YOGA and Meditation teacher at the RFDS Wellbeing Place, Naomi Wild, is offering workshops next week at the centre to help instil resilience in the community during difficult times.
Known as the Crash Course, the event will take place on Tuesday, November 12, hourly at 11am, 12pm, 1pm and 2pm, and is a direct response to the impact of the recent power outage on Broken Hill’s mental health.
Ms Wild said the course is designed to offer “real time actions you can take to manage stress and anxiety when life gets tricky.”
“I’m just going to do short, succinct workshops to give people techniques in breathing and mindfulness and self-care particularly, because of all the recent stress.”
Ms Wild has been teaching yoga, meditation and transpersonal art therapy through her own practice and the RFDS centre for years and said she’s also just completed a training in conscious communication.
She describes her many practices as “an eclectic mix” that span across arts and therapy.
“It weaves into all of the artistic modalities, so creative movement, dance and writing too,” she said.
Ms Wild said she was already and art therapist when she went through an intense period of her life when someone close to her became extremely unwell, inspiring her to look into other wellness practices.
“I needed support that was beyond what I’d come across so far and when I started using things that were body-based (particularly Yin Yoga and regulating the nervous system) something much bigger changed for me and I started to understand the way all of the pieces worked together best.”
Ms Wild moved to Broken Hill from Newcastle and said relocating to the outback made her further her effort to do everything she’d done prior to live a balanced life.
“That was why I completed my yoga teacher training, because it wasn’t on offer out here,” she said.
“Rather than having access to twenty yoga studios or dancing or all the things I’d normally do to feel alive, I had to find it in different ways.”
She said she’s since “fallen in love with the land in the Far West and the land here.”
Ms Wild’s resilience workshops on Tuesday are free to attend at 343 Blende Street and all are welcome, no bookings are required.
She also encourages anyone interested in yoga or meditation to attend a class.
“We celebrate that people listen to their bodies, it’s not a cut and copy yoga style. It’s really gentle, inclusive and accessible, and I’m very welcoming to beginners,” she said.
