Welcome
gathering at the soul shrine
Okanagans teach that the body is Earth itself. Our flesh, blood, and bones are Earth-body; in all cycles in which Earth moves, so does our body. We are everything that surrounds us, including the vast forces we only glimpse’. Jeanette Armstrong.
We can see that we live in times of great change, challenge and opportunity. As human beings we are being called from every direction to wake up, meet life as it is and realise that our human lives, wellbeing and suffering are inseparable from earth – our vaster body and the diverse expressions of presence that we share this sacred earth with; other people, trees, water, soil, animals, plants, birds, mountains. The perplexity, anxiety, uncertainty and grief we can feel isn't a mistake. Life brings challenges and countless moments of beauty. When we turn towards our embodied experience with kindness and curiosity each moment becomes a doorway, an opportunity to know ourselves, deepen our intimacy with life and heal our sense of separation, as we glimpse our shared essential nature.
Simply being alive brings us face to face with change and a handful of gritty questions; what really matters to you, what bothers you deeply, what makes your heart sing, what gives and sustains life, and how are you going to live more in alignment with what really matters? Joanna Macy, environmental activist, author and deep ecologist calls these times The Great Turning.
The changes needed for a life, a world, in balance and harmony start with our own hearts and minds and embodied awareness of what we are aligned with each moment. You are your own medicine. My work is to accompany you as you encounter the layers of your humanity and discover new insights as your soul journeys through the cycles of life.
It makes my heart sing to be along-side folk as we shed our skins of conditioning and remember who we are. Unfurling more fully into the world as the unique, wonderous, curious beings that we are.
🌿 Woven - Reclaiming the Wise Woman a year-long course calling us home through Earth-based spiritualities and the wisdom of the Celtic Wheel of the Year.
🌿 Wholearth Psychotherapy calls us home through the web of life within which our human relationships are entwined.
🌿 Craniosacral Therapy is a healing, restorative practice grounded in deep listening that calls us home through the wisdom and stories of our body.
🌿 Spiritual Accompaniment an unfolding, ancient conversation between fellow travellers in kinship with all beings.
About
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I am an artist; maker of dance, Earth-wise ceremonies and drawings, a facilitator and weaver of the seen and unseen. Movement, Shamanism study and practice, Earth-based spiritualities, creative collaborations with people and land, ceremony, year-round wild swimming, foraging, conscious community, the Otherwise, rest and good company, guide and inspire enabling my heart to sing and my being to blossom.
I have a particular interest in Ecopsychology, Eco-somatics, collectively dreaming a world in balance and harmony for the next seven generations, and accompanying women through the thresholds of conscious, creative menopause.
I have been a foster carer, mental health advocate, teacher and trainer, later working extensively therapeutically within the NHS and voluntary sector. For many years I was fortunate to work with people living with life-threatening illness and their families, including being part of the Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre team in Oxford. In 2019 I co-created with the land, Woven – a year-long soulwise training for women, guided by the Celtic Wheel of the Year.
I am a UKCP registered Psychotherapist offering a Wholearth exploration of being, with Masters Degrees in Core Process Psychotherapy and Critical Theory & Practice (performance arts), and a B. A. in Fine Art. I have a Diploma in Craniosacral Therapy and receive regular supervision for my work.