My Story

25 years ago I began a journey to come into better relationship with myself, my body, and the world around me. I didn’t even fully realise the extent at the time, but there was a lack of intimacy with life, myself and Self, that was causing discontentment, ill health and emotional detachment. Through the journey I have been on, I now know that it is possible to have a deep intimacy with life, the body, soul, nature, emotional flow, key relationships, my own inner guidance, and the sacredness of all things.

I began by practising yoga, where I found that the connection with myself, from the breath and body movements, felt unique and rewarding. Every time I stepped on the mat to practise the sensation of coming ‘home’ would arise. In this coming home there were somehow aspects of release, peace and a deeper ‘knowing’.

This yoga journey coincided with a path of healing my body from chronic candida through diet and lifestyle choices. This involved reading avidly about what was nourishing for the body from a food perspective, and learning to cook healthy and nutritious meals without sugar, dairy or processed foods.

Both these passions turned into trainings of various yoga styles, holistic cookery, macrobiotics, and emotional counselling.  What arose after these paths was greater physical healing, emotional wellbeing and regulation, and an even deeper passion for healing modalities.  As more and more pieces of the jigsaw puzzle of healing came into place, a visceral sense that I was improving emotionally, mentally and physically was apparent.

The next step was a vision of uniting these passions into a base in nature where I could share them with others. Now I understand that this vision was my wisdom body, activated by the practises so far, leading me onwards.

Moving to Sunny Brow Farm in Cumbria, and being emersed in nature, added even more layers to my healing journey. Now I began experiencing a reconnection and deeper relationship with Mother Earth. I was inspired by the rhythms of the year, seasons, elements, and the cycles of life. Birthing three children and the retreat centre within this period of time was all part of this journey.  As well as an unfolding of better intimacy within my marriage. These were all keys of love, within the hard work and initiations. As we renovated Sunny Brow Farm into the dream, I was on a journey of self-discovery as a mother, a wife, and a facilitator. Each part of the farm that was renovated felt like a part of myself renovated too. Brick by brick we have built a structure of love within ourselves, and as a physical place in nature.

Leading from these pieces of the puzzle, was a natural and arising passion for marking the cycles of life, seasonal shifts, and rites of passage, with ritual and ceremony. Blessed to receive mentorship in All Nations sweat lodge tradition, and cacao priestess training, a ceremonial earth spiritual perspective arose. I was infused into practises that honoured and celebrated mother nature and, respected the journey of personal and spiritual growth within the human experience.  

A natural and joyful way to engage in life came home for me, along with a deepening awareness of the spiritual and ‘unseen’ parts of the human experience. Exploring deeper states of consciousness through lodge, nature's herbs, cacao, and breathwork has taken me to another level of healing and intimacy with all things.  This magical and mystical journey feels a natural birthright that I am grateful to have found.   It is now a daily practise for me, in varying ways, with the eclectic practises I am so blessed to have learnt.  We all have an inner wisdom body, and an ability to connect to the unseen support, that I now find an invaluable help to my human journey. 

I look forward to welcoming you to Sunny Brow where I enthusiastically share the practises I have learnt and the wisdoms that have arisen. I share these from the hope that you can be inspired to follow your own path to deepening with the intimacy with all of life, the body, soul, nature, emotional flow, key relationships, your inner guidance, and the sacredness of all things.