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03/11/2025

Tomorrow morning I will be sharing a gentle wake up and stretch routine on to set you up to feel good all day 🌞

If you’re an early bird - tune in and join us! 💛

04/10/2025

Today marks the 3 week countdown to Speed Classic Cape Town! A hillclimb and motoring lifestyle festival set on the foothill of Table Mountain, where 140 cars in 4 categories will race along Philip Kgosana.

Backed by Motorsport SA and the City of Cape Town, this event has something for every car and speed enthusiast! Two days of the sights, smells and sounds that every motorist dreams of - I can’t think of a track where spectators are as close to the action or as spoiled with beautiful views.

This beautiful McLaren 720S is one of the cars competing for the speed classic cup.

Featuring a 4.0L twin-turbo V8 producing 720 PS (710 bhp), a 7-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission, and rear-wheel drive. Performance highlights include a top speed of 341 kph (212 mph) and a 0-100 kph (0-62 mph) time of 2.9 seconds.

I am SO excited to see so many beautiful classic and modern cars like this speed past our iconic Table Mountain. It’s going to be a feast for the senses!

Tickets start at a low R200 and are available on web tickets. Premium and corporate hospitality packages are available. This event is family friendly.

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12/09/2025

Noordhoek, Cape Town, Leaning into sunshine / the weekend in 🤍

Photo by the incredibly talented

25/06/2025

“I don’t really get sick” - I’ve said one too many times and far too smugly of late.

So, naturally, the universe handed me a big dose of flu last week - and I am so grateful for all of you holding space for that - for the love and support and patience I received. Thank you 🙏

Thank you especially to my incredible managers and colleagues who taught and held space and allowed for me to rest. Thank you 🙏

I’m back to teaching this week and have loved seeing all of you again 🥰

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P.S. I teach Hot 26 once a week - Monday at 5:30pm

17/06/2025

A delicate balance ⚖️

There’s a delicate difficulty in painful moments. In an attempt to find the silver lining, to follow the light - we risk negating the truth of our experience.

You may fear being “too much” when you honour and embody the extent of your pain - especially if you have awareness of all the connections and past experiences that contribute to the current experience.

This awareness can bring greater understanding- but can also make you reluctant to embody or feel the extent of a thing - especially around others.

Awareness of all the connected dots can also cause you to rationalise your feelings rather than feel them. It is incredible what we can override with our minds 🧠

Knowing this is powerful but can also (in my experience) create a disconnect from reality and the truth of what you are going through.

The magic happens when we create the time to sit with the discomfort, to allow it to be felt in our body and processed and felt - even grieved.

For a time I felt as though sitting in my pain was akin to surrendering to the darkness, I felt the gravity of the things I had gone through were too much, and my superpower was to find the light instead.

I know now that authenticity lies in the balance - of truly feeling and honouring the truth - whatever it is - and in sitting with the discomfort long enough to soften into it.

When we negate our suffering and mask it with a mirror focused on the light, the suffering and darkness below remains unchanged, waiting for the next time the mirror cracks or slips.

When we sit with our suffering and allow ourselves to soften into it, we allow light to move through and things can change.

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11/06/2025

Heart openers and back bends have been a theme for me and my teaching through this lunar cycle.

A place of bravery and compassion, our heart is the centre of both our love and our grief - love for others, our selves, the world around us. Grief for what no longer is, for things that no longer are. The central chakra between the three below and three above. 🌟

During this time I was given the opportunity to teach an intensive for the teacher trainees during their heart chakra module, and as a part of that experience I was invited to add a meaningful piece of treasure to their alter.

My first thought was my heart necklace, a place that holds grief and love for me - my tenth birthday present from my father who left for the stars not long after - and yet I couldn’t bring myself to take it off my neck or leave it in studio for so long.

And so instead I chose three things: crystals that found me through a strangers dream - quartz with a rainbow inside it, a message of connection qnd compassion.

A vintage camera I found amongst my fathers/grandfathers thing - a reminder of my grief and a reminder of the impermanence of a moment - we can try to capture time but it can only capture parts of it and it can be fully experienced through the moment itself - a reminder to be present.

Finally, a necklace weaved in love around rose quartz the stone of love. A reminder of my macrame skilled friend Cass and a reminder of the friends and people in our lives who weave a tapestry of support for our growth.

I have loved my time with the trainees and I have loved exploring backbends qnd heart openers during this time.

This pose - natarajasana “lord of the dance” is a scary one for many, and one that often creates internal pressure.

The next time you practice “dancer” I invite you to focus on the feeling rather than the silhouette - and to balance the energy of your leg behind you with the energy of your arm reaching for the sky 🌌 🤍

Beach photos taken by wearing

What would you place on an alter to represent your heart?

01/06/2025

Warrior 3 -

This balancing pose strengthens the core, legs and back and enhances balance and coordination. It can help with ankle and foot strength and challenges mental focus. An exhale breath can help draw lower ribs in towards the spine to help facilitate a spinal extension as energy moves forward through fingers and crown and back through the lifted leg. Feel for length from hip to crown, keep a gentle tuck of chin and lift the back of your skull so that your neck is in line with the rest of your spine 🪷

The name “Virabhadrasana” is derived from the Sanskrit words “vira” (hero) and “bhadra” (friend), and the poses are a way to honor the exploits of Virabhadra.

29/05/2025

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

This pose has always been a delight in my body - balancing the strength of gravity with the strength of limbs.

The same asana captured in two ways - shot by on

25/05/2025

1) How are you feeling?

2) What self care are you practicing at the moment?

A few staff meetings ago, we sat in a circle and took turns to answer these two questions.

In the honesty of speaking the truth of where we were at, we were able to connect more deeply with one another - and to ourselves.

In asking what self care we were practicing, we were invited to explore our compassion towards self and invited to prioritise self care.

I realised then that I had shifted my focus to caring for myself in the best ways to be of service, rather than truly caring for myself.

These simple questions marked a shift for me this year, and I have prioritised play and beach walks and self care that serves no purpose other than making me feel good (like getting my nails done - something I stopped doing to save more money for a business I am trying to create.)

I previously felt guilty for indulging myself, for taking time out of building my business to play - but my experience the last few months has been that these acts of self care help me show up more fully in the other aspects of my life.

So I ask you 💛 : what are you doing for self care? I would love to hear.

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22/05/2025

“The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty all around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the self is reflected in it.” - Iyengar

New lunch time public class! Join me at every Thursday at 12:30 for a balance of softness and strength weaved into a hot power flow.

Who’s coming next week? 😁

Shot by at Noordhoek beach

21/05/2025

Somewhere between a forward fold and a halfway lift.

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19/05/2025

My photographer friend took some portraits of me doing yoga at Noordhoek Beach on Thursday on a hot summery autumn day.

This pose is called virasana or hero pose and is one of the 26 postures we practice in the hot 26/Bikram sequence 💛

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Hi! I’m Sam, content creator and curator of slkaye.com.

SLKAYE is a website about Travel, Food and Fitness and is filled with Travel Tips, Healthy Recipes, Honest Reviews, Fitness focused content, Videos and Adventure Stories - with the occasional fashion piece, makeup tutorial or personal life update whenever adventure appropriate.

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