SARAHS CODE OF ETHICS, TERMS + CONDITIONS

I encourage all healing-artists to impliment a public and processesual code of ethics for a more energetically sustainable future for all of us.








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In person sessions with me are a fixed price and are payable via invoice after the session.

For international online sessions with new clients, I ask please for advance payment to secure the session time.

Sliding-scale rates only apply if you have been in contact with me via email and we landed on an agreement.

The 1 hour One on One talk sessions were listed from the begining in 2020 as a in-training rate, now in 2024-25 they are subject to change as I deepen my skill, tools, durations of and shared notes after sessions.

I do not work with One on One sessions on the concept of exchange.

For session cancellations prior to 24 hours ahead no fee is charged.

Please note: Session cancellations/time changes after 24-12 hours ahead of our scheduled time in many cases need to billed - as in most cases I need to cover my preparation time.

For many deep works, I do not book more than one client per day.

For Course content, all sales are final. 

For On-Demand content, all sales are final.

I reserve the right to choose with who I work with and in which capacity we can work.

Folkx in the position of not being able to afford a [month-long or similar durational] course, especially who are carried in black, indigenous, of color, queer, trans, non-binary, intersex +, neurodiverse or differently abled bodies are able to apply for scholarship by emailing mail @ sarah martinus . com, letting me know why having a scholarship spot would be important for you right now for your personal growth or professional growth, and why in particular you are drawn to my work and methodology.

I will be really happy to share with more people who actually want access and will take the content to heart, and will do the best I can within resources and to maintain a powerful environment for all participants.

PERSONAL WORKINGS WITH THE HEALING-ARTS

It has taken me deep time of inner work, time which I took not exhibiting and not producing anything ‘for the world’ in order to learn to accept the ‘healing’ or ‘activating’ aspect of my artistic practice, as authentic.

I worked for years with accepting my compassionate inner authority as opposed to all the self-judgements which I had engulfed as shadow projections.

I am aware of what virtue signalling is, what co-opting practices means and where my own feeling-state is with what ‘I own’ within my own work and what I respect of wisdom and information from ancient sources, or what ‘owns’ me.

I also have my own understanding of what aspects of the work are shareable and what remains private & sacred.

My inner drive and need to work with em-power-ment has been there since birth - or even pre-birth.

I feel that many of us ‘born healers’ end up creating art and finding ourselves split between heights of our vison and limitations of being one human.

I am in contact with these aspects of myself on a daily basis - the perfectionist, controlling, privelidged idealist - to keep grounded and in connection with my own zany Aquarian ego. I am a work in process.

I am also in close contact with abandoned Shadow aspects such as Fear Guilt and Shame.

ART EGO

Sometimes what The Soul is wanting to express in art can look like ego to others. Also its hard to dare to be something more than what people feel comfortable with us as. At times one must break free and offer all templates that came before into the fire!

Carrying a creation into life can be a heavy load, put strains on relationships, economics and personal health. Sometimes it is not clear what kind of genius is driving us and if this contains relational compassion or not. Loosing the connection to Dirt & Mud in the spiritual awakening journey is natural, as is getting stuck in a ‘noodle soup’ of shadow work.

Especially since we do not have dialogues or accessibility with religion and spirituality at times, the path can be very alienating.

Learning to discern and carry these aspects of ourselves is a life long practice of staying connected to dirt, remembering what Kinship is - awareness of receptiviy - and containing or self forgiving ‘the wobble’ as we unwind ancestral traumas and silences.

Where Ego stops and Soul-duty begins is something only an Artist can know for certain, and be the judge of themselves.

I do attempt to contain all art practices to an anchor of humilty and take a self-check on obessive immersion and release perfectionist ideals, when creative drive has the capacity to flatten everything else in its path. 

GAZE & POSITIONALITY

My gaze is not the 'ideal' that I want it to be - as much as I conceptualise, and try to learn.

Regardless of my gender, my heritage, or my own life experience and how many practices I make, I am still looking through the lenses of our patriarchal, racist, classist, ableist, ageist culture.

My projections are there because my privilege is always what I don't 'have' to know about, because the 'I' that has lived my life, is a product of a non-indigenous, predominantly white, westernised and privileged society, even if I was seen as brown-skinned conditionally, I too was a part of the systemic problem.

I ask Spirits to continually help me also deal with my own privilege and when I come up against difficult or painful projections and reflections, I can grow a space big enough to take full responsibility for how I feel - with all attempts - before projecting out my victimhood, fear of failure or saviour complexes unto others.

I read a lot of books about the experinces of life that are different to mine.
I constantly make shadow work and try to learn how to be a continually better ally.
I have a therapist for personal support during challenging times.

CORE-SHAMANIC PRACTICES

I have studied core shamanic practice through the Foundation of Shamanic Studies Europe (2015 - 2021), to which I am happy to suggest to all newcomers as an organised and accessible place to get in touch with these practices.

The Foundation of Shamanic Studies Europe, Asia, N.Americas and S.Americas, and surrounding communities, offers frameworks for this kind of study to be taken seriously.

The important aspect of the Foundation’s work is that they support orginal wisdom from Indigenous practicing Shamans with also reparations of economic support through the Living Treasures Program.

POSITIONALITY, WHITE SUPREMACY, INCLUSION

I have found that there is a gap to be bridged between Indigenous communities and/or individual folks with Indigenous Heritage existing in the realand colonial context, and the curriculums of Spirituality practices which do not recognise Identity. 

The gap included that communities and forums miss to discuss contradictory, survival and the real impact and hustle of systemic oppression and the fact this touches the lives of each body in a different way. Without dialogues of the real struggles of oppressed peoples, Resistance is not seen as liberatorary. Within predominantly whiteness, without a dicussion on this, allows racial & intersectional blindness. Racial blindness might seem like a spiritual skill, but in fact it is collapsing diversities and differences which make us unique and which denies or steals the rights of certain bodies to witness their own pain.

I think it is very important that the spiritual focus is able to focus on the spiritual, but neverthless a skewed image should not be perpetuated to a Northern European (ie: German) Public without discussions on intersectionality and without allowing all bodies to witness and own their own truth, pain and joy.

This gap which I felt, and lived within, and the erasure and invisibility it caused to my practice, is a reason why I went on to focusing on intersectionality, decolonialism, diasporic identity, racial trauma, and liberation from oppression in my practice.

Our practices need to be giving to communities - not taking away from communities, nor failing to recognise communities.

As healers we have inherent Power. My aim is not to hoard that Power, but to give it within the containers where consent is present.

I have also studied, rigorously self-directed, a broad array of practices seeking my personal lineage, in the direction of Asia and beyond.

MY HERITAGE, MY ANCESTRY

I have special interest with ancient female WU shamanic tribes, who were the first Daoists and practiced energetic transmutation through dance.

[Among many other practices].

I am only at the tip of the iceberg in discovering the richness of these practices and how different aspects of Buddhism and Mythology interact and flow through my pracitice.

In Sri Lanka, where half of my family is from, the ancient shamanic ethos of the Veddas (as I understand it), was connected somewhat to Buddhist practice [original forms of Sinhalese Buddhism]. For me these practices remain fluid and a part of the discovery of lost lineage.


Along this journey I have connected with an array of teachers who continue to hold spacesof witness and alignment for me, who I list on my praxis page.

RESEARCH AND RESPECT: ANCIENT TECHNIQUES

The reason for Research Ceremonies is to hold a container for the expansion of community and to also share new ideas spaces in projects with Spirit.

The Research Ceremonies that coincide with new, large research projects - on the first iteration of each - I will endeavour to host as open access Ceremony via Zoom. I would like to keep these open to new comers as well as seasoned practitioners.

Developing authentic ceremony and being as transparent as possible about how we work - authentic to ourselves - is a big part of how I understand respect - to the collective body of information we are accessing and to ourselves.

I am working carefully to continue how best to carry this out.

As ideas reverberate out, I appreciate being referenced for ideas and I do my best to reference where my ideas come from.

Recognition for who we each uniquely are, being seen, is a wonderful aspect of community!

RE-ROUTING ECONONOMIES

I’ve been involved as a volunteer in Grant Writing & Submitting, Non-Profit, for Indigenous Fellowship Programs, since 2022.

I am available for one individual or grassroots project at a time, who is applying for an Indigenous Fellowship or Changemaker Grant, who would like back-up companionship in copy-editing and submitting their portfolio applications over online portals.

I welcome worldwide areas of focus.

Thank you for spreading the word to those who it would impact.

Please email me for more info, and if you have a project in mind, to check if timelines would work.

For PR companies getting in contact with me who are working with, or funded by big business, I abide by personal and professional guidelines.

I do not collaborate with large corporate entites without Artist Fees and this Artist Fee at base level includes a donation [unspecified amount] to my choice of institution, to support original sources of wisdom and environmental wellbeing.

I also ask to receive third party sustainability reports from large corporations, before working together. 

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I cannot be available for calls about projects without written presentation documents of how these projects will exist in the world, allowing me to clearly see the proposed application of my body, face, identity, voice and ideas.

If your project guidelines cannot meet that specification, please understand I cannot offer my time and energy at this point in time.

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These are basic and realistic provisos for energetic clarity and fair working conditions for the Healing Artists.

I encourage all other POC, LGBTQ+ artists and healers to also impliment their own code of ethics for a more intentional, and energetically sustainable future.

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Thank you for reading and giving time to discover this website.


With blessings,
Sarah M