Weaving mind, body & soul back together
Elisabeth Philipps, textile artist and holistic health practitioner, blending neuroscience with traditional weaving and soul healing from the Outer Hebrides.
Reconnection: from cell to soul
My mission is to help reconnect you back to yourself, using an approach that profoundly changed my life.
I learned how to combine years of clinical neuroscience and functional medicine with the ancestral craft of weaving to rewire my nervous system. This, along with the deep relationship I have to the land and seas that surround my home in the Outer Hebrides, inspires my work every day.
Who I work with
I often work with people who feel unfulfilled, flat, or quietly burnt out by the pace of modern life — carrying too much noise, mental, emotional, or both, and ready to find some quiet. Many are craving reconnection to nature and craft, but aren't quite sure where to begin. What they tend to share is a wish to be met as a whole person — body, story and soul held together — not just the parts of them that show up as symptoms. If any of that sounds familiar, you're exactly who this work is for.
My approach
Healing, for me, doesn't start in the mind — it starts in the body. We begin by grounding the nervous system, using the body as the entry point, and making sure good, basic foundations of nutrition and lifestyle are in place before anything else. From there, nature, elemental and plant medicine helps reconnect you to your senses and your soul, within a space held safely enough to let go without unravelling completely. We will loosen the threads carefully, slowly, and reweave them with care. It's work that stays rooted in the land, wherever that may be for you, and often includes hand-woven textiles as part of the process of reconnection — something tangible to hold, long after the session ends.
If you’d like to know more, please email me at connect@elisabethphilipps.com or fill in the contact form here.
Offerings
Services
Nervous System & Soul Reconnection sessions (1:1)
Weaving & Craft Circles (group and online)
Retreats & Workshops (coming soon)
Products
My online shop is coming soon. In the meantime, please contact me for my current selection of woven pieces. Bespoke commissions also available.
The Weavings
Using local wool and traditional spinning and weaving practices, my alchemically woven, slow-crafted pieces connect you to nature, the land, the elements and self. All my designs are unique, organically formed and carry their own special energy. My offerings include organic pieces of wall art, ritual cloth, wraps and blankets rooted in remembrance and connection. Born from a soul pilgrimage across the sacred landscapes of the UK, now woven by hand from my traditional croft studio in the Outer Hebrides.
My story
I had my own personal unravelling a few years ago. Even with a PhD in neuroscience and over two decades of clinical practice, it wasn't until I stepped into the liminal, integrated my shadows, reignited my love of textiles and weaving and developed a deep connection to the ancient ways, nature, the elements and the land that I began to truly heal. This deep, profound and life-changing soul learning, alongside my scientific knowledge of the nervous system, shapes the practice I offer today. One that reaches a depth of healing that conventional therapy and medicine alone often can't.
My Credentials:
Clinical Neuroscientist, PhD Oxford
Holistic & Functional Medicine practitioner, with over two decades in clinical practice
Traditional weaver and textile artist, Outer Hebrides