People

Myriam Bartu

Myriam grew up in Singapore, studied in London, spent most of her adult life in Hong Kong and has a home in Taiwan through marriage. She 'returned' to her birth country Switzerland in 2022 after over four decades abroad. She learnt - the hard way - how to ground and come home to herself amidst big changes.

Myriam spent the first two decades of her work life supporting underprivileged women as a women’s group facilitator and trainer. In 2007, she co-founded Enrich, a Hong Kong charity empowering migrant women. After becoming a mother in 2009, Myriam struggled with stress and anxiety and realised that her desire to contribute to a better world first required her heal herself. This led her to study meditation and start a daily practice that transformed her.

Since 2016, Myriam has been teaching meditative practices, creating safe spaces for healing, rest, and reconnection. She is passionate about sharing nourishing, restful and heart opening practices and building community through retreats to help humans come back to peace, connection and wellbeing.

See Myriam’s training qualifications.

Mandy Tsui

Mandy is a mother of three. She moved to the UK from Hong Kong in 2021. Amid the busyness of daily life and the transitions between multiple roles, she serendipitously discovered singing bowls, beginning a journey of learning and sharing. Through sound healing and meditation practices, she gradually learned to quiet her mind, return to inner stability and balance, and connect with her inner wisdom.

Spending time with her children also led her into nature, where she experienced the restorative power of connecting with the natural world, releasing stress, and regaining strength. Mandy loves to learn from the Natural world. She integrates singing bowls, nature connection, yoga nidra and meditation into her daily life and shares these practices with others, gently guiding anyone on the path of self-care and inner exploration.

Partners

Amanda Yik

A graduate of the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Social Sciences (Corporate Environmental Governance) at the University of Hong Kong, Amanda is the founder of Shinrin Yoku Hong Kong, the first forest therapy trainer from Asia for the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides & Programs, and one of Hong Kong's most experienced bilingual guides. Amanda is also an ICF-certified Professional Coach for Transformation, a Women's Circle facilitator trained by the Awakening Women’s Institute, and a collaborator of the Work that Reconnects. Amanda enjoys exploring and practicing simple, yet profound frameworks and tools that align with modern civilized worldviews, bringing creative coherence, heart-centered connections and holistic healing to individuals and communities. Get to know Amanda at www.shinrinyokuhk.com | IG & FB @shinrinyokuhk

Josephine Ma

Josephine began her yoga journey in 2006, she was immediately struck by the sense of relaxation and rejuvenation she experienced, and yoga soon became an essential part of her life. Alongside hot yoga, she explored Vinyasa and Yin yoga before discovering Ashtanga yoga in 2010, a practice to which she has remained dedicated ever since.
She completed her 200-hour teacher training in 2017 with Patrick Creelman and Rinat Perlman, followed by a 300-hour teacher training with Jason Crandell in 2019. She has since worked as a full-time yoga teacher, offering both individual and group classes.
After moving to Leeds in 2022, Josephine has been enthusiastic about sharing yoga with the local community. Her teaching style combines dynamic flow with careful attention to detail and alignment. Through her classes, she aims to help students build strength and mobility while leaving them with a lasting sense of calm and inner balance. She welcomes students of all levels and encourages mindful, sustainable practice. See Josephine’s teaching schedule here.

Nicole Toth

Nicole empowers individuals and the collective to rediscover purpose, balance, and vitality through holistic coaching and a multimodality approach. Her mission is to guide humans on a journey of self-discovery, personal growth, and conscious living.

Drawing on certifications in Integral Coaching, 200h (Kids) Yoga, ChiBall™, Tai Chi & Qi Gong, Pilates, Feldenkrais, Access Consciousness Bars, and the Silva Method, she designs tailored journeys that integrate mind, body, and soul. Her work ranges from Ikigai and purpose coaching to holding Sacred Spaces in modalities such as Conscious Dating, ceremonies, rituals, and embodied workshops that invite clarity, creativity, and joy.

By fostering deeper self-awareness, embodied living, and meaningful connections - with themselves, others, and the world - she empowers participants to create a life of fulfilment, balance, and lasting impact.

Get to know Nicole: www.heartfulawakening.com

Uma Dinsmore-Tuli

Author Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD is an advocate for intuition and rematriation. She met yoga in 1969, at the age of four, and fell in love. She’s been practicing ever since, sharing cyclical, therapeutic yoga since 1994. Co-Founder of the Yoga Nidra Network, Uma has written six books, including Nidra Shakti: the Power of Rest - An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Yoga Nidra and Yoni Shakti: A Woman's Guide to Power and Freedom through Yoga and Tantra.

Recovering intuitive embodied and cyclical wisdom is at the heart of her writing and her approach to yoga therapy, which always includes yoga nidrā. Her work intersects intuitive healing arts with yoga nidra and yoga therapy.

Her practice and teaching respects the cyclical powers of the living earth, and honours human life cycles as spiritual initiations (including menarche, conscious menstruation, menopause, birth and postnatal recovery). Uma dedicates her life's work to her three children, and to the future of a rested humanity, reconnected to intuition and to land.

Practices

This is a zero-effort practice of surrender, guiding you into profound states of relaxation. Practiced lying down, Yoga Nidra helps body and mind to restore and replenish.
It supports you to:
- Release anxiety, anger, and tension
- Improve sleep and wellbeing
- Heal from trauma, stress, and exhaustion
- Find comfort through health challenges, PMS, pregnancy, postnatal recovery, and menopause
Sound healing is a gentle and powerful way to reach deep places within us, beyond the thinking mind. Tibetan singing bowls create immediate relaxation, calming body and mind.
The vibration of sound moves through every cell, helping release tension, pain, fear, and difficult emotions — opening us to an optimal state for self-healing and deep peace.
Yoga to bring us home to our bodies and ground us in the present moment. Gentle postures and rythmic movement to help release blockages and liberate the flow of energy, reconnect with your source of vitality and intuition. Yoga offered in a way that is comfortable, nourishing, and adaptive — everything is invitational. You are encouraged to listen to your body and follow your own pace.
Heart meditations to awaken loving-kindness, compassion, and joy — reconnecting us to the heart as the centre of healing.
Practices include:
- Loving-kindness
- Self-compassion
- Sending heart energy
- Awakening joy
These practices help reduce anxiety, sadness, loneliness, and increase feelings of connection, gratitude, and hope.
We are hard-wired to belong to Nature, but modern life often keeps us disconnected. Through Nature immersion, outdoor practice, and visualizations, we return to balance and peace.
Nature reminds us of who we are — bringing us home to ourselves, each other, and the living world.

Community Impact

Whether you're an individual, grassroots organizer, school, NGO, or part of a community or wellness initiative — we’d love to explore how Reconnection Rest can support your people in the ways they need most.

Our sessions and programs are flexible, inclusive, and co-created with you. We adapt to your unique community — shaping each offering to meet your goals, your space, and your people, creating tailored offerings that support rest, healing, and connection.

We’ve partnered with:

Charities, NGOs, grassroot groups and shelters
Schools, Community centres, and work teams
Clinics, yoga studios & therapists

We offer sessions in English, French, German, Cantonese and Mandarin. We also have experience with Indonesian and Filipino speaking communities and have some tailored resources and recordings in these languages.

Our approach is inclusive, flexible, and collaborative. Whether you're considering a one-time event, a regular offering, or a deep retreat experience, we’re here to create something meaningful together.

Reconnection is for everyone and with partners we can support more humans come back to calm, confidence and connection. Get in touch to co-create a session, series, or retreat that truly meets the needs of your people.

Who We've Worked With

We're grateful to have collaborated with a range of inspiring partners, including: