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  • What gifts of transformation & renewal did 2012 hold for you?

    What gifts of transformation & renewal did 2012 hold for you?

    Where were you in 2012? Did 2012 offer a profound turning or growth point for you? Hey heart family, I’m curious – where were you and what unfolded for you in 2012? Was it a year that offered you a profound growth or learning opportunity? Over the years I’ve had a ridiculous amount of people…


  • Chocolate Hug in a Mug

    Chocolate Hug in a Mug

    Ceremonial Cacao is a potent superfood full of antioxidants, magnesium, iron and properties that are natural mood elevators and cacao can also help you to connect to the beauty and wisdom of your hug. It’s like a gentle hug or a hand to hold yours. The Ceremonial Cacao we partner with (Keith’s Cacao) is grown…


  • Yin of Creativity

    Yin of Creativity

    Creativity…to create…to make something that didn’t previously exist. It sounds like a very doing word in some ways. And there is definitely a Yang or active component to bringing a creation into the manifested world. If we don’t act of course things just remain seeds of possibility, ideas waiting to be birthed! But there is…


  • Emotional Wholeness

    Emotional Wholeness

    For the last few years I’ve offered Yoga & Mindfulness courses to support the embodying of the wisdom of our emotions. I’ve come to refer to this as Emotional Wholeness. Where we understand not just with our minds, but in the visceral experience of our body that emotions are a natural, healthy, important part of…


  • Phenylethylamine: The Phenomenal Love Molecule in Real Chocolate!

    Phenylethylamine: The Phenomenal Love Molecule in Real Chocolate!

    Blog RePost from Keith’s Cacao. Chocolate has long been associated with love, gratification, and feeling good. There is a good reason for that. Real chocolate – that is, pure, minimally processed Ceremonial Grade Cacao – is an excellent source of scientifically-proven natural happiness chemicals. Including the “love molecule” itself – the phenomenal phenylethylamine!  What is…


  • Joy and Sorrow colliding….a story of life weaving her threads in magical ways

    Joy and Sorrow colliding….a story of life weaving her threads in magical ways

    Have you ever experienced life giving you a gentle tap on the shoulder to say, hey, my love you can put that heavy weight down now. At some point you needed to carry it but that time is over now, it’s safe to put it down. Are you ready to let me help you put…


  • Retreating to the Heart

    Retreating to the Heart

    My love for Retreats (especially those with heart-centred practices) all began back in 2012…the start of the end….or the start of the start?! I knew there was something more than the stress and frozenness I felt in my body and heart so I immersed myself in Silent Retreats, Dark Retreats and Sacred Sexuality Retreats.  And…


  • Why is it so hard to slow down sometimes?

    Why is it so hard to slow down sometimes?

    Even if we know deep down in our core that we’re in need of some time to rest or be alone, with our family, friends or with like hearted women, so often it’s a challenge to actually take that time and we wait until life gives us an extra big nudge (aka screams at us…


  • Bubbles….one word but oh so much potential for joy!

    Bubbles….one word but oh so much potential for joy!

    Oh my I just discovered I’ve never written a blog about bubbles….many social media posts but never a blog. So here we go.. Bubbles…if you’ve ever spent time with me professionally or personally it will come as no surprise to you that I have a love for Bubbles in my cacao. I also receive a…


  • On Being true to my Self & the Contradictions!

    On Being true to my Self & the Contradictions!

    I’m not interested in being the good girl, or the bad girl. I’m interested in Being me. I’m not interested in being dark or light. I’m interested in residing in my whole radiant Self in all her colours and shades. I’m not interested in only speaking gently or only yelling from the top of the…


  • The power of C H O C O L A T E

    The power of C H O C O L A T E

    FROM THE ARCHIVES OF 2019Words and their power. Today it hit me again how one little word can take me out of my overthinking mind and bring me back in touch with so much joy. The word of the moment for me is ..C H O C O L A T E… waves of joy…


  • Grief and Eros

    Grief and Eros

    Grief is subversive, undermining the quiet agreement to behave and be in control of our emotions. It is an act of protest that declares our refusal to live numb and small. There is something feral about grief, something essentially outside the ordained and sanctioned behaviors of our culture. Because of that, grief is necessary to…


  • The thread that weaves us all together

    The thread that weaves us all together

    What is it that I believe in? I believe there is a thread of life that weaves us all together The thread is Love When I can let my guard down enough to remember myself as love I remember you as love too And when you remember yourself as love I remember myself as love…


  • Winter’s call to Honouring the Yin while balancing Yang

    Winter’s call to Honouring the Yin while balancing Yang

    I bang on about Yin, the Divine Mother or the feminine essence all day every day. And how undervalued and unnourished it goes in our western culture. I spend my days writing and researching and working with others to help them feel more at home in their yin, to remember how beautiful, potent, nourishing and…


  • For Belonging by John O’Donohue

    For Belonging by John O’Donohue

    May you listen to your longing to be free. May the frames of your belonging be generous enough for your dreams. May you arise each day with a voice of blessing whispering in your heart. May you find a harmony between your soul and your life. May the sanctuary of your soul never become haunted.…


  • Depression to Deep Rest

    Depression to Deep Rest

    This is one of those topics I love to talk about but it still feels a little edgy and vulnerable. It’s a post about the naturalness of depression after loss & the gift of space and fresh vitality depression can bring when you slow down and stop carrying the weight of unfelt emotions. In Elizabeth…


  • Emergence….symbiotic relationships and Yin and Yang

    Emergence….symbiotic relationships and Yin and Yang

    Today I lay in the park after eating lunch. Watching the way of the birds – hilarious at times to watch the smallest birds seem to tease and threaten the bigger birds at times, easy to think they were just ‘all bark and no bite’ until the chase begins…and you watch the little one stake…


  • A little pencil in the hand of God

    A little pencil in the hand of God

    If I were a little pencil in the hand of God writing a love letter to the world What would I say? Would I tell you that you’re more radiant than the sun? And purer than the snow Would I whisper sweet nothings in your ear to be heard in your heart? What would I…


  • To the conscious heart awakened man. From a sensitive sensual woman. Thank you.

    To the conscious heart awakened man. From a sensitive sensual woman. Thank you.

    Thank you for seeing and cherishing me as beauty For seeing the subtle ways that Shakti weaves herself through every cell of who I am Respecting the power in my gentleness and vulnerability Feeling the pull to protect and care for the openness and softness you see in me And never asking me to be…


  • Embracing the Mush

    Embracing the Mush

    “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” ~ Maya Angelou Don’t rush to get out of the mush sweethearts, it is intentional, it is purposeful, it is divinely timed. No external force tells the caterpillar to hurry up and finish being…


  • When I was the forrest

    When I was the forrest

    When I was the stream, when i was theforrest, when I was still the field,when I was every hoof, foot,fin and wing, when Iwas the skyitself. No one ever asked me did I have a purpose, no one everwondered was there anything I might need,for there was nothingI could notlove. It was when I left…


  • The Magic of Cacao and the Highly Sensitive Nervous System

    The Magic of Cacao and the Highly Sensitive Nervous System

    It’s no secret I love cacao. I’ve been immersed in the heart opening practice of ceremonial cacao for 7 years now. But my journey with mama cacao has changed so much over the years and particularly in the last 12 months it’s been heavily influenced by my journey into the world of embracing and stabilising…


  • Chasing Cars…or was that Joy?

    Chasing Cars…or was that Joy?

    If I lay hereIf I just lay hereWould you lie with me and just forget the world? Forget what we’re toldBefore we get too oldShow me a garden that’s bursting into life ~ Chasing Cars, Snow Patrol Today I found myself thinking about all the crazy ways I’ve tried to chase Joy, in people, places…


  • Needs or Neediness

    Needs or Neediness

    Ever noticed how the word NEED gets a bit of a bad wrap in spiritual circles, under the guise of Non Attachment? I’ve had friends & partners talk to me endlessly about their NEED for freedom and their repulsion to feeling needed. And I’ve struggled to marry that with my intuition that needs are a…


  • The power of vulnerability

    The power of vulnerability

    This one word, vulnerability, comes at me again and again, from every possible angle as undeniably one of the most important words I’ve ever contemplated…it walks side by side, hand in hand with Love, and Intimacy. Of course as they say, ‘where your focus goes the energy flows’ so considering I believe vulnerability is a key…


  • FEELING. HONOURING. GROUNDING

    FEELING. HONOURING. GROUNDING

    To my highly sensitive sisters and brothers out there. I see you. I feel you. If you’re feeling the intensity of this wild period of life…please know you’re not alone. I know many people (including myself) feel things deeply and are moving through massive periods of inner & outer change while also feeling the heartache…


  • Spiritual Seeking…the darker side Part 1

    Spiritual Seeking…the darker side Part 1

    In the spiritual circles there’s lots of talk about the ways of seeking for truth, love, naturalness. In a climate of what I perceive as a lot of new age hype, coping mechanisms and manipulation I often wonder how open are we to sharing & bringing awareness to the challenges & darker side of Spiritual…


  • Inner marriage. Reuniting & honouring all the pieces of me

    Inner marriage. Reuniting & honouring all the pieces of me

    In recent years I’ve read beautiful writings about the awakened man apologising to woman for her suppression and abuse. In particular I think of this one: “We have burned you at the stake, bought and sold your bodies for sexual pleasure, barred you from religious and political office, relegated you to subservient chores, forced you…


  • Magic Beans of the Ceremonial Cacao kind

    Magic Beans of the Ceremonial Cacao kind

    You’ve heard the stories of the magical beans in Jack and the Beanstalk, well our very own version of the magic cacao bean, Keith’s cacao is the cacao we choose to work with (and have so since 2012). Why is this cacao different to the cacao powder or cacao nibs you can buy in the supermarket…


  • Finding peace within the expansion and contraction

    Finding peace within the expansion and contraction

    “Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.” ~ Rumi Embracing all the colours, all the flavours, all the delicious variety…


  • PASSION… P A S S I O N … P A S S I O N!!

    PASSION… P A S S I O N … P A S S I O N!!

    “So run, my friends, run fast and furious from all false solutions. Let divine passion triumph, and rebirth you in yourself. For the past week I’ve discovered such a joy in simply saying the word passion outloud – to myself and to others….⠀ ⠀ P A S S I O N… P A S S…


  • Recommitment to LOVE

    Recommitment to LOVE

    On this Aquarius new moon and on the tail of yesterday’s celebration of love I’m feeling the power of LOVE. And I’m recognising how often I have shied away from using this word LOVE to express how I’m feeling in fear of how it will be received, of how I will be viewed or judged.…


  • Your deepest longing by Jeff Foster

    Your deepest longing has already been fulfilled, and you were the last to know. “Everything you have ever longed for is already present, here and now – which is the last place you’d ever look. The miracle to end all miracles is happening, and it is this moment exactly as it is. Yes – this,…


  • Simplicity of Beauty

    The Prophet  by Kahlil Gibran And a poet said, speak to us of Beauty: And he answered: Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide? And how shall you speak of her except she be the weaver of your speech? The aggrieved and…


  • Flow…Cognitive Ecstasy..Creativity & Intellectual Bliss

    Just over a year ago I was living out of my backpack and moving from country to country as projects with friends & teachers called to my Heart. Unexpected circumstances eventually drew me back to my hometown, where I’ve spent the last 5 months adapting to a more grounded way of living, sharing my Heart’s…


  • Floatation tanks…my sweet salty delicious version of heaven on earth!

    Floatation tanks…float, isolation, sensory reduction or REST tanks…all the same thing – ever heard of them? Originally made known in the 1950’s to conduct sensory deprivation tests…these days they’re used more mainstream for meditation, stress relief, relaxation and improving physical, mental & emotional health and wellbeing. “Sensory deprivation tank has been the most important tool I…


  • Freedom within our emotions…being OK with not being OK

    Would you believe me if I told you there is a ridiculous amount of freedom to be revealed in the acceptance of our emotions?  And a scary amount of suffering in the resistance of them! What would you think if I shared with you it’s really OK to not be OK? And that it’s also OK to…


  • Meet me Here

    ~ Meet Me Here ~ by Adyashanti Meet me here Now Where there are no points of view. Slip under good and bad Right and wrong Worthy and Unworthy Sinner and saint.   Meet me here Where everything is unframed Before understanding and not understanding.   Meet me here Where silence roars Where stillness is…


  • Courage is a heart word…and Heart is the very core of who we are

    Some time ago a friend introduced me to an inspiring California based organisation called the Bioneers, a hub of social and scientific innovators ‘inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honour the web of life, each other and future generations.’  I ploughed through their website and followed links, watching videos, listening to podcasts…


  • Shiva the destroyer…Om Namah Shivaya!

    Don’t Fall In Love With A Warrior by Jamie Catto Don’t fall in love with a warrior As his love will cast such blazing illumination upon you That the darkest edges of your resistance will be etched too vividly for you to ever ignore again. You will be faced with yourself in his reflection, and…


  • With that moon language

    Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, “Love me.” Of course you do not do this out loud; Otherwise, Someone would call the cops. Still though, think about this, This great pull in us To connect. Why not become the one Who lives with a full moon in each eye That is always…


  • Following the trees home…pictures worth a thousand words

    Plans changed suddenly, life delivered to me the message “You are not in control…LET GO of this idea, let me guide you, trust me.” Following the unexpected but thankfully complication free removal of my appendix..I celebrated my 36th birthday in an Indian hospital with a Namaste and a glass of coconut water! As I finally…