Yoga & Trauma Informed Yoga Therapy
Yoga & Yoga Therapy with Soraya
Soraya is a senior teacher of yoga and meditation in the Sivananda and Satyananda Lineage. At the age of 21 Soraya was initiated into the yogic line of Sannyasa in January 1981.
Soraya spent the next 9 years living in various Ashrams teaching, serving and studying. Later Soraya went on to have a family and is now a grandmother.
Soraya has a special interest in the teachings of Ramana Maharshi, a realised Saint from South India. His sharing of the direct path to Self-Realisation has greatly influenced her sharings.
In Soraya’s private sessions she pulls from 40 years of practice and teaching as well as her Naturopathic and Ayurvedic Medicine Training to create a holistic approach.
Together with her husband Terry Oldfield they offer Weekend Retreats, Silent Meditation Day Retreats, Monthly Music afternoons and weekly classes online and in person.
What is Trauma Informed Yoga Therapy?
Yoga therapy is a holistic approach aiming to restore a healthy state of balance of body, mind and spirit and reduce suffering. It aims to empower you towards better health, whether that is to overcome anxiety, dis-ease, heal injuries or improve energy levels.
You will receive a tailored personal practice and meditation recording to support continued health and wellbeing.
This enables you can take charge of your health with confidence. This is achieved through the integration of diet, yoga movement, breath, TRE, specific meditations and mindfulness. Soraya supports you with practices that release of stuck energy, patterns and energetic blockages.
Something that sets Soraya’s work apart is her intuition. As you peel back the old layers of conditioning with loving kindness you uncover your light and shine more brightly to the world.
Soraya may also integrate the sister science of Ayurveda (the science of life) or naturopathic suggestions specific for your unique personality and physical type.
Session sare online or in person at Mangalam Meditation Retreat on the Sunshine Coast near Brisbane.
By receiving a personalised program tailored to your goals and needs yoga therapy can offer physical, mental, spiritual and emotional support. This can be followed up as you wish.
Earlier this year I was diagnosed with a serious medical condition that turned my world upside down, inside out, and everything in-between. I felt strapped into a roller coaster that wouldn’t stop.
I enrolled in Soraya’s Shake it off TRE course as I was struggling with the diagnosis - I found my “window of normality” had shrunk considerably, and I was bouncing non-stop from flight, to fright, to freeze – with no reprieve. I was not sleeping, I was angry, sad, confused, irrational and many, many other emotions all at once. It was exhausting. And I was overwhelming afraid.
I knew that not only the current trauma of the medical diagnosis, but prior traumas/experiences and unresolved feelings, thoughts, hurts and grievances were weighing on me heavily. TRE provided an experience where my body could move and release these traumas – without question or story. Where my body, mind and self could just release and “be”. Gently, yet dynamically with her knowing, support and guidance.
I have also been blessed to do some private work with Soraya to delve deeper and heal further – allowing me to neutralise the fears I was experiencing and to return to my centre, breathe, and just let my life be. I don’t get it right all of the time, but it is far better than the roller coaster that I was experiencing.
I have also learnt valuable techniques and strategies for breath work and toning and calming the vagas nerve – which have proved invaluable when undergoing scans and procedures in a clinical medical world.
And ending every session with beautiful mindfulness and yoga nidra is an absolute blessing and gift – I feel very grateful to Soraya for offering this work to bring peace to my heart, mind and body.

“Soraya is an inspiring and uplifting teacher who embodies all of her teachings with authenticity and a genuine desire to assist others to find true peace in their lives. The insight and growth I have experienced continues to be immense, thanks to time spent with Soraya across different modalities.”

I thoroughly enjoyed the Shake It Off Course with TRE with Soraya and would recommend it to you. Soraya Saraswati has a beautiful way of teaching. You’ll find many useful reasons for this practice once you’re shown how to do it. A great life tool. Amanda Candy

Thank-you again dear Soraya and Terry for the blessings that were Sundays sounds and silence retreat.
I reflected this morning on the sensations of emptiness and fullness and have dwelled in the vibration of love throughout the day.

I have had the pleasure to take part in a TRE workshop at Mangalam and have done 2 online TRE courses with Soraya. I have learned so much, grown in my practice and am very grateful for the experience. It has helped me both on the physical as well as emotional level.I can highly recommend Sorayas courses that integrate TRE practices, mindfulness meditations and Yoga Nidra. The combination of these powerful practices helped me to deeply relax and undo physical blockages leaving me feeling painfree and profoundly at ease within my body.Love it and will be back for more! Thank you Soraya!
Susanna Aretz
Benefits may include
- Deeper relaxation of the nervous system
- Overcoming Fear and Embracing Empowerment
- Improved quality of sleep – anxiety reduction
- Healthy ageing – osteoporosis and menopause support
- Support through chronic illness or cancer treatment
- Improvement in joint stiffness-arthritis
- Improved bodily posture and strength
- Improved breath capacity and lung health
- Improved digestion and assimilation
- Clarity of mind – confidence
- Deepen in your spiritual practice
Soraya’s Qualifications:
- Certificate in nutrition
- Senior Yoga Teacher – Yoga Australia
- Certificate Yoga Therapy
- Certificate in Clinical Ayurveda
- Dip in Naturopathy
- Bush Flower Essences
- Cert Trauma Sensitive Yoga
- Cert TRE trauma-tension release -global registration
- Reiki Master Teacher
- Intuitive
