About
Jaguar Star
FemiLiminal | Threshold Spaces
I walk the space between worlds.
I accompany people through times of change, loss and transition. Over the past twenty years, this has included work around birth, death, identity shifts, illness, grief, and the slow return to body and meaning after difficult periods.
FemiLiminal is the home of this work. It grew gradually from practice, study, lived experience, and many encounters with thresholds in my own life.
My work sits at the meeting place of body awareness, feminine-centred psychology, trauma-informed practice, creative expression, and the experiential wisdom of folk and ancestral medicine. It has been shaped by long learning, careful listening, and the experiences that have marked my own path.
I work with the intelligence of the body through movement, somatic practice, and simple ritual elements. I am interested in how change, loss and renewal move through a life, and how creative expression through poetry, music, voice and movement can support integration and meaning-making. Ancestral and feminine wisdom, along with earth-based and folk traditions, inform the way I understand healing and transition.
Before I worked in this field, I trained in textiles. I come from a family of weavers and storytellers, and the language of thread, stitching, weaving and story still guides my work today. It reminds me that repair happens slowly, and that new coherence often emerges from what once felt broken.
Who I Am
I have spent much of my life close to the thresholds of birth, death, grief and change, both personally and in my work with others. These experiences have shaped the way I accompany people and the kind of presence I bring to my practice.
I am Jaguar, founder of FemiLiminal. My work draws on embodiment, feminine-centred psychology, somatic and trauma-informed practice, rites of passage, and creative expression through voice and story.
For more than two decades I have accompanied individuals, families and communities through profound passages of life. Again and again, I return to the simple work of staying present while something changes, listening to what the body knows, and trusting the slow intelligence of transition.
Some people use words like threshold guide, shaman or soul midwife for this work. I usually experience it more simply as walking alongside others when familiar ground is shifting, bringing steadiness, attention, and care to what is unfolding.
My work is atuned and attentive, sometimes practical and grounded, sometimes playful, as well as being deeply spiritual. It is shaped by lived experience, long practice, and a respect for both the mystery and the ordinariness of being human.
My Work
My work is rooted in body-based healing, somatic wisdom, and the long lines of ancestral knowledge that have shaped my path. Over many years I have trained across therapeutic and creative traditions, and these threads now meet in a practice that honours the intelligence of the body, the psyche, and the deeper movements of the soul.
My professional foundation includes international training in birth work, bodywork, body psychotherapy and somatic trauma-informed practice, including NARM-informed approaches and ongoing study in Integral Somatic Psychology. I have also been deeply influenced by archetypal and story-based psychological work, including training with Clarissa Pinkola Estés. I am trained in massage therapy and craniosacral bodywork.
Movement practice has been a central part of my life for many years. My background includes long-term engagement with Open Floor/5 Rhythms, contemporary yoga, Butoh immersion trainings internationally, contact improvisation, and Body-Mind Centering approaches. Alongside this, I am a contemporary yoga teacher (200-hour Contemporary Yoga Teacher Training, 100-hour Contemporary and OptiMum Pregnancy Yoga Teacher Training, and 30-hour Yin Yoga Teacher Training) with more than twenty years of personal yoga practice. Further study in breathwork, yoga, and embodied movement continues to shape my work. These form the ground from which my practice continues to grow.
As founder of The Woman School, I developed the SoulBirth Doula Training, a programme that has accompanied many birth companions in the German-speaking world. This work grew through years of practice at thresholds where birth and loss meet, and where bodily knowledge and emotional depth guide the way. I have developed numerous courses around feminine health and wisdom.
At the heart of my work is embodiment and connection. I support individuals and groups in returning to the body’s natural coherence, to intuition, and to the deeper currents that shape transformation. The work draws on:
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experience in birth work, death work, rites of passage, and grief tending
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NARM-informed practice and ongoing study in Integral Somatic Psychology
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craniosacral bodywork, massage therapy, breathwork, and yoga
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creative and expressive practices through voice, story, theatre, creative production, textile art (completion of textile college in early years), and dance
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community work, women’s centres, family support work, facilitation with children, and neurodivergent support
- Teaching, facilitation and group work internationally
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research and lived experience in neurodivergence, women’s health, and ancestral and feminist perspectives
This is a space of remembrance and reclamation. A place to meet the thresholds that shape a life and to walk them with presence. If you are navigating birth, death, loss, feminine rites of passage or creative transformation, I offer grounding, companionship, and a steady field of support as your path unfolds.
My Roots
My path carries the imprint of the lands and lineages that shaped me. Celtic threads in my family run strong and continue to guide my relationship with intuition, song, and the subtle forms of knowing that live in the body. These currents move through my voice, my creative work, and the way I accompany thresholds.
I was born in Aotearoa New Zealand and spent many years living, working, and learning there. The land has been a place of grounding and remembrance for me. My family comes from Germany and England, and my ancestry includes Southern German, British, Irish, Mapuche, Spanish, and Jewish roots. These stories meet in me in ways I continue to explore through ritual, creativity, and ancestral listening.
The death of my father opened a deep passage in my life. It strengthened my commitment to ancestral work and renewed my trust in the subtle ways guidance arrives through land, memory, dream, and song. His passing changed my sense of belonging and called me further into the work I now hold.
I hold gratitude for the lands that formed me and for the people and forces that have walked alongside me. The stars have long been part of my orientation. The earth and my body are where I return for steadiness.
The liminal continues to feel like home. It is where transformation takes shape and where I meet the work again and again.
Meet Simone – Manager & Producer of FemiLiminal
Simone holds the production, management, and organisational backbone of FemiLiminal. His work shapes the sound, imagery, and structure of our projects and supports the field in which FemiLiminal unfolds. He brings a clear eye, a refined ear, and a peaceful presence to everything we create.
For more than thirteen years he has recorded, produced, edited, and supported the development of our work. He creates soundscapes, contributes to visual material, and helps bring ideas into form with care and precision. Retreats, online offerings, collaborative projects, and many layers of our creative process grow through the caring that he brings.
Simone’s background includes more than thirty years in music production, sound work, and vibrational healing. As founder of Sat Sound, his own work explores the relationship between sound, awareness, and the body. He draws on training in craniosacral work, somatic approaches, voice work, and subtle sound therapy.
Simone brings grounding, structure, and rhythm to FemiLiminal. His presence supports the creative field and helps each project find its shape and coherence.
