JANE EGGINTON
AUTHOR
Jane’s 25 years’ experience writing about travel and wellbeing involved her contributing to a range of media, including print and television. She has regularly contributed to Yoga Magazine for which she wrote about retreats and luxury spa hotels worldwide and is currently editorial director Eat Drink Travel magazine, Ambassador of Somerset and judge of the Travel Media Awards.
Jane is the author and editor of over 40 travel and health books published by The Sunday Times, Reader's Digest and Michelin. Jane had a love of language and communication and a passion for books and travel from an early age. With an MA in English Literature from Queen Mary University of London, she was a winner in The Observer newspaper’s Young Travel Writer of the Year award.
A member of the British Guild of Travel Writers, she has produced glossy, highly illustrated coffee-table books and comprehensive, fact-filled publications, as well as destination articles for international and national magazines and newspapers. As a professional storyteller working for international publishers, listening and expression and attention to detail has always been key to Jane.
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SHAMANIC HEALER
Exploring and connecting to other possibilities and realities is central to Jane’s work. A rollercoaster of lived experiences has taken her to otherworldly places. Having trained in Celtic shamanism in Glastonbury, Jane, who has Scottish and Irish roots, loves how this tradition honours the indigenous wisdom of the British Isles. Her approach gently yet powerfully connects us with spirit, nature, our ancestors and our own bodies and is informed by both her writing and her teaching work.
Jane works as a shamanic healer at Healing Space Hackney as well as virtually. Primal, magic and healing is just one way she describes her intuitive client-led sessions, which involve integration and tools to take away. In her experience the effects on all aspects of our physical; emotional and spiritual wellbeing is powerful. Combining breathing, relaxation and visualisation with dialoguing, clients describe feeling peace and connection as well as clarity, energy and inspiration. Jane loves how clients feel them as incredibly efficient by apparently effortlessly resolving life long issues.
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YOGA TEACHER
Falling inexplicably unconscious and double fracturing her jaw led to Jane training in Face Yoga and Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) treatment. She loves how these therapies can have such incredible effect on our emotional and physical wellbeing. Jane has experienced how trauma to the face is particularly intense, and in the same way that interventions can be profoundly powerful. Bespoke Face Yoga and TMJ sessions at Healing Space Hackney and online are for anyone who has experienced face trauma or pain, either pre or post surgery, as well as for general physical and mental health.
Jane Egginton has been a yoga practitioner for over 25 years. Having trained in the world capital of yoga, Jane’s yoga is holistic, embracing a range of approaches to incorporate meditation, breathing and mindfulness. Safety is paramount; she has intensively trauma training and is qualified in First Aid. Jane has facilitated yoga retreats, workshops and classes worldwide.
As a specialist in health and wellbeing, she has written extensively about yoga and health for a range of publications including Yoga Magazine. Having taught corporate clients at Selfridges, created workshops for people with Severe Mental Illness (SMI) and facilitated and written about retreats around the world, Jane has a wealth of experience that means she can tailor her sessions to individual and group needs.
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CREATIVE COMMUNITY
Jane has created and taught free community yoga sessions in Hackney and worked as a yoga teacher and manager at a leading local mental health charity. Co-creation rooted in place is the way Jane loves to work. Originator of a East London street food market, Hackney Homemade was born on her local high street where her neighbourhood bookshop hosted her and her collective of home-grown creatives.
Developing organically, Jane managed more than 50 stalls, providing charity support and training and organising accessible festivals showcasing local food, drink and live music hosting over 5000 people. The market gave birth to a high street community hub and café, designed by Jane to be desirable and democratic. Not-for-profit Hackney Heart, an interactive public space and venue for workshops, pop-ups and parties was ‘Whatever anyone wanted it to be’. Jane has been named Time Out Person of the Year for her community work in Hackney, her favourite place in the world.
Jane's services are available on a subsides bases according to the circumstances of the individual, organisation or charity.
She donates a proportion of her income to Hackney Night Shelter, working with the community to provide routes out of homelessness for people in need.
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