Heart of Flow: The Methodology
Origin Story
In the beginning, before there was a method, there was just me in 2017, starting to offer workshops.
A year earlier, someone I’d only just met invited me to co-facilitate. I freaked out. I’d always struggled with public speaking. Shame and standing in front of a group don’t exactly go hand in hand.
But once she planted the seed, it kept popping up for me.
So there we were, planning our first workshop. We asked friends and community to come join us.
And I loved it so much. It fit in a way nothing ever had before.
The First Rhythm
I began offering private workshops of my own- my first one was called I Am Not My Shame. To my surprise, people showed up. And the transformation and healing I saw taking place had me in awe.
Over time, I noticed a rhythm to the way I structured these workshops. They were emergent, not rigid or fixed.
Like my art, poetry, and dance, to create a workshop I would lean into a state of flow, asking from a deeper place what wanted to happen and be offered.
I actually did a workshop just for myself on the method, to help me understand it better and see what was coming through me. And during it I asked what it wanted to be named, and Heart of Flow is what came to me.
Sacred Pause
After a while, I stopped offering private workshops. I was worn out from a relationship that massively triggered my abandonment wounds. I was depleted, and I saw that affect turn out for the workshops and soon I realized I needed to pause.
But I didn’t give up on the Heart of Flow Method.
Soon, I was hired to facilitate for a non-profit serving survivors of suicide and homicide loss. From there, more organizations and community gatherings followed. I began bringing Heart of Flow into my 1:1 client work, and the results continued to amaze me.
Coming Back into Flow
The Heart of Flow Method keeps evolving as I do. It grows with my own creative path and also with the needs of those who engage with it.
At its core, it is a process of transformation through initiation into the unconscious.
Here are the key elements:
Somatic Embodiment - Bringing awareness to how experiences live in the body and tuning into what is arising.
Art - Tapping into the unconscious, giving emotion a form and a container.
Writing - Bridging cognitive insight so the mind can integrate what is occurring.
Movement - Rewiring transformation into the body, shifting how patterns live there.
Energy Healing - Bringing “extra juice” to reach the tricky places and cultivate awareness there nothing else can touch.
Sacred Feminine Practices - Nourishing and replenishing the core, expanding capacity for pleasure and sovereign power.
These tools are woven to both process and integrate what has been overwhelming, and to open pathways into embodied new possibilities. Each has a built in nervous system regulation mechanism that simultaneously functions with it.
My Lineages, Guides & Mentors
This work blends wisdom from diverse healing traditions with innovative body-centered practices, honouring the complexity of the human experience.
Here I need to acknowledge and honour the mentors and traditions that have profoundly shaped my path:
Mystery Schools: Jumana Sophia (Her Mystery School), Seren Bertrand (Feminine Magic School), Maya Luna (Deep Feminine Mystery School)
Somatic Practices: Donna Martin (Hakomi), Layah Jane (5 Rhythms), Linda Thai (Somatic Embodiment Strategies), Kim Brody (Continuum), Manuela Mishke Reeds and Ketriella Goldfeder (Hakomi Informed Somatic Coaching)
Energy & Breathwork: Lorraine Goldbloom (VortexHealing®), Valerie Gavin (Breathwork), Sarah Laing (Earth Currents)
Trauma & Mindfulness: Jane Clapp (Movement for Trauma), David Treleaven (Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness), Byron Katie (The Work)
Each has left an indelible imprint on the Heart of Flow, shaping the way I guide others into healing, expansion, and self-reclamation.
The Heart of It
At the heart of it, both the Heart of Flow Method and I are deeply relational.
I wouldn’t be able to do this work without my mentors, my ancestors, and the beings- seen and unseen who support me.
This work is not just about transformation.
It’s about coming home to yourself in the most gentle, fluid, and alive way possible.