Living Well now.
Wellbeing. Mindfulness. Yoga.
Unlocking opportunities for you to live well, improve wellbeing and create a life you value.
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Mindfulness and Restorative Yoga
One-on-one and small group classes
There is growing evidence that practices such as yoga and mindfulness, that focus on the body-mind connection, can improve physical and mental health.
Living Well Now blends restorative yoga with mindfulness practices to provide a slow moving practice that nourishes the body and mind. This style of yoga and mindfulness is perfect for those who:
are new to practicing yoga
are experienced in practicing yoga
are looking for a practice that can be adapted to meet their individual needs
have limited mobility
live with chronic health conditions
live with persistent pain
desire more balance and calmness
Carolyn draws on her many years’ experience as a psychologist to provide a safe mental health and trauma informed practice experience.
While the individual and small group yoga and mindfulness classes are not a psychology service, they can be provided as a valuable complimentary service for those already engaged with a psychologist or therapist.
What is restorative yoga?
Restorative yoga is a style of yoga that is supportive, gentle, and therapeutic. Most of the practice is spent in stillness and joins the breath with the body. Appropriate for all levels, restorative yoga is practiced at a slow pace, focusing on supported position, stillness, and the breath. It’s all about comfort and nourishment. The focus of restorative yoga is to engage the parasympathetic system, the part of the central nervous system responsible for resting and digesting and is great antidote to the stresses of our modern world, and can be practiced by anyone, making a great option for those recovering from illness, living with chronic health conditions or physical limitations.
According to Judith Hanson Lasater one of the leaders of Restorative Yoga, Restorative yoga can be practiced by anyone, with the restorative yoga poses easily adapted to individual needs and preferences. Anyone can participate, safely and comfortably with ease and benefit. Even if someone was unable to get on to the floor the poses can be adapted to being in a chair, lounge or bed, so is a great option for people with physical limitations, living with chronic illness or recovering from acute health events
What is mindfulness?
Mindfulness is paying attention to one thing, and most powerfully to pay attention to the now, to this present moment.
According to Jon Kabat-Zinn mindfulness is non-doing, a radical non-doing, and that right inside any moment of non-doing, lies peace, insight and creativity and new possibilities in place of old habits.
In practicing mindfulness we engage the parasympathetic nervous system, the rest and digest part of the central nervous system cultivating a sense of calm and rest. Mindfulness helps us to focus on the now, and to pay attention to what is important to us, rather then the chatter of our busy minds or the busy modern world.
Mindfulness and its many applications have been found to have many physical and mental health benefits.
Mindfulness incorporates sitting, lying and movement practices, making it accessible for everyone. For those who find sitting or accessing the floor challenging, the practice can be completed sitting in a chair, lounge or bed.
We all need a few minutes a day to disconnect, settle ourselves and rest in silence.
Psychology for Living and Working Well
Psychology for living well
Psychology sessions that focus on improving wellbeing and helping you live your best life.
These sessions are for you if overall you’re doing okay, however you:
want to create a life of balance, that you don’t need to escape from
want to learn how to respond to stressors in a way that works for you
want to a live a life that is in line with your values or what is important to you
would like to redefine or rediscover what is important to you or what you value
are interested in developing skills to thrive amongst the challenges of life
are navigating a life transition and want to do it well
Psychology for living well sessions use person-centred, evidence-based psychology strategies with a focus on mindfulness, compassion, values, and strengths.
Sessions may include:
developing mindfulness skills and their application in day-to-day life
clarifing values and what is important
focusing on navigating the ups, downs, right turns, left turns and U turns of life
improving your skills to respond to day-to-day stress
creating your best life and improving work-life and life-family balance
supporting changes in your lifestyle and health behaviours
setting goals, developing strategies to achieve the things that are important to you and problem solving along the way
While these sessions may be useful for learning how to respond to stress, and learning about our mood, these sessions are not provided for treatment of depression and anxiety or other mental health conditions but for those who are well and wanting to develop self-awareness and increase the tools in their personal toolbox to respond to life’s challenges.
(Medicare referrals are not accepted. Private Health Fund rebates are available as per your health funds rules.)
We move through the world with a kind of tunnel vision that prevents us from enjoying what is in front of us.
Psychology for working well
For anyone wanting to work and live well. For health and helping professionals, community services providers, small business or corporate.
It is well documented that stress in our workplaces is increasing at an alarming rate, burn out rates are high for those working in health care and helping professions, as well in small business, and corporate settings across a range of professions and work roles.
Many find it hard to maintain that magical work life balance and can be left feeling fatigued and overwhelmed, and it can become a struggle to live your best life either at work or outside of work.
Psychology for working well sessions are personalised to meet the needs and preferences of the person and may include:
a health and wellbeing check-in
reviewing what strategies you currently use to manage the demands of your role
reviewing how your working life is adding value to your well-being and how it may be negatively impacting your overall wellbeing
clarifying what it is important to you, what you value both professionally and personally
creating strategies that support you to live your best life, and experience a work life balance that works for you, and is sustainable
considering personal and professional boundaries, and how they influence your capacity to live well
These sessions are provided in a professional supervision or coaching model, integrating a range of behavioural, mindfulness and compassion focused evidence-based frameworks. While mood challenges may be a symptom of burn out, and strategies to assist with this may be discussed, these and do not provide treatment for mental health conditions such as; depression or anxiety etc.
Carolyn Uhlmann
Psychologist (AHPRA)
Meditation Teacher, Meditation Association Australia
Level 1 Yoga Teacher, Yoga Australia
Carolyn Uhlmann is a registered psychologist with many years’ experience in supporting people to live well amongst the challenges of life, in both private practice and in public health settings.
Combining her experience as psychologist with her meditation and yoga training, Carolyn is passionate about supporting people to Live Well.
Carolyn has extensive experience supporting people to:
- adjust to life transitions
- live with mental health conditions and
- live with chronic health conditions, acute health events and persistent pain.
Memberships
AHPRA Registered Psychologist
Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
STAP Psychology Board Approved Supervisor
Supervisor Training & Approval Program
Associate Member of Australian Psychology Association (APS)
Certifications
Level 1 Yoga Teacher - Yoga Australia
Meditation Teacher - Meditation Association of Australia
Certified Practitioner of Applied Mindfulness
Australian Institute of Applied Mindfulness
Professional Certificate In Health and Wellness Coaching
Wellness Coaching Australia
Living Well now Classes
Yoga Classes and Psychology sessions are available in person and via zoom. Or Carolyn can come to your home in Tarragindi and its surrounding suburbs.
If you are interested in a one-on-one class or organising a small group class with a partner, friends, family or your workplace – contact Carolyn.
Contact Carolyn
To find out more about the Living Well Now practice and to book your complimentary 15-minute phone consultation, please complete the online form.
For Carolyn’s Clinical Psychology services or Medicare referrals, contact Brisbane Endocrine on 07 3051 0376.
Brisbane, Tarragindi (and surrounding suburbs)
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.