This is a 'holding page' and 'appetiser' for a newly-emerging heart project of many years in crafting, which began several years ago with the popular "Roots & Resonance" Seasonal Circles in Hebden Bridge. Since then, I have been on a journey of self-growth, learning multiple wisdom teachings, academic study and integrating my work as a Therapist & Counsellor. I am excited to share that I am beginning to open up one-to-one client work in animist (shamanic) & energy healing; alongside seeking guest appearances at festivals and workshops locally and beyond. Long term, I hope to offer courses tailored to the needs of our times, and our individual psycho-spiritual health. Scroll down to see my current & future potential offerings. Thank you for visiting this page!

*Animism is an ancient and timeless world-view, found cross-culturally, that honours and includes all life as sentient, aware and responsive to our relationship with them. All life including plants, animals, rocks, rivers, technology, ancestors, the dead, spirits of place...Shamanic practices are ancient ways of healing, communicating and building relationships with all beings, and ultimately, for the service of all life on earth within a particular community, land or context. More on this topic is needed, as it is fascinating, expansive and rich with folklore and culture and also controversy and ethics.

Heeding The Call - Why Animism (shamanism) - Why Now?

In these times of great polarity and multiple global crises, which impact all life on Earth, many of us feel called to activism, care-taking or change-making; but can also feel overwhelmed, burnt out, powerless or even find our selves tapping into collective trauma states. Forming healing and earth-centred community is a timeless and essential way to help us show up for our individual needs; in witnessing each other, and relating more deeply to our lands/home and the wider worlds. Resilient and responsible community honours the joy, grief, messiness and beauty of alive-ness; and the shared weight of the collective shadows we're seeing in the world. People become in service of a collective, of eachother, of shared causes - not just to their own individualised goals and suffering - in isolation. However, individual suffering also needs community to heal.

Animist practices and healing arts offer some powerful, simple and ancient tools and technologies that are true medicine for these chaotic and heavy times. They help us step into and co-create more robust, diverse and supportive communities. They can also be a powerful compliment to psychotherapy, trauma healing and other modalities. However, in westernised, non-indigenous and 'new age' contexts - without some key foundations and ethical practice - they can be appropriated, misdirected, psychologically destabilising for some, or used to bypass important psychological, political or social aspects of the human world. As a sacred activist and via my training with inspirational teachers and guides; it is my aim to not leave 'politics, intergenerational trauma or cultural ethics' out of the healing process or the circle - but to invite it all in! The shadows need to be illuminated and explored - to be integrated - or they cause rampant chaos, inside of us, and out there in the world...'love and light' is not enough. Animism welcomes all shades of embodied experience - because they exist, and bypassing/repression just creates more problems! From an animist perspective, at least in my experience, a spiritual quest is arduous - one of grit, periods of darkness, unravelling and suffering - as much as great moments of ecstasy, inner peace, and beauty.

Wild Emergence invites what emerges in the moment, within and around us. All aspects of the human experience belong; to bring true lasting change and healing - just ask your Ancestors! This work will compile reflections, ongoing devotion to developing an inclusive, accessible and culturally-aware contribution to animism in the modern world. This aims to balance respect for the past - ancestral knowledge and what has been lost and preserved, as well as addressing the kind of healing individuals and groups can benefit from in the present times. Before we can step into community and 'heed the call of our times' - we need to begin within. I speak from experience, observation and learning: starting with our own spiritual and emotional health as individuals is a key investment to becoming more interconnected and responsible humans, for eachother, for all life on earth. Start here, daily. Feel the effects ripple outwards and beyond...

Available: Shamanic healing for one-to-one clients:

Warmly-held, trauma-informed, remote or in-person deep healing sessions, or guided facilitation for the health of soul, including:

• Journeying on your behalf to explore current stubborn themes that other healing work isn't resolving

• Soul retrieval, energy healing and energy extraction / clearing (aspects of this work may need to be in-person, but not all)

• Guided practice and support / mentoring to facilitate the deepening of your shamanic journeying practice, or otherworld/inner-world work

• Supported co-designed ritual or ceremony for transition of all kinds

Fees are bespoke currently, and available on a sliding scale. I am fully insured as a Shamanic Practitioner & Counsellor. Contact me for more information and to arrange a call before commitment.

Coming soon will be offerings incorporating elements of:

• Sacred Activism: Ceremonial & Ritual Arts for the Modern World

• Cultivating cornerstones for awakened practice & healing: spiritual ethics & integrity in a fragmented, colonised world

• Honouring our Ancestors and Helping Spirits

• Grief & Rage Circles - Sitting With / Through Collective Grief & Trauma; together

• Ecstatic Joy and Freedom: dance, drumming & somatic movement for nervous system health, emotional release and pleasure!

• Magical offerings for one of my most beloved communities: LGBTQIA+, transgender-affirming & Queer-led/held ritual, dance & healing

• Podcast & Substack/blog - long term creative community offerings inviting in global friends, activists, healers, warriors, creators, writers and practitioners - watch this space!

Keen to work together or co-create something magical?

Do you have a venue or an event or venue that fits with the above ethos?

Are you a healer, educator or practitioner keen to speak more about the above, and potentially collaborate or community-weave together?

Group offerings can involve financial or community exchange / gift economy. Inclusivity and centering marginalised voices is central to this work.

Please email me your thoughts.