I am a daughter, sister, wife, aunty and proud bonus mum. I am descended from - way back Scottish, Scandinavian with some more recent English ancestry. Most of my living people inhabit Australia: some were fairly recent migrants by choice, others had migration forced upon them as convicts.
I am a Somatic Coach, Trainer of coaches, Theatre Maker, Somatic Educator and Feldenkrais Practitioner. I teach coaches to work with embodied intelligence at The Somatic School and have been supporting clients to work with Spirit as a resource in my 1:1 sessions and group somatic coaching workshops for about a decade.
I've been slowly gathering this material into a teachable format over several years in response to nudges from students and Spirit teachers.
It has taken a while to feel like I am ready, but I am being shown that it is now time to properly emerge from the spiritual closet.
My connection to the metaphysical has always come naturally from very young. But my personal entry into working with Guides specifically, began with the sudden appearance of one, when I was 30 - so 21 years ago(!). It was vivid and significant, but, having no clue how to work with him I kind of ignored him and hoped for the best.
He hung around. :-)
Always standing guard to my left. Always a very powerful, benevolent, sub-bass presence. Over the years, he began to show me how to work with him via my body work practice - I would often let him guide my hands. Show me what was needed with clients. He also helped me with boundaries and discernment.
I began exploring how I could nurture this connection via pagan ritual practices and hands on healing trainings. I thought I was getting the hang of it.
Then, about eleven years ago, I experienced a kind of cataclysmic deluge of Spirit information coming through me in a way that was quite overwhelming and very difficult to ground.
I've written about this event elsewhere in more detail, if you're curious to read more. It lasted for three days and was so strong it became immediately apparent I needed a much more robust tool kit! I urgently sought out teachers, ritualist, healers, practices and lineages that prioritised healthy ethical and spiritual boundaries.
Parallel to this and for many years prior to it, I was doing a lot of somatic trainings, trainings in performance and improvisation and also nervous system healing. I begin to notice a connection. At first, I noticed how well it supported me in this kind of work, then eventually how absolutely foundational it is to it.
When journeying, or working with Plant medicine, or doing intensive awareness practices, I 'knew' ways of working choice-fully and safely, because of my somatic trainings and creative practice. Some pieces began to re-connect. This course is a weaving together of some of these knowledges for the curious student.
My work is not rooted in any one tradition, but is supported by many and is a synthesis of many teachings, trainings and experience. Please take a look at the 'honourings' section below for more detailed lineage acknowledgements and gratitudes.
I stand downstream of giants and am a daughter and a student.