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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...
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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...
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I returned yesterday from five days with John Prendergast at Santa Sabina Retreat Centre in San Rafael, not far from San Francisco. What is alive for me as a result of this transformative experience is deep gratitude, vast love, sweet gentleness, and a felt sense of...
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What if we viewed our lives as call and response? In kirtan practice the leader of a chant sings (the call) and participants respond through sharing their own voice, their own expression of the chant. What if life is offering you a call through that inner voice, felt...
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Gurupurnima on July 3 invites us to embody gratitude for our teachers in all their forms. Sally Kempton, beloved meditation teacher, passed away Tuesday July 11. Matariki (Maori New Year) on Friday July 15 invites us to remember those that have passed,...
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‘ Though I handed over the studio in 2019, having founded it in 2002 and nurturing it’s first 17 years, the final closure was full of diverse feeling for me. The deep sadness at its ending, and the great joy and all it has offered to literally thousands of...
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