Helping You Express Your Life in Harmony with Your Nature
Mother & Wise Earth Ayurveda Food, Breath, & Sound Counsellor (specialising in behavioural practice, Jyotish & Dharma) - helping nourish diversity within wholeness of family.
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Since 2004, the Vedic healing system has been key to my personal physical and emotional healing, and profoundly helpful in my role as a mother nurturing three children. It has helped to overcome digestive health issues for my son when he was young, lighting a path back to natural food and the medicine it gives. Ayurveda has also supported me in my response to mental and emotional health issues. It has provided tools to help me understand my children and my husband with more kindness and compassion, and most of all, it helps me cultivate a deeper sense of wholeness, inner harmony, and creative choice with my own life. I will be forever grateful for the practical wisdom and tools that Ayurveda, Jyotish, and Yoga provide me. I wish to share what I have found helpful and do what I can to support others with these tools. My heart is with motherhood and family and providing support to other parents and individuals, and care and leadership of our young people in self-awareness and self-care.​
I am an Ayurvedic health educator and lifestyle counsellor, not a clinical practitioner. This means that I communicate teachings, guide understanding, and provide objective awareness, reflection, and general guidance. I don't diagnose health conditions. I support self-awareness, self-trust, and self-care. I support the beauty and wisdom of diversity within wholeness.​
Didileia (Didi)
I am here to listen to how you feel,
and empower you in simple, daily ways of being as the leader of your own life.
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Student of Dr. David Frawley & Maya Tiwari
I have always been very aware of other people's opinions. I respect the experience and wisdom of those who have gone before me, and the focus of youth. But I think it is important to recognise what to continue and what must change, and I have needed to find my own truth. This has been even more necessary as a mother, to lead by example in what I know to be good. There is much emotional "heavy lifting" in motherhood, especially when we are leading our family in change.
There have been three major challenges I have had to overcome:
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to trust my inner wisdom and value the role I play.
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to use my high sensitivity as a gift and strength.
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to recognise the power of feeling on physiology to nourish or destroy and be in charge of my emotional power and inner landscape.​
Self-awareness, understanding natural boundaries, and expression of feeling have been key.​ I support personal leadership because I understand the needs, challenges, and influence of different roles within family. And the self-empowerment that comes from self-awareness and behavioural practice. We truly are the leader of our own life.
Experience
Married for 27 years.
Mother of one son and two daughters, aged 26, 24, and 15 (all highly sensitive, powerful, creative individuals).
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CHILDREN & COMMUNITY:
Assistant of three-person team conducting healthy eating programme, Warragul Primary School, 2019.
Two-year joint facilitator of school garden and cooking programme, Warragul Primary School, 2010 to 2012.
Two-year joint facilitator of mothers' support group, "Connections through Conversation", Warragul, 2015 & 2016.
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CREATIVE ARTS:
Songwriter with album recording "Ananda", 2006
Songwriter and vocalist, member of Island Sound and Iaramas family bands, 1987 to present.
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STUDENT OF VEDIC SCIENCES SINCE 2004:
Certified Wise Earth Ayurveda Food, Breath & Sound Lifestyle Consultant, 2022
1-year Dharma Mentorship with Saraswati Miller 2021-2022
Certified Ayurvedic Life-Style Consultant, 2016 - Dr. David Frawley, American Institute of Vedic Studies
Certified Foundation Vedic Counsellor, 2018 - Dr. David Frawley, American Institute of Vedic Studies
Moon Shakti Medicine - Maya Tiwari, Wise Earth School of Ayurveda 2021
Womb Shakti Medicine - Maya Tiwari, Wise Earth School of Ayurveda 2020
Personal research and learning on Jyotish & Nakshatras,
(Sources: Saraswati Miller, Dr. Frawley, Laura Plumb, Sam Geppi, Ryan Kurczak, Vic DiCara, Ruth Hadikin, Dr Arjun Pai, Achala Sylwia Mihajlović, Simon Chokoisky)
Participant, Kundalini Children's Yoga Workshop 2004 with Lana Reed (Radiant Child Yoga, Shakta Kaur Khalsa)
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INFORMATION SYSTEMS:
Bachelor of Computing (Information Systems) Degree - Monash University
Admin Temp Support - Kelly Services
IT Support and Reception for 2 years - AUSLIG (Australian Surveying & Land Information Group)
Partner in business for 12 years - Database, Website, Maps & Navigation Retail​ - Worth I.T. & MapsPlus
Qualified Senior Medical Transcriptionist 4 years - OzeScribe & Hoxton MPM​​
My Teachers
I am blessed to have had the opportunity to learn from some important Yoga, Ayurveda, Jyotish and Dharma teachers ...
Lana Reed
Radiant Child Yoga (formerly) & Poet Qi Gong
Dr. David Frawley
American Institute of Vedic Studies
Maya Tiwari
Wise Earth School of Ayurveda
Saraswati J. Miller
Dharma Coach, Embodied Jyotish
Also: Classes with Laura Plumb and Sam Geppi, and resources from David Crow, Ryan Kurczak, Vic DiCara, Ruth Hadikin, Dr Arjun Pai, Achala Sylwia Mihajlović, Simon Chokoisky.