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December newsletter

12/2/2025

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Read & Subscribe to the December Newsletter Here
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Re-Membering Passions and Returning to Roots

12/2/2025

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"Shamanism is the life path of one who knows. The Tree of Life is the entryway of connection and travel whilst journeying. In the case of Somatic Shamanism, the entry point is the body. Somatic means of the flesh and so this shamanic process cultivates your own 'fleshy knowing'. The foundational premise of this book is that the direction of travel is in and through not up and out of the body. This is a path of tangible divinity."
 
Shamanism: Your Fleshy Knowing as the Tree of Life ~ Kay Louise Aldred


My @girlgodbooks workbook depathologises and normalises meeting our spiritual needs in an inclusive, creative and grounded way.

In helping us recognise our interdependence and interconnectedness with all living beings and the earth that supports them, it fosters the creation of a humane and humanitarian humanity.

Excerpts of the workbook can be read on @girlgodbooks' Patreon page & it is available to purchase now from @girlgodbooks’ website and online stores.

Art pic 1 Lauren Raine and Pic 2 Kat Shaw via Girl God Books.


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Research gathering at York St john uni

12/2/2025

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​Cultivating a Coven - A Gathering of Witches
 
Thank you @yorkstjohn @jagger.sharon @clarelesleyhughes @interdiscwitchysj @leframptonthorburn @selenitesister for including me in this month’s research day.
Finally, academics - I applaud you 👏 - taking this knowledge & these ways of knowing seriously
 
Can't wait to read the research paper & delighted to have been able to contribute in a small way
 
#educateevolveembody #bodymind #diversity #spirituality #depathologise #rehumanise #thinksystemically
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Beyond the brain

12/2/2025

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Beyond the Brain: Further Reaches of Consciousness Research.
I really enjoyed attending this online @scimednet @aleftrust #beyondthebrain2025 #consciousnessstudies conference in November.
 
More coming related to this topic in 2026, I hope!
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#educateevolveembody #bodymind #diversity #spirituality #depathologise #rehumanise #thinksystemically
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Visioning beyond the horizon

12/2/2025

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​Visioning beyond the horizon,
as the Tree of Life. 🌿
Knowledge through the senses.
Lone walking between worlds --
retrieving, bridging, returning, re-membering.
No one would choose this path voluntarily.
There’s no option but to blaze — ❤️‍🔥
to become the fire that lights your own way.
 
#educateevolveembody #bodymind #diversity #spirituality #depathologise #rehumanise #thinksystemically
 
📸 taken in Glastonbury in October🌳🔥
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Festive Fayre at The Acorn wellness retreat

12/2/2025

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Dan and I shared moments of joy experimenting with acupressure tools at The Acorn Wellness Retreat Festive Fayre last weekend.
 
I am grateful to remain connected with and part of this community.
When I was self-employed and freelancing, this sensory-friendly and holistic wellbeing venue in Nidderdale, near Harrogate, was where I facilitated all my live one-on-one sessions, workshops, and retreats.
 
This December, I am thinking systemically envisioning and calling in this type of community and environment within societal systems, institutions, and services…
 
compassionate, gentle and relational values, interconnected and interdependent care, alongside low arousal and sensory-friendly environments, which centre holistic wellbeing approaches.
 
#mindbodysoul #energymedicine #care #healthcare #socialcare #education #change #thinksystemically

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Halloween at York St John Uni

11/3/2025

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🎃 Halloween at York St John University 🎭

I had the absolute pleasure of spending Halloween at York St John University with Dr. Morag Galloway and her incredible Musical Theatre undergraduate students. Together, we explored intuition, embodiment, and energy medicine practices — supporting students in developing mastery over performance anxiety and deepening their connection to presence.

I facilitated practices to help them:
✨ Connect to the “I” and the “We” simultaneously
✨ Hold and share personal power within creative spaces
✨ Stay tuned in to their unique bodyminds, inner guidance and wisdom
✨ Understand and work with their nervous systems
...and so much more!

It was such a powerful and inspiring day — being in an educational environment that truly values creativity, wellbeing, and holistic learning. I’m deeply impressed by York St. John University & its commitment to being a progressive and inclusive space. 

Obviously, I can't share photos of the students so this post includes a picture of the the venue. We worked predominantly with our most essential instruments — body, mind, energy, and voice — allowing the practice to stay individually relevant, deeply embodied and authentic.


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If you are someone who goes first

10/25/2025

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​If you're someone who goes first --

Who questions.

Who imagines alternatives.

Who refuses to settle.



Remember: the stages of how others respond to new ideas often sound like this:

1. This is worthless nonsense.

2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.

3. This is true, but quite unimportant.

4. I always said so.

(John Haldane)



Keep going.



#IfeelthereforeIam

#educateevolveembody #bodymind #diversity #spirituality #depathologise #rehumanise #thinksystemically
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Making Love with the Divine

10/25/2025

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Making Love with the Divine

"Making Love with the Divine invites us to explore our experiences of the erotic current that animates our bodies and our lives. A current whose natural flow and vitality is often stifled, distorted and shamed within patriarchal culture.

This book seeks to open up the conversation by asking us how we experience our own sexuality and eroticism, and how this flow of aliveness can be a portal to feeling the divinity inside of us, and beyond us.

Based on her research and clear devotion to this path, Kay Louise Aldred has created a supportive year-long workbook that provides a practical framework for anyone who feels a call towards liberating their body and deepening relationship with their sacred erotic aliveness."

-Carly Mountain, Sex and Relationship Therapist and author of Descent & Rising.



I published this book in January 2023 with @girlgodbooks (available via their website or all major online retailers). In writing it, I came face-to-face with just how deeply disconnected — and even phobic — we are, as a society, from our bodies. Across all settings.



Now, another of my works is coming of age. I can feel it. It's ready to support the vision and building of a new era — new culture, new systems, new norms.

I'm deeply grateful to @carly_mountain for her beautiful endorsement and the powerful work she herself brings into the world.



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Consciousness

10/25/2025

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​Consciousness

I understand from both research and lived experience that #consciousness can exist beyond the #body and #mind.

Yet my bodymind lived experience keeps showing me that I learn the most about consciousness, and our collective humane, humanitarian potential, in and through the body itself.

Staying integrated, and connected — this is how I truly learn what it means to be alive.

While consciousness may extend beyond form, it's through my body that I’ve come to understand it most deeply. I'm not in or with consciousness - I am embodied consciousness (embodied Source or #Spirit) - experiencing itself. And therefore, perhaps evolving too.



📸 St Michael's Tower on top of The Tor in Glastonbury, taken earlier this month
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