Humanity is flowering.  So many people are beginning to let their

In this episode, I

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These are times of huge transition. We are crossing from an era of Pisces to Aquarius. We're shifting from a time where power has been centralised to one where it is moving back to the people. It's a time where knowledge is coming directly to each of us and updating itself rapidly.

In this context, it felt important to explore 'paradigm' - what it is and how it transforms. This is what we are exploring in this episode with paradigm trailblazer Anneke Sips. As a psychiatric nurse, Yoga Therapist & Teacher Trainer, Anneke sought to bridge paradigms and is now more comfortable co-creating new ones outside the system, connecting a wide spectrum of possibilities within the field of healing and health.

We discuss

-the nature of paradigms (personal and collective)

- her perspective of watching an old one fall while new ones rise

- the parts of paradigm that are resistant to change and those that are more adaptable

- whether there is a difference between transformation and death

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Rising from a rest or a place of safety is different to getting up for another round of battle or keeping up on the hamster wheel.  We’ve finished a three-year cycle starting with the onset of Corona 19, the restrictions, and the huge squeezes and shifts

It’s time to rise into something new.

In this episode, I talk with Starkeeper Morton about:

- where we are rising from collectively

- how to navigate feeling betrayed, let down or unsupported by society

- the different nervous system responses to something traumatic happening to you or to someone you feel responsible for

- the practices and resources we can call upon

- the pit you have to reach to really rise

- the struggle, effort and joy of rising

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And you can find Starkeeper's book 'How To Survive When Society Lets You Down: A Guidebook' at:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Survive-When-Society-Lets-Down/dp/1959555782?ref=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=ee5e0cba-f9d6-490b-8ad5-03fd9962e3c2

In a human world that has become a relentless stream of activity, rest has become one of the most radical acts we can take. To return our true connection to our human, and non-human, essence, it is one of the most potent acts we can make.

This conversation explores 'rest' in ordinary and extraordinary ways. Emma B taps into Lorna Bailey's experience as a single mother, a devoted daughter and a seasoned shamanic practitioner.

It covers :-

- The ways we understand and frame life, challenge, transition and crisis

- The effect of our language on our nervous system

- personal and collective trauma burdens of self-reliance and longing

- Surrender and bringing in support

- Cultivating inner spaciousness

- Rest as a portal into body consciousness and into the vastness of existence

This episode was part of the GrowFree Rest to Rise Online Retreat that takes place in the winter months. There are many more seasonal, monthly, and one-off offerings, courses and events in the GrowFree calendar. Including a new trauma-informed, nature-based practitioner and peer training in 2024.

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You can find Lorna Bailey in The GrowFree Community or at her Temple Room Website or Whatsapp Group.

Memory as Medicine is a dialogue with shamanic practitioner and poet seer Lorna Bailey that

Lorna is a Sacred Feminine Embodiment Practitioner, Poet

Lorna lives with her partner on the Isle of Sheppey off of

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In this episode, I explore the relationship between connection and reverence - what they are, where we lost and found them - with three Grow Free Community Members.

We start the conversation by looking at some quotes and definitions from Brene Brown's Atlas of the Heart, and in particular the comparison of admiration and reverence.

'We feel admiration when someone's abilities, accomplishments, or character inspires us, or when we see something else that inspires us like art or nature'.

'Reverence, which is sometimes called adoration, worship, or veneration, is a deeper form of admiration or respect and is often combined with a sense of meaningful connection with something greater than ourselves ... characterised by the capacity of feeling deep respect, love and humility for something sacred or transcendent.

What's interesting is that while admiration fosters self-betterment, reverence seems to foster a desire for connection to what we revere - we want to move closer to that person or thing.

In what is another personal conversation with insightful peers and practitioners who honestly share reflections and moments of their journey, we get to hear about the ways that nature fostered safety and reverence when the human world seemed confusing.

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Madeleine Besson

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Lorna Bailey

Georgia Brooker - Permaculture Teacher & Humanist Celebrant

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Archetypes and attunement are resources that are significantly affected by trauma and key to moving beyond it.  

Attunement can be described and experienced in many ways.  It is essentially our ability to receive, feel and respond to the flow of energy or information within and around us.  I love how Thomas Hubl describes attunement.

When we are carrying significant trauma burdens however, which most of us are, our internal system has us pinched off from direct sensory experience.  A mechanism that kicked in when we first experienced something too overwhelming – in this lifetime or in previous ones – that prevents us feeling the level of threat and vulnerability it perceived us to be facing.  This is dissociation.  It’s common and collective. 

Another field of forgotten embodied resources are our archetypes; constellations of qualities, knowledge and skills that have often been communicated in stories and myth in human form, but also as totems or power animals, plants and planets.  My sense is that our inevitable journey is to bring planetary and plant archetypes and ways of attuning into human form.

In this episode, I speak to this theme with a Grow Free Elder Lorna Bailey who is highly and deeply attuned and an embodied activator of many an archetype.  Having started her adult life living in an indigenous community in the United States, she is one of the most guided, surrendered and reverent people I know.  Her work over these recent years has been to receive and journey with a universal set of burden carriers and archetypes (they don't like this term but were happy to turn up for the conversation!). Lorna is developing this work into a package of resources, activations and retreats. 

Lorna's events are listed in the Grow Free Community Platform .  Her Lotus Woman Retreat on Sunday July 9th and her Cygnus Moon Drumming Circle on June 25th in Aberdeenshire. Both are being held in Aberdeenshire, yet Lorna lives between here,  Kent and Suffolk and is working on offering much of this online too. 

Find Lorna at community.grow-free.com and message her directly using the member search and chat function.  You can email at [email protected].  You can also find her through www.thetempleroom.co.uk and The Temple Room Whatsapp Group.

Find me as usual at community.grow-free.com, facebook/growfreewithemmab and email at [email protected] 

In this episode, I speak with a firm favourite in the Grow Free Community.  One of our practitioner members, Jon Cree was one of the key pioneers of Forest School in the UK, a director of The Forest School Association UK and co-author of The Essential Guide to Forest School & Nature Pedagogy.  He is also an emerging expert in nature-based approaches for working through trauma. 

Jon is delivering three workshops with us in Aberdeenshire in May this year.

• Together in Nature - nervous system attunement in nature for practitioners and peer supporters
• Involving All, Evolving Play - consent-based , play-led learning for practitioners, educators and parents
• The Power of Connection - a weekend immersion exploring somatics and storytelling. 

This conversation teases out some of the language we have used to describe the workshops, finding the phrase 'Fit to Play' as a common thread connecting them all. 
We cover themes such as:
- how the multi-sensory world of nature helps us to hold BIG feelings and share life experiences
- the neurobiology of healing
- relational attunement and how it helps to re-focus attention and re-discover delight in the energy of life
- how to walk alongside each other and the more than human to feel our natural state as one of profound interconnectedness, feeling it counteract anxiety

A beautiful conversation with a beautiful bloke, igniting our excitement for him coming in May. 

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In terms of healing and inner work, ‘Release’ used to feel quite a heavy term with dense emotions and experiences surfacing.  Now it feels as much about the energy of the new as the letting go of the past.  This is nothing short of miraculous, for me at least.   I tied up the threads of my years of healing work at cellular, energetic, DNA levels during the days and Imbolc  I got to a moment where I could say 'I am clear'.  The core wounds have been heard and held, often by Grow Free members in our Sanctuary.

Where I am triggered, it feels more hollow.  New challenges or adversity are coming into a clearer space now, and I can transform those conditioned patterns into creative responses quite quickly.

I wanted to discuss this phenomena of release with someone who works first and foremost through the body.  Nicola Harkins based in Aberdeen came to mind instantaneously as the practitioner to approach.  She is an incredibly gifted 'bodyworker' who uses techniques such as Kinetic Chain Release and Hawaiian Bone Washing. She also brings in a full set of modalities from breathwork to plant medicine ceremony.  She would prefer not to need a label for her work these days, but says something like a metaphysical practitioner would probably be close.

We discuss:
- her pathways into her purpose and practice
- Hawaiin Ho’oponopono prayers
- Fascia - what it holds, how it releases
- cellular memory
- Quantum healing
- Old systems, new ways
- Working with children

Nicola works one-to-one at her new centre in Pitstruan Place, Aberdeen as well as holding ceremony and group work.  She also teaches Kinetic Chain Release.
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Website: BodyKinect – Body Kinect Aberdeen 

In this episode, I introduce you to two practitioners who are among the pioneers in growing beyond trauma and the matrix it has kept us in and in supporting others to do the same.  We have a conversation about the exciting theme of Re-birth & Renewal.
 
 I welcome again Vicki Rebecca who describes herself as a story-healer, and who brings a lifetime of experience that includes professional work as hypnotherapist, almost a previous life as a glamour model as well as an author whose autobiography is soon to be published.  

Vicki brings with her Rakasa Lucero who is coming to Aberdeenshire to run a series of workshops with Vicki at her home studio in Aboyne.  Rakasa and Vicki met in India in an OSHO ashram.  Vicki joined Rakasa's Somatic Experiencing (trained with Peter Levine) and Family Constellation workshops and feel in love with the approached and with Rakasa.  Rakasa comes originally from Colombia and now travels to facilitate Trauma Healing work with those who need it. She calls Scotland 'the refrigerator' but is happy to be coming in January-February to deliver 2 4 day workshops. 
 
 We speak about: 

1)    The impact and legacy of early attachments and environments

2)    The practices and modalities that support people to process and transform the imprints and gain freedom

3)   This time of radical ‘re-birth’ and renewal
 
 Contact Vicki Rebecca at:
 www.vickirebecca.com
 OR Whatsapp: 07714459692
 
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