Hello, I'm Nid

GUIDE TO THE AWAKENING SPIRAL.

A map for bringing light into form, with the body as the instrument.

I’m playfully curious about life. I delight in the senses, and I love the practice of letting the mind soften into the dance of being here.

For over 25 years I’ve guided people through movement, yoga nidra, breathwork and energetic practice.

Today all of it serves one map.

WHERE IS "NID" FROM?

I chose the name before I turned two and refused to answer to anything else.

It isn’t a spiritual name.

To me it means 'Not IDentifiable'.

It’s simply who I am.

WHAT I TEACH

The Awakening Spiral

We all take things personally. A comment. A silence. A look. Then we build it into a bigger thought, a bigger feeling, a bigger story.

The Awakening Spiral helps you notice where you are in that movement. From and to.

You get to own the energy moving through you without getting lost in the story. The stories still matter.

They are part of how you make sense of life. They just don’t have to lead.

I teach light into form.

Awareness becomes something you live in your breath, your choices and your relationships.

The body is the instrument.

How the spiral moves

SIX LAYERS

  • Being Here

  • Living in Relationship

  • The Freedom to Be You

  • Creating with Confidence

  • Allowing Life to Unfold

  • Living Your Light

FIVE PILLARS INSIDE EVERY LAYER

  • Meditation & Energy Work

  • Breath, Aroma & Sound

  • Movement & Daily Rituals

  • Contemplation & Thoughts

  • Rest & Integration

The modalities serve the map.

You meet whichever practice fits where you are today.

how I came to this work

The year everything changed

A brain injury ended my work hard, play hard career as a media lawyer. I had to meet the grief of a changed life and a changed identity. One question kept coming back. Could I still like myself if I were chairbound for the rest of my life?

The answer was yes.

And I learned to lighten up along the way.

During my recovery I met the depression and anxiety I had carried since childhood. I rebuilt a new life, one practice at a time, through the modalities that supported me.

What kept me going?

I accepted where I was. I knew it might not change.

I looked for the purpose in each experience. And I committed to sharing what I found.

I trusted my senses and my grit. I held a vision of a happy and loving life. It took a lot of vulnerability. It was worth it.

The ARRIVAL OF THE AWAKENING SPIRAL

After 9 years, I thought my life was fully ‘healed’. Then it moved again.

I dropped into a very strange deep confusion.

My practices guided me to draw sacred geometry.

Here the patterns were revealed.

The Awakening Spiral brought itself to me.

Is this for you?

WHAT IS HERE FOR YOU

You are welcome here. You are not broken, and nothing needs fixing. Something is already unfolding in you. You may feel you’ve reached your last resort. That’s not uncommon.

My role is to guide you through reflection, as a fractal of who you are, from the deep loving place that sees your wholeness. I listen, sit beside and nudge you into your gifts.

Be Heard.
A space to express yourself without judgement, and to be witnessed with compassion.

Be Responsible.
You are the Master of You. I support your choices and gently hold you accountable.

Be Guided.
You create the possibilities. I bring energetic and practical perspectives together so you can find your own way.

Be Curious.
A light heart and an open mind. Let go of the outcome and notice what is here.

I am honest. If we aren't aligned, I'll tell you. And I'll tune in to what direction will support you.

In my clients words

“Nid is also unique in wellness practitioners in that she lived that type A lawyer life so may understand better than many how to change those ways.”

Julia, Canada

“She’s incredibly strong, and subtle. I really respond to that combination.”

Melanie, Australia

“She has the ability to consider what is being discussed and offer a neutral yet honest perspective, like shaking a snow globe and watching the snow settle.”

Nadine, UK

“I feel incredibly fortunate to have Nid as my soul guide. Of all the people I’ve known or whose work I’ve encountered, Nid stands out as uniquely knowledgeable, skillful, and deeply generous.”

Ann, USA

“Like peeling an onion, layer after layer of unprocessed ‘stuff’ raises up to be accepted, forgiven and rested.”

James, Australia

"Nid is a special soul who is empathic, intuitive and directive. I've never met someone who has all 3 of these qualities."

Meagan, USA

“Nid ensured that each of us felt held and seen for our own unique brilliance. That is a unique gift to receive in a group format.”

Hayley, Australia

Ways to walk the Awakening Spiral with me

Free shows where you are.

Paid shows how you move.

Experience

Free practice libraries for every layer, plus Rest in Awareness, my living yoga nidra course.

Start with the layers, then feel into your pillar.

Live

Living the Awakening Spiral Weekly.

Practise live with a small group, through the 4 Session Pack or Your Sanctuary membership.

Deepen

Private work for when one layer keeps asking for your attention.

There are two paths to suit levels of exploration: Soul Realignment and Soul Shift.

MY BACKGROUND STORY

I'm uniquely ordinary

A child of divorced parents, I grew up between England and the USA. In 2000, I began teaching children and people with disabilities. I loved it. But I didn’t yet have the spiritual understanding to hold what movement was opening in me, and depression followed me through those years. So I turned to law.

Through part-time study I attained a First Class Honours Law degree then a Master of Laws (LLM) from GWU in D.C. I was called to the Bar in England and cross-qualified as a solicitor whilst I worked in-house to become a lawyer for media and music companies, in New York and London. My focus was music licensing for emerging technologies and sponsorship for musicians: valuing creativity in paradigms nobody had mapped yet. I had a successful career, a work hard, party hard life, alongside the less-successful panic attacks and a divorce.

After the 2013 injury I couldn’t work for 15 months. During that time I founded my first wellbeing business and began teaching Pilates, yoga and fascia movement in London. That grew into corporate and private mind-body training, community classes and retreats.

My dream was to live in the tropics and lead retreats. I left the UK and did exactly that, in beautiful places around the world. On a Greek mountainside I met the love of my life, and we moved to Manly, Australia.

I am deeply grateful to live on Gayemagal Country, the land where my work keeps unfolding. This is my service time, or mukti-hetu in Sanskrit.

WHO ARE MY TEACHERS

My lineage

The Awakening Spiral is channelled work, but without my training and amazing teachers I would not have understood it with the depth it brings. With gratitude to each of my teachers I share my lineage.

Energy and light
Light Body Meditations and Frequency Energetics inspired by Orin and DaBen · Usui Reiki Level 2 with Janet Raftis of Quantum Creatrix · Advanced Law of Attraction

Soul and reflective tools
Soul Realignment® practitioner, including Akashic Record guidance · Gene Keys Guide · Ramana Maharshi · Adyashanti

Breath, rest and meditation
Clarity Breathwork™ · Yoga Nidra · Raja Yoga, Pranayama and Meditation · Restorative Yoga · Kriya Yoga · IYTA Yoga

Movement and the body
Merrithew STOTT PILATES™ · ZEN•GA and fascia movement · Freestyle Dance · Raynor Naturopathic Massage · BOXILATES™ · Soma Yoga

Still learning
Japanese Meridian Yoga Therapy · Energy Medicine Yoga from Donna Eden's Energy Medicine lineage

Specialised training
Trauma awareness · somato-emotional release · breast cancer rehabilitation · back care · osteoporosis · scoliosis · joint injuries · athletic conditioning · pre and post-natal care · memory maintenance yoga · Anatomy Trains

Conversations with Nid

To invite me onto your podcast or for an interview, please use the contact form.

Brilliant Chaos with Tracy Hoobyar

2026
What if the breakdown that nearly ended your life was the start of your truest one? On listening when the body asks for attention.

In This Body Summit with Nadine Rajeh · 2026
Redefining 'rest' for parents of teens to stay calm, connected and present in our modern world.

Imperfect Love with Dr Carla Manly · recorded November 2025
Getting unstuck and finding your path, and meeting the inner critic and inner child voices.

Forks Over Knives · 2021 and 2022
Featured channel for yoga nidra in their guide to the best yoga YouTube channels.

The Spiritually Expressed Human with Susan Dascenzi · 2021
Living through the heart. How to sense, feel and be, and why yoga nidra works.

PCS Awareness Podcast with David Bottomley

2019
My recovery from Post-Concussion Syndrome through meditation and other practices.

ReThinking Caregiving with Esther Mbabazi

2021
Mental health for caregivers, and the body as a guide through emotions and decisions.

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