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03/04/2026

Last week I turned 41.
Surrounded by nature, with my fav person.
Connecting with land, the animals and myself.
My life is the adventure I always wanted.
Life is for living and that’s what I’m doing ❤️
Go live life your way, I dare you!

01/04/2026

It is with much sadness that unfortunately I will not be able to make it to the April Mallorca BJJ Festival this year as originally planned.

I always feel so honoured and full of gratitude sharing the sacred medicine of cacao to all the participants brave enough to join me in the early mornings. To set intentions and take a moment to connect with themselves before the busyness of the day unfolds.

I thank the beautiful for stepping in, she will be guiding and sharing cacao during my absence.

I have been part of the festival since 2022, many facilitators and guests have become like family, and I cant wait to be back in October.

Wishing you all a beautiful festival and can’t wait to see photos and be part of the event from a far ❤️

31/01/2026

How much shame are you feeling about how your year has started?
Today may be the last day of January, but it is not a marker of your worth, based on what you did or didn’t accomplish this month.

IG keeps bombarding me with “today’s the day”, “this week changes everything”. An underlying pressure placed on us, constantly.
Please don’t let media dictate where you should be or what you should be doing by now.

January 1st is just a marker for calendars and taxes. It’s not aligned with nature’s cycles. So take a breath 😮‍💨
Whether you are in the northern or southern hemisphere, no season asks us to rush or shame ourselves into transformation. 
Wherever you are on the planet, the seasons are doing different things and none of them are asking you to panic, perform, or prove anything.
The pressure we feel at this time of year isn’t natural. It’s manufactured.
The Gregorian calendar is one of many rhythms we live inside, not the only one that matters.

Clear space for your heart to be heard.
Feel the shame, but don’t believe in it.
Walk toward what makes you feel alive, over and over again.

Can you love yourself exactly where you are?

I love you x

26/01/2026

Australia, a country where traditions go back more than 65,000 years, NOT 238.
I don’t like that we celebrate this day, a day where we stole this land from First Nations people. I don’t celebrate the English conquest and colonisation of this land. I don’t love that people party on the day genocide began.

I love Australia for its diversity, from the deep red deserts to lush rainforests, from wild beaches to incredible species of flora and fauna. This country is vast, ancient and was cared for by First Nations people for tens of thousands of years.

Australia was and always will be Aboriginal land.

The 26 January 1788, with the arrival of the First Fleet, is not a day for celebration. For that reason, I respect this day as a day of mourning.
It’s time to listen, acknowledge, and say sorry.
Today, I remember the survival, strength, and culture of First Nations peoples, and I commit to learning, witnessing, and standing with them.
❤️💛🖤

📸 Forever touched by this photo and moment in time. With and

07/01/2026

UNFURL has left me speechless in the most beautiful of ways 🌿
Deepest gratitude to these beautiful souls who trusted in our New Year vision and walked this soft journey with us.

Thank you for the care, presence, and love you shared, such a beautiful mirror of how and I held one another.

Remember a bud doesnt bloom until it’s ready.
So unfurl into 2026 when you’re ready.
Not a moment sooner my loves 🌹

Thank you to for your service and love ♥️

28/12/2025

UNFURL became our own initiation. An unfurling into deeper trust. Into ourselves as facilitators.
This retreat has initiated us both into unfurling into our own becoming and has been a true teacher for us.
This is my first retreat of my own, though I’ve supported many.  has held many retreats but this is our first together.
Planned across countries. Lately we’ve had weekly 2–3 hour calls. Feeling into every detail. Pulling from our experience of holding space, and being held, to create something truly intentional.
People are coming from all across Europe to gather with us as we enter a new calendar year. To reconnect with themselves. To unfurl in their own rhythm.
This weekend we are together finalising our dreams.
And today, we can finally say 2 days to go until we begin 🌿

27/12/2025

UNFURL is fully booked 🤍
The creation of UNFURL began back in April 2025, and honestly I didn’t know how it would be received.
I knew I was taking a step back from holding cacao and women circles. So I didn’t know how we would attract enough people. I didn’t want to carry the pressure of filling the space alone.
We had a vision though. A clear intention. A deep knowing that the space we wanted to create was needed.
It’s been a rollercoaster of emotions. Moments where our self-confidence wavered and we wanted to give up and cancel. Moments where fear whispered that we wouldn’t even cover the costs. I doubted my own gifts, questioning if I was the right person to facilitate and hold space while moving through grief and confusion within myself. Joanna was navigating her own emotional waves.
We had to support each other through the doubt. Through the fear. Through the moments we didn’t feel strong. It wasn’t easy. And yet… we stayed with it.
And the retreat unfurled in its own time, naturally. Of course 🤍
We laugh now, because we have 15 guests, a waitlist of people wishing to join us and a team of support joining us .online
This is beyond our wildest expectations and we are so full of gratitude 🌿🕯️

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Retreat being held

26/12/2025

Deep appreciation for for capturing these sacred moments at the in October 2025.
This moment was a super emotional time for me.
I had stopped sharing cacao earlier this year after grief hit me unexpectedly and had spent many months confused and in deep self doubt and reflection.
Coming back to this familiar space, seeing familiar faces was the medicine I didn’t know I needed to return to what I love doing - sharing cacao and inviting people into deeper connection with their body and self. This moment gave me the confidence to return to space holding and my love of facilitation.
Thank you to those who trusted, supported, hugged and cried with me🌹

02/12/2025

And just like that… November is over. And so is this chapter.

I can’t fully describe the month I’ve had. It stretched me in ways I didn’t see coming.
It hurt. I felt unmet.
And yet, I stood up for myself. I used my voice. I found a stability within me that I didn’t recognise before. I faced things instead of hiding from them.

My expectations were shattered. What I thought I was walking into was not what unfolded. But I gained clarity on what I don’t want, which hopefully, brings me closer to what I do want.
It saddens me that the community living I envisioned never materialized. But there was medicine in this experience too, medicine I didn’t know I needed.

And I also learned: I don’t have to stay somewhere just because there’s healing to be done. I can choose ease. I can choose alignment. I can choose myself.
So, I left. And leaving was an act of self-love 🌹

Life is collection of choices.
What are you choosing?

📸 Gratitude to the people in these photos, they embraced my truth and encouraged my voice.

23/11/2025

The last 3 weeks living in a co-living community in the mountains has been nothing like I expected.

I landed right in the middle of a moving, melting, constantly-changing group of humans, different languages, cultures, rhythms, wounds, and communication styles all swirling under the same roof.
And something old in me switched on immediately: The facilitator. The regulator. The one who smooths things over, fixes misunderstandings, holds, rescues.
The one who creates the safety I need by creating safety for everyone else first.
It’s a role I know well.

Part of me wants to step up and “fix” the dynamics for the group.
To educate, solve, listen. And yet there is another part of me whispering to let it all fall.

I’m noticing how hard it is to let misunderstandings unfold without stepping in. How uncomfortable it feels to watch tension rise and not mediate.
It turns out I’ve learnt to support others as a way to feel safe myself.

And now I’m here, in this wild ecosystem of people, learning a totally new skill:
How to participate without holding. How to belong without over-giving. How to feel safe without rescuing.
How to be ok with being misunderstood. How to stay connected without disappearing.

I’m learning to sit with my discomfort.
Some days I get it right. Some days I slip back into old patterns. Some days I want to run and leave.
Some days I want to speak up and fix it all.

Living in community is confronting… but it’s also one of the richest mirrors I’ve ever stepped into. It’s revealing the parts of me that are tired, tender, beautifully trained, and also ready for a new rhythm.
I don’t have a conclusion yet, but I’m here for now, continuing to learn. 
Community is no joke, especially within a group of humans you didn’t choose to live with.

Words from my heart, finding my way within the Valencian Mountains 🌿

26/10/2025

Sunrise cacao

Every year it’s such a gift to return to this special place, share this medicine and guide people into their bodies.

Since 2022, I’ve been meeting the most incredible people, those who maybe I never would otherwise.

A predominantly martial arts festival, with such open and kind hearted people curious to try something new and start their day with mindful intention.

Beyond great feel for this experience that keeps on giving ❤️

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