My passions...
Ka Huna Bodywork
Ka Huna Bodywork. It is an experience that needs to be had. Different for everyone, very healing on many levels. It's up to you as a receiver as to what you take home.
Ka Huna bodywork originated in the South Pacific and is a unique and transformational style of massage traditionally used during rites of passage and integrates the Seven Principles of Huna Philosophy.
The fingers, hands, forearms and elbows are used to apply soft and deep tissue massage while moving and flowing with music to create a deep sense of peace.
The rhythmic flow and breath work used in Hawaiian bodywork helps to move and balance energy systems within the body and supports the process of your mind and muscles letting go.
The release of deep-seated muscular tension allows the energy to flow more freely within the body and generates a feeling of open-heartedness and a sense of overall wellbeing.
Hawaiian bodywork treats the muscular, lymphatic, immune, respiratory and digestive systems allowing the body to re-balance, heal and cleanse.
The safe space created provides a supportive and compassionate environment to allow your own unique experience of self-healing and offers the opportunity to release any grief, fear, anger, negative beliefs and memories.
Each time you receive Ka Huna bodywork is unique, affecting people differently. The cleansing and healing affects can be felt for weeks after the treatment.
Group Sound Healing
Group sound sessions are ancient healing modality that when performed can transcend all time and space. Physically when we create sounds, the vibrations move through the body’s own vibrational field and help to raise the vibrational tuning to one of health and harmony. In ancient times, before language there is evidence that caves acted as an instrument for tribes to come drum and chant within. Through the resonance of sound they were able to heal many ailments on a physical, mental and spiritual level.
Modern science now has caught up to what ancient people and eastern philosophies have known for thousands of years. Sound resonates and creates harmony within the body, within the mind and within the soul. It is through vibration and various frequencies that our bodies enable such healing change to occur. It’s now science!
Everything on the planet and the planet itself has its own vibration. We have just disassociated with the ability to connect in with the power of these frequencies and allow them to resonate within our bodies. This disconnection has created spaces for illness and disease to settle. The natural energy life force loses its flow. Sound helps to restore the natural order to our bodies. Thus, healing on a deep cellular level.
Group Sound Sessions help on many levels, physical, mental and spiritual and elevate the message of affirmations and intentions. Whilst in a deep meditative state the sound can help with stress relief and relaxation, can be restorative, transformative and self-healing. Can be connecting for people both personally and socially. Can assist with improving sleep quality. It is both nurturing and supportive.
Sound healing is one of the emerging healing modalities that is gaining in popularity – non-invasive, gentle, and powerful! Group sessions can intensify the healing vibration of the sound as it becomes a collective enhanced vibration.
The instruments used can vary, with Tibetan Bowls, Crystal Bowls, Gongs, harps, flute, medicine drums, and varied percussions. All played to create a space of healing and relaxation
Yin Yoga
I fell in love with Yin Yoga the very first asana that I did. I remember it quite vividly, the room was dark, with soft light, and using the support of a bolster we lingered in a reclining butterfly. There were sensations arising within that I had never felt before. A deep relaxation, but also a questioning of that surrendering, the stillness. Coming to terms with the still, the peace and the calm. The hardest thing to do during the whole session, was to stop trying to force my body into asana's and listen to it's quiet gentle unfolding. Its conversation.
This was so incredibly moving for me that I had to do more. Yin appeals to that quiet introvert side, the need to hibernate and rest a while. To listen to that deep part of me and watch as my story unfolds. There was no turning back. I was in love with Yin.
While “yang” yoga focuses on your muscles, yin yoga targets your deep connective tissues, like your fascia, ligaments, joints, and bones. It’s slower and more meditative, giving you space to turn inward and tune into both your mind and the physical sensations of your body. Because you’re holding poses for a longer period of time than you would in other traditional types of yoga, yin yoga helps you stretch and lengthen those rarely-used tissues while also teaching you how to breathe through discomfort and sit with your thoughts.
The practice of yin yoga is based on ancient Chinese philosophies and Taoist principles which believe there are pathways of Qi (energy) that run through our bodies. By stretching and deepening into poses, we’re opening up any blockages and releasing that energy to flow freely.
By holding the various poses, a yin yoga sequence can help restore the healthy flow of
Qi in our bodies
Death Doula
Death is such a taboo subject, but a subject that needs to come back to the spoken word and into each and everyone's life. An acceptance of our mortality, helps us live better. Not necessarily longer but better. This may have side effects of longer, but who really knows. I became interested in supporting people diagnosed as terminal and their families when I lost someone dear to me. I sat in the space of death, and it was unknown territory for the whole family. It was hard to know how to be in the moment, as we stood beside the person dying and what to do afterwards in the moment of grief. I feel it's important to have the conversations with our loved ones, no matter the age or the health. Discuss openly needs and wishes surrounding death. Make arrangements and come to terms and accept that which is inevitable in everyone's lives. No-one escapes death.
I offer support for families and those who are dying. I am an ear, a sounding board for your worries, doubts, fears and grief. You may also be interested in discussing your 'End of Life' needs and help navigating the myriad of documents. Please connect with me through the below form.