Freda Wells | 200RYT
About
Freda Wells
Freda is a mother, learner, connector, communicator, uplifter, curator, weaver, founder of Goodlife Collective, and idea-landscape-explorer. At 17 she lived in Europe for a year on a Rotary Scholarship. Meeting people from nearly 20 countries, she saw more sameness than difference, and sensed the huge need for healing - for shifting our collective narrative, from differences to commonalities, from competition to cooperation, from fear to possibilities and hope. This inspired her studies and she graduated Otago University in 2001 with a Double Degree in French and Psychology, complemented with papers in philosophy, design and environmental science. Freda has worked for 20 years as a Communications Professional, and channels her creativity and curiosity into side projects to shape a more constructive collective narrative - including The Kiwi Diary (founded by Annabel Wilson) and Goodlife Collective - a platform to build connection, agency, and our collective potential.
Freda completed her 200YTT in 2019 with a true master of yoga Nico Luce.
Freda continuously returns to the four principles that Nico set out as the ground rules for our yoga cohort: from the book, ‘The Four Agreements’: “Be impeccable with your word”, “Do not take anything personally”, “Do not make assumptions”, and “Always do your best”. Freda has been teaching yoga regularly ever since.
What is esho?
The word ‘Esho’ is a Buddhist term which refers to people and nature being, “two indivisible entities of the same whole." I love this concept and think that it touches on something at the heart of what it means to be human, part of an intricately and infinitely interconnected ecosystem. This word jumped out at me from the pages of ‘Choose Life, by ‘Toynbee and Ikeda’ - as I leafed through it in a secondhand book store. I bought the book, and it now resides with many books in my bookshelf that I hope to finish reading on that next rainy day.