About Iain
How it began
I came to healing work through trying to understand experiences that were happening in my own body and life.
Around a decade ago, after taking up meditation and yoga, I began experiencing strong shaking and tremoring in my body alongside powerful sensations of energy and periods of emotional processing. Rather than being frightened by what was happening, I became intensely curious about it.
That curiosity led me through yoga, Tai Chi and Qigong and towards Western approaches concerned with the relationship between the body, emotion and character. I became particularly interested in the work of Wilhelm Reich and, later, Barbara Brennan.
The Barbara Brennan tradition
In 2015 I began seeing an energy healer trained in the Brennan tradition and worked with them over an extended period. Experiencing the work from the client side had a profound influence on me.
I began practising informally with friends and family and in 2019 trained with Rebecca Donaghue, a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing.
Listening and intuition
I have been a musician for most of my life and release experimental music as Effective Dreaming. When I first began healing work I recognised something familiar in the quality of attention it required: very similar to improvisation, where conscious effort becomes quieter and you listen closely enough to respond to what is actually unfolding. Sound gradually became part of my one-to-one practice as well as a separate strand of my work.
How the work has changed
When I began, I would have described what I did straightforwardly as energy healing. Energy is still part of how I experience sessions, but my work has gradually become broader and less tied to a single explanation.
Today I bring together talking, hands-on work, sound, embodied attention and intuitive energy practice. I am less interested in deciding exactly what a session is than in paying attention to what is happening for the person in front of me.
Glasgow Soundbath
I also run Glasgow Soundbath, offering regular group soundbath sessions in spaces across Glasgow and the surrounding area. The soundbath work is a separate practice, although many years of working closely with sound, silence and attention naturally inform the way I work one to one.
Book a session
One-to-one sessions are 90 minutes and cost £120. If you would like to arrange a session, or ask something before deciding, you are very welcome to get in touch.