Meet Alya Hopkins
About Alya, in her words
I am driven to provide a professional service to the highest level and care deeply about the best outcomes for my clients, meditation students, colleagues, and wider communities.
Since a very young age, I have aspired to live my life to its optimal potential. Highly attuned to the need of the time, I decided to study in a helping profession. Although my social work professional degree included some of this, it didn’t completely fulfil my need of having access to modalities and practices, which I later learned worked, and ultimately contributed to a better state of both individuals and the collective.
Fifteen years into my career and working in frontline, I decided to undertake further studies and initially up-skilled in the area of Energy Psychology.
As a teachable person I continued finding the most gentle, soothing and helpful techniques to ease human suffering and support the expansion of the human potential which lead me to became a Teacher of Vedic Meditation.
This involved undertaking years of prerequisite studies and successfully completing three months of intensive training in the Himalayas under tutelage of my Master Teacher, Thom Knoles, known in India by his honorary title Shri 1008 Mahamandaleshwar Maharisi Vyasanand Giri Maharaj. It's my honour to have the privilege, authority and responsibility to bring this effortless, ancient technique to the world.
If you have gotten this far on my website, I look forward to meeting with you very soon in the real life, too.
I thank you for your interest in Vedic meditation and my other offerings, and your investment into yourself.
In deep Gratitude to…
My dream would continue to stay just a dream if it weren’t for my teachers and spiritual mentors.
Each of these incredible people has deeply and profoundly impacted my journey:
Thom Knoles, Shri 1008 Mahamandaleshwar Maharisi Vyasanand Giri Maharaj: For over 40 years Thom has personally taught meditation, Vedic philosophy, and applied spirituality to over 50,000 students worldwide. He is a celebrated speaker on cognitive sciences on the relationship between quantum physics and human consciousness and on the 5,000-year-old body of wisdom known as the Veda. Thom is the only westerner and a householder to be induced into the Vedic tradition at the highest level. My teacher, Thom, is my connection to the lineage of teachers of the vedic tradition. One of Thom's most awe-inspiring and admirable attributes is his unwavering dedication to bringing Vedic meditation to the world in its purity, which he has done for close to six decades.
Stephanie Colman, my Vedic meditation initiator and teacher. I’m beyond grateful to shiny soul Stef for opening the door for me to dive deeper into the ocean of Self and into the expanded state of Being and ultimately inspiring me to become a teacher myself.
https://www.stephaniecolman.com.au/aboutsteph
Dr. Peta Stapleton: I have been certified, supported, and continue to be inspired by a brilliant Peta since 2017. Peta is the world-leading researcher, author (incl. Hay House), registered clinical and health professional, professor at Bond University, and Australian Psychologist of the Year 2019 (Allied Health Awards), Year 2024 APS Distinguished Contribution to Psychological Science Award by Australian Psychological Society to name just a few of her incredible achievements. Peta is also a Co-founder and director of Mind Heart Connect and Mind Heart Connect Foundation. Peta is at the forefront of the world's research, shares her knowledge selflessly, and is incredibly supportive and encouraging of many Evidence-Based EFT practitioners who had the privilege to be taught by her. Peta is also leading a professional team in a premium accreditation program in EBEFT.
Kate Helder: No words to describe the depth of gratitude I have for Kate. Her “down to earth and up to the sky brilliance“ embodied in Kate are what I am immensely grateful for. Kate is a co-founder and co-director of the Mind Heart Connect & Mind Heart Connect Foundation. Kate is also the author of “Toolboxtime: Practical Solutions for Self-Care,” a social entrepreneur who has a genuine interest in healing, health and wellness, and the mind-heart-body connection and is passionate about raising awareness and bringing EFT to wider communities. As mentioned above, I’m beyond fortunate to have been invited to travel with the Mind Heart Connect Foundation in a volunteer, professional emotional assistant role initially and have been a trainer facilitator for the incredible Mind Heart Connect Foundation since 2022.
https://www.mindheartconnect.com/
Dr. Lori Leyden: A world-renowned trauma healing expert, humanitarian, and transformational leader who I have the privilege to be mentored and guided by since 2018. Lori has brought EFT, her heart-centred work, peace and hope to Rwandan genocide orphans, communities in the USA affected by school shootings, and to Australia into traumatised communities. Lori is the author of “The Grace Process Guidebook: A Practical Guide for Transcending Your Ego and Engaging the Wisdom of Your Heart” and “The Stress Management Handbook: Strategies for Health and Inner Peace,” and founder of the non-profit Create Global Healing, Project LIGHT.
https://www.createglobalhealing.org/
Sheri Baker: My trainer and a director of the Gary Craig Official EFT Training Centre. For over a year, Sheri patiently guided me through gaining knowledge and skills and taught me how to pay attention to the fine detail and powerful healing possibilities with Optimal EFT. Parallel to that, the incredible Sheri helped me further develop to hear my intuition louder and clearer. Sheri is one of the kindest souls I have ever met. Sheri offers a self-paced online study program, “Tapping Into the Truth—The Healing Power of Integrating A Course in Miracles with EFT,” available for EFT practitioners, and is an author of “A Few Good Prayers—A Practical Prayer Book for the Miracle-Minded” book.
Gary Craig: The founder of EFT, a Stanford engineer who believed beyond convention and EFT in 1995. Gary has, in his own words, been intensely interested in personal improvement and psychology since the age of 13. It was since then that Gary recognised that the quality of his own thoughts mirrored the quality of his life. Gary describes EFT as a “doorway to the new Healing High—Rise.”. There simply are no words to express the gratitude to Gary for bringing EFT to this world. I’m very thankful for the training that was possible for me to undertake to obtain my certification. Gary is living proof of someone who walks the talk with his ongoing work, which is a beautiful gift to humanity.
Expanding consciousness and human potential
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T. 0439 665 475
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Independent Teacher Of Vedic Meditation
EFT Master
Allied Health Professional - Social Worker
