Jay
I have been on a pilgrimage to the depths of my heart all my life, with my journey intensifying 20 years ago when I developed ME/CFS. This was to be a significant gateway into a thirst for the spiritual life, to seek answers to questions I wasn't even aware of at that time; I just knew I had to find out. At the time I was ill yet determined to become well, and through this commitment, I became well through three years of nutritional therapy and much soul searching.
The search for deeper meaning, of my own personal truth, had well and truly begun, and this took me to experience a great many paths, teachers, guides, and places. During this time, another gateway opened up, that of a large fibroid tumour on my womb. Again, I took this as a signal to learn more about myself and to look at self-healing. For two years I sought to heal this tumour and in August 1999, just after the major eclipse, I had it removed by surgery as it had grown so large. At this time, I realised how a crucial part of our healing journeys allopathic medicine can be, that it is not separate from God, All That Is, the Divine offering that we are always blessed with.
This for me was a huge wake up call and I changed my life radically, leaving the corporate world behind, and headed to Glastonbury where I began a new chapter. There I met the man who was to be my husband, Elahn, and we facilitated workshops, courses, retreats and pilgrimages together, whilst also setting up a holistic healing centre/ashram in Glastonbury. It was an amazing time and hugely intense. I realised that those who facilitate such spaces in the name of transformation are truly put through their paces by the Universe! It makes a lot of sense that it would be this way. The demands of this lifestyle took their toll on me and after three years of co-running the centre, I moved on. My marriage had also collapsed along with my energy to live this way, and so, after a long journey in India to take the space I needed where I could stock of it all, I felt I had to make the choice to move on.
That was four years ago now. Since then, my time has been spent in several places in the north of England, travelling abroad, and also living in Edinburgh too for a time. It has been an important time to slow down, to allow time for healing, for regeneration, to live without pressure from the outside world for a while, and to see what was happening for me when I dropped deep into solitude. Again I began to experience illness, this time Fibromyalgia, and again, I realised the opportunity this has brought to me. I am still in this experience, and committed to travel once more deep within myself, to come home to me in every moment.
Even so, I am now ready to burst out and be involved more in the world! I feel so drawn to joining the movement to bring in positive change to our lives, to aid in the shifting of consciousness that is happening now. Its Beautiful!
The search for deeper meaning, of my own personal truth, had well and truly begun, and this took me to experience a great many paths, teachers, guides, and places. During this time, another gateway opened up, that of a large fibroid tumour on my womb. Again, I took this as a signal to learn more about myself and to look at self-healing. For two years I sought to heal this tumour and in August 1999, just after the major eclipse, I had it removed by surgery as it had grown so large. At this time, I realised how a crucial part of our healing journeys allopathic medicine can be, that it is not separate from God, All That Is, the Divine offering that we are always blessed with.
This for me was a huge wake up call and I changed my life radically, leaving the corporate world behind, and headed to Glastonbury where I began a new chapter. There I met the man who was to be my husband, Elahn, and we facilitated workshops, courses, retreats and pilgrimages together, whilst also setting up a holistic healing centre/ashram in Glastonbury. It was an amazing time and hugely intense. I realised that those who facilitate such spaces in the name of transformation are truly put through their paces by the Universe! It makes a lot of sense that it would be this way. The demands of this lifestyle took their toll on me and after three years of co-running the centre, I moved on. My marriage had also collapsed along with my energy to live this way, and so, after a long journey in India to take the space I needed where I could stock of it all, I felt I had to make the choice to move on.
That was four years ago now. Since then, my time has been spent in several places in the north of England, travelling abroad, and also living in Edinburgh too for a time. It has been an important time to slow down, to allow time for healing, for regeneration, to live without pressure from the outside world for a while, and to see what was happening for me when I dropped deep into solitude. Again I began to experience illness, this time Fibromyalgia, and again, I realised the opportunity this has brought to me. I am still in this experience, and committed to travel once more deep within myself, to come home to me in every moment.
Even so, I am now ready to burst out and be involved more in the world! I feel so drawn to joining the movement to bring in positive change to our lives, to aid in the shifting of consciousness that is happening now. Its Beautiful!
