Qigong dignifies the menopause and aging process, the inner autumn of our life cycle, breathing into and making space and peace with what’s here. It’s ancient spiritual wisdom in action for how we can move the body through life with presence, calm and deep connection with all beings. I could be in the mountains of …
This is the seventh in a series, WomanKind, on reclaiming the feminine. The moment of bewilderment when I wake up from the trance. How did I get here? Where did I go wrong? How could I be so naive? I thought I knew my body. I’m 47 and unknowingly in my last bleeding year, earlier …
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.” Rumi I am 54 when the team wheels me towards surgery. The nurse looks at me curiously, “Athlete?” I guess in her experience most people my age, lying in my position were either athletes, chronic over-exercisers, had an acute injury, or were born with hip issues. …
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I consider all soups and stews, anything slow cooked as soul food. So much love and presence goes into the slow ministrations of a simmering pot of chicken soup – a stir here, a taste there, a handful of herbs… Like other bone based soups and broths, this soup is a collagen injection. Collagen is …
Bones are like a trust fund that matures when you reach your peak bone density around 35 years of age. If you can keep adding to your investment around menopause, you can maintain your bone bank well into your 50s, 60s and beyond. With a recent diagnosis of osteopenia – the first stage of bone …
