These are strong hands, veined, tanned, and made for creative labour. I know enough after my first day, that from these hands, from these women, ordinary as they may seem to anyone else, flow stories worth telling, are bringing something big and beautiful into being. I look at my own hands with their unique history. …
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 …
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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 ninth in a series, WomanKind on reclaiming the feminine. “author” from the Latin word auctus, which translates literally to ‘one who causes to grow.’ The story begins around the age of 50, it could be an alter-tale for many women. It goes something like this. Woman wakes from a recurring dream, one …
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 …
Tell me what woman does not feel like running away? Away from children, partner, parents, job, even if it’s just for a fleeting moment. Especially, if like me you regularly get inundated by life and the waves of emotions. When this feeling becomes intense, my suggestion is to not ignore it, even if on the …
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 …
This is the eighth in a series, WomanKind on reclaiming the feminine. The body heals when I feel. Where does the pain reside, what does it need, what is love wanting to say to this place of discomfort, contraction, pain? How is the body teaching me to receive it? It’s a unique voice in all …
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 …
