Therapeutic Services

Personalised Hatha Yoga Therapy

A therapeutic, integrative health based 90 minute session (or packages of 5 sessions at a reduced cost) is tailored to meet your specific wellbeing needs. Using traditional Asanas (postures), Pranayama (breathing practises), bandhas (breath modification and retention) and a combination of other complementary practices to work towards your self-empowerment and transformative healing journey with the support and individualised specific guidance of your experienced Hatha Practitioner, Josie.

Ideal for restoring PRANA (our vital life force), addressing physical injuries, chronic pain and inflammatory conditions, and many physiological health ailments; rheumatoid, chronic fatigue, migraines, IBS, as well as mental health conditions such as anxiety, low mood, fear and depression.

These sessions are specifically personalised to you only! This is why it is called Yoga Therapy, so as you are not in a class situation wherein the subtle underlying health conditions may not be made aware of to the practitioner, and hence, risking injury, further aggravation and inflammation etc.

Prices

1x90 minute session $80

Package of 5 = $300

Ayurvedic Health Consultations

Ayurveda is the sister science of traditional Hatha Yoga. An ancient Hindu holistic health science based around the notion of ‘Food as Medicine’ and ‘self-healing’. An Ayurvedic consult consists of diagnosing firstly the current Dosha (your unique constitution), and its’ current state of health. We then ascertain the possible causes of imbalances, through understanding lifestyle stressors, i.e environment, diet, substances, mental health, trauma, stress etc.

The fundamental aim of the consult is to create a wellbeing plan for the client to address these imbalances. This will consist of a thorough questionnaire around wellbeing : diet, lifestyle etc, and from there I will provide suggestions towards lifestyle practises such as specific asanas (yoga) daily routines to explore,; breathing practices (pranayama) dietary modifications and trataka (candle gazing).

You will receive a tool box of suggestions to take away and implement, should you wish.

We then have a follow up session wherein we ascertain any changes, improvements, possible aggravants.

I work from a client centred approach, therefore, am open to any feedback, positive or negative, so as we can work together towards the goal of achieving improved health on all levels; physical , emotional/mental and spiritual.

It is fundamental to note that in all of these therapeutic contexts, I adhere to strict client confidentiality and respect, as a duty of care.

Prices

1x 90 minute session = $80

Follow up session(s) = $50

Wellbeing Counselling

• Mental health issues (anxiety, depression, low mood, fear, OCD)

• Addiction/Substance abuse

• Grief/loss

• Chronic Pain

• Relationships

• Trauma / PTSD/ CPTSD

Safe, confidential, client-centred, empathetic, non- judgemental.

I work with clients using a variety of strategies and approaches to address traumas, understand triggers and root causes. Our sessions are lead by you. My goal is to listen effectively so as to understand and offer supportive advice.

Together we will navigate gentle strategies to implement progressive changes in perspective and behaviour by working THROUGH the layers of trauma, to unravel the complexities behind certain behavioural manifestations.

This process is by far not easy. It requires courage and perserverance, and above all, the will to wish to change.

With lived personal experience of PTSD, mental health and substance abuse issues, I feel I can genuinely empathise with clients allowing them to feel safe. In sharing some of my experiences clients feel less alone and begin to shed layers that no longer serve them in their journey towards wellness. And that is what I truly wish for you!

Prices

1x 60 minute session = $80

1x 90 minute session = $100

Follow up session(s) = $60

Client Review Ayurvedic consult

I had an amazing treatment with Josie that incorporated Ayurvedic advice around nutrition and healthy recipes to improve my digestive system.

I had tried so many modalities over the years and nothing worked. Josie pin pointed the root cause of my symptoms and gave me amazing healthy remedies I could make myself. I have never felt better.

Josie is such a compassionate beautiful soul who pours her heart and soul into her treatments and is extremely knowledgeable on nutrition and Ayurveda, Highly recommended.

Love, Rosie.

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Client Review Ayurvedic Consult

I was a woman who received a massage gifted to me by my husband for mother’s day. The session was an Ayurvedic Health consult plus a massage.

You helped guide me with some other incredible offerings. I can’t tell you how resonating and powerful your session was… and so intuitive and on point with several areas of my life and health..

I’m LOVING the porridge and finally found a store that carries the Moong Dahl, so thank you deeply.

Also, you lent me your books and i’ve been picking through them and would like to order some for myself.

Thank you for your loving generosity with everything you have done for me.

The blissful curiosity of youth

Kids move my soul, and remind me what it is to be Alive!

Their openness and genuine curiosity about the world around them. Their honest presence and how oblivious they are of others.

Children embody everything that constitutes really being in the moment, and feeling, shamelessly! I often wish we as ‘adults’ could have remained in this space, alas we become more and more conditioned, more cautious, even fearful, more selective, less willing, less open.

There’s a famous french novel written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery called, ‘Le Petit Prince’ (the little prince), my absolute favourite book ever.!

Told through the innocent voice of a child, as he navigates his way through foreign terrains he is dumbfounded by the ridiculous behaviours of adults, who just can’t see what he sees, too buried in their purposeless activities; having money & status, being important, being self-absorbed by vanity, and, being stupid, i.e doing things that do not serve us!

To summarize, there is a line in the book that loses it’s profundity when translated into English, but it is thus;

‘It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye’.

And therin lies the simple truth, through the heart we feel, we emote, we engage in life.

Trauma causes us to close off, and shut down. Out of protection, we do not want to feel, or let others in, leading to loneliness, insecurity, deep sadness and a heaviness that hovers over our whole being, meaning we are no longer really living.

This is why the comprehensive programme I offer is called ‘Anahata’ (heart) as it encompasses all of the philosophies and Patanjali’s 8 limbs of Yoga, which I really believe, when adhered to, give us a guide to living;

• Yama (moral restraints)

• Niyama (observances)

• Asanas (postures)

• Pranayama (breath control)

• Dharana (concentration)

• Dhyana (meditation)

• Samadhi (bliss state/enlightenment)

Living life by these practises, is integral to how we manage our health, physically, emotionally and spiritually.

I’m very excited to share this programme with you!

Ayurveda

The Science of Self-Healing