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.
Soundbath
Group sessions
I hold weekly Sound Baths at Oca London, a hidden sanctuary nestled in Bermondsey.
Every Sunday at 19:00 and Monday at 19:30.
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"
Turning Toward Mabon 🍂
As the light begins to soften and the evenings draw in earlier, we're stepping across a threshold from the outward, expansive energy of summer into the quieter, inward-facing season of autumn.
In the Celtic wheel of the year, this turning point has a name: Mabon, the autumn equinox (usually falling around September 21st–23rd). It's the second of the three harvest festivals, a moment of balance where day and night stand equal before the dark half of the year begins to take hold. Traditionally, it's a time of gratitude for what we've gathered, grown, learned, and a quiet acknowledgment that the season of doing is giving way to a season of being.
This time of year is often my favourite. Maybe it's because my birth month, October, sits just on the other side of this threshold, so autumn always feels a little like coming home to myself. But I won't pretend this season is only sweetness. There's often a thread of sadness woven through it too, a kind of grief as we bid farewell to summer's outward, expressive energy and begin the descent into autumn's more inward, self-reflective pace. We stop reaching outward for a moment. We start turning inward to digest, to integrate, to really sit with the experiences and lessons summer handed us.
My invitation to you (and to myself) this season is this: don't get attached to the grief. Let it move through you, acknowledge it, and then ask a different question; what do I want to bring in as my final harvest of this season? What have I grown this year that's actually worth carrying with me into winter? What's ready to be gathered in, and what can I finally let fall away with the leaves?
My own harvest this summer
I'll be honest with you this summer wasn't without its challenges for me, and I'm grateful for every single one of them, even the uncomfortable ones. I found myself wrestling with self-doubt. Questioning my work. Wondering, quite seriously, whether I was showing up as authentically as I wanted to be. It's part of why I stepped away from hosting my online ceremonies for a while.
Some of that doubt came from something I'd been noticing in the wider spiritual community, how many practitioners seem to perform authenticity on the surface without it running very deep underneath. It unsettled me, and it made me look harder at myself and ask: am I doing that too, even unintentionally?
So I took the time. I went inward. I studied harder, sat with my own practice more honestly, and worked to hone my craft rather than just my presence. That's the harvest I'm bringing in this Mabon not a finished, polished thing, but a recommitment to showing up as truly, unmistakably me. Not performing depth, but living it.
If any of this resonates, if you've felt your own version of this summer's fire testing you, I'd love for you to join me as we move through this season together.
My full moon and new moon ceremonies are returning, and this time, they carry a little more of what I found while I was away.
With love and falling leaves,
Nancy Zein
