By Renee Wood
Mindful AF in Emerald was created to provide a place where people can go to look after their wellbeing and mental health through restorative therapies and hand-picked products.
Mindful AF Studio opened July 2021, while the retail space partnering with Rustic Blooms followed a year later, with the studio and retail business providing a range of wellness and mindfulness products and programs.
The retail space has wellness and homeopathic options for your whole body, while the studio timetable is dedicated to wonderful multi-modality alternative therapies.
These include Reiki, Knesiology, Mind Body Therapy, Yoga Therapy, Sound Healing and Card Readers. Private group yoga, sound healing and other mindfulness sessions can also be tailored to individual groups sessions.
Creative Director and founder Amy Star said she is driven to make mental health and alternative therapies as affordable and accessible as possible to all.
“The main purpose behind opening Mindful AF was to ensure that everyone felt comfortable to reach out for their mental health,” Amy said.
The business aims to engage both men and women with prioritising their mental health and to strike out any stigmas that people don’t ‘fit in’ anywhere.
“I witnessed in my own family and others growing up that men, teenagers and some women end up suffering with their mental health because they don’t feel like they ‘fit in’ anywhere,” she said.
“I wanted to see absolutely everyone feel like they have a completely nonjudgmental space to step into their mindfulness practice.”
The studio is always growing with new offerings such as the upcoming first ‘Foundations and Refresher Course’ kickstarting 18 March.
This course is for newbies and people who perhaps haven’t practiced yoga since before the pandemic, who may have been held back from returning to a studio environment.
It will run for six sessions over seven weeks and will also give you unlimited access to all other classes free of charge.
New ‘Foundation Memberships’ are also launching, which are $36 a week for unlimited access to classes, providing a great savings over single class casual passes which are $26 each.
Amy said one of her biggest achievements is when hearing from clients how they feel after a class.
“Hearing the words, ‘I was meant to be here today.’ or ‘This is exactly what i needed today’ are the businesses biggest achievements to date.”
For more information, visit www.mindfulaf.com.au or connect via the social handles @mindfulafemerald
