notes & news | Aligned Living Tasmania

When you change the way you look at things …. the things you look at change

I had an epic adventure, running the Alpine Challenge in Victoria. I did the shortest of the 4 distances, 35km (there was a 60km, a 100km, and 160km). The run for me was easier and more joyous than I had expected it would be and on reflection, part of the reason for...

You get to choose!

Elements, Kashmir Shaivite Philosophy, notes & news

Pratyabhijna hrdayam: The sutra from the philosophical school emphasizing recognition of the heart … 20 sutras, the first 9 speak about the universal and in sutra 10 Carlos Pomeda says is a pivotal point where we understand that we are creating our experience. We...

rethinking pain

Life, notes & news

Last weekend, along with 250 others from various modalities working with health, I attended a 3 day training in Explain Pain with NOIgroup with Lorimer Moseley, David Butler and Peter O’Sullivan, learning about recent understandings about pain, what it is, and...

courageous contribution

Life, notes & news

Hanuman is a symbol for integrity, contribution, strength of heart and devotion to something beyond himself. Through literally taking the leap he came to know himself as more than he thought he was (he found out that he was the son of the wind!).All of us have times...

We are Inter-becoming

Elements, notes & news

We are a continual process of exchange with our environment. I have been reflecting on a statement from a.youtube clip I watched over the break from a 2016 presentation by Tom Chi, inventor and co-founder of Google X “We are a continuous flame of inter-becoming”....

Rest!

Life, notes & news, Seasons

The week of the spring equinox, one of the two equinoxes in the year where length of daylight and length of night are balanced. It is a tipping point, a pause, as we move into the time of year that is dominated by light. This week we honoured the pause through firstly...