About Justine

Justine Sydenham is a healer, teacher, retreat facilitator, and guide devoted to the art of transformation.

For over two decades, she has immersed herself in the study of what truly heals; exploring the meeting place between body, energy, psyche, and spirit. Her work is grounded in the understanding that healing is not about fixing what is broken, but remembering what has always been whole.

Through retreats, trainings, one-on-one sessions, and community spaces, Justine supports people to move from survival into sovereignty, from wounding into wisdom, and from disconnection into deep belonging.

Her presence is warm, intuitive, trauma-aware, and deeply embodied. She is known for creating spaces where people feel safe enough to soften, courageous enough to feel, and supported enough to transform.

A Life Devoted to Healing

Justine is a Reiki Master, Integrative Bodyworker, Energy Healer, Yoga & Meditation Teacher, and the founder of Sangha Yoga Studio.

She has facilitated 22+ retreats across Australia, Bali, and Japan over the past 10 years, with Peru and further international offerings on the horizon. Her retreats are known for their depth, beauty, integrity, and the genuine sense of connection they cultivate.

She also works within community care settings, including a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre, where she teaches trauma-informed yoga and facilitates group sound healing sessions to support nervous system regulation, recovery, and reconnection.

Rivers of Influence

Justine’s work has been shaped by a rich and diverse body of study, practice, and lived experience. Her rivers of influence flow through Traditional Hatha, Forrest, Yin and Trauma-Informed Yoga, Yoga Bodywork, Reiki, Internal Tracking, Craniosacral Therapy, Ayurveda, somatic healing, meditation, and sound.

Her path has also been deeply informed by years spent in ceremony, contemplative practice, and silent meditation retreats—experiences that continue to ground her work in humility, presence, and direct knowing.

She has studied with respected and world-renowned teachers and lineages including Ana Forrest, Tiffany Cruikshank, Angela Farmer, Seane Corn, William Lee Rand, Hyakuten Inamoto, Anand Mehrotra, alongside many other skilled teachers, mentors, and wisdom keepers across Australia and abroad.

These teachings, combined with decades of hands-on facilitation and personal practice, have been woven into an approach that is both grounded and integrative—honouring ancient wisdom while meeting the realities of modern life.

Signature Offerings

Retreats & Immersions: Transformational journeys in sacred places designed to restore perspective, awaken vitality, and reconnect you with what matters most.
Luminous Alchemy Training: A powerful path of healing and practitioner development that transforms trauma into power, wounds into wisdom, and awakening into embodied leadership.
Yoga Teacher Trainings & Continued Education: Trauma-informed, holistic education for those called to teach and lead with integrity, depth, and presence.
Reiki Practitioner Trainings: Traditional Reiki teachings offered with reverence, groundedness, and practical application for modern life.
One-on-One Healing Sessions: Personalised sessions weaving bodywork, energy healing, somatic awareness, sound, and nervous system support.
Corporate & Community Wellbeing: Trauma-informed yoga, resilience education, and nervous system tools for workplaces, organisations, and recovery settings.

Why People Work With Justine

People are drawn to Justine for her rare blend of depth, gentleness, wisdom, and grounded leadership.

Her work supports those who are ready to:

Heal trauma and regulate the nervous system
Reconnect with the body and intuition
Navigate change and life transitions
Deepen spiritual practice
Transform pain into purpose
Step into authentic leadership
Live with greater freedom, wholeness, and meaning

Training & Professional Development

Justine’s work is informed by extensive study across Australia, Canada, India, Bali, Japan, and beyond.

Her formal training includes:

Reiki Practitioner/Master (since 2004)
500+ Hour E-RYT Yoga Teacher
300hr Sattva Yoga Training (Kriya, Meditation, Tantric & Vedic Wisdom)
200hr Hatha Yoga Teacher Training
200hr Vinyasa/Ashtanga Teacher Training
Advanced Forrest Yoga Training
Yin Yoga & Meditation Trainings
Trauma-Informed Yoga Training
Craniosacral Therapy
Internal Tracking
Ayurvedic Massage Training
Sound Healing & Ceremony Facilitation
Silent Meditation Retreats & Ongoing Continuing Education

Her path has also been shaped by respected teachers, ceremonial spaces, contemplative practice, and the lived wisdom that only experience can bring.

Philosophy

At the heart of Justine’s work is a simple truth:

We do not heal by becoming someone else. We heal by returning to who we are.

This is the essence of her work; creating pathways back to the body, back to truth, back to wholeness.

Work With Justine

Whether you are seeking healing, professional training, retreat, or a deeper return to yourself, you are warmly welcome here.