PSYCHOLOGIST using MINDFULNESS counselling & coaching - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/Training - Meditation & Yoga Classes.
SERVICES
BEING WELL - MINDFULNESS PRACTICE
Mindful Practices for a Vital Life
NeLi (Janelle Louise) Martin
Psychologist (Fully Registered in Qld, Assoc MAPS)
Yoga and Meditation Teacher (Senior Teacher YTAA)
Call 0420 221 461
NeLi Martin is a Psychologist in Private Practice using Mindfulness techniques.
I also teach Yoga & Meditation.
I'm located in Wilston, Brisbane, Qld, Australia
If Stress, Anxiety, Depression or Performance Pressure is affecting your life and / or work, you could benefit from counselling / coaching.
Is Counselling / Coaching for You?
Counselling or coaching is for anyone who wants to reach their potential and be well in their lives. Many people now realise that our psychological health is as important as our physical health. Seeing a psychologist is about taking care of your mind! Medicare rebates are available with referrals from GPs.
Depending on your cover, Private Health Funds may also offer rebates for Psychological services.
Contact for bookings and inquiries 0420 221 461
Yoga Teaching Classes + small group sessions
Nutrition Macro-biotic cooking classes, individual sessions
Psychological Services Available
• Individual counselling and coaching using Acceptance and Commitment Training / Therapy (ACT)
• Couples’ sessions using ACT and Non-Violent Communication (NVC)
• Mindfulness Groups & Workshops (Psych Education) – Resilience in life and work, work-life balance, stress management, team building, leadership, conflict resolution & mediation
• Supervision / Coaching for psychologists (not for registration), counsellors and other leaders
NeLi’s Values and Mission
As humans we have great potential for living a free and vital life. Deep connection to our struggles and pain with authentic acceptance allows a transformation that opens one to this deep joy, happiness and vitality. You can expect me to be focussed on your potential and your well being in a compassionate, caring and professional manner.
I primarily use evidence based Acceptance & Commitment Training/Therapy (ACT)
See "About NeLi" and also www.contextualpsychology.org
The serenity creed sums this work up nicely.
Grant me the serenity to
Accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can; and
Wisdom to know the difference.
This work is about the development of that wisdom.
NeLi (Janelle Louise) Martin (B.A. Hons Psych. Dip Yoga T)
Psychologist (Fully Registered in Qld, Assoc MAPS)
Yoga and Meditation Teacher (Senior Teacher YTAA)
Call 0420 221 461
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About NeLi’s Approach to Psychology
I have been curious about the mind for more than 20 years. I first registered as a psychologist in Queensland in 1991. I integrate my Psychology training and many years of Buddhist Dharma mindfulness study and practice together with my Yoga teaching and practice. I have worked with people on a range of issues including depression, anxiety / panic attacks, stress, anger and rage, relationships, addiction, schizophrenia, eating disorders, grief and loss, chronic pain, self esteem and confidence, performance enhancement, work stress, leadership, motivation, emotional intelligence, performance pressure. I am often inspired by the courage and persistence of people I work with.
I primarily use evidence based Acceptance and Commitment Training/Therapy (ACT)
About ACT
The aim of ACT is to help people create rich, full and meaningful lives, while effectively handling the pain and stress that life inevitably brings. It increases psychological flexibility by:
1. Teaching psychological skills to deal with painful thoughts and feelings effectively so that they have less impact and influence (i.e. mindfulness skills). Jon Kabat-Zinn describes mindfulness as "Paying attention in a particular way, on purpose, in the moment and non-judgementally". This is mind training. The Buddha indicated that through the establishment of the clarity of mindfulness, we can let go of grasping after past and future, overcome attachment and grief, abandon all clinging and anxiety, and awaken an unshakable freedom of heart, here and now.
2. Clarifying what is truly important and meaningful to people (i.e. values). Then uses that knowledge to guide, inspire and motivate change for the better.
A key part of this therapy and training involves learning mindfulness skills in session. To make the most out of consultations with me, you will need to practice these between sessions.
This is a scientifically proven model that has been shown to be effective with a wide range of issues, such as depression, anxiety / panic attacks, stress, drug addiction, schizophrenia, eating disorders, grief and loss, chronic pain, self esteem and confidence, performance enhancement, work stress, leadership, motivation, emotional intelligence, performance pressure.
See www.contextualpsychology.org
About NeLi's approach to Yoga and Meditation
The aspiration or intention of yoga and meditation is freedom. The method or means to explore this is awareness. Awareness is cultivated in body, mind and heart by the connecting thread of the breath. My teaching invites us explore what it means to embody freedom. The intention with these small classes is to give you individualised attention to develop your practice towards freedom of body and mind.
NeLi on YOGA
I have been practising yoga since 1993 and teaching since 1998. I completed my teacher training with the British Wheel of Yoga. Initially influenced by Alexander technique and Ashtanga, Iyengar, Bihar and Viniyoga traditions, I continue to learn and be informed by my vipassana meditation practice and my love of life. My integrated approach to teaching yoga is currently inspired by the work of the late Vanda Scaravelli. This work is strong and gentle.
NeLi on MEDITATION
As a Psychologist, I have been curious about the mind for more than 20 years. I have been practising insight meditation since 2000, undertaking many long and short silent retreats under the guidance of western teachers in the Insight (Vipassana) and Zen traditions. For a number of years, I lived and worked at Gaia House Meditation Retreat Centre in Devon, UK (see www.gaiahouse.co.uk) and Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, USA. (see www.upaya.org ). I began teaching meditation in 2005, mentored by Catherine McGee from Devon, UK. Currently in Australia, I sit with Geoff Simpson locally in Brisbane (and lead beginners at the Heart Insight Group) and attend the Dharma Facilitators Program lead by Radha Nicholson and have sat retreats with Patrick Kearney. (see www.dharmasalon.net & www.dharma.org.au )
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On Being Inspired by Scaravelli
I call my classes “Scaravelli Inspired”. People ask, “What is this Scaravelli Yoga?” I have to explain Scaravelli is a who; a who who inspired a way not a what. Vanda Scaravelli was a woman who died in 1998 aged 91. She would probably turn in her grave to hear the term “Scaravelli Yoga”. As an Italian aristocrat, she hosted the philosopher and spiritual leader Sri J Krishnamurti during his stays in Italy. Sri B.K.S Iyengar also came to visit and introduced Vanda to yoga when she was in her forties. She also learned about yoga and the breath from T.K.V. Desikachar, whose methods became known as Viniyoga. Vanda spent a great deal of time exploring yoga in her own body. She went on to teach her authentic yoga to others one to one. Three of her long term students, Diane Long www.dianelongyoga.com Esther Myers www.estheryoga.com and Sandra Sabatini www.sandrasyoga.com developed their own distinctive styles as teachers. Thus suggesting Vanda created a space for students to find their own way to yoga.
Scaravelli’s Method
I first read Scaravelli’s book Awakening the Spine whilst I was doing my own teacher training with the British Wheel of Yoga. A friend and student had given it to me as a gift. I read the words and noted the beautiful pictures of Scaravelli in her eighties in complex yoga asana and filed it away on my book shelf. It wasn’t until I met my most recent mentor teacher, Bill Wood www.billwoodyoga.co.uk in Totnes in Devon that Scaravelli’s words came to life in my practice and in my body. Although I never met the woman, I understand that Vanda’s teaching involved working with the body, rather than against it, to unravel habitual holding patterns which release the body and mind into a freedom and grace.
Working “With” rather the “Against”
One of the challenges of learning yoga is resisting the temptation to push the body into the postures. This sort of striving and end gaining is counter productive on many levels. As a new student, it took many years to truly learn this. I remember early teachers saying “yoga is not competitive” and other such quotes. However my mind and body was so unaccustomed to this instruction, I just learned to hide my striving behind a cool looking exterior. Despite my training in the Alexander Technique, I guess I didn’t really believe it was a useful way to work with yoga asana. After all, look at all the pictures of people “achieving” yoga postures in books and magazines and calendars, surely they had to strive? Working with Bill Wood allowed me to know in my body that there was another way of working.
Simplicity and Dedication
There are three main agencies in this “Scaravelli” way of working; gravity, the breath and the movement of the spine. These are not to be understood intellectually, but to be felt in the body. Paradoxically pushing less and giving way to gravity and the breath and the natural movement of the spine may mean the body works harder and deeper. Areas of weakness wake up as habitual tensions release and the body may spontaneously realign. This is what happened for me when I went to Bill’s class for the first time. I ended up in his class by accident… After completing my teacher training with the British Wheel of Yoga (which is known for its gentle and safe approach) I started practicing in the intense Ashtanga Yoga tradition of Pattabhi Jois. I thought I was about to attend a Mysore style led practice session, but had the time table of the yoga studio confused and Bill’s class was scheduled. Bill’s class was gentle, but something was being demanded of me that two years of Ashtanga yoga hadn’t touched. That was in 2002 and it began for me the intrigue and curiosity about what was at work here. At some point I experienced that pushing less actually allowed some undoing to occur from the inside. From that moment I became a dedicated explorer of this “Scaravelli” way of working. It is both simple and requires a life times dedication.
Gravity Breath Spine
This way of working cultivates ever increasing subtlety of awareness, so that yoga asana practice takes on meditative qualities.
Developing Awareness
The teacher is but a pointer to the way for the student to begin to explore what is going on in the present. Thus yoga is revealed wisdom; revealed in the moment to each yogi engaged in the practice. From this vantage point yoga becomes a joyful exploration about what it means to be alive. There is no end gaining because there is no end, only life to be opened to, just now with this breath and this movement. Any “achievement” in posture can be experienced as “fruit” of practice. Scaravelli said, “Don’t kill the body for the glory of the pose”.
Exploration
There is something of beauty that is the legacy of Vanda Scaravelli; not the beginning of a tradition where the questions of life and yoga asana have a definitive answer, but the opening of yoga practice as a paradox to be lived into.
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NeLi (Janelle Louise) Martin (B.A. Hons Psych. Dip Yoga T)
Psychologist (Fully Registered in Qld, Assoc MAPS)
Yoga and Meditation Teacher (Senior Teacher YTAA)
Call 0420 221 461
I consult from rooms in Wilston Qld 4051, Australia. Unfortunately this is not wheel chair accessible. I am about 7 minutes walk from Wilston train station (Ferny Grove Line) and 4 minutes walk from a bus stop.
Medicare and Psychology
In November 2006, the Australian Government introduced new Medicare items for psychological treatment by registered psychologists. In order to receive a Medicare rebate, you must be referred to a psychologist by an appropriate medical practitioner (GP, psychiatrist or paediatrician). The doctor must first make an assessment that you need the services of a psychologist.
Eligible clients can generally receive:
• Up to 12 individual services in a calendar year. Your referring doctor will assess your progress after the first six sessions.
• Up to 12 group therapy services in a calendar year where such services are available and seen as appropriate by your referring doctor and the psychologist.
Medicare Easyclaim
For your convenience I have the Medicare Easyclaim facility at my office.
Step 1: Full payment is required at consultation.
After you pay for your consultation (using cash, credit card or EFTPOS), your Medicare card is swiped through my EFTPOS terminal.
Step 2: The claim details are entered into the EFTPOS keypad which is sent to Medicare Australia. The claim is checked and an approval is sent back a few seconds later. You then swipe your EFTPOS card, enter your PIN and your rebate is paid into your nominated cheque or savings account almost immediately.
Important: Medicare rebates can only be deposited into cheque or savings accounts, even if you used a credit card to pay for your consultation.
Step 3: You have an EFTPOS receipt to confirm your rebate has been paid – always keep this receipt for your records.
What’s the difference? Get your rebate almost immediately, no need for a trip to a Medicare office. If you prefer not to use this system, you can still go to your local Medicare office or use any of the other claiming options that are available
call 0420 221 461
QUALIFICATION DETAILS
BA (Hons Psych)
Dip Yoga Teaching
MAP
Counselling, Life Coaching, Meditation, Psychotherapy, Yoga
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