About Geraldine Hardy
MOMENTS THAT MATTER
There are moments that divide life into a before and an after.
Not always dramatic.
Often quiet.
Sometimes barely visible from the outside.
Moments when something in us recognises that the way we have been living, striving, or holding ourselves together is no longer sustainable — and yet we do not know what comes next.
My work was born in those moments.
A PATH LIVED FROM THE BODY
My work is spiritual at its core — not as belief, but as lived experience.
I walk a path of embodied spirituality grounded in the body, the nervous system, and direct knowing. For over twenty-seven years, I have trained and lived across movement, meditation, martial and yogic lineages, energy awareness, and inner inquiry — not as practices I teach, but as practices that have shaped my nervous system, my perception, and my capacity to hold others.
This path was never chosen as a lifestyle.
It was forged through experience.
Alongside demanding professional environments and years of responsibility, there were periods of physical illness, nervous-system collapse, and deep confrontation with survival patterns that could not be bypassed or positively reframed. These moments dismantled force and performance. They required a different kind of attention — one that listened rather than imposed.
What emerged was not an identity, but a way of listening.
To the body.
To rhythm.
To what life is asking beneath symptoms, roles, and conditioning.
THE MOMENTS THAT SHAPED THE WORK
There were times when the body intervened decisively.
A benign tumour and autoimmune imbalance became unavoidable thresholds — not events to overcome, but initiations that demanded honesty, patience, and surrender to a deeper intelligence. Healing did not arrive through optimisation or willpower. It came through slowing down enough to hear what had been speaking all along.
These experiences did not lead me away from life.They led me further into it.
They taught me that regulation precedes clarity.That safety precedes transformation.
That the nervous system holds the key to how we heal, lead, and live.
SPIRITUALITY AS REMEMBERING
Spirituality, as I live it, is not abstract or transcendent.
It is grounded, somatic, and practical.
It lives in how breath meets movement.
In how the nervous system responds under pressure.
In how presence is maintained when responsibility is high.
This is not spirituality as escape, but spirituality as remembrance — a returning to coherence, rhythm, and truth in the midst of real life.
FROM EXPERIENCE TO METHOD
Over time, a pattern revealed itself.
What restored vitality was not effort, but rhythm.
What brought clarity was not analysis, but regulation.
What allowed change was not force, but safety.
From this understanding, the ALINA Method™ was born — not as a system imposed on life, but as a framework that honours timing, capacity, and the intelligence of the body and psyche.
I do not guide from theory.
I guide from embodiment — from having walked the terrain of breakdown, reorganisation, and return.
This is the ground of my work.