Steadiness in Chaos: Finding Ground When Life and Work Become Demanding

I’ve practised yoga on and off for almost 30 years. When I first started it was out of curiosity. Over time it became something steadier — a lifelong practice that continues to support body, breath, and mind.

Across those years I worked in many different roles and places. Much of my early career was spent as a nurse, including emergency nursing and time working in remote parts of Australia where health care often operates with very limited resources. Later my work moved into health systems, policy and project roles across complex organisations in Australia and overseas.

Those environments were often busy, intense, and sometimes chaotic. Living overseas was disruptive. 

My mind was working constantly — analysing situations, solving problems, responding to pressure. Anyone who has worked in health care or large systems will recognise that pace.

Throughout all of that, yoga remained a constant.

Wherever I was living I sought out classes, sometimes even tracking down English-speaking teachers in countries where I didn’t speak the language. Not because yoga was fashionable, and not because I treated it as exercise, but because it offered something simple and reliable.

It anchored me back into the body.

Many of us spend most of our lives in our heads — thinking, planning, worrying, analysing. Yoga shifts attention somewhere else. Instead of solving problems, the practice asks us to notice simple things: the breath moving, the position of the body, areas of tension we hadn’t realised we were holding.

Simple things, but they change how we feel.

Over time I also became more interested in the quieter aspects of the practice — the parts of yoga that support awareness, steadiness and rest. Meditation gradually became part of that as well.

Together, these practices anchored me through a busy and often chaotic working life.

Eventually I trained as a yoga teacher, not because I had planned a career in yoga, but because I had experienced how powerful these simple practices could be in ordinary life.

That experience shaped the work I now share.

Simple, grounded practices through yoga and meditation — and one-to-one conversations with people navigating change.

Not fixing life.
Simply creating space to reconnect and find steadiness again.

If you’re navigating a demanding or uncertain period yourself, you’re welcome to get in touch.