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Bio of Anastasia (Rebecca Verrall)
-Anastasia, born Rebecca Anastasia Verrall, entered into this world in the south of England in 1988 and spent the first 6 years of her life in the counties; West Sussex and Surrey. When her Irish grandfather Sam passed away in 1994, her family moved across the Irish sea to care for her Grandmother, Stella, in Co. Wexford, south east Ireland. Anastasia grew up in the countryside close to the coast and just "down the road" you would find Tintern Abbey. She spent much of her childhood exploring the woodland in Tintern with her siblings and summers at Saltmills beach crab fishing with their Polish grandad, Leonard (Lenny the Pole).
-Anastasia was always very curious with the world around her and recalls a memory of seeing the presence of a cosmic light being while in school, only to be told it was just her imagination. Years to come she started witnessing these same beings of light, which activated that memory from her earlier years. As a young girl she had a dream of having a little leather pouch of oils and tinctures to carry with her incase of any emergency which inspired her to collect Mind, Body, Spirit magazines when she was 12.
-At 13 years old in 2002, her parents separated. When her mother, Lindsay, moved out, her siblings and herself remained in the family home with their father, Dominic, until the age of 17. This was quite an old cottage (200 years+) which had many spirit visitors, these would be heard by her sister Emily and herself at night. That summer she read Neale Donald Walsches
"Conversations with God for Teenagers" which was a great support for her during the grief of her mother leaving and holding on to the trust of loves presence. This book later on revealed itself to have been the seed for her MA thesis "Is the Therapists Love for their Client the Agent of Change?"
-In 2006 while studying for her leaving cert, Anastasia became very ill and close to death with Crohn's disease. Picking up from her 12year old selfs dream, she studied aromatherapy while recovering in 2007. After 12 surgeries, and a colostomy bag for 4 years, Anastasia seeked help from a Shamanic practitioner 2011 who guided her to change her diet and release guilt and anger from her gut. This was life changing.
-Anastasia completed her 4 year Fine Art Degree in 2012 with no colostomy bag and a large passionate body of paintings exploring the gentle nature within the males masculinity and sexuality. After graduating she went on to being abused by one of the male models from this body of art work. Life became dark for a while and her social anxiety became increasingly disruptive to her life. "Everything I approach in this life, I get brought to a deeper depth of understanding by experiencing its polar opposite... that is the nature of my alchemist soul. This is not a path for everyone, you must be willing to not identify with the suffering while also having reverance for the part of self that is experiencing it. It takes a broad conscious understanding or it becomes one of two things, bypassing or attachment to suffering."
- In 2014 Anastasia went into working with adults with learning disabilities in a community arts and craft project for 2 years. This followed with working with the elderly and then in 2018 Anastasia trained and received her Masters qualification in Art Psychotherapy. During the 3 years of study Anastasia attended weekly personal art therapy sessions, workshops, group therapy and experienced profound healing. Anastasia came to learn much about the collective/unified consciousness at work in her observations with clients. This was brought forward into her training and practice in innerdance which was very much inspired by her Kundalini awakening in 2021/2022 while chanting and surrendering to the light. It was unknown to her, what a kundalini awakening actually was at the time only to learn that she had experienced this as a toddler. And hence her life of unending alchemy.
-From this time on she became very much engaged with ancient sacred sites in Ireland and learning from elders. She started to embrace her channeling of the ancient ancestors at these sites and in other settings.
-Anastasia holds annual Rose Dieta groups informed by her connection with the Rose and certain biblical figures at the age of 16. As well as this she holds regular -opening alignment- sessions which are evolved innerdance sessions. Prayer circles, clay and art workshops exploring our inner self and has cofacilitated retreats in Ireland.
-Anastasia is now exploring where her heart soul leads her... and is of no fixed abode.