There’s a moment, when you sit with Estelle Bingham, when everything seems to slow down. Her words fall into rhythm with her breath, and before you realise it, the conversation has drifted somewhere deeper – out of the head, into the heart. She talks about the heart the way most of us talk about the mind: as an instrument of intelligence, intuition and infinite recall.
“When someone comes to see me, I guide them into their heart space. It’s meditative, but it’s also very embodied. You drop out of your head and into your heart energy.”
“When someone comes to see me, I guide them into their heart space. It’s meditative, but it’s also very embodied. You drop out of your head and into your heart energy.”
And in that space, I’m handed their notes – almost like their Akashic Records. I’ll often be shown an exact age, or a moment of trauma, something being held in their emotional body that’s ready to be released.”
Bingham’s work – part energy healing, part intuitive therapy, part soul work – is both forensic and transcendent. A fourth-generation psychic, she describes her sessions as “emotional resets,” where clients lie on a treatment bed surrounded by crystals while she works with both her guides and theirs. “It’s like opening the notes at the end of a hospital bed,” she says.
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“You get what you need to go straight to the root – perhaps the moment a child’s sense of magic was lost, or the instant a heart first broke. From there, we can recover that part of the self.”
“You get what you need to go straight to the root – perhaps the moment a child’s sense of magic was lost, or the instant a heart first broke. From there, we can recover that part of the self.”
Her philosophy, explored in her recent book Manifest Your True Essence, is rooted in the belief that healing doesn’t happen through analysis, but through embodiment. “We live in our heads,” she says, “but true healing happens when we drop into the heart and feel. We name and claim the wound – that’s how we clear it. It’s not about spending years dissecting the story intellectually. It’s about feeling what hasn’t yet been felt, so that it can finally move.”
In practice, that might mean shadow work, inner-child work, or shame work – all approached not as psychological theories, but as energetic truths held in the body. “People often arrive able to recite their trauma,” she says. “They can tell you exactly what happened and why, but nothing has shifted. The story still lives in their cells. My work helps them access the feeling, not the thought, of that story. Once you feel it, you can release it.”
On her Love Retreats – three-day immersions in heart-led living – this process unfolds in community. Guests are guided through meditations, energy work and ceremony, held in a space where transformation becomes possible. “It’s about dropping into love,” she explains. “When we live from that place, we stop performing, stop fixing, stop coping. We remember we’re already whole.”
Bingham often calls her work “heart medicine.” It’s tender, but not always gentle – more an act of fierce compassion. “I see myself as a mirror,” she says. “Most people who find me have done years of therapy or spiritual work. They’re not lost; they’re just ready. What they’re longing for is to feel safe enough to open their hearts again.”
That longing, she says, is universal. “All of us carry coping mechanisms from childhood – ways we learned to survive. Sometimes that’s addiction, sometimes control, sometimes a constant need to achieve. But beneath every coping pattern is a wound that wants to be seen and loved. When we meet that part of ourselves with compassion, healing begins.”
Her approach draws on ancient spiritual traditions yet feels completely grounded and contemporary. Manifest Your True Essence reads like both a manual and a transmission, a roadmap for returning to who we really are. The True Essence process, as she calls it, is about moving from self-protection into self-expression – from the mind into the heart. “We each have a True Essence,” she writes, “a vibration that is uniquely ours. When we align with it, life begins to reflect our truth back to us.”
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That alignment, she says, begins with honesty. “Most people think they need to become more – more healed, more spiritual, more confident. But real growth is about becoming less. Less defended, less armoured, less afraid of what’s inside. When you strip away everything you’re not, what’s left is love. That’s your True Essence.”
And that, perhaps, is the thread running through all of Bingham’s work: the idea that healing isn’t about transcendence, but return. “We’re not trying to get somewhere else,” she says. “We’re coming home – to the heart. That’s where truth lives. That’s where freedom begins.”
There’s a moment, when you sit with Estelle Bingham, when everything seems to slow down. Her words fall into rhythm with her breath, and before you realise it, the conversation has drifted somewhere deeper – out of the head, into the heart. She talks about the heart the way most of us talk about the mind: as an instrument of intelligence, intuition and infinite recall.
“When someone comes to see me, I guide them into their heart space. It’s meditative, but it’s also very embodied. You drop out of your head and into your heart energy.”
“When someone comes to see me, I guide them into their heart space. It’s meditative, but it’s also very embodied. You drop out of your head and into your heart energy.”
And in that space, I’m handed their notes – almost like their Akashic Records. I’ll often be shown an exact age, or a moment of trauma, something being held in their emotional body that’s ready to be released.”
Bingham’s work – part energy healing, part intuitive therapy, part soul work – is both forensic and transcendent. A fourth-generation psychic, she describes her sessions as “emotional resets,” where clients lie on a treatment bed surrounded by crystals while she works with both her guides and theirs. “It’s like opening the notes at the end of a hospital bed,” she says.
© Raimond Klavins
“You get what you need to go straight to the root – perhaps the moment a child’s sense of magic was lost, or the instant a heart first broke. From there, we can recover that part of the self.”
“You get what you need to go straight to the root – perhaps the moment a child’s sense of magic was lost, or the instant a heart first broke. From there, we can recover that part of the self.”
Her philosophy, explored in her recent book Manifest Your True Essence, is rooted in the belief that healing doesn’t happen through analysis, but through embodiment. “We live in our heads,” she says, “but true healing happens when we drop into the heart and feel. We name and claim the wound – that’s how we clear it. It’s not about spending years dissecting the story intellectually. It’s about feeling what hasn’t yet been felt, so that it can finally move.”
In practice, that might mean shadow work, inner-child work, or shame work – all approached not as psychological theories, but as energetic truths held in the body. “People often arrive able to recite their trauma,” she says. “They can tell you exactly what happened and why, but nothing has shifted. The story still lives in their cells. My work helps them access the feeling, not the thought, of that story. Once you feel it, you can release it.”
On her Love Retreats – three-day immersions in heart-led living – this process unfolds in community. Guests are guided through meditations, energy work and ceremony, held in a space where transformation becomes possible. “It’s about dropping into love,” she explains. “When we live from that place, we stop performing, stop fixing, stop coping. We remember we’re already whole.”
Bingham often calls her work “heart medicine.” It’s tender, but not always gentle – more an act of fierce compassion. “I see myself as a mirror,” she says. “Most people who find me have done years of therapy or spiritual work. They’re not lost; they’re just ready. What they’re longing for is to feel safe enough to open their hearts again.”
That longing, she says, is universal. “All of us carry coping mechanisms from childhood – ways we learned to survive. Sometimes that’s addiction, sometimes control, sometimes a constant need to achieve. But beneath every coping pattern is a wound that wants to be seen and loved. When we meet that part of ourselves with compassion, healing begins.”
Her approach draws on ancient spiritual traditions yet feels completely grounded and contemporary. Manifest Your True Essence reads like both a manual and a transmission, a roadmap for returning to who we really are. The True Essence process, as she calls it, is about moving from self-protection into self-expression – from the mind into the heart. “We each have a True Essence,” she writes, “a vibration that is uniquely ours. When we align with it, life begins to reflect our truth back to us.”
© Marea Wellness
That alignment, she says, begins with honesty. “Most people think they need to become more – more healed, more spiritual, more confident. But real growth is about becoming less. Less defended, less armoured, less afraid of what’s inside. When you strip away everything you’re not, what’s left is love. That’s your True Essence.”
And that, perhaps, is the thread running through all of Bingham’s work: the idea that healing isn’t about transcendence, but return. “We’re not trying to get somewhere else,” she says. “We’re coming home – to the heart. That’s where truth lives. That’s where freedom begins.”
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