Now For YOga
Now for Yoga is the ongoing heart work of me, Cate Geard.
I loved experiencing my first Yoga classes at the Relaxation Centre of Queensland in 1996. How had I lived 19 years not knowing about this?!
After many more years of dabbling in different classes, different styles and guided by many teachers, in 2010 I began to study Yoga, embarking on the 1.5 year Yoga Teacher Training co-offered by Radiant Light Yoga - Adam and Maaji Bornstein, on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, and by Shelly Fruend in Albury, NSW.
15 years later, I’m grateful for the many students who have stepped onto the mat with me, each precious one teaching me as much as when I impart the Yogic wisdom to them, passed down to me.
They say it takes 21 days to make a habit, and I can say it takes about right on 7 years for a positive habit such as a daily yoga practice to be a non-negotiable part of the day! I’m in for the long haul, but it’s happening now, hence Now for Yoga!
This practice brings me much-needed and cherished space, inner and outer, as well as bringing ease to this body… sore muscles? a physical Yoga practice adjusted to my daily energy levels works out that soreness. Tired? Energy is renewed after a Yoga flow!
The strength and flexibility gained by regular practice supports everyday movement, and gives me structure and confidence in rehabilitating if injury is present, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Let’s just say that the benefits outweigh the reasons not to practice. And this is a focus of my teaching, coming back after a two-year teaching sabbatical: figuring out with you your why for practising, and exploring, applying Yoga and listening to the body with that in mind and heart. Still there’s something else to say- even when you know your why, expect the unexpected, and an exceeding of expectation because this practice gives you so much more than you can imagine! I’m in for the long haul, ah-ha, I already said that! 😝
I am grateful to the rural communities of the King and Myrrhee Valleys and Glenrowan, Victoria for supporting my teaching work in its first seven years. I decked out a beautiful little space in Wangaratta aptly called The Breathing Room and taught there from 2019-2022, with an 18-month teaching-learning journey in the Zoom Breathing Room during covid times. 2022 marked 10 years teaching on the mat, and a desire to take a step back, create space, and get back to the basics of being a Yoga student for awhile — a healthy and needed place to be. I have been enjoying the challenge of working with myself and with other wonderful senior teachers in the meantime, and am glad to say that the passion to share Yoga as a daily life tool remains with me so, simply, here I am.
Yep, I am a passionate learner, a lifelong student of creativity, expressing through different languages, a few being: regular art-making, music-making, and the English and French languages. More information about various art projects and collaborations can be found at www.categeard.com. One such art project was collaborating and illustrating a book with Jen Kirby that we self- published in 2021, called The Little Tree.
In 2023, I held my first solo art exhibition since 2007, at the Bainz Gallery, Wangaratta Library and I called it Bloom… cause…. Bloom where you are planted…🌱I love that saying, and just like Madison Keys, it reminds me to go for it. For me this means leaning into the feeling of play, and the wonder of being present in the moment, alert to and participating in the world through all senses.
Recently in a professional development, a wise teacher said that in teaching [languages], we are really ‘awakening curiosity.’ That goes for Yoga, too! Actually it transcends disciplines, it’s the essence of life, I feel… May these Yoga offerings be of benefit to all beings, and to Mother Earth, and awaken the curiosity in you. I honour the traditional owners of the land, and all wise beings from all nourishing soulful traditions, past, present and future.
love Cate 🙏🏽💞🥰
Cate is a registered member of Yoga Australia.
I loved experiencing my first Yoga classes at the Relaxation Centre of Queensland in 1996. How had I lived 19 years not knowing about this?!
After many more years of dabbling in different classes, different styles and guided by many teachers, in 2010 I began to study Yoga, embarking on the 1.5 year Yoga Teacher Training co-offered by Radiant Light Yoga - Adam and Maaji Bornstein, on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, and by Shelly Fruend in Albury, NSW.
15 years later, I’m grateful for the many students who have stepped onto the mat with me, each precious one teaching me as much as when I impart the Yogic wisdom to them, passed down to me.
They say it takes 21 days to make a habit, and I can say it takes about right on 7 years for a positive habit such as a daily yoga practice to be a non-negotiable part of the day! I’m in for the long haul, but it’s happening now, hence Now for Yoga!
This practice brings me much-needed and cherished space, inner and outer, as well as bringing ease to this body… sore muscles? a physical Yoga practice adjusted to my daily energy levels works out that soreness. Tired? Energy is renewed after a Yoga flow!
The strength and flexibility gained by regular practice supports everyday movement, and gives me structure and confidence in rehabilitating if injury is present, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Let’s just say that the benefits outweigh the reasons not to practice. And this is a focus of my teaching, coming back after a two-year teaching sabbatical: figuring out with you your why for practising, and exploring, applying Yoga and listening to the body with that in mind and heart. Still there’s something else to say- even when you know your why, expect the unexpected, and an exceeding of expectation because this practice gives you so much more than you can imagine! I’m in for the long haul, ah-ha, I already said that! 😝
I am grateful to the rural communities of the King and Myrrhee Valleys and Glenrowan, Victoria for supporting my teaching work in its first seven years. I decked out a beautiful little space in Wangaratta aptly called The Breathing Room and taught there from 2019-2022, with an 18-month teaching-learning journey in the Zoom Breathing Room during covid times. 2022 marked 10 years teaching on the mat, and a desire to take a step back, create space, and get back to the basics of being a Yoga student for awhile — a healthy and needed place to be. I have been enjoying the challenge of working with myself and with other wonderful senior teachers in the meantime, and am glad to say that the passion to share Yoga as a daily life tool remains with me so, simply, here I am.
Yep, I am a passionate learner, a lifelong student of creativity, expressing through different languages, a few being: regular art-making, music-making, and the English and French languages. More information about various art projects and collaborations can be found at www.categeard.com. One such art project was collaborating and illustrating a book with Jen Kirby that we self- published in 2021, called The Little Tree.
In 2023, I held my first solo art exhibition since 2007, at the Bainz Gallery, Wangaratta Library and I called it Bloom… cause…. Bloom where you are planted…🌱I love that saying, and just like Madison Keys, it reminds me to go for it. For me this means leaning into the feeling of play, and the wonder of being present in the moment, alert to and participating in the world through all senses.
Recently in a professional development, a wise teacher said that in teaching [languages], we are really ‘awakening curiosity.’ That goes for Yoga, too! Actually it transcends disciplines, it’s the essence of life, I feel… May these Yoga offerings be of benefit to all beings, and to Mother Earth, and awaken the curiosity in you. I honour the traditional owners of the land, and all wise beings from all nourishing soulful traditions, past, present and future.
love Cate 🙏🏽💞🥰
Cate is a registered member of Yoga Australia.
