Living in my integrity…
I offer this work from my heart. In my knowing that every woman and everyone has the right to be free from conditioned patterns that don’t serve them, live in happiness, feel peace and expansion in their heart. Every one can melt into the divine pot of love. Every One has the right to feel pleasure. Couples have a right to experience true intimacy, depth and Love. Placed within the dysfunction of this society and swimming in the sea of patriarchy we may need help. It is my wish to offer that help. I know I need it too!
I am Gauri.
I am a partner and Mother, of 2 beautiful boys, age 6 and 4, and a baby girl birthed in October 2023, peacefully, alone in our yurt.
I went through a phase of supporting birth and exploring birth outside the system.From having such powerful, exquisite experiences myself I naturally wanted to expand others understanding too. I got a bit sucked into a strong narrative around free birth and have come out the other side feeling much more balanced and less extreme. Rooting for woman’s own intuitive connection as absolutely the foundations of any birth choices. Any life choices. With my female sexuality bodywork a lot is related to my birth experiences and the experiences of supporting other women through the birth portal.
I have been working as a therapist for 9 years, mostly working with tantric practises/rituals/bodywork and clearing tools such as systemic family constellations, shamanic healing, trauma release and somatics.
Most recently I have trained with Terry Real in Relational LIfe Therapy, although I am yet to be fully certified. This modality is deep and powerful and has totally blown me away. It offers such a simple and yet obviously true language to understand ourselves, I have dived deeper into my own trauma and continue to do so. The modality brings such context and depth.It continues to bring more clarity as I apply more and more to my every day in myself and in my relationship with my partner and kids. Such a big part of this formula is about ‘joining through the truth’ allowing me as therapist to be totally truthful with what I see in you and its really the only way I can work. All the aspects resonate with me. How do we show up relationally?, how can we relationally intimate? I just love this exploration and brings me a lot of passion and excitement to help others gain such perspective and learn tools and skills to be more joyful and have deeper connection in their lives,
I trained in Family Constellations with Petr Malik, who runs some very powerful transformative courses combining tantric intimacy practises with family constellations at a beautiful place called Coed Hills in Wales.
Working with this therapeutic practise changed my life quite dramatically. When I first came across it, many years before meeting Petr, I was feeling very confused and lonely in my life, not knowing how to relate well, or have intimate relationships. There are some very potent constellations I experienced that I still remember very clearly now, that shifted so much inside me, on levels Im not sure are accessible by other means. It is a practise that really can accommodate complete perspective shifts and free us from ancestral blockages, as well as the many we may have just from our own experiencing from our immediate family.
Before delving into the work with Petr I spent a year in a tantric community in Thailand called Agama Yoga, here I taught and learnt about the ancient traditions of tantric yoga. Through strong asana practice, pranayama, education of metaphysical energy systems, the chakras (knowing and feeling them), devotion and ritual. The life style was incredibly liberating and my connection to the deepest parts of myself and my devotion to becoming a pure, balanced being on all levels got so strong. I quite literally felt my heart opening over this time, and came back to England a new woman, this was 10 years ago now!
Part of the culture in the Agama community was practising total sexual autonomy, celebrating our sexuality, and connecting with our pleasure. Weekly tantric massage was normal. Here I received a lot of yoni massage and trained in both yoni and lingham massage. I rejoiced in many experiences of profound sexual opening, big emotional releases, and ignited a certain wisdom from within around working with my sexual energy - working with all of the energy flowing in and around all of my being.
Dance and movement meditation has always been a very strong part of my own therapeutic practise and I have always and still do dedicate time to it, around the children, and with them. I think it was actually an experience at Agama which unlocked something in my body to be free to move in an energetic flow of expression whilst I was dancing to bhajans (which happened weekly there).
The practise to just be, here, ‘receiving the moment’ this is really my intention in life. As what else is there than being present and savouring every precious experience. Slowing down and being in the sheer joy and wonder of our magical bodies, in relation to life.
I have deepened in the last years in somatic therapy and learnt Somatic EMDR therapy through The Embody Lab.
The blissful birth experience I received last year has been a big part of allowing me this pleasure to really “Be'‘ in a way now, more than I have ever experienced before.
You can watch my birth film on you tube here.