Life, happiness, and connecting to your source   by Meredith Starck - Belama House Yoga Shala   Living life each day can guide our direction in what we choose to do. The path to find a balance seems to be a need for us all. Keeping a journal for most of my...

by Jason & Naomi MacKenzie - bodhi house   bodhi house began when two souls became one and their love for service blossomed into an idea of starting a community-focused centre around some of their talents. This service seeks to foster and balance the...

by Tracey Uber Cook - Yoga Tools For Schools Inc.   Since 2016, Yoga Tools for Schools has had the honour of participating in the Communities For Children (CfC) initiative, offering free wellbeing support to primary school educators, and families in the...

by Kerry Spina - Parent Educator Collective   Here is a mindful practice to help kick-start your day. This practise aims to cultivate awareness and the pace you travel to support you to make more space for calm, connection and joy no matter how out-of-sync or...

by Belinda Stevenson - Karmness Centre   Meditation and mindfulness are such buzz words at the moment aren’t they? We all have this “knowing” that this is something we should be incorporating into our life, but do we really know why? There are so many myths and...

by Tatjana Hannan - Sea of Harmony   We all are born innocent, with our hearts open into the long history of our family. The love for our parents and the need to survive creates bonds and loyalties. When events from the past are still affecting you and your...

by Lisa Mackenzie - Spirit of Boheme   Most of us have fleeting ideas of what we want to be, have or do in our lives but they remain just that: fleeting. After all, who has the time to intentionally get clear about what they want to create? A vision board is a...

by Debra Stark - Naturally Healthy Massage   Our Naturally Healthy Massage clinic was established in 2006 with a mission to restore optimal health naturally through the support of qualified caring therapists offering a variety of healing modalities. With...

by Elisa Kovacs - Buff Me   These days we are empowered with choice when it comes to our own health and wellbeing. There is a movement of realisation which is seeing more and more people make empowered choices about what they are prepared to expose themselves and...

by Rosemary Schmid - Artisan Vegan   Rosemary Schmid has recently set up her commercial kitchen and new business called Artisan Vegan which provides the knowledge and skills for learning how to prepare naturally healthy and wholesome foods for the whole family....

by Karen Vidler - Farmers Cafe   ‘Let food be thy medicine’ is the uniting mandate of Family Life Organics and Farmers Cafe; sharing a space where together they focus on providing delicious food to nourish the body and soul. As small family businesses, they...

by the DanceNorth Team   Dancenorth has been an epicentre for collaboration and artistic exchange for many years. It is a great place to have fun and be active, try new dance styles and meet new people, with a wide range of ‘Open Classes’ on offer. Open Class is...

by Sue Tilley - The Drill Hall Studio   Have you discovered the Drill Hall Studio? If not, be sure to make a time to discover this beautifully restored building by The Strand on Mitchell Street. The Drill Hall Studio is an Aladdin’s cave of wonderful locally...

by Sharon O’Donnell I had just started counselling sessions to help me deal with PTSD. A friend had just passed away of brain cancer too young. I was a mum to four boys under the age of five. I was struggling. On my way to work everyday, I would pass a huge barn like...

by Vicki Salisbury, Yoga in the Parlour   Did you know that the history of “western style” thinking started in Europe with “The Gang of Three”, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle? They presented techniques we still use to make sense of the world; analysis, argument...

by Paddy McGrath, Dancing Spine Yoga   Our spines are not interested in lengthening, stretching, straightening or any of that ‘stuff that we demand of it.’ Our spine does something much more superior. Due to its clever, individually articulated, vertebral design,...

by Dr Ray Mullen and Jennifer Mullen, Nautilus Health   We love sharing a meditation, breath and movement practice that we’ve enjoyed for almost 24 years. We’ve practised many forms of yoga including Hatha, Iyengar and Ashtanga yoga. Yoga has become our morning...

by the Combined Therapies Team   The EMMETT Technique is an amazingly gentle, safe and simple to apply muscle release therapy. It is used to address pain and discomfort, improve body movement, aid relaxation and improve one’s quality of life. It involves the...

by Emma Edwards and Lachlan Graham, The Float House Townsville   Floatation therapy is where you float effortlessly inside a float pod that is a light and sound-free environment, and contains twelve inches of water with 550kg of Epsom salts (magnesium sulphate)...

by Sue Edge, Serenity Massage   We all know that massage releases tight muscles, is great for relaxation and can relieve headaches, neck, back and shoulder pain. If you suffer from any of these symptoms you know how debilitating this can be. As your massage...

by Jasmine Healy-Pagan, Sundalah   I met up with Kelly Bolger in her fresh new cafe in Hermit Park, called Kell’s Kitchen and Brew Bar, to learn a little about how this new venture came about. What made you decide to open Kell’s Kitchen and Brew Bar? I’ve worked...

Photo by Clark Young on Unsplash   by Dea Mitchell, Mitchell Music   Have you ever looked closely at someone playing an instrument? Did you notice that glint in their eyes, the smile on their face and the joy emanating from them? As a private music teacher,...

by Kylie Grimmer & Sandra Croaker, Yoga Tools For Schools Routine application of Yoga Tools contributes to the co-creation of respectful and supportive learning environments. Yoga Tools For Schools Inc has been delivering Professional Development trainings since...

by Allison Dearling, Live and Breathe Yoga   It’s really hard to commit ourselves to a yoga practice. Let’s face it – it’s really hard to commit ourselves to anything that will be good for us. Anything worthwhile takes grit, determination and a whole lot of...

by Jasmine Healy-Pagan, Sundalah   Our young people are growing up in incredibly complex times. With the average person now absorbing five times more visual stimulation than in the 1980s, it is no wonder that our nervous systems are on overdrive. Simplicity, calm...

by Vicki Salisbury, Yoga in the Parlour   None of the 20 or so women enrolled in the course had a clear picture of exactly what a Yoga Therapist actually does. However, each one of us had committed the next 12 months of our lives to become one. “Devine unknowing”...

by Robyn James, Woman Real Ignited   How many times a day do you pause to listen to YOUR greatness, to your internal world of wisdom, your natural guidance? Sometimes we listen to the wrong voice; we listen to the judge and the inner critic/victim reminding us we...

Photo by David Mao on Unsplash   Article by Sharn Rocco, Mindful Works   The start of every day is an opportunity to wake up mindfully, to start the day with awareness. Every day is an opportunity to begin again, to choose a good beginning. Many of the...

by Hayley Paterson, Foundation Podiatry   Our feet are an engineering masterpiece, so let’s keep them that way! The 66 joints that make up your feet affect every joint right up to your neck. When neglected, our feet break down over time, leading to foot pain and...

by The Source Bulk Foods   Are you looking for a healthy way to clear your mind haze? Check out how these foods can give your brain a vibrant boost. The brain is the body’s greediest organ and a malnourished brain will always have difficulty in functioning and...

by Jasmine Healy-Pagan, Sundalah   When we shop locally from independent and locally owned small businesses we are strengthening our community in more ways than just keeping dollars in our great town! Local businesses are usually owned by people who live in our...

by Jasmine Healy-Pagan, Sundalah   How wonderful it is to see an abundance of yoga options flowing in our beautiful town! More and more people are learning that yoga is a multi-dimensional system that offers a variety of ways to support life. The intrinsic...

by Dr Kimberly Richter, Flow Yoga Health   Everyone’s doing it - from elite athletes to the injured, from children to the elderly, but what’s it really all about and what’s in it for you? As a chiropractor, acupuncture provider and yoga teacher, I’ve seen...

by Meredith Starck, Golden Dolphin Yoga   To be able to practise yoga in natural surrounds is to be touched by the subtle rhythms of life. Through it we can sense the seasons changing and find an awakened intuition; a path into a conscious connection to a space...

by Ross Emmett, Combined Therapies   The Emmett technique is a method of soft tissue adjustment, used as a complementary therapy. The technique involves applying light pressure at particular points and in sequences that enables the gentle physical release of...

by Isabella Cannon, Yoga Balance   Yin and Yang are Taoist concepts and are the terms used to describe all types of phenomena. Yin is the stable, unmoving hidden aspect of things while Yang is the moving, changing, revealing aspect. Yin Yoga is a practice of...

by Jasmine Healy-Pagan, Yoga Tools For Schools Inc.   Science has shown, and educators can confirm, that when we are anxious, frustrated or stressed, it is difficult to teach and nearly impossible to learn. Unfortunately, more adults and children are suffering...

by Dr Sharn Rocco, Mindful Works   Understanding and practising mindfulness helps us to face up to some basic facts of life: pain and difficulties are inevitable, but how we respond to them is changeable; we can’t change anyone’s behaviour but our own; we are...

by Vicki Salisbury, Vicki Salisbury Yoga   At the age of 59 I was confronted with two choices: Path #1 continue as per usual, over-stressed, over-weight, over-it. Path #2 reinvent myself. Fortunately, I selected option two, celebrating my 60th birthday 32 kilos...

by Jasmine Healy-Pagan   Each day we rise to a range of choices, such as how we choose to eat, speak, work, play, rest, and so on. Our choices determine our experiences along the path and uncertain timeline called Life. Creating health and happiness throughout...

by Allison Dearling, Live and Breathe Yoga   When I talk to people new to yoga I often hear, “Oh I’m not flexible enough for yoga” - and to be honest it drives me crazy! It’s like saying, “Oh I’m too hungry to eat dinner.” Yoga is not about being bendy. It’s so...

by Dani Ceccarelli, Yoga on Magnetic   Mysore, where you adorn your scooter with marigolds, and a goat eats them. Mysore is a medium-sized, picturesque city in southern India. Among Ashtanga Yogis, Mysore is also a state of mind; it’s where you go to become...

by Sonia Anear, Anahata Wellbeing   In our fast paced society where we are constantly ‘doing’ and we have stimulus coming at us from all directions, meditation provides the opportunity to still the mind for self-awareness, for healing and to take time out from...

by Harry Normand, Spark Movement Studio   Chew your food - the more you chew, the less work your internal digestive processes have to do, leaving you with more energy for other things.· Chewing also gives your nervous system time to figure out roughly what's in...