Despina Forbes’ intention is to hold the space for facilitating well-being - drawing from nature, mindfulness/heartfulness, psychology, yoga, neuroscience, soundwork and sound healing as modalities for cultivating healthy change. She is a psychologist, mindfulness and yoga practitioner in Zululand, South Africa and online and  is interested in facilitating cultivation of sustainable well-being. A trained MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) programme practitioner, she has trained and practised internationally, attended mindfulness trainings and programmes with the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, the Centre For Mindfulness and Research in Bangor and The Mindfulness In Schools’ Project, UK. She studied her undergraduate and Masters degree abroad and returned to South Africa in 2004 where she continues to practise. She undertook the 200-hour Yoga teacher training under the guidance of Christine Withiel at Jivananda Centre For Well-Being in 2016, completed the Level 1 (100-hour) Insight Yoga training with Sarah Powers in 2017 and furthered her 300-hour training with Yogrishi Vishvekthu, Akhanda Yoga in Rishikesh, India, in 2019. You can find out more about Despina on her website: www.thewholesomspace.com