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Seeing through the Dark with the Eyes of your Soul; A Journey into liminality; held in a safe container for Navigating Transformation and Discovering Your Soul Gifts. Your Soul Literacy
Are you standing at a threshold in your life?
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My wildest vision is to learn the language of becoming Erotic with the process of Dying... My life has shown me its possible.
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I know you can too...
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You may begin to feel the old beginning to fall away, but the new has not yet found its form. You have heard/seen/felt the initial cracks..
There are moments in life when the old map simply stops working.
This is the tongue of existence nudging you forth...​
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An identity begins to loosen.
A relationship changes.
A vocation no longer feels like true home.
Something you once believed in falls away.
Or perhaps you can feel, somewhere beneath the surface, that a new life is quietly gathering ; but you cannot yet see what it is.
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You are in-between - This is the liminal space.
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It can be disorienting.
It can be tender.
It can be frightening.
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AND it can also be one of the most fertile places we ever enter.
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Journeying Together through the Ancient Mother Spiral Path
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is an invitation to enter this territory consciously.
Not to rush through it.
Not to fix it.
Not to force yourself towards an answer. Forcing stops HERE.
But to slow down enough to listen. And when you think you have, to slow down even MORE....
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To hold a space of reverence about the holiness inside your collapse.
Inside Silence..
Inside the intuitive language of your body - your psyche.
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To pay attention ,close tender attention to your dreams and images.
To nature's way of call-response ways...
To what is ending....
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And to bow to the quiet knowing of what may be asking to emerge.
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Part of the Spiral is learning to stay close to endings — not as failures, but as thresholds.
What is dying in us may not always need to be revived.
Sometimes it needs to be mourned.
Sometimes honoured.
Sometimes released.
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This is a deep one-to-one journey for those who feel called to work with the thresholds of life through presence, embodiment, depth psychology, archetypal and mythopoetic inquiry, imagination, ecological belonging and the living intelligence of the Spiral.​​
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We work with the Spiral as a floor map, not as a formula to follow.
It becomes a companion for sensing where you are, what is completing, what is gestating and what may be asking to emerge.
We do not move through life in a straight line. ​​
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​​​​We do not always move through transformation in a straight line.
We descend.
We return.
We revisit.
We shed.
We gestate.
We emerge.
We integrate.
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The Spiral offers a living map for these movements ; and for ,more importantly, to support shifting one consciousness to another; to your true nature; to a way of orienting ourselves within the thresholds of life without forcing them into a linear process.​
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​​There is no single way into this work. We listen for what is alive and allow the body, psyche, imagination and Soul to become part of the conversation. Sometimes the two overlap.
But they are not the same doorway. ​​​​
Here is a small glimpse of the Spiral and how they move to illuminate to you that they are not chronological Rites of Passage to be ticked.
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One of the problems is the taboo against death in our Western culture. People just don't want things to die. They are afraid to let go of the old and go on with the new. The feminine knows life is cyclical, that the caterpillar must die for the butterfly to emerge. We all must experience this chrysalis stage periodically. Women have such potential to bring into the world a totally new insight into the cyclical pattern of life. But if they keep trying to run that straight line of perfection and performance, the body catches up with them. And the body will only be outraged for so long before it takes revenge.
Marion Woodman
And sometimes, something else is needed.
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Depending on what is alive for you, our work may also weave poetic inquiry, Process-Oriented Psychology, embodied non-duality, ritual, shamanic principles and journeys, visualisation and other experiential practices. Some aspects of the Spiral are experiential and ceremonial. They are not things I want to reduce to an explanation on a webpage. They are encountered when the time is right, within the relationship and the particular threshold you are walking.
🌀 THE SPIRAL AS A LIVING MAP
Perhaps you are ...
Recognising yourself in this mirror ?
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​Between identities or moving through an ending.
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Experiencing a profound life transition or awakening
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longing to move beyond purely cognitive ways of knowing.
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Drawn towards the body, dreams, archetype, nature and mystery.
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Feeling a deep soul-stirring but unable yet to name its direction.
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Sensing that something in your life is asking to be lived differently.
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Feeling that the old ways of understanding yourself no longer quite hold.
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Moving through a transformative awakening — a falling apart that, even in glimpses, feels strangely like a coming together.
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The Fertile Unknown; Pregnant Stillness.
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This very unknowing is an impregnated inner Stillness, holding an inherent gnosis that the darkness is luminous.
A place of immense potential, where we can consciously dialogue with the Soul and discover your deeper direction.
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You don't need to know what comes next.You may simply know that something is asking to be listened to.
Professional Mentorship
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What wants to emerge through your work?
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Professional mentorship is for practitioners, creatives, healers and changemakers who are developing their professional path, body of work, vocation or next expression.
Professional developmentLife transition / transformation
Work, vocation, creative direction
Developing something new
Strategy + depth
Ancient Mother Spiral
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What wants to emerge through your life/ through YOU ?​
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The Ancient Mother Spiral is for those standing at a deeper threshold of life — where an identity, relationship, vocation, worldview or way of being is changing and something new is asking to emerge.
Life transition / transformation
Psyche, soul, body, belonging
Entering the liminal
Embodiment + myth + mystery
EMBODIED poetic INQUIRY
We listen to the body not simply as something to regulate or manage, but as a source of perception, intelligence and meaning. Felt experience can become a doorway into what the conscious mind may not yet know.
DREAMS, IMAGES & SYMBOL
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Dreams, images, metaphor and symbol can speak in a language different from the analytical mind. We may follow these threads gently, allowing what emerges to reveal new dimensions of your experience.
MOVEMENT & SPIRAL PRACTICE
Sometimes we need to bring the body into the journey. Through movement, walking the Spiral and embodied visualisation, we explore what happens when the body is allowed to participate in the rhythm of Soul.
ARCHETYPAL & DEPTH INQUIRY
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Drawing from Jungian depth psychology, archetypal imagination and many years of therapeutic practice, we explore the deeper patterns, figures and stories moving through your life. The aim is not to fit you into an archetype, but to allow the symbolic world to illuminate what is unfolding.
MYTHO
POETIC &
ECOLOGICAL BELONGING
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Our lives do not unfold separately from the living world. Nature, ancestry, place, myth and the more-than-human can become part of our inquiry, opening possibilities for belonging beyond the boundaries of the individual self.
🌿 The Body as a Temenos of Ancient Gnosis
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We have learned to speak about the body as something to regulate, optimise, perform through or heal.
But what if the body is also a place of knowing?
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I experience the body as a temenos of ancient gnosis a living geography where psyche, Soul, symbol and lived experience can become perceptible with the right guidance.
Not everything needs to be understood through the analytical mind.
Sometimes knowing arrives through sensation, movement, image, dream, rhythm or a subtle shift in the body.
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This slow process is not about turning every sensation into a message, or the body into another system to master. Discernment is key and part of the development.
It is about becoming intimate enough with embodied experience to listen for what is asking for our attention.
And if we meet tender, thorny places , we move with loving awareness. Always at a pace of your heart. A rose hides its fragrance in it's thorns.
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The Ancient Mother Spiral becomes a cartographer of this liminal territory ; a way of exploring where body, psyche, Soul and the living world meet. INNER alignment is the core of our focus. But the process can't be hurried.This is also how Grace works.
And because we are not separate from the world around us, this inquiry can also open into relationship with nature, place, ancestry and the more-than-human world.
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What happens when we listen deeply enough that body, psyche, Soul, relationship and the living world can participate in how we become?
🌙 WAYS OF ENTERING THE SPIRAL
THE WAY WE WALK TOGETHER
We do not follow a fixed programme or prescribed sequence.
The Spiral becomes our living map, while your experience tells us where to place our attention.
There may be movement, descent, stillness, conversation, discovery and return.
Sometimes what is needed is surprisingly practical: a decision, a boundary, a conversation, a next step.
Sometimes something simply needs to be witnessed, felt, grieved, surrendered or allowed to gestate.
I will not be trying to get you somewhere. In my 17 years of practice i never had. I followed process. Your process. My process. This following birthed my dharmic purpose.
I will be listening with you for what is asking to emerge — while bringing the discernment, psychological depth and groundedness needed to stay with what arises.
And there will be times when we don't yet know.
The not-knowing is part of the work.
The work follows what is ALIVE .
This is not a programme you complete.
It is not coaching, a prescribed therapeutic protocol, or a spiritual system you need to believe in.
It is not about interpreting your life for you.
And it is not about bypassing the complexity of being human in search of transcendence.
It is a space in which psychological depth, embodiment, Soul, imagination, relationship and mystery can meet.
Between sessions, you may occasionally send a brief reflection, dream, image or question that feels connected to the work. This is not an ongoing messaging service or crisis support; it simply allows the thread of our work to remain alive between immersions.
What You May Walk Away With
this work is not about becoming someone new. This is not about Self-improvement,
It is about becoming more intimately acquainted with who you are ; and with what is asking to emerge through you.
You may walk away with:
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A greater capacity to remain present in uncertainty.
A deeper capacity to listen to your body without immediately needing to interpret or fix what you experience.
Greater tolerance for uncertainty and liminality, without needing to rush towards premature answers.
A more intimate understanding of your own cycles of ending, descent, gestation and emergence.
Greater trust in your inner knowing , without needing to turn intuition into certainty.
A richer relationship with dreams, symbols and imagination as ways of engaging with your inner life.
A more embodied relationship with choice, allowing your next steps to emerge from something deeper than fear, habit or external expectation.
A living relationship with the Spiral, which you can continue to return to as life changes and new thresholds appear.
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And perhaps most importantly:
a deeper trust in your capacity to meet what life brings — without abandoning yourself in the process.
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THE DEPTH I BRING
🌿 I bring over 17 years of experience as a psychotherapist, supervisor, trainer and facilitator, alongside an ongoing exploration of embodiment, depth psychology, contemplative practice, imagination and the more-than-human world.
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My work is informed by Humanistic Therapies, Somatic Processing, Jungian and archetypal psychology, Process-Oriented Psychology, embodied approaches, contemplative and non-dual perspectives, mythopoetic inquiry and ecological ways of understanding belonging.
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above all, my own body and attunement in you ​
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I also draw upon dreamwork, imagery, symbolism, movement, poetic inquiry, ritual and experiential practices where they are appropriate for the person and the moment.​These are not techniques that I apply mechanically. They are languages and doorways that may become relevant as we listen to what is alive.
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My clinical background gives me a grounding in psychological complexity, relational process, ethical responsibility and discernment.
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My contemplative and experiential work allows me to remain open to dimensions of experience that cannot always be reduced to analysis.
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I hold both.
The depth of psychology.
The intelligence of the body.
The language of symbol.
The mystery of Soul.
And our belonging within a living world.
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This is a deeply held, professionally grounded, one-to-one journey for people at profound thresholds of life ; using the Spiral as a living map through embodied, psychological, symbolic, contemplative and ecological inquiry, to support you become intimate with your deepest authentic inner self. ​​
AMS is one of these Containers Marion Woodman called forth : I LISTENED. And Retrieved. This forms part of its :living...
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“Unless cultural rituals support the leap from one level of consciousness to another, there are no containing walls within which the process can happen. Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem—alone.” Marion Woodman
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🌱 INDIVIDUAL IMMERSION
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2-hour journey
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Individual immersions may be possible where appropriate, although the Spiral is designed to unfold through relationship and time.
🌀 6-MONTH SPIRAL
​6 immersive journeys
Once-monthly 2-hour sessions. ​
£900
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£850 paid in full
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For those who feel called to remain with the work through a longer cycle of unfolding, integration and emergence. ​We meet once a month, allowing space between sessions for the work to settle, unfold and continue in the texture of your everyday life.
​Fortnightly journeys can also be considered where the nature of the work calls for a more continuous rhythm. If you need more work we can- re-contract honouring your true needs.
🌒 3-MONTH SPIRAL JOURNEY
​3 immersive journeys
Once-monthly 2-hour sessions.
£450
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£425 paid in full
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A spacious beginning for entering the Spiral and exploring a particular season of transition, descent or emergence.
THE CONTAINER
Feminine consciousness rises out of the mother, and you have to be grounded in that, because without it you’d just be blown away by spirit. Feminine consciousness, as I see it, means going into that grounding and recognizing there who you are as a soul. It has to do with love, with receiving—most of us in this culture are terrified of receiving. It has to do with surrendering to your own destiny, consciously—not just blindly, but recognizing with full consciousness your strengths, your limitations.”
Marion Woodman
MY STORY
This work was not born in a boardroom or through some careful strategising and planning.
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The Ancient Mother Spiral emerged through a period of profound dissolution of self in my own life — a fiercely embodied Surrender .
A time when many of the structures through which I had understood myself began to fall away.
What I discovered was that beneath the disorientation was another kind of intelligence.
My falling apart was, in fact, my deepest coming together.
My body was speaking.
Dreams were speaking.
Nature was speaking.
Something deeper than the narrative mind was asking to be listened to.
Over time, this became a way of understanding transformation that could hold what psychological language alone sometimes could not — while never abandoning psychological depth.
The Spiral grew from that living inquiry.
It continues to evolve through my work with people, through my relationship with the more-than-human world, and through the mystery of what becomes possible when we stop treating endings simply as problems to overcome.
I don't offer the Spiral because I have arrived at the end of it.
I offer it because I have walked it, continue to walk it, and know something of the terrain.
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In 2019, my own fire became my medicine. A profound consciousness shift into the I AM initiated a two-year "Dark Night of the Soul." and a treacherous collapse of limited sense of Identity. ​​​
I have resisted to bring this active Inquiry to life because as a separate service as I am very very sober about glorification of Teachers and gurufication.
I do not call myself a Teacher but a mirror. I m here to point you to who you ARE beyond samsara.. but NOT by denying the human pain.
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There is an intelligence that hums beneath the roles we play. It is older than our names, deeper than our wounds, and more constant than our stories. For a long time, I lived within the maps of "becoming"; the therapist, the mother, the migrant, the seeker. But Life, in its fierce and loving grace, eventually burned those maps away. And in that burning revealed my INNER MAP LESS MAP. My life's dharma and body of work also encompassed in the Ancient Mother Spiral.
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Self Inquiry was simply the FIRE I practiced for over 17 years that burnt away all illusions to reveal within me, after the SHIVA consciousness ( I AM) the SHAKTI and primordial energy that lives in my bones and marrow.
What remained was not a "better version" of myself, but a hollowed-out space.
A Honeyed vessel.
You are SO VAST like the SKY..
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No more hiding
No more waiting
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Enter the Inner vastness of your Deepest Heart and Hold the Globe in your veins
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