Author, Lecturer & Seminar Leader
Biography
Born and brought up in Scotland, where she now lives, Annie has travelled widely with her work in Africa, the USA and Europe. Annie's formal training includes:
- Yoga
- Rubenfeld Synergy (a three year PHD which included Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Movements, and Far Memory).
- The Naked Voice (a one year course with Chloe Goodchild).
- Metamorphic technique.
Now living in Dumfriesshire with her husband, Annie McCaffry sees people individually for 2 hour sessions. She is also available for classes starting in the autumn of 2008 on how we transform dis-ease - “where have all the pains come from?”
Contact Annie
Please contact by telephone on 07809 057260 (mobile) or email annie.mccaffry@virgin.net.
Books
Journey to Myself: Near Death and the Transformation of Family Patterns
(192 pages, Pixie)
Available from online sources or annie.mccaffry@virgin.net.
Science has revealed the genetic legacy passed on to us by our parents and by definition previous generations of our ancestors – Annie refers to this inheritance as family patterns and uses her own life and work, as well as others with whom she has worked, to illustrate and confirm this transformational journey. She includes such events as being still born, early family deaths, onset of disease and her daughter’s anorexia nervosa. Learning how to listen to these unconscious memories from the past enables them to express themselves, thereby releasing their invisible hold on us and setting us free to be more fully alive in the now. "The body never lies" (Moshé Feldenkrais).
Family Patterns
Family patterns are the inherited memories of dis-ease held, often unconsciously, in mind and body affecting all levels of consciousness and more often hiding in the unconscious self. These patterns have an impact on our emotional, psychological and ultimately physical wellbeing. Annie McCaffry describes how recognising and transforming these family patterns changes our health and wellbeing and frees future generations from the burden of ill health. The subject of family patterns is dealt with in Annie McCaffry's books “Journey to Myself” and “Living at the Edge”.
Living at the Edge: An Ancestral Journey of Enlightenment Through Ayahuasca
(160 pages, Pixie)
Available from online sources or annie.mccaffry@virgin.net.
This book is in many ways a sequel to Journey to Myself, but this time Annie tells of travelling back in time to discover her ancestral patterns.
It is in this book that McCaffry draws upon her experience in the Peruvian Jungle in ceremony with the medicine men.
The Family Behind the Firm — Garrard and Co
(Coming Soon)
Annie McCaffry's third book covers the story of her mother's family. It portrays a vignette of Northamptonshire family life, lived through the Garrard family with wonderful photographs - including those of the six Garrard daughters, the youngest of which was the author’s mother.
The Garrard family began creating fine jewellery and trophies in the 18th century and continued doing so right up until the death of the author's grandfather. They were the Crown jewellers for three generations, building a reputation for making sporting trophies in the UK, India and elsewhere. Garrard and Co created the crown worn by the King for the Delhi Durbar, and the original trophy (designed by Charles Sykes) of the model Eleanor Thornton which, although now reduced in size, has adorned the front of the Rolls Royce car to this day.
