Kym Patricia Coon Yoga practitioner and instructer Yoga With Kym Media Man Australia

Kym Patricia Coon

Born Kym Patricia Smith (1972) in Canberra, ACT. Preferred name: Kym Patricia
Lives in Dubbo, country NSW with husband Paul and 2 children.

Yoga Teacher, Pranic Healer and Clairvoyant Healer.

Member: Dubbo Chamber of Commerce; Women In Business Program

Invited as a special guest to World Leadership Day 20 March 2008 by
Elisabeth Gortschacher, MCC, MBA, BEd, ICF Member

Step up and out to lead from your authentic place in the sun™

World Leadership Day - Founder and Leader
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OUR VISION
A world that recognises, engages and nurtures the expression of the innate leadership in every person

Member: Virgin Unite, The Elders, British Wheel of Yoga.

My mission: is to Help others Awaken to their Divine Life Purpose & to Inspire others to Live their Best Lives.

Inspiration: My Family, Children, Everyday people, Dr Wayne W Dyer, Louise L Hay, Dalai Lama, Nature.

I am a motivational speaker and presenter. I have facilitated Yoga, Meditation and self-esteem workshops for conventions and corporate gatherings including Western College of Adult Education and TAFE NSW. For almost 5 years I have been working with Break Thru Solutions; teaching Yoga, Relaxation Techniques and Self-Improvement classes to young adults with Special Needs. I also hold Pre & Post Natal Yoga and YogaBugs (kids yoga) workshops, and Meditation classes.

I have traveled extensively abroad. I have a genuine love of all people, places and cultures. In 1999, I was a volunteer at a kibbutz in Israel and later an assistant on a dive boat in the Red Sea. Whilst on a working holiday in England in 2000-2001 I spent 2 wonderful weeks at a Buddhist Monastery called Amaravati.

Product: I released my first Yoga DVD and Meditation CD titled Yoga with Kym; Inspiration Series in August 2007. A revised edition of the DVD titled Begin Yoga with Kym was released in November 2007.

I exhibited DVD and yoga products at MindBodySpirit Festival in Sydney November 2007. I also had the opportunity to introduce Yoga with Kym with a welcomed performance on the main stage at the popular exhibition.

Yoga with Kym DVD has received reviews in Australian Yoga Life, Innerself and Nova Magazines. Yoga with Kym is currently available at Adyar Bookshop, Sydney and online at www.yogawithkym.com.au

Community: With the communities help I raised over $25,000 for my nephew who is currently in Westmead Children’s Hospital. To help promote fundraising events I have had air time with local radio station 2DU, who were also major sponsors of ‘A Day in the Park for Julian’. I am in regular contact with Sydney radio station 2UE who are also raising awareness to young Julian’s plight with listeners donating to this cause.

A Favourite quote:
‘Your vision will only become clear when you can feel it in your heart.
He who looks outside dreams, he who looks inside awakens’ Carl Jung

Jane, Bernadette, Kym Patricia, Julie and Anne - Monster Auction fundraiser for Julian

My Story

I was fortunate to grow up in a close, happy and loving family in country NSW.
My Father was a linesman for the local Electricity Company and my Mother worked as a waitress.

After school I studied Business and Administration and soon began a career in the corporate world. From Banking & Finance to Insurance I moved through the ranks and although I was feeling proud of my achievements I was never content for too long.

My life was to change soon after when my Mother suffered a cerebral haemorrhage. My once lively, healthy Mum was now being kept alive by a machine. How could this be? It didn’t seem real. I thought these things only happened to other people.

The doctors didn’t give us much hope, infact they were just waiting for my Brother to be flown in from Brisbane to turn off the life support. They asked me to go into a room with the social worker to call other family members and close friends to come and say ‘goodbye’. I was in shock, I was numb but I managed to call relatives and friends, most of them already knew and were on their way to the hospital.

Wayne did arrive, however the events that followed, support my belief that anything is possible and that Miracles really do happen.

With her husband and children bedside, Mum moved one hand and was quickly rushed from Emergency to Intensive Care. There was hope, there was life and there was most definitely Spirit.

After several major operations, years of rehabilitation and Mum finally regaining her eyesight and memory, I can say, along with her Specialist Doctors that my Mother is a Miracle.

I decided soon after to embark on my long awaited overseas adventure solo. It had been my dream for many years to travel and now the timing was right. I had a genuine fascination with people, the world and how we all live our lives. The Middle East was my first stop where I volunteered at a kibbutz in Israel for 3 months before making my way to the Egyptian Red Sea to scuba dive. I later arrived in the UK to begin the working part of my holiday. It was in London that I was introduced to Yoga, and I remember floating out of every class. I wondered why they didn’t teach these practices in school? There is a saying…. ‘when the student is ready the teacher will appear’. Everything started to make sense, pieces of the puzzle were coming together and I was intrigued. I felt the real me for the first time.

I enjoyed Wayne Dyer workshops, visits to Hare Krishna Temple in Soho and especially the 14 days spent in silence at the Amaravati Buddhist Monastery.
I was to return home a year later after Mum had suffered a stroke. I began teaching my new found life skills and Yoga practices in the local community as I helped care for Mum. I secured a banking position in the small country town and began saving for my Yoga Teacher Training Course. It was to be another year later that I returned to England to begin my training. I moved through the course and the challenging poses with ease. I really enjoyed learning about the history of Yoga, the chanting, the breathing techniques, the strong physical workout and insightful meditations. I was so grateful that Yoga had found me, I was blessed to be able to teach it and now I wanted to see if other people felt the same way.

I have been teaching Yoga, Meditation, Pre & Post Natal Yoga and kids Yoga for almost 10 years. I have helped bring Yoga to the schools within my community and I have been teaching Yoga and Meditation to young adults with special needs for nearly 5 years.

In 2007 I self-produced a Yoga DVD titled ‘Begin Yoga with Kym’, set up a website and exhibited DVD & Yoga products at Sydneys MindBodySpirit Festival.

I am happily married to Paul, a market gardener/greengrocer and we have two beautiful children, 4 yrs young Tobias (Tobey) and 2 yrs young Sienna.
We live in Dubbo, central west New South Wales.

In January 2008 my Brothers son had an extremely serious accident. This beautiful 3 yrs young little boy has suffered horrific injuries and still remains in Westmead Childrens’ Hospital today. His road to recovery is long, slow, and often painful. With the communities help, I have raised over $25,000 this year to help in my nephews’ recovery. People have been amazing, giving so much of their time, resources and money to help a little family at such a difficult time.

I have seen first hand what a difference it makes to have support, love & compassion in the community. It gives the family strength, hope and courage to move forward knowing they are not alone.
The funds enable the family to stay together and to focus all energies on the health, healing and care of their son, who is most important.

My goal is to open my very own Retreat, a beautiful place in harmony with the natural environment. This would be a place where people can enjoy Yoga, Meditation & Spiritual Awakening classes, healthy eating, peace and quiet reflection.

My Beliefs’

I believe in the Universal Life Force, in Energy and in Spirit.

I believe each of us carry great talents and Gifts that we naturally bring to others.

I believe we have a shared responsibility to help bring Unity, Peace and Positive change to the world.

I believe in Equality, in Fairness and in Respect of living things regardless of age, colour, health, religion or circumstance.

I believe in the Power of Now, of living in the Present and the Gift of Life.

I believe in Life, Love, Divine Timing and Miracles.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

This inspiring quote by Marianne Williamson is from her book, A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3 (Pg. 190-191).

“It’s easy to sit up and take notice. It’s more difficult to get up and take action”
Al Batt

“The world can only change from within” Eckhart Tolle

The Purpose: Evolution
The Arena: Daily Life
The Time: Now
The Method: Action
It begins on the ground.
It starts where you are.
It works at every level. Dan Millman

Swami Sivananda (1887 – 1963) SERVE LOVE GIVE PUIFY MEDITATE REALISE

I love myself—body, mind, and soul.
When you are at peace with yourself and love yourself, it is virtually impossible to be self-destructive. Dr Wayne W Dyer
I am open and receptive to all that is good. Louise L Hay
Love Yourself into Life. Ramtha

"Let's not just give more money to drug companies to make a pill to cure cancer. … Let's see if we can prevent it by cleaning up the environment and by eating healthier."
— Dr. Joel Fuhrman, author of Eat to Live
‘May your inner light shine bright with awareness for all that you are’ Kym Patricia
‘Let the golden light of your soul radiate to the world’ Kym Patricia
‘The world out there is a school Dan. Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences, and if experience alone brought wisdom and fulfillment, then elderly people would all be happy, enlightened masters. But the lessons of experience are hidden. I can help you learn from experience to see the world clearly, and clarity is something you desperately need right now. You know this is true, but your mind rebels; you haven’t yet turned your knowledge into wisdom’
‘I know about that – I mean, I wouldn’t go that far’
“No, Dan, you don’t know about it yet, but you will go that far and beyond”
From “Way of the Peaceful Warrior” by Dan Millman

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars” Les Brown
Two weeks in learning how to live is better than a year of rest with no such guidance.
Murdo MacDonald-Bayne

Joy is not in things; it is in us. Richard Wagner

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller

Honesty in vulnerability is the doorway to personal freedom.

Life is like an apple—take one bite at a time and savour as you go.

Darkness comes, but it is only passing, as the light of the soul can never be overcome.

Websites

Yoga With Kym

Himalayan Goji & GoChi Berry Juice - FreeLife International

Walk For Julian (Community Builders NSW)

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Kym Patricia Coon

Profiles

Yoga With Kym

Himalayan GoChi Juice