About

Hélène

Life coach. NLP practitioner. Hypnotherapist. Yoga teacher. Forest & nature-immersion guide. Retreat host. Physiotherapist by training. It's an unusual combination — here's why it holds together.

Her story

I burned out first. That's how I found the rest of it.

I've been a physiotherapist for over seventeen years. Ten years ago I burned out — and that sent me down a path of alternative medicines and modalities. Then, fifteen months ago, trauma of my own taught me to understand trauma and recovery quite differently.

I studied Yoga TTC in India and created my own variation of it, called schmoga. Techniques of NLP, Conscious Life Coaching and Wellness Guiding help revolve your healing journey inward — and I apply physiotherapy-inspired clinical therapeutic bodywork to release tension and trauma through the body and the somatic system.

Ideally, all of it happens in nature: at our remote, off-grid rustic retreat centre and indigenous forest. I weave in breathing modalities, yoga nidra guided meditation and sylvotherapy nature immersions.

Get back to self love and a calm mind. Get your body in a safe space. Get your soul connected to purpose.

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Where you'll find her: Pachamama Meditation Centre — 40 minutes from Sedgefield, 45 from Knysna, 1h15 from George Airport and Plettenberg Bay. Physical change coaching runs online and in person around the world.

The paper trail

Qualified in the room. At home in the forest.

Qualifications

2008Physiotherapy — University of Pretoria, South Africa
2012Learn to Swim Coaching Qualification — Swimming South Africa
2018200-hour Yoga Teacher Training — Vedansha Institute of Vedic Studies, India
2019NLP Practitioner — Noha Essop
2019Hypnotherapy I — Noha Essop
2019Conscious Life Coach — Noha Essop
2024Wellness Guide Certification — International Health Hub, England

Along the way

2017A Life Revolution launches
2019Shareholder and land custodian at Pachamama
2021–24Host of online women's circles — Abundant Life Workshop
2021–Founder of Cultured Craft — fermentation workshops at retreats; hosting women's retreats
2023Slow Food Feast co-host with Feedme Green at Spiritfest
2024Fermentation presentation at The Node, Knysna
2025Speaker — Nootropic Mocktail Masterclass, Retreat Yourself festival

Why the combination matters

Most people are sent to one specialist at a time.

The body gets treated by one person, the head by another, and nobody looks at the whole thing. That split is the actual problem.

The body

Physiotherapy and physical change coaching — trained clinical understanding of pain and movement.

The mind

Coaching, NLP and hypnotherapy — the patterns, the loops, the story you tell yourself.

The setting

Sylvotherapy — the forest, where for many people the other two finally connect.

Let's just talk first.

Twenty minutes, free. If I'm not the right fit, I'll tell you and point you elsewhere.

Book a free 20-minute call