About Leanne
My journey to guide others through the shadows of shame began in Ireland’s mystical embrace, where, as a sensitive child, I felt the pulse of people, places, and unseen currents. The Celtic land’s ancient magic, alive with whispers of ancient wisdom but hummed beneath a heavy cloak of shame, an undercurrent that mirrored my own inner wounds and ancestral echoes. Shaped by personal trauma, sports became my teenage sanctuary, channeling my tender heart into focus, armoring me against vulnerability’s sting. I’m deeply grateful for this coping mechanism, it carried me through, masking the raw emotions buried.
Drawn to physical therapy,
I fell in love with the body’s intricate wisdom, its movements, its resilience, its stories. Yet, after a year, I saw beyond the surface. Techniques like deep tissue work and dry needling were mere plasters on wounds far deeper than muscle or bone. I noticed patterns for example: a soccer player’s recurring injury, always at the same time of year, tied to moments of pressure, insecurity, or the need to please family. Leaning into intuitive whispers, I felt shame’s grip in their muscles, trigger points holding not just confused tissue but emotional truths. As I opened heartfelt my bodywork intuition and dialogues during physical therapy sessions, clients experienced profound releases, tears, rage, or nervous system discharges.
Irish people so often shut down, emotionally avoidant, or burdened by resentment. Clients shared they felt lighter, freer, transformed in subtle and profound ways, not just in movement but in their way of being.
The more I trusted this inner knowing, the clearer my path became.
I started to dip my toe into my own shadows, unprocessed emotions, physical ailments, and shame-driven patterns. I dove into somatic courses, energy healing trainings, movement workshops, yoga teacher trainings, and countless books, learning as much from what didn’t resonate as what did. Working with elite sports teams and my own 1:1 clients, I embraced transparency about my evolving gift, this intuitive sense that might spark an emotional release during a treatment. “I’m a physical therapist learning to understand these currents,” I’d share. “Tell me how you feel, beyond just physical.” These moments fostered trust, guiding clients toward emotional freedom alongside physical healing.
My deepest transformation came through my teacher, Shelly Towns, whose fierce devotion and healing magic guided me into the underworld of my soul, spaces I never knew existed. Through countless sessions, she helped me uncover my unique codes, grounding my intuitive gifts in somatic and integrated wisdom. Her reverence became my foundation, shaping how I hold space for others. My journey through shame’s shadows taught me that a true healer can only guide as far as they’ve gone themselves, a truth I carry into every retreat and session.
Life itself became my teacher.
Unhealthy relationships, with friends, partners, co facilitators and my own shadows, especially people-pleasing tendencies, revealed the depths of shame, my non existent boundries and unease with not being enough. All catalysts for my journey. Unpacking these dynamics over the years was a catalysts to my journey, opening open self love and deep compassion for others.
Movement, on the dance floor, tennis court, yoga mat, or through life still remains my greatest ally, a healer and friend. It reveals shadow, lifeforce, and magic, and now, somatic practices are my cornerstone to share on retreats, they help integrate deep emotional releases and energy clearings to soothe the nervous system ground and connect to the earth.
I pray and connect with the elementals, feeling a profound kinship with water, our inner waters, the flow of emotions that shame so often dams. This connection, woven into my being for reasons too sacred to name here, mirrors the fluidity of healing, washing away the barriers of unworthiness.
The plant realm, too, is my ally, whispering wisdom through gentle, non-psychoactive allies like frankincense and others, grounding me in reverence and presence.
These unseen currents guide my work, though I share their potency only in retreats, honoring their magic.
Instagram before...
Once, I shared these sacred client reel processes online, with deep prayer and consent, trusting they’d reach those ready to return to their hearts, back to unconditional love. My Instagram went viral....many times, a testament to the hunger for authentic healing. This was a big process for me. Im a very private person and this over night exposure helped me see shadows within myself I didn’t realise were there. I wanted to delete the app, only for my ex partner at the time really supported me in not running. Im grateful for its unfoldings and the community here.
Instagram now...
but now in my opinion this way of spaceholders sharing has become distorted across the app, because of its emotional performance, fakeness and unsafe practices, I’ve stepped back. The past year I’ve been allowing space for a new way to share, I’m being patient. I trust my medicine finds those it’s meant for, beyond fleeting engagement.
Now...
I'm based in Bali, I’m weaving my medicine through in-person sessions starting soon, a retreat in January, and 5-month online containers for 1:1 clients, while planning to return to Europe’s lands next summer to host retreats and reconnect with family and friends. My path is ever-evolving, yesterday’s self differs from today’s, last year’s from this moment’s. This fluidity, once a source of shame in a culture expecting a single, lifelong path, is now my devotion: to become more present, to see deeper, to live with an open heart, embodied, and to embrace life’s joy. My medicine shifts with me, always in service to the prayer of this new earth, awakening hearts, and transmuting shame into love. I’m humbled to see through these eyes and live in this body, guiding others to unravel shame...the root of all behavior....and awaken their divine truth. Beneath every wound lies a spark of radiance, waiting to be reclaimed. I invite you to step into this journey with me, to discover the freedom and love that await within your own heart.