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Jeanette Peterson
- 6 days ago
- 2 min
Understanding how you can be calm in any storm
When a storm rolls into your life, it is easy to get caught up in the flurry of it all. Feeling like the strong pull of the storm happens, with or without your desire to support it. If this is you, know that you are not alone, and it is more common than you might think. Do you feel the pull of the storm in your life? Whether it be when someone cuts you off in traffic, each time you have the same argument with your partner or frustrations set in for a job that no longer excite
Jeanette Peterson
- Apr 2
- 3 min
Nurturing optimism in a fast changing world
In the fast-changing world that we live in, it can be hard not to get swept away in it all, feeling sad and lonely in our sorrow. Instead of maintaining a natural sense of happiness in our disposition, we so frequently hide our sorrow, behind a whole lot of smoke and mirrors just to survive. Do you feel like you have no choice but to put on your mask, to present to the world, each time you interact with others? Whether they be your family, friends or work colleagues. Amon
Jeanette Peterson
- Mar 24
- 3 min
How the Yogic practice of surrender can expand your life creating wonder and joy effortlessly
For many years I swam a lot and loved it. However, for some reason, over time, I drifted away from it and focused on other pursuits, particularly yoga. Recently, however, I was inspired to get back in the pool, and I discovered something quite remarkable. The five-year gap, and my extended practice in yoga during this time, has changed the way I feel about swimming completely. I always found swimming relaxing, however, now it is meditative in the most beautiful way. This ch
Jeanette Peterson
- Mar 8
- 4 min
Golf and the yogic art of surrender
Recently I began to learn the sport of golf. Some people who know me will read this blog with a grin and an element of surprise. Whether you are old or young, man or woman, like me, golf might surprise you. I have been an active sporting person all my life, and I humbly admit with a little hesitation that at one time, I did not see golf as a sport at all. I once saw golf as a form of mindless suffering that people inflicted on themselves. Where it seemed people chased a ti
Jeanette Peterson
- Mar 5
- 3 min
The power of breathing life into your every day
Do you take your breath for granted? It just happens right! Is there any need to think about it? If you leave your breath to its own devices, you won't stop breathing, but you also won't maximise your breathing potential either. The reason for this is quite simply because, for most of us, our breath has become somewhat shallow, and well, kind of lazy. So we breathe the bare minimum required for survival. It's kind of like being average instead of being great at something. W
Jeanette Peterson
- Feb 25
- 1 min
Redesigning Relationships Mindfully - a brand new pilot program
Do you wish you had better relationships in every part of your life? Has your marriage hit a bump in the road and are you struggling to see a way forward? Are you single and sick of hitting dead-ends in the dating world? Is your work-life no longer fulfilling you but you don't know how to change it? Have your relationships with your children been fractured and you'd like to rebuild them? If you answer yes to any of these questions then the 'Redesigning Relationships Mindfully
Jeanette Peterson
- Feb 25
- 3 min
Redesigning relationships series part 7 - understanding the healing potential of everyday people
Looking beyond the woo-woo and understanding the healing potential of everyday people has the capacity to transform your life completely. Not only do we have untapped potential to heal ourselves, but we also have a significant capacity to heal and be healed by the inputs of everyday people all around us. In the world that we live in, this idea may feel like a big claim. On the contrary, it is something that is greatly understated in our lives. The relationships that you dev
Jeanette Peterson
- Jan 25
- 3 min
Why Yoga is good for everyone - part 5 tradies
Yes, that is right I have said it now. Yoga is good for tradies! If you do a job that requires physical activity every day you work, then yoga has significant potential. It can both support you at work and your downtime from work. I have spent many years of my life surrounded by people who work in a trade for a living. I commonly hear complaints about body pain, including back problems. Working in a trade like carpentry, plumbing or electrical, to name a few can be taxing o
Jeanette Peterson
- Jan 20
- 3 min
Writing - How the power to heal yourself can become the most beautiful act of service to others
I write about many topics, but none quite so beautiful as the power of healing yourself to then translate into acts of service to others. Through personal experience, it has become a topic that is very close to my heart. Everyone has a book in them because we all have a unique story that needs to be shared! This information is something I was told almost eight years ago. At the time, I laughed because I felt there was definitely no book in me. I had no idea I was about to e
Jeanette Peterson
- Jan 12
- 3 min
Why Yoga is for everyone series part 4 - athletes
Whether you are a professional or amateur athlete, Yoga has the potential to lift your athletic game in ways you may not have imagined. That's right, I mentioned athlete and Yoga in the same sentence because Yoga is literally for everyone, as the title of the next instalment of this blog suggests. So let's start at the beginning. Whether you are a serious professional athlete or an amateur working your way to professional, a solid Yoga practise has the potential to be a tot
Jeanette Peterson
- Jan 7
- 3 min
Love - How Yoga can uncover what existed in you all along
For many, it seems like we endlessly search for the love of our life, whilst others find a beautiful and precious love early, that can sometimes last a lifetime. Is this luck, or by design? Which type of person in this situation are you? Are you endlessly seeking love externally to you, when it existed within you all along or did you find the love of your life early on? or Is the love of your life you? Through social and cultural conditioning we have long created perceived
Jeanette Peterson
- Jan 4
- 3 min
Why Yoga is for everyone series part 3 - motherhood
Yoga is a magical thing that has the potential to serve you in life at every stage, non so beautiful as the journey of motherhood. All stages of motherhood can be supported by developing a solid yoga practice. Beginning from prenatal to childbirth and beyond as the journey of motherhood takes many twists and turns. I have never myself had the good fortune of becoming a mother. However, I have seen how the power of yoga supports mothers in a multitude of ways. Motherhood is a
Jeanette Peterson
- Dec 23, 2020
- 3 min
My Story - The importance of taking time out to regroup, reflect and reset
I am a big believer in the need to escape the hyper speed of daily life. Sometimes, for me, this looks like a daily meditation session, and other times this looks more like an escape into nature. At this time of year for me, it is part of my reflective process, to take some time to look at where I have come from this year. Consider what I have achieved. Then to celebrate my successes and dig deep into gratitude for the lessons learned. I like to call it the 'big reset butto
Jeanette Peterson
- Dec 15, 2020
- 3 min
Uniqueness - Watch it flourish through Yoga
Yoga is not a standard fixed routine. It is your routine of bringing joy and love into your life and the lives of others around you. I think at this time of year it is particularly poignant to remember the joy, in every beautiful form that comes in. You are unique, living your personal journey to date, encapsulating vastly different experiences in your life. Therefore your yoga experience should be equally unique. Working as a Yoga and Mindfulness Coach I see this beautiful
Jeanette Peterson
- Dec 14, 2020
- 4 min
Anxiety - A child's story of hope through Yoga
My mother used to say I had a front bigger than Myers department store, a well known large store in the city I grew up in as a child. Only she knew I was hiding. The rest of the world, it would seem was fooled by my cool, and well-orchestrated facade. Are you hiding behind a facade? Whilst below the surface, there still lies a child filled with fear and anxiety? As a child, this was me. Many people who know me today could not imagine this could have been possible, but it most
Jeanette Peterson
- Dec 6, 2020
- 3 min
The art of rediscovering your writing creativity through Yoga & Mindfulness
Yoga & Mindfulness can open your creativity portal in a way that is beyond beautiful. Take my story for example, as a writer. I reignited my creativity through Yoga awareness and Mindfulness expansion. The potential to do this is available to every one of us. Imprints from our childhood When I was a young child, I wrote a beautiful poem myself. My teacher thought it was so good I must have copied someone else’s, yet I had written it myself, without any help at all. The imprin
Jeanette Peterson
- Nov 28, 2020
- 4 min
Why Yoga is good for everyone series part 2 - Men
Yes, that is right Yoga is for men too! So often I hear people say ‘Yoga is for chicks’, which I am guessing this means women, not baby birds. I think it is about time that this myth is knocked over once and for all. Yoga is most definitely for men. Yoga is about awareness of the external world and how you interact with it. So what part exactly have we decided of that is not for men? As a Yoga & Mindfulness Coach, I support growth in men and women, using Yoga as a vehicle to
Jeanette Peterson
- Nov 26, 2020
- 3 min
Moving House - How yoga taught me to let go!
So in this past week, I moved for the seventh time in ten years. When I tell people this, it surprises them. There is often a gasp, and a sense of something must have gone wrong. This response is triggered by social and cultural conditioning at work in a subtle way. In life, there is a constant motion that we accept. Included in our realm of acceptance are things like sunsets, days of the week and time progression. We tend to fully acknowledge what these things mean to us in
Jeanette Peterson
- Nov 20, 2020
- 3 min
Why Yoga is for everyone series - part 1 - Children
I have taught yoga to a wide variety of people from children, mothers, the elderly, tradies through to corporate executives because there is a yoga path for everyone, no matter your age, fitness, lifestyle or sporting interests. Children specifically benefit from learning yoga as it helps them to learn good habits to maintain movement, breath and stillness as their body grows and develops at every stage from infancy through to becoming your adults. The earlier that yoga pract
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