Benefits of mindfulness

• Reduce stress and anxiety

• Increase calm and well being

• Cultivate joy and inherent happiness

• Improve mental, emotional and physical health

• Learn to self-regulate your own nervous system

• Develop and practise the relationship with your inherent wholeness

• Learn to increase your vitality, power and self-acceptance

• Experience more harmonious relationships.

why learn mindfulness and awareness?

For a modern human, living in a culture and time of deep disconnect from nature, others and Self, there is usually conscious preparation needed to prepare the mind, body and nervous system so that it becomes possible to remember and feel, in the midst of activity, a relationship with the Source, the great Mystery, that lives us. Ultimately, it is that point of view of Truth that frees a person from the grip of the illusion of being a separate body/mind identity, all on one’s own in the world, and the suffering that results from that point of view.

Rachel is a guide on the journey of well being, and this embraces physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.

one-day retreats

individual mindfulness-based 1:1 sessions

biodynamic craniosacral therapy with Rachel

mindfulness courses

mindfulness at work and in organisations

classes: qi gong, and movement awareness (based on the work of moshe feldenkrais)

about Rachel Tobin

I started my conventional work life with a degree in biochemistry and statistics, and became a high-school teacher. Since then I've worked in a variety of roles, most of them offering various modalities that promote well being and awareness - mindfulness, meditation, qi gong, and the movement awareness work of Moshe Feldenkrais. I've worked in the area of organisational well being and with clients to help them with stress, grief, trauma and loss and to live a more connected and joyful life. Biodynamic craniosacral work, which is a fantastic modality, is something I am also now offering in Kapiti.

I live close to the sea so swim in it as often as i can. Write poetry (please click HERE if you’re interested in my 2018 collection, Say it Naked), tend a garden, bike and hike, and have spent the last few years - while i’ve been healing from concussion - deepening a sense of nature connection with the help of mentor and tracker Jon Young and his Connection 1st global village.

Mindfulness and presence has always been at the heart of my work and one of my deep interests is in seeing adults and children learn to live with more ease, well being and joy. I know at first hand our human capacity for pain, and I have understood that it is the mind which creates and perpetuates the most intense suffering. I have found mindfulness practice to be wonderful in learning to slow down to a more natural pace of Life, to uncover limiting thinking patterns, and to cultivate more ease, positivity and spontaneity in the daily round of everyday life.

The spiritual journey, of re-discovering the natural and inherent joy that comes from simply Being, and discovering all that lies in the way of that, is increasingly informing my work with others. I am very grateful to the teachers, both living and passed, who i have been privileged to meet and be guided by.

The retreats I facilitate are fundamentally about honoring and remembering the great Mystery, the Source, the great force of Life that lives us, and using tools to work compassionately with the trauma, ingrained patterns and conditioning that obstruct a joyful relationship with Life.

the art of mindfulness
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