I believe we all have the right to live a life of ease, peace and embodiment, no matter what is going on around us

It has been a difficult few years with the emergence of Covid 19. During a crisis we tend to speed up (busy monkey mind) as we try to find ways to live amidst uncertainty. However, a crisis can also be seen as an opportunity for reflection - a moment to slow down, pause and be present so true reflection can occur. You might be wondering (or want to have the time to wonder):

  • Am I living the life I want to live?

  • Am I being the person I want to be in my life? 

  • Who am I? What is my identity?

  • What does it mean to be human in this pandemic/endemic world?

  • Why am I here?

  • What is my purpose? 

  • Am I living life with meaning?“

And if you feel there just might be more to this life you are given, keep reading.

I love to support those who are busy, possibly caring for others (formally or informally) or just feeling they are missing something in their lives, to slow down and find s p a c e and ease

I am passionate about teaching slow, healing, embodied practices in a caring, safe, online environment.

I love empowering others to reconnect to themselves and increase body-mind resiliency to face whatever challenges life imposes with grace and equanimity.

These practices are important to me as I consider myself a “Type A in recovery” (i.e. a busy stressed person trying to live a life that is less stressed and busy!).

These are the practices that help me return home to myself and what I need every day. I’m hoping that you will find them useful too.

The slow. mindful, healing movement and body-mind practices I offer can help increase overall resiliency and wellbeing. When we slow down, we become more present. When we are present we notice.

And then we can listen and respond.

These practices support us to:

  • meet challenges as they arise

  • respond rather than react to the world

  • increase nervous system regulation in a COVID 19 endemic world

  • learn to live with stress and anxiety differently

  • find more s p a c e in your body-mind and life (even when you are busy)

  • improve sleep

  • understand our inner knowing as a source to trust (rather than ignore or override)

I have been a Registered Psychologist for 30 years. I love empowering people to live the best lives they can. I work holistically with both body and mind and completed my first 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training in 2015. Since then I have completed more than 1000 hours of additional training in yoga, psychology, meditation and somatic therapies. I’d love to share this with you.

Are you living the life you want to be living? Or do you think there could be more for you? Are you ready to live life differently? Then come join me online with a membership!

This is not simply another online yoga membership. Instead, this is a journey.....a journey of self inquiry and self discovery where you will take the time to explore your embodied self and get to know YOU, and return to your homeground of stillness, ease and wholeness.

My focus is on creating thoughtful and useful self paced courses to enhance thriving and wellbeing - whether you are unwell (cancer, long covid, ME, fibromyalgia or living with a different autoimmune related disease) and wanting to increase your wellbeing or just wanting to find that space of thriving in your life - a place where you feel full of vitality and wellbeing. 


Self Paced 8 week course - Pranayama/Breathwork for Health & Healing

This is an 8 week self paced course.

This course includes:

  • an introductory powerpoint

  • weekly video’s

  • weekly practices which build on the previous week

  • access for 6 months

Investment: $99 per course

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Course only membership

You can buy each 8 week course on its own.

This is for you if you are keen to try some practices but not others. All classes are held Tuesday nights 7.30-8.30pm. You can buy each course on its own,

Dates for 2022 are:

Term 3 - Deep Rest (restorative yoga, yin yoga and yoga nidra 26 July -13 September 2022

Term 4 - Pranayama or Breathwork for Health and Healing -25 October -13 December 2022

Dates for 2023

Term 1 - Yoga for Body Mind Resilience 14 February - 11 April 2023

Term 2 - Somatics (Hanna style) - 3 May -20 June 2023

Investment $200

On demand library membership

This is for you if you prefer to

do the practices in your own time

Investment: $30 per month

This includes:

  • recordings of all classes and workshops

  • new monthly body-mind practice with journal questions for deeper reflection

  • a new yoga nidra each month

  • the ability to stop whenever you want


The monthly body-mind practices included in both memberships will include topics such as (exact timetable TBC)

  • Resourcing ourselves for tough times

  • Perfectionism

  • Grounding/Centering/Containing

  • Stress and overwhelm

  • Building resilience

  • boundaries and saying No

  • gratitude and joy

  • overcoming busy


Both memberships include:

  • the option of buying online one to one sessions with me

  • access to the full on demand library

  • one new body-mind practice with journaling questions per month

Either of these memberships are for you if you have a desire to:

  • increase your body-mind resiliency so you don’t feel so overwhelmed by life and the challenges it throws your way

  • regulate your own nervous system in this COVID 19 endemic era so you don’t go through your daily life feeling on edge, irritated and quick to be frustrated or annoyed. Instead you may feel calm and at peace, no matter what is going on around you

  • undergo a process of self inquiry and self discovery through reflection and journaling so you get to know what YOU want, what YOU like, and learn your habitual body-mind patterns which play out unconsciously in the way you respond to yourself and others

  • get to know yourself from the inside out so you can recognize the subtle messages your body is telling and be able to respond from that place eg say no, set boundaries, notice perfectionism/anxiety/stress when it is setting in and respond sooner rather than later

  • slow down and find more s p a c e in your life so life feels less stressful and overwhelming even when you are busy and being challenged

  • improve your sleep so you have more energy during the day to do the things you really care about and that support you

  • reduce anxiety and stress which in turn reduces inflammation and the impact of many auto-immune diseases and other diseases of disembodiment

  • explore your purpose and meaning, your identity, which means you can live the life you want to live with increased happiness and satisfaction

  • increase your coping skills and ability to meet challenging situations by responding rather than reacting

  • learn in a safe, supported, connected online environment which enhances learning and the ability to feel the impact of the practices

  • learn in a trauma informed space where everything is a choice and based on what you feel which can lead to feelings of empowerment in other spaces and places

  • explore your own embodiment as as talking therapist prior to working with clients more holistically so you can “walk the talk” with your clients

Term by term courses

  • Yoga for Body-Mind Resilience

    Term 1 Gentle slow mindful movement - moving slowly with the breath and pausing to notice sensations in the body to increase awareness and increase body-mind resilience

    Tuesdays 7.30-8.30pm

    14 February - 11 April 2023

  • Somatics (Hanna style)

    Term 2 Somatic movement education to link brain and body to support recognition of habitual ways we hold tension in the body. Learn your habits and where you hold your tension.

    Great if you have aches and niggles in your body.

    Tuesdays 7.30-8.30pm

    May 3 - 20 June 2023

  • Deep Rest

    Term 3 Learning the art of resting…..returning home to stillness, using props to support the body so there is simply nothing to do but be…..and with the addition of yoga nidra. Bliss. . Deliciously relaxing.

    Tuesdays 7.30-8.30pm

    26 July - 13 September 2022

  • Pranayama or Breathwork for Health and Healing

    Term 4 Returning to slow gentle movement and adding pranayama or breath practices. Finding stillness in movement and breath

    Tuesdays 7.30-8.30pm

    25 October - 13 December 2022

Pathway to an Embodied Self Annual membership - I am committed to me!

For you if you want to make a real commitment to YOU with four x specially curated 8 week courses held over the year. All courses have a different focus but the same overall goal - a new embodied you.

Imagine what gains you can make after a commitment for a year!

This journey includes:

  • Access to all four 8 week courses

    • Term 3 Deep Rest 26 July - 13 September

    • Term 4 Pranayama/Breath practices for Health and Healing 25 October - 13 December

    • Term 1 2023 Yoga for Body Mind Resiliency 14 Feb - 11 April 2023 (no class 7 March)

    • Term 2 2023 Hanna Somatics - 3 May - 20 June 2023

  • Tuesday night live stream class (7.30-8.30pm)

  • 90 minute introductory session for each course

  • journaling questions for reflection at the beginning and end of your embodiment journey

  • a new monthly mind-body practice with journaling questions for reflection

  • a new monthly yoga nidra practice

  • membership to an online community of support with others on the journey

  • access to the on demand library so you can repeat classes or do them in your own time

There are only two annual intakes - February (closed) and July 2022 in preparation for a July start.

On demand library membership - I am curious about me….

For you if you know you aren’t interested in attending live classes but curious to do the practices.

You know you aren’t interested in being part of an embodied online community. You are happy to explore on your own.

This membership includes access to:

  • the full library of recorded classes

  • all mind-body practices and reflection questions

$30 per month

Pranayama: Breathwork for Health & Healing - a hybrid 8 week course

This livestream online 8 week course is a blend of restorative yoga, yin yoga and yoga nidra. All deeply healing resting practices.

Great for those who are busy, stressed, tired or just looking for more space in your life.

Classes are recorded if you can’t make them live

Tuesdays 7.30-8.30pm (week one is 90 minutes long)

July 26th - 13 September

$200

Why join me?

I have 30 years experience working as a psychologist and an understanding of how to work alongside people so they feel empowered, nurtured and supported

I have had my own embodiment journey and have lived a busy, stressful life so I get what its like to be busy and feel overwhelmed. I also know what it’s like to change that and find more peace and stillness (and still get loads done!)

I offer a safe and trauma informed space for you to start or continue your journey of embodied self awareness

I recognise your starting place as being whole and perfect and complete and that there is nothing to change or fix about yourself - and I’d love you to be able to recognise that too

I offer embodiment practices that are different from many other online yoga or movement offerings as these come from my work as a somatic therapist with 30 years of experience behind me. I know what works and does not work and what is safe to offer and what is not safe to offer. I know that what I offer works.

Meet me….

I am a Registered Psychologist, yoga teacher and iRest yoga nidra meditation certified teacher. I love providing a safe container in classes for you to practice and be in your own body. I teach the slow, healing practices I need to bring me back to my body and out of my head. I always teach using a trauma informed approach as I feel everyone has the right to move their body how they choose - at all times.

I am passionate about teaching slow gentle moving yoga and moving with the breath and using repetition so we calm our nervous systems. I love the nurturing kind practices such as Restorative yoga, yin yoga and yoga nidra which recognise that we are perfect and whole and complete as we start.

And my specialty is offering those body-mind practices that create self awareness of how we relate to ourselves and the world around us. It always feels such an honour to share my knowledge and experience to support others.

I used to only work one to one with people. I always felt there was more. Teaching group based yoga and body-mind practices feels more powerful and effective as so many more people can benefit in one hour. That is why I created this online space.

I love to teach, train and educate others and am involved in Yoga Teacher Trainings and iRest trainings in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Australia.

"The only journey is the one within.”

Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a young poet

What people say about me and my offerings:

You have a wonderful demeanour that allows your own light to inspire your students to what you’ve got and therefore to what you do.

Sandra is very ‘real’ and puts everyone at ease. She is also a life-long learner and constantly updating and improving her knowledge and practise.

“Sandra’s classes are amazing. I feel well rested and so much calmer afterward. A two hour class is better for me than a whole week’s holiday.

“Sandra has a beautiful voice that guides you through gentle movement, breathing and meditation leaving you feeling completely relaxed and energised at the same time.  Her warm and welcoming presence will make you feel at ease the moment you walk in the door”

 

"Sandra leads a wonderfully relaxing Restorative yoga and iRest class. Both Sandra’s professional career and considerable experience teaching yoga ensure that her classes flow very smoothly and flawlessly. Her gentle, kind manner and soothing voice are perfectly suited to this style of yoga. Her classes at well-respected studios in Auckland always sell out. I cannot recommend Sandra’s classes highly enough, she “walks the talk” and is truly authentic in the work that she does."

There really does seem to be something about this yoga nidra / irest thing that makes a significant difference in how I feel, not just in class but also seeping into my experience of everyday life too. I'm not sure I could put my finger on exactly what is changing, but something is / has. 

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