Siân Marron is trauma-informed Spinal Energetics Practitioner & Coach with expertise in mind-body alignment. She is an ex-probation officer with extensive experience with emotional health issues, who found energy and somatic work in the throes of burnout and anxiety. When it helped her completely heal from a 'lifelong' autoimmune disease, eliminate the anxiety, and get through a difficult divorce, she knew with every cell in body that she'd found her next calling. Now, nothing lights her up more than helping others heal and live brighter, more vibrant lives.
Siân Marron, Spinal Energetics Practitioner & Coach
Introduce yourself! Please tell us about you and your life, so we can get to know you better.
Heeeeey, I’m Siân and I’m a Trauma Informed Spinal Energetics Practitioner & Coach. So happy to be here. Basically, through healing a ‘lifelong’ autoimmune disease (Hashimotos) and debilitating anxiety, I found energy and somatic work. When it helped me reconnect with myself, my body and transform my health, I knew it was my next calling.
I finally gathered the courage to quit my corporate job a couple of years ago and I’ve never looked back. Now, I work with people all over the world and nothing lights me up more than helping people reconnect with their body’s innate wisdom so they can heal, release unprocessed trauma and emotions from their body and ultimately cultivate the peace, self-acceptance and balance they deserve.
What led you to transition from being a probation officer to a trauma-informed Spinal Energetics Practitioner and Coach?
Oh, great question. So, I’d been practicing energy healing alongside my 9-5 for a while and loved it. But, if I’m honest with myself, I couldn’t quite find the courage to go all in on committing to a more ‘non traditional’ career path. However, at the end of 2021, to my surprise, I found myself going through a divorce and my whole life pretty much imploded. One day soon after, I just had this burning knowing that working for the Probation Service wasn’t the way or place I was meant to serve anymore. At the time, I was pretty much living my nightmare which strangely helped me gather some reckless courage to just go after everything that felt right and let go of anything that didn’t. So when my house sold, I quit my corporate job and booked a one way ticket to Peru, as you do. For a lot of people around me, it didn’t make sense but it made perfect sense to me so off I went.
I spent some focused time on reconnecting with myself and dealing with the emotional impact of my divorce. Energy and somatic work gave me the tools and space to actually process the loss and grief I could feel I was holding in my body. It also allowed me to build the safety I needed to release it. As I travelled, clients started coming out of nowhere and very quickly, my love and passion for energy healing was reignited. My practice was evolving and in April 2023, I trained as a Spinal Energetics Practitioner and really, the rest is history. Spinal Energetics felt like a missing puzzle piece to add to my other modalities and is such a powerful way to help people release unprocessed emotion and trauma stored in the body and energy field. It was nothing short of a Godsend for me and I was finally ready to step into my next purpose and be all in with this path.
How did your personal experiences with burnout, anxiety, and autoimmune disease shape your approach to healing and coaching?
I think because I know what it’s like to feel hopeless, ill, stuck, anxious and not knowing where to turn, it helps me connect with other people who know what that feels like too or are living that reality now. I also have a huge amount of compassion for the struggle those symptoms and experiences bring into people’s lives, knowing how heavy and confusing it can all feel.
Looking back now, I realise that I was always looking outside of myself for answers, for someone to save me, for someone to heal me, to love me, to care for me, to take the pain away. Things only truly started to shift with my health and body when I started to look within and genuinely believe that the answers I was seeking weren’t outside of me.
I believe wholeheartedly that everyone has the ability and innate wisdom to heal and thrive. My experiences drive me to want to empower other people to believe that they have everything they need to heal and thrive too. We all however need a little help along the way, whether that be having the space held for us, helping us learn tools to reconnect with ourselves or regulate our nervous system. But, ultimately, when it comes down to it, you have the answers, you are the magic. I want people to come away from working with me with that growing, unshakable knowing.
What advice would you give to someone who is struggling with physical and emotional health issues and feels stuck or overwhelmed?
Oooh, this is a juicy one. I know with every cell in my body that every single person has the ability to heal and feel better. My journey and work brings me back to the same conclusion EVERY single time. Our bodies know exactly what to do to heal, to release and to thrive, we just need to learn to listen and understand what it's trying to tell us. We aren’t however taught how to do this so if you're sat there asking, how the heck do I do that, I hear you.
One of the big realisations for me was that a lot of dis-ease in the body is (in my opinion) driven by unprocessed trauma and emotion. So, if it’s showing up in your physical body, then it’s been around in your field for a while and likely has an emotional or energetic root cause. I am so grateful for people like Gabor Mate, Peter, Levine, Dr Amie Apigian and Irene Lyon who are bringing this knowing and research into mainstream awareness. It was such a game changer for me as well to learn that my body was speaking to me through symptoms and pain, not working against me. I wish someone had told me that my body wasn’t ‘attacking itself; that I wasn’t broken and that I definitely didn’t need to take on the views of other people (including medical professionals) about what I was experiencing not being able to change.
One of my mentors, Caitlin Dianna taught me to question these ‘truths’ and ask myself ‘what else is possible?’. Turns out, the answer is everything. So, if you’re struggling in any way right now, I want you to know that everything is temporary and the answers you are seeking are within. I would also like to invite you to ask yourself today, ‘what else is possible?’ and just notice whether there is a little voice or knowing, no matter how quiet, that echoes back.
How do you help clients learn to listen to and understand their body's signals to achieve healing and balance?
In order to feel, listen and understand our bodies, we have to get to know ourselves through the felt sensation. This means helping people identify sensations in the body and building their awareness and capacity to tolerant and feel them. This was a big one for me and is often a journey for most people, as most of us are disconnected from ourselves and our bodies in some way. It is also essential to get the basics right which means working with our body and nervous system, taking stress out of the body regularly, reducing toxicity and looking at your belief systems.
Unlike a lot of other energy healing modalities which are passive, Spinal Energetics is a collaboration between client and practitioner. I encourage and guide people to reconnect with different parts of themselves using techniques like breathwork and guided somatic exercises. Every session is a safe space where I encourage you to follow your natural impulses, whether that be to move, make noise or release emotions. Spinal Energetics helps us get out of the mind and into the body, which is where the magic happens. With this work, we are not ‘doing to’ a client, we are helping the body to remember what it innately knows to do. It is this inner wisdom and intuition that we are often conditioned to ignore or override. Spinal Energetics gives you the time and opportunity to reconnect with everything that you are and release layers of anything that you are not.
Tell us about a pivotal moment in your life that brought you to where you are today.
When I was a burnt out, extremely anxious, unwell probation officer a few years back, my lovely friend Lucy booked me an energy healing session. I actually thought I was having reflexology but went along after a long day at work one evening. I didn’t have any expectations and nothing physically dramatic happened, but I remember leaving that room feeling peaceful and present for the first time in a very long time.
I didn’t know it at the time but that was the first domino to completely healing from that ‘lifelong’ autoimmune disease and finding a new purpose that makes me feel more alive than I ever have. It’s strange to look back and realise that every single thing that I thought was happening to me was actually happening for me, and was the catalyst for creating the life and health I could’ve only dreamt about back then.
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