Ankita Healing 

I come from a very ordinary background in the North of England. After performing badly at school, I worked as a shop assistant for a couple of years, before taking my A Levels at the local community college. Discovering I have a gift for academic work, I went on to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford.

After graduating, I have worked in the charity sector, in financial, business and fundraising management. I’m a professionally qualified fundraiser with the Institute of Fundraising.  I was trained as a coach, and have many years’ experience in using coaching for staff and team development.

I have faced many personal challenges in my life, including PTSD, and in the process of trying to find a way forward for myself, I immersed myself deeply in the practices of Focusing and Shamanism. My motivation at the start was purely personal, but at some point, I discovered somehow I had started training to work with others.

Focusing is notoriously difficult to describe, but has been, for me, the most profound gift, and I often wonder how people live without it. It has brought me into deep connection with myself – not as I might think I am or wish I was, but as I actually am. I have gradually learnt great compassion for myself, and have learnt it is only from this place of deep connection that real transformation can emerge.

I have also been worked on, and trained, with shamans from a variety of countries – Peru, Mexico, Nepal in particular – as well as working with shamans and shamanic practitioners here in the UK.

I am an initiated Curandera, in the Amazonian tradition. A Curandera means healer or shaman.

I am also an initiated 4th Level Paqo on the Andean shamanic path, and an initiated Mesa carrier, which is a vital part of my healing work.

These initiations are a great honour, and have gradually given me the confidence to work with others.

I have followed the South American Medicine Wheel teachings with Skie Hummingbird of Sungate over a number of years. These demand profound personal honesty and an ongoing process of opening and listening. During my time on the wheel,  I was gifted with a new medicine name: Ankita Paradisa Oceana. The “meaning” of this is about a paragraph long, but names me as a Sacred Prayer Carrier. Prayer is at the heart of my practice.

I am qualified as an Advanced Shamanic Practitioner by Sungate. 

I have also undertaken several Non-Violent Communication trainings, including a 9 month intensive. 

I have also completed Part One of Bodynamic's "Healing Shock, Trauma and PTSD". 

All the healing “techniques” I offer have helped me immeasurably. Because I know how deeply they have helped me, I am called to offer them to others.

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