NOURA MEANS SPIRITUAL LIGHT: I'M HERE TO HELP YOU SHINE BY BEING THE SPARKLY HUMAN THAT I AM.
I went from dazed & confused (struggling with addiction, depression and purposelessness) to fully-expressed, intentionally alive & thriving. Now I'm living life as an offering to helping more bodies celebrate & live their vision.
A vision mission, if you will.
As a practitioner I recognize what it means to relate to the body and help it transform trauma into health. As an artist, I recognize how to create with our inner material as a medium of self-expression.My work is centered around the art and science of health, consciousness, the nervous system & creativity. I bring skills and practices from craniosacral & polarity therapy, somatics, shamanism & contemplative creativity.
I consider myself the type of person that has been initiated over and over by life itself. My path has dealt me blows and offered miracles that make me uniquely suited for my role as a space holder and magical muse. I have a kindness, a tenderness and an innocence that guides my genuine curiosity and desire to intimately understand the human experience and my own. Alongside of that there’s a strength that comes from approaching life with eyes-wide-open. A gaze that has stared straight into the mystery of life for many hours and waited for it to stare back, just so I could smile when it did. Through my own journey, I have recognized that freedom has the power to dismember us and rearrange the very fibers of our being into something more than human: into something that has touched the other side and seen a truth that once recognized cannot be unseen, unknown or unlived as the sacred thread of divinity that connects us all.
I have *consciously* been on this path for 15 years and I’m currently a graduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University studying Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
Background, trainings:
Creative Consultant
2016-Current
I have always had an entrepreneurial flare. I've served formally as an executive assistant & project manager for entrepreneurs. That transitioned into 1-1 work with creatives, helpers, healers and visionaries of all sorts. Supporting people to come into relationship with & birth their body of work.
Biodynamic Craniosacral & Somatic Training:
The Colorado School of Energy Studies
A fully immersive, completely comprehensive training in how to meet, be with and transform trauma.
Highlands Wellness Center: Denver, Colorado
Working in person as a bodyworker and somatic practitioner. This experience defined and set the foundation for the way in which I work with people and our experience of being in a body.
Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism
6 month immersion into the art of plants as allies, medicines and muses. Such a magical program that continues to inspire & serve me.
Apprenticheships:
Shamanic Training with an Ecuadorian Elder: Medicine work, shadow & story work, energetic and intuitive training. Ayahuasca, Yage, Kambo, Chacruna, Hape, Mimosa, the land & the heart of plant medicine work.
3 year Contemplative Arts Apprenticeship with Mike Ricci in Japanese arts, Raku pottery & sculpture.
3 Year Apprenticeship with Denise Townsend. A most cherished mentor who held and guided across many thresholds. To her, I am forever grateful. "Everything is Medicine Apprenticeship". Exploring herbalism as well as flower, gem and environmental essences. Working with the Peruvian cosmology of attunement to and honoring of the biorhythms of the Earth and ourselves. Learning to access the heart, head and gut "brains" for access to core intuitive centers, harmony and wholistic flow. Meditation training and inquiry into holistic health practices.
Sally Rossiter's Trainings: The 12 Opposing Forces: Accessing our essential energy beyond the Archetypes of optimal, elemental flow Channeling Workshop: Using our intuitive centers as access points to commune with higher realms and accessing more sensory information to embody multi-dimensionality.