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The Summer of Soul

I am sitting here with my laptop while Anton, my kid's dad, wire brushes the leaking shower as part of the repair operations. I have been going swimming every day for the past three weeks. It will be good to have a working bathroom again, and I am so grateful for his help. Last week, I was over at Anton's filming the Open Studio, and it was such good fun. I am looking forward to editing the film and revealing the story of Anton Beaver's incredible new paintings. I have also b

6 days ago4 min read

Learning to Listen like the Earth

Sitting in the car wash and tyre place getting two new left side tyres. Mohammed ordered them in for me when I came in earlier today. Two flat tyres, but a heart full of trust and belief in the new trails these wheels will take. Tomorrow I am going to drive over to Falkland to hold the meeting for Wheel 2 and pick up the lovely Francesca and Maureen on the way. The recurrence of the word Wheel has not escaped me. I have been thinking a lot about the Wheel of life today and wh

Feb 174 min read

To Retreat

Dec 25, 20252 min read

Shamanic Dreaming

Here I am on a train again. Saturday morning, pink skies and a day in Edinburgh catching up on the Gobhar colour grade and sound edit with Ryan and Gaby and editing the film for PAMIS. The week has been full. A filming day with my shoulder rig, a day with PhD meetings, new courses launching, the first of the Shamanic Power Retrieval modules completing and many individual sessions and supervisions with people I work with. I am seeing such a colourful and deeply centred and car

Dec 13, 20253 min read

A Letter to the ones I work with

Gosh, it's only the beginning of December and my heart is already full of festive joy. Festive as in that sense of wonder that we know well as being the spirit of Yule. I am talking here also though about the sense of wonder that comes with the magic of holding spaces for deep connective work with people and the planet that I find in my daily work. The people I work with bring a depth, vision and reality to my life that is hard to find in many places. I have been holding cou

Dec 5, 20252 min read

HOLY WATER

It's November, the celebrated Day of the Dead in parts of the world and the veils certainly feel open today. I always wonder at the piercing quality of the elements when November arrives. It is like the stone is really stone and the water is so water, the air so apparent and the heat of fire so inviting. Life and death, well they are such an elemental process. I think it is the elements that birth the soul into living form and the elements are exit openers as the soul moves b

Nov 1, 20254 min read

Listening to What Is

I have been thinking a lot recently about the opening opportunities within life. I mean those portals to great peace and connection; those moments of knowing without any doubt that we are a part of a much bigger continuum. Listening to what is has become my mantra for pausing in the moment and gathering myself together to be in a place of trust. Whenever I do this, whether it be on a busy train, in a filming moment when I am juggling mics and cameras, in a workshop holding

Oct 30, 20254 min read