About - Patricia Zaw

bestpic Patricia is a spiritual intuitive life+career+business coach and writer living in the Far North of New Zealand with her partner, eight-year old daughter, eight dogs and forty-odd chicken.

Her qualifications and work experience include: architectural, interior, graphic, logo, web and fine jewellery design. She has been a restaurateur, bellydance event organiser, aromatherapist, shiatsu practitioner, counsellor, holistic therapist, architectural press assistant, library assistant, property investor and hotel manager.

Patricia has studied at UCL (University College London, University of London), Tisserand Institute, Open University U.K., UCLA Extension, Oxford University Continuing Education, Wisconsin Continuing Studies, MentorCoach, Whitecliffe College of Art & Design and other institutions. Her training includes: Life & Business Coaching, PCC level at International Coaching Federation (ICF), Counselling, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Arts Therapy, Channeling with Lyssa Royal Holt, and Mindfulness training with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach (MMTCP Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certificate Program, https://mmtcp.soundstrue.com/) . She speaks Burmese and Cantonese; reads and writes French, Italian and Spanish.

Her body and movement experiential work over 20+ years have included: Holistic Aromatherapy, Swedish Massage, Champissage (Indian Head Massage), On-Site Chair Massage, Shiatsu, Lomi Lomi (Hawaiian Kahuna Massage), Iyengar yoga, Kundalini yoga, Tibetan Healing Exercises, Meditation, Pranayama, Pilates, Aikido, Raqs Sharqi (Egyptian Dance) and Argentine Tango.

Decades-long interests have included Ceramics, Stained and Studio Glass, Illustration, Logo, Graphics and Fashion Design, Sculpture, Sanskrit language, Percussion and Music Production.

Studies in Astrology (Western, Vedic, Karmic, Evolutionary, Mahabote), Numerology, Tarot/Oracle Cards, Palmistry, Psychometry, Ho’oponopono have all added to her personal experiences of spontaneous Out-of-Body Experiences, Other Life memories, Clairvoyance, Claircognizance, psychic and precognitive abilities. Patricia has attended workshops in Shamanic Journeying with Simon Buxton, Past Life Regression with Roger Woolger, Chakra and Kundalini Yoga with Daryl O’Keefe, Psychology of Vision with Chuck Spezzano plus many others.

From her mother’s side of the ancestral line, she has been gifted with a lineage of self-made, self-starting entrepreneurs several generations back and from her father’s side, the lineage can be traced back seven generations to a royal court physician in Burma. Patricia’s father is an allopathic physician and her grandfather was a traditional Burmese herbal medicine healer who lived and supported the health and well-being of his local community till age 100.

She has volunteered for the ICF New Zealand Northern Chapter and served on the board of trustees for The Hive, JoyFest, Culpepper Garden and the Andrew Clark Trust.

Her passion is to raise the collective level of consciousness through embodied mindfulness, increased. self-awareness, self-change and integrated trauma-sensitive, heart-centred living.

Patricia has travelled extensively and lived in Burma, Hong Kong, London and the Canary Islands. She qualified in scuba diving with SSI (Scuba Schools International).

She is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), International Institute for Complementary Therapists (IICT), NAMW (National Association of Memoir Writers) and NZSA (New Zealand Society of Authors) which is affiliated with PEN International.