Reflections on Sacred Journeys

​Hello dear reader. I have been reflecting and musing. I have been sitting and allowing a deeper awareness to develop around my work, that part of myself and my offerings and service to the world. Sometimes words are restrictive and confining, finding language for that which has no label or category can be challenging. We can find ourselves using words that don’t quite fit in an effort to make things clear, which are then interpreted by the other in their own way. So, I thought I would take time to really describe what it is that I am developing and offering in sessions at this time. What is available? What is becoming?

Where it began

First, let’s go back. In around 2007 when I went fully self-employed the wording for the business and my part within it arrived with great clarity…

Do you want to feel deeply happy and content with the strength and clarity to follow your own inner wisdom? For total health and well-being, inspiring and guiding you to have the life and lifestyle you truly desire.

I worked at that time offering physiotherapy, massage, aromatherapy, yoga and meditation.  However, even then, I saw the restriction in these labels, in the categories that potentially prevented skills from one modality influencing and supporting another. I also knew that for total health and well-being it had to include the whole person, it had to be (w)holistic.

For those of you that have been with me since then, you will remember I wrote my own holistic assessment and began a deeper inquiry with clients to involve the body systems, the mind and mental well-being, lifestyle choices and habits and to really help bring clarity and guide individuals to the most useful modalities and therapies. It didn’t have to be me or things that I offered, it just had to be the best fit. This allowed for conversation, reflection and to develop collaborative and client orientated goals in areas of life they wanted to develop or change. It also gave total autonomy to clients to say where they didn’t want to make changes (even if it was a not yet) and for them to explore potential therapies outside my scope of practice. This worked beautifully and provided a clear framework in which to support individuals whilst completely honouring their intentions and needs at that time.
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Life happened!

Then life happened, you know the part of life where you don’t really know what you are doing but the old ways don’t work. You don’t really fit into the life you are living and know something has to shift? Where there has to be a change, but it is a really big leap of faith and things can seem totally chaotic and confusing for a while, yet through that process you find yourself living and growing and exploring in ways you never expected or imagined. This involved moving, travel and big life and lifestyle changes. ​

For me during this time I found a greater connection, a deeper surrender and the necessity to trust in a way I never had before, to let go of the reins (of the mind) and allow myself to be guided in life. To make plenty of (what looked like) mistakes only to look back and realise the huge value and growth that occurred in those times. To re-evaluate and re-direct, to refine and to believe in myself more and more. To learn to put myself at the centre of my life (still learning!) and to become more of who I was allowing myself to be.

Sacred Journeys

When the name Sacred Journeys came through back around 2013/2014, I also received the wording ‘Take a journey to the centre of your being, take a journey to the heart of your self’.

This felt so right and so true and yet it took years to really truly understand what this meant in practical and real-life terms. As my own journey unfolded the pieces fell into place, bringing me closer and closer to my own heart, the centre of my being. With it came even more depth of guidance from within, as well as a holding, both within and around me, from love and from life itself.

Why Sacred Journeys? It honours the sacredness of the everyday human journey arising in every moment, as well as acknowledging the sacredness of life itself. It embraces our soul and spirit within the human dance. The organic weaving together of modalities, and drawing upon my wider skill mix and life experience, became invaluable and the holistic healing journey became the container for this beautiful co-creative process.

The evolution of Sacred Journeys

As 2022 was coming towards a close I felt the next stage of the journey unfolding and evolving ready to be offered to you all. There is a deepening and a necessary shift to really honour my own self, my own guidance and the use of the tools and skills with which I have been blessed, which I have studied, learnt and practised and the perspective and awareness that evolves and integrates through my own journey. As I write this now in the latter part of 2024 I realise just how much more has changed, the threads that stay the same and yet the evolution continues.

Over the years I have studied (a lot!), taken part in numerous online courses, seminars, conferences, been on my own personal growth, healing and integration journey and trusted the direction and evolving of the work more with my growing intuition and life experience. Culminating in the potency and potential breakthroughs available in person and online that are available to you now. 

So, what is the root and essence of our sessions together? 

At the heart of everything I do is a truly collaborative approach, one that allows you to be heard and seen, where there is space to simply be. You will be empowered to make the best choices for you. Every therapeutic healing session is unique and a truly collaborative approach to deeply nurture, nourish, replenish, empower and release. 

In essence...

• There is a foundation in heart connection (reducing thinking levels to get to what is underneath).
• Compassionate witnessing (receiving all that you want and need to share with the heart of compassion).
• Deepening the sense of safety and grounding in the body (getting present right here, right now). 
• Trauma healing and releasing (moving from the past conditioning into the potential and possibilities available in the here and now).
• Listening to your most authentic self, your soul, your voice of truth within to awaken your most aligned potential and reconnect to your deepest joy.

Although every session is unique there are recurring themes and feedback that is frequently given by clients.

This often includes:

• huge relief
  
• inner quiet and space…
• peace (particularly peace of mind),
• quiet clarity, focus,
• deeper trust and knowing,
• freedom from memories and events from the past,
• freedom from pain and suffering.

Ultimately an ease and greater flow within life, a steadiness and self-knowledge which leads to life improving in so many ways both personally and professionally.

In essence they thrive! You thrive!

More possibilities for healing

Since those words came into being, and the name Sacred Journeys came into play, there has been the addition of working with the wisdom and power of cycles, particularly the wisdom of the womb and transitions in life, and the connection of my work more fully with the earth and natural world.

More and more it became important and necessary to include greater scope for effectively working with stress, anxiety and the nervous system and being trauma informed with the potential to bring complete relief from distressing memories, and limiting thoughts and beliefs that hold us in the past, so that we can be present and interact more fully in the present.

The addition of Havening Techniques® has been invaluable and had a far greater reach and application than I first realised, truly bringing a stronger sense of self, empowerment and confidence whilst allowing blocks and limitations to be navigated with great compassion and kindness. It includes and incorporates the valuable learning experiences, resilience and capability that we already have and recognises the life journey as just that, a journey. And to go even deeper, rebirthing sessions and ancestral healing can shift patterns that didn’t start with us but are passed from previous generations. These fundamental shifts can be truly transformative to remove patterns and behaviours that might show up in our current lives, leaving us free to choose and embrace the present and all it has to offer.

More is changing, more is becoming and I look forward to updating when the time is right. 

Beyond labels ~ your unique journey

As language could be limiting, and we each need something a little different as we interpret and sense differently, I have compiled the following examples to hopefully highlight the breadth of sessions in a more descriptive and integrated way, without the usual labels.  Having said that if you like the labels and the boundaries and these work for you, and give the mind comfort, then you are more than welcome to contact me to book a more specific modality.  

If this is speaking to you, and inspiring you, then do get in touch and let’s begin, or continue, a conversation. Or perhaps the wording itself and the reflections have been inspiring or affirming in their own way?

Wishing you such peace and deepening joy on your journey through life, and the journey back home to yourself. You are here to play and to shine and together we can shine even brighter.

What are Sacred Journeys?
What might connecting together look like or feel like?

Releasing the noise and busy-ness within and around to really hear and trust yourself once again.

Bringing the pieces of yourself back together to feel more whole.

Emotional de-compression to reset and recalibrate, to be able to breathe more freely.

Rest deeply in restorative sessions and receive deep healing and integration.

Returning awareness to within the body and remembering how to feel truly safe and present in the body on the earth.

Recognising your own light, essential self and vibrational quality and being able to sense yourself first and foremost.

Learning to take good care of your own needs as you become more self reliant, tender with yourself and resilient.

Remembering you are whole, complete and of value and worth just as you are.

Receiving the support, holding and nurturing available to you at all times.

Encouraging you to lead the language and imagery that speaks to your heart and body (and comforts the mind) to welcome you home to the essence of yourself and reflecting this back to you.

Remembering and reclaiming your own true power, strength and autonomy.

Aligning with your potential and remembering your greatness.

Healing, unburdening and soothing the inner child.

Letting the qualities of the inner child shine through in day to day life, there is often lightness and playfulness!

Knowing your values and boundaries and being able to create and maintain healthy boundaries.

Stepping into inspired purpose and making aligned choices.

Moving and flowing with the body and breath through movement to bring health, vitality, healing and joy to the whole being (this could be called Yoga).

Balancing the energy body and bringing harmony and resonance.

Dialoguing between body and mind to release patterns and sensations, including pain, by bringing in the deep knowing and felt sense of the balance or supporting qualities that make this possible.

Releasing limiting beliefs and filling with positive, life enhancing language, intentions, thoughts and beliefs.

Tapping into your innate health and healing and guiding your own journey to optimal health and well-being.

Allowing your innate healing wisdom to inform your body, mind, nervous system, organs, cells…

Moving through life transitions with more grace and greater ease.

Stepping into changing life and family roles with the knowing in your body (embodied insight) and clarity of the more authentic qualities of what that role really means for you, today.

Releasing past trauma and adversity on all levels and allowing ancestral healing to flow through sessions at the perfect moments.

Rebirthing and releasing patterns from conception, pre-birth in the womb and from your own birth that can influence and limit in day to day life.

Finding a deeper sense of belonging in yourself and in the world.

Creating personalised high quality oil blends to enhance and connect to your intentions and remembrance.
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Experience yourself held in the field of love that pervades everything and navigate more and more from love itself.

The journey and the path bring you home to yourself, again and again. Welcome home, precious soul!