Nicci Cloete is a professional life coach, mindfulness coach and certified yoga teacher based in Stellenbosch, South Africa, and working globally online. She interweaves formal coaching techniques with mindfulness practices and breathwork to facilitate, support and sustain positive change with her clients.
Her niche is corporate mindfulness training and executive coaching where she engages with progressive leaders to help them navigate their lives with more presence, clarity, focus, and ease. Clients include Visa, Woolworths Financial Services, Byte Orbit, The Sustainability Institute, Dentsu and more.
Individual coachees range from university students battling stress to parents adapting to an empty nest – and everything and everyone in between. All coaching enquiries are welcome and everyone is greeted with empathy, friendliness and an attitude of unconditional positive regard.
Employee wellbeing, transition, personal growth and addiction recovery are other areas of interest. Nicci herself came clean in January 2014 after almost two decades of trying (unsuccessfully) to drink away the after-effects of teenage sexual trauma, and it still counts as the best day of her life, aside, perhaps, from when her two children were born. She has been relapse-free since that day, and regards a robust mindfulness practice as a major influence in this success.
She is trained as a Conscious Connected Breathwork Facilitator and believes wholeheartedly in the power of the this non-verbal therapy form to bring about powerful shift and transformation, after having experienced this for herself in 2018. She hosts silent retreats in places of magnificent natural beauty, where her retreatants and coaches are supported on a deep dive into breathwork and mindfulness practices including yoga and meditation.
Nicci studied psychology at Stellenbosch University and then gained 15 years of corporate and non-profit experience in three continents before returning to South Africa in 2008. She stopped counting her formal hours of yoga teacher training at 500, having deepened her practice and gained advanced certifications in pre-natal yoga and yin in the USA, India and South Africa.
Prompted by the push of divorce and the pull of wanting to combine all her experience into one powerful offering, Nicci retrained as a life coach in 2019 through the University of Cape Town and Thoughtsmiths Coaching School. She counts her lucky stars every day to have found this sweet spot in life, and considers it a privilege to walk a path with each and every one of her clients.
Nicci laughs easily and often, and has yet to learn how to practice moderation when it comes to coffee. She is learning patience as she learns that she is most definitely not a natural when it comes to surfing, and she gets her kicks from trail running, all the music, and being in the moment with her two children.
QUALIFICATIONS:-
Professional Life Coach (UCT, Thoughtsmiths), Certified Advanced Yoga Teacher (Yogaworks, Santa Barbara, USA; Preksha Yoga Ashram, Goa, India; Ananda Sangha, Somerset West, South Africa), Conscious Connected Breathwork Instructor (Bodhi Breathwork Studio)
