Where it all began…
Return to Samadhi was born through my own return to balance — a journey that transformed personal healing into shared practice.
From a young age, I’ve always been drawn to creativity and storytelling. I completed a Bachelor of Communication and spent time working with environmental charities, driven by a deep desire to create change in the world. But along the way, I began to notice something that shifted my perspective. People weren’t disconnected from the planet because they didn’t care — it was because they were disconnected from themselves.
So many of us are overwhelmed, caught in cycles of stress and consumption. I realised that if I truly wanted to make an impact, I had to start at the root.
Not with the environment — but with people. Because when we come back into balance within ourselves, our relationship to the world around us naturally begins to change.
I left my comfortable life in Australia and began my 3 month long journey. During this time, I completed my 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in Sri Lanka, where I was introduced to the traditional practices of Hatha Yoga and began to reconnect with a deeper sense of purpose.
On the last day of my training we visited a temple on an island inhabited only by Buddhist monks. Here I experienced something I still struggle to fully explain. I heard the resonance of singing bowls so loud and clear, it was undeniable. No one else around me heard, and for a moment I questioned my sanity. But my teacher simply told me “you have a strong sankalpa (deep intention)— you know what you need to do”.
That moment changed everything.
From there, my path led me to the Himalayas. I spent time living Barang village, where I was welcomed into a local family and immersed in everyday village life. I came to love the paradox that exists there — a simplicity that holds profound complexity, and a way of life rooted in the quiet strength of community.
I trekked above the clouds through the Annapurna region, reaching altitudes of 5,800 metres. In the vastness and silence of the mountains, I was given space to process, to reflect, and to meet parts of myself I had long avoided. It was a time shaped by both challenge and clarity, following a period in my life that had brought me into a much darker place. Yoga and meditation had already begun to guide me back toward balance, but I could feel there was something more…
And then I learnt the traditional art of Vedic sound healing. Alongside a teacher deeply rooted in both ancient wisdom and modern science, it was here I was introduced not only to Himalayan singing bowls, but also to Brainwave Entrainment. A method of using sound frequencies to guide the brain into meditative and restorative states.
Understanding the science behind vibration, frequency, and cymatics opened something in me. What I had felt intuitively now had a framework. A language. A depth that I became completely immersed in.
Knowing how important the quality of these instruments is, I invested everything I had left into my own set of bowls (or two) carrying over 15kg of them down the mountains and all the way back home to Australia.
Return to Samadhi was born from this union of experience — where ancient practice meets modern understanding, and where healing is not something we learn, but something we remember.
My teacher spoke through both lived experience and science, but it wasn’t until I began practicing and saw profound shifts in others, especially people living with chronic pain, that I truly understood the power of this practice.
Now based in Taree, this work continues to unfold within a beautiful and growing community, with plans to share it more widely across Australia.
Today, I offer a fusion of Hatha and Yin yoga, sound meditation and sound healing, while studying naturopathy, creating spaces for people to release tension, process emotion, reconnect with themselves, and return to Samadhi.
