1:1 MiST Sessions
Tend to old wounds & discover the True You : therapeutic support + guided self-discovery
MiST Events
Slow down & meet the community : soulful yoga beyond asana, online circles & courses
MiST Retreats
Make space in yourself for your Self : much-more-than-yoga retreats for the mind, body and soul
So many of us feel disconnected from who we essentially are. This manifests as anxiety, depression, feeling empty, needy, lost. But it also manifests as overworking, overachieving, running after the next goal or relationship. In other words, we are hopelessly searching for something or someone “out there” to fill the emptiness that we would have to feel “in here”. Our society either encourages this dance of disconnection and self-abandonment or tries to fix its unwanted symptoms.
A Meeting in Silent Truth (MiST) is a simple, but radical invitation to go at the root. Here, you are welcome just as you are - unembellished, “broken”, natural. Yet, this “self-meeting” is not easy - it asks you to stop abandoning yourself in the pursuit of something “out there”to fulfil you. It asks you to tend to your wounds at the root and receive your own medicine.
Then you may discover that this emptiness is sacred - it’s calling you Home. No new strategies will be given here. Instead, I offer to lovingly support you in answering the call.
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I’m a hypnotherapist, enneagram practitioner, mindfulness and yoga teacher. I work holistically, tending to all aspects of You.
from recurrent depression, hopeless relationship drama and a feeling of disconnection from my essence to more joy, peace and love that needs no “other”. To meet myself fully and more truthfully was the gift of a lifetime. I pass it on to you from my Teachers to whom I owe everything. Learn more about me here…
Tend to your body, cultivate discipline and witnessing capacity of the mind
Heal old wounds, meet anxiety and transform trauma at the root
Discover what you really want, who you essentially are and let that lead your life.
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“These sessions are like coming home to yourself. Iri holds space for you in such a nurturing, tender and motherly way. ALL of you is welcome. The progress I’ve made in my healing journey since I met her is unbelievable. ”
“A year ago at MindRest, I felt buried underground and had barely any energy to survive. Now I know I was merely planted and your guidance helped me come out of the shell of my seed. I’m above surface, preparing to blossom.”
“This retreat was one of the most magical experiences of my life. I would highly recommend it to anyone in need of reconnecting with themselves, their body and their spirit. HIGHLY transformative. ”
How to integrate the old year with gratitude and welcome the new one with openness. In this newsletter, you will find self-reflection prompts for an intimate New Year ritual with yourself. You will also find a bounty of gifts to begin the new year in greater self-care and love. A new month of MindRests begings online. Welcome to join me.
Here comes the only opportunity to retreat with me in 2024: R A D I A N T - Spring Yoga & Self-Discovery retreat in Portugal Apr 13-20, 2024. I warmly invite you to Bodhi Bhavan, our beautiful Portuguese retreat home. 5% Early Bird discount before Jan 1.
November at Mist: Reflections. A lot is going on the world and, I am sure, in each of us. No words would do justice to the heartbreak that we all feel, yet I decided to embrace that failure and write anyway. A new month of Sunday MindRest sessions begins in November with this theme of Reflections. As the days are drawing shorter, this is an invitation to crawl back your senses from the world of objects and turn the gaze in for self-reflection. We start on Sunday, Nov 5.
No Compromise: my first inspiration to write in a long time. It came out quite spicy after a summer of fire - literally and metaphorically. MindRest sessions of yoga, self-inquiry and yoga nidra restart on Zoom in September. I really look forward to seeing you on the mat.
“You are the medicine you’ve been looking for. I’m here to help you receive yourself.”
These were the words that came to me in the beginning of MiST. They are the reason why I keep showing up, over and over again. Over the last 3 months, I had to remember and repeat them inwardly many times. It has been a time of confusion, but also clarification. Recognising abuse, but also saying no to it and walking away. Doubting myself, but also seeing myself stand up for myself with the greatest respect and love.
March in Nature is about the arrival of Spring, the greening of the fields, the fertility of the soil, planting seeds and welcoming new growth. Nature makes no mistakes - that includes us. We are invited to prepare our own kind of soil - our physical, mental and emotional vessel - for new beginnings. And that means something old has to die. Join me on the mat for the last month of MindRests before the summer break.
February in nature is about the first signs of freshly conceived life: the first snowdrops showing their heads, the first buds appearing on the early trees, the first impression of this invisible life potential growing in the womb of Nature Out of the empty silence of winter, a new life is conceived…immaculately, meaning without reason. I invite you to 3 Sunday MindRests to explore this quiet potential building up in our bodies, hearts and minds.
Monthly matters of the heart, self-reflection suggestions & upcoming events. Sign up and receive a full stress support kit of practices & workshops to help manage anxiety more skilfully and get some good sleep at night.
Join us for a soulful journey within. Explore the deeper layers of the yoga practice, open and discover the healing power of your own voice. Tend to your mind, body and soul. Give a moment in your life to the sacred within you. Join my wise friend Simona (Apsara) - a renowned Dhrupad singer, vedic and sanskit teacher and voice therapist - and myself on a journey within back to our Heart. Prices starting from £950.