HEALING
In my search for emotional, mental, physical and spiritual wellness, it’s been essential to look at and outside of western models of wellbeing which has led me to many different healing modalities, natural and spiritual practices that feel innately right for me. Gradually internalizing and absorbing this wisdom through lived experience, I now express and share it through my arts practice.
My personal healing is this lifetimes intention and undertaking.
Regulation is Resistance
Prioritising health and wellbeing
As we move through the 21st Century, I observe people increasingly struggling with various health and wellbeing challenges, exacerbated by an intensification of violence upon nature and mankind resulting in unethical and unsustainable ways of living on the planet. It is challenging to look after oneself especially when one lacks a firm foundation of compassion, forgiveness and care for self and others.
Simple ancient practices are my foundation and are vital in sustaining my physical, mental and spiritual well being.
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 wellbeing and 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, different ways of connecting to ourselves, each other, the world and the cosmos have been performed. Over time these traditions have become obscured and dismissed as meaningless in this age of materialist logic and self interest . I’ve found myself disconnected from the instinctive need in me to be connected to nature, to my natural and super natural self. Through personal intuitive practices I have forged reconnection finding a peace and clarity rooting me in hope and healing.
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 gives me a deeper sense of lifes purposefulness 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.