29/06/2025
I feel grateful and honoured. Today I met Leanora, my spiritual teacher/healer, in person (in Brisbane). Leanora's guidance and presence has been a huge part of my transformation and healing.
I first started working with Leanora in 2019, online, as she lives in Bali.
Essentially I was learning embodiment meditation, a way to heal myself through feeling the subtle energies in the body and working with those energies and parts (identities), while connecting with my soul and source. There's a lot more to it, but that's how I'll summarise it.
Through her guidance, and my gratitude and trust in her (feeling fully safe, seen and understood), I had a heart awakening in 2019, where I embodied the light of my soul, and my (spiritual) heart became wide open. Its like my protector parts fully stepped back and in that moment my soul filled my entire being. I felt love for everyone, and everything.
This was before I had tried any plant medicines (mother aya, mushrooms etc) which often open people in similar ways. And plant medicines certainly deepened my journey as I was properly resourced and ready to experience those journeys (for some it's not appropriate/helpful, for some it is part of your soul path).
Following a heartbreak in 2020, my heart shutdown for a while, and through the work I've done with my 'parts' and the trauma, it's much more open again... I feel connected with my soul and the Divine on a daily basis.
Leanora helped me become conscious of things outside of my awareness and by working with her, I learned the skills to become my own self healer.
This is the magick of working with a great therapist / healer as they can show you your blind spots and speed your healing.
A therapist / healer with integrity will be teaching you how to heal yourself so that you continue the work by yourself, and ideally integrate it into your life.
Every moment offers the opportunity to be fully present and work with what is arising.
Those of us in integrity encourage sovereignty. No one can live your soul life for you, it's up to you.
This embodiment meditation / somatic work is part of how I work with my clients who come for holistic counselling. I use IFS (Internal Family Systems Therapy - parts work) with this somatic approach to create transformation. I also use other modalities as appropriate. Everything you do with me you can learn to do for yourself.
I find some clients need me for a while before they can be that still loving presence for themselves. And some things are easier to face when you have a loving guide with you to help you presence yourself fully, and allow the integration to happen. However at some point we can be that for ourselves.
There's no method to healing, we need to be open in the moment and use the tools that will help, and keep meeting all of our parts with unconditional love.
I feel like our 4 hour conversation could have been an extremely valuable podcast for those people walking this path of embodying their true Self... maybe another time. It was a very deep conversation, and a beautiful sharing with love and laughter.
I trust that today's transmission will reverberate through my being and inspire my next steps on my own journey, which my clients will also benefit from. We are all mirrors for each other, all serving each other to awaken and transform.
Love and blessings
Bella 💙💙💙
