I was first an art historian, and then worked in global music PR and event and brand management. I was changed by a trip to Mexico in 2004 where I witnessed immense beauty, but learnt about an alarming loss in bio-diversity beginning to unfold. There was a revival of cultural tradition and an expansion of teachings coming to the surface there to address the healing people needed, for us to take care of the Earth. This was what moved me to do something more in balance with wellbeing and the natural world.

I changed careers to study natural medicine systems, and art therapy. For the last 20 years, motivated by spiritual science I have focused on work and my own self development that draws on the necessity of our wellbeing in connection to environmental wellbeing. It has not been easy, more and more as we rely on technology and the climate changes, we need to adapt our nervous systems as much as we need to generate a healthy environmental system. In order to navigate hard paralysing experiences (global and personal) of loss, betrayal, depression I’ve found being active or in activism needs disciplines of beauty where art, science and nature are in alliance for understanding what’s needed for establishing harmony.

I have been profoundly touched, taught and guided in my work by the Mexica tradition in Mexico, and also Umbanda Afro-Indigenous traditions in Brazil. I entered into an apprenticeship with a traditional Curandera (healer) in 2004, and had the fortune to study over many years the in-depth nature-based philosophies to live well, heal well, learn and maintain balance. Not without experiencing the opposite. I feel immensly honoured to be able to use, learn from, and protect the spiritual and cultural knowledge of people and cultures who kept ancestral practices still intact. Technology we all need. Helping to retrieve what is in us all.

I studied art therapy in 2008-11 at Tobias School of Art & Therapy, an Anthroposophical transpersonal counselling training. A rich study of art as a science and soul force, a tool for accessing information and a tool for balancing. It’s an ongoing investigation in how nature, colour, form, story can affect one physically, neurologically and energetically.

These trainings were the foundation for specialising in botanical observation and practise of beauty with plants. I found it to be the most transformative theme , and quickest way to establish coherence when working therapeutically.

Over the years I have taught my own workshops, managed a school of art (The New School of Art) and worked as a therapeutic counsellor or facilitator. Plants have consistently shown me they are the strongest agents of change with the right information, and inspiration. For me, they work at the subtlest levels of soul, and logic, expanding my understanding of how all of nature communicates, responds and is connected.