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Hi! I am Dilan (he/it), an ‘un’settler witch who reclaims magic to connect and heal with body-mind-spirit as seamless extensions of the land. I live in Exeter, England, and work with clients all over the world.

I am passionate about (re-)politicising witchcrafts and using them for holistic healing (or unsettling) of our settler societies afflicted by physical, mental and spiritual symptoms of ecological devastation, social oppression, and resulting intergenerational trauma.

I always work with the principles of informed consent and do-no-harm. I am not religious and tend to distinguish religion from spirituality and magic; but I welcome clients of varying beliefs, including those who are religious and those who feel sceptical about magic or witchcrafts. Healthy questioning of all phenomena is key in my experience. With this, I encourage you to keep an open mind about some of the less conventional healing crafts I offer.

I weave massage, bodywork, and psychic techniques of divination and trance with over 12 years of experience developing my politicised practice and philosophy of spirituality, magical knowledge, sexuality, tech and law. Through this, I have evolved a unique ‘unsettling’ approach to witchcrafts, power, land/ecology and holistic healing, with which I guide, mentor and educate. I have lived across Western Europe and South Asia and have a syncretic orientation influenced by the Eurasian mystical traditions of sufism, old norse magic, vāmā tantra and druidry. At the same time, I am deeply reflective and critical of the assimilation of these traditions in white supremacy, casteism, fascism, gender and settler cultures.

I am active in queer magical, land justice, anticolonial ed, critical tech politics, gaming, sexual wellness, energywork, trauma healing, and herbalist communities; and continue to be humbled while deepening my experience and skills.

I have not felt this relaxed and refreshed in years. Really. Dilan massages with such care and deliberation, with such attention to the needs of the body and mind. I felt extremely comfortable throughout and left feeling a deep sense of bliss. At the end of the massage, Dilan spoke to me about what my body communicated to him and that really helped me understand why I had been feeling tension in particular areas and how to take care of myself. I highly recommend!

— NORA, ACADEMIC

The best massage I’ve ever had. After years of different recommendation for different styles it was such a relief to have Dilan be sensitive without the tick-box exercise and make me feel better in soul and body. I was always sensitive to ribs massage and worried about whether I was giving too much or not enough attention to chronic pain but Dilan works different. A good massage will remind you of your problems; Dilan makes you better.

— BARNEY, PROGRAMMER

massage & bodywork

Massage should not be seen as a luxury, but is a healing modality that has the power to reconnect us to our body and spirit. This offering includes healing massage for back, legs, arms, shoulders and neck. Booking duration is 105 min which includes 90 min massage and 15 min consultation, aftercare, and optional mini-divination message. Your comfort and privacy shall always be respected.

recommended for:

— people looking to explore the relationship between mental health, psychic trauma, and their physical bodies.

— queer and/or people of colour who have been forced to disconnect from their bodies under oppressive norms of gender, colonialism, and sexuality.

— intellectual and cultural workers like academics, researchers, designers, writers, coders etc. whose work may push them to be more in their heads than in their bodies.

— people looking to sink in, ground and connect with their bodies physically and spiritually.

woods & wandcrafts

Healing by connecting with the landspirits of the woods and heath/fells/bog/moor/river beings in England & Wales & learning the crafts of wandmaking and use.

In-person offering that weaves Ogham teachings and divination with decolonising psychosomatic and therapeutic practices. Calm overthinking and analysis paralysis, heighten your intuition, and harness your unsettling witch power in connection with the land. Claim your wand and your relationship with the woods. And get ready to enact personal-political change.

More information coming soon, subscribe to my mailing list for updates.

trancework

A unique approach to trancework that combines astrological insights with techniques of hypnotherapy.

Sometimes we are aware of misalignments and even the kind of shifts we may need, but cannot seem to actually take the steps to enact change to move into the place we want to be. Trancework and hypnotherapy can offer some insightful pathways here; however much of its discourse has been colonised and appropriated by settler and imperial cultures which create fascination or fear of trance and hypnosis by falsely framing it as “mind-control.” These stories must be challenged.

Unlike these settler approaches, my approach to trancework is unsettling. It involves a guided descent into a state of deep relaxation: Here, the mind calms so that one can access the body’s deep knowledge to enact change. I understand the body as an extension of the land and the Earth, which is adept at navigating and living in quantum states. In this sense, trancework may be understood as a process of reality shifting through interdimensional travel rooted in quantum physics… and thus coming back to wonders of the land and the Earth.

Each session is highly personalised and designed for your unique needs based upon our consultations and discussion. I also weave in astrological insights from your birth chart into each session to ensure depth and direction in our work together. Conducted in person or online. 100% confidential.

recommended for:

— people feeling stuck, stressed or anxious or a loss of creativity, motivation or life juice….

— those looking to strengthen their manifestation powers, or enact astrological insights into their day-to-day lives.

— people ready to create new fulfilling habits or to release old habits they know are not serving them, eg. procrastination, overthinking, smoking, lack of exercise, fearful, scarcity or precarious thinking about money and finances etc.

— those looking to experience perspective and reality shifts and feel more connected to their bodies and Earth time or polychronic cultures (as opposed to capitalism- and empire- ordained times, or monochronic cultures).

erotics

Eros is a potent power of life-death on Earth. But the persistent shaming and appropriation of desire, pleasure and sexuality for control in our settler societies often results in this power feeling like a burden– blocked, inaccessible, or “too much.”

My fun and experimental approach to erotics seeks to help you discover self-pleasure and reconnect with your desires through open, non-judgmental conversation about your needs, experiences, and power. Depending on our discussion, we may also explore playful guided masturbation that brings us back into our bodies. The process intends to facilitate a shift in perspective regarding sexuality and establish a loving and connected masturbation ritual in order to be in your raw erotic power that energises all areas of your life. Learn tools for exploring your desires deeper and challenging the compartmentalisation between the ‘erotic’ and the rest of our lives.

As in all my offerings, awareness of power dynamics and your experiences and safety through an unsettling witchcrafts approach will be key. Techniques of roleplaying, visualisation, touch, and/or trancework may be employed based on our discussions and mutual informed consent.

This offering is currently only open to Returning Massage & Bodywork Clients, and offered for queer people aged 31 years and above only. Kink-, tech- & porn-friendly and inclusive of all genders and body types. Together, we shall create a light and joyful space free of shame and judgment for playful exploration. Informed by tantric practices but without the gendered bits. 100% confidential.

recommended for:

— people looking to improve their sexual well-being and healing.

— those seeking to explore their sexualities and/or reduce shame, fear or guilt around sex, pleasure, sensuality, or touch.

— people looking to create loving and joyful relationships of touch and eroticism with themselves and others.

— those looking to explore embodied queerness and/or the material-political-spiritual dimensions of sex and sexuality as rooted in the land through our bodies.

death & other lives

support for grief, transitions, and past life therapy. more info coming soon.

journey: divinatory play

A unique approach to divination involving tarot, runes, astrology, bibliomancy, capnomancy, pendulum, or a combination of some of these divinatory techniques. Rooted in embodied playfulness and grounded in respectful land relations. Connects you with land spirits and empowers you with earthy magic.

The offering involves a session of Journey, a game with roleplaying elements that has the ability to intentionally engage 7 dimensions and offer healing perspective shifts with regard to a problem or issue you want to present and play through the game. The divinatory play method engaged in Journey has evolved with 26 years of astrology, 6 years of tarot and 3 years of runic research and practice as well as research at the intersection of quantum physics, law and social sciences and experience drawn from a year-long UKRI project on more-than-human relations, tech, and divinatory play.

Offers spiritual counsel for your struggles or for introspection and inspiration. Includes grounding meditation, non-linear temporal work, gaming and journaling prompts to help your personal-political journey in an increasingly chaotic world. Create a Journey character. Present your problem through the character. Receive guidance for your work, relationships or creative path. Address grief, death, the pain of structural violence or anxieties around climate change. Co-create what you want to live and leave for those who come after.

You will be welcomed into a caring non-judgmental space for communing with the land spirits and finding vocabularies for your experiences and feelings. 100% confidential. Online Offering with intention setting, play session, and post-session check-in.

Also, monthly group Journey offering coming soon, subscribe to my mailing list for updates.

Sessions with Dilan are therapeutic and empowering. He helps his clients find their voice and, sometimes to even go for the things that they have been intuitively intent on since ages. I told him once that he helps me help myself and that cannot be closer to the truth. The fact remains that through his sessions, he carefully nudges his clients towards decision making, all the while looking at the bigger goals of life. It helps that he somehow fortifies the individual agency and confidence building that at some point get lost in a labyrinth of anxiety and negative thought spiral. He is a sounding board that I always look up to.

— SA, LAWYER

I have reached out to Dilan at many low and high points, for some guidance or magic or for feeling seen. My last consultation with him was in the middle of a particularly dark period. Dilan’s reading gave me some stillness and strength even when I could not conceive its reach. I found myself repeatedly listening to our session recording, on walks on the beach, stealing away time to revel in the shocking clarity of the words. Ultimately, Dilan has taught me to honor my own magic and continue on this path of trusting in the alchemy of time and intuition.

— SPIROGYRA, ARTIST