About
Me and RW
I was born in 1948, Leo sun and have done all sorts of
things throughout my current incarnation. I started out as a teacher (9-13 yr
olds) but didn’t stay with that. I was trained to teach
Rudolph Laban Modern Educational Dance but
went on to do Martha Graham contemporary dance, partly with
Robert Cohen at
The Place in London. Then I took a big step sideways and joined the Ministry
of Defence and was admin in charge of Royal Marines, and then of foreign officer
recruitment. I moved into finance for the fighter-trainer aircraft and then out
into computers, finishing up as project manager designing a networked computer
system for Defence Sales. I carried on dancing during all this time, working for
a friend who worked for
Arlene Phillips at the London
Pineapple Dance Centre. Then rheumatoid arthritis struck, literally
overnight, and stopped me dancing. I was able to carry on working until 1991
before I cracked up completely and was medically retired.
After I got a bit better I trained in transpersonal
psychology with Ian
Gordon-Brown and Barbara Somers
and had a practice until I moved out of London in 1999. Although I still
work with friends I no longer practice psychotherapy now, but it’s a part of me
and so informs everything including RW to some extent.
I also did a lot of photography while I was in London, had
exhibitions etc. and still do some now. I taught at the
Camera Club of London while it was
still by Leicester Square.
I
always wanted to write so, when I was medically retired out of the MOD, I began
to do it properly. I write as Elen Sentier, you can look up some of the titles
on Google.
I always lived with otherworld, can remember my own birth
and have been able to check those memories for accuracy. My father and uncles
were very fey and taught me a lot. I explored all sorts of things with
C Maxwell Cade; was
taught dowsing by Hamish
Millar & Tom Graves; far-seeing by
Colin Bloy of Fountain International; and worked up to coming out as a
shaman with Caitlin & John Matthews.
In 1988 I met Lilla Bek, she taught me about healing and I did a lot of work
with her that helped form the Numerology book. I went on to teach healing for
the NFSH for several years.
How did RW come about?
Ummm! Well … it was like this … I was quietly minding my
own business when I got a kick in the pants and loud shout in the ear telling me
to get off my butt and start the course. I argued like hell, but it was no good.
They wanted me to do it – Otherworld, my Gang as I call them. Whatever, they
insisted I create and manage the course so I began to write it. Well, I began to
teach it first, with a small group of people in London. That was a good
beginning but not nearly enough for otherworld. I wrote it … and re-wrote it …
and taught it, and re-wrote it … you get the picture? Then we moved out of
London in 1999 and came out here in the
Golden Valley on the edge of the Black
Mountains between Wales and England – a between-worlds place if ever there
was one! – and RW took off. I began to get students from all over the world,
learned (very fast!) how to do internet teaching and we’ve gone on from there.
The course is established now although there can still be the odd titivation
that I get thrust upon me.
It’s a fascinating process. I’m like the Ex-O for
otherworld. We’ve got it together, what they want and how to put it across,
create and put together the necessary experiences for the students. And, which
is very important, I’m good at riding the wave like a surfer (a Barbara
Somers analogy) so that I can respond with what the student needs and not a “set
answer” when it comes to feedback.
Otherworld have just got me going on Facebook and I can see
what they mean by it, how it can work out. We used to have a private Yahoo group
for the students to meet and network in but it was (comparatively) very clumsy.
FaceBook’s doing the necessary so far.
And why? Why do it? Because I must. It’s like the
writing (the other half of my bow-string), I have to do it. In a sense it does
me.
Me & Him J
I
live and work in the Welsh Marches - the borders of Wales and England. It's a
very magical place and full of Celtic and Arthurian legend - we even have our
own merlin-figure, called
Dyfrig, who is said to have crowned Arthur as well as
building a magical school here. I feel Rainbow Warriors has some very solid
roots in the land.
And
I share my life with my husband, Paul. He helps with some of the work and, even
more, just by being J.
Paul has been working biodynamics,
practically, in our own garden since 1992. He's also taught
healing, dowsing, radionics and
kirlian photography since the
1980s and worked with many leading people such as
Lilla Bek,
C Maxwell Cade,
Hamish Miller, Colin Bloy,
Michael Poynder, Gordon Smith. He's a member of the
Biodynamic Agricultural Association
(BDAA), and the HDRA, and currently works a
1/4 acre of vegetable, fruit, ornamental and wildlife
garden.
He's
a real expert in composting!
He used to be a computer consultant (boffin!)
and began his working life as a scientist at the
Rutherford Laboratories, Harwell, Oxford, Britain. He changed careers in the
late 1980s becoming a healer and a transpersonal counsellor and taught healing
since 1988. He's now a radionics practitioner, living here with me, our three cats, a host
of wildlife and a regiment of gnomes, ondines, sylphs and salamanders on our
biodynamic smallholding in the Welsh Marches.
I’m going to stop there. It’s probably given you something
to chew on and, I hope, has helped you to know me and the course a little
better.
If it still attracts you, fill in the
application form and send it to
me, begin the process of getting to know if you really do want to be a shaman …
Warm wishes from between the two
lights,
Grymalkyn
