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, …
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 …
All these supplements in my cupboard when breathing walking sleeping, loving are free! In the obsession to fix parts of my overused body, I often forget that it heals itself given a spacious and unattached mind. With the simple labour of walking, I breathe in the biome of the bush near my home. It’s fungi, bacteria …
It’s time to go home, hang up your bag and hat… just for now. Blessings be to the housebound.. To those who are self-isolating, it’s an act of love. To those who have lost their livelihoods and other things, dare to grieve 2020. In this changing routine, identity drops away, roles disintegrate – before I …
We are being asked to stop, slow down, stay at home, and distance ourselves from others. As human beings wired for connection and yearning for belonging, this is a unique and challenging moment in our history. When operating from survival and scarcity, witness the people who build “walls”, isolate, hoard, protect and defend. It’s seductive …
When you spend time in nature curious things happen. You drop out of your head and into your body and start to feel your natural body intelligence kicking in. After four days camping at Yuarygir (you-ra-gear) National Park – 60km of coastal stretch of rocky headlands, cliff top lookouts, deserted beaches and wild beauty on the Northern …
We often equate huffing and puffing with exercising, loosing weight and getting fit. Well, it turns out that with mouth breathing all we are doing is driving up cortisol and insulin levels, suppressing leptin – the hormone that says I am full and increasing ghrelin our “hunger hormone”. This is why so many women fail …
Did your know running increases your cortisol level which might not be a good thing moving into menopause? Here are a few exercise tips… 1. Move in ways that support your body type and your hormones from day to day depending on your energy level and mood: dance, yoga, pilates, walk, cross train, swim, parkour, …
