The Roots of This Work

My path into this work has been shaped by a lifelong relationship with voice, movement, healing, and the natural world.

I grew up between Europe and rural Devon in a semi-nomadic, off-grid environment, without electricity, running water, or recorded music. Much of my childhood was spent outdoors, singing in the landscape, learning traditional land-based skills, and developing a deep relationship with the living world. These early experiences continue to shape both my life and my work.

As an older child and teenager, I spent much of my time within New Age Traveller and alternative communities while trying to integrate into mainstream English education. While this upbringing brought many gifts, it also came with complex challenges and over-exposure. Like many young people searching for their place in the world, I struggled with identity, belonging, and self-worth and became increasingly disconnected from my body, creativity, and voice. Anxiety, depression, dissociation, addiction and relational trauma where parts of my journey as a young person and the challenges I faced during those years became some of my greatest teachers and drives behind the work I do today.

A life-threatening accident in my late teens became a profound turning point. During my recovery, yoga emerged as a powerful catalyst for healing and transformation. Through practice, I slowly rebuilt my physical health as well as my relationship with myself, rediscovered my voice, and began to experience a deeper sense of presence, purpose, and connection.

In my early twenties, I worked farming families and children in Spain and Brazil before embarking on an eighteen-month solo bicycle pilgrimage across South America. Travelling largely without money, sleeping outdoors, and spending time with local and Indigenous communities, I experienced first-hand the transformative power of  song, movement, wilderness, and human connection. These experiences profoundly shaped my understanding of trauma, resilience, authenticity, and belonging, and planted the seeds for the work I offer today.

Since then, my path has woven together voice, yoga, therapeutic education, nature connection, community facilitation, and the ongoing study of animism, eco-somatics, and earth-based wisdom traditions.

Today, I bring these threads together through workshops, retreats, one-to-one sessions, community choirs, and circle singing. My intention is simple: to create spaces where people can reconnect with their authentic voice, rediscover their creativity, and cultivate a deeper sense of belonging within themselves, their communities, and the wider web of life.

Training, Experience & Influences

My work is informed by both formal training and lived experience, drawing from years of study, facilitation, therapeutic education, and community-based practice.

Yoga & Embodiment

• Two year-long trainings in Krama Vinyasa Hatha Yoga with a focus on Non-Dual Śiva Tantra (learn more about non dual siva tantric philosophy here) under Sara Harlow and Megan Avery at Yoga Sara, Bristol.

• Trauma-informed yoga training through the Yoga Roots Project, supporting marginalised communities.

• Ongoing study and practice of yoga, meditation, breathwork, embodied movement, and Nada Yoga.

Therapeutic Education & Recovery Work

• I am a Therapeutic educator with the Ruskin Mill Trust, specialising in woodcraft, nature connection, embodied voice, movement, and creative expression for young people experiencing complex trauma and a wide range of special needs.

• Facilitator supporting individuals in addiction recovery through yoga, meditation, breath-work, voice, and song.

Voice, Creativity & Community

• Extensive study and practice of collaborative vocal improvisation, particularly through years of study with Briony Greenhill

• Vocal Practitioner Training with Briony Greenhill & IFS (Internal Family Systems) and Vocal Improvisation trainings with Briony Greenhill

• Ongoing collaboration and apprenticeship with Theatre voice coach and mother Michelle Ridings.

• Community choir leader

• Co-founder and co-facilitator of Bristol Circle Singing.

• Member of The Bristol CVI Collective & The well Vocal Improvisation collective

• Facilitator of workshops, retreats, voice circles, and community singing spaces.

• Co-founder, performer and song-writer for The Crooked Penny

Land-Based & Cultural Projects

• Co-founder and Director of The Land Skills Fair with the Landworkers' Alliance, a festival connecting people with traditional skills, folk culture, music, and land-based practices.

• Co-facilitator of LandKin at Medicine Festival, creating spaces exploring relationship with the more-than-human world and traditional knowledge from the Celtic and British Isles.

Animism, Subtle Energies & Earth-Based Wisdom

• Apprentice and collaborator with geomancer and healer Dr Patrick MacManaway, exploring subtle energies, healing traditions, and relationship with place.

• Vocal guide and facilitator for Animate Earth's "Subtle Energies of the Land" trainings.

• Ongoing study of animism, eco-somatics, earth-based spirituality, and traditional ways of relating with the living world.

Artist, Performer & Contributor for various events:

• The Oxford Real Farming conference: Musician, Performer, Facilitator

• Listening to the Land conference: Facilitator / Contributor

• Listening to the Land Gathering: Facilitator

• The Land Skills Fair: Performer, Facilitator, producer

• Medicine Festival: Performer, facilitator, producer

• Biodynamics Training - Growing Land Growing People: Vocal guide / Facilitator

• Performing arts training Ruskin Mill College: Voice facilitator

• Animate Earth: Contributor

The teachers, communities, landscapes, and people I have encountered throughout my life continue to shape and inspire this work. I see my role not as an expert with answers, but as a guide and fellow explorer, helping create conditions where people can reconnect with their own innate wisdom, creativity, and voice.