The practices

  • Environmental Arts Therapy

    Environmental Arts Therapy is developed from evidence based arts therapy practices by Ian Siddons-Heginworth. It supports you and ‘teaches us how to take the personal issues that bind and oppress us out into nature where they can be met, confronted and transformed’ Marianne Siddons-Heginworth.

    You will be guided through practices asking you to follow your intuition in nature. The invitation will be to create pieces with natural objects. You will then be supported to reflect on the symbolic messages you find in reference to the theme and the significance for you.

    You will bear witness and be witnessed in each others’ processes as this is how change is instigated.

    This part of the day is led by Laura, MA Art Psychotherapist, practising for 20 years. Environmental Arts Therapy practitioner, trained directly by Ian and Marianne Siddons-Heginworth since 2020.

    “The nature of The Heroine’s Path has allowed me to dip in and out as my trauma processing allowed; shedding the unwanted layers of the past has been emotionally transformative.” Samantha.

  • Somatics and bodywork

    Somatics, bodywork and breath work on The Heroine’s Path take two integral routes.

    It may involve somatic tools of body scanning, shaking, releasing. It may involve guided practices enhancing nurture, expansion, connection and freedom of movement.

    In times of trauma the body tends to tighten and writes a constrictive or stagnant body pattern that can redirect how we live our lives, and the choices we make. Somatics and body work loosens those patterns releasing muscle memory, gives voice to that which is constrained, and guides the body to new healthier patterns.

    Through somatics we reclaim our body as our own home, increase our capacity for living, and nurture the fullness of our nervous system.

    Hannah and Jade are deeply experienced body work practitioners. Collectively they qualified in yoga, Integrative somatic healing specialising in the pelvis, breath, nervous system health, Qi gong for women’s health, womb healing, meditation and massage.

  • Esoteric practices and Community ritual

    Before or after the therapeutic work, we engage in esoteric practice taking the form of IMRAMA ( guided meditations), enabling a shift into another state of consciousness more ripe for growth, revealing, acceptance and intuition.

    This practice enables us to access and relax into parts of ourselves that might be deeper hidden than the surface story that is arising.

    Dream journeying gives us space to carve new neural pathways, new habits, & new ways of seeing, elevating us out of this linear reality.

    'In some cultures a journey of ecstatic flight is essential for healing' Joshua Schrei

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    We seal our gatherings with communal ritual. These community rituals involve the elements, and focus around the themes of the day. They may be grief tending rituals, they may involve transmuting our fears in the fire, they involve gifting flowers and rice to the waters and ancestors. The aim of these rituals is to beckon in transformation, initiate hope, deepen tangible respect for the earth, forge a new sense of belonging to one another. They are there to ignite remembering, and to create new ways of being.

    Jade is qualified in Yoga Nidra under the guidance of Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Nirlipta Tuli of The Yoga Nidra Network. Both Hannah and Jade have spent over 20 years years in ritual, spiritual, and ceremonial immersion and experiential study.

    We express deep thanks and respect to all our teachers who shared their wisdom with us. All that we share with you comes from a large rich lineage of varied teachers from many cultures. They all share one deep root ; to live a healthy, connected, heart led life respectful to the earth, the precious gift of life and one another.

     We three have devoted our lifetimes to learn from as close to the source as we could, knowing wisdom is passed through hearts and hands just as we are born from wombs of wombs.