About Rod & Martina  

About Martina

"It is possible..."

I have known both the deep opening and the painful ache that relationships can bring. 

My own life and relationships have been some of my greatest places of learning. I have walked through times when I didn't know how to communicate what I was feeling, didn't know how to stay open through challenge, and didn't understand how to create the closeness and intimacy I longed for. I have also experienced the profound love and contentment of being in deep union with my intimate partner.

These experiences have shaped my ongoing enquiry into love and relationship, and what allows us to remain connected to ourselves while opening deeply to another.

My working life began in a very different world. I trained as a Chartered Accountant and worked as a Financial Controller before following a very different path into the study of yoga, meditation, breathwork, rebirthing, energetic healing, shiatsu, tantra, sexuality and emotional healing.

Since 2005, I have worked with thousands of women and men through mentoring, retreats, workshops and embodied experiences exploring intimacy, sexuality, relationship and our connection with ourselves.

For many years, much of this work was offered through Tantric Blossoming. Over time, my own enquiry continued to deepen and my work evolved beyond the framework of tantra into a broader exploration of love, intimacy, trust, embodiment and relationship.

Through all of this, one of the deepest threads in my work has been learning to listen to the body. To trust what we feel and sense, to become curious about what is happening within us, and to recognise the wisdom that becomes available when we slow down enough to listen.

I feel inspired to create spaces where women and men can explore themselves honestly, feel what is present, reconnect with their innate wisdom and remember who they are.

To live from a place of loving awareness.

After more than twenty years of doing this work, I continue to be moved by the same thing:

It is possible.

It is possible for the ways we relate to change.

It is possible to experience greater intimacy, love and trust.

And it is possible to create relationships that deepen and evolve as we do.

About Rod

For much of my life, I carried a quiet sense of not fitting in. 

The cultural idea of what it meant to be a man never sat easily with me. I did many of the things I was taught and told I was supposed to do, and yet a deeper restlessness remained. Some part of me knew there must be another way.

But I saw few examples.

I didn't want to conform to the old, hardened models of masculinity, but I didn't resonate with the newer ones either. So I searched. I travelled. I questioned. I studied and practised, and over time began discovering what felt true for me.

There is another way to be a man.

A way that holds strength without armouring.

Presence without collapse.

Depth while remaining grounded and engaged with life.

My working life began somewhere quite different. I spent more than thirty years as a hairdresser, and looking back, those years taught me much that I now bring to this work.

Every day, people sat in my chair and shared their lives with me. I learned to listen, to notice what wasn't being said, to meet people in their vulnerability and to create a space where they could simply be themselves.

What began as a love of helping women feel beautiful became something deeper: a love of connecting with people, listening to their experiences and being present with what was unfolding in their lives.

Over many years, I have studied and practised in the areas of emotional healing, embodiment, meditation, intimacy and relationship. I continue to learn and deepen my own practice, bringing what I discover into my work with women, men and couples.

At the heart of my work is presence. I support people to slow down, connect with the feeling body and notice what arises. Through breath, sensation and enquiry, we listen to the body's language and create space for healing to unfold.

My own journey continues to remind me that this work isn't about becoming someone else.

It is about meeting what already lives within you and trusting what is true to your nature.