Bio / Therapist Musings

I started life growing up in remote, rural New Zealand, the North Island — in a place called 'big frost', where we spent most of our time outdoors, with a big family, creative parents, animals, horses and a vege garden — which laid the foundation for a love and appreciation of nature and the elements.

In my early years I studied Adventure Tourism and Ecology, hoping to work in Conservation, and spent time as an outdoor guide with an interest in NZ flora and fauna, mainly birds — some of this on horseback.

As New Zealand is an isolated country and we were living in an isolated place — the wonder of travel was always there, so in my 20's I packed my bags and headed to Australia, then later UK and Netherlands.

With a curious mind and as an avid reader, I found myself gravitating toward the New Age section in book stores - a book that struck me most during this time was passed around friends in Manly Beach, it was The Celestine Prophecy in 2001, introducing the concept of synchronicities and energy modalities.

Much later, in 2008, after helping a friend on an outback station in QLD, I came across a modality that would launch me into a new direction — this was the Horstmann Technique — a modality working on re-balancing the body using meridian points, releasing muscle holding patterns and releasing held emotions. It was the stuff I had been reading about and was finally interacting with.

I was not ready to hold the label as an 'energy worker', so in order to be more accessible, in 2010 I studied a Diploma of Remedial Massage, with Reiki soon after and got to work in Clinics & Wellness Centres in QLD.

SA -Adelaide has been home now for 10 years since 2016, where I met my now husband — a Brazilian cook, musician and retail tradesman of many talents. We are discovering the South, based in Seacliff, enjoying BBQs with friends and exploring this local area.

These days my life is less adventure based and I find joy in slow activities — such as pottering, planting, doing up furniture, enjoying music and almost anything creative — also time with my husband.

I have kept my learning ongoing since, with: 2017 IIN Integrative Nutrition — Nutritional & lifestyle counselling (USA) and in 2018 Theta Healing (subconscious digging and reprogramming).

Why women-only treatments?

From my mid 30's — and reaching my 40's — I felt 'the change' that each day in your body was different. Even if you did 'the right things' — take the supplements and early nights — a good day was not guaranteed. Capacity drops and your life realigns — hola perimenopause! Today my focus in treatments is to support women through this phase and assist in managing symptoms that appear with hormonal imbalances, eg managing tension head aches, insomnia, general body pain and lymphatic support.

It seems that in the times we live in, women's bodies are struggling to find 'their centre' at any age and there is a collective fatigue — so this becomes my motivation to offer a space to rejuvenate.

I have learnt that doing things that you love is what will give you your energy back — I hope to share more of these insights with you here also.

I hope to meet you soon x
Coral