Language and sound are at the heart of who I am. In the early part of my life, I was equally passionate about learning new languages, singing songs from different eras, traditions and genres, and playing the clarinet. I remember finding deep comfort listening to Joni Mitchell’s Blue before I even reached puberty.

After a completing a degree in modern languages at Cambridge, I was drawn towards fashion as one of the most accessible forms of self-expression and reinvention. I also began to explore holistic approaches to health while navigating a post-viral syndrome in my 20s, and ended up studying homeopathy. That led to writing collaborations with three different practitioners to produce self-help books in the field of health and wellbeing.

My understanding of the healing power of sound expanded through my work with Mary Masselos, a professional violinist turned music therapist whose sessions combined ‘talking’ therapy with musical improvisation. Over the following years, I sang for pleasure, shared a lot of music with my children, went back to the piano and clarinet, and toyed with a few other instruments along the way. 

I started leading therapeutic music sessions in 2013. For many years, I ran singing groups for people living with dementia and saw how sound, song and movement stimulated cognitive function and created connection and joy where there was growing isolation.

It was a natural progression to embark on a diploma with the UK College of Sound Healing specialising in the voice in 2022. During my training I learned to work with a range of vocal sound healing techniques and both witnessed and experienced for myself the potential for positive and profound change created by healing frequencies and silence. Since then, I've spent some time studying Sanskrit and deepening my knowledge of mantra as a way to calm the mind and find stillness within.