breath work, they are practices to establish and help maintain a state of yoga which is a clear, steady and present state of mind. I like to teach and practice the yamas by encouraging curiosity about how you relate to these attitudes in the context of your life. They are something to cultivate in your daily interactions with others, the environment and yourself not “good” or “bad” rules to judge by. This week in some of our groups we explored how these attitudes create more peace of mind. 💖

Here is a simple yet powerful practice to ground you, focus your attention, help sit with strong emotional responses and develop the power of presence.
- Place one hand on or near the centre of your chest and take 5-10 slower and deeper breaths consciously through the nose.
In any yoga or meditation practice, look for more comfort and less efforting and strain described in the ancient texts as sthira and sukha - stability and ease, alertness and comfort.
I have a 4-Week Meditation Course coming up if you would like some guidance and support to establish a meditation practice.
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I just found this birthday drawing done for me many moons by from . So many talents Lilly-loo 🥰Lizzy danced 💃🏻and I Yoga-ed 🧘through our 20’s and 30’s … and still now but.. speaking for myself… not like I used to. I can’t get my legs around my neck anymore 😂❤️

Trauma-informed yoga teacher training taster. This 50hr taster is perfect for anyone who is interested in learning more about the science and philosophy of yoga, working with the body, and breath work for the promotion of wellbeing. This is suitable for mental health workers looking to integrate more yoga techniques and mind-body-breath connections with clients. This will also guide your own yoga practice to another level! Want to know more? Check out the link in the bio or PM me:)
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