Lisa and Jonathan met in 2010, dancing a 5 Rhythms solstice celebration at the intentional community of the Findhorn Foundation, Scotland. Their partnership has been a varied, magical, beautiful, soulful journey since then. Committing to weaving a life together has been met with abundant miracles and the inevitable challenges that any relationship calls us to meet. Their story of how their home in France came to be is one of the many examples of life’s grace and they would love to share it with you over a sumptuous meal cooked lovingly by Jonathan, with some ingredients grown in their verdant garden. 

Lisa often refers to herself as an apprentice elder. She is at the stage of life where she has been shaped and honed by the challenges, triumphs and transitions of a life well lived. As a young child, she always felt most at home in the natural world, within the mythical realms of dreamtime, poetry and story and took pleasure in her body dancing, climbing trees or swimming. She embraces all these elements in her daily life now. She has a passion for learning, savouring subjects from nutrition to mysticism, somatic therapy to animism and has an intuitive skill for weaving connection and presence in all she touches. She has been a teacher, an organic farmer, a chef, an administrator, a communications officer and practises as a complementary therapist and a mentor offering her skills, gifts and knowledge into the growing field of cycle awareness. Her prayer for herself and all life is to rest in the way of Loving Kindness. She offers her life’s work to you through the gifts of ceremony, self enquiry, embodied action and soul activism, so that you too may tap into the roots that feed you, the inspiration to nurture you, the potency to engage with the calling of these times and the presence to forge your unique way in the world.  

Jonathan has always been passionately involved with myth and poetry, soul-work and coming fully alive through embodied creativity. As a child he had a deep love of being in nature, and also a love for the French countryside and culture.  He comes from a background in theatre, movement and somatic education. He ran his own theatre company for 12 years, and went on to train as a Feldenkrais Method Practitioner, sharing this practice of self-knowledge through neuro-movement with both actors and the public. For the past 15 years he has worked substantially in creative higher education, teaching movement, Feldenkrais, clown and group processes. In recent years, he has begun exploring ritual for groups, and has been struck by how it meets a deep need in people’s psyches. He is an enthusiastic chef, hillwalker and wild swimmer, a dancer and writer, and looks forward to warmly welcoming you.