MysticMag has the pleasure of chatting with Georgie, a holistic practitioner at Healing Spirits. With a rich tapestry of experience in yoga, meditation, dance, spiritual healing, and birthing, she leads transformative sessions designed to heal the whole being. Whether through group sessions online or at serene venues, or via personalized one-on-one journeys in her tranquil space overlooking the hills, Georgie facilitates a profound healing journey. Rooted in her own life’s journey and personal evolution, she offers a holistic approach to healing mind, body, and spirit. With a diverse range of qualifications spanning Kundalini Yoga, HypnoBirthing, spiritual healing, counseling, and more, Georgie is devoted to guiding individuals towards their true nature, inner peace, and fulfillment. Join her vibrant community of seekers in Herefordshire to embark on a journey toward self-discovery, healing, and spiritual growth.
Georgie, your approach to yoga and healing is incredibly comprehensive, covering a wide range of techniques and practices. How do you integrate these various methods to create a holistic approach for your clients seeking healing and transformation?
I like to share what has worked for me. So it all started with Kundalini Yoga which is such a deep and powerful practice to release old pain and habits that have become stuck within the body – also old ancestral pain that we carry in our cells. Kundalini Yoga keeps us incredibly healthy and strong and also expands our awareness and strengthens our faith. It was transformational for me.
And alongside my practice I have been seeing a spiritual healer for years. She is my spiritual mentor and fork-lifter as well! So, I decided to train in Spiritual Healing with The Healing Trust because I wanted to give my one-to-one clients the same experience. My Counselling training has been invaluable in terms of how to hold a loving professional therapeutic space and how to listen deeply. But my clients come to me not just to talk through their sacred pain, experiences etc but to receive spiritual guidance and take something away with them. I also give them yoga or meditation to practice at home.
As wonderful as all this was and still is, I discovered (for myself first and then my clients) that we need to let someone else hold us and heal us as well – not that I am healing them, but as a channel. Because as long as we alone are in charge of our own healing, we are going to get in our own way. To relax and let go entirely is such a necessary part of the healing process – so that our ego can hush and our soul can receive. Neither I nor my client can ever know everything that is held within them – so together we surrender to the flow of Divine Healing and let it do its magic with neither of us getting in the way! It is also such a beautiful gift to give to someone – the gift of deep, deep rest and healing.
And then came Chakra Dancing! When I did my Healing Arts Therapy foundation course with Ragamuffin I ran out of the room when invited to dance freely! I knew I needed to go on a journey around that because I love music and dance and I was letting my inhibitions hold me back. And when I trained to hold Chakra Dancing sessions I felt a whole other level of empowerment and exploding into my truth! It is joyful and playful and freeing and we laugh and cry and shout and oh my gosh, people let go of SO much! I love the playful element to this as I am a strong believer that we must never take ourselves too seriously – I mean deeply love and cherish ourselves, yes, but spiritual egos are just another obstacle to true joy and compassion.
So all of the above, alongside my love of relaxation – I take that part of any class very seriously and have plenty of yoga nidras, creative visualisations and guided relaxations on my website for free listening. Those have also been creatively opening for me as I often make them up as I go along! I think that is about it! All of what serves me and gives me immense joy and fulfilment is what I offer to others!
What can you tell us about your personal journey that has brought you to where you are today?
Oh gosh how long have you got? In a nutshell, after ten years of yoga which helped me feel calmer I discovered Kundalini Yoga. And ran home after my first class and said to my husband “James! I have just done the most beautiful yoga! Nothing like yoga I have ever done before but amazing! And she played music!” I was hooked from then on and found within weeks I had more energy than I had ever experienced before and also that I was shedding old neuroses as though I had had ten years of therapy!
I had actually had very successful CBT for a 13-year battle with Bulimia – but while that ended the eating disorder, it didn’t heal the pain beneath the acting out. Kundalini Yoga was healing me every day, and making me more and more self-aware and elevated. The other yogas had lacked the Spiritual uplift that I didn’t know I was missing. In class we sing, chant, pray, laugh, cry – it is incredible for the immune system and whole body but also gives immense faith.
I am now 50 and have been doing it since I was 32. So far I am flowing through peri-menopause with ease and find that as life throws in challenges at me, I embrace them all with faith and grace. Well, mostly! Kundalini Yoga made me blossom from a hurt child still seeing herself as a victim, to a fully grown woman owning her life and taking responsibility for it.
This is why I am passionate about holding spaces for women – I feel so moved by anyone who takes responsibility for their pain and healing so that they can be better humans in the world. I think it is the best practice for mothers as it gives us energy, health and all of the above in one 90 minute class a week! And our children benefit from watching us take care of ourselves and striving not for perfection but for self-acceptance and self-love.
I would say that despite all of the above though, my ego was still clinging tightly until my Spiritual Healer helped me see this and release it over the years – she taught and enabled me – through her wise insight and her healings – to stop trying to be perfect, different, better than or worse than anyone else, but to simply recognise I am a child of God, no better or worse than any other human, nothing special, but a dear soul. She taught me to delight in myself. I love that word. It is entirely free of ego.
Your work spans from yoga for children to therapeutic healing for adults. How do you adapt your teaching and therapeutic approaches to cater to the diverse needs of different age groups and individuals?
Oh that is the easy part. I just meet them where they are at and give total permission for them to do their thing. I encourage them to close their eyes, take responsibility for themselves because they are the only expert when it comes to their body. And I bring the lightness and playfulness of my children’s classes into my adult ones and the depth and spirit of my adult classes into my children’s ones, of that makes sense! As far as I am concerned, it is all a practice of love – a big love fest – so anyone who wants to join in is welcome and there is no right or wrong way!
Healing is a deeply personal journey. How do you establish a safe and nurturing environment for your clients to explore their healing process, particularly in practices like spiritual healing and therapeutic yoga?
It is hard to explain really – I mean I have my therapeutic training in this – from Counselling and Arts Therapy. So I know how to do it professionally. But it is something I just love to do. Over the years I have shed so much judgment and self-loathing that I now delight in just being present in my heart-space. I love sitting and listening to someone from my heart – it is no longer a head and ego-centric process – “I must listen, I must care, I must say the right thing, I must have an answer”. It was in the past. And I have learnt to not rescue – I used to.
Now I am just entirely present with them and deeply relaxed in that space. I sit with them as though I were giving a healing in a way – no judgment, no desire for anything to be any other than it is. No desire to fix anything, And I have learnt not to be afraid of anyone’s pain. I feel I have become rock-like in a way, fearless and loving. My faith means I believe entirely in their healing at the right time and in the right way and that I am not in charge of this. And now I can accept that according to my clients this seems to have become one of my gifts. To hold a safe loving space. I can delight in this. And I always bring homemade chai to my spaces and sometimes cake 😊
Your dedication to supporting mothers through HypnoBirthing and mother-and-baby yoga is wonderful. What inspired you to focus on prenatal and postnatal care, and how have these practices contributed to the well-being of mothers and babies?
Ahhh motherhood is my passion. Although this is a different side to my work in one way, it isn’t at all as all the above applies. I am first and foremost a mother. Mothering is my most treasured gift. It fulfills me and inspires me and my own children have taught me and stretched me in all directions! They are amazing humans! They all come to my yoga classes of their own accord now! When in the mood 😊 And as a mother I consider my most important job is to help them access their own faith – if they can always do that, they will flow through whatever life throws at them. I can’t control any of that but I have been able to shape their emotional and spiritual and physical well-being and teach them how to love, respect, cherish and believe in themselves and all beings. And they have a lot of mantras under their belt in case the end of the world comes!
So for me to nurture mothers and hold their hand from the very beginning is an absolute joy. As a woman’s pain tends to arise while she is giving birth, helping with conscious conception, pregnancy and birth is not only life-changing for the child, but for the woman and her whole family.
I feel such compassion for mothers. I want them to be the best versions of themselves and to relax and find joy in mothering. I know many women unable to give birth so I also think we almost owe to it them as well as our own children to take mothering very seriously. And, as I said above, I know I have a deep personal desire in me to see mothers take responsibility for themselves and love themselves through their own pain in order to help break cycles for their children and set future generations free. The most sacred words anyone has ever said to me were from my oldest daughter “Mama, I feel like you have broken the cycle in our family”. She said this to me after listening to me talk about my own family and her ancestors. As a child of a mother who did her best but never got to grips with her own pain and trauma, she herself in a long-line of unmothered mothers – quite possibly unfathered too – my work makes total sense to me every day.
Looking back at all I have written, I feel so grateful for the way my purpose has organically unfolded over the years and that everything I do in life seems to be meant to be. I am so full of respect and love and gratitude for every single soul who has come into my classes or therapy. Imagine a world in which everyone took such care and responsibility for themselves! There would be no war that is for sure!
If you would like to find out more about Georgie, please visit https://healingspirits.co.uk/
