Who I am

I was always the curious child asking the big questions and, as I grew up, I explored many spiritual traditions to find the answers. In my 20s, as I lived and traveled abroad, my view of life kept expanding. I came to see the truth in the old Sufi proverb:

‘There are as many paths to God as there are souls on earth.’ 

As I explored how we could live a deeply abundant and authentic life from the depths of our soul, and how we could feel happy and awake to life’s truth, I applied various beliefs, practices, and philosophies to my own journey.   

My pivotal moment came when I experienced the powerful notion that I am not my thoughts:

‘I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness.’

~ Eckhart Tolle

From this recognition, I immersed myself in meditation (with a leaning towards non dual practices) and eventually came to explore yoga, with an emphasis on the mind.

I loved my yoga training and working with the mind through practice. Around this time, I met my meditation teacher who helped me go directly to where meditation leads us. He saved me many years that I might have otherwise spent understanding meditation, its purpose and varied approaches. To this day, he is my friend and we continue to work closely together. I lovingly share the wisdom that he has gifted me. 

For more than 10 years, I have been applying my teachings at the award-winning eco yoga retreat, Billabong Retreat. Becoming the senior yoga teacher and working with large groups and individuals, I gained a deep appreciation for what really helps people and yoga’s power to heal and transform.

I was privileged to teach around 30 retreat visitors each week and I got to witness how powerful the tools of yoga are in transforming one’s state in a short span of time. After each class, I would see people softening, connecting, slowing down, and returning to the essence of who they truly are. I could clearly see that, at our core, we are all love, but life experiences lead us to build an armour around ourselves and close off to love. Yoga, meditation and time to oneself reconnects us to our true essence and strips away that which no longer serves us. It bring us back to love. 

Curious about how I could go deeper in helping people access their inner truth and answers, I began to study transpersonal coaching. I learnt that, sometimes, you just need more of a personal approach. One on one time with a soul who acts as a ‘mirror’, who can bring amazing listening skills and ask the right questions for you to inquire into your limiting beliefs and uncover your own truth. This more personal approach is powerful and transformative, and I am now a passionate advocate of this practice. 

Nature has also been a bountiful teacher. I grew up camping with my family, and later hiking solo in the Torres del Paine in Patagonia and on the Overland Hike in Tasmania. I actively seek time in nature, particularly nights out under the stars. My relationship with Mother Earth continues to strengthen, and I know just how richly nature can add to one’s personal growth and healing.  

From this beautiful lifelong journey, I have discovered there are many paths that lead a soul ‘home’—and so I offer you many ways of working with me.

I see my work as a braid … I weave together individual ‘strands’ of modalities and practices to create a strong support—a combined approach that is stronger than any of its individual parts. 

With every ‘strand’, I weave a single message:

Let us go on a journey to return to our true selves. And from there let us live a life that is richly present and awake with understanding, from a place of truth/right view and not conditioning. 

It would be my honor to join you on your journey.

With kindness

Basia

What I offer you…

• Personal learning and unfolding
• A path to awareness
• A deeper connection to Source, Spirit, the Universe, Capital Self, Consciousness, Awareness, Life … something greater than yourself
• The realisation that you are not your thoughts, and an awareness beyond your conditioning
• A deeper connection with nature

Artist Bio

Beyond a yoga and meditation teacher, I am a university qualified mixed media artist living in the magnificent Blue Mountains.

I began my career in graphic design but changed directions artistically when my inner journey led me to explore the powerful transformative power of yoga and meditation. My art is now more fluid, mirroring my practice, and my creations are themselves vessels for inner enquiry.

I work with various mediums such as alcohol inks, natural inks, mixed media and digital. And while different works hold different purposes through my work I hope a connection to inquiry is created and they act as reminders for their practice.