ABOUT

My work is informed by sustained research, practice and reflection in tantra, depth psychology, somatic experiencing, trauma theory, consent, power, pleasure activism, inclusion and love.

I work at the intersection of psychology, sexuality, spirituality, philosophy, health, poetry, politics, mysticism and ecology. I am intrigued by, and attuned to, the synergies and conflicts between these fields. These patterns work me, and deeply inform my work.

My work with young people remains my most enduring educational experience, and my former students some of my greatest teachers.

• Trauma Informed Practitioner (Westminster Council, 2020)

• Restorative Justice Level 1 (Restorative Now, 2021)

• Reiki Levels 1 & 2 (Reiki Maya, 2022)

• Process-Oriented Psychology Foundation (Processwork UK, 2022)

• Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy (The Embody Lab, 2023)

• PGCert Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology (Alef Trust, 2024)

• Tantra, Shamanic Practice and Integral Theory, Stage 1 (Awaken as Love, 2025)

• Tantra Teacher Training (Evolve Beings, 2026)

I have worked throughout my life with complex emotional experiences, both personally and professionally. I worked for many years with young people experiencing serious life challenges and worked to meet them with grace and integrity. I have experienced significant life challenges of my own which I have tried to meet with this same integrity and grace.

I know intimately what it feels like to have to piece yourself together in the dark, what it feels like to lose meaning, what it feels like to look at the world around you and see nothing appealing or familiar at all. Circumstance has meant that I have had to find my way back from these places alone. Somehow, guided by some unknown force inside me, the comfort of trees and water and sunshine, and the voices and wisdom of strangers that I have found in books, music, online, I was led on, through, and out.

Progressively that life force got stronger, clearer. It became about survival, and I became a little more bloody about it. One day my ‘no’ emerged from the very depths of my soul, in an experience I can only compare to what it must feel like to roar. And my whole life changed. It was simple, not anyone, not any system, not any structure, not even myself was going to be allowed within touching distance of my self energy ever again.

Something of a fierce survival instinct emerged, and as it got stronger, it also also got hungrier. It moved from fighting things off, and started to want things. I started to deeply question why I felt low so often, and realised that I didn’t want to just survive, I wanted to feel good. And as I allowed for that wanting to fill me, I learned just how taboo that wanting is in our culture. Superficial, indulgent, privileged. The layers of shame were astounding and magnificently crafted.

A woman with desires, it turns out, is a problem. But once again I was gifted the voices of strangers, amazing, brave women who had defied everything to pursue their own pleasure, happiness, and joy. Who dared to feel alive inside this grey world. And slowly I began to feel happier. I found new pathways into my pleasure, my sexuality, my body, my self-expression.

And with each new space of freedom I have found buried underneath a trove of pain, shame and wounding. Mine, my mother’s, my brother’s, my father’s, my sister’s, my grandmother’s. Pain so recent and so ancient there was no telling it apart inside my own flesh. An unfolding of the human experience of suffering turned out to be a foundational part of my own liberation. Pleasure and pain folded into one.

At some undisclosed point in time I understood that this is my work. This is both my power and my healing, and the contribution I can make to the wounding that has shaped my family, and the violence that has shaped the earth. It is my way of saying thank you to all those who walked before me. It is my hope that I can offer up the same to others, a reminder back to your beauty, the beauty of life, and the possibility of pleasure, without denying the suffering and the pain. There is still so much undiscovered wonder in this world. I hope my work can help reorient our focus to this wonder, and to the profound creative potential that lives inside every one of us.

Tantric traditions approach the body and the senses not as obstacles to wisdom, but as places through which life, consciousness and the sacred can be encountered. Tantric practices, philosophies and spaces shine light on how we can become more fully alive to ourselves, to others, to the animate world and to the spiritual dimension of our existence.

Tantra emerged through particular religious, cultural and philosophical traditions in South Asia, with textual traditions developing from around the middle of the first millennium CE. What is called tantra today encompasses many different lineages and practices. Contemporary western tantra has developed through its own complex meeting of ancient traditions and modern interpretations. It is important to hold that history with respect, and to be clear that the tantra I practise is a contemporary practice rather than an unchanged ancient tradition.

In my own life, tantra has been a transformative portal. It has changed me and how I relate to my life. I have learned to express myself freely, release shame, meet and transform aspect of my own trauma, sit at the edge of taboo. I have learned how to love and to live and to feel more fully.

I also remain attentive to the cultural legacies, contradictions and practical limitations of tantra as a westernised practice. My work endeavours to contribute to culturally respectful, responsible, inclusive and accountable cultures of practice that are sensitive to questions of trauma, consent, power and gender.

It is my hope that collectively we can build on this rich foundation a vivid and dynamic landscape of liberated sexual, sensual, erotic, and creative energy that can inform our expression and pursuits in all areas of life.

I have learned that sexually liberated energy, when held properly, can be one of the most loving, potent and creative energies in the world. It can move into art, relationship, sexuality, work, thought, tenderness, courage, imagination and the making of a life. No matter your orientation, your life becomes infinitely more colourful, bright and alive.