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These past few weeks I’ve been sitting by our water mine every day, as a form of meditative practice. A water mine is like a horizontal well chiselled out of the bedrock a long time ago, often with a steeply sloping path down to its entrance. They are common in this part of Portugal asContinueContinue reading “Deep Peace of the Water Mine”

Nature speaks through me. She whispers to all of us who have ears to listen. When I walk through the woods she comes through me as ancient songs, arising from the bones of the Earth. When I tend the garden she imparts jewels of wisdom, always reminding me to trust the natural unfolding of life;ContinueContinue reading “A voice for nature”

Today I’ve been turning the compost piles and potting up baby cypress seedlings gifted to us by a friend, feeling calmed and soothed by my hands being in the soil, present with nature’s wisdom of endless renewal.  Things come into being and exist for a while then, when it’s their time, they die, nature compostsContinueContinue reading “The wisdom of soil”

I recently completed a seven day detox – the first one I’ve ever done properly. Previously I’ve had a lot of resistance, as I do love food so much. Anyway, it was intense but fruitful (literally!). Of course, we aren’t just detoxing the body when we undergo such a thing, but all layers of ourselvesContinueContinue reading “Nature’s way”

Today I came across a piece of writing that came through me a while back, and seemed to come from an ancient voice within, an inner elder. I believe we are multi-dimensional beings and, the more we clear our energetic blockages by releasing old trauma held in the body and re-programming our minds to letContinueContinue reading “An elder speaks”

I wrote the poem below one day, in the rawness of shock and grief of the loss of my little baby boy, in the second trimester of my first and, so far, only pregnancy. One of the many things I learnt through this life-changing experience is quite how common loss of a baby is, whetherContinueContinue reading “Chamomile Smile”

I am passionate about using yoga as a tool for healing. Unlike our minds, our bodies are incapable of lying. We can suppress the truth for so long but, eventually, it leaks out in our bodies, through injury, tension, disease, chronic poor health and pain etc. So, if we choose to, we can work consciouslyContinueContinue reading “Yoga for Healing”

Today is the summer solstice, the day when the solar power is at its peak. I think of the sun, burning fiercely, and muse that, yes, this is an undeniable symbol of power. Nothing could withstand the intense heat of the sun; it would burn all who came close. But then I look at aContinueContinue reading “Flower Power”

A very long time ago (think thousands of years), a mysterious, wise and ridiculously brainy being called Patanjali wrote an inordinate amount of detailed material relating to yoga and other contemporary disciplines including ayuverda, the sister science of yoga, and Sanskrit grammar. No one knows much about him, or indeed if it was one person (likelyContinueContinue reading “Patanjali’s Eight Limbs of Yoga”