I am Gauri Algar.
I am a partner and Mother, of two beautiful boys, age 7 and 4, and a baby girl aged 2.
I have been working as a therapist for 10 years, mostly working with systemic family constellations, variations of shamanic healing and ritual, trauma release through Somatics, reframing, and re-parenting.
Most recently I have trained with Terry Real in Relational LIfe Therapy. This modality is deep and powerful and has totally blown me away. It offers such a simple and true language to understand ourselves, I have dived deeper into my own relational trauma and continue to do so through this work. This approach brings such context and depth to relating and to life.It continues to bring more clarity to me as I apply all the teaching more and more to my every day landscape, relating to myself and with my partner and children.
I went through a phase of supporting birth and exploring birth outside the system.From having such powerful, exquisite experiences myself I naturally wanted to expand others understanding too. I got a bit sucked into a strong narrative around free birth and have come out the other side feeling much more balanced and less extreme. Rooting for woman’s own intuitive connection as absolutely the foundations of any birth choices. Any life choices.
I feel honoured to still work with women preparing for and integrating birth. Birth itself for me has been such a strong teacher in understanding myself and the world around me. I believe it to be an open portal for women, a bridge between spirit and life.
I trained in Family Constellations with Petr Malik, who runs some very powerful transformative courses combining tantric intimacy practises with family constellations at a beautiful place called Coed Hills in Wales.
Working with this therapeutic practise changed my life quite dramatically. When I first came across it, many years before meeting Petr, I was feeling very confused and lonely in my life, not knowing how to relate well, or have intimate relationships. There are some very potent constellations I experienced that I still remember very clearly now, that shifted so much inside me, on levels Im not sure are accessible by other means. It is a practise that really can accommodate complete perspective shifts and free us from ancestral blockages, as well as the many we may have just from our own experiencing from our immediate family.
Before delving into the work with Petr I spent a year in a tantric community in Thailand called Agama Yoga, here I taught and learnt about the ancient traditions of tantric yoga. Through strong asana practice, pranayama, education of metaphysical energy systems, the chakras (knowing and feeling them), devotion and ritual. The life style was incredibly liberating and my connection to the deepest parts of myself and my devotion to becoming a pure, balanced being on all levels got so strong. I quite literally felt my heart opening over this time, and came back to England a new woman, this was 12 years ago now!
Dance and movement meditation has always been a very strong part of my own therapeutic practise and I have always and still do dedicate time to it, around the children, and with them. I think it was actually an experience at Agama which unlocked something in my body to be free to move in an energetic flow of expression whilst I was dancing to bhajans (which happened weekly there).
I have deepened in the last years in somatic therapy and learnt Somatic EMDR therapy through The Embody Lab.
The blissful birth experience I received two years ago has been a big part of allowing me this pleasure to really “Be'‘ in a way now, more than I have ever experienced before.
You can watch my birth film on you tube here.
Presently I find myself totally immersed in Relational Life Therapy. It has been a potent journey for me to receive these teaching from Terry Real, providing such a simple and deep formula that really works. It has brought a certain maturity and groundedness to my own systems of awareness in intimacy and relating. Particularly with my beloved and father to my incredible children. We have learnt so much about how we can be closer, live our dreams together and get clear and honest about when we are in disharmony. For me there was so much more there to be seen than I realised. Its profoundly changed our relationship and how we work with any conflicts. Now we repair and come back to love, much quicker. I feel honoured to hold this space now for other couples and excited by this as a revolution in the world of relating and intimacy.
If you resonate with any aspects of my journey and would like to see how we might be able to start working together please do get in touch.