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Creating space for connection, wellbeing, and community, through meditation, sound, ritual, spirituality, and nature. Working in Birmingham and beyond.

29/01/2026

I'm seeing a therapy client today and we'll be talking about capacity. They're neurodivergent and have chronic illnesses that limit their energy which means they don't always have the capacity to engage with wellbeing practices or resourcing practices in the way mainstream therapy believes they should. I believe in micro practices and that a little of something is still beneficial. I'd love to hear about your micro self care or resourcing practices and the little things that bring you joy.

26/01/2026

When we start exploring regulation, it’s easy to overcorrect and to try to regulate away feelings that are actually a very understandable response to what we’re experiencing right now.

At the same time, some reactions aren’t only about the present moment. Sometimes our nervous system is responding to something that feels familiar because it’s connected to past experiences, even if the current situation isn’t dangerous or overwhelming in the same way.

For many of us, this pattern develops in environments where our emotions or reactions were misunderstood, minimised, or invalidated. Over time, the body learns to stay on high alert or to shut things down just in case.

But our big feelings and emotions don’t all come from the same place and they don’t all need the same response.

Read more in the carousel. If you’d like to check out resources to explore this more deeply, head to my ‘resources’ story highlight.

11/01/2026

Hello friends. As so much of the country is currently covered in snow and ice, I wanted to share a somatic invitation to help you explore this weather in an embodied way.

Snow can be pretty polarising. Some people find it connects them to a sense of playfulness and others feel the annoyance of the complications and, frankly, safety concerns it brings. Maybe you notice more than one of these responses in yourself.

This somatic invitation is a way to explore your experience and notice how your body is meeting the arrival of this very wintery weather. It’s also an opportunity to connect with a moment of mindfulness. If you enjoy this practice, you’ll find three more invitations to explore over on my patreon, when you join as a free member.

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A Somatic Invitation for Snow  Bring some snow into your hands.

Let yourself touch it slowly: notice temperature, texture, pressure.

Listen for the sound it makes as it compresses or falls away.

Bring your hands close to your face and notice any scent, how ever subtle.

Stay with direct sensation rather than description.

Let your body register what cold contact actually does to your breathing, your muscles, your skin.

05/01/2026

January’s Rooted Self Session: The Slow Awakening  22nd January 2026, 6:45pm - 8:15pm @

As we cross the threshold into the new year, the land begins to stir. Beneath the frozen soil, the first movements of life begin. This is the slow awakening that the Celtic festival of Imbolc honours.

The Rooted Self sessions weave ritual, meditation, somatics and nature-rooted practices, with time for reflection and gentle community connection.

In this month’s session, we’ll explore the moment between stillness and emergence.

We’ll attune to the landscape as it begins to shift from winter’s rest toward the promise of renewal. What asking what do we want to leave behind in the darkness, as we start to welcome the return of the light.

Book via the link in my bio.

01/01/2026

As we transition into a new calendar year, I’ve been really aware of conflicting narratives about what New Year is meant to signify.
As you might know from reflections I’ve shared before, I’m fairly resistant to the whole “new year, new me” narrative. The idea that New Year means shedding our old selves overnight, so that we can we be reborn as a new, improved and more productive version gets a big no from me.

At the same time, I also feel some resistance to the counter-argument that dismisses the January new year entirely: that for most of human history the year began at the spring equinox, so this moment shouldn't hold any weight.

If that argument leads us to lose an opportunity to connect with a threshold and mark a transition, for me, something important gets lost. And we’ve already lost so many shared transitions and rites of passage in contemporary culture.

Whether a tradition is cultural or personal, it’s one of the ways we make meaning in the world. Tradition, and marking thresholds, orient us in time.

I’ve spoken before about the importance of holding multiple truths; the both/and rather than the either/or. That feels especially relevant here. Yes, we are still in the depths of winter.  The land is quiet (where you are, not so much where I am right now!), energy is low and we might feel drawn towards slowness and rest.

That doesn’t magically disappear on the 1st of January. And, whether we honour it or not, we have crossed a threshold from one calendar year into another. Something has ended. Something new has started. Marking thresholds matters, not because they promise redemption, but because they help us to register that time is moving and that we are moving with it.

I’ve shared some more reflections about this on my patron, as well as resources to support you to explore this more deeply. But, for now, I’m wishing you a Happy New Year and a gentle stepping over the threshold, what ever that looks like for you.

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29/12/2025

Across mythology from various cultures, the stars are more than distant lights, they’re symbols of transformation, guidance and the turning of time.

In modern interpretations of Welsh mythology, the morning star carries Awen; the spark of divine inspiration and change. In Greek mythology, the Pleiades are the seven sisters, companions of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. In Norse tradition, Éarendel sails the dawn, bridging night and day, while Woden’s Belt traces the gods’ path across the sky.

The Stars connect us to insight, the cycles of nature and the eternal interplay between the seen and unseen.

In this Journey, we’ll journey through the night sky together, exploring the archetype of The Star and the wider cosmos. Along the way, we’ll meet the energy of The Child, twinkling like a newborn star and reminding us of curiosity, play, and the magic of discovery. The Magician, who reveals that the universe is rich with mystery when we connect to the spark of inspiration glowing at the core of our being.
And the North Star itself, guiding us home and reminding us that clarity arises from spaciousness, like the vast night sky that allows the light of a billion stars to be seen.

Join me for this playful, magical archetypal journey, where we follow threads of light through the dark, awaken wonder and find our own North Star.

You can purchase this individual journey via my website or join my Patreon for unlimited access to my full practice library. Links in bio

20/12/2025

This Sacred Somatic journey is an invitation to step into a deliberate, ceremonial space; one where we'll gently explore the stories your body is still holding; patterns, identities and beliefs that no longer reflect who you are now.
We enter sacred space. We call in the elements. We listen—not just with the mind, but with the body, allowing sensation, movement, breath and presence to guide this process.
And then, when the time feels right, we release.
Through a fire ritual, we offer what we're ready to be let go of to the flames.
This practice isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about making space for a truer story to emerge.
Come as you are. Bring the stories you’re ready to loosen. Let the fire do what fire has always done.
Who are you, when your story begins to change?

Purchase one off journeys via my website or join my patron for access to the full collection. Links in bio.

19/12/2025

I might be slightly obsessed with the traffic comings and goings on the beach.

12/12/2025

How DO you winter solstice when the external landscape isn't in winter? I'd love to hear suggestions.

09/12/2025

As the year comes to an end there are a lot of external messages about starting strong in the New Year. The culture of New Year, New Me, along with the wild swings in energy this time of the year can bring, is always something I feel very resistant to. We feel the collective momentum of the season urging us gather with friends and family in a flurry of activity, which is lovely, but we’re also in the depths of winter.

This isn’t an anti-Christmas post. I really, really love the lights, the ritual and the gatherings of Winter and Christmas, but I’ve learned that I also need winter’s rest, like everything else in nature. When there’s an excess of light, we might need to be more intentional about balance.

Spring’s arrival is a while away yet, so what might it be like to explore the rest of the year through a lens of softness?

Winter is not a time for striving; it’s a time for gestation. The natural world has withdrawn; trees are bare, the earth is resting and so much of life has turned inward. Nothing in nature is trying to reinvent itself in midwinter.

When we look to nature rather than cultural expectation, this season isn’t asking us to finish anything with force. It is asking us to listen. To soften. To gather resources and replenish. I know that I have a tendency to finish the year feeling burned out. This year in particular has been a lot for a variety of reasons and I’m trying to honour that by listening to the parts of myself that needs some gentler days and space to just be. Check out the carousel for more.

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