The REPUBLIC OF SOUL
“Soul Centre has been for me a home full of holy energy. The teachers are the most inspiring and encouraging people . I have improved my life in every aspect by all the skills I have learnt here. Thank you so much! ”
KAITIAKI (Guardians of the SOUL)
Wilhemeena Monroe, Matua Louis Kereopa
Management & Admin team
Wilhemeena Monroe - Management
Dianne Knight - Accounts
Katherine Tate - SOUL Retreat Co-ordinator
Celeste Glover - Management intern 2020
Isabelle Fawcett - Intern 2020/2021
“Thank you for giving me a place to work that inspires me creatively and gives me freedom to develop and grow in my career and in myself”
Workshop Facilitators are professionally trained and are leaders in the modalities they teach, they have included:
Al Wunder(AUST), Sondra Fraleigh(USA), Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen (USA), Stephanie Skura(USA), Ged Sumner(CANADA), Elena Tonetti-Vlaimirova(USA/RUSSIA), Olive Bieringer and Otto Ramstad(USA), Gabrielle New(AUST), Lorraine Blackley, Connor Kelly, Aven Darling(AUST), Felicity Molloy, Martin Hughes(AUST), Raewyn Thorburn, Val Smith, Wilhemeena Isabella Monroe, Zjamal Xanitha(AUST), Christine Cutbush, Ali East, Karla Brodie, Joan Laage(USA), Peter Sanson, Peter Fernando, Schirin Diba , Rena Czaplinska-Archer, Kate Rawson, Claire O-Neill, Louisa Walker, Robin Kelly, Gus Simonovic and Siri Risnes, Frank Van der Ven(HOLLAND), Katherine Ukleja, Jules and Michael, Shiela Kean, Amanda Levey, Josephine Costain(BALI), Shubda crew, Miranda Brown, Jaguar and Luen, Courtenay Stickels, Judy Satori, Kamilla Harra, Stephen Archer, Myrna Martin(USA), Karen Smith(UK)......
More about us.....
Wilhemeena Monroe
BPSA, Dip CST, Cert SRT, Cert BIB, Cert Shin Somatics, Dip TMHST, RME
SOUL FOUNDER, DIRECTOR, SENIOR THERAPIST, TEACHES STRENGTH + SURRENDER, SHIN YOGA and CHI KUNG
Wilhemeena Isabella Monroe is the founder and director of the SOUL CENTRE, and the founder of many of the programs it runs. She has been working in dance and holistic health and wellbeing approaching two decades. She is an established choreographer, director, filmmaker and dancer and has performed all over the world. She is also one of NZ’s most prominent somatic practitioners and has a current practice at SOUL CENTRE combining, biodynamic cranio-sacral therapy, massage, movement therapy, dance, yoga, chi kung, meditation and plant medicine. She is a certified SRT facilitator, A Shin Somatics movement therapist and trainer, a certified Birth into Being instructor and teaches for the International College of Elemental Chi Kung - she has taught somatics and movement in many institutions, universities, training programs and communities. Willa teaches Chi Kung, and Shin Yoga classes at the SOUL CENTRE as well as workshops and retreats worldwide. She is also a workplace wellness consultant for selected businesses in the Auckland area.
Katherine Tate
SOUL RETREATS CO-ORDINATOR
Katherine Tate holds our retreats portfolio and helps us get you to Samoa and Tonga and all manner of beautiful places in the world to get SOUL-ed up! She also teaches Skinner Releasing Technique and Shin Yoga at SOUL and has been Wilhemeena's assistant teacher for over 10 years. She is a certified SRT teacher, is one of SOUL CLINIC COLLECTIVE's massage therapists. She has a certificate in Relaxation massage from New Zealand College of Massage. She is also completing Somatic Movement Therapy Training in Land to Water Yoga through Eastwest Somatic Institute and SOUL CENTRE. Katherine graduated with a BPSA in Contemporary Dance in 2006, with a focus on choreography, somatic practice and research. Passionate that dance and body knowledge can be therapeutic and accessible to everyone, she aspires to create spaces for people to feel empowered in their bodies, deepen awareness and explore their expressive potential.
CELESTE GLOVER
MANAGEMENT INTERN 2020
Celeste has been working as Soul Centers Management intern for the last 12 months. During this time, she has developed a much deeper understanding of herself and the world around her through the classes, trainings and events she has been part of.
Celeste is a woman of the earth and loves to spend time in nature whenever she can. Celeste is passionate about the environment, sustainability and healing oneself through natural methods. She is currently working on creating a small business based around these passions and can’t wait to bring it to life soon. To gain a little more insight into running a business she is currently studying an online NZ Small Business certificate.
As someone who is extremely creative, Celeste loves to paint, play music, garden or read a good book and on any given day you’re bound to find her immersed in one of these things.
JOCK BARNES
GUEST Yoga teacher on our online program
Jock has always had a huge passion for adrenaline-fueled sports and competed nationally as a gymnast and trampolinist from the age of 11. Since first jumping on his skateboard and snowboard, he committed himself to his board sports as his main hobby. This passion for adrenaline often doesn’t come without injuries, and this lead to him seeking yoga and meditation for their healing properties. Despite its’ stereotype among males, his innate curiosity of the mind and body fueled his urge to try. After his dedication to yoga, its benefits became real, and this was not limited to a strong fit and able body. Further practice exposed an entire new realm of learning for Jock, igniting a journey of transformation of mindset which soon would change his life forever.
After moving to Auckland, New Zealand, he began to share his passion for yoga to the wider community with the intention of creating a non-judgmental space where people could show up as they are, no matter their past and flow in a way that was an authentic extension of themselves.
Jock’s predominant style is hatha/vinyasa fusion, however, he likes to mix it up, so you can expect creativity in sequencing and energising flows with a variety of styles to incorporate alignment, strength building, peak pose sequencing and restoration. Jock received his 200-hour yoga teaching certification under the International Yoga Alliance in October 2019, at Talalla Retreat, Sri Lanka; trained under Carolyn Anne Budgell and Clara Roberts-Oss who was trained by a world renowned pioneer in yoga – Shiva Rea. Since his training Jock has hosted multiple empowering yoga retreats, various wellness workshops and instructed at various yoga studios around Auckland.
Claire Hamilton
SOUL KARMA CREDITS program - Media and Design
Claire discovered SOUL back in 2009 when she had just arrived on NZ shores from the UK. Claire became a regular Astanga student and a few years later became one of SOUL's work-study interns, assisting with graphic design and marketing of classes and events. Claire is an urban designer and photographer in her day job. Since becoming a mum a couple of years ago, Claire is helping SOUL mostly from behind the scenes but is looking forward to being more involved and studying more yoga as family demands evolve and allow a little more flexibility!!
“I love what SOUL is about, it is a safe place for me, to learn, to explore, to create, and be in relationship with myself and others. I feel I naturally contribute to its existence, with my own heart and Soul; this means its not just the hours I work when I am there, it’s the way I am there, how I talk about SOUL, also on the outside, which becomes part of referring people to SOUL through my own participation... I guess this is community building, we draw people to what we love, by the way we are in the world.”
“This has not been a job, this has been a journey of many steps and leaps. By contributing to something so beautiful and being emerged in it alongside Willa, I have realised that I have the capacity of beholding an ability to help and heal even in very small ways. I feel as if I have found a part of myself here that I never knew existed. Willa, your (what seems like magic) ability to create and hold a space has enabled me to unfold and grow in deep, amazing ways. SOUL has helped me find direction when I was very lost. I have learnt invaluable lessons that will continue to reveal their meaning as I grow with them. I thank you from the depths of my hearts universe. ”
Our beautiful Interns of the past
check out what they have to say about working at SOUL - here
