Olivia Besson
TEACHER & MENTOR
Amplify the resonant truth within your heart.
Remember who you are.
Live your life on purpose.
Alignment is KEY.
Anchor in your sovereign power.
Reclaim and remember who you truly are.
Vibrate the resonant truth within your heart.
Find your way home again, my love.
Hello seeker...
We live in the most exciting time in humanity.
But also very challenging.
It is said that collective consciousness is literally splitting, and two parallel realities are co-existing side by side.
Neither one is better than the other, however one of them offers a new and a different way of living.
Do you feel a yearning for something new? For more expansion, creation, love, connection?
Many of us are feeling confused, overloaded and overwhelmed at the enormous amount of universal energy and currents of change that are sweeping the Mother Earth. And also the huge ripple effect of division,
literally breaking many hearts.
This is causing suffering, as we unpack the layers, the limits, the projections, the triggers
and all the aspects of our self that are yet to see the Light.
Perhaps you are grieving an older version of yourself, feeling lost, and/or longing for something that is a new version of you,
a freedom that you feel isn't quite there?
You know that you need to cultivate a higher energetic standard for yourself, but just find your way there.
What would it mean for humanity if just one more soul chose to live in their truth, to walk forward as a beacon of Light, and radiate love and compassion?
I wonder!
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You know what - these are precisely all the obstacles I have had to overcome, but more on that later. These questions are very important to ask ourselves at certain times in our lives when we are on a journey of change and growth. And sometimes the challenge is to answer them with the utmost of honesty and self-responsibility. Often self-doubt leaves us feeling confused and even overwhelmed. We leak our energy and give away our power.
I offer immersive 1:1 mentorship, group coaching and education for women who are seeking spiritual and personal growth, and are ready to up-level their lives.
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Learn more about my work here.
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We actively participate in the journey of self-healing and self-liberation by tapping into and remembering the innate wisdom of the body. My deep passion is to educate women about divine intelligence as a tool to unlock codes for deeper levels of self-worth self-love, and self-liberation. The time has come for you to vibrate the resonant truth within your heart my dear, and navigate life on your terms.
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I offer free content via my Facebook Group: Personal Growth and Spiritual Evolution Community Here you can access live 5-20min masterclasses on tools for self regulation and healing, yoga practices, mini-courses: 5 Element Breathwork and 5 Prana Breathwork; Exploring Grief Summit, plus my own Sacred Season's pdf to attune to the cyclic seasons for personal wellbeing and self care. On occasion, I also co-host interviews with wellness practitioners and healers. Make sure you also like my Facebook biz page and/or my Instagram (which ever way you roll!). Subscribe below for occasional email updates.
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I also facilitate the RESONANCE PRACTICE PORTAL - a space for men and women who are ready to commit to life long change and want the support of a comfortable, down to earth online space to do high-vibrational practices that create resonance within the human body and its surrounds. Find out more here.
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Now is the time to come home in our bodies; to honour and respect our own temple, one another, and this beautiful Earth in which we live. We are at an evolutionary point in time where there are very real energetic upgrades happening to Mother Earth as she ascends into higher frequencies. Known as the Yugas in ancient yogic wisdom, we are nearing the end of the current 26,000 year cycle which is representative of a collective shift in consciousness. So I ask you, will you choose to evolve too, or stay trapped in the pressure cooker of your dense/heavy human body?
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Namaste means:
The Light in me
honours the Light in you.
And in this space,
we are ONE.
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A little about me...
I am an adventurer. As a teenager and young woman, I had an impelling vision to travel and explore the world. With the same curious nature, I love the inward journey that unfolds with yoga as a discipline and science of the mind and body. My adventures take me to far away places, geographically, cosmically, and to the vastness of my inner landscape.
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At 23 years old, I was in an horrific car accident, compressing & breaking my spine in 6 places, crumbling the vertebra of my lower back. Along with whiplash and trauma, I also endured this process with all of my family. I realised very quickly that yoga offered me a sense of wellbeing, and most importantly, the greatest amount of relief from my pain and trauma in comparison to all the other therapy I was receiving. I was sold. This ancient practice empowered me to take charge of the outcomes of my physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing for the rest of my life. It changed the trajectory of my life. As I've grown and evolved, yoga has always been my true compass to lead me in the right aligned direction. It allows me to live my life with reflection, contemplation, personal growth, and authentic expression.
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Today I live in Flaxton, on the mountains in the beautiful Sunshine Coast Hinterland, with my husband and two daughters (and the cutest mini toy poodle ever called Stella!). I have evolved from teaching asana practices in every day yoga classes, to that which makes me feel vibrantly Alive...
expanding consciousness.
It's like playing Connect The Dots, practicing allowing, and blowing your mind all in one! I love the outdoors and adventure, culture, study of the Self, and commUNITY. I also love solo time. And the odd glass of nice red wine or gin and tonic by the fire-pit. 90's music too. Wasn't it the best!
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I am truly passionate about watching people's lives change when they embrace their awakening and ascending. As a Mentor, Qualified Yoga Therapist, Educator, & NLP Practitioner, I offer a healing space to support you through transformation, illness, and everyday stress. I look forward to meeting you!
Bio
B.BUS | RYT | CYT | NLP
Senior Yoga Teacher & Therapist, Spiritual & Mindset Mentor, Chakra Educator, NLP Practitioner, Reiki Certified.
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Traveller, wife, mum of two, lover of adventure and nature, curious mind, and bringer of peace.
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My mission is to help you unlock codes for deeper levels of self-love, self-worth, and self-liberation, amplifying the resonant truth within your heart
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I have dedicated my life to bridging the gap between modern and ancient medicine, to help make mind-body medicine more available to every day humans, and break down the illusion that ancient medicine and practices are 'woo woo'.
In the past five years, I have deepened my studies in yoga therapy, the chakra system, neuroscience, trauma awareness, embodiment, breath work & meditation. I have witnessed the power of these practices as they deeply transform the lives of my students and clients.
The flower of life is the sacred geometry symbol of creation. Sacred geometry is kind of like the mathematics of consciousness. Its pretty cool. Whats special about this symbol, for me, is that my soul was drawn to it when I was a teenager and completing my 12th grade Textiles and Design major project - a bedspread - upon which I quilted this design into it. I found it on a picture of an old wooden chest that had the flower of life as a carving, and it felt captivating to me. It was a remembrance.
The Flower of Life connects everything. Just as the circles originate from the centre, the pattern represents that all life stems from one source . You can experience this by simply drawing The Flower of Life. This sacred symbol is said to contain vital information on the secrets of the universe and all living things. It is dated back to 535BC, seen painted in red ochre on the Temple of Osiris in Egypt. Within it contains other sacred geometry symbols including Metatron's Cube and the Merkaba.Here is a quick video if you wish to learn more.
Spirit Science: The Flower of Life. Or a long video: click here.
The Flower of Life
WORKING WITH OLIVIA
FACILITATOR & MENTOR
Mentorship with Olivia encompasses all of her skillsets from over 20 years of study and personal practice. Below you can read about the neuroscience of yoga; neurolinguistic programming; chakras and the subtle energy body as well as yoga therapy, to deepen your understanding of how these tools intertwine to offer transformational effects on the human body at every layer. Having a Mentor who is holistically focused and recognises the absolute essential need to connect to your Higher Self, along with all the other aspects of your being including your physical body, mental body, your emotional intelligence, and your vital energy body, you can trust that your growth and evolution will be deep. In particular, Liv works with women who are absolutely ready to expand and stretch themselves into a higher level of self-love and self-care, self-worth and self-esteem, and feel more liberated as a result. These women are ready to invest in themselves and witness their lives change, because quite simply, it is costing them to stay where they are.
"I love to teach and mentor from a space that you are already this perfect soul, and that your experiences through this life and past lives leave impressions on your energy body that restrict the free flow of life force in your body. This results in energetic tensions, tethering you to 'things' that weigh you down. Our mindset becomes limited. The result is - we lose our sacred power."
Olivia's mentorship style is grounded in an inner knowing that through education, understanding and embodiment of wisdom and truth through the application of timeless yogic practices that extend far beyond your every day asana class, we begin the process of returning home. We peel back the layers and attune to trust, we sense and enjoy the world with freedom, and we move forward with clear knowing and affirmed, aligned, centred and easeful action.
Does this resonate for you?
1:1 Mentorship with Olivia is offered by application and is typically delivered via a 6 week container inclusive of either an intimate 3 night retreat OR a 1:1 VIP day. All programs offer tailored strategies and energetic upgrades to match the needs of the individual. Many clients who are very committed to lifelong change and up-levelling also go on to receive 6 month support which includes multiple VIP days and one or more transformational retreats. Please contact Liv via email, messenger or instagram to explore further.
THE NEUROSCIENCE OF YOGA
The neuroscience of yoga incorporates the emerging paradigm of brain science that explores neuroplasticity, systems thinking (biology), neural networks/whole brain participation, the notion of the embodied brain, and the exploration of the glial cells (non-neuronal/nerve cells that provide physical and nutritional support to the brain's neurons). Pretty fascinating hey! You may ask - and how does this relate to yoga?
"I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me." Albert Einstein
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Yogas citta-vrtti-nirodhah. Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind. Yoga Sutra 1.2
Then...
tada drastuh svarupe avasthanam. Then the seer can rest in its true nature. Yoga Sutra 1.3
The practice of yoga becomes very much an intention of returning to homeostatis and stability in our mind, body and spirit; and as such the truth of who we are or who I am arises.
With an understanding of the brain, we can select yoga practices to align us to our truth as a source of wisdom. In summary, the hindbrain is our most primitive part of the brain and controls automatic functions such as breathing and heart rate, digestion, blood pressure, unconscious movement, motor control and balance. Balance poses, inversions, digestive therapeutic practices like twists and forward bends, structural breath and pranamama are all great for the hindbrain.
Yoga can also support the midbrain (connects forebrain to hindbrain). The midbrain helps to process seeing and hearing and coordinate top down information with bottom up movements of your body. Think of all your habitual and addictive behaviours that could very much make use of some top down information to bring awareness into these and initiate positive change! A yoga practice that adopts an attitude of curiosity, that moves slowly and mindfully with awareness, and gives you the opportunity to notice the sensations in your body and hear the sound of your breath, all supports your midbrain. Being aware of what motivates you to practice, and how your body feels rewarded and supported by your yoga practice is exactly what we want.
The forebrain processes all your sensory information, plus your memory, reasoning and executive function. Ways that yoga can support the forebrain is by directing your focus on the movement, on the breath, and both at the same time. Movement with breath. Notice how long the movement lasts with the breath, and whether the breath initiates the movement. Does it guide the movement? How do you interpret the sensations in your body? Observe where your attention is drawn and the feelings that arise. Also consciously drawing your attention to places where you may not typically pay attention too - like the back body.
Yoga can also support other centres of the brain such as the limbic brain, cerebral cortex and corpus callosum with embodied cognition (approach your body with kindness and nurturing), and cross-crawl movements which help to to promote hemispheric integration. And finally, lets not forget that neuroscience encompasses both the central and peripheral nervous systems too. All of these examples give you an idea of the extent of our body's intelligence, and just how yoga very much supports every layer of our being!
NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING
Neuro-Linguistic Programming, NLP, was developed in the 1970s and today has become widely used to assist in helping people to bring about change in their thoughts and behaviour. It works on the notion that we function via internal “maps” of the world, the way that we have programmed ourselves through our conditioning to filter the world through our sensory experiences.
Our brain is nothing short of incredible! Every second, it processes over 2 million bits of information. The pre-frontal cortex filters this information so that only the most important stuff gets through. These filters include beliefs, values, your attitude, current mood, attention, your blood sugar levels, stress state, internal dialogue and the way your own language translates mental states into words and as such can delete, generalise, and distort information.
NLP utilises outstanding communication tools and skills to build rapport with the client, to 'chunk' ideas into broader or more specific focus so that we can connect bits of information or 'see' it differently; it uses metaphors, framing and reframing of thoughts and ideas. NLP facilitates emotional mastery by promoting a change in state, developing anchors to elicit change, and to build a 'neurological bridge' as one moves from an ineffective emotional state into a more effective one ie procrastination to action. There are also techniques that can be used to facilitate behavioural change by recognising triggers, routine, and reward. Powerful transformations can be achieved.
CHAKRAS - THE SUBTLE BODY
Chakras exist in our subtle body, or energy body, and are therefore intangible. It is important to note that chakra wisdom originates from the traditional tantric yoga system which sees the chakras as a microcosmic fractal of the cosmic elements (earth, water, fire, air, ether) within each of us. Chakras have also been utilised extensively across other fields and into the new age, and as such we have seen some adaptations or changes in the way chakras are expressed to the world. I love to take from all approaches as long as it draws us to truth.
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Within tantra wisdom, chakras intelligently organise prana (life force) and facilitate subtle energy flow, providing a blueprint for the structure and function of the physical body, mind and spirit. When we practice yoga, it is the chakras that open the pathway for Kundalini Shakti, your inherent upward rising vibrational force, and unite you, the individual, with the universal consciousness so that you can have spiritual realisation. Therefore, by harmonising the elements in your body with those of the cosmos, your chakras will function efficiently and allow for your own awakening. Work with the earth element for root energy centre, water element for the sacral energy centre, fire element for the solar plexus, air element for the heart chakra, and ether element for the throat, third eye and crown.
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To draw on a modern understanding of the chakras, I love Dr Joe Dispenza's definition of them:
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"Think of each of them as an individual centre of information. Each has its own specific energy that carries a corresponding level of consciousness, its own emission of light expressing very specific information, or its own frequency carrying a certain message. Each also has its own individual glands, its own unique hormones, its own chemistry, and its own individual plexus of neurons. Think of these individual clusters of neurological networks as mini-brains. And if each one of those centres has its own individual brain, then each one also has its own individual mind."
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Within the yoga therapy context, the chakras exist in the layer or vijnanamayakosha - the sheath or layer of our being where our intelligence is stored or impressed. There are five sheaths in total: physical, pranic/energetic, mental, emotional/intelligence, and ananda/bliss. A cute fact here regarding ananda. Your brain produces a bliss hormone/chemical called Anandamide. Cute fact number two: cacao (the raw version) also comprises of a chemical compound Anandamide. In Sanskrit, ananda transaltes to bliss, joy and/or delight. Thats a little off chakra topic, but a reminder nevertheless that beneath the layers we are all bliss!
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By now I am sure you can see how awesome you are! You are divine, you are so perfect. You are a delight! Hungry for more?
If you would like to explore the chakras in more depth, check out my short self-paced course Chakras: Your Divine Intelligence here. After completion you get a Certificate. (WEBPAGE STILL NOT COMPLETED - EMAIL LIV FOR DETAILS ON THE COURSE)
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YOGA THERAPY
Yoga therapy is a specialised area of yoga training
that is focused on the process of empowering individuals
to progress toward improved health and wellbeing
through the application of the practices of yoga.
(www.yogaaustralia.org)
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All yoga is therapeutic at heart. Most of us have been exposed to some or all of the traditional yoga practices used over the millennia to tame the mind and ease the body. We know these as asana (posture), pranayama (breath), meditation, mantra, chanting, mudra (hand postures such as prayer position at the heart), ritual (self care routines, ceremony, church) and a disciplined lifestyle. With the guidance of a Yoga Therapist, the appropriate application of these practices can be prescribed to support a consistent yoga practice that will increase your awareness and sense of self, and engage your energy in the direction of your desired goals. If you are the kind of person that wants to be empowered by participating in your whole health and healing, then yoga, and yoga therapy, is for you!
My goal is to co-create a routine or lifestyle that is safe - physically, spiritually, and emotionally - and that you love. Together we work out what the symptoms are that are causing suffering and work at eliminating, reducing, or managing them; we work towards improving function (physically, mentally, emotionally); and ultimately we want to prevent the dis-ease or symptoms from reoccurring. This may require a multi-modality approach, and as such, referrals to other wellness professionals may aid in your health journey. What separates yoga therapy from many modern medical approaches is its capacity to change your relationship to your condition or state of being, and how you identify with it. You will feel at home again in your body - with all its life experience!
Yoga therapy also utilises methods from its sister science, Ayurveda.
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Olivia Besson Yoga
Mobile: 0412 506 235
hello@livbessonyoga.com
Flaxton, Sunshine Coast Hinterland, QLD, 4560
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