Mindless & heartfelt ∞ holding creativity at the heart
Stepping out of our everyday and working through our hearts we have the opportunity to change our minds……
Ixion - the wild child child asks
” Are the rules we are playing by the right ones?” Alan Clay, astrologer
Finding Your Nature offers a process of personal healing and awareness through sacred practise, monthly circles, and creative skill-based workshops. With the intention of facilitating others in their unfolding from a place of authenticity and integrity. Understanding that embarking on our hero’s journey and finding our bliss – finding your nature – is to learn our own minds enough so that we may fully embody our heart, and learn to overcome the conflicts that arise within us on our paths. Remembering and recalling our ancient practices, innate healing ability and the power of ceremony and ritual. Choosing awareness, intention and insight allows us to partner up with, what I call, our
‘Creative Energy Potential’.
A bit about me.
My grandmother ranaway from a strict brotherhood of The Plymouth Brethren, after being shamed by the elders for having a still born. I am the youngest and only daughter brought up in a male dominated family where some of the men were high achieving surgeons, musicians, mayors, and or canons. The women were either prevented from pursuing their dreams to look after them or upholding the husbands. As a young child I experienced and was exposed to other traumas which led me to real eyes and the need to peel away old patriarchal skins and strengthen my own female bones.
School happened and I received a 2:1 on the Creative Arts degree specialising in Sculpture & Performance in the late 80’s. I became fascinated with melting copper, wax and lead, and the act of sieving and funnelling light, creating installations in hedgerows and attics. I look back now and realise this is where my alchemical journey began. I travelled to Colombia and taught there for some time whilst looking for the Kogi. I then returned to the uk and qualified as an art teacher. I worked in London as a freelance art director, stylist and costume designer for various companies such as the BBC and Channel 4. Including producing various sculptural commissions for the late, great Alexander McQueen.
After spending a significant amount of years in my own analysis and therapy, a series of synchronicities, profound changes in my life, and a death, aligned me closer to my spiritual path. Commitment to a regular spiritual circle in my 40’s and direct revelations signposted me to the ways of the medicine wheel. Having spent time teaching in Colombia and exploring the Sierra Nevada to seek the Kogi some decades earlier- I searched for the teachings of a south American medicine wheel and was initiated into the mesa carrying traditions of the Q’ero, from the high Andes. Other standalone shamanic teachings and years of shamanic initiations, drew me deeper into shamanism and indigenous practices. I continue to learn with a beginners mind having set up my professional practise. Holding the feminine principle at the heart of my work.
I am currently training on the Diploma in Integrative Transpersonal Counselling at Re:Vision, in London – an inside out 3 year course with shadow work, archetype and the Unknown at the centre of the work.
I have drawn inspiration from many great teachers and writers residing on both sides of the veil – namely: Sandra Ingerman, Monica Sjoo, Stephen Jenkinson, Wade Davis, Gabor Mate, Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung.
I can be found drumming and singing along the hedges and coastlines of East Sussex.
“….our ability to fall in love with being alive comes from our willingness to forego the future for the sake of the present that we have been intrusted with….”
Stephen Jenkinson ………..soundcloud recording 2016 Paul Dolman
There is, a light and energy of this universe, built on Love and Compassion – a ‘Fierce Compassion’ that we would do well to trust and honour.
Finding Your Nature 