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This is more than a platform. It is a lifetime of wisdom, offered with an open heart — finally accessible to everyone.
Meet Susie
For over 25 years, Susie has walked beside people in pain — and shown them the way back to themselves.
Not by fixing them. Not by telling them what is wrong. But by seeing them — wholly, deeply, with a quality of attention and care that most people have rarely experienced — and creating a space safe enough for the real healing to begin.
People are drawn to Susie because in her presence, something in you relaxes. The part that has been holding on — bracing, managing, coping, pretending — begins, quietly and with enormous relief, to let go. Because you feel, perhaps for the first time in a very long time, that you are truly seen. Not the version of you that has it together. All of you. Every ache, every emotion, every quiet longing. And you are met with nothing but warmth.
Susie listens to what the body is saying beneath the words
She understands that physical pain and emotional pain are not separate — that the body carries what the mind cannot yet face, and that real healing requires both to be addressed, together, with love. She sees patterns where others see only symptoms. And she holds the whole of you with a reverence for your innate capacity to heal that never wavers, even when yours does.
Healing isn't about fixing what's broken.
It's about allowing your natural strength, joy, and flow to shine through once again.
It was always there.
We simply help you find your way back.
With her natural warmth, her deep well of knowledge, and her unshakeable belief in your potential, Susie awakens something in the people she works with — a remembering. That the intelligence they have been searching for outside themselves has been inside them all along. That their body is not their enemy. That healing is not only possible — it is their birthright.
LuminAwa is the first time Susie is sharing her life's work in this way — bringing the same powerful, heart-centred guidance that people have previously experienced only in private and small group sessions into a form that anyone, anywhere in the world, can access. This is her gift. And it is a profound and generous one.
The depth of experience behind the heart
Susie's path to creating LuminAwa is not a straight line — it is a rich, layered, decades-long journey of learning, practice, and devoted service to the people she has walked beside.
She founded and directed Suna Pilates and Wellbeing in Auckland for 25 years — a sanctuary that became beloved by thousands of people who found their way back to ease, freedom, and wholeness within its walls.
It was there that Susie's understanding of the deep connection between body, mind, and emotion was first put into practice at scale. And it was from there that her hunger to go deeper took her further.
She immersed herself in advanced kinesiology training under Dr John Kaye in Australia, and in Total Body Modification (TBM) — one of the most comprehensive natural healing systems available — with Dr Bill Donaldson in New Zealand and Dr Kevin Millet in the USA. She became certified in all levels of Touch for Health, including Emotional Balancing techniques. She trained in Holistic Nutrition and Lifestyle Coaching under Paul Chek and Dr Cliff Oliver. And through all of this study, practice, and the lived experience of tens of thousands of hours working with real human beings in real pain, something crystallised.
Susie developed her own system — PCP (Purposefully Cultivating Potential). A beautifully practical, heart-centred evolution of kinesiology, designed not just for practitioners but for every person who wants to participate actively in their own healing — and to support the people they love. PCP is woven throughout LuminAwa, alongside every other tradition and modality Susie has studied and embodied across her career.
What sits behind every practice, every programme, and every resource on this platform is not just knowledge. It is wisdom — the kind that only comes from decades of genuine, devoted, loving service to the process of human healing.
A word from Susie
I have spent more than 25 years walking beside people in pain, and I have watched something extraordinary happen, over and over again: when a person is truly met — when they feel genuinely seen and genuinely supported — something in them remembers. The healing that was waiting inside them finds its way through.
That is what I built LuminAwa for. To create a space where that remembering can happen — not just in a private session with me, but wherever you are, whenever you need it, at the pace that is true for you.
Every practice in this platform carries my love. Every truth in the curriculum was chosen because I have seen it change lives. Every word was written to reach you — the real you, beneath everything you have been carrying.
Your body has been waiting for this kind of guidance. And I am so glad you found your way here.
Welcome. Let's begin.
