Special focuses include parenting, trauma, chronic illness, any life change, birth, death, dying and critical illness I hold an holistic approach to all aspects of well-being: supporting health and happiness through birth, dying and ALL that happens in between. I work with children and adults and even often with animals. I have experienced and studied many different approaches. The following are m
y core passions: Jin Shin Jyutsu, Family and Systemic Constellation Work and Birth Doula. With a background in arts and international media, it was my own health that drew me to listen more deeply to my body and eventually other people’s bodies. I have journeyed deeply with my own well-being and i respect the unique journey of each individual person I am privileged to witness. In my enquiries as to what constitutes well-being and how to establish or deepen our well-being, I realised that the Western (Allopathic) medical approach is really helpful in many circumstances and it also has limitations. While symptoms of body and mind are often treated separately, any severe or chronic symptoms of disease, discomfort, pain or trauma will have each a physical component, a mental component and an emotional component. It is a wise system that can address all of these. APPROACHES UTILISED:
My training includes 12 years of study of JIN SHIN JYUTSU, an art gifted from Japan to the West. I am sure I will be studying this with delight for the rest of my life. A session begins with seeing, listening, feeling where tensions constrict the overall naturally perfect flow of vitality. Pulse listening, common in Asian medicine, helps to open understanding beyond symptoms described. Application of gentle holding uses hands as “jumper cables” to release tensions. This art is gentle and non-invasive and an astonishingly effective way of alleviating cause of symptoms in mind, body and heart. Furthermore clients can learn some holds to make use of themselves which is empowering in the longer term. I have also studied FAMILY AND SYSTEMIC CONSTELLATION therapy – essentially this is viewing each person, or each challenge in its bigger context. This context can be family, generations, geography, all kinds of social systems or even corporate systems. We all exist within a context and we take our position in relation to the other aspects already present. Experiencing the essence of the context and loyalties and conflicts that are inherent in its parts brings a freedom and a clarity of how best to position Self. This work is experiential and does not require the participation of all components, so one could explore family issues without the family being present in any way. When understanding is only intellectual it can be difficult to translate to action; when there is experience then healing actions flow more naturally. I am currently in process of certifying as a BIRTH DOULA. As I found myself through above supporting various women through childbirth I realised that in order to step into this huge new role a woman often requires some healing of her smaller self, or perhaps a woman gives birth to a different aspect of self. A well supported birth is a very empowering experience for a woman as she embodies the archetypal feminine energy, that primal wisdom which inspired the very oldest art on Earth. A birth doula is present to support the birthing mother, and her partner, and supporting the partner to support the mother, while other medical or midwifery staff attend to the birth. The presence of a birth doula significantly reduces fear and experience of pain; if less pain medication is required, a baby is born more alert, primary bonding is better enabled and incidence of post-natal depression is reduced. HEALING:
The word “healing” has its origins in the Greek “holos” = to be whole. This is a world view, a vast outlook.
“For a healer, the world is not broken and in need of fixing, the world is hidden. Everything and everyone has in themselves a hidden wholeness, a potential for growth, a dream of themselves. A healer reminds people… A healer is a feeder of dreams." Sometimes the greatest healing is to be supported through the transformation of a concept of self. The journey through illness and to healing is a deeply personal one. To know all of who we are and to refine expression of that is the unfolding of a lifetime. Most of us live only a tiny percentage of our potential. If we wish to be more of who we are we need to pay attention to what truly nourishes and supports us; we also need to allow our concept of self to be in transformation, as every entity that is truly alive is in constant transformation. While comfort zones, habits and certainties may simplify our responses to life they can become areas of stagnation that rob us of our vitality. All that happens to us in life presents a response of two basic choices – we can either respond to the experience by opening up, or by closing down. Each single life experience, no matter how painful, can be an opportunity to open to a much huger, more kind and potent self.
