Grounding in Embodied Possibility
Nurturing Ground emerged through years of listening — to our bodies, to our child, to each other, and to the living world around us. Parenthood has reshaped how we understand care, resilience, and what it means to be human in complex times. These conversations, discoveries, and quiet reckonings formed the roots of our practice.
Rather than rushing to fix or solve, we’re drawn to what becomes possible when we slow down, ground ourselves, and relate with intention — to our own bodies, to one another, and to the living world that holds us. Nurturing Ground is where these threads weave together: a place to reconnect with the capacities that help us meet life with integrity and presence.
Jem Gay (they/them)
Somatic practice
Jem is a parent and somatic practitioner living on Djaara Country, born on Wurundjeri Woiwurrung Country, and carrying lineages from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and Jewish communities of Eastern Europe. Drawn to non-binary and fluid ways of being, Jem’s practice tends the fertile ground where body, ancestry, and earth meet.
Their work grows from lived experience of trauma and the search for coherence, kinship, and belonging. Jem is a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, with further study in trauma-informed somatics, meditation, yoga, ecological psychology, and embodied ancestral inquiry. They were deeply shaped by years of training and facilitation with Collective Being, whose focus on relational practice continues to guide Jem’s orientation today.
Jem now assists on the Melbourne Somatic Experiencing® training cohort, tending this lineage of trauma repair and embodied resilience. Through Nurturing Ground, they invite processes of co-regulation, coherence, and story-weaving — tending the subtle movements that allow belonging to take root.
Harry Harris(She/Her)
Zenthai Shiatsu
Harry grew up in the southwest of England and now lives on unceded Djaara Country, where she continues to learn how to rest, regenerate, and reconnect with the ground beneath her. Her lineage, motherhood, and years working alongside communities have shaped the way she moves — slowly, intentionally, and with a deep respect for the body’s intelligence.
Her work weaves together Zenthai Shiatsu, somatic movement, yoga, and a long-standing commitment to social and ecological justice. Harry is interested in how we remember our capacity to adapt, to feel, and to belong — especially in times that ask so much of us. Through movement, mindfulness, and touch, she supports people to meet themselves gently and to rediscover steadiness in their bodies.
For Harry, Nurturing Ground is an invitation to imagine ways of living and relating that honour interdependence, collective wellbeing, and embodied agency. Her years as a facilitator and trainer with Collective Being — a community organisation dedicated to accessible, trauma-informed wellbeing — continue to shape how she teaches and holds space with care and integrity.
With gratitude
Nurturing Ground is held on the lands of the Djaara people of the Kulin Nation. We offer deep respect to the living wisdom of this Country and to the ongoing custodianship of Djaara Elders, families, and communities. Our commitment is to practice in ways that honour land, lineage, and the living world.