Where emotional awareness becomes embodied skill —
and internal alignment reshapes external life.
A CREATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR
EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
WHERE EMOTIONAL AWARENESS BECOMES EMBODIED SKILL — AND INTERNAL ALIGNMENT RESHAPES EXTERNAL LIFE.
PROCESS OVER PERFORMANCE
When life feels reactive, overwhelming, or misaligned,
it’s rarely just behaviour.
It’s emotional architecture.
Through a structured developmental framework, I support adults, families, and children to create:
• Fewer emotional outbursts and reactive spirals
• A calm nervous system — even under pressure
• Clearer understanding of their patterns and triggers
• More harmonious relationships at home and work
• A deep sense of internal stability, peace, and direction
In simple terms — I help you understand how your emotional world shapes your external life, and how to move from chaos to clarity using embodied tools that create lasting change.
This is not an art class.
It’s not surface-level coping tools.
It’s emotional development — lived and embodied.
SERVICES
INNER RECALIBRATION
Nervous System & Pattern Clarity
1:1 Support
For individuals ready to understand the emotional architecture shaping their life.
Through guided inquiry and embodied tools, we explore:
• Emotional patterning
• Nervous system responses
• Subconscious drivers
• Relational imprinting
This work supports deep clarity, emotional release, and aligned self-leadership.
ZESTY & COMFORTING
NOODLES
FAMILY
FOUNDATIONS
Relational & Emotional
Development Support
For families navigating stress, behavioural turbulence, or disconnection.
Children do not change in isolation — families evolve together.
This structured process builds:
• Emotional literacy within the home
• Regulation tools for parents and children
• Relational repair and rhythm
• Support navigating neurodiversity
• Developmental alignment across generations
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE LAB
Ages 5–8 | 9–12
A creative, sensory-based learning space where children build:
• Emotional literacy
• Regulation skills
• Resilience under challenge
• Self-awareness
• Adaptability
This is foundational education for the
inner world.
PROCESS OVER PERFORMANCE
IF YOU'RE HERE,
YOU MIGHT BE:
• An adult feeling stuck in repeating patterns
• A parent navigating emotional overwhelm in your home
• A family experiencing behavioural tension or disconnect
• A child struggling with regulation, confidence, or resilience
• Someone who senses there is something deeper driving your lived experience
You’re not broken.
Most of us were never shown how to process emotion safely in the body — or how deeply our internal world shapes our lived experience.
THE CREATIVE FRAMEWORK
This work is delivered through a creative developmental process that explores how emotional patterns, nervous system responses, subconscious drivers, and relational dynamics shape your lived experience.
We don’t just talk about emotion.
We work with it — in the body, in behaviour, and in relationship.
Using embodied and creative integration tools, we restore flow where there has been tension, confusion, or reactivity.
Pera's specifically designed Framework guides this process:
Clarity (Compass)
Understanding your patterns, intentions, and emotional drivers.
Calmness (Integration)
Building internal safety and nervous system stability before change.
Cleanse (Release)
Gently untangling stored emotional patterns and reactive loops.
Connection (Relational Alignment)
Restoring harmony within yourself and with those around you.
This work is cyclical, developmental, and lifelong.
It is not a quick fix.
It is about restoring or developing alignment within your unique emotional architecture.
A CREATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
AT THE HEART
OF THIS WORK
At the heart of this work is a simple truth:
We are not separate from emotion —
we are energy in motion.
Emotional development is not optional.
It is foundational.
When clarity replaces confusion,
when regulation replaces reactivity,
when connection replaces disconnection —
Life reorganises.
Process Over Performance.
DISCONNECT, DYSFUNCTION, BREAKDOWN
When too many processes are running in the background — stress, pressure, expectations, unresolved emotions — the system slows, glitches, and crashes.
UPGRADE
The answer isn’t discipline.It isn’t more strategies. It’s upgrading the operating system.
Emotional literacy is that upgrade.
REALITY
Emotional literacy isn’t a trend.
It’s the foundation that should have come first.
Before academics.
Before achievement.
Before performance.
THE FOUNDATION
Because a child who doesn’t feel safe cannot learn. An adult who is overwhelmed cannot regulate.
A family without emotional tools cannot thrive.
This is where families and individuals come to build that foundation.
Where the Unseen Finds Form
Each Material Exploration is a translation —
a moment from the energetic inner world made visible.
Through colour, light, and texture,
Pera explores what cannot be spoken —
the pulse of life beneath language,
the bridge between the known and the unknown.
These pieces serve as portals —
reminding us that creation is the purest form of connection.
MATERIAL EXPLORATIONS
PERA MAY OFFERS MOMENTS OF MATERIAL
AND ENERGETIC EXPLORATION.
A MULTIFACETED, EXPERIENTIAL INVITATION INTO EXPLORING THE LIMITLESS POSSIBILITIES OF OUR INNATE CREATORSHIP.
INSPIRING RECONNECTION, REDISCOVERY AND REDEFINING OUR HUMANNESS.
THIS VISION CELEBRATES WITH WONDER AND ACKNOWLEDGES THE MULTIDIMENSIONALITY OF LIFE FORCE WOVEN THROUGH THESE MOMENTS.
HONOURING THE POWER OF OUR ONENESS, WITH EACH BREATH;
TWO BECOME ONE,
UNIFIED IN DYNAMIC EXPRESSION.
With respect and acknowledgement of the land that sustains PERA MAY - Aotearoa, New Zealand.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | PERA MAY © 2025
