College of Conscious Living

14/11/2025

No matter how much you grow, heal, evolve, or rise… you will always remain your most important project. Life doesn’t hand out perfect timelines. Some seasons ask you to slow down, some push you to expand, and some simply ask you to begin again.

When you feel yourself drifting, pause. Breathe. Reset. Refocus. You’re allowed to restart as many times as you need. What matters is that you keep choosing yourself, keep returning to your centre, and keep holding the vision of who you’re becoming. You are worth every minute of the work.

🩷 Sanja

09/11/2025

Thankyou for this amazing workshop you held for us to learn the art of dotting. It was such a wonderful way to go inward, get creative and enjoy some mindfulness. 🩷

03/11/2025

The Inner Child

Reconnecting with your inner child can be one of the most beautiful parts of healing. It’s like remembering who you were before the world told you to toughen up — the part of you that still knows how to love freely, laugh easily, and create without worrying if it’s “good enough.”

When you begin to meet your inner child with kindness, you start trusting yourself again. You stop needing everything to be perfect and begin to find joy in the little things — play, rest, connection, creativity. It’s about letting yourself be real, not polished.

Inner child work invites softness back into your life. It reminds you that vulnerability isn’t weakness, and that fun, silliness, and self-compassion are forms of strength. Healing doesn’t always have to be hard — sometimes, it’s simply remembering the parts of you that still know how to be open and have fun.

🩷 Sanja

30/10/2025

🌿 The Power of the Vagus Nerve 🌿

Your vagus nerve is like your body’s calm button. It connects your brain to your heart, lungs, and gut and plays a major role in how you regulate stress, emotions, and overall wellbeing.

When it’s strong and responsive, your body moves easily between stress and relaxation.
When it’s weakened (often from chronic stress, trauma, or burnout), you might notice things like:
💭 anxiety or overthinking
💤 poor sleep
🌸 digestive discomfort
😞 feeling disconnected or emotionally flat

The good news is you can train your vagus nerve.
Here are simple ways to strengthen it and reawaken your natural calm:
❄️ Cold therapy — finish your shower cold or splash cold water on your face
🎶 Humming, singing, or gargling — vibration stimulates the nerve
💆‍♀️ Massage — especially the neck, ears, and abdomen
🧘‍♀️ Deep, slow breathing — particularly exhaling longer than you inhale
🌳 Grounding in nature and gentle movement
🙏 Prayer, gratitude, or mindfulness practices
🥶 Cryotherapy or ice packs on the chest for a few seconds
🍋 Staying hydrated and eating slowly to support digestion
💗 Genuine connection and laughter — social engagement directly activates it

These small daily acts signal safety to your nervous system and whisper:
“It’s okay to relax.”

Your vagus nerve is listening. Start with one practice today and feel your calm return.

Sanja 😊

27/10/2025

🎭 The Art of Mask Making – A Journey of Self-Discovery

In our HICAT course, students create a mask that represents their best self — the version of them that shines from within.

The art of mask making is a powerful creative process that allows deep self-reflection, emotional expression, and transformation. Through this activity, we explore the different parts of ourselves — what we show to the world, what we keep hidden, and the strengths waiting to be revealed.

This process is especially beneficial for conditions such as anxiety, depression, trauma recovery, and low self-esteem. It encourages mindfulness, builds self-awareness, and helps release emotions that words alone can’t express.

Students often describe the experience as liberating, grounding, and profoundly healing — walking away with a renewed sense of clarity, confidence, and self-compassion. 💫

09/10/2025

When you slow down, you’re not doing nothing, you’re regulating.

You’re showing your nervous system that it doesn’t have to live in survival mode all the time.
Rest is how we rebuild safety. 🌿

03/10/2025

A Regulated Nervous System Changes Everything

We are, at our core, nervous systems walking around, carried by a brainstem and a mind full of beliefs, both serving and non-serving.

One of the most profound truths I’ve witnessed is this:
a supported and regulated nervous system can transform a person’s life.

When the nervous system is calm and balanced:
• Our responses shift from reactive to grounded.
• Our thoughts become clearer and more aligned.
• Our choices come from wisdom rather than survival.

Because the nervous system runs through every cell of the body, regulation doesn’t just feel better emotionally, it alters us on a cellular level. Over time, as cells regenerate, we begin to embody a new version of ourselves: calmer, clearer, and more connected.

This transformation isn’t about rejecting who we are now. It’s about consciously nurturing a system that allows the best of us to come forward. And the changes can be visible. A body carrying chronic stress and high cortisol may hold weight differently, sleep differently, and process life differently than a body that feels safe and supported.

That’s why you often see someone return from holiday lighter, not just in spirit, but sometimes in body, their system finally given permission to relax.

Stress pushes us into fight-or-flight, where survival shapes our decisions. But regulation invites us back into flow, where better choices for our health, relationships, and future - naturally arise.

This is the work. This is the practice. When you regulate your nervous system, you recreate yourself from the inside out.

What’s your favourite de-stressing practice? Comment below.

🩷 Sanja

01/10/2025

Gold Coast (Coomera) people - here is a beautiful event to attend for growth and connection. 🩷

🎭✨ Unmasking Greatness Within ✨🎭

Healing Arts Workshop

We all wear masks—sometimes to hide, sometimes to protect. But behind every mask lies our authentic self and the strengths that help us shine.

Join us for a 2-hour healing art workshop where you will:
🌿 Connect with your Authentic Self through guided meditation
💪 Discover and honour your personal strengths
🎨 Create and decorate your own expressive mask
🪞 Share and reflect in a safe, supportive space

No art experience needed (it is about the process) —just bring your openness and curiosity. 💜

📅 Date: Saturday 8th November 2025
📍 Location: I AM Healing Gifts- 1/7 De Barnett St, Coomera, Qld
🎟️ Bookings: $60 plus booking fee. Limited spaces available

https://www.trybooking.com/DGEBI

**Note: This event is suitable for adults

✨ Step into creativity.
✨ Honour your resilience.
✨ Reveal your authentic self.

Note: Once ticket is purchased, there are no refunds but it can be transferred to someone else.

25/09/2025

Hey beautiful people, October is mental health awareness month. So, myself and Eliza are holding a free community event to support mindfulness and wellbeing. There are 2 yoga sessions on the grassed area and creative arts therapy - book mark making inside the foyer. Please register if you’d like to attend. You’ll find the link in the bio. Hope to see you there. 🧘‍♀️🩷🧘‍♀️

16/08/2025

Abundance Workshop

Today I had the joy of running an Abundance Workshop with some of our beautiful HICAT graduates.

We spent the day exploring what abundance really means for each of us, not just in material terms, but in joy, creativity, connection, and possibility. We dropped into meditation, let the energy flow into organic, intuitive drawings and paintings, shared our experiences, and finished with the most soothing sound bath.

It was such a simple, nourishing day, and I’m feeling really grateful. Thank you to everyone who came along, I truly hope you walked away with something meaningful for your journey.

💛 Sanja

09/08/2025

What we create often reveals more than what we say!

Art has this incredible way of showing us things we didn’t even realise we were feeling.

A brushstroke, a splash of colour, a simple line… they can speak louder than words.

Sometimes you set out to paint sadness, and what appears is a quiet sense of peace, a reminder that different emotions can live side by side.

That’s the beauty of creating.

It’s not just about making something to look at, it’s about understanding yourself a little more along the way. And what a privilege that is.

Happy Sunday everyone 🩷

22/07/2025

Hi. I’m Sanja.

Founder of the College of Conscious Living

I’m a qualified naturopath of 20+ years, a neurofeedback trainer, and a passionate facilitator of the Holistic Integrated Creative Arts Therapy (HICAT) course - created by Mind Body Education MBE.

In 2019, I became a certified training provider with MBE and launched the College so I could share this beautiful blend of healing, creativity, and soul-work with others.

My journey has taken me from herbal medicine to Theta Healing, from meditation teacher training to deep spiritual transformation. Each step has shaped how I support others, whether through art, intuition, nervous system regulation, or simply holding space.

What started as a desire to help others heal has become a calling to guide people back to themselves.

Welcome to my world.

🩷