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Enlightenment is not something to be reached, but rather something to live by, treating each moment with presence from a place of total awareness and compassion. 

 

In order to do this, we must all seek the answers from within, but the journey speaks many languages, the answer is to find your language, and your practice, and harness it to show your story to the rest of the world. It's important for me to discover rituals that are healing to the individual. Everyone should leave my practice with their own set of tools that they can use on their own at home to return to this joy and balance.

 

It took me many years to find a language that resonated with me. I spent my teenage years trying to escape the constant chatter finding any external pattern to cling to in the hope that it would heal my pain. I was pretty wild growing up. Every door marked ‘no’ by conventional standards seemed to hold the key to some lavish pleasure I had to have. Whatever sounded outrageous, I wanted to do. And usually, I did it.

 

I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. I went from relationship to relationship, job to job, city to city, looking for some sense of identity or purpose; some feeling that my life had finally kicked in. I knew I had talent, but I was too frantic to apply it to my own circumstances. I sank deeper and deeper into my own neurotic patterns, seeking relief in drugs, people, spending or whatever else I could find to distract myself. I was always trying to make something happen in my life, but nothing much happened, except all the drama I created around things not happening. As my pain deepened so did my interest in the teachings of mindfulness and yoga philosophy. I remember at 17 I’d experienced a painful lump in my throat that had manifested from my ongoing health anxiety that stuck around for months, but as soon as I stepped through the misty veil towards something other than self-sabotage, trying out Yoga, Meditation, Qi Gong, Breathing and other Energy Healing exercises, the heavy pressure on my chest lifted and I knew there was something else underneath all this pain worth searching for. The search became a way of life, and each moment now beckons with hope that there is another way to live than we already have been. 

 

I realise more deeply than ever the responsibility that each of us has to embrace it more fully and express it effectively.

 

We must transform our way of thinking out of the fearful illusion we have created for millennia, unveiling the healed love that is already there; slowly walking each other back home to our whole connected selves.

 

Through movement, intuitive guidance, food, breath, and stillness, I keep finding and learning new ways in which to grow a little deeper, unravelling the knotted string a little more, to keep returning home to the most authentic self.

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