Rediscovering the Magic

Meet The Founder

In the beginning, there was one woman, a breaking point, and a VW T5 called Frida.

It was 2019, and everything I had built... the award winning catering company, the reputation, the life that looked brilliant from the outside... was gone. Not taken. Chosen.

There is a reason you might not know the whole story yet. For years I was the one feeding everyone else. Literally. Jamie Oliver on set. The cast of The Hobbit for Warner Films. The Crown for Netflix. And when Google invited me to their London HQ to talk about my inspirational business, something in me went very quiet.

I knew I was done.

Why

I grew up in the north of England, working class, eldest of three girls raised by a single mum. I left school at sixteen and learned everything the hard way... which, it turns out, is also, for me, the best way. I had grit in spades. What I did not have was any idea that the life I was sprinting toward was not mine.

By the time I walked away from Squid and Pear, I had fed some of the most famous people on the planet, won awards I was genuinely proud of, and I was utterly, completely burned out. The sparkle had gone. The joy had gone. The me had gone.

So I did the radical thing. I let go of the business. The London life. The husband. I bought Frida, a wonderfully quirky T5 who turned out to be one of the great loves of my life (still is), and I drove north.

What I thought might be a few months became just over three years.

How

Frida took me to places I had no plan to go. Sleeping in ancient forests. Beside stone circles. On the edges of lochs with nothing but birdsong and mist. I lived for a time at the foot of the Cuillin mountains on Skye, close to the Fairy Pools. I spent months with the wild horses in the New Forest. I cleaned toilets on campsites to keep myself going. I found the faeries, genuinely, in the Highlands.

I also found something I had not expected: myself. Or rather, I remembered myself. The girl who had known, before the city and the career and the noise, that the plants and the land and the unseen world were real and alive and communicating constantly. I had just forgotten how to listen.

It was in Scotland, in 2018, that I reconnected with the plant and Elemental Kingdoms for the first time since childhood. And it was in the years that followed, living slowly and close to the earth, that I met others: Merlin, Magdalen, Scáthach, Cú Chulainn, Tuatha Dé Danann, the Picts who showed me what happened to them and where they went. Not metaphors. Not symbols. Real encounters that changed the entire direction of my life and confirmed what some part of me had always known... that this path, this strange and luminous path, is exactly why I am here.

What I Stand For

I work with plants, scent, and the wisdom of the natural world. That is it, really. No mystery for the sake of it... just a very deep, very real relationship with the earth and everything that grows from it.

There is a word worth knowing here. Humus. It is the Latin word for earth, for soil, for ground. It is also where the word human comes from. We are, quite literally, beings of the earth. Not separate from it, not above it... of it. Made from it. Sustained by it. And in my experience, most of what ails us comes from forgetting that.

Rock & Rose Rituals grew out of that understanding. The candles, the bathing blends, the rituals... everything I make is rooted in real knowledge, real connection, and real care. I source thoughtfully, I make slowly, and I put a lot of myself into every single thing that leaves my hands.

What is now 8 years living close to the earth taught me, more clearly than anything else, is that most of us are not broken or lost. We are just disconnected. From nature, from our senses, from the quiet knowing that lives in us when we slow down enough to feel it.

That is what I am really offering. A way back to the ground beneath your feet. Back to yourself.

Simple as that.

Where We Are Now

These days I am rooted on the Dorset coast, running what I can only describe as a demystified mystery school, working most closely with the children who are arriving into this world right now... children who are carrying something extraordinary and need someone who can see them for exactly what they are.

I also run Rock & Rose Adventures, taking those called to the sacred landscapes of Scotland on private tours and retreats. I make candles by hand and teach others to build candle businesses of their own. I am writing books. I am engaged to Daniel; whom I reunited with this lifetime at as we both walked the grounds of Tintagel Castle before bumping into each other and recognising each others Soul in 2021 whilst we were both on the road.

The van life chapter with Frida shaped everything. It still does. The best work, the deepest ideas, the clearest knowing... it still comes when I slow down, get outside, and remember that the earth has been trying to talk to us all along.

One thing has never changed: the absolute certainty that this is my purpose. It took walking away from everything familiar to find it. And I would do it all again without a second's hesitation.

My full intention, always, is to plug you back into your...

MAGIC.

Lisa Marie