Welcome to Xanadu
Our vision is to awaken our client’s dormant spontaneity and authenticity, and stimulate feelings of connection to others by activating innate healing potential using various integrated psychotherapy practices.
About Xanadu
Xanadu (definition): an idealized place of great or idyllic magnificence and beauty.
Xanadu is body, mind, heart ♥ and soul integration space.
“What the trees around you are exhaling, you are inhaling right now; what you are exhaling, the trees are inhaling at the very moment. The transaction is ongoing. Whether you are aware of it or not, one half of your pulmonary system is hanging up there right now on a tree! You have never experienced this interdependence; you have probably, at most only thought about it intellectually. But if you had experienced this connection, would anyone have to tell you, ‘Plant trees, protect the forests, save the world’? Would it even be necessary?” Sadhguru, 2016

Practitioners
Malvina Bartmanski
Integrative Clinical Psychologist
I am a clinical psychologist in private practice.
I have a passion for experiential body and
energy orientated healing modalities.
Holotropic Breathing
Holotropic Breathwork is a therapeutic breathing practice that is intended to assist with emotional healing and personal growth.
An altered state of consciousness is produced that activates your natural capacity for mental, physical and spiritual healing. The practice allows you to move beyond your body and get in touch with your true self and spirit. It can be used to treat a wide variety of conditions, including but not limited to: depression, stress, addiction, trauma, chronic pain, asthma, PMS, etc. Holotropic Breathwork can bring about intense emotions and painful memories that could activate underlying symptoms, and thus it is recommended that Holotropic Breathwork occur in conjunction with ongoing therapy to ensure assistance is provided with working through arising issues. Holotropic Breathwork can be used as an activator to move past stuckness in the psychotherapeutic process as there is often an opening to new perspectives that is attained.
Energy Psychotherapy
Two energy psychotherapy methods are used at Xanadu: Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and the NADA protocol.
These methods use the Chinese meridian system to relieve psychological stress and physiological aches. According to ancient eastern philosophy, emotions are stored in the various organs. Lungs store grief, liver stores anger and kidneys fear. There are subtle energy currents in the body that get blocked; energy psychotherapy works at unblocking these points. In EFT, tapping on different points on the body, energy points that relate to an organ will unblock emotions. Similarly, the NADA protocol involves the stimulation of acupuncture points on the external ear surface to unblock emotions by releasing them from the organs of the body. The map of the ear holds a microsystem of the body. The NADA protocol can be used for detox and assists recovery from drug and alcohol addiction and smoking cessation. At Xanadu we recommend using energy psychotherapy to support the body when processing difficult emotions in psychotherapy, as well as a stand-alone treatment.
Psychotherapy
Xanadu offers individual psychotherapy. These therapies are focused on new-age, integrative empirically-tested methods to assist the psychotherapy process.
Psychotherapy is aimed at activating your inner guide and your connection to the collective unconscious, that can provide the inspiration, energy, and wisdom necessary to understand more deeply, work more creatively, live more authentically, love more vulnerably, and successfully meet the challenges of each stage of life.

Somatic Psychotherapy

Hypnotherapy

Art Therapy

EMDR
Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®)
Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®) is a series of exercises that assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension and trauma.
The exercises activate a natural reflex mechanism of shaking or vibrating that releases muscular tension, calming down the nervous system and returning the body to a state of balance. The muscle tremors evoked by the TRE exercise process are natural, internal, neuro-physiological responses of the body to reduce its own stress and restore a sense of well-being. TRE allows tensions and traumas to be discharged from the body, without ‘re-visiting the story.’ At Xanadu we teach TRE as a self-help tool that can be used after sessions to continue healing and be used as a preventative measure (trauma-proofing yourself).
Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®)
Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE®) is a series of exercises that assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension and trauma.
The exercises activate a natural reflex mechanism of shaking or vibrating that releases muscular tension, calming down the nervous system and returning the body to a state of balance. The muscle tremors evoked by the TRE exercise process are natural, internal, neuro-physiological responses of the body to reduce its own stress and restore a sense of well-being. TRE allows tensions and traumas to be discharged from the body, without ‘re-visiting the story.’ At Xanadu we teach TRE as a self-help tool that can be used after sessions to continue healing and be used as a preventative measure (trauma-proofing yourself).
Yoga for Trauma
At Xanadu recognize the power of yoga as something beyond an exercise.
Yoga is an ancient scientific discipline that works on body’s autonomic nervous system and mind and brings these into unity. Trauma puts us into certain body patterns that can feel protective during but become stifling and limiting in the long-term. Yoga aims to eliminate constriction and rigidness in the body, in turn eliminating this from the mind. Yoga for trauma is not about pushing your body but rather listening to and coming back to inhabit it again, creating a connection back to the self.
Xanadu Soul Journeys
Xanadu Soul Journeys offers various kinds of structured retreats. These retreats entail a combination of the therapies that Xanadu offers alongside wilderness therapy.
Wilderness therapy is in line with Xanadu’s ecopsychology foundation. It is an adventure-based outdoor treatment to foster a connection back to nature. The purpose of our retreats is to provide for a more intensive short-term process in a group dynamic. Group dynamics both trigger elements that may need working through and provide support and community for clients.
Please check Xanadu Soul Journeys on Facebook for future retreat dates.
Xanadu Soul Journeys
Xanadu Soul Journeys offers various kinds of structured retreats. These retreats entail a combination of the therapies that Xanadu offers alongside wilderness therapy.
Wilderness therapy is in line with Xanadu’s ecopsychology foundation. It is an adventure-based outdoor treatment to foster a connection back to nature. The purpose of our retreats is to provide for a more intensive short-term process in a group dynamic. Group dynamics both trigger elements that may need working through and provide support and community for clients.
Please check Xanadu Soul Journeys on Facebook for future retreat dates.
Contact Details
Xanadu is based in Cape Town.
083 657 8074
xanaduhealing@gmail.com
Individual sessions take place at:
1 Milner Road, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town, 8001
Group event venues vary.
Contact Details
Xanadu is based in Cape Town.
083 657 8074
xanaduhealing@gmail.com
Individual sessions take place at:
Milner House, 1 Milner Rd, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town, 8001
Group event venues vary.
Xanadu Healing
1 Milner, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Community
Xanadu is in process of accumulating a list of recommended healers of various kinds, from dentists to reiki. This is a resource list by our clients for our clients so that holistic, alternative healers can be sought. Please feel free to contact us with your recommendations. Practitioners are listed alphabetically per category.