Great news: New Hanya House health professionals joining us in 2025
As a collective it gives us great pleasure in welcoming four new health professionals to the Hanya House Wellness Collaboration in 2025. While our professions and areas of specialty may differ, we all share a deep belief in…
The flamingo’s 2024 reflections: Collaboration, community, and connection
Looking back at 2024, Hanya House Wellness Collaboration’s second year, I find myself being drawn to the word “collaboration.” We have been energetically attracted to the word as our guiding north star this year and I’m proud to…
The best thing that I accidentally did in 2023
“I am protective, I am paternal, I give love!” I formulated this statement many moons ago during one of my compassionate inquiry coaching sessions with Denise Sohandev and she recommended that I add it as a daily reminder…
“My interpretation of the word, Hanya” by Nina Bosch
As we come up to the end of our second year of the Hanya House Wellness Collaboration, I've been feeling grateful that a special friend (with a wonderful creative talent) gifted us the word 'Hanya' when we started…
A Handful of Healers Featuring Dr. Allison van der Riet
In our first edition of A Handful of Healers, we share a Q&A (originally published in Muse Magazine) with Integrative & Aesthetic practitioner, Dr. Allison van der Riet. What do health and wellness mean to you? Health is not simply…
8 & 9 November: An “East Meets West” weekend of ancient healing with acudetox, acupuncture, Yin yoga & cranio-sacral therapy
Visiting 500-Level Yin yoga teacher, lecturer and acupuncturist, Theresa Moodie, teams up with sports physiotherapist and cranial-sacral therapist, Lindsay Harris, offering transformative treatments that will restore you for the final leg of the 2024. Customise your own weekend…
The Magic of the MacFarlanes & the tale of how a healing house also became a (he)art haven
Clearing and Creation is an exhibition at Hanya House, in collaboration with White River Gallery (@whiterivergallery), that celebrates and explores the sacred feminine. This isn't just any exhibition though... it has a backstory that's close to our hearts:…
Blooming Bold: Moné van Rooyen’s exploration of motherhood
Clearing and Creation: A Journey into the Sacred Feminine is an exhibition in collaboration with the White River Gallery at Hanya House in honour of Women's Day and Women's Month. Lowveld artist and ceramicist, Moné van Rooyen, is…
The Sacred Ley Line that runs through White River
BeJay Watson often reminds us that, in White River, we are lucky to live on the Nilotic Meridian. This is an energetic ley line that runs along 31-degrees east longitude. This wide meridian is at the very centre…
As we rise: “Out of the Ashes” by Kerri Dunshea
We continue to explore (and bask in) 'creativity as medicine' and you'll notice that as you rise up the staircase at Hanya House we are rotating the works on the first floor. One of our most recent artworks…
Community Voices: Lowveld Psychiatrist, Dr. Caro De Witt, Discusses Crystals Balls, Balancing Tables & Psychiatry in a Changing World
We know her as the psychiatrist who’s breaking the mould. Dr. Caro De Witt is not only young, full of joy, and an exquisite singer, but she’s also known as one of the most caring (and joyful) doctors…
As we rise: “Surrendering to the unknown” by Kerri Dunshea
One of our greatest privileges at Hanya House (one that we never take for granted) is being able to share specific pieces by South African artists. We are guilty as charged of looking at art from a healing…
