This week we chatted with Sonia Samtani, a speaker, an author, a therapist, a trainer, and more recently labelled as a ‘wellpreneur’. She is the founder of All About You Wellness Centre, a reputable wellness center in Hong Kong specializing in mental health. She is here to share with us what inspired her to start All About You Center. She told us some tips to stay healthy with a busy schedule and her goals in 2022, as well as her top tips to keep a happy and ritzy life.
1. Can you tell us more about yourself and your background?
I am a speaker, an author, a therapist, a trainer, and more recently labelled as a ‘wellpreneur’. I have been in mental health for 16 years. I’ve had the privilege of working with over 20,000 people, and seen some magical shifts and medical miracles in the results. I’ve also seen how people have transitioned from the taboo surrounding mental health to being more open now than ever before. I started working in wellness in my early twenties, and this has been the only industry I have ever worked in. My inspiration came from a series of early life events that curbed my confidence, which led me to introspect and question life, and finally heal my own wounds. I understood that all issues are created with the mindset of judgment, and all healing involves accepting what we have judged before. I am on a conscious journey with a mission of inspiring people to move from judgment to acceptance.
2. What inspires you to start the All About You Center?
All About You Wellness Centre came into existence very organically as I was growing professionally. I started off as a solo-practitioner seeing private clients for therapy, then created my own workshops, and then I took on a franchisee that allowed me to train people to become certified hypnotherapists. As I was growing in my own journey I naturally began to need a space to practice from. As people started to refer friends, I couldn’t do it all myself so I began to host other therapists to spread the work and grew a team. My centre is the bi-product of a bigger mission to empower individuals with simple yet powerful tools to navigate through the ups and downs of life with awareness and acceptance. I hope to provide a space where people feel safe to reveal their deepest truths, heal their deepest pains, and experience a profound sense of transformation.
3. Could you give us some tips to stay healthy with a busy schedule?
If you are scheduling time for appointments and things that are keeping you busy, use the same schedule to make time for your personal wellness too. The simplest and easiest way to have a healthy mindset is to have a morning and night ritual. Before going to bed, review your day and mental make peace with anything you are upset about, then repeat some affirmations or mantras so that your last thought has a high vibration. In the morning, set an intention for the day ahead and do something that adds movement, whether it’s dance, yoga, or cardio.
4. What are your goals in 2022?
This year I’m passionate to continue destigmatizing the notion of mental health in Hong Kong, so that visiting a therapist can be as commonplace as going to your Doctor. In my centre I am planning to invite more people to experience my “Be Your Own Master” course that I launched at the end of 2021, which amalgamates all my knowledge on personal development into one curriculum. As a centre I am planning to keep expanding with more online programs, more practitioners, and more collaborations with like-minded brands to build a community for people to live more consciously.
5. How do you make yourself happy and ritzy in life?
I would say peace is more sustainable than happiness. Happiness is an emotion, and like most emotions it will be transient. Peace is sustainable, and we can even be peaceful as we go through our natural highs and lows. To have peace we need to accept that life will continue to have it’s ups and downs, and that we have enough inner-trust and resources to ride through all of it!
Ritzy Chat
There is a story behind every successful woman. Every week, we catch up and chat with incredible women doing incredible things shaping Hong Kong.
