Kendra Healing Arts

Kendra Healing Arts A Complementary Health Care Service integrating trauma informed Yoga Therapy & Bodywork to restore a more embodied path of healing trauma and stress.

Kendra Healing Art's focus is on offering holistic mental, physical and spiritual development through embodiment and yogic healing. We recognize the body's profound wisdom as a journey to wholeness and happiness. We offer in-person trauma sensitive yoga therapy and meditation classes (both group and private), online yoga classes and courses such as my 8-week Zen Recovery course, bodywork such as remedial massage and reflexology and Yoga Therapy. Unsure what you need? Book a free 15-minute wellbeing call to be guided on where to start. For group yoga classes, here is Kendra's teaching schedule:
Yoga MINDBODY Mondays @ 9.30am
Yoga for Emotional Wellbeing Tuesdays @ 6pm. Yoga for RESILIENCE Fridays @ 9.30am. All classes are held at The Wellness Space in Phillip except for Fridays 9.30am held at Canberra Yoga Space.

09/09/2026

Have you ever tried to meditate because you know it’s meant to help, only to find that sitting still seems to make everything louder?

For some people with a history of trauma, being asked to sit still, close the eyes, focus inward or stay with the breath can be re-triggering. Rather than creating a sense of calm, meditation can sometimes increase distress or contribute to feeling numb, disconnected or dissociated from the body.

That doesn’t necessarily mean meditation isn’t for you. It may mean you need a different way in.

In my free guide, How to Meditate When You’re Feeling Anxious, I share three somatic shifts I use personally and with my clients: move before you meditate, safety not silence, and use your inner resource.

These shifts offer a more trauma-sensitive way to approach meditation — beginning with what you notice in your body and what feels supportive, rather than expecting yourself to immediately become still or quiet.

If meditation has felt difficult, uncomfortable or out of reach when you’re anxious, click the link in my bio for free access to your free course How to Meditate When Feeling Anxious. 🙏


FREE COURSE ~ HOW TO MEDITATE WHEN ANXIOUSMeditation is often recommended to support anxiety.But what isn't talked about...
29/08/2026

FREE COURSE ~
HOW TO MEDITATE WHEN ANXIOUS

Meditation is often recommended to support anxiety.

But what isn't talked about as often is that not every meditation practice is trauma-aware.

If sitting still or focusing on the breath hasn't felt like the right place to begin, there may be another way to approach meditation.

I've created a free guide called Supporting Anxiety in Meditation: 3 Trauma-Aware Shifts.

Inside, I share three practical shifts that can change the way you approach meditation.

You'll discover why movement may come before stillness, why creating a sense of safety can come before silence, and how an inner resource can become an anchor for your practice.

It can be surprising to discover that meditation doesn't always begin with stillness. Sometimes, the shift is learning how to work with anxiety rather than against it.

If you're curious about a trauma-aware approach to meditation, download the free guide using the link in bio.

28/08/2026

Every body arrives with a story.

Anxiety, grief, ADHD, complex trauma, confusion, collective trauma — we don’t leave what we’re feeling at the door. What we bring can shape how we experience yoga.

This is part of why trauma sensitivity matters. It asks us to consider not only what we offer in yoga, but how we offer it.

If you’re curious, come and try a trauma-sensitive yoga class Friday at 9:30am in Kingston, Canberra, or join online from anywhere in Australia.

Or, if you’d like to dive deeper, I’m currently taking expressions of interest for my next 8-week Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) course, an evidence-based approach developed for complex trauma and chronic PTSD.

The focus isn’t on getting the shape right. It’s on noticing your own experience, exploring choice, and finding your own relationship with your body and the practice.

What you bring belongs in the room.

WHAT CAN COERCION LOOK LIKE IN YOGA?Have you ever been in a yoga class where you wanted to stop, move differently, keep ...
20/08/2026

WHAT CAN COERCION LOOK LIKE IN YOGA?

Have you ever been in a yoga class where you wanted to stop, move differently, keep your eyes open, or simply not do what was being offered?

And did you feel there was genuinely room for that choice?

I’m interested in this because trauma so often involves having our needs ignored, our boundaries crossed, or our voices silenced. Over time, someone else’s agenda can come to matter more than our own lived experience.

So what happens when we bring that history — whether we recognise it as trauma or not — into a yoga room?

These are some of the questions at the heart of Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY).

TCTSY was developed in a clinical context specifically for complex trauma and PTSD and has an evidence base supporting its use as an adjunctive intervention. Rather than assuming what somebody should do or feel, the practice creates opportunities for noticing, choosing, changing your mind and deciding what you do with your own body.

I’m curious: what helps a yoga practice feel like your practice?

My next 8-week TCTSY course in Canberra is now open for enrolment. If you’d like to know more about how the course works, more info through my link in bio.

A MINI COURSE TO GET STARTEDYou’ve done the inner work.You understand your patterns.You’ve reflected on your past.Maybe ...
13/08/2026

A MINI COURSE TO GET STARTED

You’ve done the inner work.

You understand your patterns.
You’ve reflected on your past.
Maybe you’ve been in therapy for years.

And still, there are moments when your body seems to respond before you have a choice.

You tense.
You shut down.
You become overwhelmed.
You disconnect.
You know what would help — and somehow you can’t access it.

This is often the point where people find me.

Because there can come a time in healing when understanding why is no longer the whole conversation.

Your body wants to be included.

That’s why I created this 3-day self-paced mini course: 3 Signs You’re Ready to Reconnect With Your Body.

Over three self-paced days, I’ll help you explore the signs that your body may be ready for a somatic approach, why insight alone can sometimes leave something feeling unfinished, and what it means to begin listening to your experience from the inside.

You don’t need to know anything about somatics.

You don’t need to become better at feeling.

You can simply begin with curiosity:

What might my body have been trying to tell me all along?

If you’ve had the feeling that there’s another piece of your healing waiting to be explored, this may be it.

3 days. Self-paced. At home. Begin when you’re ready.

→ Link in bio

09/08/2026

Why We Started with TRE® Before Breathwork

One of the most rewarding parts of my work is watching people rediscover confidence in their own nervous system.

Recently, a client came to see me after a breathwork session that had left her feeling deeply distressed.

Rather than encouraging her to push through or try again straight away, we slowed everything down.

We worked with TRE®, trauma-sensitive principles, grounding and choice.

Not because TRE® is the answer for everyone, but because it offered her nervous system an opportunity to experience regulation in a way that felt manageable and supported.

As her confidence grew, she decided she was ready to return to breathwork.

This time, the experience was different.

She felt more present, more grounded and better able to stay connected with herself throughout the practice.

For me, that's what trauma-aware care looks like.

It's not about deciding that one modality is better than another.

It's about recognising that how we introduce a practice can be just as important as which practice we choose.

Sometimes learning to self-regulate becomes the foundation that allows other healing practices to be received more safely.

I'm curious...

Have you ever found that one practice prepared you for another?

Or has there been something that helped you feel more connected and regulated in your body?

I'd love to hear your experience.

If you're curious about developing these foundations in a trauma-aware way, join the waitlist for my Safe to Feel™ Embodiment Program. The link is in my bio.

Nothing holds me more than a tree. Word less.Nestled.Still.Breathing together.In deep time.Longing for the world to list...
09/08/2026

Nothing holds me more than a tree.

Word less.

Nestled.

Still.

Breathing together.

In deep time.

Longing for the world to listen.

Earth's deep embrace.

Beauty in the chaos.

Letting go

Rest

One.

The Cherry Ballart tree - serves as a profound living metaphor in First Nations spiritual traditions, symbolizing three core concepts:
Mutual Support & Respectful Coexistence:

As a hemi-parasite that thrives in harmony with host trees without harming them, it is a primary teaching tool for community symbiosis, sharing resources, and deep interconnectedness.
Protection & Safe Sanctuary: Its thick, weeping, curtain-like foliage is considered the physical dwelling and hiding place of the Marlimas (sacred spirit women), offering a safe space of solace, privacy, and maternal protection for women.

Do you have a favourite sit spot in nature?

Being in nature will be a part of the embodied experiences in the online Safe To Feel Embodiment Program.

Join the waitlist. Link in bio. 🌱


We are patterns of chaosGeometries specific and uniqueRotated by every challengeAnd resized by our mistakesMaria Popova ...
08/08/2026

We are patterns of chaos
Geometries specific and unique

Rotated by every challenge
And resized by our mistakes

Maria Popova thankyou 🙏

03/08/2026

Breathwork can be a profoundly healing practice.

But over the years I've also met many people who have left breathwork sessions feeling deeply distressed and in an unstable mental state.

This isn't about saying breathwork is "good" or "bad."

And it certainly isn't about blaming facilitators.

It's about recognising something we don't talk about enough:

As breathwork becomes more popular, trauma awareness needs to grow alongside it.

Not every nervous system is ready for the same practice, in the same way, at the same time.

When a body is already working hard to protect itself, more intensity isn't always what it needs first.

Sometimes it needs support.

Sometimes it needs choice.

Sometimes it needs to discover that it can yield as well as push.

These are the foundations I focus on before asking a nervous system to do more.

Through trauma-sensitive principles, tremoring, grounding and embodied awareness, we create the conditions for the body to reconnect with a felt sense of support. From there, practices like breathwork often become more resourcing, more regulating, and more connected.

I'm curious...

What has your experience with breathwork been?

Did you leave feeling calmer and more connected?

Or did you leave feeling overwhelmed or distressed?

I'd love to hear your experience.

If you'd like to learn more about this trauma-aware approach to working with your nervous system, join the waitlist for my Safe to Feel™ Embodiment Program or start with my 3 day mini course. 

The link is in my bio.

Slow yogaSlow walks Slow talkSlow poopsSlow moviesSlow travelSlow eatingSlow readingSlow downAnd if it's a struggle to, ...
02/08/2026

Slow yoga
Slow walks
Slow talk
Slow poops
Slow movies
Slow travel
Slow eating
Slow reading
Slow down

And if it's a struggle to, keep trying. There's nothing more urgent. Thanks again Báyò Akómoláfé, Ph.D. (Official)

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Wednesday 8:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday 9:15am - 4:30pm
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