MY PERSONAL JOURNEY
I took part in my first meditation training in 2013, and have undertaken various courses since, including reiki masters and breathwork, but some of the best education I have in guiding people back to their power and truth, is having lost and found my own.
I used to have a non-stop restlessness, a fear that said ´there is something wrong´, or ´something is wrong with me´.
I lived and made choices according to this feeling that there was something wrong with me: toxic relationships, addiction, hiding my real self, unable to show up for the things that were meaningful to me. Sometimes it was a low hum, and sometimes suicidal despair.
Living this way drains your power, your life force, and the more you miss that power the more you reach for something, or someone to fill the gap. It might leave you confused, exhausted, most likely at some point in the foetal position on your bedroom floor!
I had grown up learning to hide, playing small, quiet, obedient, and ´good´ to keep the peace in my family.
I lived on hyper-vigilant auto-pilot, trying to smooth out bumps in the emotional atmosphere to feel safe.
I was holding my breath waiting for the next conflict, feeling overly-responsible for taking care of everyone, except myself.
Unsurprisingly, this perfectionist straightjacket I lived in wasn’t sustainable.
It squashed down the building swell of my own emotions, anger, grief, even my capacity for passion and joy.
Holding myself so tightly under these layers hid and the power and truth of my spirit.
My dependency on other´s acceptance and approval had me desperately grasping to keep everything appearing ok on the outside, with a fixed smile and the mantra ´I´m fine´.
But underneath, I was coming apart. On top of this was shame and confusion that I just couldn´t seem to ‘get my life together’ as I saw it.
I took part in my first meditation training in 2013, and have undertaken various courses since, including reiki masters and breathwork, but some of the best education I have in guiding people back to their power and truth, is having lost and found my own.
I used to have a non-stop restlessness, a fear that said ´there is something wrong´, or ´something is wrong with me´.
I lived and made choices according to this feeling that there was something wrong with me: toxic relationships, addiction, hiding my real self, unable to show up for the things that were meaningful to me. Sometimes it was a low hum, and sometimes suicidal despair.
Living this way drains your power, your life force, and the more you miss that power the more you reach for something, or someone to fill the gap. It might leave you confused, exhausted, most likely at some point in the foetal position on your bedroom floor!
I had grown up learning to hide, playing small, quiet, obedient, and ´good´ to keep the peace in my family.
I lived on hyper-vigilant auto-pilot, trying to smooth out bumps in the emotional atmosphere to feel safe.
I was holding my breath waiting for the next conflict, feeling overly-responsible for taking care of everyone, except myself.
Unsurprisingly, this perfectionist straightjacket I lived in wasn’t sustainable.
It squashed down the building swell of my own emotions, anger, grief, even my capacity for passion and joy.
Holding myself so tightly under these layers hid and the power and truth of my spirit.
My dependency on other´s acceptance and approval had me desperately grasping to keep everything appearing ok on the outside, with a fixed smile and the mantra ´I´m fine´.
But underneath, I was coming apart. On top of this was shame and confusion that I just couldn´t seem to ‘get my life together’ as I saw it.
In 2011 I had chance introduction to energy healing.
As the treatment began and tears rolled down my face as my body felt the wash of loving energy flow through me. It was medicine I did not realise I was looking for.
Using ancient meditation techniques and energy work in the years that followed, I began to clear the emotional blockages and negative thought loops which had built up, layer upon layer, over my spirit since the day I was born.
Fear and long-stored pain (and habits that distracted me from my fear and pain) were brought to light and released.
It made room for something surprising to flow in.
I began to learn that entire experience of life is altered when you can rest in how truly safe, loved, and held you are by the Universe. There is no part of you or your life that is beyond its touch.
As the treatment began and tears rolled down my face as my body felt the wash of loving energy flow through me. It was medicine I did not realise I was looking for.
Using ancient meditation techniques and energy work in the years that followed, I began to clear the emotional blockages and negative thought loops which had built up, layer upon layer, over my spirit since the day I was born.
Fear and long-stored pain (and habits that distracted me from my fear and pain) were brought to light and released.
It made room for something surprising to flow in.
I began to learn that entire experience of life is altered when you can rest in how truly safe, loved, and held you are by the Universe. There is no part of you or your life that is beyond its touch.
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PROFESSIONAL BIO
Zoe Wood is a meditation teacher, breathwork practitioner, and emotional healing guide. She holds space for people to remember who they are, and connect to their power and truth. Born in the UK, her first experience with meditation was at school yoga classes, and learning mindfulness at the recommendation of a psychotherapist in her early twenties. Though it was a personal rupture, a series of ‘dark nights of the soul’, which introduced her to these spiritual practices, she soon fell in love with their capacity to continually transform lives for the better. Her teaching comprises of breathwork, reiki, intuitive movement, invocation, reflective writing, and sacred sound. |
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PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
2013 Yoga Alliance accredited 200 hours Training with Tribe Yoga in Asana, Pranayama and Meditation. 2014 Grace and Presence Yoga Teacher Mentoring 120 hours with Mollie McClelland Morris, intuitive movement specialist. Reiki Level 1 with James Phillip at Celestial Earth. 2015 Reiki Level 2 with James Phillip. 2017 Levels 1-3 Breathwork Healing Certification with David Elliott. 2018 Levels 1-4 Breathwork Healing Certification with David Elliott. 2019 Reiki Master Training with James Phillip. 2020 Relax Kids (currently in training). |
