From Fear To Love 🧚‍♀️🐍

My work as a serpent healer has spanned over two decades now and currently I am the guardian of over twenty serpents who are all rescued from various different backgrounds. Mostly from people who haven’t researched properly before acquiring a serpentine friend who can potentially live for up to thirty years.
I was gifted my first snake who I named Kundalini. We had a beautiful and mystical connection and when she passed away I made a pact to her soul that I would honour her life forever by taking up kundalini yoga as a mark of respect for the journey we had shared.
I fell in love with the practice and it led me to become a teacher. I have now taught for over a decade and my passion for serpents and spirituality has merged. My offering is called ‘Serpent Healing’ and currently I am pioneering this new modality that incorporates my serpents into the technology of kundalini yoga. It gives the students the chance to meet and meditate with snakes, facing theirs fears and finding their fire in a calm and sacred way.
This works inspires an understanding of the serpentine energy of transformation and it gives a chance to connect with ones own serpent power with an actual snake ally in a beautiful yogic landscape.
This practice dates back many moon ago with Lord Shiva himself, the supreme being and grandmaster yogi is seen depicted with various live serpents.
Many ancient civilisations and spiritual communities worked with them as their familiars and they appear in numerous indigenous tribes as sacred. The Mayan God Quetzalcoatl was described as a great plumed serpent who bought knowledge and civilisation to the masses. Ancient Egypt is flowing with serpent symbology, as is the orient who refer to their enlightened masters as the ascended dragon priests.

The dragon or flying snake is the symbol of enlightenment, connecting the heavenly and earthly realms. The snake with its scales so close to Mother Earth and its feminine kundalini energy of fertility and creation, the divine feminine maha Shakti matter marrying with the feathers of spirit /great father sky.
In yogic philosophy one is attempting to unite Shiva and Shakti within the body temple and the symbol of the plumed serpent is literally a metaphor for this unity that takes place in the human heart.
There are many reason that so many people have a deep unconscious fears around snakes and it’s not just from the bad press they received in the bible (this has definitely not helped their cause and is not the full story.)
The snake was depicted as evil in this tale which for many has imprinted into our psyche in the same way that all dark fairy tales tend to leave their mark. However, when you dig a bit deeper, it’s clear to see that the snake is actually the wisdom keeper. A messenger from God /creative consciousness sent to give Eve the option of free will, if she had not taken a bite from the tree of life we would never have had the opportunity for evolution.
The serpent was the catalyst for change for life, death and rebirth. The fall was our chance to experience life independently with the opportunity to grow and expand our consciousness . If the almighty creator was responsible for building the garden of Eden then surely it was also responsible for creating all of its inhabitants. Eve did what every human does, she searched for a way to expand, flow and grow through experience.
Over the years I’ve helped many people in ceremonies to transcend their phobias around these majestic creatures who are in my opinion the master yogi’s of this planet. They are living avatars of the teachings, when you meditate with them you immediately experience a calmness and clarity that is akin to that of a great sage or ascended master.
They are the most mystical creatures on the planet, able to meditate for hours unmoving and totally connected to spirit, literally in a state of grace for the majority of their life, they will move very seldomly and mainly from necessity. Advanced yogi’s are able to sit peacefully for days on end surfing the astral planes. No eyelids to close and rest, constantly awake in a meditative state. Total awareness of the physical world around them but also of the vast landscape that lies within. Their lack of ears means they rely totally on their sense of taste and vibration to understand their environment. This connects directly to the base chakra and our primal instincts of fight of flight.
Generally when people are holding a heavy fear of them it is usually one of a few things, the first is past life experiences where a negative experience has imprinted into the cells and needs to be released. They poke and provoke fears around sexuality, with their phallic appearance and sensual energy, bringing to the surface any unresolved issues and lessons needing to be integrated in this area.
They confront issues connected with personal power and fear of one’s own ‘inner snake’, the kundalini life force energy which we all have inside of us that takes form as a fire snake that moves up the spine piercing each chakra on route to open the gifts of the lotuses and eventually achieve an enlightened state.
Most tricky of all the anxieties is ‘death fear’, a serpent is a reminder of our mortality and the delicate nature of existence. Their medicine can kill or cure and their ability to rebirth by shedding their skin is the ultimate lesson in transformation.
When you understand this on a deeper level it becomes much easier to move from a place of fear to love with these exquisite creatures who I believe are the great guides for humanity to take us out of the darkness of the ‘Gu’ and into the light of the ‘Ru’.