Hi, I'm Tanya, it's good to meet you here

I was born walking the middle, growing up as a biracial girl in the '70s in a society that didn't yet have language for the spaces in between. From an early age, I knew what it meant to not belong, to live between worlds, never fully at home in either. My very being raised questions I didn't yet have the language to answer.

That experience shaped me. It taught me how to listen, not just with my ears, but with my whole being. It made me an edge walker, someone who understands thresholds, paradox, and the spaces in between. Over time, I've come to see that this isn't just my story. Many of us carry our own version of it, quietly navigating the distance between who we were taught to be and who we truly are.

Living in that in-between gifted me a deep sensitivity to what's unseen and unspoken. It taught me to notice what lies beneath words and the stories that live in our bones. That capacity to listen with the body, to sense what moves beneath the surface, has become the ground of my life's work.

My lived experience has become my medicine.

It informs the way I hold space, the way I witness others, and the way I guide people back to the sacredness of their own being. Over the years, this has become both my devotion and my offering: to walk beside others as they awaken, remember, and return home to themselves.

For more than a decade, I've taught yoga and guided people through the practice I love most, Yoga Nidra, as studied with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli. Yoga Nidra has been my greatest teacher in surrender and restoration, in rest as resistance, and in listening to the body's deep intelligence. Alongside my three decades as a bodyworker, I've come to see the body as a living bridge between the seen and unseen, a map of both our grit and our grace.

My path has also been shaped by years of study and apprenticeship with elders, mystics, and teachers. My grief-tending apprenticeship with Francis Weller taught me that sorrow is sacred ground, a gateway to beauty, meaning, and belonging. From Sobonfu and Malidoma Somé, I learned that grief and ritual are communal medicine, that to weep together is to remember our humanity and to strengthen the village that lives within and between us.

My ritual work lives at the meeting point of these influences, rooted in African spiritual traditions that honour ancestry and communal healing, and the Celtic wheel of the year, which teaches us to listen to the wisdom of the seasons and to trust the cycles of life, death, and renewal. I follow these rhythms closely in my work and my life, attuning to the turning of the earth, the moon, and the seasons as guides for our inner journey. The Wheel reminds me that healing is never linear; it is spiral, continuous, and holy.

Now in my fifties, moving through menopause, I feel the spiral of my own life gathering into coherence, decades of tending, loss, and devotion weaving together. Menopause has been both initiation and revelation, a return to simplicity, power, and truth that needs no performance.

My professional life has carried me from the fast pace of corporate London into the deep, relational work of group facilitation, reconciliation, and community healing. I've held circles in schools, large organisations, and spiritual communities, always with an eye toward inclusion, equity, and embodied belonging.

My ongoing work with St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace has deepened my practice of conflict transformation, teaching me to stay rooted in presence when rupture arises, and to listen for what is trying to be reconciled beneath the noise. Through The Art of Welcome, which I co-created to dismantle oppressive patterns in group spaces, I've come to see facilitation as a form of activism, a sacred act of love and repair.

My approach is grounded in somatic awareness, trauma-informed care, and collective nervous-system literacy. I bring these threads together, body, ritual, ancestry, and the natural world, to create spaces where deep healing and authentic connection can unfold.

Whether through a grief ritual, a group Circle gathering, a seasonal retreat, or a Yoga Nidra journey, my invitation is always the same: come as you are. These are spaces to exhale, to rest into your truth, to honour your cycles, and to remember your belonging to the wider web of life.

I work as a trauma-informed Facilitator, Embodiment Guide, and Ritualist. My approach is grounded in presence, shaped by the nervous system, and rooted in love. I support people to awaken their hearts, to live with honesty and tenderness, and to belong, to themselves, to each other, and to this living earth.

You belong here, exactly as you are, with whatever you're carrying.

Together, we can create spaces where the sacred moves through the ordinary, where healing is cyclical, connection is real, and love becomes the ground we walk on.

Thank you for being here.

Tanya x