I was born and raised in a traditional Irish catholic home on the wild Atlantic west coast of Ireland.
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I was a highly sensitive, empathic child often feeling the undisclosed feelings of those around me, yet I was not always able to distinguish them from my own in those early years. This lead me to often seek solitude in order to re-stabilise my inner world. 
​I experienced the world around me with great depth and intensity, and this gift began to teach me early on how to navigate a world of duality.  I am so grateful for this innate capacity to feel and see beyond, these gifts have been my greatest teachers. 

I believe "in feeling" we can heal and release/process deep emotions. In "non-feeling", we can internalise pain; trauma; grief and fear within the cells of our bodies, ultimately leading to the cause of all kinds of physical pain, and inevitably disease in many forms. 

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I had a keenly curious and active imagination, often retreating to my inner world to try and make sense of a world that confused me. 
 
The ability to re-orient within served me greatly through my life to help buffer the storms of emotional turmoil I encountered, within and without. Being so attuned to feel, see and read the unspoken and hidden truths in people around me was immensely challenging. I had no understanding of what to do with that insight as a young one, nor did I feel safe to express my perceptions. Consequently, I carried many energetically toxic burdens that were not mine to carry.

This can be common trait with being a sensitive empathic soul. I have spent all my adult years learning to manage, filter, discern and master my own energy, ultimately leading me to the healer's path and into the remembrance of my true soul gifts.

My connection to spirit came young, when as a child, my older sister brought me along to a charismatic prayer group being held in a local woman's house.
 
Mother Mary was being channelled and appearing to this woman, with many apparent miracles taking place.
 
I fell in love with the divine and mystical Christos teachings through this exposure to something out of the ordinary of the inducted Catholic tradition that I had been born into.
 
This opened the way for me of a deep relationship with Mother Mary & the Divine Mother, in all her forms, which continues to deepen for me in the honouring of the Divine Feminine lineages; archetypal energies and the original true oneness teachings of the Christ and Magdalene Lineage of Light (Sacred Union codes).

These years were filled with an innocent deep peace and connection to source that laid the foundations for later on in life.
 
It was in the years from mid teens – mid twenties,  that I experienced multiple initiations on the path of spirit and human life. I could not relate to a world of such heart separation and my sense of belonging was severely questioned.
 
I left school at age 16, entering into the corporate retail world. Through all of this internal wrangling, I managed to apply myself diligently to many trades. I landed my first corporate job working for a corporate bank where I worked for a number of years until my soul felt the underlying corruption inherent within that particular system and thus propelled me onto another path.

I moved to London with the urge in me to spread my wings out of Ireland. I remembered being outcast as an Irish person here in my younger years during a visit with my father who was working in London.  That memory was still alive for me yet it seemed that the collective field in the UK had shifted and I felt more embraced as an Irish person seeking to make my way. 
I was hired by a large business publishing house in Soho, where I proceeded to work for many subsequent years in advertising sales support and management roles.
 
I worked, played and lived hard in those years.

I played “the Game” that was required of me to attain a degree of professional success by climbing to management level with my own sales team after a few years of hard work; but a HUGE something was missing for me. My spirit was lost and calling me to pay attention.
 
I was actively numbing the growing restlessness in me through the distractions of city, fast paced life and the "work hard/play hard" mentality to achieve supposed outer material success.

My true "wake-up" call to pay attention to my spirit/soul came in July 2005, during a series of devastating bombings initiated within the London transport system where over 50 people lost their lives. I was profoundly affected by what I witnessed and experienced that day.
 
It changed everything, re-orienting my life path 100%.

I had just missed being in the tunnel between Aldgate and Liverpool street where one of the first bombs exploded near my home, in East London, by about 5 mins, as I was delayed going to work that morning.
 
The trauma energetics and shocking realities that I encountered during this event shook me to the core. A complex weave of orchestrated chaos that triggered an ancient part of me to wake up and to pay attention. 

I knew I could no longer blind myself to the fact that I was deeply unhappy and suppressing my true nature. I had a deep intuition that there was much more to this event, and to my own story on this earth....my soul cried out and I began to listen.

I moved back to Ireland in 2006 where I began an intense process of healing my relationship with my inner world and of clearing anything within me that was in the way of me living in authenticity, peace and the realisation of my true path. It was a calling home to the heart of my true self.

I was initiated into the energetic healing modality of Reiki healing, which originated in Japan, in 2005.  This was a profound opening for me to the energy of source and to the latent healing capacities that were bubbling up inside of me.  I am so grateful for this healing ray as it opened the way for monumental changes within me in these early years of spirit awakening.

I began to share my innate and developing healing gifts with others from 2006. This swiftly brought my other soul aspects and multi-dimensional healing gifts into more focused awareness. I continued to develop my healing gifts, training in many different healing modalities. In 2009, I met a mentor on the Celtic shamanic path which led me to a period of deepest internal cleansing work.

I had several intense death/rebirth experiences during the process of healing past life & ancestral karma. I shed so many skins that I hardly recognised myself and these initiatory energies challenged every belief system within me. Broken down to be built back up. It was an eye-opening, heart-cracked wide open and blasted into the unknown experience! 

It was so clear to me from this point on that my true soul's path and sacred calling in this life is to be of service to the Divine (Source/Mother/Father God); to remember myself and in in turn be of service in this time of great re-awakening through the forms that expressed themselves through me. Spirit showed me that I am here to help guide others in their own awakening & transitional journey's through my own embodied wisdom.

To live this in actuality has meant stripping bare of everything within me that no longer resonated with this calling home to my true self.

I felt a deep calling to soul travel to the lands that were calling me in my dreams. A sacred pilgrimage was initiated in 2010 to connect with the lands of the four corners region of the USA. I travelled extensively, connecting with the ancestral spirits & people of the Navajo, Hopi, and the ancestral spirits of sacred lands throughout Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. This soul pilgrimage opened the way for divine synchronicity to occur in my life through the meeting of people central to my path and soul mission.

I re-claimed and re-integrated many soul parts on these and subsequent journeys. I received infinite blessings from spirit that  are difficult to translate in a linear way - these remain sacred in my heart. Many new internal consciousness pathways were awakened and activated with my intuitive gifts acclerating to new levels.  I began to remember my star seeded heritage through the activations and multi-dimensional awakenings at various power spots and earth vortices, particularly those in Sedona; Hopi-Land; Ojo Caliente & Taos in New Mexico.

Returning to Ireland in 2011, I began to work consciously with the Mayan calender and the 9th Wave energies of all that was being birthed in preparation for a huge shift of planetary consciousness in 2012.  I participated in Sacred Play work instigated by Dr.John Graham (www.sacredplay.info). This helped in the return of more soul aspects and greater awareness of the universal energies and how to align and flow with the day/night periods of this wave and the ascension timeline. Our work in community was service work for all of humanity and mother earth and this had a profound effect upon me.

In the later part of 2011, I journeyed to Sacred Peru & Bolivia (Island of the Sun) - Cusco, Sacred Valley & Lake Titicaca with a beautiful group of soul family. It was here that I really shifted frequencies to a new level.

Peru is a very powerful catalyst for shifting perceptual awareness of the nature of reality. This land truly expanded my being in unprecedented ways! Massive life changing activations and soul integrations ensured  for me during this 6 week journey to some of the most powerful sacred sites & portals on this planet. Those of particular note: The Circles of Moray - Temple of The Moon, Wayna Picchu - Tipon - Temples on Isla Amantani, Lago Titicaca - Isla del Sol, Lago Titicaca - Pisac Temples. Our group intention was to align with the crystal heart of Gaia, working personally, and for the collective harmonisation of Gaia and her crystalline grid. 

On 11-11-2011 at 11.11am, I felt a deep call to align and offer heart ceremony at the centre navel point of Ireland on the hill of  Uisneach -  at Aill Na Muireann, also known as the "Cat Stone"- mythological resting place of the Goddess Éiriu. The cosmic energies poured in that day and a crystal prayer offering was made to connect into the Unity Grid of Gaia to co-create bridges of light to all the sacred sites & grid-points worldwide that are facilitating heart coherence. 

Into 2012, I continued with joy and commitment to the path of personal self mastery embodiment; healing light service facilitation for clients and for our earth in Ireland; Kauai, Hawaii; Sedona, Arizona; Glastonbury & Avalon.

I was involved in two powerful retreats for the Opening and Anchoring the "Cities Of Light" in Sedona April 2012 and The Tor, Glastonbury Oct 2012 (Co-Facilitator). These were powerful and activating multi-dimensional immersions working with merging of many dimensional realities as one here on the earth plane and the elevation of consciousness in humanity and Gaia.

2013 - 2017, my earth service work has taken me to Kauai, Mount Shasta, Ireland, Sedona, New Mexico, Colorado, Costa Rica, West Coast US and to live for two powerful winters on Orcas island in the Northwest Pacific coast. 

My earth service work was focused on the stabilisation of the crystalline grid with the intention of activating the new earth grids, inner and outer. I was deeply involved in resolving energetic imprinted  "catastrophe timelines" in my own & the collective consciousness which was highlighted through the geotectonic pressure in the Cascadian fault line zone during my time living on Orcas island, Washington, US.

I have been guided in this work by my higher self; aspects of me from higher dimensional spaces and from other planets/lifetimes. I also have had the beautiful support of the Whale and Dolphin soul consciousness during these deep grid work periods.

I moved back to Ireland in 2017 after the passing of my beloved father. This core loss of the patriarchal figure instigated a powerful ancestral healing journey that has awakened and activated new levels of power in me. The honouring of the ancestors and the healing of the lineages has been my most important internal work which has opened the ways to collective legacy trauma, and equally wisdom that has been a revelation. The extent of this and the magnitude of this presence and healing work informs all that I engage in dialogue with life.

My continued personal and professional work is now focused around somatic and energetic resolution of trauma/PTSD in the body/mind/spirit through nature connection and plant wisdom. I see trauma(mine/yours/ours) as being the root of all dis-ease in the body and I am committed to resourcing practices that can help heal and integrate trauma in all it's myriad of guises (Death, loss, abuse, relationship disharmony/failure, witnessing of traumatic events...)

Those living with any form of trauma, dissociation, isolation and fear in all its facets. Those grieving the lost parts of self or their loved ones, and those in denial of their true self.

No one is immune.
We are all human.
We chose this human body to experience all of this, but also to experience the opposite - that of freedom, joy, unconditional love, innocence and wonder.

Truth sets us free, empowering us to live authentically.

I am an advocate for living a full spectrum life where all parts of us are welcome, received and loved into wholeness!

Trauma on any level, from the macro to the micro, can trigger responses in the body and soul one may never have anticipated. Practices that can assist life to be lived wholely; joyfully and in the body 100% are precious commodities in these times and essential.

I pray that we all magnetise into our lives the perfect support on all levels to live embodied lives of true connection.

In Truth, Love and the Unified Heart

I Am Mara Elaine O'Grady - Ní Ghrada