In these coaching sessions we will look at the mechanisms underneath the psychedelic experience and you’ll receive guidance around navigating your way forward. This service is available as a tool for planning beforehand, or integrating afterwards. I have experience working with a diverse range of master plant teachers and draw from traditional & non-traditional wisdom in our sessions.
 This service in no way condones the use of mind-altering substances, rather stands as a harm reduction tactic, being a service that aims to help make sense of these experiences in healthful ways.

A 15 minute call to discuss your health concerns & see if you would like to work with me.

ZenThai Shiatsu Body Work sessions utilising the 5 elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine in a Thai-style acupressure massage. Working with pain & injury healing using osteopathic techniques and facial releasing to bring fluidity into your joints and body. Please let me know in advance if you would like Cupping (especially good for should pain) or Herbal Poultice Body Work (anti-inflammatory steamed herbs pummelled on the body for pain; especially good in the Winter) so that I can prepare.

The sap or resin of a plant is the water ways and canals that run through the entire organism. Water is a force deep within the body that permeates all things. We are at least 90% water, and so are plants. These solid feeling structures that make up our bodies are animated by the power of water, as if inflated by it. Without it, we become small, dry, and lifeless. Water can put out fire, move earth, uproot wood, and over time even wear metal. It has lunar qualities, embraces darkness, can sit in stillness like an ocean cave or motionless lake. It can also roar like a raging rapid or crash like a tsunami. It has a way of finding the deepest channel to run through whilst moving as one body that can at any moment segment into infinite bodies. It can take the forms of solid, vapour or liquid. The water is a shapeshifter, and the most mysterious of all. The quality of water available to us will dictate a huge aspect of our health, and like the sap of a tree or the blood of our body, if the water is pure and clean, health will follow as the water deliver nutrients to where it needs to go. Water will carry toxicity and deliver it to the organisms and landscapes that purify, such as the ocean’s bottom feeders, the mangroves, and in our body the kidneys and bladder. In this way, the water is a vessel of receptivity to be filled with life. When life split from the origin of source, the Monad became the Dyad and yin and yang birthed. Yang is the primal and original expression of Fire, whereas Yin is Water. These 2 elements will forever be entangled in a balancing act. Just as the Water is the container & river of blood itself, the fire is the heat and warmth of energy pumping through that blood from the heart. Just as Fire is the attraction of the sexual organs and the yearning for life to create, the Water is the container of the womb that life grows in, and the inherited Jing or genetic life force buried deep within our DNA. In the I-Ching, Water is the inverse of Fire, with hollow edges and a solid centre. It is called, ‘The Abysmal’ as it is characterised by the drawing of energy inward and downward. There is a holographic aspect to the Water as well; that it holds the vibration of the entirety within it. This is the same for the Earth’s water ways. The health of the river IS the health of the ecosystem that lives on the river. The health of the ocean IS the health of the planet. The egg and sperm of a human hold these qualities as well, a seed encoded with the past. When you look into the surface of the Water you see a reflection, but when you dive below the surface, there is another story of whale song singing below. Herbal medicine is the original medicine :)

A flower is a self contained collection of reproductive material able to seed the future. It’s role is to attract. Its function combines with the function of a seed, together attracting and creating. It does this from an ancient primal place where the origins of beauty live. The dance of creation is an expression of Fire, where life is sparked from within, and birth created out of an incantation. The primordial fire is the light that reaches back to the birth of the universe. Spirit cast into motion. It expresses, it moves, it enchants, it desires, it loves. This is the function of a flower, and it can be likened to our own sexual organs, but even more so to our hearts and the seat of consciousness within us. When life split from the origin of source, the Monad became the Dyad and yin and yang birthed. Yang is the primal and original expression of fire, whereas Yin is water. The fire dances and enchants, it beats our very hearts. It is through this warmth that our bodies are animated with spirit, blood and rich redness. The fire is our culture and expression - the very act of engaging in it creates more of itself. It is the songs we lose ourself to and the dance that dances us. Without it, I wonder why we are here at all? What’s it all about if not for the pure expression of our creative life force bubbling out of us? Fire wakes you up in the morning. It is the child yearning to grow up and discover. It is the initiatory rituals that burn lessons into us and make us who we are. In the I-Ching, the Fire trigram is also called The Clinging, and represented by solid outside lines, and a hollow centre for the air current to fuel the fire that must cling to the wood. For Fire to thrive, like a flower, it needs others. It needs to resource itself from the bees and insects, from the wind and wood, and requires an attractive quality to summon its needs. Flowers are pure beauty and attraction that ignite feelings inside our hearts. They motivate healing. The encourage loving. And through this outward expression volcanoes erupt and the genetic information of life itself recreates and re-experiences itself. Life wants to live another day, and through a flower a plant will invest everything it has left to enchant you with the spell of life and try for another round of experiencing life. Herbal medicine is original medicine :)

The bark of a plant is responsible for keeping a separation between the inner and outer worlds. In the body of a human this correlates to the skin, microbiome layer of the lungs & gut (inner skin) and immune system. Whilst the bark’s edges are sharp and defined, its function reaches out into the space around itself transceiving information just like our own immune systems do; working through the bioelectric field around 30cm outside our body interacting with the landscape we live in. It is called the Wei Chi in traditional Chinese medicine, and would be compared to the element of the Metal. Rather than growing like the leaves, or connecting like the roots, the function of the bark is around protecting. The image of a fierce warrior with a shield protecting his village, or the barrier that the edge of a great forest creates as a wall of trees meets the grasslands. These landscapes conjure up imagery and feelings that can help to understand the role of the Metal element and the bark. Metal has a conductivity to it, a magnetism that can feel, smell and sense. This is how we can quickly discern threat from ally,through sensing which is a necessary skill when pursuing the mastery of Metal. To master the “I feel”, requires a clean and clear system, constantly letting go and returning to a sate of emptiness. An empty state, free from the past and expectation, is the clearest state to digest the outside world and intimately understand the space one finds themself in. This allows one to then make a clear and concise choice about how to respond to life. Herbal medicine is original medicine :)