Working with Danu over the last eighteen months in a mix of individual, group and community experiences has been nothing less than transformational across my entire life (my work, my relationships, and, most fundamentally, my relationship with myself). There is no being “done to” in the work with them – it’s a walking alongside with holding, wisdom, deep compassion and, dare I say it, love. Within that is a deep respect for the other places we use for support (eg therapy, recovery circles, health coaching, professional mentors) and a working “with” rather than “against” or “instead”, which then allowed for a true building on the work I had done elsewhere – a quite literal taking it all to the next level.

The work has taken me to a much deeper knowing and reclaiming of myself, and from that has flowed true gifts in relation to others. I find myself far better able to see my loved ones, my friends for who they are and not just what parts of me wanted them to be. And that’s the basis for true relationship – I cannot truly see and love anyone else before I can I see and love myself. I feel a hope and excitement for my future life which somewhere along the lines of life I had lost sight of.

No one single piece of work with Danu is “better” or “worse” and there is a continuity I’ve found across the experiences I have had with them which has allowed for true iterative growth. Elemental Immersion helped me understand and embody the energies of the five elements and call upon those energies as I need them. Sovereign Hive has given me such a gift in holding and being held – a personal and professional game changer for me. To understand and experience the true need to be held and resourced in order to hold and support the resourcing of the people I work with has been a deep, unique, and utterly beneficial process.

Danu has walked beside me for the past 3 years, guiding me on a path from grief to grace, from performance to presence, from shame to sacred reciprocity.

One of Danu’s greatest gifts is the way she holds space in the extraordinarily beautifully containers she creates. These are physically beautiful, whether in the yurt or outside on the gorgeous property she calls home, but also energetic vessels in which it is safe to show up exactly as you are. Danu is brilliant at guiding you to an intention for each session and each arc of work, and holding these intentions within the containers she creates has been key to a journey of remembrance, repair and right relationship.

Danu is not trying to be a ‘guru’, and one of the most powerful aspects of working with her has been the focus on Sovereignty. She does not profess to ‘have the answers’, she is not promising a ‘9 steps that will change your life’: what she offers is so much more profound and so much more powerful. She holds space for you to learn to hold yourself, guiding you to the understanding that true healing begins within. That turning inward into stillness, silence and sacred presence allows space for what is ready to move through us, to emerge. The deepest truth for me was the understanding that personal healing is also healing for the collective. Danu guided me to let go of the burdens of guilt, shame and inner whispers of ‘selfish’, to step into the clarity that doing my own work is the greatest gift I can give to the collective healing of humanity.

Early on in my 1-to-1 work with Danu I was gifted a vision of a spiral, and this has been a metaphor for the work we have done together over 3 years. Rather than a linear progression towards a ‘goal’, the spiral nature of the work has allowed the grace to return again and again to a tender place (a trauma, a block, a shadow), each time deepening the connection with the energy of that tender place and deepening the understanding of its gifts for evolution and growth. Danu created the space for an ongoing invitation to return without the shame of ‘haven’t you got over/moved on from this yet?’

My journey with Danu has allowed me to understand that escape from pain is not the goal. Knowing that I was held in a safe container has allowed the expansion of capacity to hold the pain and grief, with grace and with gratitude, and medicine unfolded as I returned again and again with deeper presence and deeper willingness to go to the difficult places and receive their teachings. One of the most powerful parts of working with Danu has been her guidance around creating a daily devotional practice to ground, centre and create the space for the emergence of what wants to move through me. Creating in myself a vessel through which coherence moves into the world.

Working with Danu requires you to be devoted and be willing to show up for yourself – she is not going to do the work for you. But she will walk alongside you, with her deep intuition, her amazing ability to see patterns and connections, and a lot of laughter and delicious food along the way. It is not a journey of ‘becoming’ anything, it is a journey of remembrance of who you are and what you have come here to offer to the healing of humanity and the planet.

Annabelle and Morten created such a safe and nurturing container for the seven-week elemental immersion course. The content, both written and verbal, was powerful, insightful and truly thought-provoking. Each week we had a call guided by Annabelle and Morten, but where all course participants got to share. So much learning came from this. But so much more came from my own inward journey, one that I couldn’t have done without their teaching. The course has made me see not only my healing but the world in a whole different way.