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The Spaciousness Series
About this series
Unlocking the body's innate ability to down-regulate into the relaxation response — its capacity to rest, digest, and restore — is akin to discovering an oasis in the desert. Within this refuge, we consciously begin to unwind the effects of modern life: stress, emotional overwhelm, mental rumination, and deeply held tension that slowly erodes our wellbeing.
Rooted in mindfulness and nervous system regulation, Restorative Yoga by Gabrielle Mendoza offers a gentle pathway back to ourselves. Through breathwork, meditation, and a fully supported passive practice, we create the conditions for the body to soften and release layers of accumulated stress.
With the luxury of time, guided relaxation, and a deeper understanding of the mind-body relationship, participants are invited to cultivate spaciousness, replenish their inner resources, and receive the care their nervous system so deeply deserves — supporting resilience, preventing burnout, and restoring the capacity to live fully and well.
Choose from the individual sessions, or undertake them as a series, over 5 Friday evenings in October.
Session 1: Increasing Our Window of Tolerance
Explore how we can expand our capacity to navigate stress without becoming overwhelmed, creating greater space for emotional regulation, resilience, and empathy towards ourselves and others.
2 October 2026, 7.30pm - 9.00pm
Session 2: What We Resist, Persists
An exploration of embracing the full spectrum of the human experience through Tara Brach’s four-step RAIN practice, learning to meet difficult thoughts and emotions with greater mindfulness, understanding, and compassion.
9 October 2026, 7.30pm - 9.00pm
Session 3: The Space Between
Cultivate the pause between stimulus and response by creating more space between our breaths, thoughts, and actions. Through mindful awareness, we practise responding with greater intention rather than reacting automatically, reducing unnecessary conflict in our relationships.
16 October 2026, 7.30pm - 9.00pm
Session 4: The Art of Letting Go
Learn to recognise the outdated beliefs, expectations, and narratives that may be limiting how we experience life. By loosening our attachment to what no longer serves us, we create space to discover new perspectives and unexpected silver linings.
23 October 2026, 7.30pm - 9.00pm
Session 5: Moving Through, Not Moving Past
Explore the difference between truly processing our experiences and simply leaving them behind. This practice offers a pathway towards accepting where we are today, releasing our grip on yesterday, and softening the need to control what tomorrow may bring.
30 October 2026, 7.30pm - 9.00pm
Unlocking the body's innate ability to down-regulate into the relaxation response — its capacity to rest, digest, and restore — is akin to discovering an oasis in the desert. Within this refuge, we consciously begin to unwind the effects of modern life: stress, emotional overwhelm, mental rumination, and deeply held tension that slowly erodes our wellbeing.
Rooted in mindfulness and nervous system regulation, Restorative Yoga by Gabrielle Mendoza offers a gentle pathway back to ourselves. Through breathwork, meditation, and a fully supported passive practice, we create the conditions for the body to soften and release layers of accumulated stress.
With the luxury of time, guided relaxation, and a deeper understanding of the mind-body relationship, participants are invited to cultivate spaciousness, replenish their inner resources, and receive the care their nervous system so deeply deserves — supporting resilience, preventing burnout, and restoring the capacity to live fully and well.
Choose from the individual sessions, or undertake them as a series over 5 Fridays in October.
Session 1: Increasing Our Window of Tolerance (2 Oct)
Session 2: What We Resist, Persists (9 Oct)
Session 3: The Space Between (16 Oct)
Session 4: The Art of Letting Go (23 Oct)
Session 5: Moving Through, Not Moving Past (30 Oct)
Oasis Outreach Series
About this series
The OASIS Outreach Wellbeing Series brings together psychology, mindfulness, and somatic practice to create a more integrated approach to mental wellbeing. Psychology gives us a framework to better understand ourselves. Mindfulness helps us slow down enough to notice what is happening within us. Somatic practice then brings that understanding into the body, giving us the opportunity to experience and embody what we have learned rather than leaving with knowledge alone.
This Mental Health Awareness Month, we explore the belief that wellbeing is about more than simply learning how to cope. While coping helps us navigate difficult seasons, lasting wellbeing is also cultivated through understanding ourselves more deeply, connecting meaningfully with others, and developing a greater sense of safety within. Through a series of thoughtfully designed workshops, we invite participants to move from insight into integration — leaving each experience with not only a greater understanding of themselves, but a lived experience of the practices that can support them through life.
Workshop Format
60 minutes — Arrive & Understand
Settling in, introduction, and facilitated teaching, with opportunities for interaction, discussion, and personal reflection woven throughout.20 minutes — Reflect & Integrate
Guided reflection, mindfulness, and journaling, followed by an opportunity for questions and shared insights.10 minutes — Pause
A short break to reset before transitioning from learning into embodied practice.90 minutes — Embody
A fully supported Restorative Yoga practice designed to bring the concepts explored during the workshop into lived, embodied experience.
Choose from the individual sessions, or undertake them as a series, over 4 Saturday afternoon in October.
Session 1: Creating Calm Amidst the Chaos
Stress & Nervous System Regulation
The question we explore:
Why do I respond to stress the way I do?
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Through the lens of the Window of Tolerance, participants will begin mapping their individual stress responses, identifying common triggers, and noticing how stress manifests in the body. Together, we explore practical strategies for nervous system regulation and develop greater awareness of the early signs that we may be moving towards overwhelm.
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The Restorative Yoga practice brings this understanding into the body, creating an opportunity for participants to experience what settling, regulation, and a greater sense of safety can feel like — moving from intellectual understanding into embodied experience.
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A clearer understanding of their individual stress response and the body's relaxation response.
Greater awareness of their personal triggers and early signs of dysregulation.
Practical tools to navigate stress and return towards greater steadiness in everyday life.
A lived, embodied experience of rest, regulation, and calm through Restorative Yoga.
3 October 2026, 1.00pm - 4.00pm
Session 2: Building Secure Connections
Attachment, Safety & Co-Regulation
The question we explore:
What helps us feel safe, supported, and connected in our relationships?
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Participants will explore their own attachment strategies and recurring patterns in relationships, reflecting on the people and experiences that have helped them feel safe, supported, and connected. Together, we examine the role of co-regulation and develop greater awareness of the relational conditions that allow our nervous systems to settle and experience a sense of security.
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The Restorative Yoga practice creates space to cultivate a felt sense of safety and grounding within the body, exploring how our own inner steadiness can become a foundation for experiencing deeper and more secure connection with others.
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A deeper understanding of how attachment can shape the ways we seek closeness, safety, and connection.
Greater awareness of the relationships, environments, and practices that support a sense of security.
An understanding of co-regulation and the role others can play in supporting our nervous system.
A lived, embodied experience of safety, grounding, and connection through Restorative Yoga.
10 October 2026, 1.00pm - 4.00pm
Session 3: Listening to Your Emotions
Emotions as Messengers
The question we explore:
What are my emotions trying to tell me?
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Participants will explore the difference between primary and secondary emotions, learning to look beneath their immediate emotional responses with greater curiosity. Through guided reflection and journaling, we consider the needs that may sit beneath our emotions and begin to relate to them not as problems to suppress or fix, but as valuable sources of information about our inner experience.
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The Restorative Yoga practice creates space to slow down and be present with our emotional experience without immediately needing to change, avoid, or react to it — cultivating the capacity to notice what arises with greater awareness and compassion.
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A deeper appreciation of emotions as valuable sources of information rather than problems to fix.
Greater awareness of their primary and secondary emotions and the needs that may lie beneath them.
Practical ways to pause and listen to emotional experiences with greater curiosity and compassion.
An embodied experience of creating space for emotions without immediately reacting to them.
17 October 2026, 1.00pm - 4.00pm
Session 4: The Courage to be Seen
Vulnerability & Connection
The question we explore:
How do I allow others to truly see me?
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Participants will explore what vulnerability means to them and the protective strategies they may have developed to avoid feeling exposed, rejected, or misunderstood. Through reflection on shame, courage, and trust, we consider what allows us to gradually lower our defences and show up with greater authenticity in our relationships.
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The Restorative Yoga practice offers a gentle space to explore openness without force, cultivating self-compassion and a greater sense of emotional safety. From this grounded place, participants are invited to experience vulnerability not as something to overcome, but as a capacity that can be approached with care and at their own pace.
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A deeper understanding of vulnerability as a potential pathway towards meaningful connection rather than a sign of weakness.
Greater awareness of the protective strategies that may prevent them from feeling fully seen.
A lived experience of practising openness, self-compassion, and emotional safety.
Greater confidence in expressing themselves more authentically within their relationships.
24 October 2026, 1.00pm - 4.00pm
The OASIS Outreach Wellbeing Series brings together psychology, mindfulness, and somatic practice to create a more integrated approach to mental wellbeing. Psychology gives us a framework to better understand ourselves. Mindfulness helps us slow down enough to notice what is happening within us. Somatic practice then brings that understanding into the body, giving us the opportunity to experience and embody what we have learned rather than leaving with knowledge alone.
This Mental Health Awareness Month, we explore the belief that wellbeing is about more than simply learning how to cope. While coping helps us navigate difficult seasons, lasting wellbeing is also cultivated through understanding ourselves more deeply, connecting meaningfully with others, and developing a greater sense of safety within. Through a series of thoughtfully designed workshops, we invite participants to move from insight into integration — leaving each experience with not only a greater understanding of themselves, but a lived experience of the practices that can support them through life.
Choose from the individual sessions, or undertake them as a series over 4 Saturdays in October.
Session 1: Creating Calm Amidst the Chaos (3 Oct)
Session 2: Building Secure Connections (10 Oct)
Session 3: Listening to Your Emotions (17 Oct)
Session 4: The Courage to be Seen (24 Oct)
A Song of Silence Retreat, Bali
Join Gabrielle on a 5D4N Semi-Silent Retreat overlooking the holy Balian River, at a place where time stands still, and presence and connection is all there is.
6-10 August 2026
