Holistic wellness massage in Ōrākei. Wellness blogger, tangata tiriti, host of Teachers Can podcast.
55 Ngaio Street, Ōrākei
Auckland
1071
| Tuesday | 9am - 7pm |
| Friday | 9am - 6pm |
| Saturday | 9am - 2pm |
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I went all the way to India to learn to relax. Well, thats not entirely true, I went to learn how to teach yoga, but what I really got was a profound sense of peace and relaxation that hasn’t quite left me. And has become one of my number one driving passions in life.
You see, stress used to be my middle name. Laura Stress-Bucket Alpe. Mum always told me that teaching is stressful, so I put off entering the profession for a good 10 years. But once I’d learned and fallen in love with Te Reo Māori, there was no going back and Education seemed like the natural next step. In fact, it was a wero (challenge) laid down by my second reo teacher that led me into teaching; “What are you going to do to ensure that our language survives Laura?”
After three years of pouring my heart and soul into my job, my classroom and my gorgeous tamariki, I ended up getting sick. What started as a fairly constant low-level anxiety led to mental exhaustion, physical sickness and ultimately, burn-out from the job I loved. I felt like I wasn’t alone. Many teachers, nurses, social workers and other professionals shared with me their struggles to ‘manage’ their stress and to find balance in their lives. Something had to shift.
I made the heart wrenching decision to leave teaching for a year to pursue my own wellbeing. What felt like a selfish choice at first, became the best thing I’ve ever done. I studied relaxation massage at Wellpark College of Natural Therapies and there I discovered my gift of touch. I loved being able to help bring relaxation and wellbeing to others, which in turn brought relaxation and wellbeing to myself. Life, for the first time, started to resume some sort of natural rhythm with periods of busy time interspersed with down-time. Balance!
