(originally sent 21/09/26) This month the Jivamukti focus has been centred around the wonderful mantra: śrī kṛṣṇa śaraṇaṃ mama - I take refuge in love and all that is good... read more →
Yoga Obscura Archive
(originally sent 14/09/26) Music has always played a huge role in my life, and subsequently/inevitably in the yoga classes I offer. I grew up in Denmark in the 90s, and... read more →
(originally sent 07/09/26) Ahh, jealousy. It’s got to be one of the most human experiences. “That person over there has a better body than me / more followers / earns... read more →
(originally sent 31/08/26) My friend Keith always says he prefers not to answer the question “how are you?” with “I’m busy”, as it tends to imply “I’m too busy to... read more →
(originally sent 24/08/26) Did I ever tell you about the time I worked at a lingerie shop in the airport? Indeed, selling bras and undies to rich businessmen was one... read more →
(originally sent 17/08/26) Is discipline a dirty word? I guess it can be. No child likes being disciplined. Having discipline to learn something can be really frustrating. But with the... read more →
(originally sent 10/08/26) This one time, I taught myself how to pronounce the name of the incredible psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — so I could speak about his work in my... read more →
(originally sent 03/08/26) One of the first invocations you learn to chant on a yoga teacher training is generally the guru mantra. Maybe you know it? guruḥ sarasvatī guruḥ laksmī... read more →
(originally sent 27/07/26) At the beginning of every school term, my year 6 teacher Mr Brown used to say “we’ve got to get back into routine”. As a kid, I... read more →
(originally sent 20/07/26) Dropping in real quick from Queenstown, Aotearoa… This past week Sas and I have had a whirlwind of fun; first traveling to Sydney to see her family... read more →
(originally sent 13/07/26) As yoga teachers we spend a lot of time alone. Although most of my “face to face” work involves teaching groups, I don’t work in a team,... read more →
(originally sent 06/07/26) Recently I was catching up on an online workshop with my teacher Jules Febre, and he was discussing prāṇāyāma techniques. During nāḍī śodhana (where you breathe through... read more →
(originally sent 29/06/26) Last week I had the joy of spontaneously attending a show at Theatre Royal in Nipaluna/Hobart. Two of the performers came to my class at Folde and... read more →
(originally sent 22/06/26) Years ago, I found myself on a yoga immersion in Switzerland, experiencing megalophobia for the first time. We were practicing in fancy resort town in the off-season,... read more →
(originally sent 15/06/26) Have you heard the word “embodiment” becoming increasingly popular in the yoga world? Five years ago I don’t recall it being a term that was commonly used,... read more →
(originally sent 08/06/26) Now that winter is officially here in the southern hemisphere, there is no denying it. Darkness is falling at 5pm and my heater is on blast beside... read more →
(originally sent 01/06/26) My friend, I’d like to welcome you to my new newsletter - Yoga Obscura. A weekly pick-me-up ritual for your Monday morning. My goal is provide you... read more →
(Sent as a newsletter on 25th July 2025) I've been lonely this week. My partner, Sas, is away and two of our closest friends have been overseas for a month,... read more →
(Sent as a newsletter on 22nd May 2025) I was supposed to be arriving home in Tassie today, after a week away visiting friends in Sydney and family further north.... read more →
I need to come clean about something. I haven't had a regular āsana of practice for... well... several years. Gone are the days when I would easily practice five to... read more →
Instead of looking back on the year, I decided to look back over the years… Here is a collection of some of the yoga photo shoots I have done over... read more →
A few things for context - Prior to becoming a yoga teacher at age 19, I had worked a myriad of teenage jobs. Everything from selling tea in shopping malls,... read more →
Last week I did something I thought I would never do. I set up a Google calendar. Prior to this, I had always loved the old school paper diary. I’d... read more →
I came to yoga as an 18-year-old. I had freshly moved to Sydney from a coastal town, and was looking for something to do during my gap year. I fell... read more →
I have been uploading classes to my website since 2012, and for many years I did this free of charge. Some years in I had requests to set up a... read more →
I have been practicing yoga since I was 18, and during that time my practice has morphed and readjusted more times than I can remember. There have been seasons where... read more →
Vegan | Gluten Free Prep time: 10 mins Cook time: 25 mins Yields: 4 smaller meals or 2 larger meals **This is my altered version of a recipe by Romy... read more →
Yoga was traditionally taught one-on-one and in the modern yoga world, it is fairly standard for teachers to offer Private Classes (often Corporate Classes as well). But over the last... read more →
It's no secret that yoga practice can become stale, just like anything else. Whether our practice is falling away because we're losing interest, or maybe we've been doing the same... read more →
I took my first Yin Yoga class in 2009, and have been practicing this style of yoga regularly since. Whereas Jivamukti (yang, fast-paced vinyasa) has been my regular, near-daily practice... read more →
Vegan | Gluten Free Prep time: 10 mins Cook time: 25 mins Yields: 4 smaller meals or 2 larger meals Ingredients: A splash of oil 1 onion, diced 2 garlic... read more →
As a beginner, it can be challenging to follow yoga purely through audio instruction. We live in a highly visual world (right now you are most likely reading this on... read more →
Even though English is my second language, “moon” was the first word I spoke in this lifetime. As a child in Denmark, my parents would take me on nightwalks when... read more →
When I was younger I used to wonder what my creative “thing” was. Other kids at school seemed to be naturally talented at soccer or ballet or painting or science,... read more →
When I did my first yoga teacher training course in 2008, I was experiencing one of the greatest conflicts of my life – I was feeling seen for the first... read more →
Jivamukti Yoga was developed by Sharon Gannon and David Life in the early 1980s in New York city. Two artistic punks with backgrounds in dance, music, art and poetry had... read more →
In 2011 when I returned home from Jivamukti Teacher Training in New York, I was lucky enough to be walking straight into a job at the newly-opened Jivamukti Yoga Sydney.... read more →
