Hello, I'm Faith

For approximately 27 years I have worked in the public sector, including mental health, trauma, sexual harm and complex needs. Much of that time has been spent with people whose lives have been shaped by experiences that are hard to put into words.

My work has also reached beyond direct support. I have been involved in supervision, including developing supervision models for trauma informed practice, and I have experience of projects, services and organisational development. I have postgraduate training relevant to sexual harm, trauma, complex needs and mental health.

I mention this not as a list of credentials, and not because Tantra is a clinical treatment. It is not, and I do not offer it as one. I mention it because those years have taught me a great deal about people: about vulnerability and resilience, about the importance of boundaries, about how differently each of us carries our emotions, and about how complicated and beautiful human lives can be. That understanding comes with me into every conversation and every session. Helping people has always been an innate part of who I am. I have always been naturally drawn to it, and have an ability to bring through wisdom and guidance for people in times of trauma, crisis and upheaval.

Tantra did not arrive in my life out of curiosity. By 2013 I already had a foundation of faith and a regular practice of meditation, and alongside them an inner knowing that I have learned to trust: a quiet certainty that comes from somewhere deeper than thought. That knowing is hard to describe to anyone who has not felt something similar, and I do not expect everyone to share it. But it is real to me, and it is what drew me towards Tantra.

When I began to explore Tantra in 2013, it felt less like discovering something new and more like recognising something I already knew. The teachings gave language and form to what meditation and faith had been showing me for years: that the body, the mind and the spirit are not separate, and that life is meant to be felt as well as understood.

My years in the public sector were running alongside all of this. Working with trauma, mental health, sexual harm and complex needs, and supervising others in trauma informed practice, taught me how deeply experience lives in the body, and how carefully safety, consent and boundaries must be held. Tantra and that professional understanding grew up side by side in me, and each has shaped the other.

In time, that led me to train further in Tantra Massage with Lynn Paterson, founder of One Heart Tantra in Scotland. Our connection has continued well beyond that training. Lynn and I collaborate regularly, sharing practice, ideas and our experience of this work, and she remains an important part of both my professional and my spiritual journey. I value the wisdom, integrity and heart she brings to Tantra, and the space we create when we work together.

For me, Tantra is not simply a massage, a technique or something that only happens during a session. It is a way of experiencing life through awareness, conscious breathing, sensation, connection and presence.

So much of modern life is spent in our minds. We revisit the past, anticipate the future, analyse ourselves and try to become something different. Tantra offers a way back to the experience of being alive: to feel rather than constantly analyse, and to reconnect with what is already within us.

Meditation and conscious breathing are woven through everything I offer. They are not a warm up before the real experience. They are the experience, and they are also the part that comes home with you. Noticing the breath while waiting for a kettle to boil, feeling your feet on the ground on a difficult day, pausing before you react: this is where Tantra begins to become part of ordinary living.