ByJulia Chi
I started and finished the day in the water, swimming into the sunlight… It felt tonight when I was clambering out of the sea, up the steep stony bank, to sit down next to Wends, as if I had completed a special magic ritual. This morning I had run along to the naked beach –…
ByCatherine Green
How do you feel today? Are you busy working, parenting, doing jobs for friends and family members, chasing appointments, deliveries, caring for pets, cleaning the house, tidying the garden… the list goes on. When did you last do something just for you? I don’t mean going to bed early. I mean proper self-care. If we…
ByTony Samara
Meditation is a state of consciousness that doesn’t need the mundane perception to sabotage the flow that happens when you are in a deep state of consciousness. What meditation needs is mindful attention, being an awareness that happens quite naturally when you let go of the mundane, or when you let go of the stress…
BySusan Ni Rahilly
I love you between shadow and soul I love you as the plant that hasn’t bloomed yet and carries within it the light of flowers . . . Pablo Neruda wrote these beautiful words to his lover in one of his sonnets. We may not all have an intimate love relationship in our lives, but…
ByCatherine Green
I am feeling a strange transition in my mothering journey. My youngest daughter will soon celebrate her eighth birthday and my elder daughter is about to enter her last year at primary school. We have been invited to open days at our local high schools, eek! A few years ago, I wrote a Mum checklist…
ByJulia Chi
I am once again in a hotel room in Almuñecar, lying on my bed writing my blog… My friend of many years – most of my life – Wends is lying on a bed opposite me reading. We are both of course without shoes… And I am strongly reminded of us as teenagers in the…
ByTony Samara
Whenever meditation was taught in the past, there were certain levels, and rituals that celebrated those levels of understanding meditation that were vital as part of the initiation into what meditation really means. This doesn’t always come naturally, because what does come naturally is a mind that is easily distracted by external situations than anything…
ByGiora Carmi
I had to carefully compose again after it looked as if I had finished it already. There was a lot to add. It is so easy with this technique. And I fixed it. Now it appeals to me. I made it to appeal to me. When I think what is new about my late paintings,…
BySusan Ni Rahilly
The whole of Yoga is so much more than Hatha Yoga (or Yogasanas), and proper positive mental attitude is one of the important, healing, 5 Principles of Yoga. So these are some of the men who influenced my practice and attitudes to living with Yoga in my life. Albert Einstein I’m the woman by the…
ByCatherine Green
Have you returned to the high street since lockdown restrictions eased? Do you enjoy browsing in shops for new clothes, shoes and accessories, or do you simply order everything online these days? I used to enjoy shopping days as a social event, but that would include wandering around the shops with friends, catching up on…
ByJulia Chi
I am writing in Teide restaurant, having a working dinner… Teide has served as both my office and my second home while I have been here, especially with no and slow internet and stormy weather… I enjoy being in the warmth, with chatter in the background, and I feel part of a place that I…
ByTony Samara
As we know, the feminine is different from the masculine. Women actually help society to transform at a very fundamental level because the addiction to noise, and the addiction to the external entertainments that are around, is much less for a woman, than for a man, generally speaking, of course. This is not always the…