Who, What & Why....

Getting Down & Spicy started life as Elements of Flow, a little venture into kids' yoga that grew more legs than originally planned. Ginger Mum, otherwise known as Kristin, is the creative mind behind it all. A single mum, lifelong learner and professional thinker-outside-the-square, she's spent the past 15 years studying mindful movement, inclusive yoga and finding creative ways to make movement accessible to all sorts of bodies and brains. Much of this journey has been inspired by her son Lucah, who has Down syndrome and has given Ginger a lifetime of practical lessons that no textbook could ever cover.

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What started on a yoga mat soon found its way into support schools, working with children with additional needs, communication charts, props and a growing bag of tricks. Then aerial yoga came floating into Ginger's orbit via a social media rabbit hole. One plane trip, a few training courses and 200 hours of yoga teacher training later, she realised there was a rather large gap in the world of mindful movement for people with intellectual disabilities.

 

So, naturally, she decided to do something about it.

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Having spent 18 months at Westmead Children's Hospital with Lucah during his leukaemia journey, and later helping him learn to walk again, Ginger knows a thing or two about adapting, problem-solving and celebrating the little wins. Her approach combines lived experience, professional knowledge and a healthy dose of unconventional thinking. Strength, stability, confidence and connection are all on the menu, usually disguised as something fun, because who said working towards a goal had to be boring?

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Getting Down & Spicy is about creating opportunities that Ginger wishes had existed when Lucah was little. A space where people are seen for who they are, not what they can't do. Where families feel understood, professionals can share ideas and everybody gets the chance to move in their own way. There's no one-size-fits-all instruction manual here, just a willingness to give things a crack, nut out the tricky bits and add a little spice along the way.