OUR PEOPLE
Te Ara Sophia holds a variety of resident practitioners, groups and therapists that are specialists in their field.
Find out more about each therapy below.
Therapies
Functional Medicine
Functional Medicine is a holistic approach to health that seeks to identify and address the root causes of illness through a combination of natural therapies, lifestyle changes, and integrative practices. Practitioners in this category utilize methods like naturopathy, acupuncture, and thermography to support health and wellbeing.
Movement Therapy
Movement Therapy involves therapeutic practices designed to enhance physical, emotional, and mental health through structured and mindful movement techniques. This category includes approaches that improve body awareness, promote healing, and facilitate personal growth.
Energy Therapy
Energy Therapy involves practices that work with the body's energy fields to promote healing, balance, and well-being. This category includes a range of techniques from hands-on healing to spiritual guidance, all aimed at harmonizing the body's energy systems.
Therapeutic Bodywork
Therapeutic Body Work encompasses a range of techniques aimed at addressing physical ailments, promoting relaxation, and supporting emotional and spiritual well-being through hands-on healing practices.
Counselling & Psychotherapy
Counselling and Psychotherapy focus on providing emotional and psychological support to individuals facing mental health issues, personal challenges, or trauma. Practitioners use various therapeutic techniques to help clients explore their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours for personal growth and healing.
Hair & Beauty Therapy
Hair and Beauty Therapy offers a range of natural, organic, and holistic treatments aimed at enhancing personal appearance and well-being. This category emphasizes the use of high-quality, eco-friendly products and practices to support both beauty and health, focusing on nurturing and rejuvenating the body.
Child & Family
Child and Family services provide specialized support for the health, development, and well-being of children and families. This category includes practices that address developmental needs, family dynamics, and specific life stages.
Who we are
The mission of the Te Ara Sophia centre is to offer an environment to foster and support all aspects of a creative approach to conscious parenting in the modern times. This work and activity will be based on the spiritual science of human development, health and education from the work of Rudolf Steiner.
The original Te Ara Sophia initiative first developed in 2010 as a response to a call from the community. This was from parents of young children who aspired to a deeper understanding of parenting and education in the current social context with insight from Rudolf Steiner’s picture of human development. A core group of parents, teachers and grandparents worked hard to establish a foundation for this work.
This initiative was to compliment the services offered by the medical centre and the school.
However, with the earthquakes in 2011 the work of this group was put on hold. But the needs it wished to fulfil are just as important now.
At the time the medical centre strongly worked from the same impulse as the special character of the school. It had many different therapies that were readily available to the school community especially its children. Over time this changed.
The purchase of the property and the departure of the medical centre enabled the School Proprietor Trust to take up and extend the original intentions of the Te Ara Sophia group and add other services. The people involved in renting space in the revitalized Te Ara Sophia are very excited and supportive of this important impulse.
This activity brings in the revenue for it to be self-supporting and in the longer term create a surplus. It has also secured the undeveloped land for the future development of the school so that further building and car parks will not impact so much on the existing play areas and gardens.
We encourage you to use the services on offer at Te Ara Sophia thereby helping to make this initiative viable and give this impulse a firm foundation for the future.
