Wanaka Body

I am writing this post, holding so much love and compassion for all the women i know on their own journey with this. Sending so much love to wherever you are at, knowing this is something I don’t take lightly and knowing that everyone’s journey is completely unique to them with their own experiences. I have felt called to share mine for those it resonates with ❤️

I had many fears + doubts around whether or not I’d be able to fall pregnant easily again or if at all.

I lost my cycle for 2.5 years a few years back + what I found that was caused by was suppressed emotion + feeling unsafe in my body. The reason I know this is I went to endocrinologists for at least 2 years. It continued to be an unknown cause or due to emotional/physical stress. At this time i was a PT + had completely stopped HIIT + was only walking to take the stress of my physical body. I was also going through massive life transitions + challenges + was choosing not to deal with them because I simply didn’t have the capacity or knowledge how to. I was terrified + scared to even go there and face that stuff. I was drowning in grief. So I distracted with everything + anything I could other than facing myself + what I was carrying.

I went to acupuncture not long after being discharged from hospital + he took one look at me and said- “you are holding a lot of emotion”. He put some needles in my lower back and viola - on my drive home I absolutely broke down + cried, finally releasing what I’d been carrying for so long around different masculine figures in my life. Period showed back up that night after that long of being MIA! That was the catalyst to change my entire career + learn about how the body holds the score. I was mind blown.

So my fears were my age. Geriatric pregnancy, wondering what the impact of losing my cycle for so long would do to my health. I had low AMH levels (later to find out egg quality is what actually is important, not the number) + ongoing health issues for 9 years.

I had to decide to trust + surrender to whatever was meant for me.

This certainly wasn’t a time to be doing more. Exercising more, working more, overextending myself more. It is a time of less is more. Honouring this phase instead of fighting against it.

Naturally I decided to look outside the box to support myself on this journey. Maybe some might resonate with you too.

Much love 🫶🏻

I truly battled and was a prisoner to my own suffering for many years.

I tried everything + I mean everything. I gave it all my best shot. Don’t get me wrong- each thing I did helped in some way but something was missing.

In 2024 I went to my first ever breathwork journey. That changed my life in that moment. I immediately went on to study to become a trauma informed breathwork facilitator and nervous system practitioner.

I started fully trusting in myself and my intuition. I then followed the signs and synchronicities and that lead me to become a trauma informed sensual embodiment and kundalini activation facilitator.

In the past 12 months my life has transformed more rapidly than I could ever imagine.

I have combined all my learnings from my studies over the past decade and I found the way that worked for me and now I share this with you.

Partly this is having the confidence to believe in myself. Believe in my worth. Believe I am worthy of receiving my dreams. Taking aligned action and not letting anything or anyone get in my way. Most importantly, letting myself get out of my own way.

Rewiring the limiting beliefs I held. I wrote new ones. I let go of the stress and trauma held in my body with this work that was blocking me from calling all of this in. When past trauma is stuck in the body it puts a lense on the world of lack and scarcity and victim mentality.

I believed fully in this work that it could heal me. It did more than that.

I let go of all the conditioning and old belief systems I had that didn’t serve and that clearly weren’t working for me.

I simply won’t buy into the story that this work is “woo woo” and a joke because this is proof that it’s not.

I believed in me.

You can too 🌹

Do you know why this feels so surreal to me?

For the past 9 years I’ve been on a deep devoted journey of healing

My intention then is the same as it is now. It was to break cycles. For myself + my daughter + my future children (if I was lucky enough to have more). In 2021 I wrote these words in the thick of it- “why is it that you choose to the “work”?

My work currently is to rewire + dissolve old deep set conditioning

The work to dissipate stubborn patterns + beliefs

The work to heal childhood wounds. It’s in my belief that’s where everything is stemmed from + they will so easily run the show if you allow them to. This isn’t a blame on my parents either btw.

Is it because you’re sick of them taking over + controlling your life? More often than not; it’s all coming from a subconscious level. I’m starting to understand, sometimes it’s conscious.

I believe there’s a deeper reason + a deeper layer as to why we make the choices we do each and every day. I actually love dissecting why I do the things I do. I love learning more about me + more about my inner landscape

All of the things we choose to do for ourselves, whether it be for a physical, mental, emotional or spiritual gain; all make up the essence of who we are + ultimately contribute to our holistic health. They all matter.

I understand why I do it. I do it because I choose to honour myself + honour my daughter. She is me + I am her.

I choose to nourish myself + nourish my daughter. She is me + I am her.

I choose my growth, my evolution + my expansion.

To achieve my absolute highest potential. Because I know what’s possible.

If we can imagine it. It’s absolutely possible.

You are the greatest investment you will ever make. The longest relationship you will have is with yourself so you may as well make it a good place to be. I choose me.

To complete this today- I came from a broken family at 6. I then repeated that + Indie also came from one at 4 years old. I swore I never wanted that to happen, but it still did.

See how patterns, cycles and intergenerational “stuff” can get passed down over and over and over until someone chooses to break it. Patterns repeat themselves until you become aware of them and choose to make change. We often repeat what we experienced, more often than not it isn’t intentional, but it’s familiar. So we go towards that familiarity. Even if it’s not serving us.

Today I feel like after the 9 years of mahi + intention this baby boy has come as a gift + blessing for it all. Proof your dreams don’t come true over night, but they happen. A second chance. To rewrite the story 💙

Why am I sharing something so vulnerable?

I was always so scared to share this part of what I went through. Mainly probably the stigma around mental health that still exists + actually how actually damn traumatic that time of my life was.
I carried ALOT of shame after going through that. Wild how society can condition us to think that mental health is something to hide or be ashamed of. But truth is whenever someone is physically sick, notice how everyone runs to support them, but when someone is struggling mentally for whatever reason- Often it’s hidden or unsupported. I feel, it’s because people don’t know what to do with it. They don’t know how to truly help someone in that state because they also don’t know. I can tell you it’s an utterly terrifying place to be.

It bought truth + awareness to the fact when we have inflammation in the body/stress on the cells what symptoms can come from that

A lot of these symptoms were proof of that.
Once this infection cleared, all symptoms dissipated too.

I know I was also in a state of burnout prior to all of this, from emotional + physical stress. So the combo rocked me

I’m deciding to share because I can’t not share how this mahi actually changed my entire life + world in the best way possible. I am deeply devoted to creating a safe space with love, presence + acceptance so you too can heal.

I went from having catatonia
12 literal holes in my brain
A possible brain infection
Depression
Ongoing cognitive issues
IBS
An elevated growth hormone (IGF 1) + amenorrhea (lost period for 2.5 years) when those happen together it can create a pretuitary gland tumor which was suspected, but after an MRI there wasn’t one there.
Of course I did my research + it can be from suppressed emotion

All of which I was doing. I was so emotionally stressed. So physically stressed. Burnt out. Didn’t know how to cope with my emotions. With what I’d been through. So I pushed through + I pushed through. Distracted. Until I couldn’t anymore. If you don’t listen something will stop you. Trust me, your body with stop you + you won’t have a choice. As Frou Frou sings in this song- “there’s beauty in the breakdown”+ you CAN HEAL🫶🏻

A Breathwork, Somatic Embodiment & Energetics Group Healing Experience with Tawna Woods and Tala Duncan | Energy Healing, Breathwork & Holistic Coaching

This is the time to remember who you are, a returning, a reclamation. A HOMECOMING ✨

The Homecoming is a powerful, intentional group healing designed to support you in returning to yourself, your original essence, before all the things you experienced that has caused suffering. We release emotional material, reset nervous system patterns, and energetic attachments that no longer serve you to remember who you are. To connect back within. To feel, to see, to know who the version of you is that you’re stepping into.

Through guided somatic embodiment practice followed by a breathwork and energy healing journey, you’ll be gently led into a deep state of presence where the body can complete what the mind has been holding onto. This is not about forcing release, it’s about creating enough safety for the body to release what it is ready to, to be able to walk forward on your path

In this sacred container, you may experience:

* Emotional clearing and nervous system recalibration
* Energetic release stored in the body
* Spontaneous insights, movements, visions or deep stillness
* A felt sense of completion, clarity and lightness and calm
* Reconnection to your inner power and life force energy
* Feeling a broad spectrum of emotion

This is a threshold moment, a conscious reclamation of your vital energy. Your clarity.

You don’t need prior experience with breathwork, energy healing or kundalini. You simply need a willingness to listen to your body and allow what is ready to move. The more we can surrender and trust the process, the deeper we can go.

Tawna and Tala are Trauma-informed practitioners, safety is paramount and at the forefront of this work
All welcome. Come as you are.

Link below for tickets, feel free to reach out if you have any questions. We can’t wait to see you there! 🫶🏻

https://events.humanitix.com/homecoming-2cn9hu2u