Biography
Eugenia is a natural facilitator and relentless creative whose purpose is fated to tend to the cycles of life and death.
No stranger to loss, grief and intergenerational trauma, much of her life has been a rebirthing process. Yet, through this adversity, she has cultivated a deep and profound capacity for witnessing and supporting others as they experience the kaleidoscope of what it means to be human.
Eugenia has trained in various Healing Arts; Embodiment Coaching, Mindfulness and Yoga, Reiki and Shamanic Practices, Education and multi-modal Creative Arts including choral, written and mixed-mediums.
Passionate about connectedness, inclusivity and holistic practices that support multidimensional being-ness, Eugenia is committed to championing brave spaces for creative communities.
You can work with Eugenia online and in the physical world - using tools and guidance via her Love Letters (newsletters), Shamanic teaching and practice, workshops, courses & retreats.
Eugenia is neurodivergent and engaged in trauma-informed education and continues to deepening her studies in Animism, energy medicines and mind:body activism.
Having developed unique expertise over her career, Eugenia works at the intersection of Education, Creativity, Wellbeing, Bodywork and Plant Medicine integration. Her commitment to professional development and ongoing learning is an innate passion. She feels her life is one of the eternal student; always interested and curious. Her training and experience include:
Shamanic Teacher, Embracing Shamanism Scotland
Member Edinburgh Ceramic Workshop
Fireside Project Psychedelic Peer Support Line Volunteer
Shamanic Practitioner, Embracing Shamanism Scotland
COSCA Certificate in Counselling Skills
Introduction to Somatic Experiencing (12hrs)
Animist Psychology & Foundations of Ritual, Ancestral Medicine School US
Certified Feminine Embodiment Coach, School of Embodied Arts
Alchemical Cacao Training
Heartblood Cacao Apprenticeship
Total Yoga Nidra Teacher and Facilitator Training Intensive
Well-Woman Training: Yoga therapy for women's health and vital energy
Reiki Certification I, II, IIIa - Martine Salerno
Yoga Alliance 50 hour Yoga Trapeze - YOGABODY
Yoga Alliance 50 hour Yin Yoga - Tribe Academy
Yoga Alliance RYT200 Yoga Teacher - Tribe Academy
Master of Education, University of Melbourne
Graduate Diploma of Education, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Communications and Media Studies, University of Wollongong
Certificate I& II Millinery, Kangan Institute
Diploma of Costume (Film & Theatre), Swinburne University
Eugenia developed a passion for embodied arts and creativity early in life through lessons in Ballet and the Violin. However, in her teens, her love for singing eclipsed her talent for the Violin. She retired the strings after completing 5th Grade AMEB, and instead focussed on performing and touring internationally with the Young Voices of Melbourne, including featuring on several of the choir's music recordings (YVM Christmas (2002); YVM - Y2K (2000); Mixed Fortunes (1999); International A Cappella (1997); and Mostly Australian Songs (1995). In 1998 she was selected for Australia's esteemed Gondwana Choirs and sang on their first-ever music recording, Voices of Gondwana.
Eugenia has returned to Scotland after several years of embodied travel: this included walking the 780km Camino Portuguese; volunteering for 1 month as the live-in cook at Jampa Ling Buddhist Monastery in Ireland; living in Okinawa for 4 months whilst with her partner who was training in Karate; living in the tropics of Australia, and an extended time living and communing with the feminine energies, blessings and island ways of Bali.
She is currently living in her adopted home of Scotland, where she offers client session, workshops, courses, and retreats online and in person.
See the work with me page for more details, or alternatively, send an email via the form below for more information.
A note on Eugenia’s ancestry
Eugenia is born of Slavic, Greco-Italian maternal ancestry and Irish, Flemish, French paternal ancestry. Immigrant, refugee and unknown ancestral histories have informed her interest in her familial folk, shamanic and mystic traditions.
Eugenia respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the stolen land upon where she was born, the homeland of the Wurundjeri willam, of the Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nations.
She recognises that the continent known as Australia was invaded by the British Empire - unceded and without a Treaty - from which continues a 250+ year ongoing campaign of ecological, spiritual, cultural, and racial genocide of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
She is committed to the ongoing personal and collective work of decolonisation and anti-racism education, and reparations.
She honours and profoundly respects the immense wisdom, spiritual knowing and more than 100,000 years of untold continuous living culture, connection to, and custodianship of Country by First Nations Elders past, present, and emerging.
EUGENIA'S PREVIOUS WORK
