About Ella Rain

Hi, I’m Ella Rain

I’m the heart behind Willowstar — and my work is about guiding people back to the place within themselves where truth, peace, and inner love live. My path into this work didn’t begin with textbooks. It began with life — raw, beautiful, painful, sacred life. I’ve walked through loss, fear, trauma, illness, and deep spiritual transformation. Everything I offer comes from that place of lived truth.

I grew up in a home affected by alcohol and emotional instability. My dad left when I was ten, and with him went the sense of safety and certainty that children need. There were moments in my childhood that shaped my relationship with myself, with men, and with the world. These early wounds left me navigating life with confusion, fear, and emotional distortion. But this was also the doorway into my healing. It taught me compassion. It taught me strength. And eventually, it led me onto the spiritual path that became my life’s work.

My life changed when I met a Navajo teacher who became my mentor and guide. For four years, I walked a path of deep ceremony, shadow work, emotional purification, and truth-telling. We worked with mirrors, dreams, and the hidden patterns that shape the inner world. This was not spiritual performance. This was initiation — facing everything within myself that needed to be seen, healed, or released. It taught me how to sit with truth, how to listen deeply, and how to walk with humility and presence. It taught me how to hold others through their own transitions with compassion and honest clarity. In the mountains of Mexico i embarked further and deeper into the shamanic world of healing with another great teacher Victor Sanchez learning to connect with who and what we truly are.

I’ve studied in Ayurvedic medicine which taught me how important it is to heal all the aspects of our being, mind body and soul. To bring us back into homeostasis we need the right nutrition, sometimes herbal medicine and looking at our life style’s to see what aspects of our life are keeping us out of balance. Reiki taught be about the energetic field of healing and my Hawaiian Lomi Lomi ceremonial massage has opened up another door way to the power of loving presents which of all the body work i have learned has to be the most powerful. Each modality revealed another layer of the body, heart, and emotional landscape. But my deepest learning has always come from experience — from walking through the fire myself.

In 2017 i was diagnosed with breast cancer. It became one of the most profound initiations of my life. I chose a holistic healing route — a deeply personal decision guided by intuition and inner knowing. I do not advise others on treatment choices. But for those who have already chosen a holistic path, I can walk beside them with understanding, compassion, and lived experience. Illness taught me courage, surrender, embodiment, and the truth of the body’s intelligence when met with love.

I’ve lived in multiple countries and spent time with indigenous cultures around the globe. I’ve entered the wilderness alone for days, sat in ceremony, moved through dreamtime, and learned directly from nature herself. Travel, culture, and Spirit have shaped me as much as any formal teacher. They taught me how to listen — truly listen — to the quiet voice within.

Like many seekers, I experienced periods of escape — including drug use in my younger years. Not rebellion, but searching. Trying to feel something real. Trying to understand myself. This taught me humility, compassion, and the reality of shadow. It taught me how easy it is to disconnect — and how beautiful it is to find your way home again. These experiences allow me to meet others without judgement, fear, or pretence.

In more recent years, I’ve explored the realm of quantum healing — a soft understanding of how the emotional, energetic, and unseen layers of our being influence our wellbeing. This exploration taught me that we are more connected than we realise; that intention and awareness can create deep shifts; that healing can happen across many layers; and that the universe communicates through subtle synchronicities. Through this understanding it informs how I listen, guide, and hold space for deeper healing.

Through the study of NLP mind language and behaviour, i can help you see the way you think, the words you use and the same patterns we repeat shaping our emotions habits and results in life. By changing these patterns we can create new choices and possibilities open up.

Willowstar is the integration of everything I’ve lived and become. As an empath i have a natural ability to feel the unspoken and can guide you to face and unlock the things that are holding you back and heal that what is preventing you from being in life in your full potential as a human being. I offer a space for you to reconnect with your true self, to heal emotional patterns that for most of us have come from childhood trauma ,and to reconnect and understand your inner world so you are able to release what you’ve been carrying that has been shaping the perception of your world today. Through healing the past we can step into clarity and presence. So i offer a space for you to feel held ,while you walk your path back to self love and come home to your own wisdom that is waiting to be felt within your own heart

People find this work when the timing is right. If you feel drawn here — even gently — it may be time.