Welcome
Here you’ll find poetry, stories & compassionate truth-telling about the strange, beautiful and sometimes bewildering experience of being human.
I’m Rachael “Raye” White… Poet, Meditation and Yoga teacher, Shamanic practitioner, curious human, also known as The Bendy Witch.
This is a place for exploring the magickal and the mundane: neurodivergence, creativity, spirituality, relationships, the nervous system, consciousness, nature, belonging and all the unexpected places life takes us.
Sometimes I explore through poetry. Sometimes through stories. Sometimes through questions I don’t have neat answers to.
Underneath it all is an invitation:
How do we return to ourselves?
Wander awhile…
READ
Poetry, stories & musings
Come wandering through poems, Haiku Villages and longer reflections on human experience… from the profound to the ridiculous, and occasionally both at once.
PRACTICE
Heart Words, Meditation & Yoga
Practices for coming out of the noise and back into relationship with yourself.
Heart Words, meditation, breath, movement and yoga offer different doorways into the same place:
Home to your Self.
CONNECT
Gatherings, conversations & events
Some things are best explored together.
Join me online for Meditation Café, or discover gatherings, creative events and other opportunities to meet in real life.
A little about me
I’m a late-diagnosed AuDHDer who spent many years wondering why I experienced the world quite so intensely.
Along the way I’ve been a Meditation teacher, Yoga teacher, Poet, Holistic and Shamanic practitioner, spiritual seeker and for five years I was a Meditating Monk!
I’ve encountered some extraordinary wisdom and fallen through a few spiritual trapdoors.
These days I’m less interested in telling people how they should live and much more interested in creating spaces where we can become quiet enough to hear our own wisdom.
I live aboard a narrowboat called White Tara in the Nene Valley with my cat, also Tara, where much of what you find here is written.
The sunsets are Divine.
Letters from The Bendy Witch
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Come as you are.
Read a poem. Sit in silence. Ask a difficult question. Have a laugh.
Perhaps something you find here will help you recognise something you already knew.
Welcome it all.
