About:

Nicci Cloete is a professional life coach, mindfulness coach and certified yoga teacher based in Stellenbosch, South Africa, and working globally online. She interweaves formal coaching techniques with mindfulness practices and breathwork to facilitate, support and sustain positive change with her clients.

Her niche is corporate mindfulness training and executive coaching where she engages with progressive leaders to help them navigate their lives with more presence, clarity, focus, and ease. Clients include Visa, Woolworths Financial Services, Byte Orbit, The Sustainability Institute, Dentsu and more. Individual clients  range from university students battling stress to parents adapting to an empty nest - and everything and everyone in between. Everyone is greeted with empathy, friendliness and an attitude of unconditional positive regard. 

Employee wellbeing, transition, personal growth and addiction recovery are other areas of interest. Nicci herself came clean in January 2014 after almost two decades of trying (unsuccessfully) to drink away the after-effects of teenage sexual trauma, and it still counts as the best day of her life, aside, perhaps, from when her two children were born. She has been relapse-free since that day, and regards a robust mindfulness practice as a major influence in this success. 

She is trained as a Conscious Connected Breathwork Facilitator and believes wholeheartedly in the power of the non-verbal therapy form to bring about a powerful shift and transformation, after having experienced this for herself in 2018. She hosts silent retreats in places of magnificent natural beauty, where her retreatants and coaches are supported on a deep dive into breathwork and mindfulness practices including yoga and meditation.

Qualifications:

• 50hr YTT Immersion, Yogaworks with Patti Quintero and Billy Asad, California, USA (2007) 

• 200hr YTT, Ananda Sangha with Anne and Martin Combrink, Somerset West, South Africa (2010) 

• Certified Infant Massage Instructor, IAIM, Johannesburg, South Africa (2010) 

• 50hr Advanced Prenatal Yoga TT, Ananda Sangha (2011)

• Level 1 & Level 2 Play Therapy Certification with Dr. Hannie Schoeman, Somerset West, Western Province, South Africa (2012) 

• 50hr Advanced Yin Yoga TT, Preksha Ashram with Madhav and Kelly Mason, Goa, India (2018) 

• Certified “M” Technique Touch Therapist, St. Luke’s Hospice, Cape Town, South Africa (2018)