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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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New Moon Dreaming & Waking: a march update

by Annu | March 4, 2019 | Blog, Writing | 0 Comments

Well, February was intense. Has it been so for anyone else? The passage of Imbolc has been so deep for me, I needed to slide off the radar, take some respite from the digital gaze, and tend to a lot of sorrow, lineage-repair and soul witnessing. This process has...

Moving Into Imbolc: an update & playlist

by Annu | January 19, 2019 | Audio, Blog | 0 Comments

Still very quiet and tucked-in here as we approach the waters of Imbolc. Can you feel this cyclical shift moving in on the peripheries of the psyche? I can and its archetypal nature is oceanic, unformed, diffuse, liminal yet fertile with tender possibility.In context...

The Apocalypse of 2018

by Annu | January 8, 2019 | Audio, Blog, Free Gifts, Writing | 0 Comments

Happy New Year, dear friends... 2018 was quite a year, right?! I shared the below summary of my 2018 experience with my mailing list on Winter Solstice but I'm also sharing here because... well, these conversations are important. The etymology...

A Wee Samhainn Blessing

by Annu | November 1, 2018 | Blog, Inspiration, Video | 0 Comments

A Wee Samhainn BlessingTRACK {sound on}: We Are All Bog Born - Karine Polwart & Pippa Murphy, from A Pocket Of Wind Resistance To my people, my kin, my ancestors... thank you for bearing me. You brought me into life and made me this body. I was born out of your...

Offering Up Your Longing

by Annu | November 1, 2018 | Blog, Inspiration, Writing | 0 Comments

How can I offer up this longing? What does it look like when I give this maddening incessant quest to Belong and find my place amongst things away? Perhaps this means that I can then give everything a place. That I become the Home for all things. When I open the door,...

Why I’m No Longer Teaching Ceremonial Cacao

by Annu | August 13, 2018 | Blog, Practices, Writing | 65 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. ∞...

It's happening!
Please join us for this inaugural visit of Stephen Jenkinson and Gregory Hoskins with Nights of Grief & Mystery in Edinburgh: 11th June, 2019.

Nights of Grief & Mystery is a concert for turbulent times.
Part poetry, part lamentation, part book reading, part ribaldry, part concert, part lifting the mortal veil and learning the mysteries there...that’s what’s in store.
They are nights devoted to the ragged mysteries of being human, and so grief and endings of all kinds appear.
This evening is also about community. And what brings us together to huddle round the hearth in the climate of trouble and turbulence - most likely even because of it... It's taken a ragamuffin bunch to put this gig together but it'll take you and other misfits, heretics, lovers, bandits, dissenters, makers, travellers, edge-dwellers and ground-tenders to offer meaning, beholding and presence to the whole thing.

So please do come! Ticket & info can be found in my bio link.

Here are some ways in which you can also help:

1. Purchase your ticket now instead of later - this is a massive help in gauging where we are with covering the basics (link in bio)

2. Invite your loved ones, kin, connected folks, community and associates to the event - this is worth travelling for, so include the whole of Scotland and Northern England in your invitation.

3. Write an email to folks not on social media to let them know.

4. Share the Eventbrite ticket link or FB event to your online pages/profiles, website and other digital/social media platforms

5. Purchase extra tickets and give them as gifts.

6. Let us know if you'd like some flyers/posters to put up in your local area.

Thank you in advance - and immensely looking forward to coming together with you for Nights of Grief & Mystery in Scotland!

#nightsofgriefandmystery #stephenjenkinson #gregoryhoskins #orphanwisdom #ancestralvoices #comeofage #elderhood #diewise #timeoftrouble #ageofcollapse #hearthwisdom #learninghowtobehuman #makingculture #bard #scotland #edinburgh #glasgow #turbulenttimes #misfits #heretical #death #mystery #meaningoflife #artistsforchange #orphanwisdomschool #redthreads #ittakesavillage #ritesofpassage

Making time... and a new project begins. Spring New Moon marking + making.
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Dark Moon Altar Card by @rachaelrice .
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#newmoonart #ritualart #ongon #ancestralvoices #lineage #repair #darkeyedseeing #cyclicalnature

Well, February was intense. Has it been so for anyone else? The passage of Imbolc has been so deep for me, I needed to slide off the radar, take respite from the digital gaze, and tend to a lot of sorrow, lineage-repair and soul witnessing.
This process has supported my deepening work in the relationship between my indigenous ancestors, body, land/place, re-Membering and the Opening of Eyes, offering/blessing & ritual, and the guiding non-linear intelligence of the wild soul in this time-cycle of global collapse.

The terrain is saturated in complexity, paradox and the non-binary, which is an initiatory signature of our moving away from the dualism of Either/Or and opening into the far more nuanced, subtle, profound, maturing embrace of This-AND-That. This is the slow, unwinding emergence of embodied Wholeness...
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The mind boggles and blows out in the cross-current of emotional-feeling states, discord and opposition that this complexity induces. Grief and beauty, rupture and laughter, despair and acceptance, trauma and responsibility, being human and being more-than-human. There’s no resting ground in this, no definitive settlement of “this is what I am” and “this is how things are”.
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Because the only consistency is that everything changes. Life moves and demands our truest response moment by moment by moment, breaking down our mental fixation and rigidity to make space for a far-deeper rooted stability of BEING. The movement of Life often requires us to double-back on ourselves in the becoming-fluid-enough to stay present and engaged with the twists and turns of the Unknown that has absolutely no requirement to make sense to the cognitive mind or any previous maps you may have come by or accumulated.  Nonetheless, there is a massive scope of tools and access-points and we each need to investigate, discover and update what can be applied to the uniqueness of our own being and path - the skilful ways to bring ease and acceptance to the fact that Life will continue to breath us in and out existentially-speaking.
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$☉ A CALL FOR COLLABORATORS ☉ I'm looking for collaborators in Scotland (and in particular Edinburgh & Glasgow) who would like to work with me in bringing Stephen Jenkinson here during his UK tour this coming June 2019. Possibly for a day of teachings but definitely for 1 or 2 evenings of 'Nights of Grief & Mystery' - a combination of elder-wisdom diaspora storytelling and music. Nights of Grief & Mystery is a concert for troubled times - and we are certainly living in troubled times. My instinct is that what he's offering is so valuable for the community here in Scotland at this time. . Particularly so in our fractured political and cultural environment which is also bearing witness to the blossoming of amazingly bright and potent creative forces emerging through grassroots organizations, artists, rebel collectives and generally good people who know we can do better for ourselves and each other than what the current climate & structures/systems are suggesting for us. But more than anything, Stephen speaks to what it means for us to learn how to be human. . Stephen Jenkinson is a teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, farmer and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School (in Canada), a teaching house and learning house for the skills of deep living and making human culture. It is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, working for a time yet to come. . He's never taught in Scotland before and I hear both him and Gregory Hoskins, who plays with Stephen in 'Nights of Grief & Mystery' are so very keen to meet Scotland and the people here. . I've been a professional events organiser in one of my previous incarnations but I only want to do this for love & joy and if there are others who would like to collaborate with me. I want to engage with this as a village, a community - because it’s not a one-person effort. And my sense is that there’s a huge amount of joy and connection in approaching it in this way. It’s true that many hands make light work. If this speaks to you, be in touch. I’ve got a couple of days to make the decision as to whether we go ahead or not so I’m keen to hear if the energy is here for it.$

Still very quiet and tucked-in here as we approach the waters of Imbolc.
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Can you feel this cyclical shift moving in on the peripheries of the psyche? I can and its archetypal nature is oceanic, unformed, diffuse, liminal yet fertile with tender possibility.
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In context of cyclical nature, the Gregorian New Year enthusiasm of getting-going with all the new stuff jumps the gun. Emergence is a slow animal and takes time and there’s a lot of 2018 still to digest before rushing into the next *_____* (fill the blank).
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Swallow, digest, metabolise and compost whatever’s left in your mouth from last year before filling it with ‘more growth’ or the next ‘thing’.
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In this kind of culture, it’s against the grain to not just fall into being on consumer-autopilot. The impact of this on psyche as body & soul means that we’re never allowed to rest, that what we give our life-force to loses value, meaning and continuity, we break contact with the authentic ground-process of our life (and therefore it’s intelligence), and our capacity for digesting our experiences and the skill required to harvest real wisdom from this is lost, or more accurately, forlorn.
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It’s no wonder that so many of us experience issues with our digestive, metabolic and immune systems in the body. The body’s mirror is clear and direct.
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There is full permission to rest, to be slow, to take time to be a good lover with your self, your life, your body and how you touch and exchange with the world. Wholeness is everything.
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If you need any support, come and visit me at my Bodywork clinics in Glasgow or Edinburgh. My next available appointments are on the 2nd & 6th February respectively. A reminder that booking in advance is necessary (via bio link).
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I also have spaces for mentoring sessions via Zoom if you live outside of Scotland 💜
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P.S. I’ve also created a new ‘Into Imbolc’ playlist on Spotify, which you may enjoy (via bio link) 🌀🌊
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#imbolc #soulwork #embodyingtruth #holisticmassage #edinburgh #glasgow #wellbeing #wholeness #ritesofspring #consumerculture #digestivehealth #metabolichealth #bodywisdom #psyche #archetypalforces #beinghuman #lifeartistry #beagoodlover #imbolcsoundtrack #spotify

Today was the opening day for my Edinburgh Bodywork clinic... It feels great to have this work up and running in two cities now. I’m here at @mandalaflow every Wednesday from 4pm til late. It’s a beautiful space - and the bodywork is deeply restorative. .
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#joy #edinburgh #holisticbodywork #holistichealthscotland #soulwork #embodyingtruth #relaxation #holisticmassage #selfcare #restorativepractice

★ NEW BLOG POST ★

I shared a summary of my 2018 experience with my mailing list on Winter Solstice but I’m also sharing here because… well, these conversations are important.
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This is for anyone who had a hard time in 2018 - and also for those who sailed through it relatively unscathed (you should read this too).
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*spoiler: it's really about becoming more free*
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Access via the link in my bio
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#apocalypse #soulwork #embodyingtruth #ancestors #cultivatinghumanity #deconstructingwhiteprivilege #economicmeltdown #griefwork #liberation #wholeness #softeningintolove #sourceled #sourceinformed #troubledtimes #workingwithtrauma #mentoring #holisticbodywork #soulcentering #rightrelations #befree #takeresponsibility #youarenotimmortal #thisisnotsustainable #openingofeyes #creatingsupportsystems

Today marks the launch of my Glasgow Bodywork clinic!
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It’s taken a couple of months work of planning & organising to get this in place. And the day is fully booked - thanks lovely weegies for the welcome. I love being here and half my life is in this city.
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I’m really looking forward to getting to know the community more, and to co-create lots of well-being & connection here.
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Thanks also to my friend Zoe for sharing her beautiful work space on Newton Place G3 with me too - it’s gorgeous and very cosy.
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Follow the link in my bio if you’d like to making a booking - I’m here every second Saturday of the month ✨
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#holisticbodywork #embodyingtruth #bodywisdom #soulwork #pleasureadvocate #holisticmassage #healing #glasgow #glasgowlife #glasgowmassage #connection #wellbeingscotland #scotland

Not quite ready to emerge out of the New Year tunnel but maybe a little peep to say hello 👀
It’s been a strong cross-over here and the current mood is slow, quiet, tucked-in... this time of year in the North invites it and it’s such a gift.

In reflection, the liberations that emerged out of the #2018shitfest were definitely hard won but amazing, radical, left-fielding, altering, time-line deleting.
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My current wish for all of us is that we be nourished by the joy born from our hard-won freedoms in this coming year. I really mean that. Last year taught me so powerfully how vital joy really is, in the face of all else that goes on, and quite often despite it. And that joy is an inside-job.
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I also wish for us that we discover more ways to share in that joy with one another, and through this deepen and strengthen our connective root system and collective well-being. Definitely welcoming more well-being for all of us!
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This is about as far into the New Year as I’ve stepped... but it feels like a good solid step.
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Yep. That’s my little blanket-wave from here 👋 HNY lovely humans
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#hogmanay #liberationforall #joy

• 20% OFF DECEMBER •

There are just 6 days left to make a purchase on the 20% off in December offer if you'd like to come and experience Holistic Bodywork with me in the New Year.

I'm offering 1 hr, 90 minute, and 2 hr sessions - in both Edinburgh and Glasgow.

This is an integrative combination of 1-1 grounded soul-work, contact bodywork and oil-based massage.

The basis of this work is to support you in the process of finding your own way of coming home to relax in your body and to connect deeper with your soul. Together, we learn to listen to the wisdom that your psyche and body are communicating.

I am an advocate for authentic pleasure and believe it’s the birthright of everyone to be able to enjoy being in their body and to be able to relax into the baseline of joy in life, even when events or experiences are challenging or painful.

Authentic joy and pleasure are vital to our resilience, relaxation and inner strength.

More info & purchase via link in bio.
Looking forward to sharing more of this in the NY! <3 *Purchases are valid to use for 6 months.

#holistichealth #holisticbodywork #integrativemassage #edinburgh #glasgow #scotland #soulwork #pleasureadvocate #wellbeing #joyisresilence #bodywisdom #embodyingtruth #holisticmassage #relaxintowhoyouare #selfcare #integrate #enjoyyourbody #compassion #wisdom #thebodyspeaks

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New Moon Dreaming & Waking: a march update

Moving Into Imbolc: an update & playlist

The Apocalypse of 2018

A Wee Samhainn Blessing

Offering Up Your Longing

Why I’m No Longer Teaching Ceremonial Cacao

The Nature of Surrender

The Roar of Love – an ecstatic movement mix

Chambers – a sonic practice

Sounds That Move In The Dark

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