A Life Revolution
Hélène

Services

You don't have to diagnose yourself before you get help.

Six ways of working. Start with how you feel, not with what it's called — and we'll find the right way in together.

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Which one is right for me?

Pick whichever sounds most like you today. There's no wrong answer — it just tells me where to look first.

“My head won't switch off.”

Racing thoughts, can't settle, everything feels loud. Usually a mix of coaching, NLP and sometimes hypnotherapy.

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“I want to feel strong in my body again.”

Tired, sore, or disconnected from yourself physically. Usually physical change coaching and physiotherapy.

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“I keep repeating the same pattern.”

You can see it happening and still can't stop it. Usually NLP and hypnotherapy.

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“I need to get out and reset.”

The city, the noise, the screens — you need air and space to think. That's sylvotherapy, or a retreat.

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Still not sure? That's completely normal — book the free call and I'll help you work it out.

Life coaching

Working out what you actually want — then how to get there.

Coaching isn't advice. I'm not going to tell you what to do with your life. I ask the questions that get you unstuck, and then we build something you'll actually follow through on.

What actually happens in a first session

  • About 60 minutes. Wear whatever you like. Bring nothing.
  • Mostly you talking, me listening and asking. No exercises you'd feel silly doing.
  • You leave with one concrete next step — not a twelve-week programme.
  • Nothing you say leaves the room.
Inside the wooden studio in the forest, windows on every side
Hélène upside down in a handstand among the pines

Physical change coaching & physiotherapy

Strong, sustainably — starting from the body you have today.

I'm a physiotherapist as well as a coach, which means we start with what your body can actually do right now, and build from there. It draws on basic yoga and pilates, mobility, balance and agility work, breathwork and somatic exercises — including schmoga, my own variation on the yoga I studied in India. No punishment, no bootcamp, nothing that leaves you injured in week three.

What actually happens

  • We look at how you move, where it hurts, and what you'd like to be able to do.
  • Pain gets treated as information, not something to push through.
  • You get a plan that fits your week — not a fantasy version of your week.

Hélène qualified as a physiotherapist at the University of Pretoria in 2008 — it's the clinical grounding under everything else she does.

NLP & hypnotherapy

Let's clear up what hypnotherapy actually is.

This is the one people are most nervous about, almost always because of something they saw on a stage. So, plainly:

You stay in control.
You're awake and aware throughout. You can stop at any moment, and you'd walk out if you wanted to.

You can't be made to do anything.
Nothing you'd refuse while wide awake can be made to happen. It isn't a stage act.

You won't be forced to relive anything.
We don't dig through trauma for the sake of it. You choose what we go near.

It mostly feels like deep focus.
Most people describe it as being absorbed in a good book. Slightly underwhelming, honestly — that's normal.

NLP is the more practical cousin: tools for interrupting a loop while you're standing in it. Often we use both, often in the same session.

Sylvotherapy · Nature immersion

Forest therapy — where the rest of it finally lands.

Some people can't do the work sitting in a chair. Out among the trees, walking, not having to hold eye contact, it comes out. That's the whole idea.

The practical questions everyone asks

  • Do I need to be fit? No. We move slowly and stop whenever you want.
  • What if it rains? The forest is beautiful in rain — carry on if you're game, or reschedule (up to twice) at no cost.
  • Is it accessible? Yes — wheelchair-friendly options, and routes suited to walking impairments. Hélène's physiotherapy background means the pace is built around you.
  • Alone or in a group? One-on-one, or small groups of up to four with Hélène — larger circles run with additional guides.
  • Not nearby? Online-guided immersions in your own forest or garden, plus pre-recorded yoga nidra sessions.
  • What do I bring? Shoes you can walk in and a jacket. That's it.
  • How long? Two to three hours, including the talking.

Home base is Pachamama Forest Retreat in Rural Sedgefield. Sessions happen in the Gouna, Diepwalle and Bibbies Hoek forests on the Knysna side, in Hélène's home forest at Homtini, and as nature immersions on farms and the Wilderness, Sedgefield and Buffalo Bay beaches.

Close detail of red bark and green lichen on an old forest tree

Not sure? That's the most common place to start.

Twenty minutes, free, no obligation. If I'm not the right person, I'll say so and point you to someone who is.

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