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Hello, I’m Renata.

I’m a psychotherapist, teacher and mentor. My work is devoted to supporting people to awaken to their true nature and live from a place of wholeness and freedom.

I am passionate about self-inquiry as a gateway to wholeness — a way of coming into direct contact with life as it unfolds, moment to moment. I believe that what we seek in life already lives within us. Yet through trauma, conditioning, or nervous system dysregulation, we often become disconnected from our bodies and from the deeper intelligence that guides us.

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Offerings

Body-Centred Therapy

Hakomi-based somatic psychotherapy
A trauma-informed, experiential therapy that uses mindfulness and somatic awareness to uncover and transform unconscious patterns. Grounded in the Hakomi method, these sessions support healing, regulation, and emotional integration through the body’s innate intelligence.

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Tension & Trauma Release Exercises (TRE®)

A simple, powerful tool for nervous system regulation
A gentle yet powerful practice that helps release chronic stress and trauma held in the body. By activating the body’s natural tremoring mechanism, TRE supports nervous system regulation, resilience, and a return to grounded ease.

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Mentoring

Dharma Applied in Daily Life
An embodied, inquiry-based space for meditation practitioners and seekers to integrate the Dharma into everyday life. These sessions support the meeting of spiritual insight and human experience, bringing clarity, presence, and compassion to life as it unfolds.

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Insight Meditation

Insight Meditation Teachings and Events
A space dedicated to awakening through the practice of Insight Meditation. Rooted in the Buddha’s teachings on clear seeing (Vipassana), we offer retreats, courses, and talks to support the deepening of presence, wisdom, and freedom.

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Work with Renata

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Upcoming Teachings and Events

Meditation and Dharma Talk - Flowing Mountain Sangha

Mon 19th Jan 2026, 7:00 pm AEST, Brunswick Heads, NSW
Join Renata for meditation and Dharma Talk at Flowing Mountain on Monday 19th Jan 2026. Topic TBA. The sessions are run by donation.

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Meditation and Dharma Talk - Sky Sangha

Tue 17th Mar 2026, 7:00 pm AEST, Online
Join Renata for meditation and Dharma Talk at Sky Sangha on Tuesday 17th Mar 2026. Topic TBA. The sessions are run by donation.

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Clear Seeing Day Retreat

Sun 29th Mar 2026, 10am-4:30pm AEST, North Narrabeen, NSW
The Clear Seeing day retreat offers a gentle invitation to pause and return to your inner ground. Through rest and embodied awareness, the body unwinds, the mind softens, and clarity begins to reveal itself.

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The Inner Rhythm of Being - 6-Day Insight Meditation Retreat

Fri 26th Jun Thu 2nd Jul 2026, Wilton, NSW
he Inner Rhythm of Being Retreat is an invitation to slow down, soften, and reconnect with the innate intelligence of the body. The body is a vehicle for awakening—for, as the Buddha taught, all the teachings are found within this very body.

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“ Renata is an absolutely incredible therapist. I couldn’t recommend her highly enough! She has the gift to make you feel so welcome, seen and heard the moment you meet her. She creates an incredibly safe space for you to drop in, go deep, and fully surrender to the process. I have had incredible insights and experienced a deep transformation during our sessions. “
Sophie S.
“I'm so grateful for the guidance Renata has given me. For a long time I was looking for someone to help me move beyond the state of anxiety and shutdown that I was in. It wasn't until I worked with Renata guiding me, that I was able to tap into what was driving my nervous system dysregulation and constant reactiveness. I feel so much more grounded and peaceful since the somatic healing with Renata. I'd recommend her to anyone struggling with emotional overwhelm or who wants to grow and heal.”
Schecani
“I felt so grateful for the TRE practice yesterday. I feel I take something new and fresh away into my sitting practice from it.
Renata is a very good teacher, enriched I feel, by her commitment to her own personal work.“
Kate I.
“TRE was such a unique experience from which I am sure I will continue to benefit as I practice regularly. I certainly feel the best I have for quite a while and am so grateful for the way Renata led this simple but profound technique.”
Maryanne
“Renata is a gifted teacher with a rare ability to truly tune in to each individual. She honours people’s unique responses while offering what feels genuinely supportive and appropriate for them.
Her depth of study in the Dharma is evident, and it’s a joy to receive teachings that are both grounded and deeply informed. I love the spaciousness and authenticity she brings, as well as the way she weaves in an understanding of trauma and the unconscious when working with deep emotional material.
I especially appreciated the class on the Inner Critic. Above all, Renata truly lives what she teaches—and that is something very special to experience.”
Deborah B.
“I felt that I covered more in five sessions with Renata than I had with any other psychologist or CBT specialist or NLP practitioner in the past.”
Juni R.