︎︎︎
Sārāh is a research informed artist & ancestral lineage healer [rejuvenation activist]*, visioning in re-member-ship of relational kinship practice, as life-giving, soul-reclaiming templates of collective gaze.
Through process-led co-emergence, held in ceremony, sound, sensation, image, writing and live arts, she constellates intrapsychic psychic-ecologies for de-centralising, de-conditioning, de-colonising, in an embrace of a transpersonal, incubative darkness.
Sārāh’s long range strategy is balance, within a wholeness where the numinous depth within all, is recognised.
----
action, activist*
[ ”activist”, in place of the word: “healer”, as at the core, all healing is self-healing, allowing oneself to bloom from within. We heal ourselves in the presence of being mirrored in our wholeness. ]
----
Sarah’s work opens communication to mediate modern system-machine and transpersonal Spirit realm. We practice dreamwork, animist, instinctual, earth-as-medicine-based ritual, embodied alchemy [qi: somatics, sensing awareness], and orphic incantation [sound: authentic voicework, polyrhythm, echo] articulated by research into non-linear consciousness theory, philosophy, spirituality, and narrative [poetics, archetype, myth and the absurd].
Inner-experience is product, holding concurrent metaphysical space and paradox in acknowledgement of the non-dual.
Depth is understood within Darkness, as vital incubation and initiation, intuition-technology, authenticity, chance, synchronicity; influenced by aktionist, neo-concretism, radical transformability and abject art.
POSITIONALITY
As descendant of both migrating Sri Lankan diaspora and British/Irish settling colonies, Sārāh came into being on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri People of Woiwurrung language group, in Kulin Nation; who are the traditional custodians of Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, who still exist without a treaty, nor proper recognition from the settling colony and subsequent colonial government.
Sārāh’s Lineages are woven through fabrics of South & West Asia, North & West Europe, outwards/inwards, reconciling in rivers of reparation, remembrance/forgetting. Sārāh’s connection with Spirit, Taoism, Wu, and Ancient Sumeria came whispering through her passions and affinities, to which she chose to belong to.
Sārāh’s position of a de-conditioning gaze is expressed in a queer, (re)claiming BIPoC, sometimes-white-passing, cis-AFAB-female body. She sees identity as both an expression of essential Soul, and a personal conversation within a relational network - in interplay between fixed and mutuable pathways. Her chosen pronouns: she, they, or no-pronoun.
Sārāh is based in Berlin, Germany, a meeting place of dynamic creative energies and powerful undercurrent forces. She exists in conversation with an international queer diaspora, in conversation and contact with all kinds of migrationary stories and lineages.
----
ANCESTRAL, LIBERATION &
EARTH BELONGING PRAXIS...
Sārāh offers One on One sessions in the capacity of an Intrasectional & Diasporic Ancestral Belonging, Exploratory Core-Shamanic Practitioner, with Ritual and Witness counsel for Power rebalance.
This is energetic, psycho spiritual counselling, operating through attention, intention, felt & perceived experience, sound, movement, and natural elements in ritual.
Session work is focused on Shadow re-routing, de-conditioning, & de-colonialsing psyche, in relationship with greater systems of kinship, in the support of self-mercy. Her model of Psyche & Cosmology is a Black-Feminist, Jungian, Kinship-Model.
We do this through holding all emotion, including taboo, adjusting gaze to hold space that is wider than the personal, and reclaiming in a receptive way that is self-aware to dynamics of the collective.
Through praxis, we together map our Ancestral Poetics, embracing all experiences on our way towards anchoring a deep, rooted and compassionate belonging to Earth, to Her ever-cyclic humus.
Humus*
[ A rich, nutrient-filled earth-soil, also the root word for human, humility. ]
From this rootedness, we vision actions which alchemise within us the kind of stewardship our current & choosen-future world requires, towards balance & wholeness.
Through sensing and presence this praxis can provide consistent companionship for ritual and deeper access to Soul, as we go through periods of major transition, loss, or conflict.
More info on sessions is listed on the PRAXIS PAGE page or flow over to the BLOG to discover more.
ABOUT RESEARCH CEREMONIES...
Online or in-person research ceremonies [as workshop or ceremony] are made for studio groups or research teams interested in ritual, relation of the body, and psychic processual art.
Sarah has interest in supporting artists in developing new, future-focused authentic ceremonial research practices.
Sārāh grows an ongoing research & sharing container : INTRA RHYTHMS online community space on discord, which you are welcome to access as a new client in the praxis.
Starting in 2024, she also shares a Gardening Project as ‘Space of Psychic Belonging’ with local community.
ETHICS & EQUITY...
In choosing to refocus kinship practices, as a non-indigenous body, the most important aspect and in constant development are ethics.
Sārāh is always learning, practicing with wisdom shared with consent and referencing where things come from. She is also fallible and will always be in process of de-conditioning.
The systemic issues we live within will take longer than her lifetime to unwind. She too is a part of the issue, privilege being always what we don't 'have' to know about.
This approach to Energy & Ritual Practition, aims towards accumulating cross cultural exchanges, redirecting equity towards original sources of wisdom, via collection, open source reference (sharing on), recognition, and re-routing economic overflow.
We ultimately work towards reparation of intuitional ways of being, as building blocks for future-present knowledge and more ethical future systems.
︎︎︎
Portrait Image with thanks to Mathilda Bernmark.