Hey, I'm dia.
Happy you're here.
I'm a somatic practitioner, healing arts collaborator & community-tender
& cultivate the everyday relationships & rituals
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that will support you to keep the portals open,
to flow your life force with more precision
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and take your shape within the collective.
You know that you’re here to play your part within collective change.
You understand that your gifts are needed in this moment.
You are no-going-back-now deep in the process of unlearning.
Your role might look vibrant or it might be softly-spoken.
It might include rooms full of people or one-to-one holding. It might generate delight or create space for our grief. It might happen in public spaces or in private relationship.
Whatever it is, you keep showing up.
You keep orienting towards love.
And you’ve experienced the portals.
Your body feels them beyond thought.
You know the depth of embodied warmth that can exist in the space between us when we really drop in.
You’re divesting from individualism and queering your life in ways more aligned than anything ever modelled to you.
You can sense a different texture of energy when you’re in connection with other generators: animate, unflinching, a nod to what's possible.
You're inspired by a chosen lineage that includes art & music & more-than-human kin.
You notice all the beauty that passes many people by.
You can (kinda) hold the nuance of all that we're living within.
But you don’t yet have the ecosystems you need, to feel deeply held.
You still long for
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steady & rooted relational support
an everyday rhythm that embraces rest & play
feeling truly a part of something bigger.
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You need a little help to sense into all that.
This is a place for you to be known and held.
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In community or one-to-one,
I’ll support you to weave somatic practice, relational support & ritual into your everyday life.
Not as something to perfect, or that you only have fleeting access to
but as an intuitive way of being.
We'll weave the simple divine through your everyday life.
Through deepening your skills in somatic awareness, I help you feel into the poetry of being alive, so you can move the flow of your precious life force with more intention and integrity.
Through relational mapping, I help you cultivate interdependence & grow sustainable relationships that contain the intimacy & reciprocity you long for.
Through ritual, I help you stay connected to the expansiveness & awe of being part of this cosmos, even through the challenges of these times.
You'll become more able to discern.
Attuned to when you need to receive / dance / tag in / scream / give / commune / invoke / release / cocoon / extend / leave / stay / return / pause.
Attuned to which beings, practices and places can hold you in each moment.
You'll feel more rooted, more supported, more able to move with choice.
fluidity & integrity.
strength & softness.
steady ground & stardust.
I'll welcome you into a somatic home
that's animate, queer, politicised & generative.
These are the portals I offer.
One-to-One holding
Book a single session or come along regularly. Online worldwide, or in person in Edinburgh. £85/session
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Collective practice, rest & play
A month in Tend is £36. Join anytime, stay as long as you'd like, or drop in when you need it. Includes live teaching & social, weekly shared creative rituals + direct one-to-one support. Online & animate
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"dia's approach is person centred, direct, practical and full of care. They allow you to show up as who you are in the moment with not only zero judgement, but with deep acceptance of who you are and what you are bringing.
I am letting myself fall back into life more, softening into the challenges and feeling out that which I have avoided before.
With dia you will find yourself cared for and celebrated and that will change the game in ways you didn't know were available to you. You will be so happy you met them."
“Energetically, even though it was over the screen, what you put out there and how that relaxed my central nervous system so that I could go to some of those places that feel really uncomfortable to go to... that's such a gift."
“This is a beautiful, affirming way to experience politicised somatic practice that feels nurturing and expansive. dia honours consent and holds space for intersecting identities safely and joyfully. Feeling seen and understood from the beginning made it easier to jump into practice together.”
"My life has totally transformed in the last 8 months. dia creates a space of pure possibility.
In a society that tells you what to want and what to value, dia’s openness and honouring of uniqueness, difference and personal truth is a much needed light."
"I knew no matter what unfolded in the conversations, I had your love and compassion there just holding that space for me."
“I’ve never been in a space quite like this before.
Something has shifted.”