Roshni Mistry is a Nutritionist and Somatic Practitioner. She educates, inspires and empowers the people she works with using Nutrition and Mindful Somatic Release Techniques as a roadmap for vibrant, thriving health and balance. She's also a foodie! Born in Lancashire, England to a Kenyan Indian father and Indian mother, at the age of four she moved with her family to Waiuku, rural Tamaki Makaurau where her parents started a supermarket and bakery in an old dressmaking factory. Growing up amongst such a diverse spectrum of food and people, she got to visit market gardens, organic and biodynamic farms and bid on fresh produce at the Turners and Growers Fresh Produce auctions. Her siblings and her worked alongside their dad baking pastries, breads and beautiful organic Sourdoughs in the bakery as well as stacking shelves with instant and packaged foods as well. These foods don’t nourish us but typify the majority of the foods readily available. Living with her Grandma also immersed Roshni in deliciousness from a very early age, Roshni spent a lot of time chopping, stirring, grinding Indian spice mixes and helping her Grandma cook the family meals. Cooking and sharing food is a massive part of her heritage, and her love for preserving the foods of her ancestors to keep their food traditions alive is a huge inspiration for me. Alongside practising as a nutritionist, Roshni uses mind-body based approach based in neuroscience, known as somatic release to provide a truly holistic and integrative mind-body connection. Combined with nutrition, she finds this to be a highly effective combination to get to the root cause, rewire and reset the nervous system and then cultivate the habits and practices that her clients truly desire. At age sixteen, a tragedy in her family catapulted Roshni and her siblings into a desire to help and serve others through health and medicine. Roshni was fascinated by the path of nutrition as it allowed her to combine a deep love for food with preventative health. Experiencing grief at an early age led her into a journey of understanding herself at a deeper level and so she has always felt drawn to traditional and holistic approaches to health. Roshni's mission is to help others using nutrition, somatic therapy techniques, mindfulness and embodiment tools to overcome health and life challenges, experience more joy, purpose and to live more creatively in the world.