"ChaNan brings people home to their innate truth, using different techniques, energetically and pyscho spiritually"
Lizzi
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I invite you to get a cup of tea or a glass of water and let me introduce myself;
I am a dreamer, healer, therapist, teacher, highly sensitive intuitive and a wayfinder; I am a gardener - a creator and holder of spaces - both in our bodies, for individuals, for groups and for organisations. I am highly trained and relish in new learning.
I am a liminal being, I love the edges both physically in the landscape and in us, this is where our change and growth can occur, it is where our innate wildness seeds into our domesticated landscapes. I am a writer and a spinner of both thread and words, a weaver of thread and energy. I mix my metaphors and refuse to be put into a specific shape
The questions that keep me alive, orientated and aligned are;
How can I become more integrated into our Earths ecology? How can I help other humans do this?
By remaining true to this I feel we can then really explore the landscape and terrain of the portals in our bodies, and there are so many internal worlds for us to explore!
A bit more detail
My healing journey started in my early twenties (I am now in my 50's) when I was exploring lands on the other side of the world and I become aware of energy outside of our bodies, of Elemental Beings who live within the landscape all around us, and discovering that my body was a landscape of Earth.
This has directed me ever since, questing to deepen my relationship as a human being rooted in the landscape of where I call home, as such I listen and learn about the landscape, find the sources of my local rivers, listen to the geology of the land on which I live, as its there the sung stories of the land reside.
From a very young age I have worked with Altars, picking up stones, finding crystals and feathers and creating little spaces for the other - bigger to live it. These may be simple and momentary or deeper and held longer for more potent purposes. I find this helps to hold me, my dreams and intents and provides one of the foundations for my life, it gives me a deeper focus.
I live in Mid-Wales, a land that adopted me over 27 years ago, when we lived amongst the Mountains of the North, travelled south to the Dyfi estuary, and are now between the age old mountains of the Cambrian and the Coast of Mid-Wales on a little smallholding where I deepen my relationship with the elemental beings who live here. I am learning how to create harmony and growth, how the 'garden' grows me and understanding more about my relationship to soil, the mycorrhizal network and my dreams, as well as the plants, birds, bees and furry beings that live around us.
I love learning and reading, and I am political. My interests and trainings have been varied and centred deeply around herbalism and stones; yoga, yoga nidra and our bodies...
I love the magic and mystery that we hold in ourselves; women's health - especially in relationship to fertility cycles and latterly the being with the at times hardcore initiation of my peri-menopausal and menopausal gateways. Part of this has been really being with my nervous system, discovering how as a highly sensitive being, how I have been for most of my life, and how I find resilience.
All of the trainings and self development work I have done has been around listening to the gateways that are available to me, the ones that open my body to explore deeper aspects of my being, and when the time is right, I take the medicine I have integrated and embodied and will weave these into my offerings and holding of space.
I have had an over 30 year relationship with the Sacred Fire of Izatchalatlan, alongside my husband and I am consistently in awe of the simplicity of how sitting in front of a ritual fire, offering heartfelt prayers and songs as we journey as a community through the elements, brings a deep connection to the ancient parts of ourselves. In my menopause I have stepped back as listening to my bodies request to try and stop the boom and bust of plant medicine on my nervous system, this has allowed me to drop to a deeper relationship with the Fire in myself.
I had a rich 7 year apprenticeship with a Medicine Woman who loves earth deeply and resides in the US. She taught me how to use my light body to work with other people irregardless of where they are in the world and held me as I quested my relationship the other realms and the ancestors who prayed for us, through a series of ceremony. She deepened my understanding of minerals, rocks and crystals and since then I have deepned my relationship with Crystal Skulls, whom I first met over 30 years ago and their relationship with the web of life, of which we, as humans, are part.
Along the way I have woven in beloved herbal forays and foraging, plants have been with me ever since I made potions in the garden as a child.
Eliot Cowan, formally opened my relationship with Five Elements with the plant world through his Plant Spirit Medicine training. This ignited a deep respect and love for the Ancient Chinese Medicine it has been my constant daily companion for the past 20 years as I interact and learn with them every day.
They formed the base of my Kinesiology practice as I worked within the School of Creative Kinesiology, it shaped me as a healer, as I journeyed along the route from foundation to professional therapist with training in somatic body work, listening and witnessing. Even though I have stepped back from my kinesiology practice now, I remain a senior teacher for the School.
The Five Elements have returned in depth and utter beauty as I have travelled the wisdom roads of Lorie Eve Dechar and Benjamin Fox. I have ben working with them for the past 3 years and in 2025 completed brilliant Alchemical Mentorship. This has bought me to a new depth and resonance with the Five Elements and this ancient way of working.
I love how all these bits of me make up my whole... and that whole is continually seeking the other bits of me that are still hidden and are waiting to be unearthed, reunited or refined within myself. And this is a key piece I hold for others at this point, how we weave in as much of ourselves as we can to create a beautiful book of our bodies, not becoming overly focused on one word, sentence, paragraph, page or chapter.
I love writing poetry and prose, reading, singing badly, sewing and creating, honouring the cycles and seasons of the land and myself and walking barefoot with my dog whilst foraging for whatever is in season.
Much of my focus is how we, as humans, can devolve ourselves to become more rooted into Earth, to understand ourselves as part of the landscape around us, and as such to deepen our relationship to the places we call home. I listen to the wisdom of First Nations and Indigenous Elders, those who I feel help us to deepen our relationship to our inner compasses and our North Star those that guide us back to the Garden of our Hearts.
In this way I do my best to empower and help guide other humans in a way that can bring them into a deeper alignment with their hearts and soul, bring themselves back from the edge of overwhelm.
Training and Qualifications
- Plant Spirit Medicine, Eliot Cowan 2007, followed by multiple CPD!
- Creative Kinesiology, 2011 - 2022 Foundation to Professional level training, repeating all courses, followed by teacher training, running multiple foundation and professional level courses as well as CPD days and short course, including core subjets of Practice Management and Body Orientated Interpersonal Skills
- 2013-2022 Part of the management team for the School of Creative Kinesiology
- Well Woman Yoga (previous known as Womb Yoga) practitioner training - Yoga Nidra Network, Uma Dinsmore-Thuli 2016
- Yoga Nidra Teacher Certification, Yoga Nidra Network, 2017
- Multiple CPD and weekend trainings, including, working with Bones, Vagus Nerve, Trauma Release, Nutrition, Anatomy, Fascial Release, Resonant Attention, Releasing Eyes, Nervous System deep dives etc.
- Inner Alchemy Mentorship, A New Possibility, Lorie Eve Dechar and Benjamin Fox 2025
