Leerah Stone
Sandy Beach Yoga, Massage & Healing
Leerah Stone received a grant for a Women’s Transformative Yoga Retreat for Trauma Recovery. This retreat provided an immersive experience for the local community, through Indigenous women, local women’s groups and the yoga community.
With a background in the medical field, Leerah is also an experienced yoga facilitator and natural healer who recently qualified as a psychologist.Her expertise shaped the retreat’s focus on healing and reconciliation, helping Indigenous women explore the benefits of yoga to improve their quality of life.
Held ‘On Country’ in tranquil bushland, near pristine beaches and abundant wildlife, the five-day retreat was co-created by First Nations women and local Gumbaynggirr woman Alison Williams. Many participants had never felt comfortable attending something like this before, but by the end, they had discovered a new connection with their bodies and themselves.
A sanctuary for healing, connection & cultural renewal
The Yarrawarra Cultural Centre, located in Gumbanynggirr Country, offers extensive facilities, including accommodation, a café and a gallery. It is a haven of local support for Australian Indigenous women.
During the retreat, the women walked, swam, took part in ceremony*, laughed, cried and celebrated together.Aunty B, a respected local elder, led the morning class, sharing her personal program for physical health.
* Ceremony in Indigenous culture is intended to strengthen a person’s connection to the physical and spiritual world, provide healing or clarity, mark significant life moments or offer remembrance and gratitude. Each ceremony has a specific purpose, reflecting the diversity and complexity of cultural and spiritual practices within Aboriginal communities across Australia. They demonstrate the continuing survival of Dreaming, which includes the spiritual, cultural and religious beliefs, practices and lore of Aboriginal Australia.
Leerah was deeply trusted and considered it an honour to facilitate this powerful experience, for group connection and supporting rich feminine qualities. The women were profoundly grateful for the opportunity and found it both personally and culturally enriching.
All agreed that the retreat was a “precious gift of nourishment, rest, balance and connection, fulfilling the purpose of ceremony.”
Testimonials
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A huge thank you to the Yoga For Good Foundation...
…for their incredible contribution to our Life Now Yoga and meditation programs!
This generous donation will mean we can buy new yoga equipment, run a new yoga class in Broome, and enhance our meditation program for cancer patients and their primary carers.
Cancer Council Western AustraliaSending out gratitude to the Yoga for Good Foundation.
Their grant is enabling me to offer FREE trauma informed therapeutic movement and relaxation to frontline mental health and social services staff in Bega.
Participants are really valuing the time out for themselves and experiencing integrated poly vagal theory. And I get to be in a teaching space, yay!
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…allows us to reach more underserved and vulnerable community groups who can benefit from a trauma-informed yoga and embodied mindfulness practice at zero cost to the participants.
Some of the community groups we’ll be serving in the current months include 000 Foundation, Men’s Walk and Talk and WAGEC.
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