8 Embodied Strategies for Anxiety
I learned most about anxiety through my menopause years. While I had compassion for my clients with anxiety before this, I didn’t really know what life was like for them [...]
Gratitude
Gratitude At the end of our conscious dance sessions many dancers have a strong a sense of gratitude... For the space, the music, the facilitation, the community that encourages [...]
Suffering Succotash – Here Again
SUFFERING SUCCOTASH - HERE AGAIN How Sylvester the Cat and Daffy Duck have been helpful on my mindfulness journey... There is a moment in the practice of mindfulness where it's all NOT WORKING, when [...]
Confessions of a Jhana Junkie from Zoe
Jhana Junkie??? Zoe's first Blog... What is "jhana"? From Pali, jhana translates similarly to what the Yoga traditions call "samadhi". In meditation practice there is a movement with absorption from [...]
The Mindful Paradox
Mindfulness is a good thing Scientific research can now show us this, to some extent. We have been researching mindfulness, not because a 2500 year old tradition wasn’t reliable; it [...]
Slow Learner
When I was young (you have to know I'm getting old when I start a sentence like this...). When I was young we used to have an encyclopaedia. Yes, something entirely [...]
Back to Safety – Open to Life
A quote from Dr Stephen Porges, scientist and author of the Polyvagal Theory, intrigued me. "Those who are the most bold and courageous are those who can easily find their way back [...]
Who taught you how to love?
My family sometimes agree to doing weird psychology exercises to humour me. This question, “who taught you how to love?” is from a series of questions devised by Dianne [...]