Founders
Iva Parker-Puie
Thank you for being here. I honour your presence and the time you have taken to read my story.
My life has been a long journey of coming home to myself. My work did not begin with qualifications or professional roles. It grew from lived experience, inner listening, and many years of learning how to heal, reflect, and live from the heart.
For more than forty five years I have walked a path of self understanding, spiritual awareness, and deep personal healing. What I offer today comes from what I have lived, tested, and learned along the way.
Early Life
Some of my earliest memories are not of people, but of nature and an unseen sense of connection.
When I was six years old I was playing outside during a tropical rainstorm. Under a banana leaf I noticed a butterfly emerging from its cocoon. Time seemed to slow. I felt a deep joy and belonging in nature that I did not yet have words for. A quiet inner knowing stayed with me, a feeling that I was part of something much larger than my small life.
I was raised in a family shaped by generational violence and emotional instability. As the eldest of eight children I learned early how to read the emotional environment around me. Home could hold both love and harm at the same time.
Nature and inner stillness became places where I felt safe. Looking back, what later became meditation and self awareness was something I naturally turned to as a child to survive.
By the age of twelve I had developed an inner awareness that allowed me to observe my thoughts and emotions rather than become overwhelmed by them.
Around that time I had a dream of a lighthouse standing steady in a storm, guiding people across a dark sea. I did not analyse the dream. I simply knew what it meant. Some part of me recognised this as my purpose.
Finding space to heal
In my late twenties I migrated to Perth after seeing the red earth and open skies of Western Australia. Something in me felt immediately at ease there.
For the first time in my life I had the space to slow down and meet the impact of trauma held in my body and mind.
Healing was not quick or linear. It involved dismantling identities shaped by survival, relearning self respect, and gradually finding my voice again.
Like many people shaped by deep trauma I also moved through periods of self medicating as a way of coping. During those years an inner guiding wisdom continued to walk with me. It helped me learn self love in a life where it had often been absent.
It was not easy, yet it was steady and true. Each step revealed both the cost of unhealed pain and the freedom that comes from turning inward, listening, and allowing life to reshape us.
This inner work of loving myself home slowly became the foundation of my life and the work I now share with others.
A New Direction
In July 2023 I felt a clear inner call to step back from service. The pace and structure we had been holding no longer felt aligned, and it was time to pause and listen.
In early 2025 I returned to New Zealand to reconnect with family. Time apart had allowed each of us to walk our own healing paths. When we came together again there was space for understanding, gratitude, and repair.
When I returned to Perth I paused the Centre’s services. The structure we had built no longer reflected who we had become or what was now needed.
During this period of stillness new ideas slowly began to take shape. Over time a more sustainable foundation emerged for the next chapter of the Monad Centre.
I also completed a Diploma in Mental Health. It was grounding to encounter clinical language for experiences my siblings and I had lived with for many years.
Trauma and PTSD were common within our family and community. I felt grateful that much of our healing had already taken place through inner learning, nature, spiritual awareness, and a steady commitment to healing.
Training and Formal Qualifications
Alongside lived experience, I have undertaken formal training that helped give structure and language to my work.
- Diploma in Mental Health, Life Academy of Australia
- Holistic Counselling and Mind-Body Medicine, Life Academy of Australia
- Flower Essence Diagnostic Therapy, Life Academy of Australia
- Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher, Australian Meditation Association
- Associate Pranic Healer, Institute of Inner Studies
These studies supported the early expression of my work, but they are not its source. What I offer today comes from decades of lived experience, embodied healing, and deep listening. The wisdom I share is practical, grounded, and heart centred. It lives in the body as much as in conscious awareness.
Today
Today my work is about supporting people to reconnect with themselves and restore sustainable inner balance. It is about softening old patterns, seeing life with greater clarity, and learning how to live from the deeper truth that exists beneath our conditioning and life experiences.
Each person carries an inner wisdom that can guide their life when given space and attention. My role is simply to hold a calm and supportive presence while that wisdom begins to emerge again.
For me this work is not about teaching people who they should become. It is about helping them remember who they have always been.
Neil Parker-Puie
My life has been shaped by a steady commitment to living with integrity, balance, and practical presence. My role within the Monad Centre of Balance is grounded in creating structure, continuity, and support so that healing, learning, and community can unfold in a stable and sustainable way.
I have always been someone who values reliability, fairness, and quiet responsibility. Much of my contribution comes from holding space, both practically and personally, so others can feel supported and safe to do their own inner work. I am not drawn to the spotlight. My work is about what allows things to function well, over time.
Early Influence
I grew up with a strong sense of responsibility and a practical outlook on life. From an early age, I learned the value of showing up, doing what needed to be done, and seeing things through. These qualities have remained central to who I am and how I engage with others.
Life has offered its share of challenges, and like many people, I have learned through experience rather than theory. These experiences have shaped a grounded understanding of people, relationships, and the importance of steady support during times of change.
A Spiritual Foundation
Though often behind the scenes, Neil’s contribution is deeply spiritual. His training in pranic healing, therapeutic massage, and esoteric practices, combined with daily meditation, brings energetic steadiness into the Centre’s work. His presence anchors safety, reliability, and balance, supporting others as they move through their own healing and awakening journeys.
Through the Centre’s evolution from physical sanctuary in Joondalup, then Nowergup, through our conscious pause in 2023, to today’s gradual reopening as a virtual sanctuary, Neil has remained the steady heartbeat. From stepping back to rest and care for family, to holding the vision with patience and unwavering faith, he has allowed space and time to co-create the evolved essence of the Centre in this virtual direction, expanding its reach beyond Perth.
Life’s Simple Pleasures
Outside the Centre, Neil’s creative energy flows through tinkering in the shed and tending garden spaces where our hands create and nurture. He finds inspiration in music and podcasts about people, inventions, history, and nature, always curious about how things work and what makes life meaningful.
The gym remains a source of renewal, carrying forward the fitness and discipline of his sporting days. When time permits, we still enjoy hitting the weights together, celebrating the strength and vitality that come from honouring the body as temple.
Time in nature provides another wellspring: walking, camping, or sharing quiet mornings in the garden, watching wildlife over a lazy breakfast. Family is his greatest love, and time with his children and grandchildren, who follow in his sporting footsteps and now carry forward the family business legacy, fills him with joy and pride.
At home, Nala, our energetic and vocal mackerel tabby, adds daily doses of laughter, companionship, and the reminder that play is sacred too.
Quiet Strength, Steady Vision
At the heart of Neil’s contribution is quiet strength and steady optimism. He believes that balance is built day by day through simple acts of care for family, community, and self. His hope is that the work of Monad Centre continues to inspire others to live with purpose, resilience, and joy, creating ripples of wellbeing that extend far beyond our walls.
Together, we hold the vision of conscious living made real, not as an idea but as a way of being that honours both the practical and the sacred, the grounded and the transcendent.
“True strength is not just what we can lift or achieve, but how steadily we can hold space for others to discover their own wholeness.”
Qualifications & Training
- Associate Certified Pranic Healer, Institute of Inner Studies
- Therapeutic Massage Therapist, specializing in acu-point and flower essence techniques
- Certified Sports Trainer
- Founder & Business Owner 25+ years, continuing as family-run enterprise