Fleur finished her MA in Applied Storytelling (2023), under the tutelage of storyteller and tradition bearer Shonaleigh Cumbers. She is a director of Story Commons CIC and a member of The Storytelling Choir. She has completed Level 1 & 2 courses in Lithuanian Pirtis sauna tradition with Bath Master Birutė Masiliauskienė from the International Bath Academy, Lithuania. Supported by the excellent instruction and traditions passed on by Shonaleigh and Birutė, Fleur has brought sauna master practice and traditional oral storytelling together to create the unique art form of sauna storytelling; combining the simple elemental pleasures of wood, flame, stone, steam, leaf and word for beautiful, meaningful and fun, communal bathing experience. She is artist in residence at Wild Spa Wowo and tells at Stanmer Sauna Garden on Saturdays. She includes scents, body treatments and pirtis leaf whisking techniques to enhance the storytelling to a multi-sensory experience. A phrase commonly heard from participants of her events is…

‘ Why don’ t we always do this?’ 

Fleur has been teaching philosophy (6th Form) and telling stories for over 30yrs. She ran Lunarsea Storytelling Club in Brighton with Xanthe-Gresham Knight for many years. And collaborated with music therapist Tina Warnock of Belltree Music Therapy, to create The Dusty Bluebells Project; taking nursery children to care homes for inter-generational story, song and music-making.

More recently she has been collaborating with sauna master Bella Kirkus who has created the wonderful Stanmer Sauna Garden, where she often tells on Saturdays. She began her journey of sauna storytelling in 2018 after attending the first Beach Box Sauna Spa. Soon after she was collaborating with the team to create sauna story events and later told regularly at Wildspa Wowo where she became artist in residence.

Email fleur for booking or bespoke commission requests.