Welcome to the art of mindfulness
with Rachel Tobin
If you are interested in living a more mindful, relaxed and connected life, you have come to the right place!
Rachel Tobin is a mindfulness, awareness and qi gong teacher, a biodynamic craniosacral therapist and a meditation retreat facilitator. Based on the Kapiti Coast near Wellington, she brings her skills and experience to help you access the ease, joy and wellbeing of your inherent nature.
benefits of mindfulness
Reduce stress and anxiety
Increase calm and well being
Cultivate joy and inherent happiness
Improve mental, emotional and physical health
Learn to self-regulate your own nervous system
Develop and practise the relationship with your inherent wholeness
Learn to increase your vitality, power and self-acceptance
Experience more harmonious relationships.
why learn mindfulness and awareness?
For a modern human, living in a culture and time of deep disconnect from nature, others and Self, there is usually conscious preparation needed to prepare the mind, body and nervous system so that it becomes possible to remember and feel, in the midst of activity, a relationship with the Source, the great Mystery, that lives us. Ultimately, it is that point of view of Truth that frees a person from the grip of the illusion of being a separate body/mind identity, all on one’s own in the world, and the suffering that results from that point of view.
Rachel is a guide on your journey of well being, and this embraces physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.
biodynamic craniosacral therapy with Rachel
mindfulness courses
classes: qi gong, and movement awareness (based on the work of moshe feldenkrais)
about Rachel Tobin
I started my conventional work life with a degree in biochemistry and statistics, and became a high-school teacher. Since then I've worked in a variety of roles, most of them offering various modalities that promote well being and awareness - mindfulness, meditation, qi gong, and the movement awareness work of Moshe Feldenkrais. I've worked in the area of organisational well being and with clients to help them with stress, grief, trauma and loss and to live a more connected and joyful life. Biodynamic craniosacral work, which is a fantastic modality, is something I am also now offering in Kapiti.
I live close to the sea so swim in it as often as i can. Write poetry (please click HERE if you’re interested in my 2018 collection, Say it Naked), tend a garden, bike and hike, and have spent the last few years - while i’ve been healing from concussion - deepening a sense of nature connection with the help of mentor and tracker Jon Young and his Connection 1st global village.
Mindfulness and presence has always been at the heart of my work and one of my deep interests is in seeing adults and children learn to live with more ease, well being and joy. I know at first hand our human capacity for pain, and I have understood that it is the mind which creates and perpetuates the most intense suffering. I have found mindfulness practice to be wonderful in learning to slow down to a more natural pace of Life, to uncover limiting thinking patterns, and to cultivate more ease, positivity and spontaneity in the daily round of everyday life.
The spiritual journey, of re-discovering the natural and inherent joy that comes from simply Being, and discovering all that lies in the way of that, is increasingly informing my work with others. I am very grateful to the teachers, both living and passed, who i have been privileged to meet and be guided by.
The retreats I facilitate are fundamentally about honoring and remembering the great Mystery, the Source, the great force of Life that lives us, and using tools to work compassionately with the trauma, ingrained patterns and conditioning that obstruct a joyful relationship with Life.
