the gift of presence

the gift of presence

What is presence? John Prendergast says presence is our essential nature as open, wakeful, loving, spacious awareness. Sally Kempton says presence is your innate sense of ‘being’ inside you. Adyashanti says presence is the spacious unconditioned nature of awareness....
ripples of care

ripples of care

Meditative inquiry is the practice of reflection, often guided by a question. It invites deep listening while in a meditative state of being and from my experience it reveals insights and possibilities unknown to the head mind. When shared with others who simply...
we heal together

we heal together

This week I have been watching gatherings across the world associated with the film ‘The Eternal Song’, a film that “reveals how modernity severs our connection to nature, each other, and the ancestral realm … As we are drawn into the intricate web of kinship and...
Embodied Safety

Embodied Safety

  For decades I have explored practices that support an embodied sense of safety. When we experience safety our wholeness responds in a myriad of ways, from ease of tension, to digestive harmony, to relief from nervous system overload. Physical grounding...
Expanding the Centre

Expanding the Centre

India for me has offered glimpses of complexity and diversity that invite my mind to expand and reorganise to take in. From witnessing the seemingly simple life of villagers in the Himalayan foothills, embedded in landscape, growing food, tending livestock, building...
Belonging

Belonging

My recent trip to India had me exploring a life long theme for me of belonging. Having moved from the UK to NZ as an 8 year old with my parents and two older brothers my sense of belonging socially ruptured pretty early on, if it was ever there at all. It’s not that I...