Return to Presence

Return to Presence Yoga for mental health, training for yoga teachers and mental health professionals.

[NEW COURSE] 🫶 Trauma-sensitive yoga for children, teens & families. Trauma-sensitive yoga has a unique approach that al...
05/12/2025

[NEW COURSE]

🫶 Trauma-sensitive yoga for children, teens & families.

Trauma-sensitive yoga has a unique approach that allows for story-telling, relational repair, embodied healing and creativity to take shape in sessions. In gentle, non-invasive and deeply supportive ways. And so during the course of this year we’ve been dreaming, planning and building a training that will support the learning of just that. Specifically in working with children, teens and their families.

If you work with children / teens, or aspire to - then goodness gracious I am excited to invite you in! Our newest faculty member Michelle Fury - that has been supporting our development of this training - is a paediatric yoga therapist and psychotherapist. She is a leading, global authority on the use of yoga therapy as a psychother**eutic intervention, with her work having been featured in Yoga Journal, the Wall Street Journal, and Social Work Today. 

And so suffice to say, that this is not only going to be a deeply meaningful and compassionate training, it’s going to be world-class.

📩 Check your email inbox for all deets on joining the waitlist & our hand-picked early bird bonuses!

PS: Not an email subscriber yet? Pop us a DM to share the deets with you!

Yip, that’s right 🙂 Every single one of our training programs is eligible for our Pay from the Heart Program! 📥 Apply by...
27/11/2025

Yip, that’s right 🙂 Every single one of our training programs is eligible for our Pay from the Heart Program!

📥 Apply by popping us a DM with:

1.) Your full name and email address.
2.) Which training program from our online shop (www.candiceclark.co.za/shop) you are most interested in.
3.) The total ZAR amount you are able to pay.
4.) Your total household earnings at present.

That’s it! Of course we can only accommodate several spots so please bear with us while we work through the responses and selection. NB: This is only valid for 27 - 29 November ‘26. 

If you are in the fortunate position and feel a tug on your heart to 🖤 sponsor 🖤 a deserving trainee, working in their community to bring about change - we’d love to hear from you too! Simply POP us a DM with which training program from our online shop (www.candiceclark.co.za/shop) you’d like to sponsor a spot on, and we’ll send you a link to donate to just that. We will absolutely keep this anonymous, but we are also very happy to feature your brand and business as a donor.  

Together? Anything is possible, friends! Thank you for being here. ✨

If you work with children or teens, or are aspiring to - this is for you! Join us on Friday (28th November) for a FREE 1...
19/11/2025

If you work with children or teens, or are aspiring to - this is for you!

Join us on Friday (28th November) for a FREE 1.5 hour workshop on trauma-sensitive yoga for children, teens and their families!

Michelle Fury is our newest faculty member and we are honoured to have her with us next week for this timely topic.

She is an assistant professor of Behavioral Health, a qualified psychotherapist and highly experienced paediatric yoga therapist. She has a specialty in trauma therapy, as well as extensive training and experience using evidence-based therapy models. She was named by the International Association of Yoga Therapists as the first full time yoga therapist in a hospital setting for her 15 years’ of work at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Her work with children in the field of yoga therapy as a psychother**eutic intervention has been featured in Yoga Journal, the Wall Street Journal, and Social Work Today. She is also the author of Using Yoga Therapy to Promote Mental Health in Children and Adolescents (Handspring, 2015).

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from an absolute pioneer in the field. We can’t wait! Book your complimentary spot at the link in our bio >

Annual applications are now open! Our signature 30-hour Yoga for Mental Health facilitator certification program is an i...
19/11/2025

Annual applications are now open!

Our signature 30-hour Yoga for Mental Health facilitator certification program is an in-depth, evidence-based and super practical training program. It is loved by wellness practitioners, counselors and yoga teachers that want to integrate yoga for mental health into their practices and offerings.

🧠 Step into your next chapter as a certified Yoga for Mental Health facilitator > further details and applications via link in our bio. We’d love to have you join us!

Love! 😍 We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. Huge well done to our recent trauma-sensitive yoga level 1 graduate, ...
18/11/2025

Love! 😍 We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

Huge well done to our recent trauma-sensitive yoga level 1 graduate, Chumasande. We’re honored to be walking this path with you & the communities you serve. 🫶

PTSD is a debilitating mental health challenge. Trauma and the resulting effects change the course of someone’s life - i...
13/11/2025

PTSD is a debilitating mental health challenge. Trauma and the resulting effects change the course of someone’s life - instantly.

It’s no wonder that PTSD is associated with: substance abuse, su***de, depression, life-limiting infections, coronary heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, autoimmune disease as well as a range of gastrointestinal and cardiac problems and musculoskeletal pain*.

But why are women more likely than men to experience PTSD?

Well it’s not biology. 👉 And it has everything to do with how women are treated in society.

❗️Women are significantly more likely than men to experience sexual assault and r**e, which is the traumatic event most likely to result in PTSD.
❗️Women are disproportionately exposed to poverty and financial hardship, limiting access to the resources needed for trauma recovery.

We can be the change with the work we choose to do.



Reference:
*Astill Wright, L., Roberts, N. P., Barawi, K., Simon, N., Zammit, S., McElroy, E., & Bisson, J. I. (2021). Disturbed Sleep Connects Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Somatization: A Network Analysis Approach. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 34(2), 375–383. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22619

In our inbox 👆Don’t just take our word for it 🤩 Words directly from our graduates. They have found incredible personal a...
12/11/2025

In our inbox 👆

Don’t just take our word for it 🤩 Words directly from our graduates. They have found incredible personal and professional growth as Yoga for Mental Health Facilitators. Join us on our next intake!

🧠 No previous formal mental health or yoga instructor training required.
💻 Self-paced + live group consulting sessions.
📚 Led directly by our founder Cands. An experienced and sought-after licensed counselor and yoga therapist specialising in trauma and mental health.

Explore the course and FAQs via link in our bio. We’d love to support you.

We’re closing the year with some truly special offerings. Deep dives, soulful conversations, and spaces to reset togethe...
11/11/2025

We’re closing the year with some truly special offerings. Deep dives, soulful conversations, and spaces to reset together.

Whether you join from your mat or laptop at home or in my garden in Johannesburg, these next few weeks are all about connection, healing, and heart.

If you’re new here, welcome friends! This is your invitation to explore yoga therapy, community, and gentle growth with us 🌿
If you’ve been journeying with us for a while, thank you for being part of this ever-growing circle.

🔗 Book your spots via link in our bio, and let’s finish this year grounded, open, and inspired.

Ok, so we won’t tell Cands if you don’t 🤪! You read that right! Up to 100% off of your favorite programs, trainings and ...
30/10/2025

Ok, so we won’t tell Cands if you don’t 🤪!

You read that right! Up to 100% off of your favorite programs, trainings and workshops. Ready to step into the world of yoga for mental health? Ready to deepen your practical implementation of somatic therapy? Ready to become certified in trauma-sensitive yoga? Ready to take your first step in befriending the body? Simply curious about what we do at Return to Presence?

✔️ This is your sign.

We go live at midnight!

For me, it was the day I couldn’t stop crying. I’ll never forget it - it was the most beautiful sunny day outside but in...
10/10/2025

For me, it was the day I couldn’t stop crying. I’ll never forget it - it was the most beautiful sunny day outside but inside? I felt… Trapped. Desperate. Unsure life would ever feel better.

Spoiler alert: it did. I held on. I just did the next best thing I could. Booked time off work. Picked up a recipe book. One step. One step to care for me. And friends? It got better. I promise - this side, many years on - it got SO much better.

Today is World Mental Health day 🤍❤️‍🩹 Where did it start for you friends? What did you do?

👇 Let’s share our small steps in the comments & support those looking for that next small step that feels doable.

Hello beautiful friends! 🫶Whew what a few months it has been! But finally, I’m all moved in! Our precious new home is a ...
05/09/2025

Hello beautiful friends! 🫶

Whew what a few months it has been! But finally, I’m all moved in! Our precious new home is a dream. My new office & studio space is right on the garden, with the most gorgeous large windows. Sunshine streaming in, diffuser going, water feature trickling ~ it’s bliss to be here 🌿

Thank YOU for supporting this special business and practice that means I get to live out my heart work and keep creating a life that is most true to me. Truly, I’ve never felt more grateful.

As a team, we have the most exciting plans for this last quarter of 2025! We’re going to finish strong 💪 with our wonderful training programs each getting their turn in the spotlight, and my private practice officially reopening next week!

Connect with us & deepen your practice 🙏 All info linked in our bio.

- Cands (founder)

Rebecca is one of our incredibly talented and deeply compassionate trauma-sensitive yoga facilitators. This month, she i...
22/08/2025

Rebecca is one of our incredibly talented and deeply compassionate trauma-sensitive yoga facilitators. This month, she is hosting a thoughtful workshop in Bryanston, JHB.

For anyone navigating the pain and complexity of grief, we’d love to extend this gentle invitation to you 🍃

🙏 All information can be found on image 2, along with the details to book.

Keep up the beautiful work Rebecca!

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