Registered Senior Teacher
Kendra is a highly trained complementary health care practitioner with 25 years of clinical experience, integrating Yoga Therapy and Holistic Massage Therapy. Kendra creates a safe learning environment where you can access your own innate healing resources and begin a mindful journey toward greater self-awareness and wellbeing. Emphasis is on self-development with a commitment to higher self-care.
Her group courses and private programs reflect her certification in iRest®level 1 meditation, Mindful Yoga Therapy, Trauma-Informed Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation, as well as extensive clinical experience with pain, anxiety, depression and PTSD. Many of her private clients have been referred from mental health organisations, at a time when their care plan required a more biopsychospiritual approach to their wellbeing and healing journey.
Mindfulness Yoga Courses
Mindfulness Yoga is a holistic therapeutic style of yoga that embodies mindfulness techniques to build self-regulation and self-awareness skills, reduce stress responses, build resilience and encourage a compassionate self-inquiry.
It is a breath-based viniyoga practice directed by the principles of mindfulness meditation and trauma-sensitive yoga
Classes are in Woden.
Private and group Yoga Therapy
Yoga Therapy or Yoga Chikitsa is a complementary system of healthcare that empowers and supports you to actively participate in your health and well being, using the principles of yoga. It is a genuine healing modality, as it focuses on assisting the whole individual, rather than focusing on the condition. It is a highly individualized prescriptive process that promotes small, regular sustainable lifestyle and behavioural changes, daily practice and regular communication. Yoga therapy can be practised along with conventional medical treatments. This evidence-based complementary therapy is particularly effective at improving mental health, anxiety and depression.
Kendra is available in private practice in Braddon and Kambah and offers in-service appointments to patients at Hyson Green Psychiatric ward at Calvary Hospital.
Kendra is a health fund registered practitioner.
Mentoring
Kendra is a registered mentor and offers informal and formal mentoring opportunities.
Please visit the website for more details and request an interview.
Diploma Hatha Kundalini Yoga
Associate Diploma Applied Science (Exercise Science)
Diploma Remedial Therapies Diploma Remedial Massage, Oriental Massage, Clinical Reflexology
Professional membership with Australian Traditional Medicine Society and the Australasian Association of Yoga Therapists
"The land of healing lies within, radiant with the happiness that is blindly sought in a thousand outer directions. "
Swami Vivekananda
Natalie Truong
Yoga Therapy Sessions really brought into focus for me that yoga is so much more than just the asana
Pauline
'I enjoy mindfulness yoga because it allows me to focus on my internal energy, to find peace and stillness in my mind and body as I move through the postures. It is now an integral part of my spiritual practice each day'. Pauline
Kim Senini
'Mindfulness (when I remember to do it) means I don't react as fast or fly off the handle as easily.
Jolanta Skawinski
yoga is a very special experience to me, it always was. In a "secret" way it connects body and mind and does special things to my soul...it is a quiet action, but very powerful one. It balances my energy and elevates it to a healthy level. It helps me to focus on important things in life - I feel healthier, happier, lighter, more relaxed, more balanced, more independent from disturbing energies and more in control of my life. I can handle stress better and can perform better in working environment. I am also more patient in my private life.
Katrina Hinton
Kendra has a wealth of healing skills and knowledge but it's the way she integrates them and connects with you as a client which makes her offering so unique and so valuable. Kendra is one of the rare souls I think of as a natural healer. I feel immediately at ease and in safe and nurturing hands during her reflexology treatments; your feet are her window into your whole being.
Hanna Kael
I love what you do, and I can't wait to get started on the program. I definitely have felt more balanced since yesterday's session. Out of all the help that I've sought over the years, I absolutely gel the most with what you do. I know I'm in a place where I'm more able to receive also, but I always feel a shift take place in me after doing yoga with you. I love your holistic, intuitive approach, and feel the honor you hold for yourself and those you work with. This is truly unique and precious. Much gratitude to you, and your beautiful work :)
Trish
iRest Yoga Nidra meditation course My husband had a serious chronic illness. this put a lot of stress on us as a couple and as individuals physically emotionally and mentally. The practice of yoga Indra was something that we could do for each other, by reading the script form the Satyananda books, and this simple shared practice of giving and receiving proved very beneficial. When I saw the iRest course offered by Kendra I already knew that she is both deeply rooted in the tradition of yoga but very open to applying the ancient teachings to modern problems using the latest research. Kendra provides a vast array of information firmly grounded in her own practice a caring for others. You will get support in whatever way, when and where you are ready. She never pushes you to adopt a practice or philosophy, but provides a comprehensive deeply respected framework from which you can choose what is right for you at the time. Kendras advice that you always have choice as to how you respond to your experience was the most powerful. It changes the equation to empowering you in the experience while fully welcoming the experience however painful.
Linda C
Kendra is the touchstone of my revelation - her calm spirit centres my being, supporting and guiding me spiritually and physically. My time with Kendra each week has been a journey of discovery, acknowledgement and growth, mentally, physically and spiritually. Without any imposition she identifies my pain and fears and provides me with guidance for me to build better practices and rhythms to support me in finding the person I am mentally physically and spiritually.
Lynnette H
Zen Recovery Course I really struggle with being kind to myself. This course challenged me to be okay with dropping into a state of less doing and more just being. Even just practicing one of the postures at the end of the day is okay.