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

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

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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…
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Why is it so hard to slow down sometimes?

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

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On Being true to my Self & the Contradictions!

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

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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…
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The thread that weaves us all together

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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…
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For Belonging by John O’Donohue

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Depression to Deep Rest

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Emergence….symbiotic relationships and Yin and Yang

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A little pencil in the hand of God

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

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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…
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When I was the forrest

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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…
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Chasing Cars…or was that Joy?

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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Magic Beans of the Ceremonial Cacao kind

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

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Recommitment to LOVE

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Your deepest longing by Jeff Foster
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Simplicity of Beauty
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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…
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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…
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Freedom within our emotions…being OK with not being OK
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Meet me Here
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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…
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Shiva the destroyer…Om Namah Shivaya!
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With that moon language
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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…
