Quiet Waves . Zenthai Shiatsu & Yoga

Quiet Waves . Zenthai Shiatsu & Yoga Gathering space for care to grow. Yoga + Zenthai Shiatsu with Lucy Lawes.

Feeling the inner process of rebirthing, messy and tangled and yet, beautiful and emergent. Spring invites us to grow - ...
03/10/2026

Feeling the inner process of rebirthing, messy and tangled and yet, beautiful and emergent. Spring invites us to grow - both deeper into the roots, and outstretched towards the canopy. Nature does not rush, and we must remember to keep returning to the pace and pulse of our own innate rhythm.

What do you feel growing within you? What inspires you in the nature growing around you? 🌱

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📸 Mads Judge (Colvin) 🤍✨ red bluff rocks, naarm.

What happens when we are willing to take off the coats we have woven from old stories, and open ourselves to the possibi...
20/09/2026

What happens when we are willing to take off the coats we have woven from old stories, and open ourselves to the possibility of feeling all of the textures of life?

Not always soft, or comfortable.
Rarely how we idealise it to be in our fantasies of the future.

Yet more real.

To be fully alive with presence requires us to feel, and be felt. This involves what Mark Nepo calls ‘an exquisite risk’.

When we meet life with bare, open, listening hands, and receive a moment as it is - we get to behold it in all its nuances, without illusion. To uncover a more whole and compassionate aliveness.

When we take off the old stories and dated preconceptions, what warms us instead is the recognition that we ourselves are the gatekeepers, between feeling separate, and remembering our innate belonging to this world.

That within us is the power to co-become with the world, from which we were born, and from which we are never apart.

A freedom, and a responsibility we get to dance with.

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What coats are you wearing? And what might you fold away, giving thanks for all its protection and warmth, while recognising a new season when it is no longer needed?

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📸✨ Steve

20/09/2026

It’s what we do day to day, moment to moment, which informs who we become. Part of what I encourage through fascia flow classes is for folks to fall in love with the sensation of being in a body, of having this mansion we can inhabit more intimately, with more pleasure and compassion and curiosity.

So what we do in classes is great. But what you take out into your own day - 2mins here, 10mins there - as little movement snacks, or rituals of attunement, can be a game changer.

Try these next time you’re waiting for the kettle, standing up from your desk, or arriving home after work. A pause, a refresh, a landing.

Especially with spring emerging, we can benefit from keeping our sides supple and spacious, to adapt to all that is changing 🤍

Save this for whenever you need a pick-me-up, or send to someone you care about.

Fascia Flow classes each week • estuary yoga • -
Tuesday 6.15am+ 7.30am
Wednesday 9.30am

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Filmed in Darebin Parklands, Naarm/Melb, thank you to resident vocalists 🐦

Special Spring event 🌱✨So many of my loves, woven together:Sensuous movement practice, Taoist wisdom, time in fresh air,...
10/09/2026

Special Spring event 🌱✨

So many of my loves, woven together:

Sensuous movement practice, Taoist wisdom, time in fresh air, mark-making and drawing inspiration from the earth, games and practices to connect us back home to nature - within us and around us. All in honouring of the seasons and cycles we move through, individually and in collective.

And a picnic!

All above becomes even more delicious when shared with sincere and wholehearted folks you can be truly yourself, to explore alongside, and laugh with. If you’ve joined me before at • estuary yoga •, you’ll know.

This is the kind of togetherness which our systems yearn for.

Links in profile - would love to see you there~

📸 Mads Judge (Colvin) / nature scene and drawings from Darebin Parklands 🤍

09/09/2026

Spring 🌱✨

Spring holds the energy of emergence.

Associated with the Wood element in Taoist philosophy, there is a rising up and out, like a seedling sprouting towards the radiance of the sun. A windy season of transition, our bodies can benefit from a focus on the tendons and ligaments which act as connectors, as that which joins the parts into a whole.

To expand and grow, we must also root deep and true. This qi gong sequence grounds us into the power of the glutes and legs, while inviting a buoyancy, adaptability and spaciousness into the sides of the abdomen, ribcage, neck and head. It encourages three dimensional rotation through the shoulders, elbows and wrists - like branches reaching out towards the warmth of sunbeams, the form reminds us of a rooted unfurling; we sense the kind of expansion which does not forget to anchor to the mother of this earth.

Try this out for yourself, keen to hear how it lands for you~

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Excited to share some Spring-centred offerings in October and November - would love to see you!

~ Tend: Lines of Connection | Sat 24 Oct, 1.30-4.30pm
~ Tend: Between the Lines | Sat 31 Oct, 10am-1pm

Two pay-as-you-can community sessions, infusing yummy somatic movement, games, drawing and mark-making, nature-connection, and feasting together - each building on the other, both held out in fresh Spring air of Darebin Parklands.
{ These are part of the Nature-Based Leadership Training I’m partaking in with ***

~ Sound, Yin, Massage with Happy Axe | Sat 14 Nov, 2-5pm (bookings up soon!)

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Plus weekly Fascia Flow classes • estuary yoga • each Tues + Weds

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📸 Steve while visiting Blue Earth Village , Amed, Bali 🥰

08/09/2026

To tend to this body, to this breath, to this earth and all who inhabit it, with utmost care. The way we do one thing is the way we do everything.

An offering coming soon in the Spring air of late October, weaving together movement, cultivation of energy, nature connection, mark – making ( a.k.a. drawing), and the unlearning and relearning of how we can perceive the environment we are part of.

To engage from a place not of separation, but of intrinsic and intimate belonging. 🤍

Saturday 24 October (pm) & 31 October (am), Darebin Parklands, Naarm. In collaboration with with • estuary yoga • 🫶🏽

Comment TEND and I’ll send the link to full info + bookings 🙌🏾

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📸 Steve working his magic 🐅
soundtrack by unknown feathered artist - if anyone can identify this bird I’d love to know!

More classes! Now on Tues as well as Weds morn 🌱Since starting to offer this class a few months ago • estuary yoga • I’v...
06/09/2026

More classes! Now on Tues as well as Weds morn 🌱

Since starting to offer this class a few months ago • estuary yoga • I’ve been thrilled and humbled to hear how much folks are enjoying and taking home from these shared practices.

We have so much fun being in serenity and silliness, often getting curious about novel (and sometime dorky but functionally nutritious) dance moves. There are many moments where I watch in awe at the grace and elegance of a room of bodies, moving to their own rhythm and form, so in presence and connection to breath, to life.

This is a practice of relishing the body, and learning to behold a fuller experience of this vehicle we are gifted.

It’s a good time. Come explore with us 🤍

Booking link in profile x

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Images edited from originals by Steve 📸🫶🏽

02/09/2026

A beautiful song which has brought comfort and strength to the young, scared parts within me, many times.

In Chinese the phrase for birth is 出生(chū shēn) - to emerge or birth from the ground. We are born from this earth, rather than born ‘into’ the world (perhaps from some ethereal realm) as the common English implies.

Thus, we are already in belonging, in the family of all things, in relationship to all beings. Separation lives as an illusion which blinds us from remembering.

How might our choices and actions be different, if we recognise and trust in this? 🤲🏽🤍

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In Dreams | Jai-Jagdeesh

Know you are loved
Rest in peace
Dream your sweet dreams
‘Til your soul is released
Know you are loved...
Rest in peace
Dream your sweet dreams
‘Til your soul is released
Beloved child
My heart is yours
Beloved child
Go out and open doors
With your love
With your faith
With your compassion
With your grace
Oh, with your grace...
Beloved child
You are the light of the world
Beloved child...
Go out, spread light to the world
Be strong, be kind, be brave
Know your mind
Know that you’re divine
Know that it’s alright to be afraid
Know you are loved...
Rest in peace
Dream your sweet dreams
‘Til your soul is released
Know you are loved...
Rest in peace
Dream your sweet dreams
‘Til your soul is released...

We communicate a lot through words. Yet… Words are symbols, just as our bodies make symbols, every moment of the day. It...
02/09/2026

We communicate a lot through words. Yet… Words are symbols, just as our bodies make symbols, every moment of the day. It’s all language, vehicles for communicating meaning.

We can easily be caught in the dance of making symbols to impress: to convey power, desirability, or forms of being ‘special’. To stand out enough to be admired, yet not enough to be deemed egoic.

Yet the beauty of words, of bodies, of sound and any communication, is its capacity to convey a truth, through expression. As i have learned from an indigenous elder: to speak from the heart, to the heart.

A guiding contemplation I’ve carried with me the past few years: ‘An I speaking to impress, or to express?’

Our words matter. Our body language matters. Our intention matters. The energy we cultivate and carry through the world is what creates the change. Our choices ripple out in ways beyond what can be measured.

That one word of kindness, that one gesture of care… you never know how it might shift the reality of another - or yourself.

This is where one can write something witty, intelligent, poetic or prayerful. I can still feel the conditioning and desire to be impressive, yet I know now that is just empty gift wrap. I’m not interested in gift wrap.

I’m interested in being real, and kind, within all of the light and shadow of being alive and human, in connection with the world. To live it through my body, and actions, not just in words.

So a prompt for you, when you next talk, write, move, respond: are you speaking to impress, or express? 🪞✨

📸 Steve thank you for helping me see myself more truthfully, in all different lights and shadows 🫀

31/08/2026

Life is full of mirrors. 🪞🌱

Movement is one of them - reflecting back through the body where we resist, where we hold on, where we can be more kind and generous, or discerning with our choices.

I cherish the opportunities I have to share movement practices, and to help move folks through the dance of zenthai shiatsu - so that we can not just think about, but experience and embody what is meaningful, necessary and supportive for our innate intelligence to shine through.

We need more people centred in their place within the whole, rather than enmeshed in the world of self-centred narratives.

Now offering morning classes as well as zenthai shiatsu sessions on Tues + Weds at • estuary yoga •, North Melbourne.

Come move - or be moved. Class bookings via link in bio / DM me to arrange 1:1 zenthai treatments between 11am-4pm 🤲🏽✨

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3051

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