"I entered into this work through my own path. My deep suffering drove me to seek change and it demanded me to be creative, courageous and curious - because the answers didn’t appear to be offered up tidily on one convenient plate. Anxiety, depression, addictions, eating disorders, crushing co-dependency and cripplingly low self esteem were all born of trauma I didn't know I had suffered.  As deep shift began to occur in me, others asked for my support, and so within my humble limitations, I did. I sat with them. I seemed to have an ability to help others feel in to their inner world and hold them well, but I needed to move beyond the bounds of what my natural capacity seemed to provide. 

I studied the art of movement and meditation, at first via the teachings of Kundalini Yoga. The practice taught me the power of working with, from and through the body, and I went on to work with the body through many different forms of movement healing. I now centre my movement teaching around psychological somatics and the Tibetan movement art of Kum Nye - fascinatingly similar to Peter Levine's somatic experiencing.  As I untangled my own inner world myself over the last 20 years, with the love and help of many remarkable teachers, therapists and mentors, a clear vision of the various component parts necessary for a truly holistic healing process emerged. I often joke that I "trained backwards", specialising in somatics and trauma before I went on to study the vital relational skills necessary to hold therapeutic space artfully.  I studied with pioneers such as Bessel van der Kolk, Gabor Mate, Pat Ogden, Peter Levine, Linda Parnell, Arielle Schwartz, Richard Schwarz, and Eric Gentry of the Arizona Trauma Institute. I devoured the teachings of the wisdom traditions and somatic arts with fervour and fascination and today am a devoted practitioner of Indo-Tibetan classical tantra. Today I have the privilege of learning with some remarkable mentors, namely, Rob Preece (Psychology of Buddhist Tantra), Dr Miles Neale (Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy & Gradual Awakening) and Geshe Tenzin Zopa (Unmistaken Child). 

Over time, as I began to put personal and professional puzzle pieces in to place I seemed to be having success with the people who had struggled to find freedom and healing elsewhere. People were experiencing shift after years of fruitless therapy or dedicated spiritual practice. I integrated my growing understanding of trauma and its science and psychology, with my years of meditative study and other somatic practice. People often showed up in the space I held suffering very deeply. Many that stayed for the ride and were really ready to do the work, left very different - calmer, clearer, lighter, and above all, closer to the Self that had been buried beneath the often invisible traumas of life. I watched the lights come on in peoples eyes. I watched them reclaim their dignity, divinity and sense of personal power. I watched them recover themselves. What a privilege hey? None of this was because of anything unique within me - what I observed was that this seemed to be the impact of combining some simple but potent ingredients. This training is structured around those ingredients and the path that revealed itself through the spaces others trusted me to hold. 

So much is distorted and fragmented through our western lens. We need an approach to healing that is not only holistic, but considered and trauma informed in its methodology. Its not just about having the right idea or the right techniques or theories, its about knowing how to use them, when to use them, when not to, in what order, and why. This revolutionary training model offers exactly that.  I have created the training that I sorely wish had existed for me, in the hope that it can serve you and those you might hold.

We need more of us working boldly, bravely, outside the box. We need more of us demonstrating, primarily through ourselves, and secondarily through our work, that radical freedom, no matter what our history, really is possible. "