I am Mother to Māhi. A bodyworker, womb devotee, former humanitarian lawyer and academic doctor specialising in resistance to structural violence and the remembering of regenerative culture - culture that centres thriving life. I love to create medicine with plants, through handcrafted herbal body oils that I use in my massage therapy. I am a novice to basketry and clay.

Connecting with my body’s innate intelligence, matrilineal memory, and the regenerative practices of cyclical living elicit fire in my belly. I feel enlivened by raw and authentic communication. Through ritual and devotional practice, I seek to align to nature’s rhythm and live in reciprocity with the natural world. Nurturing my son is piece by piece cracking open my reverence for Mother - that life creating, nurturing, and sustaining archetypical force that lives deep within the bones of me, of women, of the earth.

A Rich and Humbling Tapestry of Experience

Woven together to inspire my work includes:

• Birthing my son, Māhi, at home, by the flicker of flame and moonlight.

• Training with the Red School in Menstrual Leadership Education and learnings with Kimberley Ann Johnson, Jane Hardwicke Collings, Rachelle Seliga, and in Myofascial Release Therapy in Berlin and Mexico, primarily with Frali Venner.

• Over a decade as an academic and lawyer, traversing Myanmar’s jungled mountains and remote villages, drinking in stories of resilience, resistance, and revolution, embedded with rebel armies, genocide survivors, and political activists.

• Working as a human rights lawyer with the United Nations in Austria and Nigeria.

• Ongoing learnings to recognize and dismantle my own internalized misogyny, colonial imprint, and toxic femininity.

• Journeying into the underworlds and otherworlds in Mexico, Costa Rica, and Indonesia.

• Exploring layers of Self through years lived in London and Berlin.