ALIVE
AND LOVING IT!

Hayley began her acting career at the age of twelve in the film ‘Tiger Bay’ starring opposite her father John Mills and Horst Buccholz. For this she won the Berlin Film Festival’s Silver Bear Award. This led to a six picture deal with Walt Disney, which included playing both twins in ‘The Parent Trap’ and Pollyanna in ‘Pollyanna’ which earned her a Special Academy Award. She then appeared in ‘Whistle Down the Wind’ a film adaptation of a novel written by her mother Mary Hayley Bell, which garnered her a BAFTA nomination for ‘Best British Actress’ Her television work includes ‘The Flame  Trees of Thika’ and ‘Wild at Heart’. She continues to work on stage and screen and will do so for as long as she can still remember her lines.

As a child, I was always drawing or painting, so it was inevitable that I ended up at art college doing a Fine Art degree. My first career was in exhibition design where I specialised in model making and graphics, mostly working for Nottingham Museums. When I became a homeowner, I re-discovered my green fingers, and a new passion for gardening was born (probably ancestral memory!) I found my way to Weleda via an RHS horticultural diploma and a well-placed job advert. I ended up gardening at Weleda for about 25 years where I learnt about biodynamics, herbs, conservation land management, holistic health… such a rich and nourishing experience. Last couple of years were as a member of Weleda’s wisdom circle. Married to Huw – fellow Fine Art graduate, and mum to Rowan (25 this year) who went to the Steiner School next door to Weleda’s Garden so that was meant to be!!! Now I’m very happily retired, walking and loving the Derbyshire hills and getting involved in local projects.

The natural world has been intricately weaving its way through Helen's life and career for many years. As a mother, educationalist, Steiner teacher, mentor and Forest School practitioner, Helen explores the many benefits to health and well-being when we dedicate our lives to living within nature as a source of inspiration, nurture, strength and empowerment. Helen spent many years growing up in the beautiful countryside in Cheshire. Here, she pioneered the opening of the first Outdoor Nursery in the region and later, a home education project on a farm. Helen now resides in Somerset with her daughter, partner and two cats. She actively supports local woodland projects as well as leading on the development of outdoor play-based learning within Specialist education. She documents her relationship with the natural world through 'Field Notes' an online publication that supports families to work with the seasons and to invite nature into the home.

Rowena is an experienced Practitioner and Trainer in Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). She has helped to pioneer EFT achieving highly successful results for her clients working alongside Dr Rosy Daniel. Rowena supports clients with serious illness through their high levels of fears, anxieties and depression as well as clearing past negative programming, emotional wounds, limitations, blockages, small and large traumas, emotional and physical pain. She is passionate about using the tool of EFT to clear painful or draining emotions to remove blocks to success and healing. Combining EFT with Regenerative Healing, she enables clients to achieve their full potential and receive support on their Soul’s journey. For further information about Private Sessions or EFT Practitioner Training Contact: EFT@rowenabeaumont.com and see www.rowenabeaumont.com

Jo Farrell is a mother of 2 and lives with her family in London.  While working hard at her finance career, juggling life with a young family, she was shocked to be diagnosed with cancer.  Instead of celebrating, her 40th birthday was spent on the chemo ward.  After primary treatment finished, she spent years struggling to rebuild her body.  Five years passed only for Jo to be diagnosed with cancer again, this time stage IV.  It was at this moment; she realised that it wasn’t only the body that needed her attention!  Since then, Jo has cast her net wide, leaving no stone unturned with respect to her health. She continues to embrace the benefits of an integrative approach to treatment and follows an holistic approach to her healing journey.

Sandra Miskimmin, from Irvinestown, Northern Ireland, the Founder of SMASH Worldwide, helps women to put the pieces of their health jigsaw back together again, so they can feel amazing. Her mission is to provide women with the knowledge and power to understand the “jigsaw of living a healthy lifestyle.” Having lived with chronic back pain, numerous conditions and being classed as clinically obese in 2013, she undertook a dramatic change to her lifestyle and health and turned her life around. As a result of this, she went back to school and retrained in nutrition, weight management, naturopathy and behavioural change. She is passionate about educating women on how to implement easy strategies into their lives so they and their families can live a healthier life in the long run. She is devoted to helping women reach their fullest potential and being able to achieve their dreams because they have the energy and drive to do so. She shows women a new way of living, so they fall in love with themselves again, and love living a healthy lifestyle. She became a published author, having written a chapter in the best selling publication “SEEN Too.” This collaboration of heart centred women, documents their story of how they stepped into their passion, purpose and power. As a determined, self motivated business woman, she has won numerous awards for her business achievements over the past 20 years. She has spoken on stage on many occasions, with the highlight being, speaking on stage in Las Vegas, to over 1000 attendees at a conference. Her positive attitude and energy shines through when she is working with clients and her desire to ensure that clients succeed, drives her on a daily basis. When she is not helping clients, you will find her either in the kitchen creating tasty new recipes, in the gym, playing netball or at the side of a football pitch cheering on her boys. You can contact Sandra via sandra@smashworldwide.com https://www.smashworldwide.com Instagram - SMASH_Worldwide

I really love getting old! I looked at the idea of dying young - when I was diagnosed with incurable aggressive cancer in my forties - and I decided against it. When I relapsed less than a year after the last-ditch Stem Cell Transplant treatment, they told me there was nothing left that they could do. So I got serious about my only chance of survival - a miracle. Today, nearly thirty years later, I am writing a book about all the naughty things I have done in my life and still managed to manifest multiple miracles. Miracles DO happen. You do not have to be a saint. If you are looking through the wrong lens, I can guarantee that the unique hope and encouragement that is there for you is not registering on your radar. https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=miracles do happen Do visit me on my Facebook page and let me know if miracles are showing up in your life.

For over 20 years, Louise Collinson has directed Body in Mind Pilates, in Derby, UK. From 2014, The Old Stable Studios in Darley Park has been the home to her dedicated team of Pilates and Movement Practitioners. Louise was introduced to the Pilates method whilst training as a contemporary dancer at LABAN, London in 1990, utilising the method to help avoid common injuries. She went on to dance professionally and develop movement programmes for community members and dance practitioners alike as a founder team member of Derby Dance Development. In 2002, Louise undertook a fully comprehensive Pilates training apprenticeship at PIA, Sydney, Australia, working with a range of international tutors and clients from different disciplines. Furthering her passion for the amazing classical repertoire and principles of Joseph Pilates’s Contrology Method, but also developing an appreciation of how the method can be adapted and developed to accommodate anybody’s needs. Earlier this year, Louise graduated from Balanced Body’s prestigious International Educator Programme in California and is excited to host a comprehensive range of Balanced Body Pilates teacher training courses at The Old Stables from Autumn 2025.

With over 30 years of experience working one-to-one and in groups, Amanda Brooks has dedicated her life to guiding people through profound energetic transformation. As an Energy Transformation Practitioner, she specialises in uncovering and releasing ancestral patterns, dissolving soul-level blocks, and clearing limiting beliefs that keep people stuck. Through her Akashic Records work, Amanda helps clients access the deeper layers of their soul’s story—bringing awareness to the root causes of imbalance and offering clear pathways for healing and alignment. By combining this with powerful energetic techniques, she supports clients in moving beyond old programming and stepping into greater freedom, clarity, and purpose. Amanda’s work is rooted in the understanding that when we are aligned within, we are far better equipped to clear imbalances—whether emotional, physical, or spiritual—and open the way for more joy, resilience, and abundance. Her compassionate, grounded approach creates space for clients to feel lighter, freer, and more connected to their soul’s truth. In addition to her private work, Amanda hosts monthly Ancestral Healing Calls—powerful group sessions that offer a direct experience of releasing inherited imprints and restoring harmony across generations. These calls create a collective field of transformation where participants not only feel shifts within themselves but also contribute to healing their ancestral line. You can learn more about Amanda’s work and upcoming sessions at: www.FindYourInnerHarmony.co.uk and www.peacewithin.online Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/am.andabrooks/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100050505946416 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@findyourinnerharmony

Derbyshire-based Jo Dall is a pioneering Kinesiologist, Energy Alchemist and transformational healer who helps people break free from the invisible patterns holding them back from their fullest potential. Through her signature Four Sacred Keys Transformational Healing Journey, Jo guides clients to dissolve deep-rooted ancestral imprints, release nervous system overload, and unlock their soul’s highest blueprint. Her work goes beyond emotional and spiritual transformation, it also addresses the physical body, often relieving long-standing symptoms as the system recalibrates at a cellular level. With 22 years of experience, Jo weaves advanced kinesiology, energy medicine and the mystical Violet Flame to realign the body, mind and spirit, restoring vitality, clarity and calm. A devoted wife, mother to two beautiful daughters, and guardian to two cheeky Westies, Jo’s clients often say her sessions feel like “coming home to themselves for the very first time.” www.transformationalhealing.co.uk Facebook: Transformational Healing with Kinesiology / My Cancer Journey LinkedIn: Jo Dall Transformational Healing Instagram: jodall_transformationalhealing

Rosy views Dr Alan Watkins as Britain's leading mind-body doctor, who having mastered the neuroscience, turned this into world-class interventions with the leaders of the world’s largest multi-national companies to enable them to perform better themselves, and to create a more purposeful society for us all. After qualifying in Medicine, Alan went on to take degrees in both Psychology and Immunology, to understand fully the relationship between how we feel, how we think, and how we perform at work and in our day-to-day living. Being fully committed to reducing human suffering at scale, he has focused his work since with those leading organisations, as he believes that with the right leadership thousands or even millions of lives can be affected through the organisation itself and its wider stakeholder community. Alan is a polymath who has turned his attention to analysis off some of the world's grittiest problems. He has 13 books in print and the 14th in process. One of his early books (1997) was ‘Mind-Body Medicine: A Clinician’s Guide to Psychoneuroimmunology.’ This was Dr Rosy Daniel’s first introduction to the science behind the mind-body connection, which she had been practising with clients for years through yoga, breathwork, relaxation, meditation and visualisation. And his early webinar teaching how to monitor and regulate our heart rate variability was a major revelation to Rosy, as finally she could see objectively the inter relationship between our emotions and the state of our nervous system which she had been teaching experientially. In this episode Alan will share with us his insights into the use of HRV monitors for the relief of lifestyle illnesses, the levels of stress within society, and the likely impact of this stress burden on lifestyle illnesses, human suffering and healthcare costs. To do your own HRV monitoring: Step 1 – Download the Complete App on a smart phone or computer Step 2 – Purchase a connecting piece that picks up your heart beat from either your ear lobe with a clip or fingertip from www.kytofitness.com/en-gb/products/bluetooth-mobile-heart-rate-monitor-with-ear-clip-kyto2935 To enquire about having a Complete Energy Audit Please contact kathryn@complete-coherence.com To enquire about Training to work with HRV Monitoring Please contact kathryn@complete-coherence.com

Clare Palmer has lived with complex chronic illness for over two decades, an experience that has reshaped how she understands health, healing, and connection. Through this journey, she’s learned that healing isn’t about perfection or quick fixes, it’s about learning to truly listen to the body, to meet it with compassion, and to rebuild a sense of partnership and trust with ourselves, to live with authenticity and balance. Her lived experience inspires her work as a Health Creation Mentor, Wellbeing and Empowerment Coach, and EFT Practitioner, where she supports others in reconnecting with themselves and exploring their own relationship with their mind, body, and spirit. With a calm, compassionate presence, she believes deeply in the body’s innate ability to heal and in the strength that comes from meeting ourselves with patience, kindness, and a genuine sense of gratitude and love. You can contact Clare at clare@livingtrue.co.uk To learn more about Clare and her work: www.livingtrue.co.uk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clarepalmer-livingtrue/

Spirited jeweller Emma Chapman, has graced us with her story for the Podcast, and her presence in our Market Place, where you can see and purchase her exquisite pieces, inspired by and drawn from Indian sacred geometry, Mughal Art and floral patterns. In her Bonus Episode, she shares with us her healing transformation from burnout as a top media professional to full artistic self-expression and becoming an award-winning UK jeweller. After working as one of London’s leading Film and Theatre PR professionals for many years, Emma hit a wall and realised that she just could not go on. Over the course of a ‘weekend epiphany’ she worked out how to untangle herself from her commitments, and a month later she was in Southern India on a Yoga Teacher Training Course. Once feeling more grounded, she started a journey of exploration to find artisanal jewellery experts in Sri Lanka, Rajasthan and Nepal, and it was in Nepal that she created her first collection. On return to London after a year in India, she was introduced to Fashion Edition Hilary Alexander, who fell in love with her work and nominated her as the Best Emerging Jewellery designer. Winning this award led to her becoming a regular exhibitor at London Fashion Week and starting her own brand, Emma Chapman jewels. However, whilst back in London she felt increasingly disconnected from her creative source and made her way back to India, where she lived for ten years, getting ever more deeply engaged with the culture and people. Her quest for excellence took her on a profound journey of learning and exploration to find the finest goldsmiths and stone cutters working in the full spectrum of ancient Indian jewellery couture techniques. She is devoted to keeping the ancient skills of handmade heritage jewellery traditions alive. During this time, she won the trust of these collaborators and became fully embraced by their families. She in turn brought them financial support through good times and bad, supporting them equally through the bleak times of COVID. The level of love, creativity and craftsmanship in her work makes them future heirloom treasures, and those who invest in them can know that they can be supporting up to five craftsmen and their families in just one beautiful piece! Emma’s is a remarkable example of the emergence of her true self, moving from a life and workstyle dedicated entirely to the care and success of others, to changing entirely to taking the time and care to go deep inside and express her own true nature. We know that her story will provide inspiration to you all, and no doubt a tipping point for those of you ready to make that big leap into fully authentic living for yourselves!