In the end, everyone is aware of this:nobody keeps any of what he has,and life is only a borrowing of bones. Pablo Neruda The Beginning Our lives are bent, twisted and folded into shape by what we make of it and what is given to us. Like an echo of the earth’s crust, we fold …
The sixth of a 7 part series Woman, reWilded on reclaiming cycle wisdom, woman wisdom. in spring season. It’s the first day of summer and spring seems to have retreated under the grey cloak of La Nina. According to weather reports it was the country’s wettest spring in 10 years and set to continue into …
Woman, reWilded #6 – Spring in a state of emergence(y) Read More »
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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This is the fourth in a series of conversations with women in transition and forms part of the Woman, reWilded series on reclaiming cycle wisdom, woman wisdom in the season of inner winter. With every bleeding story shared on a public platform we get closer to normalising menstruation and dissolving the cultural stigma around perimenopause …
The third of a 7 part series Woman, reWilded on reclaiming cycle wisdom, woman wisdom in winter season. We need the fallow season of Winter. It’s a time for turning inward for rest, slow replenishment and repair so we can great spring and summer with renewed energy. Doing these deeply unfashionable things – letting go …
The second of a 7 part series Woman, reWilded on reclaiming cycle wisdom, woman wisdom in autumn season. Autumn is in full swing in the valley. As light fades, pecan and persimmon trees let go of their luminous gold orange leaves, rust coloured Welcome Swallows search for places to build their mud nests in preparation …
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Wild nature gives me a safe container to be myself, to feel and move what’s inside me. A deep sense of holding and being held. When I walk into the bush in awe and wonder and drop into a soft way of being, the forest does me. There is a sense of other beingness that …
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 …
With every cut of the surgeon’s knife and the smell of cauterised burning flesh I’m taken deeper into the pain and grief of my mother and sisters cancers. I find the pain anchors me to them; I am part of the sisterhood of suffering, with our connected origin story. The surgeon is cutting the little …
