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If this is the first time you’ve connected with me and this work, I want to extend a deep and strong welcome to you. I don’t yet know what’s brought you here, but I hope you feel at ease to be in touch directly when the time feels right. Before you go deeper into the body of what this work is about and how it may be able to support you, below are some good entry points to begin connecting. Community is good for humankind – a strong focus of this work is cultivating intimacy with otherness, inner alchemy & our journey of togethering. It’s helpful to have clear reflections as anchor points in terrains of the deep Self and to understand that there are others on this path of truth, transformation, and tending the human soul. This work is open to anyone who feels a YES for it, even if they don’t yet know why (that’s what we get to discover together). Looking forward to meeting you via the below channels of connection:

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Why I’m No Longer Teaching Ceremonial Cacao

by Annu | August 13, 2018 | Blog, Practices, Writing | 64 Comments

Where I Am Right Now... I’m not sure how to start this post other than by saying I’m going through changes. Big changes. This is a very specific process that began in May 2018 and what I can say about this right now is that I’m arriving nakedly into the roots of my...

The Nature of Surrender

by Annu | May 9, 2018 | Audio | 0 Comments

The Nature of Surrender is a tender, bitter-sweet, vulnerable and fierce sonic journey into our human nature and the delicate cascades of our capacity to overcome the obstacles to our heart. Throughout the playlist are invitations to soften again and again as the...

The Roar of Love – an ecstatic movement mix

by Annu | May 9, 2018 | Audio | 0 Comments

The Roar of Love is a short mix that can be used for ecstatic movement, prayer, personal practice and opening to space and love through the body. Seeded with secret transmission, deep ambient build-ups, liberating breakthroughs, soaring melodies, and grounding...

Chambers – a sonic practice

by Annu | May 9, 2018 | Audio | 0 Comments

Chambers is a devotional sonic prayer offering that was originally created to accompany a heart-opening practice for the 10 Day Personal Practice Retreat that took place in 2017. It's a gorgeously gently and enveloping soundtrack to support submergence in the...

Sounds That Move In The Dark

by Annu | May 7, 2018 | Audio | 0 Comments

Sounds That Move In The Dark is a sonic journey of dark deep quietude and bliss, stirring ferocious tenderness and terrible beauty through a silent oceanic arousal of resonant strings, echoing cello, lingering piano notes, haunting vocals and rolling ambient beats. ∞...

Unwinding The Enjoyment Body

by Annu | May 7, 2018 | Video | 0 Comments

Here's a wee video sharing a few words on upcoming events in Edinburgh (28th May) and London (1st July), speaking on relaxation, pleasure, hyperactivity, embodiment, cacao as an ally and gender... With Love... Welcome, I'm Annu! I write about embodying the roots of...

How To Work Intuitively With Your Jade Egg

by Annu | May 7, 2018 | Blog, Inspiration, Practices, Uncategorized, Writing | 0 Comments

Working with a jade egg can greatly assist female embodiment – this is the descent or bringing down of consciousness into the vagina and womb space. For some women, they are already naturally situated here and can access their pelvic space, feminine power and...

Death. Birth. Death... Opening. Rising. Falling. The cycles are endless, on they go. Welcoming another season in the spirit of Samhainn. Death precedes Life - that’s the natural law, and here in Scotland my ancestors marked this time of year as the Celtic New Year. This is the point in the solar cycle where things die and return to their source as both the ending and beginning point. A letting go and simultaneously a fresh creative opening to have another go 🔥 It’s fiercely rushing in already... hot chocolate helps 🍁
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#samhain #ancestors #alba #autumnalleaves #deathprecedeslife #rebirth #intothedarkwego #descent #wheeloftheyear #solarcycleconsciousness #sexdeathrebirth #lovingthemysteries #natureisboss #surrender #fecundity #compostingwhatsbeen #celticnewyear #cyclicalnature #empress #hades #eatthepomegranate

$It’s been a Leonard Cohen kind of day. He’s like the North Star who emerged through a deep fissure of broken hot lava. His poetry is beyond the clear, civilised oppositions light & dark, right & wrong... mostly because he speaks of the heart that never retreats. That kind of mercy is forged in the fault lines of the underworld offering up lullaby veins of luminous passion and Plutonian confession. He speaks for the broken and bruised, and the ache and the longing of secrets and hidden chambers exposed. To me he’s the Hades of Great Seeing & Wisdom’s Gravity who never fails to call forth the swell of discomforted paradox and the naked light of fractured beauty from the hot tides of my confused blood. My prophet & seer... there’s no doubt, I’ve bonded myself to his lineage. . . . #honouryourancestors #poetryislife #prophetofthedeepheart #leonardcohen #youwantitdarker #northstarpoet #speaktothetimeswelivein #fathermedicine #beyondbloodancestors #wholeness #theheartthatneverretreats #avalanche #whobyfire #theresacrackineverything #underworldinitiations #hadesthelover #iatethepomegranate #prophetoftheapocalypse$

$Our heart is the pipeline to spirit, to the universal force. And when our heart genuinely chooses or informs on something, the rest of us becomes completely powerless against that universal will and truth because it invites our sincere surrender. . It can be terrifying. Our human self in that equation can have all kinds of ways of responding to that fact - it can get angry and enraged, it can try to clamour back some sense of control and individualism, it can strategise with complexity, the mind involves and builds it’s case against that surrender, and sometimes our human self just feels overwhelmed and collapses without properly meeting the core feeling. . But the simplicity of what’s going on is that we become immensely vulnerable. And everything in the culture, in our current social and psychological framework, feeds us the message that vulnerability is the most dangerous state to be in. The predominant conviction in our current culture is that our sincere openness and nakedness are to be avoided at all costs. . This in itself breaks the human-spirit ecology - it fractures the relationship of truth, inspiration, vision & clarity. And the soul of the world responds as crisis. . That is what we are facing every single day. . . #embodyingtruth #surrender #powerandvulnerability #listeningtouniversalwill #humanspiritecology #culturallegacy #culturalfracture #theworldsoul #ancientfuturevoices #worldincrisis #takeresponsibility #vulnerabilityassafety #thenakedtruth #landart #naturelover #learningtobehuman$

Do you need to be nourished and encouraged through a space of heretical-truth telling, authentic transformation and galvanising the clarity, depth & momentum you need to embody your inner truth in the hearth of your life?
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★ If you're ready to do your work and really enjoy it along the way, I have some spaces coming up for 1-1 mentoring sessions ★
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Offering one-off sessions as well as One Month Intensives, Three Month Transits, and Six Month Transformation programs.
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Be in touch for unique targeted support, soulful midwifery & transformational life-alignment 🦋
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#transformation #mentoring #hereticaltruthtelling #dothework #learninghowtobehuman #humanspiritecology #embodyingtruth #getyourshittogether #mutualfocus #creativeexploration #radicalselflove #yourartisyourheart #serviceworklove #thesoulsbecoming #youareneededhere #youbelong #humandesign #embodyyourroots #timetowakeup #endyouramnesia #venusrising #trustyourpassion #clarityanddepth #guidance #support

I’m developing a love-affair with DNA! All that data in the human cellular & fluid system really does it for me. I just received my ancestry composition report this morning, which is supporting my investigative delve into lineage, bloodlines, body & land. Mostly British and Scandinavian (as expected) with some wildcard South Asian. And apparently I carry more Neanderthal variants than 92% of 23andMe customers ! Feeling old...
But the anthropologist in me is drooling.
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Has anyone else had this done??
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#evolutionaryanthropology #dna #bloodlines #ancestry #cellularmemory #homosapiensapiensarefinished #dyingrace #naturalevolution #whatcomesnext #timeforanewhuman #bonesandblood #lamentoftheancestors #ancientfuture #davidbowieknew #ohyouprettythings #humandesign

My favourite local coffee shop - where I come to write, for love + for me, rather than content deadlines.
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I’ve been deepening my personal studies and writing of ancestral work and the ancient-future voices latently held in the DNA of the body awaiting the alchemical awakening of right conditions. Connected to this are the wildly and wily ways the creative muse or Daemon activates those conditions through intense erotica, spontaneous visionary states, dark Eros, bodily ecstasy + pain, dreams, symbol and the tension of heretical impulse. Although this started out as deeply personal, what I’m learning is that what it activates has far more to do with the soul work beholden to our lifetime, and what we must bring, by pain, union + liberation, into the world as our art + heart. It’s political, heretical, vulnerable, terrifying, and divergent in the ways necessary to potentially impact a culture saturated in amnesia and apathy. After a summer of turning to ash, and a year of personal homecoming, something is finally beginning to make sense...
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#plutonianconfessions #venusrising #daimon #darkeros #creativemuse #writer #artspeakstotheculture #learningtobehuman #soulwork #phoenixrising #hereticaltruthtelling #writingaspractice #sacredactivism #transformation #alchemicalawakening #ashestoashes

Kinship : peacocks, Scottish estates, log fires, human-love, and the strong roll of a raucous autumn ... 🍂🍄🍁
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#enjoymentbody #kinship

The alchemical mystery of grief & rage.
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“Destructive patterns come around to regenerative places. And when the misery and the self-hatred have spent their fury, the inner core Self arises unscathed, and incorporates the darkness and the anguish into the ability to raise the dead, to generate miracles, to face everybody with the unfaceable. The veteran of severe internal battles turns around and acknowledges that there is something burning at the centre of your being, an essence spark which is immortal and can survive and flourish in the thick of the worst, your own veiled yet potent inner light guiding the journey and never flickering.”
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Chandra Symbol: On a human nose, a wart turns into a diamond.
‘Inside Degrees’ by Ellias Lonsdale
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#thesetimes #learningtobehuman #inneralchemy #descent #thecrossofSelf #thedarkestlight #griefasarrival #volcaniclifeforce #ritualart #publicritual #plutonianconfessions #venusrising #rebirth #limialthresholds #dontbescaredofthedark #passion #divinespark #tensionofopposites #phoenixrising #thepowerofforestfires

$We are preparing for our last ceremony of Autumn Equinox this weekend in our year-long program of Homecoming: return home to self. . The essence of Homecoming is about not-leaving. It’s been the focus of the entire year as the core theme of the Homecoming content, practices, and ceremonies. It’s meant that in order to come home, we have to look at where and how we are leaving in the first place. . These strong themes of exile and fragmentation, cultural legacy, ancient-future voices, ancestral patternings, personal inquiry, social justice, allowing the instinctual nature to guide, and recognising the unique soul’s image and song are very much about understanding how we’ve left and checked out. . This is an examination of where we’ve abandoned the ecology of human-soul-spirit co-operation, and recognising that the essence of humanity is not given but rather something we actually need to learn, and arriving at the dawn of what it really means to be on this planet during these times of unprecedented chaos, fracture and suffering. The foundation of our Homecoming work is to consistently stay and not-leave as wakefulness abiding in the root system of our humanity. . The great challenge in this are the plethora of distractions and lack of clear reflection in a culture and social setting that is generally very broken and wrong-way-round. In addition to this, there is an overwhelming collective tide of movements which ‘seem’ to address these conditions yet they too can so very easily just become another way of leaving the core connection with Self and the living, breathing spontaneous nature of the inner truth. . Therefore this Homecoming work is a combination of ancient wisdom, direct experiential knowing, and the discovery of our contribution to the greater, the collective and the future. . Extract from: Homecoming with Annu + Julie . . #homecoming #selfcarepractice #autumnequinox #springequinox #celtic8foldyear #learningtobehuman #youbelonghere #personaltransformation #harvest #thanksgiving #ancientfuturevoices #ancestralpatternings #humanspiritecology #getinrightrelation #integrity #ancientwisdomfuturevisions #socialjustice #songofsoul #thesoulsimage$

I want to be Alive, not civilised.
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“Each life is formed by its unique image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny. As the force of fate, this image acts as a personal daimon, an accompanying guide who remembers your calling.
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The daimon motivates. It protects. It invents and persists with stubborn fidelity. It resists compromising reasonableness and often forces deviance and oddity upon its keeper, especially when neglected or opposed. It offers comfort and can pull you into its shell, but it cannot abide innocence. It can make the body ill. It is out of step with time, finding all sorts of faults, gaps, and knots in the flow of life - and it prefers them. It has affinities with myth, since it is itself a mythical being and thinks in mythical patterns.
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It has much to do with feelings of uniqueness, of grandeur and with the restlessness of the heart, its impatience, its dissatisfaction, its yearning. It needs its share of beauty. It wants to be seen, witnessed, accorded recognition, particularly by the person who is its caretaker. Metaphoric images are its first unlearned language, which provides the poetic basis of mind, making possible communication between all people and all things by means of metaphors” - James Hillman
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The consort to silence. I disagree with the use of the word innocence here - rather it cannot abide perfection. It’s the innocence of the human caretaker that allows the daemon’s free and unabashed birth into form.
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#daemon #creativegenius #caretakeyourhumanity #forceofnature #eros #youbelonghere #ignoreatyourperil #ancestors #ancientvoices #thesoulslonging #surrender #mythopoeticterrains #fire #passion #art #callitin #embodyyourmyth #spirithumanecology

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Sounds That Move In The Dark

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