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Remedy is homeopathy, health, and art,
a constellation of healing, care, and repair
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HOMEOPATHY
We're excited to be offering Homeopathy appointments with Patrick Farmer, PhD.
Homeopathy is a gentle and holistic way to attain optimal health and wellbeing, paying attention to the whole person, and not just their symptoms.
Patrick has been practising for five years, he trained in both the Midlands and Southern college of Homeopathy, and also works with
flower essences, gut health, and herbs. Email or call to learn more, and book a consultation.
We look forward to hearing from you.
LEARN MORE
Patrick has been practising for five years, he trained in both the Midlands and Southern college of Homeopathy, and also works with flower essences, gut health, and herbs. Email or call to learn more, and book a consultation.
We look forward to hearing from you.
LEARN MORE
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BREATHWORK
Breathwork experiences are often as cathartic and clarifying as plant medicines, yet they are far gentler and easier to integrate.
Your experience is your own in this practice, guided by your breath.
We don’t often allow ourselves to soften into what feels painful, nor do we allow ourselves time to fully revel in what feels blissful or hilarious, these sessions offer a safe space to realign, renew and release.
With prolonged focus on the most fundamentally
life-giving act, breathing, we're able to remember our sense of belonging. Led by artist and practitioner Jessa Carta, these 90 minute sessions weave vibrational attunement and intoning into resonant soundscapes. Join us in a breathwork to
coax awe and relief.
Both private and group sessions are available.
With prolonged focus on the most fundamentally
life-giving act, breathing, we're able to remember our sense of belonging. Led by artist and practitioner Jessa Carta, these 90 minute sessions weave vibrational attunement and intoning into resonant soundscapes. Join us in a breathwork to
coax awe and relief.
Both private and group sessions are available.
Breathe online or in-person at
The Boardroom, Broad St. Hay On Wye
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EMBODIED
PORTRAITURE
You’ll walk away from this portraiture session with images that truly look and feel like you, and with more confidence and ease in the art of
seeing and being seen.
You’ll walk away from this portraiture session with images that truly look and feel like you, and with more confidence and ease in the art of
seeing and being seen.
Have you just completed a major project? Given birth or experienced a death? Had a milestone birthday? This practice is an ideal way to honor yourself before or after crossing a major life threshold.This process merges art & movement practice with over a decade of fashion and wellness image making. Exchange Rate coaxes play, care, and presence to enact radical self love with generous beholding.
Ideal for those interested in medium format film and digital photography.
Ideal for those interested in medium format film and digital photography.
Homeopathy is a form of medicine that has been successfully practised around the world for over 200 years. It is safe, gentle, environmentally sustainable and tremendously effective, working with various remedies (from the mineral, vegetable, and animal worlds, unique in their method of preparation, non-toxic, and without side effects) to help body’s heal themselves. (some of them behave like adaptogens)
Homeopathy works on the principle of like cures like, where a substance that can produce symptoms in a ‘healthy’ person, will be able to help a ‘sick’ person with similar symptoms. There is no limit to who can be treated homeopathically (adults, children, animals, even plants), and the thousands of remedies available can help on all levels, addressing a broad spectrum of conditions (physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual), acting as tools and bridges to health, creativity and change. Homeopathy even has the potential to reach back into the past, to heal wounds that have been inflicted many years ago.
First and foremost, all client information is kept strictly confidential.
A consultation is about understanding you as a person. This is achieved by creating a unique, safe, non-judgemental, and supportive space, where we will listen and discuss your concerns, at your own pace.
You’ll be asked you variety of questions to assist in forming a complete picture of your emotional, mental and physical health, helping to focus on your symptoms, their origins, and the ways they affect your life. Depending on the person, the questions may focus on stressors, likes and dislikes, old ailments, family history, any particular fears, as well as covering any other areas of your life which may significantly affect your being, and which you feel are important to discuss.
Our first consultation will usually take between 60 to 90 minutes, whilst follow up appointments can vary between 30 to 60 minutes. Our first consultation will cost £80, with each follow up costing £60. This includes the cost of remedies and acute consultations if needed.
Through working together, and with the help of remedies (and often flower essences) we’ll seek to return you to a state of being where you are free to enjoy your life.
Who We Are
Patrick Farmer
“Homeopathy was home before I knew.
During the pandemic I moved to Sheffield, and befriended a gentle Maine Coon, called Oscar. I’d later find out that he was quite famous, with many web pages dedicated to him. It took some time, but eventually he jumped on my lap, and as a friend said, started ‘making biscuits’, mimicking the process of trying to glean milk from the mother. After this, he curled up, and fell asleep. He’s a big cat, and I had no wish to disturb. Within reach was a copy of Richard Gerber’s book, ‘Vibrational Medicine’, I thumbed through, and was immediately drawn to the chapter on Homeopathy.
As I read I realised, I’ve been here before - I have a background, not only in music, but in sonic art and field recording. I was a touring drummer and electronics performer for many years before this, I also ran a record label, curated numerous music festivals and lecture series, I’ve published several books and essays, written many music compositions, exhibited my work all over the world, and was also a care worker for many years.
There will always be a place in my heart for Oscar, dear daemon that he is, because during his slumber, which lasted four hours, I became, well, what I can only describe as more and more awake, I realised then and there what it was I truly wanted to do with my life, and haven’t looked back.
Fifteen years previous, I had hit my head whilst installing a sound installation about melting ice, resulting in a number of
auditory and balance related disturbances, one of which was vertigo. I saw many an otologist and audiologist, time after time being told that there was nothing to be done. This destabilization ushered me out of music and into field recording and education, I got my PHD and began teaching at Oxford Brookes as a senior lecturer and started to manage the Sonic Arts Research Unit, under the auspices of which I still curate the arts journal, A Row of Trees.
After Sheffield I found myself in Malvern, and upon seeing homeopath Kelda White, after just four months, my vertigo was gone, and has not returned. In an enchanted stroke of synchronicity, Kelda had started running a homeopathy college just outside Malvern, twinned with the Southern College of Homeopathy, she said I could come for a taster session, and within five minutes of the first lecture, about arnica and decay, I realised just what a boundless ecology homeopathy truly is. My view of, not just the world, but the cosmos, continues to evolve, to metamorphose, taking many shapes, revealing many lives, utmost among them, my understanding of health, body, and soul. As part of a holistic practise, homeopathy continues to teach, humble, and enthral.”
Patrick’s education, experience and research includes Ba (2009, Middlesex), Ma (2001, Oxford) and Phd (2016, Oxford) qualifications in music, contemporary art and sonic art. He has been awarded an advanced module qualification at the School of Homeopathy (2023, Stroud), and is a graduate of the Southern College of Homeopathy (2025, London), part of the IHA, Institute of Homeopathy Accreditation.
He has taught sonic poetics, field recording, poetry, fine art, philosophy, music and sonic art at Oxford Brookes, across Foundation, Ba, Ma, and Phd, since 2015.
Patrick has given talks at venues and events such as Nottingham University, the Polish Cultural Institute in London, Tuned City in Brussels, the Canadian Embassy in Tallinn, The Walking Festival of Sound in Sweden, South London Gallery, the first Aural Diversity conference in Leicester, and the annual British Tinnitus Association Conference in Sheffield.
He has curated and organised the audiograft festival in Oxford for over ten years; the Sound I’m Particular talk series; The On Vibration lecture series; Sonic Art Visiting Practitioner Series; and the Compost and Height online record label.
He has had residencies, exhibitions and shows at COP 26 climate summit in Glasgow; The Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London; Modern Art Oxford; Cafe Oto in London; International Notation Colloquium in Mexico City; Sirius Arts centre in Cobh; The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford; Machine Project in Los Angeles; Goodbye Blue Monday in New York; Ftarri Festival in Tokyo; Aarhus’s Art writing Festival; Now Now Festival in Sydney, Australia; and a prolonged residency as part of a collaboration between Sound and Music and Forestry Commission England.
He has also published many music releases, books, essays and compositions, some of which have been taught as part of experimental writing modules at Harvard University.
Jessa is an artist on the periphery of many spheres of influence and therefore deeply centered in the liminal, ecotonal, relational and translational. She is compelled towards rhizomatic frameworks, pattern literacy and the ability of ritual containers to metabolize trauma. Her practice merges community organizing, ecological stewardship, durational performance, sound, somatics, sculpture, video, text and photography. Her process places trust in the autonomous energy of each expression, often behaving as an apparatus for dual vision, micro and macroscopic at once, so that we are better able to see ourselves in the ineffable wiggliness (chaos/irrationality) of nature and its harmonious systems/structures (order/rationality) in equal measure.
Jessa Carta’s relationship with sound and music is one of re-enchantment and offers subtle merging with the diaphanous messages carried in vibration. Her work often evokes a potency of place and touches the tethers of our entanglement with the living- dying world.
Jessa’s interdisciplinary approach is necessitated by the expansive subject matters that her work explores, particularly how two-legged people might reimagine ourselves within the web of cosmos. This path of inquiry meanders through the terrain of
spirituality, decolonial theory, musicology, ethnobotany, biomimetics, linguistics, regenerative economics, and land stewardship arts-based research.
Her education and research includes certifications as a natural builder from Cal Earth (2017, Hisperia, CA), regenerative earth stewardship from Occidental Arts & Ecology (2020, Occidental, CA, solidarity economy from LIFT Economy (2021, Berkeley, CA), placed-based material studies from Pocoapoco (2023, Oaxaca, MX), breathwork training from Infinite Crescendo (2024, Topanga, CA) and web-based tech agnostic composition and sound design with Max/RNBO and p5.js from School For Poetic Computation (2023, New York, NY)
Jessa is a founding member of the
Seattle-based experimental collective LOVECITYLOVE - a diverse, accessible, and inclusive secular “art church”. Here she co-curated and produced numerous shows and events including Yellow Fish Durational Performance Festival.
Alongside her art practice Jessa has aided in the expression of countless other artists, small business and established global companies as a multi-modal creative partner.
Jessa Carta
***Grotto Project is currently in it’s research and development phase. We are actively looking for partners, support and opportunities to actualize.***
Project Overview
Who (not what) is water for us? Who are we for water? In what ways can we listen more intently with water? What are they telling us about our pollution?
“Said the river : imagine everything you can imagine, then keep going.”
- Mary Oliver
- Mary Oliver
GROTTO is a predominantly arts project, interested re-learning how to hear with water. Grotto offers artists opportunities to come into better relations with water bodies via workshops, speculative and actual remediation, walks, reading groups, and talks in reciprocal exchanges of arts and sciences. GROTTO is aligned with an embodied and practical understanding of the world in combination with emotional comprehensions of water consciousness, cultivating ongoing place-based artworks and community led water sovereignty projects that acknowledge and work with water’s existence as personhood, rather than as territory for industrial extraction and a lifeless site to dump waste.
GROTTO’s most prominent character, “O”, is itself a hollow container ripe for amplification of resonance, and a membrane. The “O” points to what is excluded as much as to what is included. The “O” is the shape of a wolf’s mouth as they call to the moon, the moon, who pushes and pulls the tides in rhythmic cyclicality, giving rise to all life.
Water is primary and we are fractals of the cosmos that are made of them. Water is not a resource, they are source and so too are we. We are (all) not only plasma but electromagnetically charged consciousness and intelligence in constant engagement. Thoughts are electrical impulses, the emotions that the thought produces are magnetic waves, whether joy, love, anger, there is a link between the electricity and the magnetism, the frequency output, the electromagnetic wave that beams out from us to the world. We have an aqueous, electrical impression on the world, simply in being seen. Water can be an observer and an active participant in our becoming.
“The subatomic particles we see in nature, the quarks, the electrons, are nothing but musical notes on a tiny vibrating string. …Physics is nothing but the laws of harmony that you can write on vibrating strings…Chemistry is nothing but the melodies you can play on interacting vibrating strings…The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings. We are nothing but membranes through which cosmic music is played out on vibrating strings.” - Michio Kaku“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.” – Hermann Hesse”
Elements and Outputs
Water qigong and engagment with water memory
Grotto Chorus
Riparian planting / Rhizomatic Repair education days
River rock acupressure & tea sessions
Field Recording
Grotto Chorus
Riparian planting / Rhizomatic Repair education days
River rock acupressure & tea sessions
Field Recording
“You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for horses and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these places. "Floods" is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be. All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” - Toni Morrison
“When one’s thoughts are released to roam through the lonely spaces of the universe, it’s not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil.” - Rachel Carson
Audio compilation of performances and talks
Sonic archives
Amateur Perspective book
Vessels made with the river
Decanting water in public spaces