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, appreciate the beauty of life and realise that our human lives and the healing we seek is completely interwoven with the lives and wellbeing of all other beings; trees, water, people, animals, plants, sky, soil, birds, mountains. The perplexity, sorrow, anxiety, uncertainty and grief we may feel isn't a mistake. When turned towards with kindness and curiosity this becomes a doorway to deeper intimacy with life and healing our sense of separation. Simply being alive brings us face to face with some 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 world, a life, in balance and wholeness starts with our own hearts and minds and awareness of what we are aligned with each moment. You are your own medicine, and many have forgotten this. My work is to remind you and accompany you as you explore the landscapes of your life, the great mystery, and come deeply home to your essential nature and the Original Mother we all share, Earth.
🌿 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-based ceremonies, drawings and rituals. I began exploring conscious embodiment through art practice, yoga and meditation in 1992. Our journey into conscious embodiment allows the unique, curious creature that we are, and the gifts we each have, to emerge, be seen and keep on unfurling.
My soul path is enriched and guided by Shamanic study and practice, Earth-based spiritualities, creative collaborations with people and the land, and meditation in movement and stillness. I have been a foster carer and worked with people living with life-threatening illness and their families, including being part of the Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre team in Oxford. I have worked therapeutically within the NHS and the voluntary sector.
Accompanying people to deeply come home to ourselves, through embodied awareness and eco-somatic practice moves through the heart of all I offer. Healing our sense of separation from body, Earth and the sacred we come home to who we already are. Re awakening appreciation, awe, connections and our creative soul. Stepping into my 50s has been a rite of passage, something akin to becoming apprentice to the old medicine woman in the woods. I have a particular interest in accompanying women through a soulful, consciously embodied menopause.
Year-round wild swimming, moving-dancing with the land, conscious community, writing, myth, creating ceremony and exploring ways of living in balance and harmony with all my relations, make my heart sing and my soul bloom, in these times of great change, challenge and opportunity.
I am a UKCP registered Psychotherapist offering a Wholearth exploration of being with Masters Degrees in Core Process Psychotherapy and Critical Theory (Arts), and a B. A. in Fine Art. I have a Diploma in Craniosacral Therapy.