The Wellness Circle

08/09/2025

Still feeling the gentle hum of Saturday’s gong bath - the collective quiet, the shared breath, the sacred pause we created together on the lawn outside The Concourse.

A deep bow of gratitude to every soul who showed up. To those who arrived curious, who settled into the mats, and who allowed the sound to guide them home to themselves - thank you.

There’s a special kind of magic in gathering as strangers and leaving as a quiet community, hearts a little softer, nervous systems a little calmer.

It’s an honor to hold this space for you. May the resonance carry you gently into the week ahead.

- Sylvia

04/09/2025

This is your reminder about where to find the Gong Bath on Saturday morning, as part of Chatswood Street Fair's Wellness Hub! You can learn more about the event and Sylvia here -

Take a moment for yourself and explore the power of wellness and self-care.

03/09/2025

A gentle reminder for your weekend: stillness before celebration 🌿

Join me this Saturday at 10am for a free Mindfulness Gong Bath Meditation at the Chatswood Street Fair / Emerge Festival. We’ll meet on the lawn outside The Concourse - mats provided.

Let the sound wash over you. Let your breath settle. Let your nervous system remember its natural rhythm before you step into the day’s joy.

No experience needed - just you, exactly as you are.

See you there, beautiful souls.

29/08/2025

Attending the Chatswood Street Fair or Emerge Festival this Saturday, September 6th?

Before you dive into the festivities, come breathe and reset with me. I’ll be hosting a free Mindfulness Gong Bath Meditation at 10am on the lawn outside The Concourse.

Mats are included - just bring yourself and let the vibrations of the gong guide your nervous system back to calm, so you can fully embrace the joy and energy of the day. ✨

Perfect for beginner and experienced meditators; it's a chance for the perfect pause.

See you there - let’s begin the day deeply present.

24/08/2025

August 8th Lions Gate & Full Moon Group Sound Bath Sessions.

Lovingly created for nervous systems that need deep rest, nourishment and connection.

Lions Gate~ There's a gate in the sky beckoning you to open its door. For here you'll find a Lion resides. Waiting for you to listen...

“Decide for yourself who you are and what you will create in your life and on the Earth, and then focus on that. Do not be drawn by the energies of anything that is not in alignment with what you wish to create.”

22/08/2025

The Virgo New Moon arrives - not with a shout, but with a whisper. A call to come home to the sacred alignment of your mind, body, and spirit.

As the poet Matshona Dhliwayo wrote, “A tree's roots are its crown buried in earth; its crown is its roots raised to heaven.” This moon invites us into that same embodied wisdom: to be deeply grounded while reaching toward our intentions.

This is the first of two moons in Virgo - an opening at 0 degrees, pure as untouched soil. It invites us to plant seeds of intention with gentle hands. Then, next month, we’ll return at 29 degrees to harvest what has ripened within us.

Virgo doesn’t ask for perfection. She asks for presence - connection. To meet you where you are to lean in tothe courage to feel where your life is - and isn’t - in harmony.

I’ve shared a simple somatic practice on the slides (“Roots & Crowns”) to help you ground into this energy. No equipment needed - just a willing body and a few breaths.

Swipe through to explore the meaning of this moon and a ritual to welcome her.

Wondering where to start? Begin by standing still. Listen. Your nervous system already knows the way.

20/08/2025

I felt uplifted by my community from afar and felt so very blessed to be part of systematic family constellation work earlier this year. The diversity opened my awareness to appreciate the ancestor lineages, unconscious patterns and uniqueness of different ethnic groups in my work as a therapist.

I began to feel a sense of lightness as I dove deeper. It was a feeling of liberation from a restricted mind and ego state. The threads became clear and healing became deeper when I surrendered to the somatic experience and energetic patterns that were emerging in the present moment.

I remain so grateful to you both, Efu Nyaki & Dionísio Moormann. For your deep wisdom and humility.

“I open myself to a situation in darkness, not knowing what is going on. The question is: How do I get to a truth concealed in darkness? I dive into a flowing field; I become part of it, and it reaches out beyond. Things move in the field, some into area of light, revealing something of what IS. I open myself to that and wait for something to come to me. An image for this process is: I feel my way in darkness along walls until I find a door. When I find a place of light, I try to describe what is illuminating me with a word that is full and ripe. When the right word is found, those for whom it came grasp it at a level beyond rational thought. The right word touches and moves them, even when they don’t understand how.”

19/08/2025

Healing is not a straight path - it’s a spiral, returning you to yourself with new wisdom each time.

In our sessions, we weave together:
✧ Talk therapy to honor your story
✧ Somatic Experiencing® to gently reset your nervous system when fight/flight/freeze arises
✧ Sound, touch or breath to help you transition back to your day with regulation and grace

Every choice is yours. Every step, honored.

Because true healing isn’t about fixing - it’s about remembering how to be whole.

17/08/2025

The gong’s voice is older than time - a resonance that hums through bone and breath, weaving the body back to stillness.

I learned this alchemy from Don Conreaux, the grand master of modern gong therapy, who taught me: sound is the language the nervous system speaks first.

In its shimmering waves, the body remembers what words cannot touch. Trauma loosens its grip. The mind grows quiet as a forest at dawn. Here, healing is not done to you, but through you - a homecoming orchestrated by vibration’s golden hands.

In our sessions together, this ancient therapy is always here. Waiting at the edges of our work, should you wish to meet it.

Some truths are too deep for sentences. The gong knows this. It sings the parts of us we’ve forgotten to listen for.

15/08/2025

Your healing journey starts with feeling safe. Here’s what our first session together looks like:

We’ll begin by getting to know each other - not as "therapist and client," but as humans. You’ll share what brings you here (at your own pace), and I’ll listen deeply - not just to your words, but to what your body might be holding.

If overwhelm surfaces, we’ll slow down. If numbness appears, we’ll gently invite sensation back. This isn’t about reliving pain; it’s about learning how to be with your experiences without being overtaken by them.

13/08/2025

Healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken - it’s about remembering your wholeness.

My journey from corporate rigidity to therapeutic work taught me this: trauma shapes us, but never defines us. What if your anxiety, triggers, and survival patterns aren’t obstacles, but signposts pointing you toward growth?

Now, I help people rewrite their nervous system’s story. Not with quick fixes, but with the slow, steady work of somatic healing—where safety is rebuilt breath by breath, and old wounds gradually loosen their grip.

30/05/2024

Part of the privileges of my work is that I get to be in touch with deep human emotions. I participate in the psychological death and rebirth and sensitively support the transformation process.

It’s a very intimate place to be in and the space can feel very sacred. The raw tears, suppressed memories, liberation of emotions, physical pains as we shed the old layers of our past.

I read a story from The Little Prince once to a person that I was supporting:

“ Of course I will hurt you. Of course you will hurt me. Of course, we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Many people come into my space to process the pains they are going through in life. Sometimes you come to realise that everyone you ever love is going to hurt you. And you will have to decide whether you are going to be okay with it. This isn’t just true of romantic relationships. The same goes for colleagues, clients, friends and families and anyone who plays a significant role in your life may be able to hurt you. But the reality behind the hurt is that the emotional pain you felt stem from intimacy. So, you will forgive people. You will accept that their clumsy humanity is a part and parcel of their love. Or you will find that you can’t forgive them, and you will move on. You will take solace in the rest of the people in your life who you have previously managed to forgive until you feel brave enough to forge a new relationship with the attendant risk of new hurt.

Often surprising reciprocation and gifts of appreciation can come from those people I met and supported in the journey and yesterday was one of those days. I felt very loved and rewarded. It feels warmed when heart touched heart.