Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty” – Phaedrus Do you agree that our world needs more gentleness? But how gentle are you with yourself? Do we agree that healing begins at home? What does the concept of ‘gentleness’ bring up for you? How does it feel in your body ? And how would you dance ‘gentleness”, if you were given …
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Kahuna Bodywork – and why it’s important for trauma in our world.
Aloha! I recently attended the Self Care Fair for massage therapists in Seattle and went to a course with Kimberly Reaves about Touch for Trauma and PTSD. It was great chatting to Kimberly after the session about how, as massage therapists, we are not necessarily taught to work with gentleness, and so we can sometimes trigger emotional trauma in our …
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A Magical Hawaii Retreat 2020
I visited Hawaii with the Aloha Life Centre from South Africa in 2017. It was an incredible trip. Read about my experience here…. I highly recommend joining Anthea Hardwick and the students from Aloha Life for this experience. It will be magical! Join Anthea Hardwick and Nicole Antonie from Aloha Life (South Africa) for an unforgettable and transformational time on …
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Release . Restore . Renew
It’s a New Year. A new Decade. And we need more peace than ever before. Attending to your own wellbeing is utterly necessary now, so that you can do your work in the world to restore humanity and our planet to a place of better health and balance and love. Join us for this immersion to restore your sense of …
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“Energy flows where attention goes.”
I love the changing of the seasons. It’s always a reminder to ‘go with the flow’. I hear so many people complaining of the cold and the long dark days here (and even people in South Africa would complain about the cold and dark even though we had fairly short, sunny winters in Johannesburg – it seems to be a …
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Meeting your self…
The time will comewhen, with elation,you will greet yourself arrivingat your own door, in your own mirror,and each will smile at the other’s welcomeand say, sit here. Eat.You will love again the stranger who was your self.Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heartto itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you have ignored for …
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Opportunities to rest and recalibrate…
“It is so challenging to be still, and yet a quiet mind is essential to any kind of real creative growth. There is a loud frantic quality to our busy minds that masks the subtlety of the information that wants to come through. Spending time in silence is a deeply creative thing to do as it allows wholeness to speak instead …
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Take Care of Your Health and Immune System for Winter
Winter is on its way. Take care of your health and energy by supporting your immune system … this means taking extra special care of your self: Treating yourself to anything that makes you come alive, gives you joy, and lets you rest from the day to day grind. That might mean taking in more movies, going for more walks, …
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Finding My Feet in the USA
As I celebrate my first birthday, at the age of 51, in the USA, I am finding ways to find my feet.
Trust that your feet will take you wherever you need to go, if only you will let go of trying so hard to control everything. This is how to create a magical life.
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Why Inner Work Matters – by Caroline Myss
Making Power Choices and Creative Decisions – How to Navigate in Times of Chaos and Possibility – by Caroline Myss An email from Caroline Myss popped into my inbox today, and in a moment of pausing in my busy life today, I read it. It was the right one to read today. I felt the need to share it, because …