MY STORY

Hi, I'm Lindi

For twenty years, I built and ran restaurants and live music venues in Cape Town. Alongside that, life unfolded in all its beautiful complexity — motherhood, stepmotherhood, divorce, remarriage, grief and blended family life.

Like so many women, I became very good at keeping everything going.

I HAVE TRULY LIVED THIS WORK

For most of my adult life, I have been trying to understand myself more deeply — the patterns I repeat, the ways I protect myself, the beliefs I carry and the experiences that have shaped me. That has included years of my own therapy, coaching containers and a fairly relentless amount of self-enquiry. I’m a self-confessed podcast addict.

One of the biggest shifts came when I realised I couldn’t think my way through everything and began paying more attention to my body. Yoga became a daily practice, while meditation, breathwork, cold-water swimming, saunas and time in nature all became ways of slowing down, listening and coming back to myself.

I still get activated and caught in my stuff, of course. The difference is that I’m much more able to recognise when it’s happening, stay with myself through it and choose how I want to respond.

FROM FIXING TO UNDERSTANDING

Somewhere along the way, I stopped trying quite so hard to fix what I thought was wrong with me and became much more curious about what was there instead.

My constant busyness, people-pleasing, self-criticism and need to keep everything together weren’t simply flaws. They were ways I had learned to cope. Understanding that allowed me to meet myself with far more compassion — while also beginning to make different choices.

WHERE I AM NOW

Approaching fifty, I feel more grounded and more myself than I ever have before. I certainly don’t have everything figured out, but I know myself better, trust myself more and have a much stronger sense of what feels right for me.

I don’t sit opposite another woman because I have the answers to her life. I sit beside her because I know how powerful it can be to have someone offer you the space, honesty, challenge and compassion to hear yourself more clearly.

MY TRAINING & EXPERIENCE

Coaching & Personal Development

Lifeline personal-development training · Pathways to Mastery — Kate Spreckley (SA) · Mindfulness Life Coaching Diploma (UK) · Elementum Coaching Certification (USA) · The Bridge & Extreme Training with Alexi Panos & Preston Smiles (USA)

Mindfulness & Meditation

Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Year 1 with Jack Kornfield & Tara Brach · Eckhart Tolle School of Awakening · Five-day retreat with Eckhart Tolle, Greece

Relationships & Women’s Work

Women Within training and seven years in a women’s circle · Imago and couples work · Living the Muse feminine embodiment container

Nervous System Work

Ongoing study of the work of Deb Dana, Kari Azuma, Sarah Baldwin and Linda Thai

Current & Upcoming

200-hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Training (2026) · Lumina Breathwork Facilitator Training (2026) · Body-First Healing Somatic Practitioner Certificate with Britt Piper (2027)

Let’s begin with a conversation.

You don’t need to have it all figured out before you reach out.