Dear friends, I just wanted to share that after 18 months of valuable reflection and transition time, a new opportunity has found its way to me to learn new skills, challenge myself and develop my contribution to supporting a happier,…
Rising into a Happy New Year!
Dear friends, A brief post to wish you all a very happy 2020! Of course, every moment is an opportunity for a new beginning. However, there’s something rather magical about the entire globe coming together on the 1st January every…
Christmas and Winter Solstice wishes
Dear friends, Ah the festive season! Some say we love it or hate it. Does it need to be so black and white though? In nature, it seems that this time of year is about both dark and light together.…
What if Nature were our universal guide to life?
Dear friends, I hope this finds you well as we enter the winter, with the festive season on the horizon once again. I currently find myself in continued transition in many areas of my life. Although, don’t “life transitions” just…
Do you ever long to be free?
Dear friends, Do you ever long to be free? Perhaps you can’t put your finger on it, but sometimes a strange pull from within yearns to escape something ungraspable? Isn’t this longing for freedom simply natural, part of being human?…
Our wild, strong roots
“We did not come to remain whole.We came to lose our leaves like the trees,The trees that are brokenAnd start again, drawing up on great roots” Robert Bly I came across these four lines yesterday which felt appropriate – especially…
A new voice
Dear friends, July has felt intensely transformative in ways I’m only beginning to discover. Following my experience with children in Cyprus, I’ve just returned from our new ‘My Story, Our World’ ‘storytelling’ workshop which we held for the first time…
Living in tents to save trees?
Dear friends, What a privilege to have extended my “Mindfulness of Nature” invitation to children aged 5 to 12 years old this week – in collaboration with the BirdLife Cyprus and the Family House summer school in Nicosia. Every morning…
Loving life (even when we don’t)
Dear friends, I’ve recently been noticing that in times when anxiety, fear, sadness, or hurt come to visit, there’s a part of me that doesn’t want to ‘be here’ anymore. When these difficult mind states arise, something in me wishes…
My (our?) wish to ‘know life’
Dear friends, On the third day of the week-long silent retreat in the Pyrenees I’ve been part of, Jaya Ashmore (the retreat leader) read Rainer Maria Rilke’s words below: “Ah not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition,…