The Inner Cave
space to transform
Welcome.
Here you are held to go a bit deeper.
A cave is a cocoon within the earth, a place of listening. Our inner cave the deepest part of us, where we connect to our innate wisdom.
As our ancestors would have gone to the cave for times of guidance, we have access to this space in our bodies at any time.
Whether you are at a crossroads, feel stuck, struggling or are just looking for support as you embark on a new phase of life, this is grounding and replenishing space held just for you. By rooting down, we are able to grow up more abundantly, just as when we integrate our pasts, we create much richer futures.
In the fertile soil beneath the surface, we can revitalise ourselves. This is a place of conception, imagination and re-storying.
This May
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What does it look like?
Either online or in person, this is an hour in which you are held and intentionally supported with what you are going through.
I meet you where you are and together we what you are holding, firstly on the surface level and then we check into your body and work from there.
I use my intuition to ask you questions and to guide your consciousness through a gentle exploration of what you are experiencing, beginning with resourcing support. We traverse through both your outerworld and the innerworld to source practical guidance to assist you. A session usually ends with how you can apply this wisdom to your daily life.
Throughout, you remain in your sovereignty and it is your wisdom that will shine through during the session.
You can expect to...
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Gain trust in yourself and your abilities
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Listen to your intuition
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Gain independence from expectations and what others think
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Overcome obstacles and blind spots
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Increase your confidence and capacity
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See from greater perspectives
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Dream and then dream bigger
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Feel in harmony with the natural world
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Be more creative
How does it work?
Your body holds your energetic imprint, all the stories and beliefs you have been holding on to, whether you are aware of them or not. It is the storehouse of your unconscious.
Your imaginal realm is where your creativity lies.
Together, your body and mind can unlock potential and transcend limitations.
By connecting our awareness and our bodies, we are able to come to quick realisations.
All of our bodies and minds work in different ways, so the ways we receive wisdom may be very different. Some of us see images, or we might receive a feeling in our body or words that speak to us with perfect acuity. Whatever and however we receive is perfect for us.
'The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek'
- Joseph Campbell
About me
My name is Maxime and I am an artist, nature facilitator and life coach. My main compass has been to become as free as possible and through holding space, I hope to guide others towards expressing more of their own essential nature.
I am a certified coach with MOE Foundation, trained nature facilitator with Change in Nature and have a first class Bachelor of the Arts in History of Art from The Courtauld Institute in London. Originally from Botswana, I live in the UK and run adventures and retreats for women with Wild Joy and artist residency programs with Studio Verde.
What lies beneath...
We have layers of consciousness. From the surface and every day to the depths of the primeval. We are extraordinarily complex and startling individual.
Yet beneath this diversity, there is a unifying pulse of life. How do we navigate through this contradiction? On the surface, a life of separation and beneath, utter unity.
The middle is a grey area of thousands of years of paths that have been trodden, cultures emerged and shaped, cities built.
We hold in our blood and bones our entire ancestry and evolutionary history.
We know how to bloom like flowers, fly as winged creatures, flow as fish, hunt as furred beasts, hide in shells. We know how to swim, how to make fire, how to make medicine and to sing.
We know how to be witches, magicians and kings.
Yet when we come into this world, we are told a different story. We are told we don't know. We are taught how to live from an industrialist perspective of creating a workforce for the economy. Our inner voice is firmly shut down. There is little time to indulge in fantasies.
We all have the ability to dream. Without any effort, we can conceive of new realities and forms.
We are innately creative. It's who we are.
What if we were to trust this creativity?
What if our nature is our freeing force?
What happens to you in your blood when you watch water as it glides and bubbles over rocks? What happens in your bones as you are held by the mossy forest floor? What do the stars say to you as you look up at their vast oceanic breadth? What do the birds sing to you?
Our world is full of secrets. It's not what people say that matters. The more things are drummed into us, the less true they are.
There is a freeing current in each of us.
It works its way through our dreams, our bodies, through our relationships. Our hearts are always drumming for us.
There is always a part of you that knows that is longing to be heard.
It's longing to be trusted and acted upon. It will tease through the blockages that say 'I can't' and thinks that to stay small is to stay safe.
Your inner voice sings with the river and the sun and says my darling, this world is made for you, you can.
Self-belief is knowing that you are the changing tides and that if it doesn't come from inside you then it will soon be washed away. It takes courage to turn away from that which you have known and turn towards the invisible currents of liberation within you. It takes practice to open up to listen and strength to act upon your intuition.
The world that forms from this place of integrity is like a beacon that guides humanity.
And so...
I hold space for the part of you that knows.
It's like holding space for your divinity to reach you.
There are many modalities that can do this, but it depends more on the practitioner than on the methodology - craniosacral therapy, massage, somatic experiencing, shamanism, meditation, IFS, energy work, yoga, breathwork, ritual and ceremony all hold space for your true nature to emerge through the layers of the everyday.