A bit of background…
Well let’s see if I can condense this stuff down without too much waffle.
I am an artist, a massage therapist and a doula and I am interested in the cathartic nature of art and making spaces for deep listening and the creation of community.
As an artist I am attempting to create performances or things that feel soft and felt, like a hug, or a half baked memory of your aunt’s house and what the smell and feeling was. I am interested in creating spaces that feel like we can spill ourselves out and let our barriers down and be seen. I love experiencing things like this, therefore I like to work in this immersive, inviting way with audiences. I work in performance, sound scores, video and images- whatever medium calls to me to say the thing that I need to say. I love collaboration and working in a socially engaged way with new people.
My work centers around the idea that softness, care and community can be a vehicle for huge shifts of transformation in the local and universal.
I started training in massage in 2016 in Derry and did both my Swedish body massage and Sports massage there, since then I have also qualified in pregnancy massage and baby massage and did some training in Thai yoga massage which I’ll do of this year.
The pure idea of touch, squeezing, compression to the body is so settling to do and receive and I absolutely love working in a very physical and practical way with people.
I love the idea that everyone I work with leave feeling soft and great and that ripple effect reaches their family, kids, and even the woman in Tesco scanning the bread. It’s very simple and very profound and I like to hold the practical anatomical sense of bodywork alongside a very energetic and spiritual side, both are there
Becoming a mother in 2021, after a few years in lockdown felt like I was coming out of a fever dream of love. Having a daughter has completely shone a light on all the parts of me that I had been previously numbing. It’s been beautiful and hard and i’ve been building such a beautiful group of friends and community to carry me through it. I’m so passionate about working with women through pregnancy, postpartum and beyond and have been offering retreats , pregnancy massage and baby massage sessions as well as beginning on my journey of doula work which feels so exciting. When I was pregnant, I became like a woman possessed for the information and it’s been so illuminating how pregnant people are treated in the medical system. I choose to do it outside of the norm and have a home birth, which ultimately ended up birthing in the Royal (a 9lb 10oz chunk) but that’s a story for another day.. I’m trying not to waffle remember!
I’m embracing the fact that I don’t fit neatly into one category, and I’m happy to straddle them all. Moving toward love, pleasure, and connection is at the heart of everything I do. My mission is to hold space for others, whether in performance, in a therapeutic setting, or simply as a friend.
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