about
Hi, my name is Orna Gilchrist, and I started my own personal development journey over 13 years ago.
A professional gardener for the past 17 years, I met my first teacher while studying Horticulture. My boss - a practicing Soto Zen Buddhist, introduced me to meditation, mindfulness and the Buddhist teachings.
For the first time I had some much-needed distance between my thoughts and emotions, and the realisation that I was not those things. This flicked a switch and I started to look inside rather than out for the answers. I spent the next eleven years learning about and becoming reacquainted with myself.
Of all the subjects and methodologies I have used and looked at during this time there are a few which have been pivotal for me, and effected powerful change:
Inner Child Work
Energy healing
Breathwork
EVERYTHING IS ENERGY: physical objects as well as less tangible thoughts, beliefs, emotions and ideas. We store not only toxic chemicals in our physical body, but also toxic emotions, ideas and beliefs.
There are now Scientific studies supporting the idea that the effects of trauma can be passed down through our genetic lineage. The relatively new Scientific fields of Epigenetics and Quantum physics are providing Scientific explanation for what many alternative and Ancient Healing traditions have practiced for centuries. Many people have a strong visceral sense of these energetic dynamics and choosing to heal and clear these from our current lifetime and perhaps others is liberating work.
Inner Child Work is the process of reuniting us with us. We all have an Inner Child- these are the subconscious parts of our psyche which we have become disassociated from and suppressed. The beauty of working with these aspects of us is that healing through them does not require going back to points of trauma and reliving it- it is about acknowledging what they went through, giving them what they did not get at the time, and moving on.
I am a certified ASCENSION PRACTITIONER: Certificate 1 Certificate 2 Certificate 3
I am a certified Pranayama Breathwork Instructor: Breathwork Certificate
I am a certified Usui Reiki Master: certificate