About Hayley (she/her)
Hayley is trained in Sensory Herbalism, Birth Story Medicine ®, Sustainable Horticulture and Natural Family Planning. Over the last 10 years, Hayley has been helping women, menstruators, mothers and caregivers reframe their story, embrace their cyclical nature and restore their health.
Hayley is experienced supporting clients with irregular cycles, amenorrhea, preparing for conception, abortion recovery, pregnancy loss, postpartum, matrescence, motherhood/parenthood, separation, navigating diagnosis/ chronic illness and peri-menopause.
Her work revolves around the herb garden that she has tended since 2016 on the Dartington Estate in South Devon. This is where she grows the herbs available in her apothecary.
The bigger picture
Hayley is here for the messy, rich journey of living through troubled times, in service of remembering of who we truly are, to play a part in co-creating the life-giving future we all need.
Powerful experiences through conception, pregnancy loss and birth have steered her towards a life with mothering and caregiving at the centre ~ not just the holding and caring for children but the centring the caregiving/mothering for all of life.
Hayley is interested in how we can return caregiving, mothering and embodied cyclical understanding to the centre of our values for a more sustainable, earth centring way of life.
She is on a journey to discover the new/old/emerging ways we need to restore connection with our body, soul, cycles and the land that supports us.
Hayley is working to create a menstrual health culture where the cycle is understood as an initiatory pathway to health, wisdom, cultural and ecological restoration.
She wants our threshold experiences related to fertility, conception, pregnancy, pregnancy loss, birth, postpartum, matrescence, motherhood/parenthood and peri-menopause to be understood and honoured for the power and significance they carry for us all.
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A bit about my journey ~ how did I get here?
I arrived to this work steadily through my own journey with crisis and healing whilst navigating the modern world as a highly sensitive, neuro-divergent, empath.
It’s been a journey of learning to value and cultivate my sensitivity, staying with ecological grief whilst cultivating a wide eyed wonder for life and connection with the natural world.
A myriad of health conditions throughout my life, invisible disabilities and neuro-diversity led me to explore what it really means and what it really takes ‘to be well’ in this culture as a highly sensitive woman.
This is an ongoing unlearning / healing journey that continues to bring me into deeper relationship with myself, my body, my cycle, community and land.
My journey teaches me that our physical symptoms are interconnected with our emotional life, psycho-spiritual health, relationships and lifestyle, as well as the wider cultures, systems and ecosystems we live within.
I’ve walked my way in and out of the labyrinth of dis-ease, grief and crisis myself many times. I learnt that deep healing (when we tend to the emotional root causes) is not comfortable or easy.
I’ve also learnt that times of dis-ease, challenge and discomfort can be some of our greatest teachers and thresholds for inner growth.
Formal training
Birth story medicine ® (BSM): Trained Birth Story Listener working with the BSM process. Completed training in 2021 with Pam England as teacher and mentor. Member of the BSM school receiving regular ongoing advanced training and mentoring. Fully insured to offer BSM sessions.
Sensory Herbalism: Completed 3 year herbal Practitioner training with Karen Lawton and Fiona Heckels 2017-2020, qualifying as a Sensory Herb Practitioner in 2020. I have been guiding clients with this healing framework since 2018. Fully insured to practice as a Sensory Herb Practitioner in the UK.
Natural Family Planning (NFP): Certified NFPTA teacher of the Sympto-Thermal practice of Natural Family Planning since 2017. Personally working with the method since 2016 both as both a form of natural contraception and to achieve conception. Mentoring menstruators and couples for greater menstrual awareness and fertility empowerment using this method since 2017. Fully insured to offer this work.
Sustainable Horticulture: Apprentice during 6 month residency at Schumacher College in 2014. Completed Permaculture Design Certificate in 2014. Forest garden training with the Agroforestry Research Trust 2014-2016. Worked as a vegetable and salad grower at School Farm community supported agriculture project 2014-2017.
Architecture and Design: BA Hons Architecture with First class degree, Kingston University, 2005. MArch with Commendation, University of Sheffield, 2009. ARB registered 2013-19. Project Architect for the Community Led Development, Atmos Totnes 2015- 2019. Associate design tutor, The University of Plymouth 2014-2019. Visiting tutor Portsmouth University 2010/11, Hooke Park, Architectural Association 2015/16. 2005 – 2019. Wide range of architectural, landscape design projects and natural playscapes.
Further relevant training & experience
2026 – now:
Co-founding activist at Pesticide Free Dartington.
Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence, The Rehuman School with Dr Cajete and Dr.Lyla June Johnston
Indigenous perspectives on AI, The Rehuman School with Dr.Lyla June Johnston
CPD: Risks and causes of miscarriage up to 14 weeks with Wild Nutrition.
2024 – 2025:
Initiations; a life of ritual with Ancestral Medicine.
Ocean song of sorrow; grief tending for the middle passage & embodied decolonisation for white folks with Sophy Banks & Fran Andre.
Co-founder of Cyclical Motherhood CIC and Cyclical Motherhood podcast.
Where do we go when healing becomes ill? course with Bayo Ackomolafe.
Ancestral lineage healing practices following the framework of Ancestral medicine with Daniel Foor.
Mothers as Natural Leaders course with Looby Macnamara.
Mother Nature Circles holder training with the Mother nature project.
2019 – 2023:
Motherhood. Co-hosting self Employed Mums support group (ongoing).
White women book club (anti-racist group enquiry for white women).
Activism with South Devon Parents for Peace.
Wim Hoff Method training (how to reduce inflammation).
GAPs protocol at Regenerative Cooking School.
Red Tent women’s group.
Feminist Marketing with Kelly Diels.
Patriarchal Motherhood with Dr. Sophie Brock.
PMADs training with The Motherhood Centre, New York. Association for Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology & Health.
Rewilding Mythology with Sophie Strand.
Grief tending with South West Grief Rituals and Grief Tending in Community.
Cyclical business with The Red School.
Bond 6 with Upfront.
Re-villaging with Beth Berry at Revolution from Home.
Trauma Informed Parenting course with Mama Manon.
The Aware Parenting Institute training.
Transformation through Mothering with Marion Rose.
2013 – 2018:
Activate your inner Jaguar with Kimberly Ann Johnson.
The Orphan Wisdom School.
Extinction Rebellion.
The Oxford Real Farming Conference(s).
Wild Mother with Rachael Alaia.
Bird language with Chris Holland.
Shamanic journeying and drum making with Suzi Crockford.
Forest gardening training with Martin Crawford at The Agroforestry Trust.
Wild food and foraging with Ffyona Campbell.
Tools for Conscious Collaboration training.
Listening to the bees at Embercombe.
Beekeeping training with the British Beekeeping Association in 2012 and later, the Natural Beekeeping Trust 2014-2018. 7 year apprenticeship with honeybee colonies and wild bees.
6 months living at Schumacher College.
Friends Of The Earth activist volunteer.
Studio In The Woods.
Volunteering with Shelter.