Psychotherapy · Meditation · Embodied Dharma
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.
Offerings
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Hakomi Mindful-Somatic Psychotherapy
Hakomi-based somatic psychotherapy
A trauma-informed, experiential psychotherapy that uses mindfulness and somatic awareness to uncover and transform unconscious patterns. Grounded in the Hakomi method, these sessions invite a gentle and curious exploration of your inner experience, allowing implicit memories, beliefs, and emotional patterns to emerge into awareness. Through direct contact with the body, this work supports healing, regulation, and emotional integration — restoring a sense of connection, coherence, and wholeness.
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Focusing Oriented Therapy
A gentle path of inner listening and felt-sense awareness
Focusing is a body-based practice of deep listening that invites you into direct contact with your inner experience. Through a gentle and attentive awareness of the felt sense — the subtle, often unclear bodily knowing — this process allows what is held within to gradually come into form, meaning, and movement. Rather than analysing or trying to change experience, Focusing supports a natural unfolding from within, bringing clarity, integration, and a deeper sense of inner alignment.
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Tension & Trauma Release (TRE®)
A simple, powerful tool for nervous system regulation
A gentle yet powerful practice that supports the release of chronic stress and tension held in the body. By activating the body’s natural tremoring mechanism, TRE allows the nervous system to discharge stored activation in a safe and organic way. Over time, this process can support regulation, resilience, and a return to a more grounded and balanced state, helping the body to move out of patterns of holding and into greater ease.
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Meditation & Embodied Dharma
Spaces and teachings for awakening through direct experience
Alongside individual work, I offer spaces dedicated to the deepening of meditation and insight practice. These include retreats, courses, day retreats, and ongoing practice containers grounded in the Buddha’s teachings and supported through embodied awareness and inquiry. Through direct contact with present-moment experience, this work supports the unfolding of clarity, wisdom, compassion, and a deeper connection to ourselves, others, and life as it is.
Work with Renata
Upcoming Events
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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
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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Embodied Awakening - 6-day Meditation Retreat, NSW
Fri 25 Sep - Thu 1 Oct 2026, Wilton, NSW
Awakening isn’t happening anywhere else but here and now in this breathing, sensing, feeling, thinking body. And awakening isn’t an attainment, although we strive for it. There is actually nothing to gain, nothing to lose, but there is a shift in perception.
Upcoming Talks
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Lennox Insight Meditation - Lennox Head, NSW
Thu 28th May 2026, 7:00 pm AEST
Join Renata for meditation and Dharma Talk at Lennox Meditation. Topic TBA. The sessions are run by donation.
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Flowing Mountain Sangha - Brunswick Heads, NSW
Mon 8th Jun 2026, 6:15 pm AEST
Join Renata for meditation and Dharma Talk at Flowing Mountain Sangha. Topic TBA. The sessions are run by donation.
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Kuan Yin Meditation Centre - Lismore, NSW
Wed 10th Jun 2026, 7:00 pm AEST
Join Renata for meditation and Dharma Talk at Kuan Yin Meditation Centre. Topic TBA. The sessions are run by donation.


