Tidal Nectar

This year, World Healing Day coincides with Anzac Day. In a time marked by profound global conflict, how might we best equip ourselves to be in service of a more loving and humane world?

You are warmly invited to a community peace ritual honouring those affected by wars past and present, and acknowledging intergenerational wounds that may have been passed down. Tending to our own ancestral lineages can loosen the cycles of emotional repression and harm, freeing energy for wiser, more compassionate ways of relating — with ourselves, with others, and beyond.

Franz Kafka wrote, "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us". Ritual, too, can unfreeze this sea — through the simple human warmth of being together, feeling what matters, and tending to it in relationship with ourselves, each other, our ancestors, Country, and all of life. 

We are all affected by war in different ways and to differing degrees. Even without personal experience, its presence is inescapable. This ritual is non-denominational, drawing on somatic practice, meditation, various wisdom traditions, art and literature. All are welcome. 

The invitation is to oxygenate and tenderise the heart, elbow out space for fellow feeling, free up voice boxes and bodies to express some of what has been held back, so we are more resourced to meet our lives and those of others with clarity and kindness. Through guided meditation, myth, poetry, and collective practice, we will gather warmth — for ourselves, for those who came before us, and for those who need it now.

“There is no phenomenon in the universe that does not intimately concern us, from a pebble resting at the bottom of the ocean, to the movement of a galaxy a million light years away.” 

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Amy has over twenty years experience in somatic practice and is a certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, and Focusing Practitioner. Her private practice and group work are resourced by a long-term meditation practice and a background in the arts. 

Amy is a fifth generation Australian of primarily European descent. She lives and works between Wurundjeri and Wadawurrung Country with her partner and three children, and is a founding member of Coming to Life, a facilitation collective blending somatic practice, courageous dialogue, decolonising education, and nature connection. Alongside her work with Coming to Life, Amy has a private practice, offers workshops and facilitates community rituals.

Her trauma-informed approach seeks to meet the challenges of our time by tapping the resilience and wisdom of our embodied selves – as people, parents, partners, friends, and citizens. Amy is committed to working with heart, humour and discernment.

She loves the relational process of creating unique containers that support transformation. She is continually struck by the body’s capacity to feel and heal when provided with a sound container and attuned support. She honours the inherent dignity of all life and is guided by the conviction that each of us has the intelligence and capacity to feel, metabolise and respond to what is wanting or needing to emerge - in bodies and beyond. 

With enough support, each of us can recover our capacities to be like a tree whose roots find water and whose branches find the sun.