Dreamwork is a process of working with the unknown and unconscious by exploring dream images, scenes and narratives. Dreamwork uses intuition, imagination, dialogue, questions and rituals - that act more like activations - for wisdom not directly accessible by your conscious mind. You can do dreamwork as personal soul work, in the therapeutic container 1-1, or in collective dreaming with a group.

The Tarot contains ancient symbolism and archetypal representations that carry meaning and story. In a similar way to dreams, I encourage curiousity to what the images and patterns might activate in mind-body, and what that might reveal about your inner world. I don’t typically turn to tarot for divination - but to awaken hidden knowledge, alternate perspectives, and creativity, that can act as guidance for your troubles and questions .

Before contemporary psychology there were ‘stories’ passed down orally by the ‘old ones’ - for wisdom, guidance, and of course entertainment. Now, fairytales and folktales can be still be explored to find solutions and wisdom for our personal and collective problems. Like dreams and tarot, story activates the psyche, and carries rich symbolism in their characters, elements and narrative. This can serve to open doorways to different aspects of life and self, not easiy accessd through cerebral practices.

My background in breathwork is rooted in the yoga tradition of pranayama. Breathwork practices can regulate your nervous system to create balance, flow, and equanimity, or to activate and revitalize, or calm and soothe. Specific breathing practices can help you enter trance and deepen meditation. Breathwork can enliven the spiritual experience, open you more deeply to your emotions, clarify thoughts, and develop a connection to the soul and the Great Mystery beyond the self.

Writing can be a contemplative, spiritual, creative, or reflective exercise. It allows you release or “dump” excessive or surface thoughts onto the paper - never to be reconsidered, or a place to articulate and reflect on thoughts, feeling and ideas. Perhaps revealing insights you might not have seen initially. Journalling enables you to rewrite your story, name intentions, and find resolutions. I often pose questions as prompts for journaling or contemplation.

Imagination, when done “actively” i.e. consciously, can foster a rich dialogue between the awake ego and the unconscious. As an “attitude” it helps build a relationship between different parts of the self, enhancing self-understanding, deepening connections, and aiding in coming to terms with yourself and your inner world. Active imagination can also involve dialoguing with dreams, tarot images, parts of your body, ancestors, or even beings in the outer world.

The ultimate ‘goal’ of meditation is to fully experience the ‘inner self’ or soul - even if just for a moment. As a practice it counters excessive intellectual contemplation (thinking) and encourages spaciousness, depth, curiosity, love, peace …. It can help us become clear, and rest in the “here and now”. I borrow from multiple traditions of meditation for instance, Tantra, Buddhist, Metta, Mindfulness, trance, and contemplative prayer.

Embodiment practices help develop a relationship with your body, that can lead to improved communication, responsiveness, confidence and even friendship and love of your body. This can include simple things like learning the language of body as sensations, and receiving touch, to more active practices like tapping, Qigong, yoga, dance, workouts, movement and trauma release exercises (TRE).

Beyond your physical body and your mind you have a “subtle body”. I incorporate energy medicine; which acknowledses these unseen forces that include the body’s energy fields, channels and centres or ‘chakras’. Because these interact with you and your environment, how your system responds can can influence your physical, sensory, mental, emotional and spiritual health and vitality.

We all come with a blood lineage - whether they are known to us or not - that speak to us through our DNA, our features, and predispositions. Knowing and understanding your origin story can allow you to see yourself and your experiences through the context of a family, culture, place, and history that can inform you of patterns, beliefs and collective memories that can help you heal and repair the experiences from the past.

Yoga philosophy and practices are a whole way of being. Yoga is physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually beneficial. As a practice yoga can build discipline, strength, flexibility and confidence in the body. More subtly, practice can help you feel more at ease, aligned and vital. At the heart of it’s philosophy, is to build awareness and connection between the mind, body, and soul. I will often incorporate yoga and movement in workshops, as preparation for mental activity or meditation.

Spirituality is an experience, so cannot be exclusive to a particular religion or practice. I encourage you to explore what engages the soul and tend to whatever practice, philosophy or container enables a connection to what you see as sacred, and worthy of deep contemplation and prayer. You may choose words like God, or Goddess, Greater, the Mystery, the Universe. Or to just be with. Any religious or spirtual tradition, if you choose to ascribe, is the one that engages your capacity to experience this Greater Mystery.