Hi there, my name is Rachael, also known as Raye, to some Rajita Ishaya. As a little person I was called Rachie Roo. Some people call me Ra or Ra Ra. My Grandparents used to call me Rascal. I don’t like being called Rach but don’t worry I won’t hold it against you if you accidentally (or purposefully) do.

In 2023 I was adopted by a stray tabby cat whom is now called Tara. She appeared on the back of my boat one day and never left. I often wonder of her previous life and if she had another name, she wasn’t chipped so we’ll never know. We’ve just moved (June 2025!) from a widebeam river boat to a narrowboat so I can at some point explore Britains beautiful canals.

A bit like Vianne in the film Chocolat, a favourite of mine (she says swooning over Jonny Depp as Roux), as well as being a lover of chocolate and cacao, I often feel that sneaky North Wind blowing me towards new adventures. The call to feel my feet on the ground, get my hands in the Earth, submerge my body in rivers and lakes is strong, my nomadic blood eager to explore the beauty of these and other mythical lands, awakening to the stories and legends of those that have walked before us and weaving new poems and stories along the way.

Here on this website, you’ll find info on my offerings, events, poems and blogs on the Magickal, Mystical and Mundane aspects of life. I invite you to explore your own Presence, to allow your own inner muse to express itself fearlessly, to inspire in you Revelation and a Revolution in Consciousness through connection with a growing community of like-minded Souls, no nonsense Spiritual and Magickal practices, Sanctuaries, Workshops, Poetry and Storytelling Events.

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Part of my Soul’s mission is to help as many people as possible experience the Silence within. Meditation Cafe is the starting point, the foundation on which to expand into offering in person Silent Sanctuaries, that support people to get comfortable meeting themselves in the Silence and to Meditate with more ease. The Silent Revolution, (that Revolution of Consciousness I mentioned), is a Meditation practice with Heart for people that care about this world and the other people in it and whom want to bring more Beauty to this Earth now, not to deny it or escape from it.

As well as being founder of The Silent Revolution, by trade I’m a senior Yoga teacher with 19 years experience, currently teaching in-person and online classes at Whitespace Studio in Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes. I am trained in Hatha, Anusara, Therapeutic and Restorative styles of Yoga. I’ve taught children, OAP’s, body builders, all types of body shapes and sizes and on paddle boards too. I’m also a Holistic Therapist, Shamanic Healing Practitioner and Energy/Card Reader offering different types of Soul Sessions that guide you back to your own Soul’s Wisdom. To find out more about that visit Blue Star Therapies.

If you hadn’t noticed, I like learning new things, taking what works and weaving it all together in whatever way is needed in the moment. The common thread through all my offerings is on guiding people to recognise, experience and get excited about the Silence within them, not just have an intellectual concept of what they think the Silence is. I carry this medicine within me through my Human Design (which I am studying and is currently my special interest!) and my own journey of being a Meditation Monk for five years which involved living first hand with the beauty, the bliss, the pain and the illusions that can all show up when one (often naively) steps wholeheartedly onto a “Spiritual” path.

I hope that my musings help you feel seen, remind you that you are not alone in life’s struggles, that, “This too shall pass”. I’ll remind you to enjoy the spaces in-between any chaos, to get comfortable being uncomfortable. As someone who is very at home in ones inner world, I can tell you that becoming more Present and at home in ones body and the external world is an ongoing practice of Loving Kindness!

We are all in this together, sometimes holding a hand out for others and at other times blindly reaching out for a hand to steady us. May my words of Wisdom act as that steadying hand. May my sharing of my own struggles and overcoming them again and again and again, encourage you to keep going too, to keep putting one foot in front of the other in Faith that the tide always turns and that the Divine is holding us (through the field of Silence) through it all.

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Poems & Blogs

Have fun exploring my content by using the tag cloud at the bottom of this page to find blogs and poems that might interest and inspire you.

You might like to start with the featured one above, Dancing In-between the I’s. It’s had two standing ovations to date as a spoken word piece and is very revealing of my history of anxiety, ptsd, sensory processing disorder and it’s accompanying overwhelm, panic attacks and (ongoing) which has turned out to be challenges of being AuADHD. All this led me to practice and train in Yoga, Meditation and Shamanism as support with these things through the NHS was not available when I was a youth.

On this journey I realised at some point that once I stopped trying to fix my brain (that I lovingly call BRIAN cos’ the A and the I goy mixed up), stopped thinking something was wrong with it/me and that I was somehow broken (as that is the overwhelming message a non-neurotypical child receives), life has become a lot more fun on the good days. Still challenging for sure AND infinitely more Joyful!

If you’re seeking a guide or a muse that already thinks they’re enlightened, please go join the Spiritual Circus. It’s all over Instagram and Facebook and usually costs £999 dollars to join. What you’ll find in me is an ongoing evolution of consciousness, revelations that have arrived through much chaos and trial and error, a living parable, sharing from the Wisdom of direct experience that has often been uncomfortable. And yet here I am.

My poems range full spectrum from Mystical to Mundane. The most requested poem at open mics has been God and Cheese. Most laughs.. Ode to Jeremy Clarkson and Divorcee’s Shame. If you’re of a Spiritual nature, please don’t read Spiritual Bollocks unless you’re able to laugh at yourself. Spirit Imposter has helped at least two people make the choice to go into rehab and it’s also been the one most trolled. Sometimes I’m a mirror that people don’t want to look in. That’s the thing with mirrors. They reflect the shadows as well as the light, which leads to another popular poem, I See You, that I often revisit.

I realised at a very young age I had a knack for writing in rhyme and that I was quite intuitive. These days I love to play with Oracle in Rhyme readings! These are for fun and for the collective consciousness. It is my intention to offer at least one of these a month.

If you’d like a personal Oracle Soul Session, I work with Tarot and Oracle Cards to help you see and shift stuck energies, find clarity, direction and Peace from within.

If you’d like me to write a bespoke poem for you, for a loved one, or for any occasion, or to perform or hold a workshop at an event or festival, please contact me.

Appreciation

Please take a moment to press the “like” button and share in the comments if you enjoy, relate to or are inspired by any of my poems or blogs. It all helps keep the fire of inspiration alive. Know that I very much appreciate your time in reading my posts.

I look forward to connecting with you more deeply in this way through shared words, in the Silence if you join me in Meditation Cafe and maybe someday in person through my in-person offerings and events. Often when I meet people for the first time whom are subscribed to my blogs, they comment on how spot and relevant my musings are to what’s going on for them. I hope you can find some comfort in them too.

BLESSED BE