MindfulWell Collective

02/09/2026

We've partnered with Waitākere Health Hub to bring you our Deep Rest Series community clinic, starting November. New 4-week rounds running regularly, women only, Wednesdays 6pm, koha-based, capped at 8 spots. A weekly time for you to rest, a quiet, somatic space to settle your nervous system, no pressure to engage or perform. More details to be updated soon, including how to book! Save this post and keep an eye out for updates. Make sure you sign up to our newsletter so you don't miss it. 🌿

31/08/2026

There’s a specific kind of heavy that shows up when it feels like too much all at once.

Zoomed in, that’s all you can see the overwhelm, the hard day, the sense that you’re not managing. Zoomed out, it’s often just one difficult stretch inside something that’s still moving forward.

You’re allowed to zoom out when you need to. Not to dismiss how hard it feels, but to remember there’s more of the picture than what’s right in front of you.

25/08/2026

No performance. No pushing. Just a slow way back to a body that's forgotten how to stop.

This is Deep Rest Series four weeks of somatic practice, calming breathwork, and mindfulness meditation, built for nervous systems that have been switched on for a long time. Nothing to get right. Nothing to perform. Just permission to settle, at whatever pace your body can actually trust.

You don't have to share, join in fully, or do anything "properly" sit quietly the whole time if that's what you need, or ease in further if that feels right instead. Either way, you'll be met.

🕯️ Online intake for October is open — join from wherever you are. In-person sessions coming soon, location to be confirmed. Scholarship spaces available.

Link in bio to find your spot..

24/08/2026

Reconnection isn't one thing. It's people, body, and place, all part of feeling like yourself again.

🤝 People, we're not meant to carry things alone. Being with others matters more than we think.
🧘 Body, it's been holding so much. It's allowed to soften.
🌿 Place, the outside world has a way of slowing us down when we let it.

This week, notice where you already have reconnection in your life, and where you might be craving a little more.

17/08/2026

A gentle reminder for anxious days. A resource to add to your kete, because the way we talk to ourselves matters. Save this for when when you need it.

14/08/2026

Deep Rest Series is available through our Online Community and in person somatic practice, calming tools, and mindfulness meditation, in a space you can keep coming back to.

The details:

- 4 x 1HR sessions, weekly
Fully online
- join from wherever you are
- Small group, trauma-informed, no experience needed

You'll leave with:

- A felt sense of what calm actually feels like in your body
- Simple tools to settle your nervous system, wherever you are
- A short, realistic practice to carry with you between rounds and build on each time you return
- Community and sense of connection

Held by Amy Reis Williams, counsellor and somatic facilitator, Founder of MindfulWell. Trauma-informed, warmth-led, every practice offered as an invitation, never an expectation.

No mat required. No experience needed. This isn't a one-off, it's a space that's here for you, whenever you need to come back to it.

📍 Link in bio DM us any questions.
Next Online Offering: Tuesday Evenings October 20th
Next in person Offering: TBC

Scholarship spaces Available

MindfulWell│Deep Rest Series A 4-week somatics and meditation series Come back to rest, one breath at a time. Deep Rest Series is a small, quiet space for the parts of you that have forgotten how to stop. No performance, no pushing — just a slow, guided way back to a body that can finally exhale...

12/08/2026

🌿 A gentle reminder for our MindfulWell whānau

Maternal mental health isn't a footnote to motherhood, it's central to it. And for many wāhine, the journey there is far from simple.

Whether you're trying to conceive, walking the hard road of fertility struggles, holding the grief of loss, moving through pregnancy, or in the blurry early months (or years) of parenting, your emotional and physical wellbeing matters at every step.

So many of us learned to push through in silence. To carry loss quietly. To keep trying without space to grieve. To call exhaustion "just what happens." At MindfulWell, we hold a different kaupapa your hauora is not optional, and none of what you're carrying needs to be carried alone.

If you're navigating any of this, the hope and heartbreak of fertility challenges, the grief of miscarriage or loss, the anxiety, the disconnection, the rage or numbness you didn't expect, we see you, and there is space here for all of it.

WE'RE HERE
Reach out, anytime
Counselling & wellbeing support for wāhine, at every stage of the journey.

12/08/2026

🙌What trauma-informed care looks like in practice

It means slowing down when something comes up, not rushing past it, and not rushing someone out the door afterwards either.

It means staying present without needing to fix, and letting each person move at their own pace, in their own time.

It means care doesn’t end when the session does.

“I wasn’t rushed or fixed I was just cared for the whole way through, and I returned in my own time, when I felt ready. I’ve never felt that safe before.”

If you’ve been carrying something you haven’t had room to feel yet, this is a space that can hold it.

28/07/2026

Kia ora e te whānau 🌿

At MindfulWell Collective | Wāhine Hauora, we believe access to rest, healing, and nervous system support should never be limited by financial circumstance.

That’s why, through the MindfulWell Community Scholarship, we’re proud to offer 3 scholarship places for our upcoming Nervous System Rewire Mini Retreat Thursday 7th August, 5–8pm, at Kula in Muriwai for wāhine who would benefit from this experience.

This retreat is designed to support women who are feeling depleted, overwhelmed, or disconnected from their bodies, offering somatic practices, breathwork, restorative yoga, and tools for lasting nervous system regulation.

We know that the women who often need this kind of space the most are the ones least able to prioritise themselves financially or otherwise. The MindfulWell Community Scholarship is one small way we’re working to change that, and it’s something we hope to offer at every retreat and workshop we run going forward.

To apply:
📧 Email [email protected] with your name and a brief note on your circumstances
🌐 Learn more about our mahi at www.mindfulwell.co.nz

Applications close 3rd of August or once all 3 places are filled. All enquiries are held with confidentiality and care.

The MindfulWell Community Scholarship is made possible through the ongoing support of the MindfulWell Charitable Trust, dedicated to community mental health and wellbeing across West Auckland.

Ngā mihi,
The MindfulWell Collective | Wāhine Hauora team

21/05/2026

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