Honouring my teachers

My work has been, and continues to be, shaped in many ways and forms. By my own life and experiences. By the Land and all its inhabitants. By all the ones who came before me and the ones to which I am a future ancestor. By relationships and people and animals. Although this is not a complete list, for it is ever growing, I would like to honour the lineages, schools and wisdom keepers of these practices, and express my gratitude to some of the teachers and mentors, that I have learned from, worked with and/or, continue to do so, as well as Sisters who I am continuously inspired by and still walk alongside with.

I am deeply grateful to the whole Uplifted Yoga team, and especially Brett Larkin and Lesley Fightmaster, for supporting me in the beginning of my path and Yoga Teacher Training. To all the BlissBabyYoga team for the beautiful expansive experience during my Pre and Post Natal Yoga Teacher Training.

To Sifu Anthony Korahais and Máire Ní G. for so much of my Qigong education and ongoing growth, both in the Buddhist and Taoist traditions. And to Daniela Jutronich who kindly mentored me in the beautiful practice of Nu Zi Gong (Women Qigong). To all of my Sisters on my Path of the Tao, with who I have trained with, cried and laughed next to, and was embraced by, and who keep holding and celebrating me as we walk together - my deepest love for you Quartz, Fionnuala, Nkechi, Ails, Angela, Lisa, Mara Elaine, Steph and Rachael.

To Tom Myers, Kristin Leal and Ana Outsubo for my love for Anatomy (especially fascia) and the poetry of the body. And to Lisa Fitzpatrick for the teachings around the female pelvic floor anatomy and physiology.

To Gemma Brady, teacher, mentor, and a constant source of inspiration, for holding me in my Circle journey, Life and work thresholds, and endless support in my Circle Facilitation Training along all the other teachers who have held me along the way. To Katie Kurtz , deep gratitude for her teachings in holding Trauma-Informed Spaces, through her Cultivate training. To Claire Diane, for such tender and deep holding throughout the hold VWM journey as I reconnected with my full aliveness. A heartfelt thank you to my Circle Sisters Anna Taylor, Nicola Wood and Charlotte Hueso - so many conversations on Life, Death, Space Holding and the depths of our Medicine with all of its dreams and fears and hope.

To all my Kindrêd family and especially Jesh de Rox, Theresa de Rox, Katie K. and Katie O’Farrel for our endless explorations on Joy, Aliveness, Play and Beauty, alchemizing life in the most wonderful way.

To all the Manifestor Community team and teachers, especially Holly Herbig, for such a unique, expansive experience with the Manifestor Mastery Advanced Certification as a Human Design and Gene Keys reader & teacher.

To Sarah of Magdalene and the absolutely amazing guest teachers and facilitators of my Maiden to Mother Teacher Training cohort - Kritee Kanko, Kina Reed, Marilu Shinn, Christena Cleveland, Kamya O’Keeffe, Melanie Joy, Aimee Aroha, Marya Stark, Camden Torres, Cassie Uhl, Jess Wadden, Reena Desai, Kelsey Lewis, Britt Radz, Gina Clover, Bergen Hyde, Kalah Hill and Priya Assal. Thank you for holding me in Mother with unconditional love, tenderness, strength and embracing all that I am.

To all the Blossom and Berry, especially Prema (Gayle Berry) for supporting me through the Wild Wellbeing Diploma in holding space for Mothers and Babies in Nature and also to all my Sisters who I’ve sat in ceremony with, practising, creating and holding beautiful Mother Blessing Ceremonies and Baby Blessing Ceremonies. Thank you for holding me so tenderly and with so much beauty, while also honouring all Mothers and Babies in our work together.

To Priestess Francesca, for her sacred stewardship in the path of the Dark Eros - as I continue to walk with her, I am constantly reminded to sanctify parts of myself that somewhere in my life, I once deemed not worthy. To Heenali Patel, for all the teachings in feeling, holding and embodying my work as a sacred energy that is being birthed through me as a tapestry of ancestral wishes, hopes and dreams. To Nisha Moodley for her spaces which were fundamental in my path of connecting to the soul of my work. To my Sisters Megan, Bryana, Erna, Dora, Diantha, Janelle and Rachel, I am in forever gratitude of your love and sisterhood as we navigate life with joy, pleasure, whimsy and hold each other in our descents too - may we keep braiding our hearts and Medicines in love, truth and sisterhood.

To Katriina Kilpi, Leonia Nunes and all the beautiful and supportive Forest Mind family, for the loving collaborations and continuous learning to share our love for the Forests with the world.

To the Rooted Healing community, especially Ben Stopford and Veronica Stanwell, and all the rooted ones who co-created a space of transformational slow exploration of ourselves and the living world that we are the stewards of, for the tender and in-depth journeys to the core of what it is to belong. And to Gabriela Gutierrez because, even if unbeknownst to her, her teachings and research opened a new portal of possibility and wonder, when part of me had parted ways with scholarship - it has been a tender and sweet returning to that part of myself. To my teacher Iris Lican Garcia, for holding the torch in the path of the Goddess, sharing the teachings with the resonance of her voice and the foundation of millenia of devotional work and ancestral remembering, and for holding me as I deepen the relationship with the Land that birthed me and holds me in all its aliveness.

And so many others. This list is not closed and will be growing with me, alongside many ongoing cycles of integration work. I have a passion for learning, but everything I share comes from the seat of my intuition, rooted in the embodiment of all these teachings.