About Taryn
My earthly odyssey has been kaleidoscopic.
Bursting, and sometimes shattering – with teachable moments.
A never-ending spiral and fluctuating interplay. A myriad of non-linear transmutations. A manifold unfolding and folding back in. Each expression has been relevant, “true” and authentic. Each rendition prolific with insight and wisdom.
After all, you can’t know what you know, until you know, you know?
Sometimes the iteration has been a subtle shift: “same-same, but different”. And sometimes an unrecognisable, phoenix-fire rebirth that obliterates all that came before – including what I thought I knew and the core beliefs upon which everything hinged.
Although I have shapeshifted through many roles, archetypes and experiences in various industries across the world, my constant “soul urge” has been a desire to get more intimate and fall more deeply in love with life and myself – and inspire others to do the same. To activate and forge innate sovereignty and to be guided by the whisper within. To create safe spaces for discovery, expression, vulnerability and the freedom to explore and play.
To find ways to be with it all it – the awe, the heartbreak, the joy, the contradictions, the limitations, the possibilities, the trauma, the confounding beauty.
To acknowledge, plug into, merge with, and reflect back my own and others’ organic divinity – the ordinary, the wild, the vital, the fragmented, the murky, the cohesive, the mythical, the mystical and holy.
To be lit up by our interconnectedness and radiant diversity, as we go our separate ways on a multitude of life-giving paths, together.
I’m a lover of rabbit holes, intellectual pursuits, etymology, liminal spaces, and multidimensional and multidisciplinary perspectives, with an insatiable inquisitiveness around the fundamental nature of knowledge, our experiences, reality and existence. I thrive on disseminating and dispersing words, stories and ideas and imagining into the gaps, dissolving separateness, tracing the golden thread that shimmers and connects the varied lenses and analogies, and crafting boundless applications.
Sometimes contrarian in nature, and challenging what “they” say, when it shames, polarises, threatens freedom, or dehumanises.
I’ve always experienced an acute sense of connection to self, others and Source. Feeling deeply into all the layers, moods and realms and finding meaning in the “smallest” of interactions. My heart plumbed into everything and everyone with intensity and a visceral rawness, sometimes zinging to the point of burning up and out.
And my wounds and shadows – new and ancient – are the gateways, guides and catalysts serving and strengthening my heart’s evolutionary tugs. I have struggled with my mind and am very familiar with personal and collective pain. I am no stranger to the dark. I don’t think any of us are.
Like everyone on this human assignment, I am continually uncovering unconscious patterns, scripts and strategies. My response to each discovery varies in its texture and emotion: sometimes drenched in compassion, or met with an untamed fierceness, a softening, a recoiling, a crazy cackle, bottomless peace, cavernous grief…and occasionally wanting to hit the pause button.
I began my somatic, sensory-based movement and holistic embodiment training journey 18 years ago. This was the first time I started to have a loving relationship with my body and began learning how to tune into its wisdom, design, sensations, and infinite intelligence. It was my lightning-bolt moment! It allowed me to get out of my head and into the present moment. I’d “discovered” the seer, vehicle and framework for accessing and “making sense of” everything! Two years in and I started teaching and co-launched a studio and business – designing private, group, individual and corporate classes and experiences, continuing my training and honing my craft. Students were falling in love with life, their bodies and themselves!
I also started on a spiritual path and a series of initiations, delving into various wisdom traditions, teachings, philosophies, myths and practices. I kept this private and continued publicly with the work I loved.
The next visit from Life’s faculty of teachers was deep loss, chronic pain and psychosomatic illness, sending me down new avenues of research, trainings and healing modalities.
I went deeper with the body-mind connection and got even more up close and personal with my soul injuries, trauma body, subconscious and its ghosts, shadows, feral and neglected aspects.
I wanted a way to validate, articulate and merge my ever-evolving story and “body of work” and to reach more people. So, I studied Integral theory and completed an internationally accredited diploma in professional leadership and life coaching.
I developed my In-Body method, philosophy for “living alchemy “and the “Chalice” coaching model to give my hybrid methodology form. I became a motivational speaker, ran classes and workshops, designed my “Wired2Thrive” and “Wired4Sucess” programmes, was often interviewed and many of my articles were published in a national lifestyle and an international coaching magazine. I’d distilled a formula that gave me creative wiggle room, and had countless hours of trainings, practice, research, science, qualifications and “recognised” affiliations to back up what I was teaching. And I got to play with both my masculine and feminine energy: leadership coaching and corporate trainings for moxie, results and impact, AND barefoot women retreats for self-love, cathartic insights and gypsy-spirited celebration.
PLUS, now that I was “legit” (step aside imposter syndrome…) and “mindfulness” – a.k.a. what the wisdom traditions and mystics had been living and teaching for eons – was becoming more mainstream, I could weave in a bit of myth and mystery too. And my clients and students were having breakdown-breakthrough moments, stepping into their power and coming home to themselves, their lives and bodies.
But the last 5 years of subterranean and illuminating voyages has unearthed new personal truths, and I have a new iteration. Same soul urge, but it’s morphing with what now resonates and nourishes and makes “sense” to me.
The goal is no longer to heal, hack, feel better, find an elixir, attain samadhi, rewire, become calmer, transcend the ego or the mind (or anything!), detach, manifest, master, “let go”, have “good energy” or “raise frequencies”. Sure, those might be the outcomes experienced, and woo-hoo if they are! But I am done with striving or trying to attain anything that implies there is something lacking or wrong with my or anyone else’s current experience. That there is a problem to be solved and that you are responsible, “but don’t despair, we have the solution and then you can be your best self!”
I want to be free to be and accept ALL of me and feel my life whilst I am in it. To trust and value my resonance, my pleasure and my pain, and to relax into being me and my becoming. To step out of shame storms and hyper-vigilant surveillance of how I am being perceived, showing up and navigating life. No more ticking of externally created boxes or inner critic scripts, no more demanding and negotiating for power and validity.
A deep commitment to fly my own flag and making space for others to do the same – in our paradoxical messy glory – knowing that each one of us belong and “matter”. An ache for soft candlelit curiosity, care, compassion, creativity and to allow whatever arises.
To create space for devotion and for being in communion with the Intelligence and energy that flows, animates, directs and permeates everything. To dance with and be danced by Life.
To know Love is undefined, and to be loving.
For the journey to really be the destination. To listen to my Life and the whispers of my heart and soul, through and with my body. To get comfortable with the veiled spaces, whilst being open to knowing and deeper understanding. To recognise that I am deeply tapped in and held even when it doesn’t feel like it. To tend to my cravings for freedom, mystical moments and play through self – expression and to explore through creative, intellectual, spiritual and sensory experiences.
To honour my ache for “this” by diving fully into it and sharing these “moments-of-meeting” with you, in the hope that it supports you in living your personal alchemy, liberating your wisdom and touching your aliveness.
And I have no idea where this will lead or what it will look like. But I know in my blood and bones that this self-exposure is an act of surrender, faith, self-backing and the portal to the adjacent possible. And I won’t know until I know…
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Body Chalice is about living your personal alchemy and honouring your evolutionary urges. It’s trusting in your ability to discern what is right for you – moment to moment – whilst being open to “not knowing” and deeper understanding.
It’s falling in love with life and yourself. It’s holding what hurts. It’s in-spired living and in-bodied wisdom.
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