I am Mother to Māhi. A bodyworker, womb devotee, former humanitarian lawyer and academic doctor specialising in resistance to structural violence and the remembering of regenerative culture - culture that centres thriving life. I love to craft medicine with plants, through handcrafted herbal body oils that I use in my massage therapy. I am a novice to basketry and clay.

Connecting with my body’s innate intelligence, matrilineal memory, and the regenerative practices of cyclical living elicit fire in my belly. I feel enlivened by raw and authentic communication. Through ritual and devotional practice, I seek to align to nature’s rhythm and live in reciprocity with the natural world. Nurturing my son is piece by piece cracking open my reverence for Mother - that life creating, nurturing, and sustaining archetypical force that lives deep within the bones of me, of women, of the earth. I love journeying with women and their menstrual cycles, meeting them in that exquisite place where they are, to reclaim their feminine power and bodily wisdom. I currently offer Myofascial Release Bodywork and guidance on menstrual cycle awareness.

Woven together to inspire my work is a rich and humbling tapestry of experience which includes birthing with Māhi, at home, by the flicker of flame and moonlight; training with the Red School in Menstrual Leadership Education and learnings with Kimberley Ann Johnson, Jane Hardwicke Collings, Rachelle Seliga and others; over a decade as an academic and lawyer, traversing Myanmar’s jungled mountains and remote villages, drinking in stories of resilience, resistance, and revolution, embedded with rebel armies, genocide survivors and political activists; working as a human rights lawyer with the United Nations in Austria and Nigeria; ongoing learnings to recognise and dismantle my own internalised misogyny, colonial imprint, and toxic femininity; journeying into the underworlds and otherworlds in Mexico, Costa Rica, and Indonesia; and exploring layers of my Self through years lived in London and Berlin.

In 2024 I returned to my motherland, Aotearoa-New Zealand, after 14 years in the world. I live near the shores of pristine Lake Hāwea with my son.