A Bit About Me

Voice Dialogue first came into my life during my late teens, and I started studying it as a young adult after I graduated from Sydney University with a Degree in Philosophy and Education. I attended workshops – including some presented by Voice Dialogue’s creators Drs Hal and Sidra Stone, both in the United States and in Australia – and I had sessions with facilitators.

I practised doing Voice Dialogue with my partner, who later became my husband, and we still use this work in our relationship and to help with raising our children.

I’ve worked as a Voice Dialogue facilitator and I’ve presented Voice Dialogue workshops. I’ve promoted Voice Dialogue at the Mind Body Spirit Festival in Sydney many years ago. I’ve written newsletters, articles, blogs and books on personal growth with Voice Dialogue. I’ve edited other people’s books that included material on Voice Dialogue.

I’ve written a book on motherhood as a consciousness path (Enlightenment Through Motherhood), which includes ideas from Voice Dialogue.

Parenting my three daughters has probably provided the greatest lessons for me, and Voice Dialogue has helped me to gain more value from those lessons and to be a better parent than I otherwise would have. (See my parenting posts here.)

My newsletter Daily Voice Dialogue (before blogs existed) was used by other teachers in their programmes, I wrote the blog Baby Dialogue after I had my first child, and my best-selling book The Perfect Relationship (now available as an ebook) introduced Voice Dialogue in a simple way to lay audiences.

“We consider Astra Niedra to be an outstanding teacher, trainer and facilitator of the Voice Dialogue process and its attendant theoretical structure relating to the Psychology of the Aware Ego… You are fortunate to have her with you in Sydney.”Hal Stone PhD and Sidra Stone PhD

I created this website to share some of the material I’d written previously and to have a place to publish new content. I also share content on Facebook and Instagram.

When I discovered Voice Dialogue it was the missing piece of the puzzle for me. And I believe it will be the same for many people.

As more people realise there’s far more to each of us than appears, that we have more choice than we have allowed for ourselves, and that we can transform our relationships and the way we parent our children, then we can start to enrich and improve not only our own lives but the lives of those we come into contact with.

If you’d like to try a Voice Dialogue session, go to this page with links to Voice Dialogue facilitators worldwide.

If you’d like to support me to keep creating and publishing this information with free access for everyone, please purchase my books. Thank you!

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A More Formal Bio

Astra Niedra is a Voice Dialogue facilitator and teacher who writes about Voice Dialogue, the Psychology of Selves and the Aware Ego Process, and how to use Voice Dialogue in relationships, parenting and personal growth. Astra trained in Voice Dialogue with its creators Drs Hal and Sidra Stone and with other teachers, and has been facilitating and teaching since 1996.

Astra Niedra is author of the books The Perfect Relationship, Enlightenment Through Motherhood and Which Self Are You?. She has written about Voice Dialogue for magazines and web sites, and she wrote the Daily Voice Dialogue newsletter and blog and the Baby Dialogue blog. She has edited the books of other personal growth teachers, and she has worked as an editor in health, legal and education publishing. Astra became the Managing Editor (effectively the Editor) of WellBeing magazine when she was 25 years old and she published the magazine’s first feature on Voice Dialogue.

Voice Dialogue in Daily Life is the successor to Astra’s first website and the Daily Voice Dialogue newsletter and blog, as well as the Baby Dialogue blog. Astra’s first Voice Dialogue site went live in 1998.

Astra has a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Education. She has also studied meditation and various types of yoga for almost three decades and has trained in the Japanese healing art Rei-ki I and II.

Astra wrote the script for Catarotti – The Cat Detective, an interactive musical show for young children about a jazz-singing cat detective who solves crimes against endangered species with a group of cat detectives known as SKAT by day and The Skat Kats band by night.

She is currently working on a book inspired by her grandmother’s secret WWII love letters.

Astra recently moved from Sydney to the Gold Coast, Australia, with her husband, their three children, and their cheeky and adorable dog Puck.

Puck