EmOcean therapy

14/12/2024

Heartworks Lomi Lomi Level 1 training
Regional Series 2025 - 7 regional locations
Summer, Autumn & Spring dates

Winter - trainings in Greece 🇬🇷

For 'first to know', preferred dates & registration
https://www.emoceantherapy.com.au/retreats
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With love ♡

13/12/2024

YAY!! ♡

11/10/2024

01/10/2024

The fire crackles in the cool night air.
You’re surrounded by men who are there to listen, to share, and to grow. You’ve been carrying that weight on your shoulders, but here, you don’t have to anymore. The Southern Men’s Gathering is more than just a weekend... it’s a brotherhood, a place to reconnect with yourself and with other men who understand.

𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗜𝗡?

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26/09/2024

What is a trauma tidal wave?

As a facilitator, I'm the lighthouse guiding people through the storm. It’s my job to create emotional boundaries and a space where participants can process their emotions without getting lost in someone else’s pain. Without this awareness, trauma can spread and create an overwhelming, harmful environment. A trauma tidal wave.

Creating a Supportive Environment means I design group experiences that foster resilience and healing. Leading a group where each participant feels supported, where they can express their emotions without unintentionally triggering others. This can be achieved with grounding exercises, breathing techniques, and establishing a strong emotional container.

For example, during training, a participant might be giving OR receiving massage, and begin to recall a painful memory. The room starts to feel tense, other members are becoming restless or uncomfortable.
The emotions in the room rise like a tidal wave. Without realizing it, everyone’s energy shifts, and people may start reliving their own buried traumas.

As an aware facilitator, its important I step in with gentle grounding exercises—maybe a moment of breathwork or asking everyone to place their hands on their heart—to bring everyone back to a state of calm.
Instead of being swept away by shared pain, the group holds space for healing.

I am guiding people through a vulnerable process. If I'm not mindful of how trauma can spread, participants might leave feeling even more wounded than when they arrived.

The ancient art of Heartworks Lomi Lomi is sacred. It’s about peeling away layers, healing wounds, and creating space for joy to grow. But to nurture that joy, we must be vigilant about protecting our emotional spaces. Trauma tidal waves are real, and being aware of how quickly they peak, means a safer, more supportive environment is created for everyone involved.

I make sure that when we gather to learn, heal, and grow, we are spreading light, not unintentionally fueling a tidal wave of old pain.

Share your experience below if this resonates.

With love ♡

12/09/2024

Since the beginning of time, Aussies have used grog as currency - whether it's a thank you or an excuse to drop in with a 'carton' and socialise.

We know that socialising is incredibly vital for those of us who live in remoteness and isolation. And we are all for it, whether it's at the local camp draft, footy club, the pub, or your best mate's backyard.

The tricky thing, for some, is the booze aspect.

What we see, over and over again, is the implied assumption and recurring theme that the best way we can get our blokes (in particular) to ''open up'' and share is if we give them enough alcohol. We see this at mental health workshops, our Ag industry, and in our families.

Given we lose a farmer every ten days to su***de, and we all know alcohol use/abuse/addiction is a concurrent theme - we'll continue to ask what we have always asked - which is to PLEASE ensure there is an alternative to grog on offer for your mate whose mental health battle is intricately linked TO grog. Which we also know is often the case.

So, as we face another RUOK day - we'd love to challenge you that if you've got a mate who you know **isn't** okay and who you know has a silent battle with alcohol going on, please ... just go sit with your mate over a cuppa or a zero-alc beer.

Let him know it's and that you're supportive of the choice not to use grog to treat depression. Let him know you're available for a discussion that doesn't end up at the bottom of a bottle of whisky.

Ask your publican to chuck some healthy, tasty, thoughtful alternatives or zeros in the fridge to make sure everyone's included and so that your mate battling the darkest of demons knows he can sit and socialise, too.

The only thing worse than fighting with the black dog is knowing your choice to stay sober (in order to stay alive), which means you're socially ostracised and isolated from everyone else who doesn't know what to do with a non-drinker in the outback Australia.

That is something we see far too often.

So help us make sure that when we ask RUOK? we're not just uttering meaningless words but acting with thoughtful intent to be part of the change that is working.

22/07/2024

I am one of those searchers.
There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we completely content. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand.
We like to walk along the beach; we are drawn to the ocean, taken by its power and unceasing motion, its mystery and breathtaking beauty.
We like forests, mountains, deserts, hidden rivers, and vibrant cities.
Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as our laughter. We are ambitious only for life itself and for anything beautiful it can provide.
Most of all, we want to love and be loved, to live in a relationship that will not impede our wanderings and prevent our search.
We do not want to prove ourselves to others or compete for love.

This passage is for wanderers, dreamers, and lovers who dare to ask of life everything which is good and beautiful.

With love ♡

19/07/2024

You have to resurrect the deep pain within you and give it a place to live that’s not within your body.
Let it live in art.
Let it live in writing.
Let it live in music.
Let it be devoured by building brighter connections. Your body is not a coffin for pain to be buried in.
Put it somewhere else ...

Ehime Ora ✨

Artist Credit : Janice VanCronkhite

20/04/2024

Just 8 minutes ♡

07/04/2024

Yes, small steady steps & breathe.

My grandmother once gave me a tip:
In difficult times, move forward in small steps.
Do what you have to do, but little by little.
Don’t think about the future
or what may happen tomorrow.

Wash the dishes.
Remove the dust.
Write a letter.
Make a soup.

You see?

Advance step by step.
Take a step and stop.
Rest a little.
Praise yourself.
Take another step.
And then another.

You won’t notice, but your steps will grow more and more.
And the time will come when you can think about the future without crying.

Author: Elena Mikhalkova

Photo Artist: Martin Harvey

17/03/2024

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02/03/2024

I want you to know that the world is going to try and push you into things. That the people all around you will tell you who you are.

Who you aren’t. Who you should be. Some of them mean well. Some of them don’t. Together, they will teach you to discern the difference.

In the end, it is you who answers to yourself in the mirror. So find out what’s true for you. Find out what makes your heart turn into butterfly wings, flapping wildly in the sun. Follow that.

Find out what makes the drum in your belly beat. Follow that.
Find out what richness is. I’ll give you a hint: money has very little to do with it. It may be so, that grass or oceans or mountains or crow feathers do. Or Greek mythology. Or paint. Or words. Or tulips or hummingbirds. It is likely that family has a lot to do with it.

Whatever it is, find it out, and follow that.

Leave room for the mystery of life to seduce you, but don’t give yourself away.

Pursue ecstasy with grace.

Embody everything that expresses your nobility.

Turn away from what diminishes you. There is no mistake in the making of you.

Let your body inform you as much as your mind does. Trust it’s knowing. It knows languages the mind cannot speak. It can have conversations with soil and drums and oceans and star shine.

Your gut knows what it’s talking about. Your intuition is true. Your dreams mean something.

Your life is for you. And you, are for the world.
~Alison Nappi~

Photo: Art by BeverlyAshGilbert on Etsy

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