About Us
For nearly 20 years both of us followed professional careers, Glenda as a specialist Occupational Therapist in the NHS and Trevor as a Teacher.
While Trevor ultimately became a Deputy Head, Glenda trained and qualified in various complementary therapies and worked part-time in private practice. We were both involved with spiritual healing.
In the early 1990's we sought change to a calmer and more peaceful way of life and were guided to a beautiful five-acre smallholding in west Wales, where we grew much of our own food and enjoyed enhancing the natural landscape to create a wildlife conservation area.
The opportunity to do this work ourselves, and almost entirely by hand, gave us the most perfect chance to continue to evolve our own spirituality and connectedness with 'all that is'. It also gave us the time and space to practise and develop our skills and our work as healers within the local and wider community, and to offer healing retreats for individuals seeking help, rest and renewal.
Very much drawn to the power of spirit in nature, Trevor began to explore his particular interest in those spiritual traditions which honour and celebrate the natural world. At the same time, Glenda discovered the Dances of Universal Peace, in which she found the 'unity' ideals of her own spiritual path so wonderfully expressed.
Being wholly captivated by these Dances, she allowed them to lead her through her own (continuing) transformational journey of spiritual growth and deep inner healing, which she attributes largely to this work. Glenda initially trained with Philip O'Donohoe in 1998 and has recently completed the first European 'Abwoon Interspiritual Leadership Programme' with Saadi Neil Douglas-Klotz. She is a certified Dance Leader and a Mentor, supporting and guiding others who have a calling to lead the Dances.
Meanwhile, Trevor undertook several years of study and training to become a 'Shamanic Practitioner'. Attracted by the energy of the Dances, he was more gently drawn in and after initially accompanying the Dances as a musician, he subsequently also became a certified Dance Leader.
We share the planning and presentation of our Dance programmes and see the Dances as a natural extension of our healing work. We consider ourselves very blessed to be involved in an activity we love; which promotes both individual and world peace, and which seems to have woven together all the separate threads of our lives. We hope to continue to be always open to the 'awen' (flow of divine inspiration) which has been gently guiding us on both our joint and individual paths.
We are now based in East Devon. Glenda works sessionally for the Alzheimers Society leading "Singing for the Brain®" groups, a community service for people with dementia; and she trains and mentors others for this role. She also sings in several local community choirs.
Trevor performs with the notorious Exmouth Shanty Men and is also involved in a voluntary capacity with the Exmouth Festival, which organises events throughout the year but notably a nine day extravaganza during the late May and early June. See links page.