Ausangate, Peru
Her Story
She didn't set out to become
a musician.
Helen grew up in England wanting to sing, convinced she couldn't. She performed for love the only way she knew how — perfect grades, the right achievements, doing everything to be enough. It wasn't. In her twenties, struggling with an eating disorder and a growing sense of lostness, something had to break.
It did. And music was there.
"I was so unexpressed — and hence probably quite depressed. Suddenly I felt expressed, and it was like: wow."
What followed was a decade of following the thread: yoga, bhakti, kirtan in Brighton, her first ayahuasca ceremony at thirty, and a guitar she taught herself to play "like a toy." She learned to sing in the way she'd always needed to — not for grades, not for approval, but because it felt like everything.
That thread led her to the Amazon, to three months of deep dieta at Nihue Rao with Maestro Ricardo Amaringo — one of the most respected Shipibo elders alive — and then to the Sacred Valley of the Andes, where she spent two years embedded in ceremony, kirtan, and the slow, daily practice of becoming herself.
She is now based near Brighton, UK, and offers her work to anyone ready to find their own voice — and through it, something they've been missing.
Lineage & Training
- 3-month plant dieta — Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual, Peru
- Under the tutelage of Maestro Ricardo Amaringo, Shipibo elder (40 years)
- Master plant: Shihuahaco — completed winter 2024
- 3 months volunteer facilitation, ayahuasca ceremony work
- 2 years in the Sacred Valley — kirtan, ceremony, community
- Former French educator, yoga teacher, bodyworker, physiotherapy
