Artists & Practitioners
All our artists and practitioners work in the community, all of them are women, most of them are mothers, and many of them have been through the Shine course themselves in the past, ensuring this is a really safe, protective and understanding environment…
Becky Kimberley
Becky is a community artist and experienced practitioner with lived experience of anxiety and postnatal depression. Her Creative Women workshops encourage openness and creativity in a warm and inspiring environment, with a focus on healing. She says: “I love bringing wellness and personal confidence to the group through mixed-media creative-play and curiosity!”
Kini @_earth.and.essence
Yoga teacher Kini, brings emodiment and deep self love to her guided sessions. She shares simple activities - deep breathing, meditation, massage and the experience of wonder — which can affect changes in our mood, bringing calm balance to brain and body. Kini’s sessions for Shine lead us through a peaceful journey, including an immersive meditation, with a focus on stimulating our body’s innate wisdom, to bring peace and calm.
Lizzie Bean
A mum, wife, friend, performer, writer, dreamer and believer! Weaving the Beanology magic around the world… a magic that is trauma informed, insightful, empowering, enlightening and wrapped in light and encouragement! An approach to mental health, that’s about inviting all humans… to ignite love for self… so that we can rise from the trickery of our lives… and discover our own shine!
Anna Marshall
Anna runs her Peace & Craft workshops in and around the Cotswolds, and specialises in simple, satisfying crafting sessions with tactile, unusual materials in peaceful inspiring environments. She runs dedicated sessions designed to welcome new mums with babies for some crucial TLC for soul and self in the earliest months of motherhood. She loves working with wire, paper, felt, vintage fabrics, fibres, buttons, corks, feathers, wax or household hardware.
Lindsay Viner
Lindsay is an artist and maker who draws inspiration from the natural world, folk traditions and literature, using symbolism to explore notions of home, place, family, mending and story. She is passionate about encouraging others’ creativity, and about the potential role for art and craft in our mental wellbeing. She says: “I have lived experience of mental health struggles, through which my art and craft provided not only a tool for relaxation but also a means of emotional expression and processing.”
Sadie Rowlands
Sadie is a mosaic artist based at Victoria Works Studios in Chalford. She says: “Sharing and teaching others has become very important to me and a big part of my life. I feel so lucky to work with the mums at Shine. It’s really wonderful to see how much they enjoy working with mosaics and be able to help those who insist they are not artistic to make a piece they are proud of.”
“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.”