I noticed both Mindfulness, various forms of Meditation & Yoga together (delivered in a therapeutic way)  was something that was effective in helping others deal with different forms of pain and process their own life events. I began consulting to Private Retreats, & Rehabilitation Programs, Hospitals, Schools, EAS for the QLD Police Force, to deliver training or one on one Coaching in Mindfulness Based Personal & Professional Development. 

I went on to open Yoga NRG & Mindfulness Training Australia , a Yoga & Mindfulness Training School  based on the Sunshine Coast, which included an Outreach Service supporting those  in remote and regional areas. Although many initially came to learn more about Yoga or to learn to Teach, what they walked away with in addition to being Certified  to Teach  was a new level of Self Awareness and Insight that helped them to heal or let go in someway , to  re-orientate to their “why” . By going through this process of “Yoga & Mindfulness Teacher Training” they feel equiped to help others develop their own Yoga or Mindfulness Practice in their own unique way. 

After training hundreds of Yoga & Mindfulness Teachers both within Australia and internationally there is one consistent thing that we all seem to need and Yoga & Mindfulness Mentoring and Teacher Training helps strengthen these core needs 

– a sense of feeling safe or secure (we often feel the flip side to this and be filled with self doubt) 

– a sense of contentment (often there can be that sense of not having or being enough) 

– a sense of connection (when we feel disconnected, lonely or lost can be one of the most debilitating impacts on our overall health & wellbeing) 

Empowering someone to feel like they do have a sense of agency and control over these core needs is at the heart of my Mindfulness Mentoring & Teacher Training Programs. Although I have been practicing Yoga for well over twenty years, and training others to Teach or Mentoring them – I am a ‘forever’ student myself. I am passionate about continual evidence base and personal wisdom from life experience that we all have. 

Together I believe we can move toward a lot more ‘ease’ than ‘dis-ease’ in our body, mind and heart from time on the Yoga Mat, in personal reflection during mentoring, group discussions and letting yourself get out there and learn from having fun in nature, with music or the arts and most importantly not ‘doing’ much at all. (Something we may all need to re-learn) – which is why Mindfulness & Yin together is healing.