ABOUT ME

Hi, I’m Poppy.

My journey began in London in 2013, at a Reiki Level 1 training that changed the entire course of my life.

After that course, a fire lit in my belly. I began practising daily, offering my hands to anyone open to receiving them. I fell in love with the energy. It was so intelligent, so precise, + I felt an undeniable call to share it with anyone who would let me.

I gave Reiki in parks, at festivals, on bedroom floors, literally anywhere someone could lie down for a few minutes. I was fascinated by the way the energy moved through a person, by the messages I received + by the feedback I was given. I had done many things in my life and finally I had found something I was REALLY interested in.

Leaving London

The attunements + cleansing process sparked a deep desire to clean up my act. At the time I was working in a school + dating a DJ. We partied constantly, + as fun as it was, I knew it wasn’t sustainable for my sensitive, psychic soul. The London party lifestyle, together with the loss of my beloved Grandmother a few months earlier, had left my mental health in tatters. SOMETHING had to change.

I needed to leave London. But where would I go?

I put a call out on Facebook asking if anyone had a couch I could crash on. An old school friend invited me to stay with him in Bondi, Sydney. An invitation was all I needed. I packed my bags + bought a one-way ticket.

Byron Bay

Sydney had too much partying, + I yearned for quiet. For ocean, for land, for space to meditate, read + breathe. My spirituality had been activated so strongly since learning Reiki, + my ADHD brain was hyper-focused on mastering this craft.

I kept offering Reiki to everyone I met, even placing an ad on Gumtree for donation sessions. A friend suggested I head north to Byron Bay, “because that’s where the hippies are.” I booked my flight.

Byron became my home. I spent my days walking endless beaches, alone + in my own world. I read every book on healing + energy medicine I could get my hands on, + every evening I met a local 80-year-old man from Zimbabwe for a glass of red wine + a conversation about the universe. I avoided the other backpackers + cleaned the hostel I was staying in, in exchange for a bed.

It was a time of profound healing. The hardness of London, + the weight of what had happened in my younger years, began to melt away.

Melbourne + the Reiki Years

Now that I’m older, I understand that my constant movement has been guided by the desires of the land. When She calls, I listen.

From Byron I moved back to Sydney, where I met one of my closest groups of friends to this day. While living there, I flew to Melbourne for a weekend to visit friends I’d met surfing in Spain. They threw a party, + at that party I met the man I almost married.

After that fateful meeting, I decided to move to Melbourne so we could be together. A few months in the outback to secure my visa + a few months back in the UK waiting for paperwork later, I arrived in Melbourne + began a new life.

Reiki led me to people + experiences that changed me forever. In my sessions I witnessed the release of physical pain, the removal of entities that had lived in my clients for years, fertility + pregnancy magic (so many Reiki babies), + most powerfully, the birth of other healers, touched as deeply by this medicine as I had been.

I opened my first clinic in the spare room of our house + welcomed people from every walk of life. Eventually I began to teach, weaving ceremony into workshops that sold out the moment they opened. Reiki became the driving force behind community events, trainings + 1:1 sessions that people flew across the country to experience.

I loved this work. It was so deep, so connected + so magical. Watching my clients transform their lives was incredible, + I felt deeply grateful to share the gifts that came to me so naturally.

Reiki was my gateway into an entirely new way of living. And yet, something in me knew there was more.

Enter Seichim

Seichim found me in early 2019, not long before the world stopped. Its teachings unlocked something in me I had never touched before, + from there, everything began to change.

Over those years I had manifested everything I had ever dreamed of: the dream partnership, a thriving Reiki business, a wide circle of friends + clients, a beautiful home. Yet inside, I felt disconnected + overwhelmed by the weight of the world I had built around me. I had very few boundaries in my personal or professional life, + years of over-giving began to catch up with me. I felt nothing.

No matter what I did, I couldn’t find joy. Then came lockdown. Not knowing if I would ever see my family again, cancelling a wedding, moving all my work online with little support... I completely dissociated. While my community looked to me for guidance, I was silently drowning.

With a broken heart, I left my beautiful home, my little dog + my loving fiancé, + flew back to the UK. After years abroad, I moved back in with my parents + began channelling Seichim from the floor of my childhood bedroom.

Avalon + the Birth of School of Light

Alongside the grief of so many endings, new friends, new experiences + new medicine began to flow in.

I connected with a beautiful man, + together we travelled the country visiting sacred wells, singing to the water + honouring the land’s sacred sites. The land touched me deeply + ignited a love of Celtic lore + wisdom that I still hold close to my heart. (We spent hours driving around rural England hunting for phone reception so I could run my Seichim classes!)

I eventually settled in Glastonbury, considered the heart chakra of the planet, + launched an online mentorship to support healers through lockdown. Throughout this time I was in constant communication with the Goddess Sekhmet. At every turn She was there, Her warm breath on my neck. Now I understand that She is the Goddess of Transformation, + that She comes to us when we are moving through great portals of change.

Every day I ventured out onto the land to listen to the Goddess speak, + I found Her EVERYWHERE: in the flowers, the trees, the people. One day, meditating in the Chalice Well Garden, She told me to create more places of beauty + to speak Her name often, because that is how we help anchor Her codes here on Earth.

Between wandering the land, deep meditation + channelling Seichim, I offered my community online activations to help them anchor more light in their bodies.

It was in Avalon that SCHOOL OF LIGHT was born.

The Temple in the Cotswolds

The pilgrimages continued, + from Glastonbury we were called to a little town in the valleys of the Cotswolds, home to two beautiful lakes. My soul craved the stillness of that water. We rented a little flat on the High Street + built a temple to the Goddess.

People travelled from all over the world to receive healings, readings + teachings in that space. It was there I was told, very clearly, to stop hiding behind Reiki + step fully into my gifts as a Priestess + Mystic of the Divine Mother.

I expanded my studies, embarking on a year-long shamanic training + receiving my Cacao initiation. I began weaving the medicine of the plants I worked with into my Seichim spaces, + the energy kept amplifying. Cacao’s deeply feminine nature was so healing for me. Every morning as I prepared my cup, I sang to Her, opening my throat + releasing years of stagnant energy that had kept me stuck.

In that little flat I ran my first in-person Seichim initiation. I personally invited 8 women (friends, students + clients) + all 8 accepted the call. We spent 3 days together meditating, channelling, crying, laughing + connecting with the Mother Goddesses as they came to us.

It showed me the true power + potential of this medicine. I vowed to devote myself to Her, + to become a vessel for whatever She needed to birth through me.