in a life that can be taken too seriously, why not choose play?
Hi, I’m Manal
Welcome to your Playground
From my teaching days, I learnt that teaching is mainly about listening. After over a decade of teaching, I heard very clearly that we each hear ourselves and the world around us very differently. Which quite simply means, we all learn differently.
I never would have expected the lessons from my teaching days would have served me in my bridal design business, yet once again I heard from women all over the world, we don’t want to dress up as ‘someone else’ anymore.
Now I find this superpower of deep listening directing me in yet another major life pivot - writing my very first book. A book that prompted my own Awakening Story. I thought I knew what I was writing five years ago, but time and life has only ripened the wisdom behind the words of the book. ‘Lucid Dreams: Waking Up to What You Truly Are’ is a winding map that redirects our attention and growing awareness to the only space required in this day and age; the Heart.
Self love isn’t quite what I was taught it to be, and so we begin to explore how self-love has led me to combine my gifts of deep listening from my teacher days, brave creativity from my Bowie Rae designer days and my new experience of living life, lucidly.
If you feel drawn to understand how this web actually connects - stay along for the ride and explore my new offerings
So, where would you like to explore with me?
Explore how my days as Director and Designer at BOWIE RAE helped me hear What Women Really Want when it comes to their Style, Beauty and Beyond - it may have started with the Wedding Day and it’s spreading to the Every Day with my new offering MANNIE STYLES
My journey writing Lucid Dreams led me to work deeply with Masters of the Mind and The Heart. You cannot fully integrate your ‘medicine’ if you haven’t met the space between the Heart and the mind. It is my honour and pleasure to share these teachings with anyone else who feels they want some guidance in this new Dream state
Learn more about how you can work with me. Teaching is second nature, yet I have learnt that the greatest teachers are able to listen deeply first. My courses and events are all a result of deep listening to what our collective world really does want to feel right now - Compassionate truth and faith in where we are headed
Our Lucid Dream
Lucid Dreams is not just a book. It’s the beginning of a living movement
A community of awakened Dreamers ready to tell a brand-new story together. A story rooted in love, compassion, and the pure joy of being alive. A story where your life becomes a lucid dream that you get to consciously shape - with heart, with truth, and with imagination that’s finally free again. Inside the Lucid Dreamers Collective, we gather as people who understand the long, winding road it takes to arrive here.
We’ve felt the metamorphosis
We’ve walked through the unknown
And we know what it means to awaken gently, courageously, and in your own time
This is a space to share your Grand Dream - and be met by a circle of supportive witnesses and cheerleaders who see you. A collective devoted to the remembering that your dream matters, and that dreaming consciously together changes reality.
If you feel the pull, you’re already part of it.
Manal the Designer
It started in Bridal
What if there were other women who didn’t want to dress up as Brides on their Wedding Day? After 10 years of experimenting with what You would say YES to wearing, it was safe to say - I was not the only woman who was tired of being told what to wear, when to wear it and how to wear it. I’ve expanded the vision and created a sister Dream to Bowie Rae called Mannie Styles - In this playground I work closely with women and their Wardrobes. Bringing the idea of a couture and custom style into their everyday. It is this dream that I believe will help redirect women from using fashion and beauty trends as guides to their own worth, and reclaim it for themselves - one wardrobe at a time.
Manal the Teacher
I’ve spent most of my life talking, and until recently, it has shifted to listening. Now I’m ready to do both at the same time to share priceless pieces of wisdoms from Masters of Thought and Being
Why Wake Up?
If it isn’t easy why should I Wake Up?
for the joy.
When you begin waking up and learning how to remain in your Lucid Dream state, you will arrive at something truly unfelt before- Your Joy! An unwavering, distilled, original shape and size of Your Joy! And it just so happens that it is my dream to see everyone arrive at this final destination of Being - for the Joy of You!
“I’m in the right place. I’m with the right people. I’m on the right path. I’m in the right life”
Daily Sunrise Mantra
My Wake Up Story
Well it’s a long story short, but just like you - I was living my best life, or so it kinda felt. I had friends I loved, a husband I loved, two children I adored, and I really did get to do anything I wanted to do - it just turned out, I was really, very good at lying to myself… and my bet is, so are you
I have had many lives so far in these 40 little years of mine; moved from teaching English and Art in High Schools to starting my own fashion label, just as I dreamed - moved from Sydney inner West to living right by the sea and the mountains, just as I dreamed - Married a man who loves to make me laugh and dance, just as I dreamed - had two kids, a daughter and a son who are full of joy and play, just as I dreamed - and yet… something was missing, or better yet, someone…
Me!
You see, it took quite a while and I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but it turns out I didn’t have to - every question I thought I was asking was actually being asked of me - where the Hell are you Manal? You have the life you dreamed of and yet, I can’t quite feel you Here? Where are you running off to? What are you so afraid of? Are you ever going to Be Here to feel it all? You’re missing it !
And so, the Waking Up began - slowly, but surely, I began to feel all the ways I have been creating escape routes from my own life; My Own Perfect Life - a feeling I don’t know or like, see ya! A moment I don’t quite trust, I’m outta here!
Eventually, I couldn’t help but see how terrified I was to actually feel myself in my own life - and this was a huge shock for me, because as far as I was concerned, I was as brave as they come! I could do and feel anything - well, turns out that wasn’t quite true for me. I was curating the feelings and moments I was most comfortable with, setting a very specific temperature setting on my life and not allowing any other setting to exist. What this meant was that, I was living in such distrust of myself that everyone and everything around me had to bend and shapeshift just to keep me comfortable, because there was no way in Hell I was going to bend any other way.
That was until, I woke up - just enough - to be aware - just enough, that I was participating in my own drunken slumber. Now, I’m scared of many things it turns out, but the one thing I am definitely not scared of is myself. If I was the bad guy of my own life; the wicked witch who spiked my own apple to keep me asleep from my own Charming Life, the mirror’s skewered perception making me look ugly, the voices of all those I love laughing and mocking me - if that was all just me - well, I could take me on, and I would… and Lord Almighty did I!
And now, there really is very little that scares me. After meeting the scariest parts of myself, I have decided that I am not someone to fear, but simply someone to love -
From this shift in story, I really am living an entirely new life because you see, nothing actually threatens me except me. I have a very new relationship with myself, because I have met My True Self - and the one thing that My True Self will not tolerate, is any attempt to lie to myself about what I am and what I am not- and that has made every difference in the world about what it is I can actually do, be and feel - in fact, it is the only lie that has and will ever stop you from living in your very own Dreaming
If you want to make a short story long and follow my full journey, head over to the blog where I invite you into where all the magic happens - inside!
Stay Connected
There are so many new ways to play in the world now that we are Lucid Living. Stay connected and play with the Grand Dreamers of the world. The ones who can sense where the old game ends and the new one begins x