Healing and Awakening Through the Body

A path to coming home and living from your inner wisdom.

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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

  • One on One

    One on One

    A space for self-inquiry, healing, and reconnection.

    These sessions offer a deeply attuned, body-centred approach that supports the unfolding of awareness, the integration of past experience, and a more intimate relationship with yourself. Grounded in somatic therapy, trauma resolution, and contemplative practice, this work moves at a pace that honours your nervous system and your unique process.

  • Meditation and Embodied Dharma

    Meditation and Embodied Dharma

    A path of practice rooted in direct experience.

    Through retreats, courses, and ongoing practice spaces, this work supports the deepening of presence, insight, and understanding. Grounded in the teachings of the Buddha and expressed through the body, it invites a lived integration of awareness into everyday life.

  • Holistic Health & Movement

    Holistic Health & Movement

    A space to reconnect with your body and inner vitality.

    This work approaches health and wellbeing as an integrated journey — weaving strength, mobility, flexibility, and nutrition with mindful awareness. It supports a more attuned and sustainable way of relating to your body, grounded in its natural capacity to heal, move, and thrive.

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Upcoming Events

  • Clear Seeing Day Retreat - Narrabeen

    Clear Seeing Day Retreat - Narrabeen

    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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  • Foundations of Mindfulness - 8-Week Meditation Course - Online

    Foundations of Mindfulness - 8-Week Meditation Course - Online

    Wed 15th Apr - 3rd Jun 2026, 7-8:30 pm AEST, Online

    This eight-week course is an invitation to learn and deepen the foundations of mindfulness as taught by the Buddha. Rooted in the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, the course supports the gradual cultivation of awareness, presence, and the capacity to meet experience with greater clarity and spaciousness.

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  • The Inner Rhythm of Being - 6-Day Meditation Retreat - Sydney

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

    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.

Stay Connected @renatamalinauskas_

View fullsize I’m delighted to be joining my Dharma sister, Gabrielle McMahon, as a resident teacher with Lennox Insight Meditation. It feels like a real honour to step into this container, which has been held so steadily over the past 18 months, with many
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View fullsize I’m so delighted to be facilitating The Inner Rhythm of Being retreat again this year, and this time alongside two Dharma sisters, Gabrielle McMahon and Sandi Middleton, each bringing a lot of depth and wisdom in their own way. This retreat is
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View fullsize I’m happy to share a few upcoming opportunities for connection and practice, including retreats, courses, and community gatherings. Much of my current work centers on supporting the development of trust in the innate intelligence of the body -