About

Renata Malinauskas

Hello, I’m Renata.

I am a psychotherapist, teacher, and mentor.
My work supports clients and students to awaken to the truth of who they truly are.
I believe that a deep sense of wholeness and fulfilment becomes possible when we connect with the core of our being and live freely and authentically in the world.

Coming Home

At the heart of my work is a simple invitation - to come home.
Home to your body. Home to presence. Home to what’s quietly true beneath all striving and becoming.

When we slow down and listen, the body begins to speak. It has its own language - one that’s beyond thought, that knows how to guide us toward balance, authenticity, and freedom.

My work arises from this trust in the body’s intelligence and in the natural unfolding of life itself. I believe that healing doesn’t happen through effort or fixing; rather, it unfolds naturally when we begin to listen.

My Path & Background

Since I was young, I’ve been drawn to big questions - what it means to be alive, to be real, to love, and to live purposefully in the world. Growing up in an environment that didn’t always feel safe, my search for healing became inseparable from my search for truth.

Over time, I discovered that the body is not something to transcend or control, but the very doorway home - the place where everything we experience can be met, held, and integrated.

For more than fifteen years I’ve immersed myself in the Buddha Dharma through silent retreats, community practice, and study within Insight and Vajrayana traditions. These roots now flow through Still Water Insight, the space where I share meditation and Dharma teachings.

Alongside this, I’ve trained in somatic and trauma-informed modalities — including Hakomi, psychosomatic therapy, focusing, and TRE® - learning to honour the body’s innate wisdom and timing.

What moves through my work today is a weaving of these threads: contemplative depth, embodied presence, and the organic intelligence of the body.

Lineages & Influences

My way of working has been shaped by:

  • The Buddha Dharma - mindfulness, compassion, and insight into the nature of experience.

  • Somatic psychotherapy and trauma resolution - ways of listening to the body that invite safety and foster the integration of deeply held patterns and limiting beliefs.

  • The Diamond Approach and other embodied spiritual paths - bridges between psychology and awakening.

These influences meet as a living practice — a way of listening rather than directing, allowing what’s ready to unfold to lead the way.

My Current Offerings

I currently offer one-on-one sessions, meditation courses and retreats, and mentoring for seekers and teachers on the path toward embodied authenticity.

For further details or questions, you’re welcome to contact me via the Contact form.

Work with Renata

Work with Renata

My Qualifications and Certifications

  • ISITTA - Innate Somatic Intelligence Trauma Therapy Approach (Level I and II) - Embodywise - Sydney, NSW, Australia (2019-2022)

  • Insight Dharma Teacher Training and Mentoring Program - Insight Meditation Institute - Sydney, NSW, Australia (2021 - 2025)

  • HAKOMI Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy - Napier, New Zealand (2019-2021)

  • TRE (Tension and Trauma Release Exercises) Certification Training - TRE Australia - Sydney, NSW, Australia (2019-2020)

  • Mindfulness and Compassion Teacher Training - Insight Meditation Institute - Sydney, NSW, Australia (2019 - 2020)

  • Cert III in Psychosomatic Therapy - Psychosomatic Therapy College (PTC) - GC, QLD, Australia (2018)

  • Cert III and IV in Fitness - TAFE - SYD, NSW, Australia (2013-2014)

  • Sports Nutrition and Supplementation Specialisation - Sao Paulo University (USP) - SP, Brazil (2012)

  • Bachelor Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics - Sao Camilo University Centre - SP, Brazil (2008-2012)

  • Punchfit Trainer (2013) 

Extra Courses/ Self Development 

  • Eugene Gendlin - The Philosophy of the Implicit - Sydney, NSW, Australia (2019 - current)

  • Diamond Approach - Ridhwan Foundation - (2018 - current)

  • Tremor Revolution - TRE Australia - Sydney, NSW, Australia (2019)

  • Internal Family System (IFS) - IFS Training Australia - Sydney, NSW, Australia (2019)

  • Vipassana/Insight Meditation Silent Retreats - Over 500 days (2013-current)

  • Focusing Level I and II - Conscious Directions - Byron Bay, NSW, Australia (2018)

  • Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Foundation Training - Conscious Directions - Byron Bay, NSW, Australia (2018)

  • TRE (Trauma Release Exercise) workshops - TRE Australia - SYD, NSW, Australia (2018)

  • Hakomi Workshop - Sydney, NSW (2018)

  • Nutritional/ Herbal Technical Training - Herbs of Gold - SYD, NSW, Australia (2016)

  • RehabFx Sydney (2013) 

Volunteer Experiences 

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View fullsize Knowing Beyond Thought 🌿 I’ll be offering a talk tomorrow at Lennox Meditation on the theme of direct knowing — the kind of wisdom that arises not from thinking, but from being in intimate contact with our lived experience. Awakening i
View fullsize Tiny update from the past couple of months. A lot of movement. A new home. A new community. A new lifestyle. A shift in priorities. Lots of Creativity. And, most of all — slowness and self-care. Grateful for life’s gifts and challen
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View fullsize Lovely ending ritual offered to the staff in the final L2 module of our Hakomi training in Brisbane. I’m so grateful for this work. 💛🌱 If you are a therapist, health practitioner, or simply an advocate of the healing arts, I highly recommen
View fullsize One of my favourite Zen sayings. 🌙 We can read all the books, take all the courses… but in the end, the journey is about coming home to ourselves — to this moment, this breath, this body. 💛
View fullsize Last Sunday I held the Awakening the Heart day retreat in Narrabeen. As always, it was a real joy to facilitate a space for silence, meditation, inquiry, and learning. Together we explored the four boundless heart qualities—kindness, compassio