Sep 27, 2022
Montserrat Ruiz Puigdomenech
Spanish-born Soul worker, Mentor, Doula, Childbirth Activist, Singer & Psychotherapist running a private practice in the conservatory of a wooden self-built house at the end of some woods in Brighton UK, since 2012.
Personal human deepening has always been at the core of her purpose and commitment in life since she was very young.
Before Montserrat arrived in the UK in 1993, she pursued a career in acting after graduating from Drama school in Madrid and Buenos Aires.
In 1996 after becoming a mother, taken she became a Doula and a Holistic Childbirth Educator (Birth assistant) that was my contribution to reclaiming Childbirth out of the Medical profession hands and back onto Women’s bodies and wisdom.
From 2002 till 2012 while a single parent of two, Montserrat managed, directed and fronted a nine-piece international musical project called LaXuLa who achieved great success with gigs all over Europe including the Roundhouse in London.
Since 2013 when she finished her studies as a Therapeutic Counsellor she has been running a private practice at home. With a wealth of clinical work experience in a wide range of issues like Death, Bereavement & Grief, CPTSD, Narcissistic Abuse, Women’s issues, Men’s issues, Couples therapy, Grief Groups, Wilderness rites of Passage, Initiation, Crisis, Psychodelic Integration.
With interests in Shamanism, Psychedelic & MDMA guided Therapies, Eco-psychology, Mythology and Jungian Archetypal Psychology, she has taken part in and begun to facilitate Wilderness Fasting rites of passage.
In Montserrat’s words
‘I’ve had the honour to have learned by the feet of great human Maestros and Elders of our times some in person like Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Dr Martin Shaw, Stephen Jenkinson, Michel Odent & Meredith Little, to just name a few, and many others that equally have influenced my life and work greatly through their written legacy like Petruska Clarkson, Francis Weller, Antonio Escohotado, Carlos Castaneda, Fritz Pearls, R.D. Laing, Alan Watts, James Hillman, Starhawk, Vicky Noble, Khrisnamurty, Martin Prechtel, Eric From, Carl Jung, Antonio Machado among many many others to which I am eternally indebted.’
For further details please visit http://www.theliminaltrails.com/
and the Facebook page for her wonderful music. https://www.facebook.com/jaggedmountainlaxula
To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland
and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk
For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com
Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music