Cooling and soothing with R O S E
Rose cools, clarifies, and tends to what has become too heated. On the ancient wisdom of ‘the hundred-petaled flower’ – and simple ways to invite rose into your summer.
A · D A I L Y · P R A C T I C E
It is early morning. The sun is just rising, the birds are busy, and I am breathing. Nothing more than that. These are the moments I notice what it means to be truly present —no agenda. On the art of noticing before understanding and a simple breathing practice.
“I felt truly present” · the senses as doorways
Through every waking moment the world arrives: as sound, as texture, as light, as taste, as scent. We receive it constantly, often without noticing. And yet the quality of that receiving matters enormously. Ayurveda has a detailed philosophy on our perception, starting with the sense organs — the Indriya.
M O V I N G with the C U R R E N T S · short exercise
A simple exercise using metaphor and gentle movement to move with the currents, and move with the challenges.
P O E M · the promise of seasons
While we leave behind the darkest days of the year I return to this song about the wild wind, the cycles of life which are so beautifully expressed through the seasons, but can be daunting at times.
B O O K · for our time
During this summer I looked for solace and found some in beautiful books; literature, cookbooks, philosophy. I’ll share a few of them here, perhaps you will appreciate them too.
M R D U · S O F T
When the body metaphorically has moved from health towards disbalance, discomfort, or disease along a path, it may take some time to return and walk the path back towards health.
W I L D · C L O C K S
Inspiration on our times in relation to natural rhythms gathered from the essay Wild Clocks by David Farrier in Emergence Magazine Vol. 5 💛