My Story
Born in Cyprus due to my father being in the military and returning twice more, I was fortunate to spend 8 of my first 12 years there. It felt like a blessed childhood, spending most of my time outdoors with it being sunny for the majority of the year, I felt very connected to nature and at home. At the age of 12 I returned to Scotland, land of my Maternal Ancestors, having spent 3 years there previously, between the ages of 7 and 9.

Growing up I felt very confused by reality, particularly the people around me. What I could see and hear at a surface level was not the same as what I could ‘feel’. It wasn’t until many years later that I discovered I was an empath. What this meant is that I could feel other people’s emotions, I could feel what was going on in their bodies. As a child and teen this was very difficult to cope with, I was perceived as a highly sensitive and emotional child. It also meant I was very aware of others and their emotional needs, always making myself available to be a support, often to the detriment of myself. Without the ability to articulate what was going on for me, I shut down on many levels and spent a lot of time in a fantasy world of my own creation, somewhere I could go to, an escape from this highly confusing and challenging reality. It felt more real to me.

Fast forward to my early twenties, I got involved in a drug and alcohol culture in central Scotland. Again it was an escape from this reality which I found so hard to ground in and accept. I was transported when I danced, attending raves and going outside of time when I was dancing. During this period, I was working as a beauty therapist, during massage, people often told me I had healing hands. I had been given many other signs that healing was my path, looking for something to step into, I trained as a Hypnotherapist. It opened up a lot within me and gave me an understanding of why people often acted the way they did, due to their conditionings from early childhood. I was still involved with drugs and alcohol however and couldn’t see a way out of this. Feeling at odds with my situation and the path ahead, overwhelm got the better of me and eventually at 24 years old, I had a breakdown. Hitting rock bottom, the only way then was up.

Calling out to the universe for help, the help came with clear omens, I had to take a leap and leave Scotland. I set a course for Israel, a country I had visited for a day as a child. During that day trip I recognised and deeply resonated with the land. I felt it was a homecoming. Feeling the call to go back, I began a deep soul searching, it was time to find the meaning of my life.

I had so many lessons while in Israel and let go of old ways and patterns whilst working hard on the kibbutz I was living in. A new lease of energy and lust for living and learning took hold of me. I read many religious texts and teaching stories, searching for answers. The essence of each the same, the common teachings simple. Life opened out into a miraculous adventure, my perceptions changed forever. I found God/Goddess/Existence.

Feeling in the flow, my onward travels took me to New Zealand, I spent a year there, mainly WOOFING. Here I fell back in love with the Earth, with Gaia. Spending much of my time working with the Spirits of nature at various retreat centres in the North and the South Islands. I was guided easily from one place to another, training to Reiki Master Level along the way. Feeling the need for a structured practice in my spiritual life, I was guided to be initiated into a Sufi order by a visiting Sheikh whilst on a dance retreat. Celebrating through poetry, dance, music and singing, the Sufi way resonated deeply with me having always favoured the Sufi teaching stories and poetry. I had always been drawn to the Middle East. 

Returning to England, pulled by an invisible thread, I met my son’s father. Here I worked in various care settings, mainly working with teenagers in care homes until I fell pregnant with my son. He then became my focus as I stepped into Motherhood and learned so much more about myself through the mirror of another. In the early years, I trained as a breastfeeding Counsellor, feeling very passionate to empower women to reconnect to their intuition in this area. My son has been my biggest teacher, motherhood was a path I had vowed never to tread and it has been the most challenging and rewarding adventure to date. We stepped in to home schooling and for many years this has been our way of life. Learning alongside my son I did forest school training, led outdoor based parent and child groups and assisted in my son’s Kindergarten. I also enjoyed doing various herbal courses and a diploma in Natural Nutrition.

Guided to step fully back on to the healing path I had always been on, I was moved to complete a 2 year Shamanic Practitioner training in 2011-13 with Chetna Lawless. This brought together for me all the previous training and work I had completed up until that point, making sense of the path that I had always been on, this was it. Since that time I have continued to assist with all of her workshops including the Shamanic Practitioner training, going deeper with the work all the time. I am also listed on www.shamaniclearning.com, the Alliance of Practitioners trained by Chetna and myself who are currently practicing. I am also a member of the Laughing Rainbow Mystery School co-founded by Chetna in 1987, and listed on www.laughingrainbow.org as a Colour Ray Practitioner.

Searching for a shamanic trance dance training in 2015 I found the School of Ecstatic Movement, feeling drawn to this method which was in-line with how dance had always been for me, an ecstatic meditation rather than a social event, I jumped at the opportunity to train in the Ecstatic Awakening Dance method with the School of Ecstatic Movement, becoming a certified teacher.

In 2016 I completed the Two Year Teacher Training program with Sandra Ingerman, a world renowned teacher and author in the Shamanic community. My work resonates deeply with her teachings, bringing in the new energies that are birthing at this time. I am listed on her website: www.shamanicteachers.com.

“Rahima Ferguson is a brilliant shamanic teacher who shares deep shamanic teachings from the wealth of her experience. She is very clear and focused as a teacher and communicator and is seen by her students as a strong, calm presence in the midst of change. Anyone who studies with Rahima will receive great benefit!”

Sandra Ingerman
World-renowned shamanic teacher and author of 12 books

Great changes are happening on the Earth at this time and have been for quite a long time.
Many people are awakening to their innate potential. Seeing that much greater possibilities exist for them individually and for us all as a collective.

Through the power of the internet we are much more connected to one another all over the globe than we ever have been in our known history. Yet many are still feeling a lot of disconnect from their own bodies and from the earth itself.

Now is the time for us to heal. To clear the traumas and patterns of our past and make the shadow visible. It’s time to “know thyself”. It’s time to clear our ancestral lines and release the stored history that is no longer serving us. If not now, when?

As we come in to alignment with our true being, becoming whole, looking through new eyes, we start to see the world from a different perspective. Seeing beauty, celebrating our aliveness, playing more and finding balance. We create consciously, planting seeds of love, harmony, ease, trust, peace and joy. We live a more conscious and meaningful life.