Find out all about the Dark Moon and Her medicine. The Dark Moon phase of the lunar cycle offers stillness: we’re in the void. This Dark Moon time is the liminal space between the end of the current lunar cycle
Dark Moon Medicine
Thoughts on these challenging and changing times
In this post, I’m offering you my thoughts, for what they’re worth, on trying to find balance during these changing and challenging times. I write this in September 2020, though part of my brain still thinks it’s March, thinks there’s
Why I’ve Stopped Teaching Yoga
So, after teaching it since 2011 and practising it since 2000, I’ve decided to stop teaching and practising ‘yoga’. Why? Well, the reasons are complex including a wish to focus more on writing, and sharing nature spirituality and meditation for
Yoga, Spirituality … and White Supremacy
We are doing harm. Fellow white yoga teachers & practitioners. Those of us in the wellness and spiritual communities. We are perpetuating racism. And we need to stop it. We must take an honest look at our privilege and acknowledge
Mental Health Awareness: a personal perspective
Sharing some thoughts on anxiety & depression for UK Mental Health Awareness Week 2020. Throat clamped and my breathing’s all over the place like I can’t quite catch it. I can’t feel my feet, my body is throbbing, my head
Bright Beltane Blessings of passion & life!
May 1st brings the Celtic festival of Beltane (November in the Southern Hemisphere). The word Beltane comes from Celtic God ‘Bel’ which means ‘the bright one’, and the Gaelic word ‘teine’ which means ‘fire’, so Beltane (also spelled Beltaine) could
Come Back to Your Heart
I wrote this poem one day in May a few years ago. It’s been published in the May/June 2020 edition of Kindred Spirit Magazine. And now I’d love to share it with you. Let my heart speak to yours…
ALL vibes are welcome here
“Positives vibes only!” “Let’s raise our vibration!” “Choose positivity!” My heart sinks when I see such ‘positive thinking’ sentiments scattered around social media. …. And I’m seeing a lot of it of late. And, to be honest, it can send
Feel ABLE to experience less stress and more peace
Brain overwhelm, and unsettled emotions are experienced by all of us. It comes with this fast-paced, stimulus-drenched, busy world in which we live. And it’s being made worse by the fears around the Corona Virus pandemic we’re living through at
Give yourself some soul space: take a nap
I’d like to share a gift with you: the gift of taking a nap and spending some time with your soul. How? Well, it’s in the form of a short guided Soul Space Restful Nap meditation (no sitting cross-legged required –