Let’s Meet, in Ceremony and Wellbeing
When I was seven years old, I was forced to leave Chile, my country of birth and start a new life in the UK with little more than a suitcase, fleeing from a dictatorship.
Eleven years later, at the age of 18, I was invited to the warm power of a Native American sweat lodge ceremony, in the USA and I experienced a coming home to my connection to the land, my heart, soul and spirit. This defining moment was the start of my Medicine Woman journey.
This also ignited a connection to a path which led me to become a Reiki Teacher, Metaphysical Counsellor, Workshop Facilitator, and then a Shamanic Homeopath, Mentor and Earth Based Ceremonialist.
Today, as an Elder, Wellbeing Expert, Master Space Holder and Modern Day Medicine Woman, I hold ceremony and our wellbeing as one in the same, for individuals and the planet, we are all connected, inside and out as we claim True Self. An expression of what is most important to us and a moment in stillness to create and define our lives and honour defining moments is instrumental in anchoring an understanding of what life is.
Rites of Passage create profound opportunities to acknowledge how far we have come, let go of what we will no longer be held back by, and allow us to cross a threshold into a new beginning. From over 35 years walking this path, I can sincerely say that THIS is the most powerful conduit to hold and honour transformation I have ever had the honour to create and be part of.
Through my life I have worked through my own trauma and also experienced immensely significant moments where I found myself as a young woman, being an interpreter to an Ecuadorian Shaman, as a mother starting to make my own Alchemical Elixirs, and as an elder holding deep transformational and life changing space for women with drumming, circles, Rites of Passage ceremonies, mentorships and ritual, helping others to own and claim their voice, truth and power.
For over two decades I worked with people in recovery, in the corporate world, in community, with families and burnt out creatives, and then specialised in women’s and womb health, leading me straight into honouring women’s paths through Rites of Passage, Trainings and Mentorships, the work I do today.
I have been blessed to be taught and formally trained in Shamanic Homeopathy by Dr Yubaj Sharma and Dr Myriam Shivadikar and Earth Based Ceremony by Glennie Kindred and Annie Keeling, as well as been supported more recently by the wonderful Lynne Franks and Katie Curtin.
I focus on helping people with themes of belonging, identity, healing, rebirth, claiming our joy and divinity, opening our hearts and souls to the land, and merging our inner and outer worlds finding true confidence and connection, claiming True Self and coming home.
I am the founder of Women Who Rise offering mentoring and rites of passage, The Academy of Sacred Women’s Ceremony, Circle & Ritual for advanced accredited ceremonial training , and The Holistic Business Shaman for holistic business mentoring.
I host the ‘You Are The Creatrix’ Podcast for trailbrazers and visionary women.
And I am a collaborative author of The Crone Initiation published by GirlGod Books.
I am a Senior Consultant within the renown not for profit organisation, The CMA, The Complementary Medical Association and a lecturer and guest teacher for colleges of Complementary Medicine and wellbeing events as well as a course provider as Principal in my own Training School.
As a trauma survivor, proud immigrant and inclusive feminist, I feel passionate about you empowering you, your identity, representation, empathy, decolonisation, decolonising wellness, diversity and the merging with the divine feminine.
I believe strongly that we can’t be spiritual and honour the earth if we at the same time neglect or choose to ignore marginalised people within it, I celebrate and honour individuality and uniqueness. As a person of mixed and indigenous heritage, I truly celebrate our growing sense of belonging and relating to ourselves and the world through deep understanding of the past and the present, to create a future worth inheriting.
My art is focused on shamanism, soul and identity and is a conversation and expression of visibility and coming home to the root and heart of creation.
I love good coffee, drumming, chocolate, laughing, time with my two boys, husband and close friends and community, embracing life on this planet, ritual, being barefoot, ceremony, my garden, the woods, and dancing to Gogol Bordello and Prince.
