I am an artist, facilitator and practitioner

I'm Nina, the founder of Alchymy of Her — an evolving practice bringing together my background in arts and education with rites of passage, ceremony, grief work, spirituality, womb healing, Priestess of the Womb work, feminist art and creative practice. But this work didn't begin with a business plan. It began with loss. A TURNING POINT Three years ago, I lost someone I loved. That experience changed something in me. It made me stop and take a much more holistic look at my life — not just at what I was doing, but at how I was living, what I believed, what I carried and what I wanted to change. I began to slow down. To become more present. To listen. What followed was a radical journey of spiritual, physical and psychological transformation. I began attending spiritual development classes and exploring practices that had always called to something deeper within me. I entered a shamanic healer apprenticeship, explored ancestral healing and began developing a different relationship with spirituality, intuition and the unseen. Along the way, I began to feel more fully alive. ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ac turpis egestas integer eget aliquet nibh.

RECLAIMING CREATIVITY Creativity became an important part of that awakening. After a period away from my creative practice, I returned to making art — not simply as something I did, but as a way of understanding, processing and expressing my experiences. My feminist art practice became a space for exploring women's bodies, identity, censorship, visibility, sexuality, memory and reclamation. I work with fibre, found objects, natural materials, mixed media and symbolism, often transforming overlooked or discarded materials into something meaningful. For me, making can be a ritual in itself. A way of listening. A way of remembering. A way of giving form to something that doesn't yet have words. LIFE HAS ITS OWN THRESHOLDS My own life has continued to move through significant transitions. I married my wife. I experienced major changes in my body and health, including a hysterectomy and living with long-term disability. I was also diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia, offering me new understanding of myself and the way my mind works. These experiences have reminded me that transformation isn't always beautiful or straightforward. Sometimes it is messy. Sometimes it is painful. Sometimes we have to let go of an old understanding of ourselves before we can discover something new. And sometimes reclamation begins simply by allowing ourselves to be fully who we are.

WHAT I BRING TO THE SPACE My work is shaped not only by my qualifications and training, but by lived experience. I have trained and developed my practice through rites of passage, ceremony, grief circle facilitation, womb healing, Priestess of the Womb work, spiritual development and shamanic apprenticeship. I also bring my background in arts and education and my experience of creating, facilitating and holding spaces for people. When I work with someone, I listen deeply. I listen to their words, but also to what might be underneath them. My practice is intuitive and spiritually informed, and I draw on my connection with ancestral and spiritual traditions as part of the way I hold space. I don't believe I have all the answers. I believe each person carries their own wisdom. My role is to create the conditions for that wisdom to be heard. People have told me that after spending time with me they feel refreshed, relaxed, calmer and different somehow. That matters to me. Because sometimes the most powerful thing we can offer another person is simply a space where they don't have to perform, explain or hold everything together. WHY ALCHYMY OF HER? Alchymy of Her brings all these strands of my life together. Art. Ritual. Spirituality. Grief. Rites of passage. Women's experiences. Creativity. Reclamation. Community. Healing. I created it as a space where these things don't have to exist separately. A space where we can honour the thresholds of life, explore the experiences that shape us and find connection through shared human experience. Women are at the heart of my work, while my practice is inclusive and proudly LGBTQ+ and queer-affirming. I believe that healing is not something we should have to navigate alone. There is something powerful about being witnessed. About sitting in circle. About hearing another person's story and recognising something of your own. About being able to say, “This is where I am.” And having someone simply meet you there. MY INVITATION Whether you arrive through a rite of passage, a ceremony, a grief circle, creative practice, womb healing, feminist art or simply a feeling that something in your life is changing, you are welcome here. You don't need to know exactly what you need. You don't need to have everything figured out. You can begin with a conversation. My hope is that somewhere within the work of Alchymy of Her you might find safety, sacredness and belonging. That you might reconnect with your own voice. Remember your own wisdom. Feel less alone. And perhaps discover that the thing you thought you had lost was not gone at all. It was waiting for you to come home to yourself.