Rosi Lalor
About Me
Healing With Rosi
My Story
I think it’s important to share with you not only my training and qualifications but also a little bit about my background and my worldview.
My hope is that the information I share here gives you a sense of the roads I’ve travelled, the kinds of wisdom I’ve gained from navigating my particular challenges, and how I may (or may not) be of service to your own growth.
A Brief History
How I became an Intuitive Healing Facilitator
I trained as a Holistic Therapist (ITEC diploma in Holistic Massage, Reflexology and Aromatherapy) back in 2005, after being inspired by a life-changing massage treatment I received when I was a stressed out trainee secondary school teacher in London. I had no idea of the power of therapeutic touch, or even that there was such a thing, and knew I needed to explore it further.
The course was nourishing for me on every level, and yet I didn’t practice professionally straight away, as my main calling at that time was to work with young adults with special educational needs, complex behaviours and physical disabilities. Through working in this field for 8 years, I learned a great deal about subtle forms of non-verbal communication, energetic sensitivity and the value of diverse forms of intelligence.
In 2013 I moved to Ireland and met a wonderful metaphysical teacher/healer called Roseleen McNally. I was inspired by her compassionate presence and down-to-earth approach to train to become a Reiki Master and a Magnified Healing practitioner. I felt like ‘a duck to water’ when it came to working with these subtle yet powerful energies.
For about seven years prior to this, I had been a regular recipient of energy healing from an intuitive healer. At that time I didn’t know how to regulate my nervous system, and so these sessions used to bring a calm into my system that I didn’t yet know how to cultivate in myself. During this time I believed that energy healing was only for extra-spiritual people with special gifts, not realizing it is a skill that can be cultivated by anyone who desires to do so.
I have now been giving energy healing treatments for over 13 years. I am always learning from my clients, from teachers, and from my own ongoing healing process. I have learned how to listen to flow the life, and to my body’s wisdom. My capacity to trust my subtle senses and to attune to the healing field is something that continues to evolve. I know I want to keep moving in this Self-trusting and Life-trusting direction. I enjoy a sense of inner safety and self-regard that once seemed completely unimaginable.
Sensitivity and Strength
My highly sensitive temperament felt like a curse before it became a blessing. As so often happens with highly sensitive people, I had formed a habit of attuning to the needs of others, but wasn’t so skilled at recognising and meeting my own needs. Dr. Elaine Aaren’s book The Highly Sensitive Person helped me understand why I was so often overwhelmed by what others seemed to find manageable.
Alongside a naturally sensitive temperament, I have been on a lifelong journey with CPTSD (Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). Largely thanks to Pete Walker’s books, as well as ongoing long-term support from a wonderful somatic therapist, I have a huge capacity to work constructively with my triggers, seeing them as portals into deeper healing.
Kundalini Rising
In 2014 I felt a ‘pop’ at the base of my spine while I was at a spiritual workshop. As intense as this experience was, my mind accepted it easily. I was aware of the concept of kundalini awakenings and I also sensed that I had been unconsciously preparing for this since childhood.
Kundalini energy is described in yogic teachings as a snake that lies coiled and dormant at the base of the spine. The symbolism of the snake is appropriate because the snake sheds its skin, and kundalini demanded I do the same. The ongoing movement of this raw, primal energy through my system catalysed a huge purging effect on every layer of my being. My identity and my belief systems were forced to expand in response to what I was experiencing.
It has been a challenge for my patience and for my nervous system to integrate the waves of kundalini energy rising. At times I felt like I was trying to stay on a horse at a rodeo, with intense pulsations moving up my spine. I experienced a lot insomnia as well as strange psychic phenomena. Yet overall it has been a powerful initiation that I’m grateful for, as it has moved me into a place of spiritual maturity. In many ways it has been a journey of dismantling my spiritual ego, alongside healing my inner children. Nowadays it’s easier for me to sense the simplicity of my true nature. It’s in that quiet place that rests underneath all the bells and whistles of my personality. In my view, the poem ‘On Love’ by Khalil Gibran sums up the kundalini awakening process very well.
My brain and nervous system have undergone a dramatic rewiring, which is ongoing. My ‘soul sight’ i.e. my capacity to see the spiritual significance of events and to view people as souls rather than personalities, has integrated with my every-day perception. I am aware of many changes at a cellular level too, and that inherited ancestral patterns that were rooted in fear have been transformed.
Over the past few years I have developed a capacity to transmit light language: healing codes and frequencies expressed through non-linear soul-based words and gestures. Light language is now an every day part of my self-healing practice, and a part of what I can offer to clients, where appropriate. I have found it to be an incredible support for integrating very deep wounds in the psyche.
Here is an example on YouTube.
Devoted to Love, with Death as my Teacher
In 2021 I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Follicular Lymphoma, and underwent intensive chemotherapy treatment. The cancer returned in 2023, for which I received more chemotherapy treatment, and in 2024 I received a stem cell transplant, with my sister’s stem cells. There is so much I could say about this experience, which has divided my life into a clear ‘before’ and ‘after’. My perspective as to what really matters has radically changed. Being honest and real with people and respecting my own boundaries (once very flimsy), has become non-negotiable.
My ideas about ‘healing’ have also changed. It is a pretty obvious thing to say, but we are all going to die and none of us know when. Therefore the aim of healing is not to avoid death (or other natural endings in our lives), but to learn how to face them with increasing courage and grace.
Prior to being diagnosed with cancer I was already interested in grief work and completed Sacred Circle’s 12 week course Lost Rites: Ceremony and Ritual for Death and Dying. The fact that I had completed this course helped me in very real ways to face the uncertainties and challenges of my illness. In 2022 I went on to complete a year-long End-of Life Doula preparation training with Sacred Circle. https//www.journeywithdeath.com
I no longer live with the illusion that I am guaranteed a long life. This has given me a lot of clarity regarding what truly matters to me and what doesn’t. Healing intergenerational trauma matters to me. Supporting others to find their way to their version of the inner safety I have found, seems like a good way for me to spend whatever time I have left.
Healing as an Art Form
“The mind is like the wind and the body like the sand: if you want to see how the wind is blowing, you can look at the sand.” – Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
At times, inner work does indeed feel like work. It can be heavy and difficult and awkward and confusing and we can feel hopeless and stuck at times. But as the journey progresses, and we become more skilled at knowing how to meet ourselves in challenging states, the work gradually comes to feel more and more like play. I have come to feel awe for the mystery of the healing process, and I trust it implicitly. Noticing myself and others making progress is exhilarating. With sincere dedication, new possibilities for freedom and joy become available as the years go by.
Like play, the healing process always involves improvisation, risk-taking and the capacity to hang out in that open space where we don’t know exactly what will happen next. For example, one of the most powerful forms of self-healing for me is songwriting. I get to wrestle with the themes and images arising from my subconscious, and bring inner conflicts to a satisfying resolution. I’ve learned that the songwriting process has its own timing. The resolution of the song can’t be forced, but it can be courted.
The hours I have spent on dance floors, exploring Open Floor Movement, Authentic Movement, 5 rhythms, Movement Medicine, CI (contact improvisation) and BMC (Body Mind Centering), have instilled an attitude of profound respect in me for all beings and all bodies. I am fascinated by the relationship between our physical bodies and what we hold in our energetic fields. As part of my own healing journey I’ve found it necessary to approach healing from many different angles e.g. somatically focused work, energetic healing, inner child work, Internal Family Systems, Art Therapy, talk therapy, 1:1 work and group work, and last but not least, deep engagement with the organic intelligence of nature and its cycles.
I encourage my clients to experiment with a broad range of practices and modalities, to follow their own creative impulses, and pay close attention to their dreams.
The spirit in which I offer this work
Like so many people who have chosen the role of ‘healer’ in one form or another, I first entered into the role from a wounded/ immature place. Through trial and error and many humbling learning experiences, I have persevered to find a peaceful and grown-up place within myself from which to offer this work. I am always growing and evolving in my capacity to show up with loving, attuned, non-judgemental, grounded presence.
I have profound respect for all who have the courage to begin to question their conditioned beliefs, get curious about who they might be on deeper levels, and what they might be capable of when they live from their highest values.
The changes I have witnessed in the people I have worked with over longer periods of time, leave me humbled and in awe. The human spirit is so resilient, and capable of profound transformation under the right conditions.
Honouring my ancestors: the ‘witches’ who couldn’t be wise, and the artists who couldn’t create
In this lifetime, in this society I am free to serve my community through embodying the aspects of the healer/ witch/ priestess/ artist / archetypal energies which are so natural to my soul.
I am keenly aware of many past lives where this was not the case, and of the women in my ancestral lineages who could not develop or express the full expanse of who they were.
For all those who couldn’t – I can.
For all those who were not free – I am.
Gratitude to my Teachers
I offer this work a spirit of profound gratitude to the teachers, healers, therapists, mentors and guides whose loving wisdom has helped me overcome so much.
I want to thank Bethany Webster for her book and articles on Discovering the Inner Mother, as well as her excellent online course: https://www.bethanywebster.com
I am deeply grateful to Pete Walker for his clear, compassionate description of Complex PTSD, and his acutely insightful approach to recovery. https://www.pete-walker.com
Roseleen McNally my Reiki and Magnified Healing teacher. For teaching in such a wise, gentle, respectful way. https://thethirstysoul.com
For his life-changing teachings on how to embody heart-centred consciousness, and his life-saving life-giving sense of humour, and complete devotion to love, and for making so many of his teachings accessible for free on Youtube Matt Kahn https://mattkahn.org
To Helen Bohan, a Cork based Open Floor Movement teacher who introduced me to the healing power of movement in community, for many transformational and joyful hours on the dancefloor https://openfloor.org
Gratitude to Annabel du Boulay for her academic and experiential teachings on the Rose Lineage (a gnostic/druidic path). https://theavalonrosechapel.com
To Richard Rudd and the Gene Keys community for these living transmissions that sparkle with magical evolutionary embers and have already taken root in me. https://genekeys.com
Katie Sarra’s Body Poem https://bodypoem.org
Dr. Elaine Aaren for her books on nervous system sensitivity such as The Highly Sensitive Person https://hsperson.com
And huge thanks to my amazing somatic therapist, whose skilled attunement has helped me rewrite my nervous system as well as understand, cherish, nurture and express my vast inner entourage of selves! Through my work with her I have come to profoundly respect the organic wisdom of the body, and of the cycles of nature.
Qualifications & Training
Reiki Levels 1, 2 & 3
Magnified Healing phase 1 https://magnifiedhealing.com
Trained by Roseleen McNally https://thethirstysoul.com
Body Poet Certification, with Katie Sarra
https://www.relationalharmony.institute/bodypoem
Priestess of the Avalon Rose Chapel® https://theavalonrosechapel.com
Compassion Key Practitioner Training (Edward Mannix https://compassionkey.com
End of Life Doula with Sacred Circle CIC (Community Interest Company) https://www.journeywithdeath.com
Certificate in basic counselling skills, Varndean College, Brighton
ITEC Level 3 Diploma in Holistic Therapies: Aromatherapy, Swedish Massage, Reflexology, City College Brighton and Hove
BA Combined Studies: Literary Studies & Philosophy, The University of Manchester Victoria
PGCE: Key Stage 3 English Language and Literature at Key Stage 3, University of East London
MA in Creative Writing for Personal Development University of East Sussex