HEALING
In my search for wellness, it’s been necessary for me to look outside the modern western model of medicine. I have been supported by many different healing modalities and natural practices that feel innately right for me. Embodied over time, these practices now inform my art.
My own healing is this lifetimes undertaking.
Health & Wellbeing
As we move through the 21st Century, I observe people increasingly struggling with various health and wellbeing challenges, exacerbated by our extracting and unethical way of living on the planet. It is challenging to look after oneself especially when one lacks the resources and an understanding of self compassion, forgiveness and care.
Simple ancient practices, available to all, are enormously beneficial in sustaining my physical, mental and spiritual well being.
Grounding
Walking barefoot on the earth, I become aware of our energetic connection and witness the regulation of my body’s physiological and bioenergetic processes.
The more I surrender, the greater my feeling of wellbeing.
Sunday Service - Stillness in Urban Settings
Notes on Farah Alibhai’s Sunday Service -
Rory Duckhouse
During my recovery from a brain injury in 2015, I was offered 4 sessions on mindfulness, as a way to cope with the fatigue I was now living with. I went into it sceptical, unsure whether I would be able to silence the chattering monkey inside my head, and it never worked.
“Stillness is not the absence of movement or sound. It’s not about focusing on nothingness; it’s about creating a physical and emotional clearing to allow ourselves to feel, think, dream and question.”
– Brené Brown
Ritual & Honouring
For Millennia, different ways of connecting to ourselves, each other, the world and the cosmos have been performed. Over time these traditions have become obscured and dismissed as meaningless in this age of materialism. I’ve found myself disconnected from the instinctive need in me to be connected to nature, to my natural and super natural self. Through personal intuitive practices I find a peace, clarity and connection that also give me an oppotunity to consider lifes beauty.
Offering
Heeding the whispers, following my intuition, I find a tree calling to me. In the spirit of reciprocity, I leave an apple in appreciation of its existence and for the ways in which the natural world sustains me.
Alter
Placing objects of significance with intention, anchors me in what I hold sacred and meaningful. Through observation of them I am reminded to trust to feel love abundance and gratitude.
Combining my ancestral ritual practices of invocation and purification, honouring life and death gives me a deeper sense of lifes purposefulness and its transience.
Is an act of emancipation the same as an act of healing ?
Work with Farah
I love to see people discovering how these simple wellbeing practices benefit them.
I am able to facilitate people’s journey into what ritual, ceremony and honouring may look like and mean to them.