Our Story

Hi! It’s Giulia and Wessel here! Thanks for dropping in! Our website doesn’t have a “narrator”, it is us here, speaking to you from the heart, so let’s get into it!

We have so much to share with you. We are Starseeds who have come to earth seeking deep connections - wanting to help humanity realize how much potential they have if they just allowed their true self to shine unapologetically. We would love you to feel how POWERFUL, MAGNETIC, LOVING, WORTHY & SIGNIFICANT you all are.

We’ve learned a few things along the way that we now combine into everything that we do at The Space Within. We have come to realize that our NUMBER ONE teacher will always be our own Inner Knowing and the Remembrance that we are a tiny but integral part of this Earth’s awakening.

We’ve had a good deal of hurt and difficult times, which made us feel like there HAD to be a better way to navigate this life. After moving to New Zealand, thinking this will most definitely change our whole life for the better, we realized that we still had a DEEP yearning for something MORE. Physically changing your life still won’t fix anything if you don’t do the inner work!

So of course the next most sensible plan was to venture into the Jungle of Peru - because what better way to delve DEEP into your own soul than getting help from real Shamans and the Plant Medicine Ayahuasca, right!?

This experience changed EVERYTHING.

We couldn’t look at life the same way anymore. Why do people go to an office every day, sitting behind computers like robots, trying to work themselves up the success ladder, not getting paid what they are worth and still working overtime to please their boss, only having a few hours a day to spend with their loved ones? What is this madness!? Also, why do people eat such unhealthy foods, why do we not care about our own planet, why do we not care for each other and feel into our hearts before judging others?

That journey opened us up in many ways, but back then we were still pretty ungrounded - Our nervous systems were in shock after having literally travelled through the cosmos and remembering who we truly are and then having to go back to this “matrix” of a reality to play our human roles again was torture. We needed a lot more integration for all of our newfound wisdom to sink into our beings.

And that’s where we Googled “Shamans in Auckland” - LOL. Enter Alyse Young, our now close friend and mentor for the last 10 years - We ended up delving into plenty of deep Inner Child healing and Soul Activation workshops with her, which really helped us heaps to ground all of this newfound Knowing into our bodies.

In-between all of this, we also fell in love with yoga - and that has always been our stability across everything that we have done. A simple way to return inwards when human life got too much. We practiced different styles for many years, starting from Iyengar Yoga, to Vinyasa, Hatha, Yin and Restorative yoga. It quickly became a lifestyle for us as we understood its value at a spiritual level. We ended up doing our Yoga Teacher Training, which completely changed the whole trajectory of our life once again. After that we found T.I.M.E Meditation and Transformational Yoga and did another 500hr training that taught us to embody energy and understand the chakra system in a very different way.

Most recently we delved into the world of Breathwork - This being something that Wessel used to practice back in the day watching YouTube videos from Wim Hoff, but then we came across a Podcast episode of Aubrey Markus where he was interviewing a couple who originally came from New Zealand, Lukis Mac and Hella Weston. They explained how Breathwork is such an amazing healing modality and we just really resonated with the two of them at a soul level - We had to delve deeper into this. The Universe basically dropped it in our laps after that - Lukis and Hella were doing their last ever Breathwork Facilitator Training and it was a no-brainer. Wessel signed up immediately, even though we barely had the money to pay for the training, by this time in our life we had learned that the best things come from always following our highest excitement. It all worked out of course. And doors are still opening up for us around every corner.

So we now have a Space where we share yoga, and also everything else that we’ve learned along the way. Stay for a while and read through our pages, we’re sure you’ll find something that speaks to you here.

We are simply two people wanting to live from the heart. Over the years we were put in situations that made us understand very clearly what we do not want - and we became very clear on what our inner being was really asking for.

We are on a constant path of letting go what does not serve us anymore and moving towards that which is for our highest good.

We are here to remind people to take care of themselves more. Nothing is more important than your own health, your family, being kind to others, being conscious about the way you treat the Planet. Just being. Breathing. Observing. Consciously experiencing life and always living from the heart.

We are here to remind you that you are powerful beings, you have the energy that creates worlds inside of you! Nothing is impossible. We are all connected, we are all made from the same particles, the same energy. Our hearts beat to the same rhythm of the earth, the sky, the waters, the stars. Always remember that.

And then there is Aiva, our Guardian who came with us all the way from South Africa. She is such a wise old soul and the most zen little Pomeranian you will ever encounter. Her specialty is opening up the heart chakra, and her favourite pose would most definitely be śavāsana. She brings a loving and playful energy to the studio and will make sure that you leave with a smile on your face.

On paper, we have the following qualifications:

Wessel: 200hrs Integrated Yoga Teacher Training (Bihar Tradition, Sanyassi Pragyadhara)
500hrs Meditation Teacher Training (Sri Ma Foundation, Utkarsh Sanjanwala & Swami Vidyanand)
Level 2 Reiki Practitioner (Eilleen Burgess)
Trauma Informed Breathwork (Certified with Owaken Breathwork)

Giulia: 200hrs Integrated Yoga Teacher Training (Bihar Tradition, Sanyassi Pragyadhara)
500hrs Meditation Teacher Training (Sri Ma Foundation, Utkarsh Sanjanwala & Swami Vidyanand)
Level 2 Reiki Practitioner