in a life that can be taken too seriously, why not choose play?
Hi, I’m Manal
From my teaching days, I learnt that teaching is mainly about listening
After almost two decades of teaching, I heard very clearly - we hear ourselves and the world around us very differently. Which quite simply means, we all learn differently
It is this simple truth that has led me to host new offerings designed to help you listen deeply to your own voice, your own life and find the rhythm between them both
When you begin to trust the beat of your own life, you learn to dance again to that beat like no one’s watching and that is a kind of freedom I believe we are all yearning for
So, where would you like to explore with me?
From designing your very own Dream Wardrobe to your Wedding dress, we can work together to bring your kind of Beautiful to life
Guiding you back to your grandest dreams, the kinds of dreams you spent your whole life protecting. It’s safe to Dream Big again
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.
Redesigning Your Style
It started in Bridal
What if there were other women who didn’t want to dress up as Brides on their Wedding Day?
Bowie Rae was a 10 year experiment with what you would say YES to wearing on your wedding day. To my surprise, I was not the only woman who was tired of being told what to wear, when to wear it and how to wear it. BOWIE RAE was twice featured in VOGUE and quickly became the rebel’s Bridal anthem - doing Bridal Her Way.
It was time to expand the vision and create a sister Dream to called Mannie Styles - In this playground I work closely with women and their Wardrobes. Bringing the idea of a Custom Couture experience into their everyday. I still play with Custom creations but no longer limit it to a Wedding Dress because let’s face it, every occasion is a valid Custom Couture piece if you say YES!
It is this dream that I believe will help redirect women from using seasonal fashion and beauty trends as guides to their own worth, and reclaim it for themselves - one wardrobe at a time.
Inspiring New Dreaming
I’ve spent most of my life talking and until recently, it has shifted to listening. Now it’s time to do both at the same time, sharing priceless wisdoms from Masters of Thought and Being. From keynote speaking to building events, learn more about how you can hire me tio help inspire New Dreaming
Why Wake Up?
If it isn’t easy why should I Wake Up?
“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
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!
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