CreatE
In this meditation discover the journey your soul is longing to take. Be nourished and healed by taking a journey with your mind.
Use this meditation to get inspiration and ideas to help you navigate forwards with your projects.
Part 1 of movement medicine is a pilgrimage to uncover what you really need. By setting the intention of beginning in movement medicine as a sacred journey you set a course towards giving yourself rich and replenishing body, mind and soul medicine. I’m wanting to feel light as a feather and grounded as an ancient oak. I am longing to feel spacious within my mind and at ease in my body. The longing is deep. It dawned on me this is true for every one of us - and deeply needed.
Grandmother Story is the originator of every story that ever was and ever will be….
I love writing outdoors. My perfect ‘office’ has a view, somewhere to rest a mug or thermos of tea or coffee, and a comfortable spot to sit cross legged with my computer perched on a portable lap top stand which travels around the world with me. I’ve written in trees, in tucked away garden nooks, in the forest, on mountain tops.
3 questions to ask yourself about the story you are (or want to) write. And … my answers. Set aside 10 - 20 minutes for this enlightening exercise about your creative work.
I prayed and prayed and prayed NOT to receive a vocation when I was a child. I’d been told that Nun’s received a vocation - and that they had no option but to follow their calling once called. It seemed the smart thing to do being that I was sent to a convent boarding school aged 12.
Take a listen. My version of ‘Splendor in the Grass’. My family’s anthem for the next years of travel.
Meet the main characters in my novel. For each I have meditated and discovered where they come from; learnt their secrets and super powers; felt their strengths and weaknesses… These come like revelations. They feel real. Is this genius?
Move
In this meditation discover the journey your soul is longing to take. Be nourished and healed by taking a journey with your mind.
Part 1 of movement medicine is a pilgrimage to uncover what you really need. By setting the intention of beginning in movement medicine as a sacred journey you set a course towards giving yourself rich and replenishing body, mind and soul medicine. I’m wanting to feel light as a feather and grounded as an ancient oak. I am longing to feel spacious within my mind and at ease in my body. The longing is deep. It dawned on me this is true for every one of us - and deeply needed.
The Movement Medicine method is a journey of unfolding and loving every petal that wraps around your centre.
The unfolding looks like this: Self awareness, Self compassion, Self acceptance, Strength and Expression
Follow along in this movement medicine video. This sequence I've created brings together yoga and chinese medicine. It connects and cultivates heart energy and compassion. The heart is connected to fire energy which in movement form can be created through wing like arm movements. We explore the opposite of fire through a transitional water sequence.
I love exercise that’s outdoors and combines learning about nature with intensity of movement.
Movement gives me two things: recovery and expression. And in both there is freedom.
I believed I would never be stretchy enough to do the splits. And I was quite okay with that.
Here is a video of a movement sequence that I created. Get flowing!
In class we stretch, we lunge, we lengthen, we hang, we squat, we twist, we get mindful, we gather energy, we create power and grace, we balance.
MEDICINE & NATURE
Tea is a great way to use herbs as medicine. I love picking fresh herbs and filling my tea pot … here’s how to make tea work for your body as medicine.
The Movement Medicine method is a journey of unfolding and loving every petal that wraps around your centre.
The unfolding looks like this: Self awareness, Self compassion, Self acceptance, Strength and Expression
I heard a long rustling sound. Not the kind lizards make when they dart through leaves. The kind a snake makes, it’s long body slowly moving through fallen leaves. The length of its noise equal to the length of its body.
As I put my two children to bed in our jungle farm house high in the hills above the little village of San Juan del Sur, in Nicaragua, I reassured them that the hundreds of hatching ants on their curtains were…
Yarrow has been used for making herbal medicines for thousands of years. From my plant medicine meditation journal: Rise up. Be authentic. Bold. Stand up and be strong. We will help you blossom and take you to the next level.
When we moved to Canada in 2007 I had ideas of living on a ranch and becoming 'one with the wilds' and maybe even getting draught horses to plough the land on the patch I was going to farm…
It was as though the mountains came alive. It wasn’t a visual sense, like ‘Oh aren’t they magnificent’ – it was a full on ‘Wow, those mountains are really watching us, and they are powerful’.
I was born on the twelfth of August. An auspicious day if you are from Britain, born into a family that hunts and fishes. It’s known as ‘The Glorious Twelfth’ because it refers to the start of the shooting season for red grouse, and ptarmigan.
Salves (or ointments) are made of beeswax, herbs and vegetable oils. Once you’ve made a medicinal oil, it will take you no more than 15 – 20 minutes to make a salve.
In the spring and summer, I gather medicinal herbs, berries, barks, roots and flowers from the woods, river banks and fields. Here's how I turn them into medicinal oils.
HEAL & NOURISH
Tea is a great way to use herbs as medicine. I love picking fresh herbs and filling my tea pot … here’s how to make tea work for your body as medicine.
This deodorant recipe will make you a deodorant that works! I’ve tried many natural deodorants that do not work. It’s worked for me in tropical climates, in cold climates. It hasn’t failed me and it’s easy to make.
Brew your own natural ginger root soda. All you need is…
This warming tea is made from the husks of toasted cacao beans. Cinnamon and honey add depth and sweetness. So absolutely delicious this Central American tea recipe!
This recipe will produce a creamy tasting cup of coffee - and the added ingredients make it a bona fide elixir!
When I sit down to a meal, it sometimes feels like there’s something missing if we don’t give a word of thanks for the food we’re eating.
My mum was a cook. Growing up, at the dinner table we analyzed what we ate. It was a game we’d play; a curiosity about flavour.
Follow along as my daughter and I make our own chocolate from scratch, using ingredients that are all healthy and nourishing.
Bone Broth is simple to make and it should become a regular part of your cooking routine.
When I was told that my pain was ‘normal’ I knew, deep down, I was listening to the wrong person.
What if the feeling of there being ‘too much to do’ is an act of divine generosity?