CLOSING DOORS & NEW OPPORTUNITIES
MOVEMENTS & MOMENTS
Why Growth Doesn’t
Always Appear Linear
On this website many of you know me as a movement teacher and studio owner, but this is only a small part of my story. In a previous time I completed my PhD in the arts, working as a Curator, Gallery Director, and Installation Artist. One of my projects was a government funded Artist-Run-Initiate, this sustained many artists and their work over a 6 year period. Later I became an Australian pioneer in aerial movement, adding to my training in Yoga, Pilates, Gyrokinesis® and Dance modalities. These foundations created the movement classes and studios I founded over the past 11 years.
Thus for many years I have been a director of businesses and NFP organisations.
I operated these on my own energetic fuel ~ lighting the path with my life force and internalised passion.
Unfortunately this approach is very unsustainable; during 2019 I audited my life and started making decisions that streamlined everything from parenting to domestic tasks, business management to finance. It wasn’t perfect but it was a deliberate start to my optimisation journey. Assessing my life and choosing to make changes was a very freeing and empowering decision. When I began I couldn’t possibly know where it would lead me.
Once I made a calibrated choice to create all decisions from an abundance mindset, (where the outcome was beneficial for myself and my family), a lot of wonderful things began to happen. I had a better work/life balance, I enjoyed my living situation more, I carried out less domestic tasks, I dove into my physical health and committed to long-term wellness. The pandemic crashed over the globe and I didn’t feel isolated or overwhelmed ~ I utilised my time to work on my business, grow my employee education and refine my movement studio.
In the winter of 2021 I gave birth to my second child. But even before this event I knew I had to further distill my choices, to have a stress free lifestyle. I went deeper and automated my domestic environment, I doubled-down on my health pre and post baby; I assessed the benefit of having a business and whether it was really serving my community, or myself for where I wanted to be in the future; I utilised a life coach and employed a virtual assistant; And I carried out another life audit.
In late 2022 I decided to close my brick-and-mortar studio. This was for many reasons, including the fall-out of three years of pandemic, the financial implications of these years, and because my life changed physically and emotionally with the addition of a second child. The boutique studios project had come to a end, in a 10year cycle it was a natural decision.
Pivoting the studios in 2023 created a huge vacuum of time and space, and my nervous system was now completely discombobulated. I had been working so hard I had underestimated the importance of the parasympathetic nervous system.
BUT, I had been utilising a lifestyle optimisation methodology for years! I just needed to apply the same strategies to my internal landscape.
I tuned-in and concentrated on nurturing my nervous system. I sat in the discomfort of this state - of not hustling and no longer being in constant momentum - I observed, and I rested.
Alongside maintaining systems and strategies creating my optimal lifestyle, I generated a list of actions to include in my daily schedule, a program I aptly named “75JOY”.
As I reviewed my techniques and systems two things emerged: An ability to communicate my methodology for Lifestyle Optimisation and the 75JOY program to accompany the self enquiry.
The reasoning behind the 75JOY program is the observation that without purposeful physical movement, lifestyle change is virtually unattainable. Much scientific research has shown that movement has a direct correlation to rewiring the brain. One action in 75JOY is somatic movement - every day. In my life I put aside 10minutes daily for a movement modality that gives me complete joy. This, and other elements in the 75JOY program gently pervade your life with sustainable habits ~ created purposefully ~ to elevate your life with energy and intention.
As a creative and imaginative, now mother of two, my newest cycle of reinvention is in the tech start-up realm and the vertical of Human Optimisation.
In 2024 there will be new ways to work with me to create the optimum life you desire, and deserve. Lifestyle Optimisation techniques alongside the 75JOY holistic wellness program have completely shifted my life satisfaction, joy and sustainability; let’s create this for your life too!
