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🩸Womb Continuum Care Practitioner
🌙Hands on hands in Pelvic Care | Supporting Female Physiology
🧘🏻‍♀️Yoga & Pilates Teacher
🏔️Adventurer for life

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✨ Hello dear friends.

I’m asking for some help for a matter near and dear to my heart, help for my brother James & his Family (Wife Rachel & the cutest baby girl, Ella).

✨ UPDATE:✨
Last month my brother was admitted to hospital and it's been quite a journey since then to find out what's going on and what can be done to support his health.

🧬We are looking into different options, but the best one so far seems to be stem cell therapy, a newer treatment with hopeful outcomes so far. (Anyone have experience with this, pm me).

🧬Stem cell treatment comes with a high price tag of 50K+ (AUD) NOT including travel costs etc.

At this point the focus is on seeing if he can get a little more stable and healthy so that he can travel for treatments.

So the fundraiser will now be to raise costs for Stem cell treatments as well as travel costs and supportive care during the treatment.

His body is exhausted, but he keeps himself focused on gratitude, faith and awe.
His gentle spirit and attitude in this is truly humbling, and he reminds me to savour each day of this life, as we never know how long we may have.

This fundraiser is a way to show he doesn't have to be alone in this all, that there is a greater web of support out there in the world for him and his family.

💛 If you feel called to support, feel free to read the full story [in the post below].

🙏 Any donation, share, or a prayer of support is deeply appreciated. It means to the world to me and I know it will to him as well (it’s a surprise) Any amount is welcome, it all adds up ❤️.

#Stemcelltreatments #togetherwecanmovemountains

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-support-james-healing-journey

(Ps: I still need to update the gofundme page with this new update so bare with me!) by @be_still_grow_wild

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a year ago

Here she is folks.

And...
Within 24hrs of launching this on hipsy - 5/7 spots have been sold.

So last 2 spots left - link to the ticket page in bio (or dm to reserve a spot).

🌸I believe that the key to navigating this crazy period we are in as humans lies in the female body (more on that soon!), the body that by it's very design knows how to nurture and create LIFE.

🌸 I believe that as women it is our responsibility to get to know our bodies and come into right relationship with our very design.

So come and learn. We look forward to welcoming you.

❤️ Joy & Mees

#wombcarework #pelvicfloorwork #wombcarepractioner #breathwork #spacebymees #breathmagic #femalebodywisdom #HERessence #wombwisdom by @be_still_grow_wild

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3 months ago

My journey of both receiving Womb Continuum Care and learning to become a practitioner has been nothing short of profound.

An intense, at times unforgiving, initiation into true womanhood. Not the performance of it, not the illusion of it, but the blood, sweat, and salt that has poured out of me and onto this path.

A journey that I am very much still in and on.

I had never found a body of work that I felt I could sink my teeth (and hands ;)) into in the way I have with this. I'd never found something I felt I could really stand behind as truly effective and of a caliber and quality that we all deserve. Something that can truly create change for the body.

It doesn't happen overnight, and while one session is a start, these results are after many, many, sessions of working with skilled practitioners.

I am so grateful to have come across this work, and learning it is a true privilege.

I could say so much more on each of these slides, but I'll leave it here.

I have five spots left for the month of January in the Netherlands. Please dm me if you are interested.

Much love!

Joy by @be_still_grow_wild

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10 months ago

Pretty excited for this one.

The first workshop in May was beautiful, the feedback from that one left me deeply inspired to keep sharing this work, to keep creating spaces for women to learn and be held.

So after meeting @spacebymees in a breath-training in May, we decided to join forces and passions, and cook something rather magical, educational, and deeply grounding for you.

I love creating workshops, and love co-creating them with colleagues and friends even more.

This work is working me, changing, moving, shaping and like a tidal wave that has it's own flow and life.

So this will be the next offering to blossom from Womb Care Work, infused with Mees' unique form of delicate-yet-powerful Breathwork, in an intentionally intimate and small group.

More info coming soon.

#wombwork #breathwork #pelvicfloorhealth #wombcare #pelvicbodywork #breathaslife by @be_still_grow_wild

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3 months ago

🩸She looked me dead in the eye, a promise of instant death.

I thought she was there to harm me.

But she was trying to waking me UP.

I told her to go back to sleep.

I told her to stay quiet.

I told her she was over reacting.

I told her she made no sense.

It took me years to realize...

She was right the whole time.

Everything she felt and sense, was always right.

She'd spent so many years being punished or gaslit for what her instincts where screaming at, that when the roar in her womb opened it's mouth, sharp teeth and claws at the ready - she did their work for them, and told her to BE QUIET.

Be Quiet
Be Nice
Be Good
Be Small
Play Along
Take the pill
Go to therapy
Take HRT
Be less stressed
Do yet another nervous system practice

What if. What if the female body, what if all these symptoms, are not something WRONG, but something RIGHT?

Something trying to wake us up, shake us up and maybe its the very environment, the toxins, and chemicals the plastics, & diet, & pace of life, & living in a world that is built on extraction vs regeneration, that is the problem.

🩸I feel both anger and sadness at hearing woman telling me the same things and getting the same damn answer from the person in the white coat. "This is normal, there's nothing we can do, take a pill for this."

Your health is your birthright. Feeling good and alive in your body is your birthright.

🩸And the deeper I step into this path as a womb care worker, the more I receive and do this work on myself and watch my life transform, health and vitality start to return slowly but surely.

The health of our womb and cycle is the key to our entire health as woman.

🩸When your womb is healthy and vital, your whole body and essence flourishes.

Attuned touch with skill & presence, in combination with diet and lifestyle changes (and sometimes that means big, confronting ones) can change your entire life.

But I can tell you now, it can and will.

Stop pathologizing the body.

Start listening to what she is asking you to do.

To @carlyraebeaudry - for your fierce, deeply protective heart and voice, for standing for what is possible for women, thank you.

Picture & Copyright = mine

#Wombcare by @be_still_grow_wild

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3 months ago

🔥This story is one of my favourites from a year spent travelling the world.

Back when I was with an ex who thought if he'd indulge the travel bug for a full year then it would cease to bite and I'd settle in and become a good lil stay-at-home wifey.

That plan failed miserably, we split, & 17 years later I still love adventures.

When I took this picture, the insight of pleasure as a primal need hit and was crystal clear.

But it wasn't until my own experiences a few years ago with feeling this primal life force of anger that rose up in my body as pure instinct and sensation, that it clicked what this beautiful creature had shown me.

She showed me what a HEALTHY fight response looks like. Before this I'd only known anger as tension in my jaw and furious thoughts through a very closed body. OR worse, deeply internalized and repressed, manifesting as anxiety and self-punishment/self-gaslighting patterns.

This powerful creature showed me the natural way our bodies (and I believe especially the female body) knows how to protect life and will roar up in a heart beat to do so. She also showed me how instantly when the boundary/need is met - she holds no story and completely softens again.

This energy has been deeply suppressed and locked deep into our tissues, especially in WOMEN.

If you take a look at the state of the world, we are paying the price for it.

I believe that this is the energy we are in dire need of, woman with access to their healthy, protective fight.

🩸 Womb work, especially internal work, has been MASSIVE in my ability to feel my anger more clearly, because this work helped me access the places it has been trapped, and in having another woman support me in feeling what my body has been holding for decades, more space and capacity was created to FEEL my healthy, resonant anger.

So are you numb? Or are you angry?

🌸 Loves, I'm in NL for just a few more months before my next adventure. If this work speaks to you, come see me <3

#wombwork #healthyfight #wombcontinuumcare #internalpelvicwork #lioness by @be_still_grow_wild

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3 months ago

Some stories from The Portugal Adventure.

Today I was grumpy because the Airbnb host started noisy gardening at 7:30am, then I went for a walk and two dogs came by and snuggled and licked me and I felt loved and loving back on them brought me brightness.

I walked in a forest of burned trees and they offered recognition and companionship for the part of me still recovering from burn out.

I sat down to journal and butterflies danced around me offering magic and a reminder to spread my wings and dance more. I worked at a cafe and the scary todos (hello taxes for a multi national 🤪) were assuaged by the sweetest waitress and the sunlight pouring through the window.

Then I walked to the beach, the one I was looking for was closed, but two strangers crossed my path and told me about another sweet beach close by.

I sat down and let me body attune to the sand and the grit and texture of pieces of shells beneath my feet satisfied my toes as the waves breathed through me and my womb began to speak.

The sunlight was fading, so I moved my towel closer to the water to catch the last rays. A big rock in the ocean beckoned me to climb her, so I did and as I did so a group of Argentinians on the beach cheered me on and took a picture of me and asked me how I climbed up.

So I showed them and did it again and this time the fish swimming in the waves asked me to jump off the big rock even though it wasn’t that deep.

I took a calculated risk and pulled up my feet as they grazed the sandy bottom, the icey crisp water shaking me awake.

The waves brought me back to shore and I found my way to the car and to a grocery store where the cashier spoke in English and offered eye contact and genuine presence.

My mind likes to tell me I’m alone quite often, especially when I travel.

It’s a feeling that has followed me most of my life.
But when I look at my day, every moment was spurred by another living beings involvement in my life, whether human or other. A call and response, each moment flowing into the next.

An inevitable unfolding, as if walking a path on a wider web of life and intersecting in sweet moments with each other…

#traveldiaries #portgual #lagos #breathe by @be_still_grow_wild

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5 months ago

Oh Ibiza.

You satiate me and leave me wanting more.

The way you pour yourself in and through my body, soaking my veins in a kind of sensual aliveness that I find hard to reach in my daily life.

You are a beautiful and challenging teacher and leave me pondering what right relationship to desire is…

You can want something, but does it want you back? You can want a job or a person, but is it what is truly alive?
What is it to humble ourselves, to humble myself and come into a place of reverence for aliveness first and foremost?

Easy to write about, oh so tricky to put into practice.
I feel clumsy and meet all the fears and ancient wounds as old as my great grandmothers history.

So I am here to learn to fine tune my senses, to becoming intricately familiar to the pure desire or longing that is intimately alive in each moment and be willing to let go of what I wanted, or what I thought I wanted. To let the erotic innocence of life speak through my own body not from performance or wanting, but from a kind of listening that requires devotion and practice again and again and again.

This is what they mean when they talk about letting go of desire. It was never about suppression or denial of the beauty of the very driving force of life itself.

No, it was about being a student of it, humbling ourselves again and again to listen to the subtle whispers of what is truly Alive. To become patient enough to ask, is this what I truly want? Does this thing or choice want me too?
And if it’s a No or the person or experience doesn’t unravel in the way you hoped it would, can you tend to the sacred fire or your longing, your desire, while being held clearly in the no? Trusting it will show in its in right timing….

Ibiza, I know I want you, and I’ll wait for you to let me know when you want me too…. by @be_still_grow_wild

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5 months ago

Hey Beautiful Woman,

I'm hosting a little workshop coming up soon here in the beautiful Bergen.

Designed to support you in getting to know your incredible body and anatomy from the inside out. Body & Mind.

With Mothers Day around the corner this is a lovely way to treat yourself, and perhaps bring your daughter (or mother) along.

🌹We'll drop-in, learn, explore practices designed to connect you to your womb & pelvis, & have some time to gently share at the end.

☕️Supported by Mama Cacao being made by the one and only @sami_joha - My partner in crime, whoops I mean in feminine wisdom ❤️

In this day and age where the majority of us were taught nothing about our bodies, yet alone our Wombs, I’ve personally experienced the profound changes that coming into relationship with our Female Anatomy can make.

🩸Feeling more Grounded & Rooted in Your Essence as a Woman.

🩸Experience a sense of Self-Value and genuine Awe for your body that isn’t dependant on how you look (seriously the female body is amazing).

🩸Dissolving Layers of Shame inherited from
outdated conditioning most of us receive around our bleed etc.

Just to name a few benefits.

We are keeping it small and cozy in numbers intentionally.

Sliding scale💕.

Would love to have you there.
Dm me with questions ❤️
X Joy (&Sam)

ps: This event is a Teaser/Preview for a Woman's Day retreat I'll be hosting with my beautiful sister @nicky.being later on this summer. taken in Moon Yoga Club by @be_still_grow_wild

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6 months ago

38.
Another year.
This one feels brighter.
Dripping with potency.
Rich.

GOLD.
Resting into being deeply held by life, by God.

There's a quality of profound beauty to it all right now, even if there's some pretty intense things unfolding too.

Learning how to stay with it, to choose to meet it all.

Asking for support and presence. Learning to resource myself time and time again.

It's not easy, but there's quality of ease to it.

I'm learning to stop fighting life (finally), to let go of trying to control and manipulate life and to meet it in each moment, to meet it in each movement, to the best of my ability, no matter what is there.

I'm in awe of the caliber of people in my life. The circle of friends and the depth we keep meeting each other and growing together in.

I feel clearer. I feel integrity returning as an invisible super power, as a back bone of self-loyalty; "I've got you, I'm here for you."

Integrity is energy, integrity is currency a mentor (@chrisknight_self.enquiry) once told me.

I feel profoundly supported and called into a place vibrancy, of true health, and of potency by @mawomenshealth and @carlyraebeaudry Womb care practitioner training.

I feel humbled as hell. Still learning to ask for help and support, but getting better at it.

And the ways it feels so good when I'm asked for support as well. The interwoven, interdependent webs of care deepen.

I'm learning to receive, which means learning to sit with the internal bracing in my body when someone gifts me something, without expecting my body to be ready to open yet.

Knowing that this is just where my body and nervous system are at right now.

Knowing that one day, in her own right and wise timing, she'll remember and soften again.

Knowing those stories and ancients aches will melt one day. When they are ready. And when I choose to be ready. There's a sweet spot.

I'm learning to let go of the oppressive pressure to fix and change myself and instead offer support, learn how to create a shift in the relationship to the thing.

I'm learning to grow up.

It's beautiful, and it's painful but I'm here for it.

Thank you for being here <3

#happybirthdaytome by @be_still_grow_wild

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a year ago

Over the years my practice has changed so much, this is only a snippet of the various movements I love doing. It may look simple, a voice in me wonders if it’s too “boring” to share. But I can’t tell you how GOOD it felt 😌.

More and more I’m drawn to non structured movements. I’m so grateful to have yoga, yin, and pilates as foundations to explore from.

Learn the rules, the foundations, so you can completely let them go one day…

Location = the stunning @sumberkimahill (Can’t recommend this place enough!)

#movementteacher #horizontalvideobecauseIcan #yoga #yogateacher #yin #intuitivemovement by @be_still_grow_wild

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