Category: inspiration

Yarrow Tea Meditation

It’s a beautiful warm summer evening, no rain for the first time in more than a week. I decided to sit out in the garden while the sun faded, sipping some yarrow and borage tea. I love that these herbs are fresh from my garden. Yarrow has been my prominent plant ally for 3 months now. This magical herb is my companion in forging a deeper understanding of plant medicine and connecting with nature intuitively. These helpful skills have added a profound new dynamic to my herbalism training.

As a tea enthusiast, studying herbalism has made my daily tea drinking ritual so much more of an adventure. I’ve had the greatest experience experimenting with interesting blends of herbs that I pick from the little apothecary garden I’ve co-created with Spirit.

One thing that I love about my tea ritual is that it allows me to imbue a potentially mundane act with meaningful intentions. This week, I was reminded of that when learnt another lovely tea ritual in the Luna Flow e-course that I’m participating in. The ritual involves infusing the energies of the elements and Spirit. Needless to say, I look forward to the mindful pauses to sip herbal concoctions in stillness even more these days.

The opportunities to do simple things like this – to make an everyday activities sacred, however ordinary they may be, leaves me with a soft and grateful heart. Life is indeed what we make of it, and when we bring awareness and appreciation into the moment, anything can become beautiful or significant.

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This Fortune Teller’s Tea Cup is totally on my wishlist (Pic Source: Danmalateas.com)

Rewilding the Spirit

What makes you feel free and uninhibited? Run towards it….

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In Stillness Speaks, Eckhart Tolle wrote that by stepping into stillness ‘you become present’ and ‘you step out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.’ Our conditioning is so layered and influences our beliefs about ourselves and about the world. From a young age we become domesticated and taught to act in certain ways.

Walking a spiritual path has been a re-wilding of sorts. It is an un-taming of the domesticated heart and restoring the soul to its freest and most natural form. It is a process of unlearning what is unnatural and remembering what is true.

We were born to be wild, unique and expressive beings. The barriers of conditioning only cage you creative essence and snuff out your incredible spirit.

What stands in the way of you being who you are fully?

Release it. Walk away from it. Loosen its grips. And set your spirit free.

Each day, the Great Mother brings me new insights about re-wilding my own spirit. Stepping into the stillness of Nature and has been a doorway to reuniting with my authentic self and undoing years of conditioning. The wilderness mirrors that wild unbridled spirit within us.

By breaking down the barriers that we have been taught to build around your wild and instinctive self, a powerful ocean of Spirit will reclaim its place in your life, just as the ocean waters wash over a de-constructed pier no longer serving a purpose, repossessing its rightful space.

Abandon those piers, those preconceived perceptions of who you should be and how your life should be lived.

You are free to choose a different path, one where you can dive deep into a life rich with Spirit, Mystery and the beauty of your true essence.  

What is Your Art, Your Passion or Your Calling?

“Your art…is any way your unique true nature expresses itself in the world of Form. You track it by looking for moments in your life when you felt fascinated, lost in the act of creation.” ~ Martha Beck

The crisp air settles on my skin. I sit on the moist grass for my morning meditation. There’s something so etheric the early morning with its pale blue sky and birdsong. Mother Earth sings cool whispers of love. I sit, firmly rooted on the ground and I feel the peaceful Earth energy rising into my body, connecting to my heart centre and expanding my awareness.

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Come rain or sunshine, this is how I begin each day. Being present in Nature is food for my soul. From as young as I can remember, I was a flower charmed nature soul. I would spend hours lost in play in gardens, parks, long rivers and in wild open velds. It’s little wonder that connecting with the Earth and harnessing inspiration, wisdom and healing energy from this Great Mother has become my ART. When I first began walking this path as a healer 2 years ago, I wasn’t sure how eco-spirituality would fit into my spiritual services, but I knew that it would happen at some stage. Now things seem to be falling into place and I am find ways to incorporate this with my other passions – spirituality and writing. I am excited about the changes that are in the works. I am excited about where this process is taking me. The BLOSSOM LIKE A FLOWER GODDESS ebook with be available for download next week. Also, In upcoming months I hope to have a few exciting new offerings to share.

In the meantime, I have a question for you dear souls.

WHAT IS YOUR ART?

What are the things that you were born to do? What are the things that you can do without even thinking about it because they resonate so closely with who you are? In her book, Finding Your Way in a Wild New World, Martha Beck describes your art as the thing that gives your soul a means to express your unique and true nature in the world. Your art is the thing that you can do with your eyes closed, because they have been such a natural part of your life.

Throughout my life, Natures has been my healing balm, writing my truest means of expression and finding my way to a spiritual path saved my life. These are things that I’ve spend more than ten thousand hours doing, things that I have deep practised. These were my clues.

What are your clues to finding who you are? Get lost in them. Be captivated by them. Continue to deep practise them. Give them space in your life. Allow your art to being you home to your Spirit. Transform you art into your life’s MASTERPIECE.  

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