A path of coming home and living from your inner wisdom

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Hello, I’m Renata.

I’m a somatic psychotherapist and meditation teacher. 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. 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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Upcoming Events

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

    Foundations of Mindfulness - 8-Week Meditation Course - Online

    Wed 21st Oct - 9th Dec 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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  • Release, Restore & Reconnect - TRE® Class - Mullumbimby, NSW

    Release, Restore & Reconnect - TRE® Class - Mullumbimby, NSW

    12 Sept • 10 Oct • 14 Nov • 12 Dec 2026, 11:15am-12:45 pm AEST, Mullumbimby, NSW

    Using a combination of Tension & Trauma Release Exercises (TRE®), mindful movement, fascial-based practices, and somatic awareness, this class supports the body's natural capacity to release, restore, and self-regulate.

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  • Clear Seeing - One Day Insight Meditation Retreat

    Clear Seeing - One Day Insight Meditation Retreat

    Sun 18 April 2027, Narabeen, NSW

    The Clear Seeing day retreat is a gentle invitation to pause and come home to yourself. Through rest and embodied awareness, the body settles, the mind softens, and space opens for clarity to emerge.

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  • Awakening the Heart - One Day Insight Meditation Retreat

    Awakening the Heart - One Day Insight Meditation Retreat

    Sun 19 Sept 2027, Narrabeen, NSW

    This one-day silent retreat is an opportunity for you to deepen your connection with the boundless qualities of the heart – kindness, joy, compassion, and equanimity – as a foundation for developing insight and freedom.

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Upcoming Talks

  • Bluegum Sangha - North Sydney, NSW

    Bluegum Sangha - North Sydney, NSW

    Mon 19th Oct 2026, 7 pm AEST

    Join Renata for meditation and Dharma Talk at Bluegum Sangha. Topic TBA. The sessions are run by donation.

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  • Lennox Insight Meditation - Lennox Head, NSW

    Lennox Insight Meditation - Lennox Head, NSW

    Thu 12th Nov , 10th Dec 2026, 6:15 pm AEST

    Join Renata for meditation and Dharma Talk at Lennox Meditation. Topic TBA. The sessions are run by donation.

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Work with Renata

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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.

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View fullsize So much of how we perceive reality is shaped by past experiences, memories and familiar patterns of interpretation. When we loosen our identification with these familiar ways of perceiving and turn towards the felt sense in the body, we open to a di
View fullsize To me, spirituality that does not include the self - our emotions, feelings, preferences, and the fullness of our human experience - is incomplete. Ultimately, we are here as human beings, living on this earth. The Buddha’s teachings on mindf
View fullsize I look forward to giving a talk at Bluegum Sangha today on a topic that is very dear to my heart - ‘Living from the Ground’. If you’re curious to find out more, you’re very welcome to join us. All levels of meditation experi
View fullsize This evening, I’ll be offering a Dharma talk at Lennox Insight on the theme of Wise Attention (yoniso manasikāra). What we pay attention to, and how we pay attention, profoundly shapes our relationship with ourselves and the world. We’l