ABOUT JUDY

I spent most of my childhood running wild in the woods, pony mad for years, my ponies more my best friends than any person. There was a wildness in me even then — a girl who felt most herself outdoors, most alive in motion.

That wildness got buried for a while. I trained in musical theatre and acting, and then found myself in the corporate world of high-end restaurants — fast, relentless, nothing like the woods I'd grown up in. It broke me, honestly. I didn't have a name for what I was looking for, only the feeling that I needed to find my way back to myself.

So I left. I travelled around South America first, and somewhere in that unravelling I started practising yoga — properly, for the first time — and it cracked something open in me. My mind, my subconscious, all of it. I went on to train as a yoga teacher in Australia, chasing that opening further.

From there I moved to Borneo, working as a dive master and yoga teacher and living out there for a stretch — running the dive shop at Scuba Junkie, spending my days underwater and on the mat in equal measure. Visa runs took me to Bali often, and on one of those ordinary trips, ducking into an internet café to sort my paperwork, I found myself looking up something else entirely: Reiki Level 1 training.

I'd had my first real Reiki session years before, given by a Reiki Master whose son I was dating at the time, and it had blown my mind in a way I never quite forgot. Something about being back in Bali brought it to the surface. I couldn't have told you then it would become my life's work — but I could feel myself being led toward something, and I just followed it.

That was fifteen years ago. I've been working with clients for nine of them, a Reiki Master for four.

Reiki gave me a way back to myself — to that girl in the woods, to nature, and eventually to my own soul. That first attunement wasn't just a course. It was an initiation into a more aligned way of living.

Since that moment, I've shared Reiki with so many beautiful people — through sessions, through presence, through simply holding space. My own son was one of my first, when he was just a baby. There's something about offering that energy to your own child that changes how you understand it forever.

I still think of it the way I think of that little girl in the woods — not a skill I picked up, but a remembering of something that was always there, waiting for me to run back to it. And now, it's what I get to offer you too.