about leo
I’ve been a storyteller since 1989. I worked in schools initially and in seven years I gave two thousand performances of folk tales in schools throughout southern England. And then….
Stories started coming to me with a life of their own! I don’t mean improvisation. I mean… inner guidance. Through a series of vivid internal scenes and an inner voice of instruction I’d be given stories which sometimes made little sense to me at the time, only to reveal their meaning later.
I’ve been swept away by the beauty and subtlety of these stories. Like a profound dream, they can address areas of life that no words of instruction could touch. They have moved me to the core. Literally. They have pulled me in closer, brought me in touch with my essence and continue to teach me how to live a soulful, meaningful life.
This might sound smooth, but it’s been anything but. In the two stories below, I recount some of the challenges of walking the path of Intuitive Storytelling.
Opening to Divine Love
In this 15 minute presentation, I talk about how opening to intuition also meant opening to a deep and profound love. I was totally unprepared for this and found it very painful.
Why would opening to love be painful? Because before we can let love in, we need to grieve all the ways that we’ve lost connection to it.
For me, the most challenging thing was to recognise a huge sense of loss that I was trying not to feel – the loss of the heavenly realms that we all come from, and that become veiled when we take on human form.
I asked my inner storyteller to give me a story that would shine a light on the challenge of contacting love inside, pushing away the pain it evokes, and then finding a way of returning to it over time. This is the story: The King Who Became a Dog.
Opening to Divine Love
The King who became a Dog
Listening to Inner Guidance
In this 12 minute presentation, I talk about my experience of inner listening.
“Is this a voice of guidance, or am I just making this up?” Even when the guidance was clear and authoritative, the doubt would persist: what if this is just me?
It took a series of truly terrifying life-circumstances to change that. “Please” I said to my inner guidance, “I can’t do this on my own. Tell me what to do, and I promise I’ll follow everything you say!”
That proved to be a turning point. That inner voice guided me through those treacherous challenges, and in the process went from being something like a pet, to being my master, or as I prefer to say, “my Beloved.”
I asked my Beloved for a story – about the challenges, and promise, of inner listening. This is the story: The Pigeon Whisperer