Kendra Healing Arts

06/05/2026

IF ONLY ŚAVĀSANA WAS EASIER
WHAT YOU MIGHT BE MISSING...

Sometimes the hardest part of yoga isn’t the movement… it’s the stillness at the end.

Do you ever notice Savasana feels activating, uncomfortable, or even threatening for your nervous system?

For many people, stillness isn’t automatically restful. Quiet can feel unfamiliar when your body has spent a long time staying alert, braced, or protective.

This is why I love the often-missed bridge before deep rest: tremoring or T R E™

The body’s natural way of shaking, releasing, digesting, and completing stress responses — just like mammals do in the wild.

In our Wednesday evening Shake and Savasana practice, we meet your nervous system exactly where it is through

trauma-sensitive movement,
gentle tremoring,
breath,
and choice-led exploration…

allowing your body to gradually arrive in its own rhythm of settling, integration, connection, and repair.

No forcing ir performing calm.
Just creating enough safety for the body to remember how to soften — in its own time.

If you’re curious about learning therapeutic tremoring/TRE®, working privately with me, or joining our-

Wednesday 5:30pm community

We gather weekly online or in person to tremor together as mammals — digesting a world that moves very fast, one nervous system at a time.

03/05/2026

Tip: Add yoga to your walking routine for improved heart health 🩷

📖 Impact of Brisk Walking Alone Versus Combined with Yoga on Cardiovascular Risk Indices in Postmenopausal Women: Quasirandomized Controlled Trial

A recent quasirandomized controlled trial found that combining brisk walking with yoga led to greater improvements in key cardiovascular risk markers among postmenopausal women compared with brisk walking alone. A total of 139 women participated in the combined group. Favorable changes were seen in:

✅ Body mass index and waist/hip circumference
✅ Blood pressure
✅ Cholesterol

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19/04/2026

DOES YOUR BODY HOLD THE WISDOM OR THE SCORE?

Dr Bessel van der Kolk - one of the leading trauma and embodiment researchers and author of the well read The Body Keeps The Score was recently in Sydney, so I felt the need to express some gratitude to him, for the enormous amount of research he has accomplished for body first trauma healing.

He says - 'trauma distorts your relationship to your body and yoga helps awaken recovery'.

'Yet yoga can be quite scary and agitating for many' Bessell says.

Trauma Sensitive Yoga Therapy makes yoga more accessible and therapeutic by teaching you to choose the DOSE of FEELING that is useful for you

So you can reconnect to YOUR BODY at your pace.

This in turn supports any processing you may be doing with your psychiatrist or psychologist.

He acknowledged how CBT is an ineffective treatment for PTSD and recent research on M**A assisted therapy is advancing in Australia faster and effectively than in other countries 👏👏

My past studies at the Centre for Trauma and Embodiment opened my world to an even deeper and wider understanding of healing, empowerment and systemic patterns of oppression.

Trauma affects us all.

Come and try a Yoga Therapy class with us, or privately.

I'm a certified TCTSY facilitator trained to work with complex trauma and PTSD. 




Start with a free 15 minute Discover Call with me.
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07/04/2026

WATCH OUT FOR THE 3 SIGNS

Sometimes the signs are quiet…

a yawn you didn’t expect,
a soft swallow,
a sigh that seems to arrive on its own,
or that gentle digestive gurgle returning.

These are often your body’s way of down-regulating — shifting toward safety, toward rest and digest, toward a place where healing can begin to unfold in its own time.

And sometimes, when the nervous system has been holding for a long while, it doesn’t happen alone. It happens in the presence of another regulated, trusted body — a moment of co-regulation where your system remembers the way back.

This is the space where bodywork, yoga therapy, and somatic practices can quietly support that return.

Book a private bodywork session to experience your gurgles 😃

07/04/2026

TCTSY 8 week course enrolling now

Wed 12.30
April 22 - June 10

BRINGING YOUR BODY INTO HEALING

Bring your body into treatment for complex trauma and PTSD.

Practice making embodied choices.

Practice finding sensations and befriending your body.

Create rhythms that YOU choose.

Be with others moving in their bodies all moving in their own ways.

Learn to be present to feelings and sensations that might feel useful to you.

There are NO assists, no music, no sanskrit, no perfect postures, no competition, no disempowerment. Simply the invitation to be present to your body, breath and mind.

Yoga Therapist lead.

TCTSY community support and discussion after the practice.

Access to TCTSY library of online recorded classes.

In Kingston or online.

Sliding scale payment system so no one is turned away.

Unsure? Book a free 15 minute Discovery Call with Kendra.

Link in bio.

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07/04/2026

TRE COURSES ENROLLING NOW

✨️ Wed 9.45am
Intro to TRE

✨️ Fri 5.30pm
Intro to TRE for health professionals

TRE stands for tension and trauma release exercises.

Have you ever noticed yourself shaking when you're anxious, or involuntarily twitching after yoga or a massage session or tapping your fingers?

Or perhaps your body feels stuck, stiff, in pain or shutdown?

This is your body holding onto and wanting to release unconscious built up stress, tension and trauma from your nervous system.

TRE is a trauma informed model that supports our natural (yet most of us suppress it or are completely unaware of it) re organisational or 'recovery reflex' innate to all humans.

Many cultures around the world have been using neurogenic movement for thousands of years and we all have spent time tremoring in utero for 9 months as part of an initial embodiment process.

Once you learn how to invoke this natural shake, it allows your body and mind to move beyond the state of bracing and stress (most of its unconscious btw) to new levels of healing and rest.

During TRE sessions, I teach you to deliberately invoke a natural reflex as an empowering self care practice, to assist you to access YOUR OWN internal resources.

My aim is for you to learn to do TRE independantly and befriend your bodys wisdom and healing capabilities.

As you learn to trust your body's ways of releasing and activating stress, your patterns of behaviour and lifestyle may readjust along the way.

Clients are reporting -

'It's a game changer' 'wow my pain has gone' I'm sleeping better' 'it has saved my life'

I'm inviting you to recover this natural reflex with me.

Begin with -

🍃 3 private session SHAKE PACKAGE $370 or join my

Or join a group course.

06/04/2026

TRAUMA-SENSITIVE, BODY-FIRST YOGA THERAPY - ENROL NOW!

This might be the yoga that fits — personalised, trauma-sensitive, and body-led.

Built to meet the upheaval of the world.

Designed to nurture your nervous system.

Informed by Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY), iRest Yoga Nidra, and TRE® (Tension & Trauma Release Exercises) — trauma-aware, somatic practices supporting deep healing and embodiment through the body.

Led by a senior teacher and International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT)-certified yoga therapist, with care shaped by decades of embodied practice and trauma-aware training.

Not sure which class?

Fri 5.30pm - Health professionals only upskilling embodiment.

Wed 5.30pm - for those already tremoring and love non coercive yoga

Wed 10.45am - Intro to TRE for sleep, anxiety and trauma

Wed 12.30 TCTSY - clinical intervention for complex trauma and PTSD

Fri 9.30am - community yoga therapy practice fir everyone

Casuals welcome in some classes.

Enrolments are open now.


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26/03/2026

Choice-making can feel unfamiliar at first.

In trauma-sensitive yoga, you might notice a part of you that just wants to be told what to do.

That makes sense.

Following instructions can feel safer.
Clear.
Predictable.

And sometimes, that is where we begin.

But over time, something else is quietly being invited…

A noticing.
A pause.
A moment where you might sense — do I want to stay, shift, or step back?

This is the practice of choice-making.

Not getting it right.
Not forcing a decision.

Just gently exploring what it’s like to have options.

In approaches like Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY), choice isn’t added on —it’s central.

Because trauma can interrupt our sense of agency, and healing often includes the slow return of it.

So if you find yourself unsure, or even saying “I don’t know”…
that’s not a problem.

That might be the beginning of something.

Ready to explore this in a supported space?

You’re invited to join my
8-week Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) course

✨ Online or in-person (Kingston)
🗓 Wednesdays at 12:30

Sliding scale payment system.

This is structured space where you can begin to explore
choice-making, body awareness, and your own rhythm — without pressure, and in your own time.

No experience needed.

Just a willingness to be curious.

If it feels like the right moment, I’d love to have you there.

16/03/2026

SPACE TO WHISPER YES OR NO

Have you ever been told to “connect to your body”…
but no one showed you how?

For many people healing from stress or trauma, the body doesn’t immediately feel like a safe place to land.

In trauma-sensitive yoga, the space respects your body’s need to feel, pause, and express what it needs.

Embodiment takes time.
And practice.

I often hear participants describe it as “befriending my body.”

Your body might whisper yes or no to a posture.

Yes or no to being with the breath.

And sometimes… not knowing.

That’s welcome too.

It can be a doorway to curiosity —
a brain-changing experience.

So we create more space to hear the whispers.

Because in Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) we value:

✨ Choice within a steady structure grounding in interoception as sensations and feelings arise.

✨ Inner listening through invitational language
my guiding voice supports you to also hear your own.

✨ Power with, not power over
non-coercion every step of the way.

And slowly, self-compassion begins to step in…
whispering yes or no.

If you’re curious about body-based healing, there are different ways to explore:

• Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY)
• TRE® – Tension & Trauma Release Exercises
• One-to-one sessions or small groups

Each offering creates space for your nervous system to find its own rhythm again.

Courses and sessions enrolling now.

Link in bio 👆💛

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12/03/2026

PRATYAHARA - OUR INTERNAL SPACE

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose.” — Viktor Frankl

For many people living with complex trauma, that space can feel very small.

The nervous system may have learned to respond quickly in order to survive — mobilising, bracing, freezing, or shutting down.

In trauma-sensitive yoga, I offer invitations rather than instructions.

Participants explore movement, rest, and moments of possible stillness in their own rhythm.

From there, awareness often begins to turn inward — what yoga philosophy calls Pratyahara.

Exploring body shapes, and iRest Yoga Nidra can support this inward listening.

If this work resonates, you are welcome to join us on Fridays at 9.30am.

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