Nancy Zein
Shamanic Practice & Sound Healing
Based in Battersea London
My Story
I believe we all carry the ability to heal within us. But sometimes life brings us to a place where we need more than willpower, we need a guide, a safe space, and the courage to go inward.
I came to shamanic healing through my own grief. After losing someone I loved deeply, I found myself carrying a weight I didn't know how to put down. I tried different approaches, but it was shamanic practice that truly reached me. Not as a quick fix but as a path that asked something real of me. Dedication. Vulnerability. A willingness to own my healing and do the work. Over time, that path brought me back to myself, and to my true purpose.
That journey is at the heart of everything I do. When I sit with a client, I bring not just training and experience, but lived understanding of what it is to carry something heavy and the deep respect that comes from knowing what it takes to begin.
I grew up between two cultures (Egyptian and Irish) and that blend has shaped my practice from the beginning. Moving between different ancestral traditions and ways of understanding the world taught me early that each person's healing path is entirely their own.
For over 15 years, Battersea has been my home. I feel genuinely privileged to live and practise in a city as rich and diverse as London, that openness, curiosity, and respect for different stories is woven into how I hold space.
I was initiated into shamanic practices over six years ago, and since then I've dedicated myself to creating grounded, supportive spaces where clients can release what no longer serves them and reconnect with what does.
Over time, I've also fallen in love with the depth that sound healing brings weaving drums, rattles, tuning forks, and singing bowls into my work to ease the mind, restore the body, and realign the energy system.
Alongside my private practice in Battersea, I hold sessions at Oca London in Bermondsey and online, I host in-person and online ceremonies honouring the cycles of the moon.
It would be a true pleasure to support you on your healing journey.
Healing Approach
Healing begins with feeling safe enough to be honest about where you are, that is always where we start.
I am told that I have a grounding, nurturing presence and I hold that as one of the most important parts of my work. Before anything else happens in a session, you need to feel held. Heard. Safe enough to let your guard down and begin to explore what is really going on beneath the surface.
Every session begins with deep listening, I give you time and space to share what has brought you, and I pay close attention not just to the words, but to what lies beneath them. Together we begin to understand what your system most needs, and from there the healing unfolds intuitively.
No two sessions are ever the same. Each one is shaped entirely around you, your history, your needs, and what is present for you on that day.
I work with shamanic healing, sound therapy, chakra rebalancing, and tarot guidance often weaving these together as the session calls for it.
What we work on, and how, emerges from what you bring. Some clients come knowing exactly what they want to address. Others arrive simply knowing that something needs to shift, and that is equally valid the work has a way of revealing what is ready to be seen.
Shamanic work invites support from compassionate helping spirits to bring insight, balance, and restoration working on the emotional, energetic, ancestral, and spiritual layers of who we are. Each session unfolds intuitively, shaped entirely around what you bring.
Sound is a powerful tool for clearing and rebalancing the energy body. Using instruments such as drums, rattles, tuning forks, gongs, and singing bowls we encourage what's stuck or stagnant to release, allowing your system to find ease and flow again. Many clients experience deep relaxation, clarity, and a renewed sense of presence after just one session.
When helpful, I weave Tarot or Oracle cards into a session to offer gentle insight, surface unconscious patterns, and help us understand where your energy and attention are most needed. I also offer standalone 1:1 readings via Zoom a gentle space for reflection and guidance.
I offer a free 30-minute introductory call, a chance to ask questions, get a feel for the work, and see whether we're a good fit. There is no obligation, just a conversation.
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1:1 Offering
Chakra & Energy Balance
45 min · £65
Life moves fast, and sometimes our energy can't keep up.
This 45-minute chakra rebalancing session offers a gentle reset, working through your seven main energy centres to release tension, restore harmony, and help you feel more grounded and connected again.
No prior experience needed, just a willingness to slow down and tune in.
Sessions are available online.
Shamanic Practice Healing
2 hrs · £110
Shamanic healing has been used for thousands of years to support the deepest layers of who we are emotional, energetic, ancestral, and spiritual.
This extended session offers you the time and space to go gently beneath the surface and begin to release what may have been weighing on you for a long time.
Together we explore what's present for you, whether that's energetic blockages, emotional heaviness, recurring life patterns, or inherited influences you've carried without realising and work with compassionate, intuitive methods to bring balance back into your system.
No two sessions are alike, yours will unfold exactly as it needs to.
Sessions are available online.
Nancy Zein is not a licensed mental health professional and sessions are intended to support your personal growth and well-being but are not a substitute for professional mental health care.
Tarot
Guidance
30 min · £45
Sometimes we already know what we need, we just need the right space to hear it.
This 30-minute tarot guidance session uses the cards as a gentle prompt for self-reflection, helping you to recognise patterns, gain perspective, and reconnect with what feels true for you.
Come with an open mind and a question you've been sitting with.
Sessions are online only.
Sound Healing Session
75 min · £95
Sometimes the most healing thing you can do is simply stop and let yourself be held by sound.
This 1:1 sound bath is a deeply restorative, full-body experience.
You lie down, relax, and allow the layered vibrations of shamanic drum, rattles, singing bowls, tuning forks, and gong to wash gently over you. Softening what's tight, clearing what's stuck, and bringing you back to a place of calm and inner clarity.
Each session is played intuitively and tailored to what you need on the day, so no two sessions are ever quite the same.
Especially supportive if you've been feeling overwhelmed, burnt out, or disconnected from yourself.
Sessions are available online.
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Events
Join me and our online community as we honour the phases of the moon.
I'll be pulling Tarot cards for guidance, help you relax with a sound bath to get you ready to take you on a guided Shamanic Journey to connect with our spirit allies.
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Soundbath
Group sessions
I hold weekly Sound Baths at Oca London, a hidden sanctuary nestled in Bermondsey.
Every Thursday at 19:45 and every Sunday at 19:00.
In collaboration with Gabi, we also bring together Cacao Ceremonies, Women's Circles, and Moon Ceremonies at Oca throughout the year.
Find us at Decima Studios, 17–19 Decima Street, Bermondsey, London SE1 4QR.
Head to the Oca London website for the full events calendar.
Ceremonies
~ NS
"I’ve had 3 healing sessions with Nancy. In each of these sessions I felt I was held in a safe space from the moment I stepped in to her space. Nancy’s warm and calm manner helps you explore and clarify what to work on together. She meets you where you are, is very present and listens with intent. After the session, she gives you time to process and discuss with her what came up for you, as well as reflect back to previous sessions if there are any patterns or themes worth noting. Nancy’s authenticity and grace really are heartwarming and allow you to connect with energies and powers you didn’t know you had access to before, I would not hesitate to recommend her to anyone and plan on having regular sessions with her!"
~ GR
"The healing sessions I've had with Nancy have been an amazing experience and really appreciated the time and that with each session we got deeper. I felt really held and trust Nancy with the healing process."
~ JB
"I felt connection with true safety and that I was in caring hands. I feel like I could sleep for a month after my Charka rebalancing with Nancy and that there was a lot ready to be released bringing me into connection with the support around me, around us. Felt like I was in safe and genuinely caring hands"
Summer Solstice: The Peak, the Pause, and the Turn
There is a moment at the height of summer easy to miss if you're not paying attention, where everything seems to hold its breath.
The Summer Solstice, the longest day, the point in the year when the sun reaches its fullest expression, when light is at its most abundant and quietly begins its slow return.
I find this moment deeply moving. Not because it signals an ending, though in a way it does, but because it asks something of us. It asks us to be here, to be fully and completely here.
In shamanic traditions and in the ancestral wisdom of so many cultures, the solstice is not merely an astronomical event, it's a threshold, a sacred turning point in the great wheel of the year. The sun at its peak is understood as a time of culmination when what we have been growing since the seeds of intention were planted at the winter solstice, nurtured through the quiet of spring reaches its moment of fullest light.
What has been growing in you this year?
This is the question I find myself sitting with each June, not in a pressure-laden or judgmental way, but as a gentle and curious inquiry. What has quietly taken root? What is asking to be seen and celebrated, even if it isn't finished yet?
For me, this solstice feels different, more charged and personal. This past year has been one of the deepest periods of growth I have known, I admit is hasn't always comfortable, or clear, but unmistakably real. There have been moments of doubt, of sitting with the question of whether I was truly living in alignment with my calling. And then there have been luminous moments where something inside me has said: yes, keep going!
I have come to understand that the shamanic path is not a destination you arrive at. It is a continual process of shedding and becoming. Of returning to yourself at deeper levels each time. The work I do with my clients holding space for their release, their reconnection, their remembering is work I am always doing within myself too. That is the nature of this path, you cannot take someone somewhere you have not been willing to go yourself.
This year has been a rediscovery of that, stepping more fully into my own power, my own voice, my own knowing. And as I've done that, the invitations have come. The collaborations, the ceremonies, the spaces that feel not just aligned but destined.
Which brings me to something I am genuinely honoured to be part of this solstice. On the 20th of June, I will be co-holding a ceremony at Oca London in Bermondsey, that feels like one of the most deeply shamanic things I have ever been invited into.
Her Body of A.R.T. a five-hour ceremonial gathering that at its heart is a reclamation, adoration, and celebration of the fully fleshed expression of the female body. Given my upbringing is something I have not fully embodied and the process of putting this event together has been deeply healing.
Created and led by the visionary Francesca Filippa and co-held alongside powerful medicine women; Gabi Ribeiro, Charlotte Franssen, and Eve Rose, this day is not a workshop or a wellness event. It is a ceremonial remembrance of the female form as the most knowing, precious, and ferocious thing in existence.
I will be holding the sound, weaving shamanic instruments through the somatic movement and qigong journey at the heart of the day. And I cannot tell you how right that feels. Sound has always been, for me, the language beneath language. The thing that reaches the places words cannot, bringing that into a space like this, a space of this depth, intention, and ferocity of love is everything!
There has never been a more important time for women to gather in this way. To come together not in performance or pretence but in the full, raw, radiant truth of who we are. To make art from the parts of ourselves we have been taught to hide. To let finally them be seen and be celebrated.
That, to me, is shamanic in every sense; the journey inward, the shedding of what no longer serves and the return to wholeness.
Summer has a way of pulling us outward the longer evenings, the warmth, the particular ease of London when the sun finally arrives and everyone collectively exhales. And there is medicine in all of that but the solstice asks us to meet the expansion with equal depth. To stand at the peak, look back at how far we've come and allow ourselves to be changed by what we see.
The wheel is always turning. The light will begin to soften from here and that is not a loss it is simply the rhythm of things. The same rhythm that moves through every ceremony, every healing, every moment of genuine transformation.
May this solstice find you in your fullness. May it illuminate what is ready to be seen. And may you find, as I continue to find, that the path back to yourself is always, always worth walking.
Her Body of A.R.T. takes place on Saturday 20th June at Oca London, Bermondsey @2pm - 7pm · £66. Tickets via the Oca London website. I hope to see you there!
