LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I live on the Ancestral and unceded land of the Jagera, Giabal and Jarowair people, and recognise them as the Traditional Owners of the country, and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. I pays my respects to the Elders past, present and emerging.

This land that I live, work, and raise my daughter on isn’t mine but has been under the care and stewardship of the Australian First Nations people for at least 40,000 years who in recent history experienced violence and colonialism.

I acknowledge this history and pay my heartfelt respects to the land, this country I create on, and her ancestral caretakers.

LINEAGE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

My personal ancestral lineage is English, Welsh, North Germanic and Eastern European. The different branches of my family came to Australia as early settlers and post-war refugees, to a land which was not ours for the taking, but has welcomed us. My practices include connecting to my roots and building relationship to the land on which I live as ongoing explorations that hold both tensions and beauty.

My professional lineage includes Jungian Psychology, Western Psychology, Kashmir Shaivism and it’s modern offshoots of feminine embodiment primarily as a student of Michaela Boehm, and other Yoga lineages. I am also an ongoing student of the nervous system and trauma and have been impacted by the teachings of Peter Levine and Stephen Porges. Ultimately the interweaving thread I find through all is the invitation to come home to who you really are.