HEALING THE ETERNAL BEING
My search for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellness, has led me to look at and outside of western models of wellbeing into different healing modalities, natural and spiritual practices guided by my inner wisdom.
With a deeply embodied experience, I now express and share the potential for connection through my arts practice as I continue my own personal healing journey.
Being - A pathway to becoming
As the 21st century unfolds, I witness a quiet unravelling, a world where simply being is a silent struggle.
Wellness, our birthright, remaining the perpetual privilege of others throughout time.
We live amidst a deepening fracture, of violence upon the earth, upon each other,
a dissonance breeding imbalance, unethical, unsustainable, unjust and unkind ways of existing.
Caring for oneself now feels like a quiet rebellion, mutual respect, compassion, forgiveness, care for self, for others and the world we share posited as unviable and ‘woke’.
I return repeatedly to the simple, sacred ways.
Ancient practices that hold and heal me reminding of what I truly am.
Grounding
Walking barefoot on the earth, I become aware of our energetic connection and witness the regulation of my body’s physiological and bioenergetic processes.
The more I surrender, the greater my feeling of a rootedness and flowing connection .
Sunday Service - Stillness in Urban Settings
Notes on Farah Alibhai’s Sunday Service -
Rory Duckhouse
During my recovery from a brain injury in 2015, I was offered 4 sessions on mindfulness, as a way to cope with the fatigue I was now living with. I went into it sceptical, unsure whether I would be able to silence the chattering monkey inside my head, and it never worked.
“Stillness is not the absence of movement or sound. It’s not about focusing on nothingness; it’s about creating a physical and emotional clearing to allow ourselves to feel, think, dream and question.”
– Brené Brown
Ritual & Honouring
For Millennia, various ways of honouring life, the earth and the cosmos have been observed. Over time these traditions have become obscured and dismissed as meaningless in this patriarchal age of denial, ethnocide, ecocide, materialist logic and self interest . I’ve found myself heeding the instinctive need in me to connect to my natural and super natural self. Through sacred intuitive practices, restoring my connection to both the earth and the universe, instills in me a greater peace and the courage to continue on.
Offering
Heeding the whispers, following my intuition, I find a tree calling to me. In the spirit of reciprocity, I leave an apple in appreciation of its existence and for the ways in which the natural world sustains me.
Alter
Placing objects of significance with intention, attunes me to what I hold sacred and meaningful. Through observation of them I am reminded to trust to feel love abundance and gratitude.
Combining my ancestral ritual practices of invocation and purification, honouring life and death brings me closer to understanding life’s meaning to me and its transience.
Is an act of emancipation the same as an act of healing ?
Work with Farah
I love to see people discovering how these simple wellbeing practices benefit them.
I am able to facilitate people’s journey into what ritual, ceremony and honouring may look like and mean to them.