You will be provided with weekly audio meditations that you can use to anchor yourself into your practice daily. 

Each week we will be exploring different techniques and practices that help us attune to ourselves. Through breathwork, meditation, restorative yoga and embodied journaling we can start to build up a whole practice to tend to yourself.

We’ll meet weekly on Sunday evenings on zoom for a 1.5 hour long workshop led by Maile to explore the coming weeks themes, take you through rest based practices and guided meditations. At the end of the session there will be time for questions, discussion and sharing. 

You’ll also have special guest Sarah K Carayiannis for two breathwork sessions and hear from the creators of Rise, Gemma Mahoney and Chi on the importance of daily practice and cultivating a sustainable home practice. 

The weekly live sessions will be recorded for those who’d prefer to go at their own pace.

Rise will host a private facebook group where we will be available daily to answer questions, provide further resources and create a group sharing experience. We believe that doing this work with others is the most impactful.

Each week you will receive a digital downloadable workbook with thoughtfully crafted journal prompts to explore your inner world. Using embodied writing techniques, these prompts will help guide you to understand your relationship with yourself, your body and rest. Our regular check-ins will provide a supportive space for you to share your progress and insights with the community.

A 3 month membership to Rise which we will encourage you to use throughout TENDING to increase or deepen your daily home practice.

This course is for anyone who is wanting to start or deepen a meditation practice and explore tending to your body and mind in a closed group over a month period. When we do this work together, we are both held accountable and also show up in ourselves more with the help of the group to hold space for one another. You don’t have to know how to meditate or even have practiced yoga before! Over the 4 weeks we will explore different topics that are guided and you can do at your own pace.

Start your day with intention and mindfulness. We provide you with a collection of morning meditation recordings to foster a sense of inner calm, focus, and clarity. These meditations will serve as your daily anchor, helping you stay centered throughout the workshop.

The end of the year and first month of January often feel overloaded with activities and pressures, we feel it too. That’s why we decided to offer this course as hyper energy dies down, as a way to really land into a new year intentionally. Practicing mindfulness and embodiment is a lifelong journey - we are still on it to - and we would love to explore that with you.

Maile Bowen (She/her) has been practicing yoga for 15 years and began her first 350 hour teacher training 7 years ago. Since discovering somatic meditation practices and the benefits of trauma informed yoga teaching, she has gone on to study with Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga and weaves this into all of her teachings. Maile runs bi-annual retreats in South-Western Australia called ‘Becoming Home’ as well as offering embodied writing and restorative workshops throughout the year. 

Maile has felt first hand the benefits that restorative yoga, mindfulness movement and somatic meditation has on anxiety and believes that these teachings are powerful ways for us to show up in our lives, attuned and in relationship with our bodies.

When you purchase a pass to Tending you receive a 3 months subscription to Rise (valued at $60AUD). You will receive an email with all the information you need to create your account. The membership is active for 3 months following the completion of Tending on the 4th of March.