Approaches
​​​Embodied Processing
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Embodied Processing (EP) is a somatic and psycho-spiritual modality grounded in both the ancient healing traditions and modern neuroscience. It was co-created by Australian practitioners Matt Kay and Ryan Hassan in response to their own experiences healing from trauma.
This approach focuses on safely meeting and digesting somatic wounds or body-centred restrictions driving surface symptoms using the body's innate intelligence to discharge stress, heal and return to equilibrium. It centres around resourcing or building a felt-sense of safety as well as self regulating practices and offers techniques to help process emotions, stuck energies and survival stress, integrate 'orphaned' parts and find completion around past experiences.​​
EP session work is anchored by presence, deep listening and supportive facilitation, offering an invitation to shift from an attitude of “fixing" to one of self-discovery so that transformation can happen naturally.
Constellations Work
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Constellations is a holistic approach to healing and transformation which traverses philosophy, art, psychology and biology and was founded by Bert Hellinger, a German therapist, author, wisdom teacher and mystic.
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Constellations offer dynamic representational work with energy fields. ​​​​​Systemic & Family Constellations help to uncover, shift and heal ancestral generational patterns and unprocessed experiences in the family field that lie behind an issue or topic. Structural Constellations overlap with systemic and relational work, supporting exploration of individual themes, integration of internal parts and cultivation of embodied wholeness.​
One-on-one and group processes utilize key representatives or elements - the issue holder or seeker, persons involved and / or other related aspects - to set up, explore and transform the inner image of an issue or topic. Supportive facilitation helps the participant/s to 'represent' or intuitively feel into and express for these elements, sometimes initially unnamed so that the field can speak freely and get to the heart of the matter.
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Depending on the session, simple Constellating exercises as well as brief or full processes can involve table top or floor work with papers, felts or other objects, working in the 'mind's eye', use of an online 'app' with moveable shapes or people in a group workshop space.​​
Slow Mindful Yoga
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Integrated practices informed by both Svastha Yoga and Subtle Yoga.
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Svastha Yoga is an authentic and personalised approach emphasising breathing and its effect on the mind, the relationship between breathing and conscious movement as well as balanced and integrated sequencing of breathing, movement and meditation. ​Svastha Yoga and Ayurveda was founded by Sri A G Mohan and Indra Mohan of the Krishnamacharya tradition and is highly regarded in the therapeutic application of Yoga.
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Subtle Yoga is a trauma-attuned approach which uses Yoga to strengthen the nervous system, optimize brain health, build greater resilience, support health and promote functional, low-risk practices. ​ Founder Kristine Kaoverii Weber is a leading authority on the intersection of Yoga and Neuroscience, bringing together ancient practices with the latest knowledge to support the 'slow yoga revolution'.
Art image: ‘Lotus Blossom’ by Martin Johnson Heade (PD Wikimedia Commons)