Be Your Own Guru

Be Your Own Guru I offer body-based holistic health support through Yin Yoga, fascial unwinding, and personalised 1:1 sessions. The aim is not dependency, but capacity.

Holistic Health Practitioner
Yin Yoga | Fascial Unwinding | Personalised 1:1 Support
I offer body-based practices & 1:1 services that support a return to peace & calm. My work centres on listening to the body as an intelligent system. Rather than forcing change, we create the conditions for regulation, release, and insight to emerge naturally. This may support nervous system balance, reduced tensi

on, greater body awareness, and a stronger sense of self-trust. I donโ€™t position myself as the expert over your experience. Instead, I work alongside you to help you reconnect with your own inner guidance. Tools you can feel, understand, and carry into daily life. This is slow, embodied work for people who want sustainable change and a deeper relationship with themselves. [email protected]

Post eclipse integration is a thing, and we're in it until mid month.How are you riding the waves and integrating what a...
05/09/2026

Post eclipse integration is a thing, and we're in it until mid month.

How are you riding the waves and integrating what arose?

Sometimes we could do with a bit of therapeutic support in aiding to realign the body, our mind and our energy bodies. We are a complex yet simplistic constellation of many components.

If you're feeling the need for some gentle space to be heard either by talking, in deep fascia work or energetic healing - consider booking yourself in for some needed self care.

Sessions are held at the peaceful and beautiful Misty River Retreat, Blenheim.
Also available online as energy knows no bounds.
They're unique and tailored to your needs.
The affects are felt immediately and can continue post session.

Or perhaps you're in need of community gathering?
Women's Circle is ::
19 September 2026
4pm - 6pm

Or stretching your body to aid in quietening your mind & settling your nervous system.
Yin Yoga
Wednesdays
630pm | 75mins

Feel welcome to chat if you're ready for your next step.

Love Heidi & Angel
๐Ÿ’—

100 CLASSES!!Last night we acknowledged 100 x Wednesday Yin Yoga Classes here in Blenheim!Thank you to each & every indi...
02/09/2026

100 CLASSES!!

Last night we acknowledged 100 x Wednesday Yin Yoga Classes here in Blenheim!

Thank you to each & every individual who has ever joined us for a Yin Yoga class at Body Restore Clinic.

Yin Yoga is one of my favorite practices to cultivate our relationship with ourselves - the MOST important relationship there will ever be.

Many of our participants have been coming from the very beginning and say this is now simply a part of their weekly ritual. Turning down other invitations as to not miss it!

We're missing Yin & Cacao sessions on Sundays, though I am very slowly working to create its return.
2 hours of uninterrupted time for yourself + cacao + nourishing stretches + more... Stay tuned.

Wishing your body & mind much fluidity & joy!

๐Ÿง˜โ€โ™‚๏ธ

Coming home to your body, isn't always some wonderfully easy ride rich with pleasure and good vibes.For many, the reason...
26/08/2026

Coming home to your body, isn't always some wonderfully easy ride rich with pleasure and good vibes.

For many, the reason we might not be at home in our body, is the very reason we've been avoiding coming back to it.

The body remembers.

It remembers every piece of information your mind has been trying to forget.

The uncomfortable childhood
The schoolyard bullying
The fighting parents

Whatever it was, your body holds all your memories.

Often when we were little, we didn't know how or have the safe space to process/move emotion through that upset us, and so we coped the best way we could.

And sometimes that means shutting down to avoid the pain that a situation may have caused.

It could've been seemingly so small, such as grazing our knee and Mum wasn't immediately there to soothe us.

Coming back home to yourself might mean feeling the very thing you didn't know how to.

It means moving that energy through the body so that it can transform into something new.

Sometimes we need to learn what it is to feel.

We need to slowly build ourselves to feel in baby steps.
Steps that feel available.
Manageable.
Before we can really release the whole experience and story from our physical, emotional & energetic bodies.

We're all different in our availability and capacity to feel and shift energy.
It starts with allowing ourselves the safe space to feel, to allow energy to flow.

How is your relationship with your feelings and emotions?

Do they flow easily and freely or feel a bit stuck and stagnant?

If they're the later, perhaps there's a need for safety and an opportunity to explore a shift in internal patterning?

Curious to explore what is alive and ready to move?

Why most WON'T do Yin Yoga (or Yin Practices).Our brains are wired for pleasure.We'll chase hit after hit to make us fee...
18/08/2026

Why most WON'T do Yin Yoga (or Yin Practices).

Our brains are wired for pleasure.

We'll chase hit after hit to make us feels good.

Dopamine. Caffeine. HIIT. Adrenaline Activities. Taking action towards a Goal. Running. Social Media. Swiping. Dating. Short term visions. Being Busy.

We're constantly chasing the next hit.

What happens when we stop chasing that hit?

Withdrawal. Anxiety. Discomfort. Fear. Judgment. Shortness of Breath. Insecurity. Boredom. Aloneness.

Feeling the '๐Ÿ’ฉ' we didn't know we were avoiding.

Welcoming in our Yin Era, embracing our inner feminine, learning to receive & be pleasure without seeking are the gifts that Yin practices bring.

But before that, there's the 'feeling of the stuff' that's in the way of the gifts.

And most humans WON'T choose this.

They'll choose to ride the dopamine waves, to chase the next high, to live solely from their inner masculine, their ego mind.

Yin practices offer a recalibration, a re-wiring of giving/receiving, an invitation to experience your rich inner world, true innate pleasure & presence, and a new awareness of the things that distract. Allowing a more conscious choosing of creating a meaningful & intentional life.

Is your body and your mind in opposites?One busy doing flips & cartwheels, the other more still, stiff & stagnant than y...
18/08/2026

Is your body and your mind in opposites?

One busy doing flips & cartwheels, the other more still, stiff & stagnant than you would like?

Would you like to flip that around?

Let's get your mind more still & spacious, with your body being the one capable and willing to cartwheel & flip.

When we give attention to our body, moving it, stretching it, in unison with our breath and awareness, we can create inner peace & space.

Come try Yin Yoga.

Yin Yoga is a restful & restorative practice for anybody.

It's a floor based practice, stretching the body - our muscles, paying attention to our fascia which aids in releasing stored tension & stress. It's a gentle environment where you are your only focus. Come let your whole being unwind.

Join us Wednesdays at 6:30pm for a 75 minute practice.

Casual Classes & Concessions available.
Blenheim based.

Be Your Own Guru was never a business per se.I've never resonated with 'building a business' in the conventional sense.B...
16/08/2026

Be Your Own Guru was never a business per se.

I've never resonated with 'building a business' in the conventional sense.

Be Your Own Guru was a term that landed somewhere either before or after I'd moved to Canada, so 2014/5 or so. I wrote regular blogs, shared my journey, and tools of how I was taking radical responsibility for my healing journey. I loved writing and showing up.

Be Your Own Guru to me - means something so much bigger. The statement in and of itself says it. It's something that humanity forgot. That we are our own teachers, that we hold all the wisdom we could ever need, within us. This has been my teaching.

I've followed the quiet voice within, for many many years now.

It has lead me down a path that has carved something quite unique. Something that doesn't look the same as anybody else's. Something so left of field that there's not to many people (yet), who experientially understand.

But as I'm writing this, I'm beginning to feel something.

Most businesses have systems, structure, courses... there's a linear nature to them. They've been constructed from the mind, built from hard work, countless hours sitting in front of the laptop, pouring energy into it. 'Building a Business'. It's what we know, right?

But what if the business was already it's own energetic entity that had been born, and just needed nurturing. Like that of a child?

It's born with its own purpose in the world, and the creator of that, was simply growing with it, to hold it, so that it could be the expression of what it was destined to be. I'm sitting with this now.

If Be Your Own Guru has a persona, and it does, what would it say? How would it show up for others? What does 'she' want to create & express?

She feels like a powerful force, that is moving through me, inspiring others of their true potential.
She shows you what is possible.
She invites you to live unapologetically, and express your truest souls desire in the world.
She invites you to release the shackles that have held you captive and small.
She shines a light so bright that it helps you remember. Remember what was forgotten.
What you agreed to forget, but to now remember.

She creates spaces, so you can do this.
That you receive the space that you need, so you can access your deepest wisdom and shed the shackles.

Energy is what is real. The physical reality is created from our energetic reality. So when we master what is real, we create our physical.

Most are 'busy' (distracted) working away in the physical, trying to create, but forgetting what is real.

If you're doing this, its possible you're missing the point.

The most valuable key point, is that life is within us. Everything is within. We ARE our creators, and this is where it begins, not the other way around.

Are you ready to flip ๐Ÿ’ฉ on its head, and remember who you really are?

I believe that one of the greatest gifts we can give another, is the gift of our presence.  The gift of being seen & hea...
14/08/2026

I believe that one of the greatest gifts we can give another, is the gift of our presence.

The gift of being seen & heard without the need for anything else. No fixing, no advice giving, no solutions.

Unfortunately it's a rare gift as not many offer this, yet we all hold the capacity within us.

Learning basic counselling skills back in 2005 was fundamental & transformational in beginning to understand communication.

Listening to a client with 'Beginners Mind' was a skill we had to practice whilst listening to another. The ability to quieten our own mind, and receive what was being shared without our stories or understanding. Practicing curiosity around the clients understanding and to not impose our own perspective on top of theirs. It's a skill that takes practice over and over again. And it's one I honesty wish every human would practice.

Being seen offers us safety.
It offers our stories an opportunity to be heard, the gifts of them received, and then the possibility of transformation from having them truly witnessed.
It enables our guards to drop.
Our nervous systems to exhale & the bodies fascia to soften.
It facilitates a way of being in the world we cannot conceive of before being heard & seen.

Being 'seen' means to truly be witnessed as our whole selves. Exclusive of the masks and defenses being worn, inclusive of the wild scope of our beingness, the messy the raw and the beautifully vulnerable.

There are few souls in this world we may feel we can bring this version of ourselves to, and if you have them, keep them, love them, honor them.

Many do not have the gift of presence in their world, which is why recruitment of a trained practitioner is required. Someone to hear our stories - judgment free, to reflect back what we're not seeing or hearing in ourselves, and a space to process old emotions through that we weren't able to in our foundational childhood years.

I know therapy changed my life by rewiring multiple neural pathways in a brain that was wired for survival & protection.

If you've been seeking a safe space to support you in processing old emotions and memories - I offer a gentle and therapeutic space where you can do that.

Reach out to initiate a chat, or simply book your session online.

Sessions are available both online & in person.

Why practice Yin Yoga?In a world full of loud chaos, distractions and opportunities to steal your attention at every sec...
11/08/2026

Why practice Yin Yoga?

In a world full of loud chaos, distractions and opportunities to steal your attention at every second, the world is not going to suddenly slow down because you hope it will.

The choice to slow down, and create a mindful life, starts with you.

Yin Yoga awakens and expands our experience of the peace held within us. The more we cultivate our attention on this, the quieter the outer world becomes with it's bright shiny distractions.

It takes courage to come to a mindful experience I think Alan Watts said?

Most won't slow down, because it means having to feel what's there.

But what we seek, is beyond what we're afraid of facing.

Become the master of your life, and create your reality from a conscious space.

Yin Yoga
Wednesdays
6:30pm - 75 mins
$25 casual
$80 - 4 class concession

bookings essential due to space & props

It's that time of the month,Women's Circle - 25 July @ 4pm - 6pmLets gather, sip Ceremonial Cacao & remember ourselves.๐Ÿ’š
23/07/2026

It's that time of the month,

Women's Circle - 25 July @ 4pm - 6pm

Lets gather, sip Ceremonial Cacao & remember ourselves.

๐Ÿ’š

11/07/2026

What if where you wish to be, was found through the gate you didn't want to enter?

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