Aquarius moon Rising & the Birthing of SEHA.com
My Birthing Story of SEHA
“Vision without action is merely a dream.” — Anonymous
Here I am writing again. I used to be a prolific writer in my teens and twenties, before life got more complicated. A large tog bag full of my journals sits at the bottom of my cupboard to pore over again one day. My personal history documented faithfully. And a huge archive of all my shamanic journeys typed and documented in chronological order, and could make an amazing journey book one day. Two other half written books sit in my docs folder.
It was during the covid lockdowns that i finished writing and compiling my Mantra Songbook, and after that my private healing practice really took off with new vocal and music clients. Something about writing brings thoughts and vision into manifestation. Something about holding a physical ‘product’ that you created yourself, brings more value.
A a few years ago, as i began to write my Embodiment Manifesto, and also my first Embodiment Training Manual (now forming part of the SEHA Mentorship training material). It was when I sat down to write, that I often channeled some of my best creations.,
And now, in 2026, working hard to finish the content for this new SEHA site, it seems the old light of my inner scribe never went completely out. Despite years of cptsd-induced writers block, starting to write again this winter is a bit like exercising a weak muscle. Reflexively, it bounces back with renewed vigor after pushing through the initial resistance at first. And so write again I will. And share my voice, my vision and teachings freely here.
And so with the Aquarius ‘Gurpurnima’ full moon rising behind me, let me share the story of how i came to visioning, and now birthing as the School of Embodied Healing Arts:
The birthing story of SEHA is really a story which has only just begun…
It is also a rebirthing story about myself. Phoenix rising from the ashes of her own charnel grounds. It is a timely example of the strength & grit of our human resilience rooted in love and service. So here is some of the story:
For many years, I carried a vision inside, like a guiding flame for my life path.
After extensive yogic teacher training, and other spiritual training courses, I could summarise my purpose into one sentence;
“to move people – in body, heart and soul”
After my spiritual awakening and travels through India, then subsequent training in hatha yoga, kundalini yoga and Shakti Dance (UK and Europe),
I returned to my homeland 15yrs ago with this vision secretly tucked away in the crevices of my subconscious; to birth my own mystery school of embodied healing; an experiential place of learning the ancient, sacred, feminine (mystery) teachings channeled through years of experiential, embodied practice – yoga, dance & devotional music training, shamanic and tantric apprenticeship.
Over many years, this vision continued to grow, and various permutations of it started to emerge as i continued teaching my own style of yoga and Shakti Dance full time in the Cape. It felt clumsy at first, but the inner Shakti life-force energy (kundalini awakening) pushed me on towards a vision that felt too big for just one person to even carry, never-mind birth!
Amidst tragedy, and much challenge (my Shakti-pad), I continued my sadhana; tending to the body with a daily morning practice, embedding the teachings that were being channeled through my body, breath, voice, non-prescriptive sound & movement.
In 2019, two months after my divorce, I taught my first Shakti Flow Embodiment Training to 8 powerful women. just as i felt my vision begin to sprout, my personal life fell apart. Then Covid lockdowns. I hit single-mom survival mode and everything went on pause for a few years. But the sprout continued to grow slowly. I taught another embodiment training in 2022. Shakti-life-force creatively, and now constantly, channeled new styles through my daily practice; kundalini dance, flow yoga, shakti rising institute, then, finally in 2024 i settled on School of Embodied Healing Arts. At the end of 2024, after finding my equilibrium again as a single-income household, my dearest father (best friend and spiritual mentor of sorts as well) passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in his sleep.
This tragedy (on top of many others her whole adult life), catapulted me into a trance-like visionary state fuelled by intense grief and a spiritual portal that opened after my fathers death. In this time where my thinking mind mostly shut down completely, it became so clear to me what I needed to set into motion now, to make space for a sprouting vision to embed into form, to grow it limb by limb, into the light of the world. It felt daunting, but a higher order was at hand (Destiny). The time for playing small was over.
With a small team of support, a large tree vision was rooted in for supporting the golden new age on earth. Supported by the Ancestors, and by my guides, and by Noya Rao, SEHA was seeded in 2025 – in the great year of Shedding.
Despite setting things into motion at that time, I soon hit a kind of functional freeze (deer-in-headlights syndrome). It all felt too big (much like when I received my medicine name in 2014). Now 11yrs later as I began putting this vision into action and bringing it into embedded (embodied) form in the world, it proved “too big” and felt completely overwhelming at first. I bombed out around the end of last year, and almost gave up. But Spirit stepped in and gifted me a trip to the Amazon for a dieta-initiation and re-set with a Shipibo maestro. another long-cherished dream manifested.
I returned from this trip humbled and hugely strengthened by my dieta with Noya Rao (Tree of Light), and my medicine calling and vision started to re-grow and rebirth stronger than before.
It has been whilst in the charnel grounds of my life (wallowing in grief & self pity), that my greatest visions, activations and channelings with Spirit have occurred.
2025 was not the year to bring my vision into action, but its where the seed was finally planted, was watered and despite intial challenge, it continued to grow.
A team of design and content supporters were called in, and in 2026 with the entry of this intenselt fast Fire Horse year, that vision became action!
Harnessed by the visionary power of the horse, and with much ancestral guidance and support from my team, I carried on, now with more of a galloping momentum – this year brings us ALL into great transformation, somewhat fast and furiously too.
With no more time to waste, and in divine alignment with the stars and entry onto a new timeline for humanity (and after putting my head down and working mentally harder than I have in many years, and amidst post-grief ptsd, peri-menopausal hot flashes, insomnia and many bouts of self-doubt (who am I to…?), it is with the rising Aquarius full moon (Gurpurnima Moon in India), and with the full moon thering the month of Leo (exactly two weeks before my birth day), – SEHA is rising too.
Not completed yet. But a vision rising through action (much effort , tears and sweat) and into an in-formed, embedded expression as the school of embodied healing arts, birthed here in Cape Town.
Thank you for being part of this birthing (just by way of reading this). And welcome to my new mystery School of Embodied Healing Arts.
~mayajoy-28.07.26
