About me
Reclaiming Freedom, Joy and Empowerment through Sacred Embodiment
Growing up in a small, busy home I often longed for quiet and space. I longed for moments to connect with nature, to move freely… to twirl, play, sing, and simply be. These glimpses of joy and freedom of expression became my anchors, even when the world around me felt full and demanding.
Hours were spent connecting with the natural world - noticing colours, textures, the changing quality of light through the day and year, and the majesty of the night sky. I loved to play and dance, to take precious moments to move and express myself fully within my body, to move to music and rhythm, to sing, to laugh - to be in joy. These moments had to be carved out carefully, as I often felt I had to shrink to fit the needs of others. Growing up, I learned to be quieter, more still, to blend in. What I didn’t realise then was how much this had compromised and disconnected me from my own voice, body, and energy flow.
I always loved understanding how things work, drawn to science and observation rather than stories or imagination. It was later, as a young adult, that I opened to the subtler senses - to intuition, energy, and the unseen connections and mystery that shape our lives. I broadened my perception and began connecting and learning in more than one way. I realised this had been there all along but my rational mind and love of science had been stronger. I had to feel things for myself first hand, to have a direct experience. To feel through my own senses and visceral quality of the physical body and energy field.
Through travel, adventure, books, connections with lots of different people and new experiences, I remembered this innate intuitive quality, this deeper awareness and subtler sensing that had always been there. I learnt to tune my senses, to open to, and trust, my inner knowing, my own wisdom, and to trust the flow of life itself. Challenges and hardships became teachers guiding me to stillness and the deep sanctuary within. To the sacredness of life and myself as part of this sacredness.
At times I created a life with long periods of isolation, craving silence and stillness both outside and within me. It turned out there was another way - through connection. I found that isolation was not the answer, but integrating the stillness and being in relationship and connection with others with clear energy and boundaries. I could carry the stillness and keep the sensitivity within me and I could discern the people and places with which I wanted to spend time and energy. Stillness without isolation, connection without losing myself.
My biggest learning for life was when the life journey was the most full and busy, when demands were at their highest. It became absolutely necessary to utilise the moments of space, the gaps in the chaos, to sink in as quickly and deeply as I could to the sanctuary and the spaciousness within me. I repeated this again and again and got very skilled at maximising these mini pauses that life offers. Through this I found my practices, my stillness and ultimately my work and life offering to the world. To return to quiet presence in the body, connected to the Earth. To remember my sacred embodiment and to live with ecstatic presence.
Stillness isn’t even a breath away, it is right there ready to meet us when we pause to notice. Life is always supporting us when we sink into this tender holding. This provides moments to balance and find ourselves again; to return to harmony, clarity and the resonance that shows us the way. We know the best way - we feel it. We sense when something is off and when adjustment is needed.
With compassion, true self love, sacred connection and knowing how much we matter in this world, we can make powerful and positive choices and steps towards ourselves, towards sustaining connection and towards a life well lived. Honouring and embracing the magic and the beauty of simple everyday moments, we befriend and we flow with life as it is, no longer striving and reaching but arriving more and more fully in each moment and in each step, trusting this is the journey - this is the way. In essence, we make the mundane sacred with our full embodied presence.
And it turns out stories are invaluable. To experience through story is to be touched by the beauty, the pain, the journey and the experience and wisdom of others. To feel and sense into imagery, characters, archetypes, myths and legends that reawaken something in us is like gold, it is alchemical. This is a piece of my story I share with you here and I look forward to witnessing and sharing in your story too should you choose.
My Life Now
I have created a life that honours both spaciousness and connection – a rhythm of stillness and engagement. My relationships are nourishing and real, full of truth and wonder, and I turn and listen to the quiet guidance of my Heart every day.
You’ll find me immersed in nature, communing and connecting deeply with the natural world and the elements, moving in conscious dance, or sharing food and meaningful conversation - allowing simple moments to be sacred. I’m regularly at the climbing wall, meeting challenge with curiosity and strengthening body, mind, and spirit. Learning, growing and being present to all the joy and beauty of life.
This isn’t perfection, it is a continual remembering – losing balance and flow and gently finding it again.
This is a life of freedom, connection and grounded joy.
A life of contentment, passion, and inspiration.
One of ecstatic presence through sacred embodiment.
My Background
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Physiotherapy
BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy 1999
MCSP
HCPCYoga
BSYA (Hatha Yoga) 2006Holistic Nutritional Therapy
BSYA (Hol NT) 2007Aromatherapy/ Massage
SNHS Dip. (Advanced Aromatherapy Massage) 2005
BSY Professional Certificate of Merit (Holistic Aromatherapy Facial Treatments) 2006
H.I.Dip (Aromatherapy) 2008
dōTERRA® Essential Oil Specialist Certification 2020Moon Mother
Moon Mother® Trained by Miranda Gray
2013 Level 1 Moon Mother
2014 Level 2 Moon Mother &
Moon Mother Mentor
2021 Remote Practitioner TrainingHeart Of Living Yoga Teacher
Heart Meditation Facilitator 2017
Yoga Teacher (200 hours) Graduate 2017
Sound Healing Modules 2017
Heart Meditation Training Staff 2018Havening Techniques®
Havening Techniques Certified Practitioner 2020
Rebirthing with Havening Techniques 2023Ancestral Healing
Ancestral Healing Practitioner 2024
IPHM AccreditedRunes
Beginners Runes 2022 - 2023
Deepening with the Runes 2024 - 2025Ministry
Heart Ministry - Yoga Minister - Heart of Living Yoga 2023 - 2024
Deepening Heart Ministry 2026 - ongoing
Heart AmbassadorFully Insured
Enhanced DBS certificate held -
Since 2005, I have been weaving together therapeutic modalities to create a deeply holistic approach to wellness, sacred embodiment and transformation. Each technique has enhanced not only my own life but also the ways I guide and support others. By integrating these practices, I work with the whole person - body, mind, heart, soul and energy field - helping you access your own inner resources, release what no longer serves you, and step fully into clarity, empowerment, and wholeness. This is the foundation of Sacred Journeys: a practice that blends science, intuition, and lived experience to support you in living your fullest, most joyful, ecstatic and aligned life.
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Many seek answers, validation, healing or fulfilment outside themselves.
My journey takes me inwards and reminds me that all we seek can be discovered within - through presence, connection and inner listening. Everything arises from within when we are present to the sacredness of now. Through practice and presence we can connect to our essence, to pure being, to embodied joy, to complete serenity and the light within us all. This gracious, steady, constant is beyond outer circumstances and all that we seek, and all that we need, is within us and within our reach in every moment.
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Sacred Journeys invites you on this inner journey, to the centre of your being. It reminds you of the way back home to yourself and encourages you to access your own inner wisdom and knowing at the heart of you - fully embodied and rooted on the Earth.
From this place of compassion and acceptance, healing naturally arises, life force flows and presence within the body becomes more alive, more vital and ecstatic. You can embrace both humanity and divinity, integrate all parts of yourself into wholeness and experience connection and oneness in the present.
Through this work you can find dynamic balance and resonance ready to live fully present, receptive and responsive. Empowered and embodied there is contentment, passion and true inspiration for a fulfilled life that is Self led and truly yours.