All about me ...
My name is Martha and I've been working within the wonderful world of energy therapies for over 20 years.
Since I was very young, despite being quite shy, I have always been one that people would bring their problems to and would always be the one speak out against injustice and stand up for those who felt voiceless (which didn't always make me popular, especially with the teachers at school!). I also had an insane desire to know more than i was being taught and would constantly be asking "why" when I was given information that was simply meant to be received and later on regurgitated onto an exam paper without any understandingj of the reasoning behind the words. I didn't realise then, that these traits would lead me to who I am today ......
I found school very unsatisfying, in the respect that the only subject I had any interest in at all was French. I left as soon as I could, aged 16 and at the age of 18, having spent 20 minutes waiting to go to work on a wet and windy bus-stop in Bristol, I decided that "there has to be more to life than this" and flew off to Israel to work as an AuPair in Tel Aviv. After 6-months I was offered a job on a luxury yacht in the south of Israel and, being always open to new adventures, jumped at the chance and stayed the few months necessary for the yacht to sail to Tel Aviv by way of the Suez Canal - an experience never to be forgotten...
For the following 12 years I worked on various luxury yachts based in the Mediterranean and learnt so much. I taught myself how to cook and had 'fun' preparing meals whilst sailing at a 45 degree angle and even gained my Captains' licence. The finale of my yachting career was as Navigator on a 35 metre sailing boat, being caught in the throes of Hurricane Lily in 1997 ... where, after having been blown along at 5 knots without any sail out and having lost a window to a huge wave, the other 4 crew and I were taken off by the Swanage LifeBoat. We were all unharmed and the boat washed up intact on the Isle of Wight, also unharmed!
Shortly after, my long-term relationship ended and I found myself working as winter maintenance crew on a yacht based in the south of Gran Canaria. Here, I met the father of my daughter, Georgia, and at the end of the winter, the yacht departed but I stayed. This relationship was short lasting as he was killed in a car accident when Georgia was just 9 months old. It was at this time that I was introduced to Reiki. I'd heard of it before, but dismissed it as ridiculous! Also, I was always cautious of body treatments as I'd had a boating accident at the age of 20, crushing a vertabrae in the centre of my back and traumatic massage experience in Thailand a few years later didn't leave me very trusting. However, the Reiki was MAGIC! Not only did it help to undo the tangle of thoughts and emotions in my head, but, for the first time in many years, the pain in my back became manageable and moved into the background.
The discovery of Reiki changed my life - that and the island of Gran Canaria, which is magical. I had weekly sessions for months. It helped so much with keeping my daily life as a single, working mum on track. Six months after Georgias' father was killed my own father also died suddently and both my mother and I benefitted from the power of this gentle art to hold us through the grieving process.
Once I felt myself again, I was so grateful with how much Reiki had helped me that I spent the following year training and practicing, and is October 2002 I achieved Master Level in Usui Reiki. I was now officially 'hooked' on the wonder of energy therapies and the psychology of how our emotions have a direct relationship to physical illness and ailments - a rabbilt hole that I'm still, very happily, lost down!
I started to explore further, studying a host of modalities including hypnotherapy, accupressure and massage. I then stumbled upon the single most profound therapy that resonated with me as strongly then (in 2003) as it does today in 2024. EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique (or Tapping). Back then, EFT was still in it's infancy and I was fortunate enough to learn this incredible modality and train with the Founder himself, Gary Craig. His passion for EFT and generosity of spirit touched me deeply and I still, today, stay close to his teachings and philosophy. Over the past 20+ years I have worked with so many people with so many different ailments, and EFT, coupled with my trusted intuition, have never failed me.
In 2011, with Georgia, my partner Steve, our four rescue dogs, one cat and a fishtank, I moved from the busy south of Gran Canaria to beautiful Fataga, a small, quiet village in the mountains. It was here that, in 2012, we opened Gran Canaria Holistic Centre within the grounds of Finca Molino de Agua, a lovely, rural, hotel and restaurant. It was also at this time that I became increasingly involved with the horses that were kept there, rekindling my childhood passion for ponies! I was becoming more and more in harmony with nature and animals and felt that I was finally coming home to myself. I realised that all the years of moving around and travelling new continents, I was really searching for something that I already had, I just needed to slow down enough to see it. The Finca was a wonderful place to work, not just for one on one treatments, but for both holding and participating in exciting energy-based workshops and retreats.
Sadly, in March of 2019, Finca Molino de Agua was destroyed in a horrible fire. Thankfully, no person or animal was lost, but the hotel and restaurant were finished, as was our little Holistic Centre.
When the world closed down in 2020, I was already starting to work more online, and have since focused more and more on this area. In May of 2023 I was recommended to watch a Masterclass on a new modality called "Belief Coding". I was impressed. This was a mixture of many of my already favourite modalities with an added touch of magic and I signed up for the training and have since become accredited. I believe that with this, alongside EFT and my trusty intuition, I can work with just about any issue or discomfort and be able, generally just in one treatment, to bring partical or (often as not) complete relief!
I'm now what I call 'happily single', still living in Fataga with lots of rescue dogs and have adopted the horses from Molino de Agua. I see clients both in my home and (mostly) online. With work, animals and an ample garden with many fruit trees, life is never dull but I am truly grateful, each day, for all of the twists and turns that life threw at me so that I could be exactly right here, right now, just where I'm meant to be. The experiences that life has thrown at me, whilst not always making me wiser, have certainly taught me so much. There is little that I cannot empathise with when a client brings me their reason for needing help.
