About
Food & Body
I am passionate about inspiring people to transform their relationship with food and their body, to care for themselves and to worry less.
Utilising kindness and compassion I support people to explore new approaches to self-manage and develop the change they desire. This is a therapeutic approach to food and movement; creating a vehicle for healing.
Clare Sullivan
My work has always had food and the body as its centre. I have had a wide range of influences throughout my career that have led me to the path I now walk. These have included: a childhood interest in cooking offering a recognition of the social connections food offers; the opportunity to study, to travel and to live overseas and experience different lives; personal trauma and the multiple layers of learning this brought; the exploration and study of numerous ways practices, principles and philosophies — mindful eating, intuitive eating, health at every size, western scientific nutrition, co-active coaching, neuroscience, self compassion practice, mindfulness, yoga, the ancient yoga philosophies and Ayurveda.
I combine all this, the experience and the more formal education to support people create the change they want around food, movement and lifestyle practices.
My work is individual 1:1 sessions or in small groups with a focus on — Building Better Bones, Mindful Eating, and Yoga.
As a Holistic Dietitian and Ayurveda Consultant I support people with motivation and guidance to acquire a new way of eating. This can be related to:
enquiry around what is healthy eating and the anxiety around food choices;
managing issues that trigger overeating and binge eating;
finding non food strategies to manage emotional or stress eating.
Yoga Therapy may be independent of, or in conjunction with food and nutrition to support Well-Being.
I blend a variety of practices to help people find ways to manage a variety of conditions and health challenges by reducing symptoms, restoring balance and increasing vitality within your body and mind.
This is a sustainable approach bringing awareness to movement and food practices; ‘food without rules’ and and ease and comfortable within the body and mind.
“Through courage, compassion and curiosity you make positive lifestyle choices for Well-Being.”
Courage
Starting a new journey to find comfort with the food you eat and the body you move in.
Recognising that you are the expert of your body, a body of wisdom.
Developing mindful awareness around food, movement and your health.
Compassion
Developing a gentleness towards yourself as you question old behaviours and make new choices.
Develop a mindful awareness and reduce your self judgement.
Challenge the stories and assumptions you have about yourself and what you can and can not do.
Curiosity
Consider that to create new habits, “you need to start believing new things about yourself”.
Explore what happens when you consider there are new ways move and be in the world.
Taking a holistic approach to examine the supports and barriers to your well-being. This may require looking beyond the obvious; reviewing your social, emotional and spiritual needs, your career and financial security or your creativity and the leisure in your life.
Explore what happens when you threw away the food rules and truly nourish your body with what it needs.
Explore new ways to self-manage and self-regulate your symptoms.
Clare’s Experience
Mental Health Aware Yoga
Training to nourish me and my mental health in conjunction with providing me with skills enabling me to support all my students including those experiencing depression, anxiety and trauma.
Yoga Therapy
Graduate Certificate in Yoga Therapy through Yoga Therapy Institute, Australia.
Within Yoga Therapy I incorporate scientific tools and yoga principles, nutrition and mindfulness to offer a holistic approach in supporting people’s health and health concerns.
Wellness Coach
Training with Andrea Lieberstein. (Bestselling author of 'Well Nourished: Mindful Practices to Heal Your Relationship to Food, Feed Your Whole Self and End Overeating’)
This enables me to support, coach people to Wellness. Working with food, movement and an array of life issues I work with clients to create change they wish for.
MB-Eat
Graduate of training Mindfulness-Based Eating. Mindful eating brings an overall awareness to the body and sensations and is an essential tool to Find Food Freedom.
iRest, Yoga Nidra Meditation Teacher 1
iRest, Integrative Restoration is a modern-day variation of the ancient practice of yoga Nidra. Through addressing both physical and psychological issues in your body and mind it helps create wellbeing.
Yoga Teacher
Trained in New York in Vinyasa yoga style, I offer classes to meet clients needs. My particular interest is gentle yoga that enables the body to settle and rest into what it needs. Over the years I have undertaken various workshops and trainings; these have included Trauma Sensitive Yoga (Introductory level), Restorative Yoga and Yoga for the Aged.
Nutrition
In London I trained at Prue Leith Cooking School which lead to cooking for an art school in Spain. As a nutritionist I have taught cooks in lodges and hotels in Africa and worked with rural communities in Zambia improving the quality of the crops to reduce blindness and improve immunity.
Dietitian
As a graduate from Deakin University, Victoria, I have worked as a dietitian in a variety of clinical, community and private consultancy environments in Australia and in London at the Royal Marsden Hospital.
More Trainings
Compassion Focused Therapy, CFT; Trauma Sensitive Yoga; Ayurveda Lifestyle Consultant