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Gentle Deep Rest journeys + coaching for sensitive, creative and heart led nurturers and entrepreneurs. Space to Breathe and Embody your gifts.

Our sanctuary is in Treeby (near Jandakot) immersed in nature but just 30 minutes from Fremantle and Perth. Join us for Nature Retreats, Yoga & Meditation, Women’s Circles, Cacao Ceremonies and other special events at our new ceremony space in Treeby (30 minutes from Fremantle and Perth). Immersed in natural bushland this is space of serenity, quietness and honouring of our connection to nature. A sanctuary, a place to take refuge, a gathering space for a community of compassionate hearts to connect, nourish, REST and BE. With programs and events to support you when you’re feeling stressed, overwhelmed, burnt out or simply craving a community to connect to. Come experience the profound stillness and healing of heart centred practices including yoga, mindfulness, sound healing, ceremonial cacao, trauma release and the co-creation of like hearted community. Visit www.heartofrest.com.au for our events calendar.

19/02/2026

Did you know one of the core teachings that guide our Women’s Yin Nests is five element theory? Instead of seeing ourselves as separate to nature we look to the balance and interweaving between five functional organs and natural elements.

Bringing awareness to both the Yin, the Yang and the transitions 5 element theory sees the deep relationship between our physical/mental/emotional body and our social and natural environment.

The gentle Yin Yoga & Taoist movements we practice in the nests are inspired by the seasons.

Join me in the dome tomorrow night as we explore the wisdom of Late Summer (Earth element: Stomach/Spleen) and take time to honour the transition from Yang to Yin, digesting and savouring the gifts from Summer ♥️

Booking link in my bio 🌿

16/02/2026

Remember who you are before
Before these questions
Before these answers

Remember you are before
Everything

🎶 Remember by Omkara

13/02/2026

Moments of Beauty. Breathing it in. Savouring it. Letting it seep into my bones. Right here. In the unexpected moments. In this breath.

Savouring the beauty in life is the theme I’m journeying with at the moment. Not to be confused with Saviouring 😆🥰

Join me in the dome if you need a moment to breathe in beauty.

🌿 Friday 20 February 6-8pm Late Summer Women’s Yin Nest (Earth Element)

✨ Sunday 8 March 6-8pm Deep Rest with Cacao (all genders)

🍂 Friday 20 March 9-11am Autumn Women’s Yin Nest (Metal Element with Lani & Christine), 10 week series begins

❤️ Saturday 21 March 6-8.30pm Autumn Equinox Cacao Ceremony (all genders)

Booking links in my bio 🌻

11/02/2026

Can you feel the season shifting? We’ll be exploring this late summer energy in a special Women’s Yin Nest on Friday 20th February 6-8pm.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine this is a shorter period that marks the transition from the high intensity of Summer to the gentle letting go of Autumn. The Yang energy of Summer mellows into a softer, more contemplative mood.

Late Summer is connected to the Stomach and Spleen and the way the body transforms the food we eat into blood and Qi to nourish our organs and feed our vitality. It relates to the element of Earth and like the Earth, it represents our ability to receive the abundance, stability, comfort, and nourishment of life.

Together we’ll get curious about how we support our physical, mental & emotional bodies through transitions. And practice the little things we can do everyday to prioritise grounding and digesting life so that worry and over thinking doesn’t distract us from the abundance of life available.

Join me in remembering how deeply worthy you are of belonging and nourishment.

~ Gentle Yin poses & Taoist feminine practices to support the stomach & spleen, self reflection prompts, ceremonial cacao & a gentle space to Be. ~

This will be our last casual Yin Nest session before our 10 week Autumn Nest begins so if you want a little taste of our seasonal journeys you’re very welcome here ♥️♥️

Booking link in my bio 🌿🌿

04/02/2026

A face to go with the words, hi I’m Lani, explorer of the inner & outer worlds.

After years travelling & studying in intentional communities & schools overseas I returned to Perth almost a decade ago where I’ve been sharing cacao ceremonies, deep rest classes, retreats and 1:1 coaching.

I share the word Heart a lot and sometimes it’s soft & floaty, poetic and whimsical. But alongside my inner poet and mystic I’m also an academic. I’ve studied mental health, wellness, yoga therapy for nervous system support, trauma and grief and a whole collection of other topics and tools.

I share the tools that have supported me to be with grief and loss and embrace the gifts of sensitivity and stillness. And I offer a gentle space of enquiry that mirrors the way I’ve needed to be held through moments of expansion & growth and also through the dark nights of my soul (of these there have been a few!)

What I share I’ve tested and discerned through the flames of my own inner journey then cross referenced with science and mentors 😆

I’m yet to figure out how to write a nice neat little blurb of what we ‘do’ in session because real life is not neat & tidy and the ‘doing’ bit is ever changing to meet the needs of whoever I’m sitting with.

But I do know that those of you who have found your way through the different doors of heART of Rest over the decade are what make the space we explore together so precious.

It’s your courage, curiosity and insatiable thirst for love, belonging, beauty, connection and truth. Your love for nature & openness and your willingness to explore the edges of life even when it seems to be contrary to everything you’ve been taught, yet somehow just know to be true.

Thanks for Being here and Being You. The world can seem hard and hurtful at times but having brave hearted souls to stand or lay down heart to heart with as we listen & love deeply is what keeps me going.

I’m beyond grateful for your presence. Thank you for trusting there is wisdom in the quiet, still spaces in between & helping me continue to grow & deepen my trust too 🌿✨

02/02/2026

“Full Moon Glow I am bright & beautiful. Full Moon Glow I am brave and I am bold.” ~ Fia

Honouring the light within & without. Humbled by the tender brave hearts who journeyed together into the Heart of Belonging during this weekends full moon cacao ceremony.

To remember our connection to life and each other. To honour the hurt when the threads of connection seem lost. And to brave the wilderness to find our way Home, returning to the Heart of Belonging.

Thank you for the glorious photos Amy 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Join me in the dome this weekend for our next Deep Rest circle Sunday 8 February 6-8pm ♥️🌿

https://heartofrest.com.au/deep-rest/

23/01/2026

Even strong Hearts need a place to land.

Over the years I’ve created many Beautiful spaces for gentle hearts to gather in. My intention has always been to create a space that we can put down our masks and leave room for the deeper wisdom and truths of our Heart to shine through.

To cultivate a safety from within that allows real resting and a compassionate honest space for each other.

A place where the nurturers, caregivers, empaths and highly sensitives could come to connect or reconnect to their Heart driven purpose (rather than the over giver or people pleaser they’ve become accustomed to feeding).

A space where there was enough quietness to hear beyond the busyness of the mind, and enough stillness to feel the aliveness of life in every cell of your Being.

And a space to receive the nourishment of quality time spent with others without leaving yourself behind.

Why? Because even strong Hearts need a place to land. This is what I knew I needed and it’s taken me a while but over the years I’ve begun to really trust that this kind of simple, beautiful space is what others need too.

The dome is a deepening of all these intentions but most simply I hope this space will offer you the support to return to the Heart of you.

Over Summer join me in the geodome for beautiful evenings of gentle, real moments to notice and BE who you are. To rest into the Beauty of the Heart.

Booking links for Deep Rest classes, Women’s Yin Nests and Cacao Ceremonies below ♥️

https://heartofrest.com.au/links/

13/01/2026

Permission for Peace. After years of searching and seeking, learning and growing one of the most powerful pieces of advice I was ever given was to turn the ‘engine’ off for a moment and give myself permission to receive life & prioritise inner peace.

Building our capacity to receive life doesn’t come through pushing, striving, forcing. It comes in those moments of leaning back and letting life in.

And after a lifetime of pushing through it’s not easy to leave that empty space for peace to be experienced.

If you’d like a little support as you practice giving yourself permission for peace, book in for a 1:1 Deep Rest session ♥️

11/01/2026

A surprise rainbow sunset to cap off a gentle Sunday eve at Treeby shared with the beautiful humans we are so blessed to share this land with. We spent a little time in the dome sharing Gratitude, Cacao, Stories, Love and Sound…celebrating the space before we officially reopen tomorrow. Then this magic unfolded in the sky ♥️♥️

08/01/2026

We’re getting ready to welcome you into this beautiful new space. Bookings are now open for our first three Circles of Belonging ♥️

🌿 6pm Sunday 18 January, Deep Rest with Cacao
🌸 6pm Friday 23 January, Womens Yin Nest
⭕️ 6pm 31 January, Full Moon Cacao Ceremony: Circle of Belonging

Blessed by last weekends full moon I’ve been testing out the space this week & putting the last little finishing touches on the inside. The geometry, connection to nature, acoustics, stability and spaciousness are amazing & I can’t wait to share it with you.

See you soon heart family ♥️

08/12/2025

Stable foundations & pausing to breathe & accept life as it is.

Life has her own rhythm. It isn’t always the rhythm I want but more & more I see plan changes are an opportunity to practice dancing in harmony with life.

We spent the weekend prepping the foundations for a beautiful new geodesic dome that had been scheduled to arrive this week. But I received news today shipping has been delayed & our plans for building the dome on the weekend cancelled.

So it’s time to pause and breathe. And I’ve found myself with space to pause & recommit to this build being a joyful, slow and prayer filled one even though it’s not when I’d hoped it would be.

Even though it’s extra work and time and money. And even though it means it will be a little longer till our 2026 event dates are released.

But it’s ok.

Over the last few years I’ve placed a lot of pressure on myself to keep going when things got hard. I needed to know I could do hard things and I’m grateful to have that trust in my bones again.

But doing hard things is different to pushing through in resistance. Resisting life’s rhythm is painful and exhausting & takes away from the joy of living and creating.

I want to savour the process of creating this sacred space. To feel the joy of being in service to something bigger than me.

And I want to leave space for other hands and hearts to joyfully come to help us breathe this next chapter of Heart of Rest to life too.

So long story short 2026 dates are coming soon….

In the meantime you’ll find me remembering my why for Heart of Rest.

Planting seeds for strong beautiful gentle spaces where we can put down old stories and midwife our Soul Home into the here and now.

And I’m curious has your Heart been touched by something I’ve shared over the years. Or an event you’ve attended at Heart of Rest?

Will you help me to remember Why these gentle spaces are so precious to you too?

I’d love to share your words & gratitude with the land while we’re building something new ♥️♥️

19/11/2025

Sunday 23 November 6-8pm
Deep Rest with Cacao
Cultivating Gratitude

Join me in the tent for 2 hours of gentleness and gratitude with movement, breath & cacao.

As the year end approaches we take time to slow down and turn our body, heart and mind towards gratitude. Honouring the lessons of the year that has been and recommitting to life lived with pauses, meaning, purpose and love.

5 places available. Link in my bio 🌿🌿

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http://www.heartofrest.com.au/

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A place to slow down and connect with the heART. Through yin yoga, ceremonial cacao, self enquiry, radical self acceptance, emotional resilience and the co-creation of like hearted community we flourish. “I’m talking about living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear” ~ Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert

See the events timetable for regular ceremonies and community gatherings, or come and join Lani for a public yoga class:

Monday 9.30am @BodyforLife, Success

Monday 6.00 - 7.30pm @ Spanda Yoga School, Fremantle