Hello and welcome, my name is Bryony.
IN DEVOTION TO EARTH, TO WOMB, TO EROS, TO LIFE.
At the heart of my work is devotion, however subtle ~ the art of being able to continually show up to that which I love and care for, has created monumental shifts in my life.
Being in service to the re~wilding of the feminine, began with a love of roaming the wild places, both upon Earth & within ourselves. This thirst for adventure has led me to travel widely in search for the sacred, and with every step I have come to realize that so often what we are longing for, is the embodied remembrance of our belonging here, within our bodies, interconnected with Earth & eachother.
I was born with a curiosity for all things great and small, exploring rituals since a young age, with one of my earliest memories being creating a burial for a bumblebee I found in the bottom of the garden. As I continued to grow this became a passion for yoga, and painting my interior landscapes ~ yet I found my deepest sense of belonging as I set foot on a winding path into female animism.
Awakening to the understanding that everything is alive, with the breath of spirit ~ gave great meaning to a troubled early life, where I had longed to feel, and be in awe with the everyday.
After a series of chosen and life~given initiations, the courage to share what I had been taught & shown beyond the veil, led to my first women’s circle ~ and over time has evolved into using the methodologies of ritual in creating in-depth programmes, nature & body-based immersions and pilgrimages to sacred sites ~ with the intention to rewild our intimacy with the heart of nature.
Together, our prayers are amplified.
And as women, there is something inexplicably powerful when we gather in circle ~ to feel, to express, to nurture soul & soil.
So if you are ready to re-member, to claim your sovereign voice and innate power as an embodied woman, then I invite you to join me on this sacred path home.
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In my life~long quest for adventure, my early years involved training and competing as a cyclist in the British Cycling Youth Team ~ teaching me the art of discipline & attaining goals. Through a crash & out of body experience ~ my reality shifted and though I gave up the lycra, something was awakened in what is possible when we fully inhabit the body.
I began practicing yoga from the age of 12, but my passion grew as I moved to Bristol and was un-schooling myself in my art degree. Finding solace in the rhythmic movements & breath, I eventually chose to train as a Yoga Teacher (200 HR YTT) in what became one of the most challenging years of my life. I discovered how community & a dedicated practice can pull us through in the darkest of times.
I received a First in Drawing and Applied Arts, in a project devoted to womb, earth & the primordial feminine ~ as I expressed the grief of my PCOS & Endometriosis diagnosis. Through this I learnt the ancient, creative voice of the womb ~ & simultaneously life initiated me into love, loss & grief.
At the tender age of 22, after discovering both the power & pain held in my womb ~ I attended Uma Dinsmore Tuli’s : Well Woman Yoga Therapy Training. My first time in a circle of women, I realized the healing gifts in my tears, in truly feeling ~ and being mirrored by others in my own experience as a woman.
Traveling the world I was put into contact with earth-based traditions that honour the sacredness in all of life. Deeply moved by what I experienced, I began to search for deeper meaning, exploring through plant medicines, ritual & prayer ~ with a longing to discover my own ancient origins.
Through a series of synchronistic events & guidance, I was led into the embrace of a female animistic path; with 7 years of study, I have been unstitching the binds of internalized patriarchy, silencing and persecution ~ & reclaiming the lost voice of the untamed, primal feminine.
During my second encounter with Central America, I undertook a 3 week initiation into Midwifing the Veils ~ a sacred journey traversing & learning the art of midwifing the thresholds of birth, blood, sex, marriage, parenting, divorce, sovereignty, death & rebirth. Discovering the priestess quality to hold instinctual knowledge, that has the willingness to illuminate what otherwise may not be seen.
As I came to meet my shadow, with more willing and loving eyes ~ I was introduced to the frequency of the rose. In her gentle embrace, I began to unravel internalized shame, ancestral wounding and unlock my voice ~ receiving an education in the power within softness, and the softness within power.
Awakening to the whisperings of the plants, I began a life~long study into their wisdoms & teachings, deepening early explorations with plant medicines through ceremony ~ by tuning into their vibrational essences, immersing in dietas, and delving into plant spirit communication. Through this I learnt the art of deep listening, accessing the capacity to feel the subtleties expressed without words: inviting the whole body and being into the conversation.
Desiring to support others in accessing this magic, and the emotional alchemy it brings: I dived into a year-long apprenticeship into vibrational medicine & flower essences.
Being led by my heart has always drawn me to places of mysterious origin: and making the move to the sacred lands of the Magdalen, in the South of France: unlocked hidden memories in my ancestral line, and my role as a guide & guardian to the numerous sites of myth & mystery unveiled itself. Here, pilgrimage and communion with the divine ~ became a way of life; receiving teachings from cave, river, tree & rock ~ in a quest to remember soul & source as one.
As my service deepened, so has the desire for tools to further guide the unfurling feminine, so the realm of somatics: opened up, and another year long study into somatic womb work, has brought soft knowledge through earth-based wisdoms, nervous system mapping, mindfulness & the depths of East Asian Medicine.
With the rose as one of my most influential guides, through a serendipitous encounter, I met my teacher in Mexico: to learn the art of Sanacion de las Rosas: healing of the roses. An ancient technology of working with physical roses to clear the energetic system, realign the chakras ~ and awaken a deeper connection with the rose.
Now, I am grateful to have qualified in womb~hara massage, body-wrapping, Japanese moxibustion and yoni steaming.
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
~ Anaïs Nin