№ 01Founder · full bioMuddy Lotus

SarahWalker

A psychologically intelligent, warm, and direct one-to-one practitioner.
A spiritually literate guide for pressure, grief, anxiety, and self-trust.

PracticeAotearoa New Zealand · worldwide
LanguagesHuman · practical · contemplative
Years inTwenty-plus, and counting
practicein bloom →

Some spirituality lacks groundedness. Some support avoids the darkness. Some healing language forgets humour and dimensionality. Sarah's work makes room for all of it.

Founder's line · Muddy Lotus
The bio in four movements

Four rooms
One practitioner

Lived · grounded · compassionate
ILived experience

Twenty years in rooms where the stakes were never theoretical

Sarah's practice is grounded in lived experience of anxiety, grief, pressure, rebuilding, and the long work of learning to trust yourself again. She brings honesty, steadiness, and care to the conversations people often struggle to have anywhere else.

Bespoke · human-scaled · honest
IIHuman room

Warmth, integrity, humour, and a very large heart

She is known for connecting quickly with people from all walks of life. Her work is bespoke by nature: carefully shaped around the person in front of her. The care is real; so is the laugh in the next breath.

Spiritual · embodied · clear-eyed
IIISoul work

She has heard the universe since she was little

Sometimes guides, loved ones, and quiet signs join the conversation. Muddy Lotus is the home for that side of the practice, brought together with neuroscience, Buddhism, positive psychology, wellbeing, coaching, and first-hand understanding of anxiety, grief, stress, pressure, and rebuilding.

Plain-spoken · earned · ready
IVBloom

Wellbeing and spirituality should feel accessible and real

Not pristine. Not performative. Muddy Lotus has been a long time in the making, carefully developing until, like the lotus itself, it waited for the right moment to bloom. The mud is the point. The bloom is the proof.

The weave

Not a stack of certifications. A working ecology. Sarah moves between modalities the way a good practitioner moves through a room: reading the season, the person, and what the moment asks.

wellbeingpositive psychologyone-to-one coachingspiritual workneuroscienceBuddhismstrengthsfacilitationmemoirtrauma-informedself-trustanxiety supportintuitionritualhumourboundaries
Credentials & threads

Earned slowly Held lightly

20+ yrsPersonal practiceBespoke · confidential · human
PostgradPositive psychologyPostgraduate diploma · wellbeing
AccreditedGallup StrengthsStrengths-based coaching
LLB (Hons)Hard chaptersAnxiety · grief · rebuilding
LifelongSpiritual practiceBuddhism · contemplative · intuitive
OngoingNeuroscience & nervous systemTrauma-informed practice
Working with Sarah

Bring the real question
Sarah will bring the whole self

Spiritual sessions, one-to-one coaching, workshops, and editorial projects begin with a conversation. No funnel. Just enough context, a clear next step, and a willingness to do the actual work.