What Does Your Health Look Like in 2025? (Part 1)
Health is our foundation for a great life. But so often, our culture places value on how the body looks — the fashion of muscles, toned abs, perky glutes — and forgets that true health runs so much deeper.
Health is multi-layered: it includes the mental, spiritual, physical, emotional, and energetic.
Now that we’re a quarter into the year, it’s the perfect time for a self-check. Pause. Reflect. How are you going? Health is the greatest gift we have.
As I’m writing this after my morning classes, I had to take a call from a psychologist at the hospital about my dad. He’s been there seven weeks now and is understandably low. It’s been a difficult time — and it’s made me reflect even more deeply on what “health” really means. Not just for him, but for all of us.
As a yoga teacher, homeopath, movement facilitator, and soon-to-be certified in Health, Fitness, and Lifestyle Programming for Aged Care and Diverse Needs groups — I think about health a lot. Today, I encouraged my students not to rush off after class. Just walk slowly, breathe deeply, and savour the stillness that savasana gives us.
Yoga brings us back into union — body, mind, and breath — and reconnects us to ourselves, to nature, and to our community.
This year, I’ve had a big wave of new yogis join our community, from group classes to private sessions (the first client started on Jan 2!). We’ve shared laughs about tight hips and stiff shoulders — yogis understand each other, don’t we? There’s a lovely unspoken cheer squad that forms in each class. I’m in awe of everyone’s progress.
For my Meditation students, I set small weekly tasks: eating mindfully without distractions, or sitting in stillness three times a week. These practices add up.
So I’ve made a little list of Health Homework until the next newsletter. Pick one, or a few. And if they speak to you, please share! You can email me, message me on Instagram (@eleniyogi) or Facebook (Eleni’s Yoga and Movement Studio).
Health Homework – until next time:
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Turn your phone off for 30 minutes a day – every day.
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Commit to two yoga classes a week for one month – feel the shift.
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Eat or sit outside at least four times a week.
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Read a chapter or a couple of articles – then reflect
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Try five new wholefoods (minimise packaging).
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Volunteer or donate. (I drop items to Pantry4thePeople, located in Botany, fortnightly!) Thank you yogis for your kind donations.
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Walk instead of drive where possible.
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Reach out to friends and reconnect.
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Grow something – in the garden or even a pot.
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Book a skin check – for sun spots and melanomas.
Immense hugs from me to you.
Xoxoxoxoxo
Eleni
