Of Earth & Eros
Somatic Therapy
Nature & Soul
&
Activism
Eco-Sexology
Hello, dear one.
The whole of you - your grief, your rage, your pain, your pleasure, your desires, your fears - is welcome here.
You never need be more than you are. Yet, through this work, you may transform to become all that you long to be.
“Let us live in a way that Earth will be grateful for us.”
- Robin Wall Kimmerer
Each of us came here with a unique blueprint. A body, a mind, gifts, dreams, passions - an entirely distinct and special way of viewing, interacting and creating in and through this world.
The system we’ve been born into wants us to believe otherwise. It thrives on our oppression, exploitation, separation and fear.
I only need look to the patterns and rhythms of the Nature to see another way is possible. Nature is erotic, shares resources, is resilient and adaptable, thrives on diversity, is unafraid to shine, and is infinitely abundant.
We too are nature
It is our nature to be erotic
It is our nature to shine bright
It is our nature to flow with infinite abundance
Through inner work, pleasure activism, rites of passage and our soul’s liberation, we can each re-member our birthright of technicolour aliveness, fulfillment and interconnection. We can re-member our true nature.
We heal in spirals,
not lines
As we circle,
we return to old places through new eyes
Offerings:
the spiral of healing
Our healing journey is a spiral of transformation. It is not a quick fix, nor is it a linear path. We heal like a coiled shell, with darkness and light, peaks and meadows and deaths and rebirths. It is a process of shedding and unfurling around the rings of a spiral, bringing us back towards the rhythmic harmony of an authentic life.
The path of healing, is the path of living. We do not stop healing - there will always be wounds and challenges for us to face. What therapy, ritual and connection practices encourage, is an ecosystem within, where we can be with any experience as they arise and to thrive through them.
Healing is not an end goal, it is the opportunity to live a more brave, beautiful and integrated life. As with each round of the spiral, we come ever closer to the core, where our true self can be found.
My offerings follow the path of the spiral beginning for some with one to one sessions, through to gatherings and ceremonies.
Sessions
For many of us the path of becoming will begin in one to one therapy. Holding space in a one to one container has great value, particularly within western society where separation, oppression and exploitation has been relied upon to maintain its structures. Coming into group healing spaces before one on one therapy can sometimes be too abrasive and harsh for our nervous system. Therapy is a microcosm container for the wider world. Somewhere to prepare the body for emergence into the village of healing.
Within a held and nurtured field of relationality, the nervous system and psyche begin to soften into trust and from this place extraordinary shifts can begin to take place.
How you can work with me one-to-one:
~ Somatic Therapy
~ Eco-Sexology Sessions
~ Closing the Bones 3 month vessel
Gather
The soul longs to heal in community and ultimately the work of repair, of return, of emergence happens amongst kin. Throughout the history of our species, healing has always been a communal process. Although this has not been the norm for many of us, this knowledge lives in our cellular memory and is our ancestral rite.
The places of gathering offer a mossy bed for our wounds, realities and stories to be brought into relationship within community. They are where our healing can be metabolised. It takes therapy to dismantle a belief, but it takes the village to craft something new in its place.
How you can work with me in community:
~ Grief Balm - a monthly grief ritual (West Yorkshire + Nr Glasgow)
~ Pisces Club - a monthly exploration through dreams, creativity and the soul (West Yorkshire)
~ Chrysalis - a 6 week closed container of somatic transformation (Online)
~ Threading new worlds amidst collapse groups for workplaces, activists, visionaries, folks yearning for a system beyond the Anthropocene
~ Closed groups for wombed bodies who have experienced gender based violence, intimate partner violence, violence against women and girls, sexual abuse and harassment and any other form of misogynistic and violent abuse of power.
Rites, Rituals and Ceremonies
As a ceremonialist and Animist Chaplain (in training), in service to the web of interconnected life, I craft ceremony to honour the many thresholds we each pass throughout our lives
Please contact me via the connect form to discuss your rite of passage, ritual or ceremony.
While I am in training as an Animist Chaplain I am offering very reasonable rates to support this threshold of my own evolution.
· Root Deep
· Rise True
· Root Deep · Rise True
‘When we listen to our bodies, we hear the stories of our lives’
-Andrea Olsen
The word eros is the form of love that pumps through our veins, quickens the heart, and enlivens the soul. To quote Audre Lorde, Eros is equivalent to life force.
The erotic is not just sexual; it is the essence of your very aliveness. The erotic is the life spark that radiates through you.
Our life force is often dimmed by the world, by pain, and by broken relationships. But aliveness can return and it must. Our lives and all life depends on it. Woven throughout my work is erotic ecology: a pathway to rediscover our lifeforce in partnership with the Earth.
Together we can choose earth. Choose life. To be in service to life. To freedom. To aliveness. To Eros.