Her Story

Meditation teacher. Movement facilitator. Award-winning community leader. Festival producer. Philosopher poet. Spiritual activist. Psychotherapist. Seeker.

Part 1. Beginnings

I have always been a seeker. My childhood was spent between library shelves and desert stars; a bookworm who lived in a caravan.

In 2007 I graduated Griffith University with a degree in International Relations (yep, heal the world kid), majoring in Language and Linguistics. After years globetrotting, I took a creative writing course at RMIT, Melbourne and began a long career in the arts.

As a poet, performer, and producer until 2016, I created full length stage shows, intimate interactive installations, and large scale public events. I won numerous awards and featured at Brisbane Writers Fest, Womadelaide, QLD Poetry Festival, Woodford Folk Festival, and more. I worked as Associate Producer of Adelaide Fringe, Qld Coordinator of the Australian Poetry Slam, and Arts Writer for Australian Stage.

Part 2. Roots

Eternally driven by an innate curiosity about philosophy, nature, and the human mind, in 2012 I drifted deeper into yoga and meditation practices. I am now an E-RYT500 YACEP registered facilitator, and studied extensively with world leading teachers including:

-2 year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach

-2 year Diploma of Mindfulness and Compassion teaching with Insight Meditation Institute Aust.

-3 advanced trainings with Sarah Powers

-5 five years studying with Duncan Peak

-800hrs Yogic History, Literature and Philosophy with the late Georg Feuerstein

-As well as trainings in anatomy, myofascial release, and restorative practices with Annie Carpenter, Jo Phee, Rod Stryker, Mel McLaughlin and more.

In 2016, with my partner in business (and love) Triton Tunis-Mitchell, we opened Human.Kind (then Power Living), on unceded Kaurna Land in Adelaide, S.A. This became a platform for movement classes, therapies, education, and belonging for a vast community that now spans the globe.

My daily life still orbits this heart-home where I run courses, trainings, and retreats, as well as pursuing social, environmental and spiritual activism. We are proud to recently become a certified B-Corp, and in 2022 I received South Australia’s 40 Under 40 Award, for being a leading business trailblazer.

Part 3. Today

Today, my practice and study is focused on the contemplative traditions of meditation and wise action. Guided by both the Theravada Buddhist lineage, and contemporary secular practices including MBSR, MSC, and Interpersonal Neurobiology. I’m privileged to sit numerous silent retreats each year with the likes of Donal Rothberg, Stephen Batchelor , Timothea Goddard, and Kate Duncan. I am an emerging Australian dharma teacher in the Insight Meditation community, currently completing a 4 year mentorship program with Subhana Barzaghi and Alan Bassal.

Alongside this, I’m undertaking a Masters in Counselling & Psychotherapy at Adelaide University.

In 2023 Triton and I launched a new landcare and community health project at Myponga, SA: The Circular Initiative.

I aspire to keep living in the confluence of creativity, spiritual inquiry, and activism. Poised gracefully on life’s tightrope of beauty and chaos, offering wisdom and solace to all beings in our tender and beautiful world.