I am the mother of three lovely and very energetic children. I’m grateful to be living in a loving and supportive community where I find nourishment for my dreams and vision with a partner who truly understands what supporting the feminine means.

I am passionate about creating the right conditions to find our unique alignment to life and nourishing our connection to inner wisdom and vitality.

I have been working as an acupuncturist, massage therapist and mentor since 2002. You can read about that side of my work here

www.acupuncturesussex.co.uk.

This website is to share with you my path working with practices that serve the renewal of connection to life, inspired by my training with teachers from diverse contemporary and indigenous traditions. I am truly grateful for my years of study with Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese medicine and movement practices as a pathway to a life long interest in healing and an exploration into what that really means.

The first thread that took me from working exclusively with acupuncture and body work and beginning to explore honouring rites of passage and recognising the value of attending to our cycles was working with birth as a doula. This was a real doorway for me and a personal initiation into finding out more about my vision in life. 

Through my acupuncture and massage practice I became more and more interested in women's health and birth and started attending births offering support as an acupuncturist. With my first pregnancy in 2007 I felt inspired to learn more about birth and attended a Doula training led by Michel Odent. This was a profound opening for me. Following the beautiful birth of my daughter in 2008 I began the process of becoming recognised with the organisation Doula UK and have been registered since 2010. I loved being a doula even though I don’t practice often any more as family and teaching commitments are not compatible with being on call constantly.

I feel strongly about supporting women and all people to feel more connected to their deep intuitive wisdom. In 2011, in collaboration with dear friends I initiated Red Tent gatherings in the Brighton area where women can gather to support one another and grow more deeply in touch with themselves. This movement continues to this day and serves a large community.

I was involved for many years with the Women in Power program since going through their process in 2012. I followed my personal journey, including travelling to the states to spend time on native reservation lands, training in Shadow work and learning more about Shamanic practices. I felt led by a deepening commitment to honour the sacred feminine in myself and in my community.

I am influenced and inspired by the work of Jane Collings of the School of Shamanic Womancraft and have completed her years training and other courses with her. Other teachers in my Women's mysteries journey are Alexandra Pope,  Nicola Kurk and Alisa Starkweather. I have trained with Leslie Lanes of the Rose Circle girls mentoring program.

Tatiana Shuttleworth my colleague and elder is also a source of incredible support and my ongoing education in holding space.

A source of inspiration and spiritual influence is the Aboriginal Wirullo Keeper of Women's Lore Minmia. I was blessed to have a three day visit with her some years ago, alone with my second infant son. She has supported my sharing of the Women's medicine here in the UK and helped me to refine my rites of passage work with girls in alignment with aboriginal spiritual law.

I don't have the words to thank these amazing women for what they are doing to re-member women's wisdom in this time.

With the flow of the years I ve become passionate about recognising how womens’ work fits into the bigger context of cultural regeneration and how we can move past stories that separate us. Wanting to ground my interest in indigenous healing traditions and how they could be applicable at this time I have been working since 2014 with Sal Gencarelle of the Helpers Mentoring Society training to become a ceremonial helper and facilitator. I am in ongoing mentoring and study with him and hold purification ceremonies, Sacred Fires and quests informed by his teachings. His depth of holding is incredible and I am very grateful to him and the lineages he represents.

I am influenced by the Art of Mentoring program and the 8 Shields institute which brings cultural generation through connective practices with self, other and the natural world. I have completed the leaders program with Jon Young. I deeply appreciate the opportunity to be held by good eldership and ancient wisdom, to find out more how to be in service to the vision of life.

I would also like to acknowledge and thank the elder Ayurvedic teacher Baba Ramdas of the Sidhaved lineage who has supported and mentored me since 2009.  His perspective on the deep layers of healing is core to my practice. My partner Hans and I host his bi annual visits to the UK.

I feel very lucky to have found my path young and had such amazing support along the way.

Since 2014 and informed by my own journey of motherhood I have birthed the "Welcoming our Daughters at the threshold of Womanhood, Welcoming ourselves" programs. I feel strongly that to fully integrate and honour rites of passage for our young people we also need to tend to ourselves. It is hard to step into supporting them when we may not have been supported. These workshops, camps and regular gatherings that celebrate our girls and give us space to resource ourselves and explore the issues that motherhood brings are a source of much joy in my life. They feel like the manifestation of a deep vision that I would like to nourish and foster for many years to come with the support of amazing collaborators.

I really enjoy my one to one coaching work with Shadow Work and I am also a certified group facilitator. The modality offers a powerful range of tools to deepen our understanding of the things that operate below the threshold of consciousness that impact our lived experiences. I love the way that in a respectful and gentle manner, real shift is possible helping movement beyond life limiting patterns to peace and increased well being.

I draw on the range of influences and experience that I have gathered to try to offer the most integrated approach that I can in all my work. I have regular supervision with a therapist and am fully insured for all my work.

I am sustained by a truly loving partnership and daily movement practices including dance and Kung fu. I am studying the Lakota language and devour books. After many years of travel and vigorous movement practices I am also enjoying slower walks in gorgeous Sussex woodland, at the pace of my younger children. I look forward to connecting, if that is right for you.