Kendra Healing Arts

26/01/2026

SPACE TO WHISPER YES OR NO

In a trauma sensitive yoga practice, the space respects your bodys need to feel and express it's needs.

Embodiment takes time and practice.

I often hear the words 'befriending my body' amongst participants.

Your body might whisper yes or no to postures.
Or yes or no to being with the breath.
And not knowing is also welcome, it's actually a doorway to being curious. A brain changing experience!

More space to hear the whispers...

Because in TSY we value ~

Choice making within a solid structure ~ grounding in the principles of interoception exploring sensations and feelings that may arise.

Inner listening within the boundaries of invitational language ~ my guiding voice empowers you to also quieten enough to hear your own.

Power with not power over ~ non coercion every step of the way, so self compassion can step in or whisper to you, yes or no.

There's a course for you.

Courses are enrolling now!

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21/01/2026

YOGA ISN'T ALWAYS HEALING

Yoga classes often focus on general practice — shared shapes, sequences, and rhythms designed for the group.

Yoga therapy is different.

Yoga therapy preserves yoga’s original intention.

It begins with you — your nervous system, your history, your capacity, and your current context.

Practices are adapted, not prescribed.

Safety, choice, and pacing come first.

If you’ve found that regular yoga hasn’t met your needs — or has felt overwhelming, inaccessible, or incomplete — trauma-sensitive yoga therapy may be the missing piece.

You’re welcome to explore this work through trauma-sensitive yoga programs or private yoga therapy, at a pace that honours your body and your life.

Enrolments and bookings are open via the link in bio.

13/01/2026

MY BODY KNOWS WHAT WATER KNOWS

Water doesn’t ask me to choose between strength and softness.
Being held, I feel how they coexist.

Pratipaksha bhavana — known through the body.

Lying back in the water, my system settles.
Not because I tell it to — but because my body recognises support.

This is somatic learning. This is yoga that heals.

The polyvagal nervous system responding to safety through sensation.

Breath slows because it knows fast.
Tone changes.
Awareness widens.

In these intense times, embodiment matters.

Not as a concept — but as lived experience.

The body already knows how to regulate when it’s given the right conditions.

If this speaks to you, my trauma-aware somatic offerings are open — including small group courses and personalised yoga therapy.

"I am the water remembering itself".

06/01/2026

BEAUTY

It's everywhere.

Beyond the seeing there's the feeling.

Beyond feeling there's the presence.

And in the presence there oneness.

03/01/2026

TRAUMA-SENSITIVE, BODY-FIRST YOGA THERAPY

This might be the yoga that fits — personalised, trauma-sensitive, and body-led.

Informed by Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY), iRest Yoga Nidra, and TRE® (Tension & Trauma Release Exercises) — trauma-aware, somatic practices supporting deep healing and embodiment through the body.

Led by a senior teacher and International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT)-certified yoga therapist, with care shaped by decades of embodied practice and trauma-aware training.

Enrolments are open now.

03/01/2026

WHAT IF THERES ANOTHER WAY TO BEGIN THIS YEAR

The new year can arrive quietly — or with a lot of pressure.

And many people don't need another practice that asks them to push.

If your body has learnt to adapt, or override itself, traditional yoga can quietly reinforce that pattern - even when it's well intentioned.

If you’re living with trauma, pain, fatigue, anxiety, or deep sadness, your nervous system may not be asking for more effort.

It may be asking for rhythm.

For space to feel.

For permission to slow down.

Somatic and trauma-sensitive yoga therapy work with the body’s intelligence, not against it.

It centres on safety, choice, and inner sensing, so capacity can grow and agency return.

If you’re curious about body-led, trauma-sensitive pathways — including Trauma Centre Trauma-Sensitive Yoga, and TRE, courses are recommending in February and enrolling now.

Be in private coaching or group, online or in person.

I'm sure there's a practice for you.

29/12/2025

A BODY - FIRST APPROACH FOR ANXIOUS CHILDREN

When children live with high anxiety, it often reflects how much they’re having to navigate in a very complex world.

Trauma-sensitive yoga therapy is gentle, natural, body-first support that helps nervous systems settle, so children can feel more at home in themselves as they learn how to meet life and stay present within it.

This work isn’t about fixing or changing children — it’s about offering safety, skills, and support as they grow into the world they’re living in.

✨ Private 1:1 sessions available in Kingston or online Australia wide.
Health funds provider for bodywork.

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18/12/2025

SOMATIC HEALING BECOMES POSSIBLE

Many conventional approaches to anxiety, depression, and trauma fall short — not because you’re broken, but because the body hasn’t yet felt safe.

When your nervous system is on high alert, the mind can’t simply relax, focus, or “think its way through.” This isn’t failure — it’s biology.

Understanding this can be deeply empowering, shifting the blame away from you and toward what’s been missing in your care.

My somatic work is rooted here: supporting nervous system safety first, so healing becomes possible, sustainable, and embodied.

When your body remembers it is safe to feel, presence, connection, and clarity can gently return — at your own pace.

If this resonates, you’re invited to book an initial well-being session — a personalised space to explore what your body might need next.

There’s no fixing or forcing here — just support in remembering that it’s safe to feel, at a pace that honours you.

08/12/2025

SELF CARE PACKAGE

Most people don’t come to yoga therapy feeling soft or spacious.
They come in tired, wired, guarded, overwhelmed, or angry that their body feels like it’s working against them.

And that makes complete sense — trauma, chronic stress, and long-term tension reorganises the nervous system in ways that make “calm” feel far away.

This is why yoga therapy is different.

It doesn’t ask you to be peaceful before you arrive.

It simply meets you where you are
— in the reality of your body today — and begins with assessment, grounding, and tiny, doable practices that honour your pace and your history.

If you’re craving support but don’t want to jump into deep healing work straight away, the Self Care Package is a place to start.

You'll receive 3 personalised yoga therapy sessions and a plan based on what your body is actually carrying — not a one-size-fits-all flow, not spiritual bypassing, not pressure to relax.

Just a clear starting place.

A relationship built on trust.

And a way of reconnecting that doesn’t require you to feel “ready” or “regulated” first.

Book your 3 one hour self care package today. $395

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04/12/2025

Body-Led Permission for BPD: A New Way to Meet Your Inner World.

Many people who live with a BPD diagnosis or long-term trauma share a similar experience:

Your mind understands so much and yet your body still tightens, reacts, or becomes overwhelmed.

This isn’t a flaw.
It’s your nervous system doing what it learned to do in order to protect you.

Over the years, I’ve watched something powerful happen in my work with clients:

When your relationship with your body begins to shift, your relationship with your mind shifts too.
Not through force or control — but through permission.

Permission to notice.
Permission to move at your own pace.
Permission to feel without being swallowed by the feeling.

This is why I offer Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) — a gentle, choice-led, body-first approach that supports emotional steadiness, grounding, and self-understanding in a way talking alone often can’t reach.

If you live with emotional intensity, sensitivity, or attention that comes in waves, this work can offer a different kind of support… one that begins in the body rather than the mind.

8-Week Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Program
A steady, predictable space where your body can explore regulation and connection safely.

Suitable for:
• People with BPD diagnoses
• ADHD traits
• Complex Trauma and PTSD
• Trauma histories
• Sensitive or fast-moving nervous systems

This program includes:
• Weekly group or private sessions
• Choice-led movement
• Trauma-informed rest practices
• Interoceptive awareness
• A steady, supportive environment to return to each week

If you feel drawn to exploring a body-led pathway to steadiness and self-connection, you’re welcome to join the next 8-Week TCTSY Program.

Learn more or register here:
📎 www.kendrahealingarts.com

Or send me a message if you’d like to talk about whether this could be supportive for you.

https://www.kendrahealingarts.com/.../trauma-sensitive...

Trauma-Sensitive Yoga for BPD and Trauma: An 8-Week TCTSY Journey
https://www.kendrahealingarts.com/post/trauma-sensitive-yoga-for-bpd-trauma-adhd-an-8-week-tctsy-journey

Discover how an 8-week Trauma-Sensitive Yoga program can support emotional steadiness, self-connection, and nervous-system safety for people living with BPD, trauma, or ADHD traits.

19/11/2025

ON SAFETY & SHAKING

When you come to realise that feeling anxious is safety on the move, your body seeks an authentic connection. Yet, unless you shake or tremor, you may never truely know the presence of connection.

TRE is the best pathway I know to feel safe .... again. It's life's way of resetting your nervous system in an easy way, without the need to talk.

If you have learnt TRE Tension and Trauma Release Exercises with me, you are invited to COME TOGETHER for our last shake for 2025.

Kingston
Saturday 22nd Nov
2.30 to 4pm
$35

26/10/2025

Gāyatrī Yantra ... and Mantra

I'm exploring a 40 day sadhana with combining it with the sacred geometry of the solar goddess herself.

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G*i - 'to sing'
Trai - ' to protect'

9 gates of human body Navadvara
9 petals of sense purification
9 is completion and wisdom
6 pointed star
4 gates that contain and ground

2 triangles union of siva sakti
1 potent sakti bindu the creative womb of sound
1 eye of Gāyatrī the light of pure awareness

MAY THE LIGHT REVEAL THE WONDER OF THE UNSEEN WHOLE

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and so much gratitude for your teachings 🙏