Melanie Swan BristolAbout Me

After thinking that I'd got to get a 'proper career' - my first degree was in Business & Marketing. And it was in this area that I worked for 5 years until my soul couldn't take any more. One day I quit not knowing what else I wanted to do or what would happen next, just that I was hungry for something real. 

So I embarked on a training in Dramatherapy. (Having done lots of theatre when I was younger. I thought I could put my drama skills to good use.) I then worked as a Therapist for Barnardo's with children and families and for Bristol Social Services with adults and children.

However, I still had this yearning of working with what I used to call 'witchy stuff'! I have a vivid childhood memory of communicating with the wind, rain and thunder and felt physically and spiritually hungry until I re-connected with this way of being.

And so over the past few years I have been working in and with nature, doing lots of Sweat Lodges (
which have taken off layers of limits and opened up my life in ways that I couldn't have imagined), and I now feel at home again communing with the elements, trees, nature, animal spirits and stones. I also now genuinely experience the earth as a sentient being. This is an ongoing process of development that constantly opens and delights, and sometimes scares a little too!!