Jan Denecke is a Sydney-based mind-body practitioner. With a background in clinical nutrition, yoga and mindfulness teaching, and a student of diverse healing philosophies and practices, Jan knows his stuff when it comes to helping his clients uncover their most authentic self.

Originally from the Netherlands, Jan opens up about his own personal healing journey, the reason he settled in Australia, what good health means to him, and why he established Upaya Wellbeing in Sydney, together with so much more.

As a practitioner and someone deeply interested in the ongoing journey of understanding who I am, I found this conversation resonated on so many levels. Jan is warm and wise, a passionate advocate for self-kindness and bringing balance back into our lives, and bodies.

Follow Jan on Instagram at @upaya_wellbeing and on his website, www.theholistichealthcoach.com.au.

Jasmin Choice is a Sydney-based holistic kinesiologist who supports her clients to connect with the self-healer within. With a strong focus on mind-body medicine, Jasmin helps her clients to shed subconscious layers of physical and emotional stress in order to feel calmer, clearer and more connected with their self.

After seeing a kinesiologist while living in France, Jasmin's journey as a practitioner and small business owner with Inner Wisdom Kinesiology has been an evolution, one that she shares in this episode.

Follow Jasmin on Instagram at @inner_wisdom_kinesiology or visit her website - www.innerwisdomkinesiology.com.

For people who become practitioners, in many instances, they work to support and guide individuals on a healing journey that they themselves have taken. This is certainly true for Sydney-based Louise Siwicki, who is certified in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Hypnotherapy and Time Line Therapy®, and who uses these practices to support clients on their fertility journeys.

After years of tests, doctors, treatments, needles, turmoil, anxiety, and fear from her own challenges with infertility, Louise now helps other women (and men) on their journey with bringing new life into the world. Louise is warm, genuine, vulnerable and deeply passionate about the work she does, and you can hear it in the way she shares her story.

Episode 9 is live from Monday 22 November. Available on all good podcast platforms - Apple, Google, Spotify, Amazon/Audible and iHeart Radio.

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Follow Louise on Instagram at @louise.siwicki or find her online at www.louisesiwicki.com.

It may be a social media post, a podcast episode, a book or a workshop that we come across and something in the content resonates with us. That content may inspire a new personal insight, a new course of study, a career or life change, or for Jay Harris, a breakthrough moment.

In this episode, I chat with life strategist and coach Jay Harris of Jay Harris Coaching. Based on the NSW Central Coast, Jay offers one-on-one coaching, strategy sessions and workshops to help people clarify what's holding them back, and from there, how to move forwards towards a life of greater joy, freedom and intention.

We explore Jay's journey from mortgage broker to lifestyle entrepreneur, and all of the insights he has learned along the way.

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Follow Jay on Instagram at @jayharris247 or find him on his website - www.jayharris.com.au.

Yanan always knew she didn’t want the expected career everyone else in her native South Korea were taught to go after. She wanted to find her calling. Not knowing what direction to look in, she gave herself until she was 30 years old to find what that calling might be. As this deadline approached, Yanan came across an article discussing acupuncture. It was a lightbulb moment, and a turning point for Yanan’s life.

From that moment to now, Yanan is an acupuncturist, Chinese herbalist and founder of multidisciplinary practice, Project Dao in Sydney’s inner city suburb of Alexandria. Project Dao’s philosophy is focused on ‘coming home to the body’, and to help its community go on that journey, its practitioners provide services in acupuncture, massage therapy, compassionate inquiry, movement therapy, tai chi and Qigong.

In this conversation, Yanan is open and vulnerable, sharing her struggles, her insights and the way her personal lessons have influenced her work.

From performance studies to physiotherapy, Claire Dunn has certainly come to understand the human body through different lenses. A physiotherapist and founder of Luna Physiotherapy (Central Coast, NSW), Claire is passionate about women’s health and seeing people reconnect with and re-learn to appreciate their amazing bodies.

Claire has a quiet confidence and groundedness, which makes it easy to feel instantly comfortable in her company. Our chat meandered from the list of questions I had prepared and I’m glad it did. We talk about her very non-linear path to physiotherapy, the insight provided by permaculture, the lessons gifted from having her two children, and like many businesses, how Covid has influenced the direction of her wellness practice.

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Follow Claire on Instagram at @lunaphysiotherapy and online at www.lunaphysiotherapy.com.au

Rebecca Marks is an acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist based in Hobart, Tasmania. After a number of years working in multi-modality clinics in inner-city Sydney, Rebecca decided it was time for a slower pace of life, a backyard and a dog, and relocated to Tassie.

In 2020, she opened her practice, South Hobart Acupuncture, and from day one had people booking in for her services.

Rebecca is warm and grounded, and her insights in this conversation are worth a listen. In our chat, we talk about her journey to becoming an acupuncturist, the power of networking, and why creating a business plan from the outset can save you headaches at a later date.

Find Rebecca on Instagram at @southhobartacu and online at https://www.rebeccamarks.com.au/

In this chat, I speak with Rashida Dungarwalla, a registered psychologist who I worked with at psychology practice The Indigo Project. Rashida is such a beautiful soul.

When I first met her, I was drawn to her style, warmth and presence, so it’s no surprise to me that she continues to go from strength to strength in her practice. This year, she created her business, Flow State Space, which is her space to share her therapy knowledge, online resources that she’s contributed her expertise to, and her growing profile in mental health.

In this conversation, we dive into Rashida’s journey of becoming a psychologist, so this episode is a great one for anyone considering becoming a psychologist.

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Follow Rashida on Instagram @flow.state.space.

The resources Rashida's mentions in this episode include: