Since setting intentions at the spring equinox for the year ahead, things here have continued to flourish. We’ve replaced having pigs to having chicks: to produce ethically reared chicken, and we are now up to six stunning calves with more still a few more on the way.
This week I heard about an ancient ritual that gave me a noticeable, albeit tiny, glimmer of a distant recognition. It was the practice of saying a prayer into a stone, or a bone, and then binding the words using a cloth. These prayers were a way to make affirmations to oneself and make a […]
A short blog this week. After a much needed break of 4 days away on a retreat, where I was well nurtured and am now feeling deliciously restored by healthy food, lovely people and multiple sessions of pilates, yoga, mediation and various healing sessions. What a blissful treat for which I am very grateful and […]
The writing course that I have been doing online for the last 7 months, sadly finished this week. I decided last year to enrol onto the course with Animate Earth because every week as I sat down to write this blog, I had the same battle with my inner teenager who constantly told me that […]
The brightness and the increased amount of light, every year provides an excitement and a lifting of spirits, both internal and external. An awakening from some sort of slumber, calm and required solitude, I enter this phase with a huge desire to share and gather people around me to celebrate the glorious land and all […]
Despite knowing that during the winter months, if we choose to live in rhythm with the land, we should quieten ourselves, take time to rest our own energy system and nourish ourselves mentally and physically, I have not managed to achieve this at all this passing winter. Despite numerous attempts at quietening myself, the world […]
