Healing with Kaye Oakley
Body - Yoga and Pilates
“Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.” ― Shunryu Suzuki
Kaye has been exploring yoga for over 25 years, and has practiced a variety of styles. She first became committed to yoga when she used it as part of her recovery from a back injury, and discovered a path to a happier, healthier, calmer life. For nearly ten years, she has been teaching hatha, vinyasa and yin yoga.
To learn new ways to bring equanimity, stability and balance to her students, Kaye has also gained a Pilates Matwork Certification with Studio Pilates International and trained in matwork Pilates teaching with STOTT Pilates in Toronto, Canada.
She aims to bring compassion and a down-to-earth attitude to her teaching, and believes that yoga can lead to a greater experience of well-being for anybody, no matter what challenges they bring to the yoga mat.
“We don’t just do yoga postures so that we can tie ourselves up like a pretzel, balance in some crazy handstand, or join Cirque du Soleil. Yoga helps to heal the body, calms the mind, comforts the soul, and gives us a path to a richer understanding of ourselves and what’s going on around us. This path can show us how to move towards greater wholeness at all levels of our being, and to serve the world through embodying our best selves.”
Essentialise - An online women’s circle about getting to the heart of things
Sunday, 28th April at 7:30 pm Sydney time via Zoom
(I thought I might have made up this word but was somewhat relieved to see that it has been in the English language since at least the 1660s.)
One of the things I love about Autumn is to watch the leaves change colour and fall away. It’s a kind of poetic expression of the way that nature prepares for the scarcity and stillness of winter by releasing what it doesn’t need, only holding on to what it does.
While I’m no minimalist (anyone who has seen my book, crystal or plant collections would laugh at the thought), I really like this idea of getting to the heart of things, connecting to what really matters.
How do we discern what’s really important?
How do we hold on to what we really care about?
How do we release the things that are weighing us down or holding us back?
As always, I don’t pretend to have the answers, but we’ll learn a lot by leaning into the questions.
In our next online women’s circle we’ll be turning inwards and connecting with what really matters to us, and contemplating what might need to fall away (and how we can go about doing that).
I hope you’ll join the circle!
Here’s the details:
Date: Sunday 28th April, 2023
Time: 7:30 pm Sydney time
Venue: Your place, via Zoom
Cost: $25
We’ll talk, we’ll listen, we’ll meditate and we’ll share. And by the end of the evening, I hope we’ve essentialised a bit!
Get in touch if you’re not sure whether circle is for you. Click below to book.
Contact Us
Amethyst Yoga and Healing - Sydney Australia
E: kaye@amethystyogaandhealing.com.au