SAM CRAWFORD
"Sam (Sandra) Crawford is a skilled and experienced teacher, facilitator, body centred therapist, counselor and bodyworker."
Sam utilizes many healing modalities in her work with particular focus on body centred awareness.Sam is an accredited teacher of “Holistic Pulsing” body t6herapy and “ Healing with Sound”, having trained and been accredited through “ The school of Sacred Sound”. She is also an accredited practitioner of R.E.B.T therapy, and has trained in Hakomi Integrative Somatics and Watsu® water therapy,
Sam also draws on knowledge and experience with the Health and Mental Health fields.
In private practice, Sam facilitates personal, family, group and community journeys of physical and metaphysical awareness, healing and ritual.
In addition, as an organizational consultant, Sam is an accredited supervisor of therapists, bodyworkers, and health professionals. She facilitates team building, is a mediator, and designs and implements workshops and trainings specific to agency needs.
She has a degree in social work and Psychology, completed with a special focus on the larger holistic perspective on health and healing.
MASS DIOLI
"Mass always invites us to turn moments into a learning experience and away from an expression of grip and separation. Cultivating a somatic inquiry"
Mass is a dedicated movement practitioner and teacher, and he’s been passionate about movement and the experience of movement since an early age. Growing up in the Italian Alps he still remembers vividly those moments of rhythmic centrifugal balance on his skies, as much as when he moved through 2 defenders with his basketball. After leaving pretty much all behind when he moved to New Zealand in 1998, which he calls now his home, he got into walking in nature, learning about different internal energy arts and bodywork, and soon started a regular meditation practice
He has a background in tourism and hospitality with wide experience in health and whole food. His cooking is nurturing and creative. Currently he even works as apprendice at a local sourdough artisan bakery.
Mass' from his further approach to yoga has since evolved in the recent years. Still valuing the traditional principle of presence, structure and direction, his prime interest is now aiming more to the subtle somatic aspects and applications of bodyness " ..how the inner felt sense of shifting weight and of being me is actually pointing out my relation to space through me and in all directions".
He is so gratfull to the meditation teacher Reggie Ray and the depth and generosity of the Dharma Ocean lineage,offering such a great contribution to somatic spirituality.
Mass is an accredited practitioner of Metta Zen Shiatsu and has studied Watsu Water Therapy. His approach to health and wellbeing has very strong affinity to Buddhist and Tao philosophies. His formal yoga journey started in 2004 under Paul Burton of Rotorua, one of New Zealand most senior Iyengar teachers with over 35 years of in depth pranayama practice and understanding.
Mass held an Iyengar Yoga Junior Intermediate 1 Certificate till the beginning of 2019. After reconsidering his status mainly around pedagogical questions and conflicts he decided to leave the method and take a more independent stand.