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Hi! I am Dilan (he/it), an ‘un’settler witch who reclaims magic to connect and heal with body-matter-and-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 and respect clients with religious beliefs.

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, 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, learning and drawing from 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 education, critical tech politics, gaming, trauma healing, herbalist, and energy healing communities; and continue to be humbled while deepening my knowledge 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 physical and energetic 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 90 min and includes 15 min consultation, aftercare, and optional mini-divination message. Apprentice Rates: Pay per your means on a sliding scale. Suggested donation: £35…

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.

divinatory play

A playful and embodied in-depth tarot card reading or divination session grounded in respectful land relations. Connects you with land spirits and empowers you with earthy magic. 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. Present your problem. 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. 90 min. £90.

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