Brian Berneman, Grey Lynn, Auckland (2025)

08/10/2025

🌿 Connect & Support: Mental Health Week Giveaway 🌿
In honour of Mental Health Awareness Week, I’m joining with an incredible team of practitioners to offer FREE wellbeing sessions — for yourself or to gift to someone who could use a little extra support. 💚

This initiative is about making wellbeing tools more accessible and nurturing genuine connection within our community.

✨ How to enter: 1️⃣ Follow all practitioners ( .nz ) 2️⃣ Like this post 3️⃣ Tag a friend/love one (who might enjoy a gifted session) 4️⃣ Share this post to your story for bonus entries

Entries are open throughout Mental Health Awareness Week.

Giveaway includes sessions by each of the practitioners: 🌱 1:1 coaching or holistic therapy (online/in-person) 🌱 Mindfulness & meditation experiences 🌱 Somatic coaching, compassionate inquiry or EFT tapping sessions 
Each prize can be claimed or gifted - helping you or someone you love connect with support, healing and balance. 💫

Let’s honour Mental Health Awareness Week by showing up for ourselves and each other. 💚

06/10/2025

🧠✨ Your mind matters – let’s connect and dive deep into awareness!

Today marks the start of Mental Health Awareness Week, a chance to prioritize your well-being and understanding.

🤝💚 Making connections with yourself, others and nature are essential steps towards mental wellness.
This week, I encourage you to notice how you connect and embrace the journey of self-discovery.

Join me in taking this important step!

05/10/2025

Invest in your team’s wellbeing this Mental Health Awareness Week. 💼

The Nourish Your Mind Day Retreat is designed to help employees pause, reset and learn practical tools for managing stress and building resilience.

🌿 Through mindfulness, movement, reflection and sound healing, participants will leave feeling calm, focused, and inspired - benefits that flow directly back into the workplace.

🗓️ Saturday 11 October 10am-5pm
📍 Ponsonby
✨ Limited spaces available - encourage your team to join this restorative retreat. 🔗 Sign up now! https://momence.com/s/121798976 or link in bio to secure your place.

03/10/2025

Sound healing isn’t just about relaxation - it’s a powerful tool for supporting mental health. ✨
The vibrations of gongs, bowls and the voice work gently to calm the nervous system, ease anxiety and help quiet the restless mind.
Research shows sound can reduce stress hormones, improve mood and create a sense of deep inner peace. 🌿
In a world where our minds are constantly overstimulated, sound offers a sanctuary, a space to pause, release and restore balance. 🌀

💫 When we give ourselves permission to listen - not just with our ears but with our whole being - we reconnect to a deeper calm that is always available within us.

🎶 Experience the harmony of sound healing and nourish your mental wellbeing with a Sound Journey with Brian on Sunday evenings at or explore a 1:1 healing session: https://www.brianberneman.com/sound-healing 

01/10/2025

“There’s a difference between genuine optimism, which is grounded in reality, and toxic positivity, which bypasses the suffering or pain out of fear.”

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“Hay una diferencia entre el optimismo genuino, basado en la realidad, y la positividad tóxica, que ignora el sufrimiento o el dolor por miedo.”

29/09/2025

🌿 Nourish Your Mind: A Mental Health Awareness Day Retreat 🧠 
In honour of Mental Health Awareness Week, let’s come together to slow down, restore and uplift.
Join this day-long retreat for a safe, supportive container where you can:
✨ Calm your mind through guided meditation ✨ Move gently with breathwork and somatic practices ✨ Reflect on inner landscapes and cultivate self-compassion ✨ Immerse yourself in sound healing to soothe the nervous system

This is your time to be seen, heard and held. Whether you’re carrying stress, overwhelm or just need space to reset, you are welcome as you are.

🗓️ Saturday 11 October 10am-5pm 
📍 Ponsonby

❤️Your sanctuary is waiting. Limited spots available - reserve yours today!
 🔗Sign up now! https://momence.com/s/121798976 or link in bio

🎟️Early bird price available
 

28/09/2025

Still time to join Thursday 9 October’s Family Constellations circle at ✨

Are you struggling with unresolved issues that seem to affect your relationships, work and overall well-being?
In this powerful and transformative process, we will explore the hidden dynamics and unconscious patterns that run in your family system.

Join here: https://momence.com/s/121798447

27/09/2025

🧘‍♀️ Calm in the Waves Sound healing helps soothe the nervous system.
The vibrations from gongs, singing bowls and other instruments, can reduce cortisol (stress hormone), slow heart rate and invite your body into a state of rest.  When we drop into that space, anxiety softens, and we remember what peace feels like.

🎶 Experience a Sound Journey with Brian on Sunday evenings at or explore a 1:1 healing session: https://www.brianberneman.com/sound-healing 

26/09/2025

🌿 Nourish Your Mind: A Mental Health Awareness Day Retreat 🧠 
In honour of Mental Health Awareness Week, let’s come together to slow down, restore and uplift.
Join this day-long retreat for a safe, supportive container where you can:
✨ Calm your mind through guided meditation ✨ Move gently with breathwork and somatic practices ✨ Reflect on inner landscapes and cultivate self-compassion ✨ Immerse yourself in sound healing to soothe the nervous system

This is your time to be seen, heard and held. Whether you’re carrying stress, overwhelm or just need space to reset, you are welcome as you are.

🗓️ Saturday 11 October 10am-5pm 
📍 Ponsonby

❤️Your sanctuary is waiting. Limited spots available - reserve yours today!
 🔗Sign up now! https://momence.com/s/121798976 or link in bio

🎟️Early bird price available

 

24/09/2025

🌙 Sleep’s Gentle Invitation
Improved sleep is one of the most reported benefits of sound healing. The steady, harmonious tones can help guide brainwaves into deeper states (theta, delta), helping you drift off faster, sleep more soundly and wake more refreshed.

Through the years so many people with insomnia have messaged me after sessions that they slept for the first time in months or years.

If you’re restless at night, a sound bath before bed may be the lullaby you need.

🎶 Experience a Sound Journey with Brian on Sunday evenings at or explore a 1:1 healing session: https://www.brianberneman.com/sound-healing 

22/09/2025

“Just stay positive.” We’ve all heard it - but sometimes, it does more harm than good.
In this week’s episode of The , I explore why positivity alone isn’t enough for true healing. 🌱
This episode takes you through: 🌿 The shadow side of toxic positivity 🌿 How repressing emotions affects your health 🌿 Tools to support emotional honesty & regulation 🌿 The difference between grounded optimism and bypassing pain 🌿 Why wellbeing is about feeling whole, not just happy

Authentic positivity doesn’t ignore the storm - it helps you find your anchor while the storm passes. 🌊
➡️ Swipe through to learn how to embrace your full emotional spectrum and discover the practices that can support you.

🎧 Check out the full episode here: https://youtu.be/TWB1ilie8mE

💬 Which slide resonates most with you? Share in the comments - let’s start a conversation about what real wellbeing looks like.

19/09/2025

🌱 Health + Singing Bowls: What We Know So Far
A systematic review of 14 quantitative studies looked at Tibetan singing bowl interventions among adults, measuring both psychological and physiological outcomes.
📌 Findings:
* Decreases in anxiety, stress and depressive symptoms.
* Positive changes in physiological metrics (heart rate variability, brainwave patterns) in some studies.

This field is still developing, but these studies show sound healing isn’t just anecdote - it’s becoming increasingly measurable.

🎶 Experience a Sound Journey with Brian on Sunday evenings at or explore a 1:1 healing session: https://www.brianberneman.com/sound-healing 

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