"We are all walking each other home." ~ Ram Dass

"We are all walking each other home." ~ Ram Dass

Hi, I am Zena

A Warm Welcome to my online sacred sanctuary, with offerings to support you on your healing and wellbeing journey.

As we journey together, my intention is to gently guide you to re-connect with your innate body wisdom and natural capacity for healing, to attune you to your felt sense, and to what nourishes you from within. To Be with 'What is' to release what is ready to shift and to integrate what is ready to come home to the self.

Whether through energy work, sacred ceremony, or re-connection with the natural World, my intention is to help you restore balance, and align with your true nature—so you can meet life with greater resilience, presence, acceptance, vitality, self-worth, authentic expression and love. 

My offerings include Acupuncture, Mindfulness based Inner repatterning, Bodywork, Meditation, Medicine Dance and ceremonial space for Cacao, Kambo and Sweat Lodges.

Thank you for being here. It is a joy to share this space with you. 

About Me

I am …

I am Soul. I am Spirit. I am Being. I am Love.

I am a Woman, navigating peri-menopause, a seeker of truth & authenticity, medicine carrier of gentleness, sacred space holder of Ceremony. I am also a lover of dance, nature, the wilderness, the oceans, yoga, chanting, song & fire.

My offerings to you, have come to be through a culmination of over 30 years of experience, study, practice and following my passion and own healing journey. Offerings that I truly love and that have helped me along the way and continue to inspire my work.

I have always had a deep love of nature. It is who we are

The spark for holistic medicine began in 1992, when I trained in  Aromatherapy massage. After working and travelling in Austrailia and Asia, my life path eventually led me to University where I graduated in 2001 as a Traditional Chinese Acupuncturist. 

This ancient way, of working with energy for health and wellbeing, makes sense to me, illuminating the connection between the body, energy, emotions, spirit and the Natural World.

During my studies I had an initiation of my own due to a series of traumatic life events.  As my world to energy medicine opened up, my life as I knew it fell apart. This awakening became the catalyst for a deeper soul-led healing journey, one that over time helped me embody more of my true self and expand my emotional and spiritual capacity. It taught me the importance of integration in the body and has enriched the depth, sensitivity & presence I bring to each person I work with.

Over the years, I have supported hundreds of people on their healing journeys,  helping them restore balance and re-connect with their most authentic selves.

I have trained with some incredible teachers and studied at the Tianjin Teaching Hospital in China. Drawing on the meridian system, I have weaved energy psychology modalites, including EFT and Mindfulness Based Inner Repatterning, into trauma informed care. I spent 8 years working in Adult Mental Health, where these tools served as a practical effective form of mental-health first aid while working on the frontline supporting Adults in crisis.

Alongside my own healing journey to embodiment, I discovered the power of Women's circles and spent five years with Shakti Tantra, deepening my relationship with my body, facing long-held fears and releasing blocks to joy. This led me to hold Women’s circles and to reconnect with my love of dance away from the nightclub scene, through 5 Rhythms and Medicine Dance. Both of which continue to be central to my regular practice of love and joy today. 

In 2014, I co-created Manchester’s first conscious dance events called The Cauldron. Around this same period, the Shamanic path and plant medicines opened to me, which eventually led me to train in and serve Cacao and Kambo. Neither of these was part of my plan. Yet life , teachings and the spirit of these medicines brought them to me through clear invitation and powerful synchronicity. In fact, everything I offer has arrived this way.

My relationship with cacao began in 2015, when I was gifted my first block with the simple intention of learning how to make chocolates. Once I began drinking her, it became clear that this was no ordinary chocolate.

As I deepened my immersion and training with Cacao, the wisdom and inspiration I received became a welcomed source of support. I was first invited to join a friend to share and supply this beautiful medicine, and nine months later, I received a clear call from Cacao Deva to work with her in service to others . Soon after, I was asked to hold my first ceremony at a retreat in Portugal, where I recognised how naturally my life journey and the skills I had gathered came together within this sacred container. I have been holding Cacao ceremonies since 2016 and was among the first to offer them in Manchester, UK.  

Today, Cacao Ceremonies and events have grown in popularity across the globe. For me, I continue to hold the medicine with the same respect, reverence and integrity she deserves, honouring the depth of her teachings.

Kambo came into my life during a potential serious health concern and the tail end of burn out. It helped me on many levels, strengthening my overall wellbeing and giving me the clarity I needed to make significant changes to my life/work balance and to take the leap, quite literally! leaving mental health work and moving fully into my wellbeing practice.

Being in service to Kambo is such an honour and remains a powerful, humbling ally. I  hold a safe space in however Kambo wants to work with you. Where appropriate, I also draw on my acupuncture knowledge and weave in specific use of acupuncture points to support your intention. 

My journey has also been profoundly shaped by the most ancient Shamanic tradition of Bwiti, in which I was initiated in Gabon in 2020, as well as by 13 years of attending Sweat Lodge Ceremony, including these last 7 years with the Lakota Lame Deer Lineage. For the past four years, I have been running Women’s lodges, using the Celtic Medicine wheel of our lands.

At the heart of everything I offer, my intention is to provide a safe, strong, gentle container for your healing transformative journey. It is a deep honour if our paths meet and you are called to work with me. I do not claim to heal anyone, rather, my approach is to gently support you and your system to connect with the healing you are ready to receive, knowing that the wisdom and medicine you seek already lives within you.

Our work together can help you prioritise your health and wellbeing, restore balance where its needed, deepen trust to your inner knowing, support integration and a coming home to your true nature, reconnecting you with who you truly are.

I remain committed to ongoing training, supervision and personal therapy as part of both my professional practice and personal growth, including completing the Wheel of Consent like a pro training, which has further deepened my capacity to hold trauma informed spaces .

May you know that you are enough, that you are worthy of love and joy. That you are powerful beyond measure.

“People say that what we’re all seeking in life is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think we’re seeking the rapture, the joy, of being alive.” Joseph Campbel ~

“People say that what we’re all seeking in life is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think we’re seeking the rapture, the joy, of being alive.” Joseph Campbel ~

Qualifications & Further Studies

As a lifelong learner I have invested many hours into furthering my education through various studies and qualifications.

Acupuncture

BSc (Hons) Complementary Medicine Practice (Traditional Chinese Acupuncture) (2001) Salford University

Acupuncture ~ University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, teaching hospital Tianjin, China (2002)

Chinese Herbal Patents with Shulan Tang Shizhen TCM College

Advanced Tongue Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine  with Giovanni Maciocia Shizen TCM College

Difficult & Complex diseases & Paths Seminar with Charles Buck

Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture with Virgina Doran College of Traditional Acupuncture, Reading

Sports Medicine Acupuncture treatments with Kevin Young College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, Reading

Basic Tuina Techniques & Principles with Kevin Young  Glyndwr University

Tuina Massage (Intermediate) with Kevin Young Glyndwr University

Taoist internal alchemy of the 5 Elements workshops (Manchester) and 1-1 sessions in nature (Conwy), with the late Taoist teacher Barry Spendlove (2013-2014)

Bodywork

Swedish Massage IIHHT (1992)

Diploma in Aromatherapy IIHHT (1992)

Thermal Auricular Therapy Intensive (2006) Bolton College

Indian Head Massage Diploma Level 3 VTCT IIHHT (2008) 

International Institute of Reflexology Diploma (IIR) With Allison Walker (2008)

Professional Proficiency Seminar (IIR) With Dwight Byers

CPD Aromatherapy for the Feet Jubilee College

Vocal Massage training with Christian Platts Active Health Group

Energy psychology & Ceremony

 NLP Introductory Diploma ~ Inspire 360

EFT levels 1 + 2 With Rebecca Roberts &  Karl Dawson (2008 & 2009)

Deep State Repatterning Energy Practitioner with Tania Prince ~(2009)

Mindfulness Based Inner Repatterning Practitioner with Tania Prince (2012, 2013, 2014,2015)

Shakti Tantra Women's Programme (2011-2013) & Mixed (2014 & 2015)

Medicine Dance facilitator training with Fred Sugarman with ongoing practice to this present time 2026

IAKP Kambo Practitioner (2016/2017)

Alchemical Chocolate Cacaoista Practitioner with Annu Tara

Attended Cacao Ceremonies and received 1-1 sessions with the late Keith Wilson (Chocolate Shaman)

Sweat Lodge Keeper with Eva Bear (2018)

Attending Lakota Sweat lodges with the Lame Deer lineage (since 2018) ongoing

Participated in the Sun Moon Dance with John Wilson from the Beautiful Painted arrow lineage (2023 and 2025) ongoing

Advanced Shamanic Space Clearing & Geomancy Consultant with Sue Holmes Modern Shaman Academy 

Wheel of Consent Like a Pro with Robyn Dalzen & Michael Dresser