SHARING HER STORY
About Edwina
Edwina Griffin is a health and high performance expert with over 20 years experience working in health and human performance. Eddy specialises in the interconnection and balance of body, mind and soul for the benefit of the individual and for the culture and performance of an organisation. She is passionate about healthy leadership and team culture as a nationally accredited workplace mediator and trainer in leadership and communication. Her workplace programs including leadership, dispute resolution and resilience programs and results coaching. Public programs and personal development include healing retreats ( 1-7 days), coaching, clinical hypnotherapy and shamanic healing work.
Edwina's work has evolved from her own journey and discovery. Her interest in the mind-body connection began at the age of 16 when she suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome, sleeping 22 hours per day for 4 months. She has experienced the benefits of her practices and techniques recovering from chronic fatigue to compete again and qualify for the World Junior Athletics Squad.
Edwina started her Fitwomen and Fitmum brands in 1995 and expanded into Fitmen, Adventurewomen, Your Negotiator and her over-arching brand Your Energy Evolution which encompasses all approaches. Her holistic Fitwomen centre ran for 18 years which she built to a team of 15 offering personal training, small group training, boot camps, yoga, Zumba, Pilates, acupuncture, massage, meditation and energy work. She won several business awards and won NSW Fitness Professional of the Year in 2010 in the Australian Fitness Industry Awards. Eddy was a member of the Fitness Australia Council and is now a Director on the Board for AusActive (previously Fitness Australia)
Edwina has been the health and fitness expert for radio, TV and magazines including Women’s Health, Body and Soul, Nature and Health and has designed programs and trained fitness professionals nationally for brands such as Fernwood and Jetts Fitness. She accredits personal trainers nationally with her Fitmum® pregnancy and post-natal fitness program and consults with both state and local governments to get adults and teenagers active. She runs healing retreats in Queensland and NSW sharing tools and techniques for better health and performance. Edwina has spoken at international conferences and summits in USA, UK and throughout Australia.
She was a regular health and fitness expert on Sydney radio(including Vega, SmoothFM) and for Nature & Health magazine(2005-2010) and Women's Health Magazine 2006-2012. Eddy hosted her own podcast in 2007/2008 "the Health and Happiness Show" on UntangledFM based in London.
Edwina continued to learn new approaches from life experiences with the removal of a lump in her breast and a back injury where she was unable to walk without pain, she then built herself up to compete in half iron man and triathlon events, climb mountains and paraglide at various locations in the world.
A period of depression after a relationship breakdown saw Eddy's expand her work mental fitness, incorporating meditation and soul healing since her Kundalini awakening in 2005. This resulted in Eddy working as a psychic medium and further study on the mind including clinical hypnotherapy, NLP, negotiation, shamanic and soul healing, sound healing, breathwork and metaphysics.
Edwina's work in national operations, training and sales roles for franchise groups, not-for-profit organisations, government and corporate consulting established her desire for further study at university expanding her skills in conflict resolution, communication and staff engagement. Edwina ran negotiations and mediations in franchise organisations and continues to run mediations privately and for the Office of the NSW Small Business Commissioner specialising in workplace mediations, small business, franchise and trademark disputes.
After collapsing in a workplace from a toxic work environment in 2012, Eddy became passionate about improving workplace cultures. She does this through her workplace mediation services and staff training and keynotes.
Edwina lived in Noosa from 2015-2017 running healing retreats and working with local and state governments training and speaking on fitness, health and consulting in community consultation, leadership training and mediation.
In 2016, Edwina was engaged by leading technology entrepreneur Dale Beaumont to write, produce and present a 12 part TV show called Stress Relief for business owners. In the series, Edwina gave practical tips and mind-body techniques for managing stress, sleep, emotions and energy. She speaks nationally and internationally on stress management and the mind body connection and runs programs on mindfulness, health and leadership.
In 2019, Eddy was inspired to develop AtOne to support mental health and enhance the performance of individuals and teams. The AtOne virtual reality app that targets anxiety and stress and builds mind fitness. AtOne launched in 2020 and it continues to help organisations and sporting teams both nationally and internationally.
Eddy now bases herself on the property near Jindabyne with her dog Teya and 30 odd pet alpacas. She works between Berridale and Sydney with AtOne and her corporate mediation, training and healing work. Eddy’s annual healing retreats are held on the property and they include practical application of her life’s work on the interconnection of mind-body-soul.