I'm busy preparing for at Back To The Roots Festival this weekend with another Silent Sanctuary. You can read my blog The Need For Spaces To be Silent to find out why I do this. Tara is coming with me as we need some cat van life practice and I really don't want to leave… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: Silent Sanctuary
Mindfulness, Contemplation, Self Enquiry, Visualisation (including guided), Mantra repetition, have all become synonymous with the word Meditation. I personally use all of these techniques at different times for different purposes. I'm not knocking them. They help you to focus inwardly, they can have many healing benefits to the mental, emotional and physical bodies. They can… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: What Meditation Is Not
It has been said that change is the only constant in life. Mind is changeable, this we know. Even when it appears stuck in rigid thinking, it is always potentially just one thought away from a new perspective. The energies of creation, maintenance and dis-creation are all occurring at the same time in different aspects of… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: Navigating Change
Expectation can veil our Presence if we are not aware of its function. In the not Self mode of experiencing we can, often unconsciously, expect that the future will be the same as the past, for better or for worse. We may also have expectations of a potential to be fulfilled without seeing the actual… Continue reading Meditation Cafe: Exploring Expectation, Attachment & Potential
The World is not broken Our perception is Humans are not a disease Illusion is Spirit is Eternal Our bodies are not Expectations are broken Our Hearts are not The Earth is not evil But our actions can be The body is not sinful But our choices can be Nature is Abundant Our beliefs may… Continue reading The World Is Not Broken
It was time for a well deserved break. Raw chocolate and raspberry tart with Jasmin Dragon Pearls tea to the rescue and a little update on instagram or so I thought. Well no actually, we appear to have got on the blog train and there’s no time like the Present, which is what the blog… Continue reading How To Fulfil Your New Years Resolutions…
I had an interesting walk this morning. I noticed a guy standing by the river with a huge bag of breadcrumbs feeding the local birds. It was quite a spectacle. He was doing it with gusto…Pavarotti style! There were swans, ducks, geese, and gulls everywhere. I was aware of the urge to educate him that… Continue reading Ducks to Divinity – Don’t Shoot The Messenger
In my Yoga classes this week we are exploring transformation and change. As we learn to let go of that which we are not, and allow the process of change by remaining innocent and curious, our true colours get a chance to shine. Sometimes we block our own progress by focusing on limiting beliefs that… Continue reading Is your life an effortless flow of Grace, or are you getting in your own way?
As a culture we are becoming so "busy" and somehow our level of busyness has become ingrained in how we value ourselves. We ask our friends, "Are you keeping busy?", as if the world would end if we had nothing to "do". We rush around in a whirlwind of "stuff" that we "must do", although… Continue reading Are You Setting Yourself at the Right Pace?
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