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10/09/2025

I know silence can feel intimidating.
Many people worry about what will happen when they stop and face their own mind. The hesitancy, habitual distractions and resistance. I’ve felt that too. The truth is, silence isn’t something we have to create — it’s always here, underneath the noise.

On retreat, I don’t ask you to force anything or get rid of your thoughts. I hold a space where you can meet yourself gently, at your own pace. With support, silence shifts from something to fear or avoid into something that feels safe. In that safety we open to the heart of who we really are.

Spaces filling for my next silent retreat October 23rd.

Bookings via link above

25/08/2025

I’ve been noticing how much I want to measure where I’m at—whether in therapy, meditation, or just in life. There’s this quiet pressure to feel like I’m moving forward, getting better, ticking off some invisible boxes of progress. Sometimes even external voices deciding what is healing and what isn’t. The era of insta-therapy.

But the more I sit with people in therapy, and in my own practice, the more I see how unhelpful that measuring stick can be. To me it can be an addiction to a state or an idea. We don’t move in straight lines. We circle back, we pause, we resist, we soften. What looks like “nothing happening” is often the nervous system quietly digesting and reshaping itself.

In silence, this becomes even clearer. On retreat, the striving falls away and I see how much of what I call “progress” is an internalised expectation. When the illusion of progress dissolves, what’s left is much simpler: being here. Nothing to get to, nothing to prove.

This is why I hold silent retreats. They’re not about self-improvement—they’re about remembering the ground that’s already here beneath all the striving. The heart of what is here.
My next silent retreat is on October 23rd. You’re welcome to join me. Booking in link above X

13/08/2025

Silence has been a steady companion in my life.
It’s met me in the moments I wanted to run, and stayed with me long enough to show me what was underneath. It’s where I’ve found clarity when my mind is so noisy, and a deep sense of okayness when nothing outside had changed.

In silence, I meet myself more honestly. I hear the truths that get lost in the rush. I remember what matters.

This is why I teach retreats in silence—because I’ve seen how quickly the layers start to fall away when we’re not filling the space with words. Something opens, softens, and deepens.

Please reach if there is a call for silence…
Deposit only required
Payments plans available
Booking link in bio

08/07/2025

I’ve been noticing how many of us are trying so hard to feel better. To do it right. To heal perfectly. The right decision. The right answer. But the nervous system doesn’t respond to pressure. It softens to presence. To truth. To being met without expectation.

Healing isn’t something we can push. It’s not a performance. It’s a relationship — cyclical, slow, and deeply human.

Some of the most profound shifts I witness aren’t loud or dramatic. They’re quiet. Subtle. Someone noticing they didn’t abandon themselves this time. A breath that finally finds its way home. A softening where there was once so much holding.

If you’re tired of trying so hard… if you long for a space where nothing about you needs to be fixed — I’d love to walk alongside you.

You’re welcome here, exactly as you are.

24/06/2025

I’m so happy to be offering this again!
A spacious 4-day, 3-night retreat held in the season of spring

Silence is such a powerful, truthful and deep teacher, that we can return to over and over again, or meet for the first time.

Only a deposit required to secure your place. Payments plans also available
Bookings are open via www.tamaracoughlan.com

05/01/2025

The Echoes of Silence

It’s been a week since we stepped into silence together—a circle of 13 courageous souls, held by meditation in the Heart, deep rest of the body and the nurturing meals lovingly prepared by Matt (we make a great team). The experience was both vast and intimate, a shared journey into stillness that revealed so much more than words ever could.

Now, the sacred tremor of the heart—spanda—moves into integration, rippling through the ordinary moments of life. For me, this week has been a mix of navigating the beautiful chaos of solo parenting, heightened sensitivity, and the humble polarity of holding space as a teacher while remaining deeply rooted in my own humanity.

The transition from the profound spaciousness of retreat to the realities of daily life has been raw, tender, and eye-opening. Like fresh eyes.There have been moments of challenge—explaining the retreat to my 4-year-old with her endless curiosity and wide open reunion and reconnection after 4 days apart, holding patience while the waves of sensitivity moved through me, and finding time for my own grounding amidst the needs of others. And yet, in every pause, I return to the heart, meeting the moment with as much love as I can muster.

This week, I’m back supporting clients, holding their stories with the same open-heartedness that shaped our retreat. I am reminded of how deeply humbling it is to love—to hold space for healing, to meet suffering with compassion, and to keep choosing tenderness, even when life feels anything but soft.

Retreats teach me again and again how silence can dissolve barriers, how it invites us to meet ourselves and each other in ways we didn’t know were possible. But they also remind me that silence isn’t about perfection—it’s about presence. About showing up for life, with all its messiness and miracles, over and over again.

To those who joined me in retreat, I carry the memory of your courage, your vulnerability, and your willingness to meet the sacred tremor of your hearts. And to all of us navigating this tender, human experience—may we stay open, be gentle, and always, always return to love.

With gratitude
Tam x

29/12/2024

On the eve of the NYE Silent Retreat…
Feeling the inspiration, anticipation and very aliveness of the heart.
My 4 year old helping me pack and asking a thousand questions about why do you go to a silent retreat and when can I she attend?!
Ready to come home… to what’s already here…
May 2025 be a homecoming for you too x

19/11/2024

From where I sit and what I see-

I witness the rawness of being human.

Words tumble out, sharp or tender, or sit heavy in the silences. Emotions rise and fall—grief, rage, longing, hope—each with their own rhythm, their own story.

Beliefs and symbols thread through it all, handed down or fiercely held: a mother’s voice, an inner critic, the ache of a forgotten inner child, the frozen pain, I don’t rush to untangle them.
I sit, steady and present, bearing witness for what unfolds.

Here, in the quiet, something shifts—a softening, a spark, a truth longed to be expressed but alive.

And I witness it all, the courage, the mess, the beauty.

27/10/2024

My curious challenge to Market a Silent Retreat

Marketing a silent retreat can feel contradictory for me, especially for something like my upcoming 4-day New Year’s retreat.
Silence isn’t about promises or flashy results; it doesn’t aim to be loud or shiny. Instead, silence is a space—a gentle invitation to step back from the habit of distraction or the next thing, away from the year’s accumulation, and meet what’s real within us.

In a world that constantly pushes for more, silence asks us to embrace less. The idea of a silent retreat, especially as we turn toward a new year, may not seem like the obvious choice. But that’s exactly what makes it so powerful. This retreat doesn’t come with quick fixes or guarantees. It’s simply a space to be, to listen, and to allow whatever is waiting to unfold in its own way.

I see this all the time in the spiritual and wellness world. What is trendy and what is the most “transformative”.
I feel conflicted at times and yet, my personal experience and years of facilitating silent retreats continuously shows me that its a quiet call to those who feel the pull of simplicity, of depth, and of rest. Silence trusts that those who need it will find their way—not through promises or guarantees, but through the inner call to begin the year with truth and presence.

Spaces are beginning to fill.
More details about this years New Years Retreat can be found in link.
Only deposit required at the moment

With gratitude
Tamara

10/10/2024

A Thursday evening poem 🧡
Giving words to longing…

02/10/2024

Boundaries, aren’t just words we speak—they are a deep, felt sense within us, a knowing the body carries long before our mind can make sense of it. How do we listen to this quiet wisdom?
Sometimes we say “yes” when we mean “no,” or we try to hold more than we are able. But the body knows, always. It speaks through the softening of our breath, the tension in our chest, the flutter in our belly, letting us know when something feels aligned—or when it doesn’t.

The fawn response is one of the most tender ways this disconnect shows up. It’s not just a habit of being overly nice or accommodating—it’s a survival strategy, woven deeply into our nervous system. When we fall into pleasing, it’s often because, somewhere in us, we believe it’s what keeps us safe, what keeps love intact. I see this in myself, in clients—the times we lose touch with our own needs to meet the needs of others. The body tightens, the heart pulls inward, and we feel smaller, further from ourselves. But this too is a form of protection, a learned response to social stress and old wounds.

What I’m finding, both in my practice and in my own journey, is that we need to meet this fawning with honest and courageous compassion. It’s a beautiful, necessary part of our survival, yet it doesn’t need to lead. When we begin to notice these subtle cues from the body—when we feel ourselves shrinking or stretching too thin—we can pause. We can breathe. And in that moment, we create space to come back to ourselves, to remember that we don’t have to sacrifice our truth for connection.

Boundaries, I’ve learned, aren’t about building walls. They’re about honouring what is alive in us right now. They breathe and shift, always in dialogue with our inner world. The fawn response, when held with tenderness, becomes less a barrier and more an invitation—a path that, if we follow it carefully, can lead us back to the heart of what we truly need.

22/09/2024

Join me next Saturday 28th September, for a beautiful opportunity to retreat, to stop, breathe, and listen deeply. In the quiet, we can reconnect with ourselves and open to the stillness that nurtures our hearts.

As we come together in silence, silence offers space for the healing that arises. The retreat will include meditation that we build upon, nourishing lunch, hatha yoga and yoga nidra and a safe, supportive space and environment for inward reflection.

Come as you are,
Let the silence do the rest

One Day Silent Retreat
Saturday 28th September
9:30am-4pm
Held at .cosmos.co

Just a few spaces available

Book via link above

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Carrington, NSW

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9am - 5pm

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http://www.tamaracoughlan.com/

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Who Am I?

My passion is to empower people to access their own truth, resilience and independence using Yoga, Meditation & Psychotherapy.

My service is to work alongside you, to create a safe, non-judgmental space to help facilitate, unfold and navigate our conscious and unconscious behaviours and patterns.

I am here to be present with you, and to recognise that healing and transformation is not measured by external ideas of "fixing". Therapy is a progressive process. It's individual and meaningful.

Your outcomes are supported by our willingness to stay, to deepen with compassion and to integrate our mind, emotions and body into a sense of wholeness, and a deeper relationship with yourself.