Spend time at Temple Lane and feel the effects well beyond Nicola Garcia’s yoga studio and into your everyday life.
After years of teaching yoga at various locations, including Lake Jualbup accompanied by a symphony of birds, Nicola Garcia recently opened her dream studio in Shenton Park.
Not far from that kookaburra and cockatoo audience lakeside, you’ll find Temple Lane behind Evans Street with the quaintest entry via a pastel pink door. Upstairs, a studio awaits to uplift visitors with feature windows pouring in natural light, exquisite wall art and plenty of space to stretch and leave behind the day’s stresses.
“I wanted to create Temple Lane as a wellness space for women to come and dream, to relieve their tensions, heal their hurts and find out who they are and what they want,” Nicola said.
“Yoga is an incredible discipline for doing this on a regular basis, while the Reiki and hypnotherapy sessions can assist in the deeper work.”
In a previous life, Nicola was in corporate marketing before she took a career break to have babies. Following a beautiful experience with her first baby, Nicola fell pregnant with her second quickly which led to a life-altering journey.
“At 32 weeks pregnant, I lost my little girl, Sophia,” Nicola said. “Her heart was no longer beating and I had to give birth to her which was just shattering for me and our whole family.
“I started yoga and meditation to begin healing and it was then I realised the path I’d been on wasn’t making me happy and time is so precious.”
While Nicola started with yoga teaching as her introduction to alternative therapies, she continued to expand on her offerings as she discovered treatments that worked for her.
“I became a Reiki Master and hypnotherapist because these healing modalities allowed me to go deeper in my own journey,” Nicola said. “I learnt that helping guide others to build intentional lives and to live in their own joy brings me the greatest joy.”
From her own unimaginable heartbreak, Nicola’s vision began to build for what Temple Lane would eventually become. Every detail of the space is curated to provide a nurturing and uplifting experience, including satin eye pillows for savasana, an essential oil selection and a herbal tea offering at the conclusion of a class or session in the studio.
Nicola currently teaches every yoga class on her program, a mixture of vibrant vinyasa to kickstart your day, candlelit yin at sunset to a strength-based flow with small weights and bands. In between, the studio transforms into a private therapeutic setting where individuals can book in for Nicola’s Reiki healing (an energetic healing ideal for deep relaxation and stress relief) or Rapid Transformational Therapy (including hypnotherapy which works on reframing negative beliefs, values, habits and emotions).
Having practised various yoga classes in Nicola’s studio, this writer can confirm life absolutely becomes sweeter and certainly calmer from spending a while at Temple Lane. Open the pink door and try it for yourself.
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