About
I have a deep passion for personal and spiritual development, and I work with people who, like me, wish to live consciously from the heart with a free spirit and an open mind.
A Life Journey of Many Paths to Presence
Most of my working life has been in health and well-being. Throughout the 1980s and ’90s, I worked as a body worker, breath therapist, counsellor, health and fitness coach, and martial arts instructor. While I have mostly practiced as a private counsellor and coach, I also spent several years working within alcohol and drug addiction rehabilitation units, including holistic resodential programs and therapeutic communities.
I have gradually developed a spiritual and mindfulness-based counselling approach, supporting people in self-development, relationships, and a wide range of mind and body health challenges.
In 2000, I co-founded ONEgroup (Organic and Natural Enterprise Group) manufacturing and distributing the world’s first certified organic personal care products and health supplements.This was a key focus for fifteen years, running a company with partners while raising my family in Victoria and later Queensland, Australia. While maintaining some martial art coaching in Queensland, I later stepped back from the business and gravitated back into the therapeutic arena, community support, spiritual and lifestyle coaching.
After more than thirty years of training in various martial arts styles, I began Bu Di Zhen Kung Fu training in 2009. This took me regularly to China for a number of years, where I trained with the late Grandmaster (Poppa) Gao, the late Master George Gao, and Master Peter Gao in their family lineage art. Sifu Grandmaster Peter Gao, remains the holder of the Gao family Bu Di Zhen lineage. I currently continue my Budo journey and practice with Kempo Genbu Ryu International under Kancho Peter Mylonas, incorporating aspects of Bu Di Zhen into my ongoing training.
Between 2014 and 2020, following a series of significant life events and changes, I also travelled through India and Japan. During this time, I more formally and deeply studied and pursued disciplines in yoga and meditation, alongside my martial arts training and some mountain hiking in Japan.
In recent years, I have focused on my writing, counselling, and mindfulness coaching with clients, alongside private community support, while also coaching martial arts and working with national teams for the Australian Martial Arts Championships (AMAC) organisation.
My devotion, discipline, and thirst for knowledge and experience mean that I draw from a wide range of traditions and teaching systems in my work. I have enjoyed bringing together traditional and modern approaches, blending philosophy, psychotherapy, mind and body practices, and scientific-based theory through my own lived perspective and therapeutic practices.
Currently, I devote much of my time to writing and mindfulness-based support to individuals and in group programs, including well-being coaching, mindfulness and breath movement, and martial arts classes and workshops. I have children and grandchildren in Australia and enjoy regular time in Japan. I continue my practice of yoga, meditation, qigong, martial arts and ongoing studies.
Colin Chenery
Author Mindfulness
Key Areas
Key areas I have worked with in private practice are relationships, stress and anxiety, loss and self-development. Six years working in holistic alcohol and drug services (Withdrawal Units and Therapeutic Communities) also provided me with experience in helping people through crisis and life transitions. I also have a few years experience in working with people with disability, terminal illnesses and early onset dementia.
My decades in martial arts, mindfulness, yoga and meditation, as well as various therapy modalities, have led me to a mindfulness-based approach that is versatile in adapting to a diversity of people, personal needs and situations. This and my years raising a family, helps me in delivering meaningful value to clients and students.
I invite you to utilise my skills, experience and services on offer which I will devote to helping empower you in your own journey. You can book a session, make an enquiry, or book a free Discovery Call by clicking HERE for the bookings page and I will get back to you.
All the best in your life journey and I look forward to working with you!
Colin Chenery
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Our Satisfied Readers
The concept of mindfulness for health is often one that’s misunderstood. Its importance is sometimes downplayed. It shouldn’t be regarded as optional, though. If you’re not mindful, then you can’t get in touch with who you are and what’s most vital for your day-to-day happiness. This book can put you on the right path.
Six Circles of Mindfulness is a masterful and grounded guide for anyone who feels like they are perpetually "running on a treadmill" but going nowhere. Colin Chenery provides a much-needed "software update" for the modern mind, offering a structured framework that turns the abstract concept of mindfulness into a tangible, daily practice. It is an essential manual for the person who is ready to stop "surviving" their schedule and start truly "inhabiting" their life.
