OUR NETWORK OF PRACTITIONERS
Our practitioners form a growing community of facilitators, healers, and guides who contribute to the evolving rhythm of Axminster House. Their work supports individual healing while nourishing a wider sense of belonging, curiosity, and shared experience.
EMMA LOUISE
Emma Louise is a registered counsellor, working with women who are navigating the complex landscape of trauma, grief, dissociation, shame, fear, or a deep disconnection from themselves.
Her work is trauma-informed and somatically oriented, with ritual-based and creative elements, drawing on talk therapy, the Focusing technique, parts work, art-making, narrative practices, and mindfulness to support reconnection to self (body, mind, spirit).
Alongside her counselling practice, Emma Louise is a movement facilitator, offering movement classes at Axminster House. This work supports embodied expression and nervous system regulation through intuitive & non-choreographed movement.
“A lot of people come to me carrying fear of their own inner world. In the depths, what can feel like endings or deaths of old selves, there is space for rebirth: compassion, purpose, and a deeper sense of connection. I help clients explore their experiences and find meaning in what they are moving through.”
Specialist Health & Wellness Counsellor
Yanna Romano
Welcome to Emerge—a space to move, feel, and explore through embodiment and creativity. In this space, practice is about becoming present, deepening awareness, and accessing intuitive creativity. Emerge is shaped by over 13 years of practice, study, and teaching. Yanna Romano, the founder, is inspired by nature, music, dance, art, and soul.
Yanna brings an integrative approach to her teaching, with an Honours Degree in Human Geography (UCT), a Post-Graduate Certificate in Mindfulness Facilitation (IMISA & Stellenbosch University), a Yoga Alliance Registered 500hr Yoga Qualification at The Shala in Cape Town, 100hr Yin Training with Caitlin Rose Kenney in Colorado, 50hr Prenatal Training with Blossom and Bloom in Cape Town, Ayurvedic Massage Training at Hemadri Clinic in Rishikesh, Dance Awake Facilitator Training with Brian Bergman in Cape Town, and Art Therapy for Social Change Training with Lefika la Phodiso in Johannesburg.
Yanna has taught at The Shala in Cape Town as both a teacher and Teacher Trainer Faculty Member. She ran 196 Yoga in Woodstock for 8 years, offering in-person and online yoga classes, and has taught yoga in diverse settings like prisons, schools, and retreats. She ran art, embodiment and nature programmes for The Astar Project, Ingcungcu Sunbird Restoration project and The Art Well between 2014-2020. Yanna has worked with clients facing trauma, injury, mental health challenges, and those in the elderly community. Her dedication to teaching is matched by a commitment to ongoing learning, ensuring her practice and offerings remain informed and evolving.
EMERGE FOUNDER
Grace escolme
Grace Escolme is a qualified Five Element Acupuncturist offering a deeply holistic form of acupuncture that works with the body, mind, and spirit. Five Element Acupuncture is an ancient system of Chinese medicine that focuses on identifying and treating the root cause of imbalance, rather than only addressing symptoms.
This style of acupuncture is particularly supportive for a wide range of physical and emotional conditions, including anxiety, depression, chronic pain, burnout, ADHD, insomnia, tension, IBS, and menstrual irregularities. Many people initially arrive seeking relief from physical discomfort and find themselves experiencing profound emotional release and inner healing through this medicine.
Five Element Acupuncture is often described as an art of deep listening — not only to symptoms, but to the whole person. By attuning to an individual’s emotional landscape, constitution, and life experience, Grace works to restore balance at a foundational level. Each acupuncture point is understood as a reservoir of vital and spiritual energy, supporting both physical healing and personal transformation.
Treatments are personalised, gentle, and restorative, strengthening the body’s natural resilience and innate capacity to self-heal. Clients often leave sessions feeling clearer, more emotionally balanced, and reconnected to a deeper sense of direction and vitality.
Grace’s sessions may include:
Fine acupuncture needles
Moxibustion — a warming therapy using mugwort to nourish the blood and support vitality
Non-needle treatments using frequency-based tools applied to acupuncture points, ideal for those who prefer a needle-free approach
This is a deeply individualised medicine that honours the body’s natural intelligence and wisdom.
Session length: 1 hour
Investment: R888
Acupuncture – Holistic Healing
Page Dina Lotze
Page teaches yoga as a practice of reclamation - a return to your body, your intuition, and the part of you that knows how to heal when given space.
A Yoga Alliance Registered 500hr Teacher trained in traditional lineages from India, she weaves somatic approaches, functional movement, breathwork, and meditation into classes that invite you to feel more present, resist less, and remember what your body already knows.
Page is also a performing poet, Certified Recovery Coach, Mindfulness Practitioner and TRE facilitator-in-training. Since 2014, she has also facilitated embodied group work - spaces where people tend to stress and trauma, feel witnessed, and build connection.
She teaches as a co-researcher, making space for the messy work of staying present to what wants to emerge.This is yoga as a practice of staying - with yourself, with sensation, with what your body is trying to tell you.
At Axminster House, Page facilitates a weekly Sadhana practice on a Thursday afternoon as well as monthly Heart-to-hearts sessions on the first Wednesday of every month.