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Woman, reWilded #5 – Desperation rhymes with respiration

A 10 Day Vipassana Meditation Retreat The fifth of a 7 part series Woman, reWilded on reclaiming cycle wisdom, woman wisdom in spring season. Spring, the season we look forward to. Warmer days, lush, new growth and the perfect time for spring cleaning the body and our interior spaces that accumulate junk over winter. But …

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Alchemy of Menopausal Rage

Feminine fire is rising and we don’t need to apologise. The fire ball finds anger and alchemises it into a clarifying, cleansing, skillful energy; a truth bomb. Burning woman sits in the fire of her own creation and lets herself be cooked. Claiming our rage in perimenopause and menopause is natural, says Dr Christiane Northrup, …

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A Qigong Autumn

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 …

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Radical self devotion

Radical Self-Devotion – Care and keeping of you It is nearing the end of 2020. Mind goes to all the things I “coulda, shoulda, woulda” done this year. My body thanks me for stopping, resting, caring and creating more space in my life, more freedom. My mind still the dominant talker agrees wholeheartedly. In this …

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WomanKind #7 – Woman, rewilded

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 …

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Essential Oils for Courage and Calm

If you are struggling to find a way to be OK in the world right now, you are not alone. Our lives can be thrust into chaos just from a single thought. Listening to the news can send dread molecules coursing through the body. Stop…stop that thought from taking hold into the future, come back …

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Guided Meditation into the Power of Menopause

On 18 October 2014, I organised World Menopause Day with the support of the Gold Coast City Council. It was the first time an event like this had been run on the Gold Coast honouring the rite of passage of menopause. I brought together women for a day to share stories and experiences of this …

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The Colour Purple – Foods for Spiritual Nutrition

“Our most agonising spiritual dilemma is the necessity for food.” Teilhard de Chardin, French theologian and philosopher With our obsession for fixing our bodies, superfoods and the latest health trends, how can we eat for spiritual clarity and vitality? Eating for spiritual nutrition helps to raise our energy and vibration above the bombardment of negative …

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