As I sit here, sorting out the threads to start weaving this tapestry of an Introduction I find myself wrestling with my human brain of what I think I should tell you about myself and my work, and the conversation my soul is yearning to have with you. So lets go with the Soul conversation and see where we end up. I am a mother of two children, both now grown up and carving out wonderful lives for themselves, I am beyond proud of them. They have been and remain my greatest joy& truest of love.
I am blessed to live on the most magical land, in a hidden valley on the borderlands between Herefordshire and Wales in a cottage at the edge of a woodland. The River Teme weaves though the gorge behind me, whilst deer and foxes wander up my pathway and tawny owls sit on my gatepost and overhead, during the day time Red kites & buzzards dance in the skies above me.
My life was not always this way and there has been alot of unpicking of threads and reweaving of yarns. There was a threshold moment where I realized that there must be another way of living, rather than the contemporary, consumer driven, industrialized western world that became so intent with the ‘I’, the ‘We’ had steadily become bypassed. And so I set my course, following the stars, with the wind beside me and the rain at my back I began are discovery of who I was meant to be when I was plucked from the places between the stars.
It been quite a journey, filled with a mx of utter despair, cocooned in infinite joy – a path I am sure I will spend the rest of my life on.
As I walked myself back, unpeeling the layers I had been given, and composting down the old stories I no longer needed, the work I am called to do began to glistens like stellar star maps in the sky, calling me to the edge places. So here I am holding all the rites that have been lost, reclaiming what we have given away and what has been taken from us. In these pages you will find information about each of the different threads of my works and what working with me might look like and the adventures we can have.
My work is based in Death and Grief , Nature & Animism and reclaiming Ancestral crafts . my own creations are available to buy in my shop or made by your own hands in one of my 1:1 Creation days. In all of my offerings my Shamanic and Animistic ways are gently weaved and entwined to deepen and support the healing of ourselves, our Ancestors and of these lands. I am yet to find something more powerful than being witness by all our More than Human Relations as we walk ourselves back home.
You can read more about my training and the inspirational people my life on my Blog where I celebrate the teachers. Mentors and Inspirational people in my life.
I look forward to meeting you by the Fireside.
Much Love Louise xx
