OMA Wellness - Giselle Martins

OMA Wellness - Giselle Martins ☆ Holistic Psychology ☆ Somatic Healing
☆ 900h+ Wudang Taiji & Qigong
1-1 Sessions • Workshops • Retreats
📍Online & Northern Rivers, AUS in Psychology.

OMA Wellness was founded 10 years ago by Giselle Martins, an internationally qualified therapist who takes a holistic approach to mental health and wellbeing, integrating contemporary and evidence-based therapeutic methods with traditional practices. Giselle Martins is a qualified therapist with a Dip. in Counselling and B.Soc.Sc. She has undergone postgraduate training across New Zealand, Brasil, and at UC Berkeley, USA, where she was also directly taught by Peter Levine, the founder of Somatic Experiencing. Additionally, drawing from over 15 years of dedicated meditation practice, and as a certified Taiji and Qigong instructor trained at the Wudang Mountains in China, she integrates mindfulness into her therapeutic approach. Giselle brings a rich and diverse background to her practice, having worked with Indigenous communities, served as a university course tutor, and supported survivors of severe interpersonal violence and abuse. She has supported hundreds of clients globally through individual therapy, group workshops and retreats. Her purpose is to provide guidance on the journey toward inner peace and resilience.

Before I can hold space for others, I must continually return to my own mind.I’m beginning a 4-week meditation retreat w...
26/02/2026

Before I can hold space for others, I must continually return to my own mind.

I’m beginning a 4-week meditation retreat with my root teacher, Lama Yongdu Chokyi Gyaltsen, rooted in the Kagyu Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism.

As a therapist, I work with narratives, attachment patterns, trauma responses.
As a practitioner, I investigate the one who experiences them.

When we understand why we think, react and defend the way we do, change becomes possible.

When we recognise the nature of awareness itself, something even deeper unfolds — a freedom not dependent on circumstances.

Grateful for the Dharma path, for my sangha, and for the rare privilege of studying closely with my teacher. Ongoing inner work is not separate from my profession — it is the foundation of it.

See you in the other side. 💚

The last year has been a chapter of deep listening, meaningful partnerships, and walking alongside communities who deser...
03/02/2026

The last year has been a chapter of deep listening, meaningful partnerships, and walking alongside communities who deserve to be heard.

I had the privilege of coordinating Safe to Speak project in the Northern Rivers, in partnership with and the Department of Communities and Justice — a project shaped by the voices of CALD (Culturally and Linguistically Diverse) communities to strengthen responses to domestic, family and sexual violence within migrant and refugee spaces.

Along the way, I was honoured to join the Family Law Pathway Network Conference as a panelist, representing migrants with my personal and also professional lens as a Domestic, Family & Sexual Violence Specialist, alongside inspiring leaders including NSW Women’s Safety Commissioner Dr Hannah Tonkin.

Outside the conference rooms and meeting spaces, my work stayed rooted in community — from organising playgroups for migrant and refugee families, to celebrating Harmony Day, to taking part in national conversations at the Settlement Conference with diverse voices, including representatives from the UN Refugee Agency.

Grateful to Women Up North for the trust and the platform to amplify migrant voices. And especially to the Aboriginal team, for continually reminding me that real allyship starts with humility, deep listening, and the courage to challenge what isn’t working.

Closing this chapter with a full heart — and stepping into the next one, curious about how I can keep showing up for the benefit of all beings. 💚🙌🏼

01/02/2026

Nature is always calling us back to the present moment, listen to it. 💚

Learning to live with both gratitude for this precious life and grief for the suffering in our world is a deep practice....
04/01/2026

Learning to live with both gratitude for this precious life and grief for the suffering in our world is a deep practice. It asks for patience, tenderness, and the courage to let sorrow and joy coexist in the same heart.

Too much grief hardens us. Too much gratitude blinds us. But together, they open the heart, and compassion becomes possible.

Our heart is far more spacious than we may know. 💚

Each of us carries a story that goes beyond what the eyes can see. We are more than smiles in photos or moments shared o...
18/12/2025

Each of us carries a story that goes beyond what the eyes can see.
We are more than smiles in photos or moments shared on social media.
We are made of challenges overcome, invisible scars, and dreams that don't always fit into words.

Therefore, don't compare yourself.
Comparison distorts reality and steals your peace.

What makes someone special is not what is seen on the outside,
but the essence that overflows from within.
True beauty lies in authenticity,
in the courage to be who you are,
without needing to fit into standards
that don't reflect your truth.

We twist, reshape, and rise again shedding skins that no longer fit, birthing new versions of ourselves with every seaso...
07/12/2025

We twist, reshape, and rise again
shedding skins that no longer fit,
birthing new versions of ourselves with every season of life.

Yet through all this shapeshifting,
our true essence remains untouched:
luminous, steady, and spacious,
like the sky behind every storm.

In all our forms,
the fierce,
the soft,
the wounded,
the reborn,
there is a steady pulse that remains the same.

This is our resilience: a quiet, unshakeable truth woven through every woman.
We are transformation itself…
and still, we remain whole. 💚

My heart goes out to all those suffering from conflict, oppression, war, genocide, injustice, and hatred To the people a...
30/09/2025

My heart goes out to all those suffering from conflict, oppression, war, genocide, injustice, and hatred

To the people across Africa, in Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Somalia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Cameroon, and Mozambique;

to the people of Gaza, Yemen, Syria, Tibet, Ukraine , Myanmar, Haiti, Afghanistan;

and in every land where people are suffering in silence. May humanity remember their true essence and find hope, healing, and peace. 🤍💚

39 and still swinging (literally 😄) through life with a curious heart, a big smile, and a playful soul.Time flies, and l...
02/08/2025

39 and still swinging (literally 😄) through life with a curious heart, a big smile, and a playful soul.

Time flies, and life is fragile, but that only makes me want to live it even more fully.

Laugh louder, love deeper, stay open, stay wild, and keep saying yes to wonder.

Age may climb, but my spirit stays light. 💫

I honour the ones who walked before me,The forest-dwellers of old Germania, who whispered with trees, sang with wolves, ...
14/07/2025

I honour the ones who walked before me,
The forest-dwellers of old Germania, who whispered with trees, sang with wolves, and lit fires in rhythm with the stars.

The songweavers and earth women of Slavic lands, who danced with the rivers, offered herbs to the moon, and spoke to their ancestors in dream and ritual.

The first people of Brasil, who moved with the jaguar and knew the language of water, fire, wind, and root.
The blend of spirits and saints, of drums and prayers, of candles and African rhythms, that shaped the soul of Brasil I come from.

I honour the ones who survived, the ones who remembered, and the ones whose stories were silenced.
Through my blood, your memory moves.
Through my voice, your song returns.
Through my breath, I root into the earth and rise to the stars.

May I walk with reverence.
May I carry you with care.
So be it. 🙏🏽

Stepping away from the scroll to return to the soul.Taking a sacred pause to quiet the noise and deepen my roots in the ...
23/06/2025

Stepping away from the scroll to return to the soul.

Taking a sacred pause to quiet the noise and deepen my roots in the stillness where spirit speaks.

If you need to reach me during this digital detox, I’m still reachable at omawellness.info@gmail.com

See you on the other side of presence. 💚

ResilienceBeneath the weight of broken skies,the river bends — but never dies.It finds new banks, it carves new stone,it...
26/04/2025

Resilience

Beneath the weight of broken skies,
the river bends — but never dies.
It finds new banks, it carves new stone,
it makes a wilderness its own.
So too the soul, through grief and flame,
rewrites the world, and claims its name.

Trauma survivors often develop over-attunement, where they become hyper-aware of others' needs at the cost of their own....
02/02/2025

Trauma survivors often develop over-attunement, where they become hyper-aware of others' needs at the cost of their own.

In this carousel, I explore how this coping mechanism forms and how it impacts healing. Understanding this dynamic is key to reclaiming balance and nurturing self-awareness.

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A bit of my journey

Ola, Kia Ora, Hi!

I am Giselle Martins, I have a degree in Psychology, Human Development and a certificate of Human Anatomy & Physiology. I am a holistic therapist, certified Qigong teacher, international mentor, speaker and retreat facilitator and my purpose is to bring awareness, supporting human beings to evolve into conscious beings through sharing the gifts I have received and remembered along my journey.

I grew up in an alternative family and started meditating by the influence of my parents when I was around 7 years old. I have always been aware of the subtle energies through the practice of channeling healing of Johrei on my family, friends and even in public places such as hospitals and on the streets in Brazil. Since early age I have studied and participated in psychic surgery groups from the Spiritism philosophy, crystal activation rituals, shamanic initiated and I am a certified Reiki practitioner.

I have received precious buddha-dharma teachings from the Vajrayana/Dzogchen (Ta**ra) tradition from Kagyu lineage and throughout the last eight years I have engaged in various meditative retreat work, including a 6 weeks silent retreat, with support and guidance from my beloved root teacher Lama Yongdu Chokyi Gyaltsen. In addition, since 2014 I have studied Taoist energy arts, including Qigong, Tai Chi and Tui Na, holding over 500hrs of Qigong training by different lineage holders of the Internal Martial Arts, including deep immersion up in the Wudang Mountains in China - the home of Tai Chi.