Take Care: Why is it Hard to Indulge Ourselves?
When Indulging Becomes Self-Care When we first moved to Mitchells Island, we hadn’t yet winterised our house. Like a lot of people, we had mostly completed the interior but still…
When Indulging Becomes Self-Care When we first moved to Mitchells Island, we hadn’t yet winterised our house. Like a lot of people, we had mostly completed the interior but still…
Today is weather-perfection where we live on the magical mid-north coast… Mitchells Island, New South Wales. I think you know what I mean by perfect conditions. (If you are…
My friend Rick is reading Martin Seligman’s Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being, and he was telling us about it at the dinner table tonight. It sounds…
…of any shape, size and thorniness will thrive on newly chewed up ground. It always amazes me how many different kinds of people are attracted to yoga. Time and again,…
…book that was high on quite a few of your faves list. Maus A Little Life Big Little Lies The Goldfinch All the Light We Cannot See Year of Wonders…
January is the month of Good Intentions – the time to do a yoga intensive to hopefully kick off a year of disciplined practice or a time to go away…
…sarvavaranamalapetasya jnanasyanantyjjneyamalpam When the mind is free from the clouds that prevent perception, all is known, there is nothing to be known.* *Patanjali’s Yogasutras, translation and commentary by T.K.V. Desikachar….
…the first time I learned to use crutches, practising walking with my new prosthetic hips. I’m a tiny bit embarrassed to say I experienced some of the exhilaration of my…
The New Year is a time when you set goals so you can achieve what you may have missed out on the previous year. For instance, maybe you weren’t successful…
Savasana* A couple of years ago, I enjoyed viewing a calendar that had been put together by a group at a yoga retreat in New Zealand. It was designed to…
…of the midnorth coast comprised of about 50 square miles of rich river delta land. Our little piece of it consists of one cleared acre with a stunning new house…
Grief happens when facing the results of ageing. This is not news to anyone over 40 who finds out they will soon need to buy their first pair of reading…