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Winter 2026
I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.I come into the peace of wild things Wendell Berry (full poem here) In Shiatsu theory, Winter is associated with the Water element. It is the energy of calm and reflection, that creates space for inner…
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Late Summer 2025
“The earth expanding right hand and left hand, The picture alive, every part in its best light, The music falling in where it is wanted, and stopping where it is not wanted, The cheerful voice of the public road, the gay fresh sentiment of the road” – WALT WHITMAN How is your summer going? Have…
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Spring News 2022
The force that through the green fuse drives the flowerDrives my green age; that blasts the roots of treesIs my destroyer.And I am dumb to tell the crooked roseMy youth is bent by the same wintry fever. Dylan Thomas On first glance this poem speaks of youth, hope and strength, a force for growth, like…
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Happy New Year and welcome to the first newsletter of 2022
The Three Friends of Winter are the Pine, the Bamboo and the Plum. They do not wither in winter, but endure, to remind us that all is not lost. Bamboo provides shelter, and soothing sounds in the breeze, pine provides welcome fragrance in the cold air, and soon the Plum Blossom joins in, it’s sweetness…
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Emerging into Spring
At last spring has come and across all our different cultures and traditions similar themes arise as it brings hope. We celebrate renewal of the green, and re-emergence of all creatures great and small after the winter of lockdown and hibernation. From worms and frogs to caterpillars and……massage therapists! In Impossible Darkness Do you know…
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Snowdrop Day
It’s a little late to be posting this really, I saw my first snowdrops 10 days ago, but having spoken to a friend who is sad just now, and patiently but painfully awaiting a little lightness of being, I felt moved to share it here again. It’s timely too, as yesterday was the new moon…
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Touching the Earth
‘The harvest moon has come,Booming softly through heaven, like a bassoon.And the earth replies all night, like a deep drum…’ ~ Ted Hughes, ‘Harvest Moon’ In the Chinese five element theory late summer is the season of Earth element, which represents ‘manifestation’. In the turning of the seasons plants grow from seed in winter, to sprout…
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Blog 3: Gratitude in the time of Coronavirus: Mindfulness and Transitions
Ah, to dwell on the positive moments of my day! This has been one of the joys that my mindfulness practice has brought, and particularly during lockdown which has offered so many more peaceful moments in my environment, despite the difficulties of these times. These words are from the head of my MSc course at…
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Seven Touches (which are permitted during lockdown)
Seven Touches (which are permitted during lockdown) touch stone, touch strength (boulder, building, pebble) touch grass, touch gratitude (hillside, garden, park) touch blossom, touch blessing (daffodill, primrose, gorse) touch catkin, touch caress (hazel, willow, birch) touch tree trunk, touch time (pine, rowan, oak) touch water, touch witness (burn, loch, kyle) touch leaf, touch life (hawthorn,…