by KarenT | Nov 23, 2024 | Main, Nature, Seasons, Slower pace, Winter
As the temperature drops and the days grow shorter, the natural world provides a masterclass in the art of slowing down. Animals and plants instinctively adapt to winter’s chill, conserving energy, resting, and renewing themselves for the coming seasons. For...
by Karen | May 1, 2023 | Health, Main, Seasons
Everything in our life is about balance. Without balance our world, our health our happiness is affected. Chinese medicine, for thousands of years, has applied the concepts of yin and yang – opposite forces that interconnect. One is not better or needed more than...
by Karen | Mar 29, 2022 | Chakras, Health, Main, Nature, Seasons
As we pass the Spring equinox we get the urge to spring clean. This may be cleaning windows, clearing out clutter and having a good dust and vacuum into those often forgotten places of our home. Our intention is to make our homes feel fresh and clean, shifting the...
by Karen | Dec 20, 2021 | Nature, Seasons, Solstice
We have all heard of the winter solstice which this year was on 21 December 2020 and represented the shortest day of the year. A day where daylight is shorter than any other time, but also a time when the sun rises and sets in the same place over 3 days. For us in...
by Karen | Oct 19, 2021 | Change, Main, Nature, Samhain, Seasons
Samhain is the time of year between the Autumn equinox and Winter solstice which is mainly seen in the Northern hemisphere as the month of Halloween. For our ancestors they saw this time of the year with death and darkness as essential to move into rebirth and...
by Karen | Jul 30, 2021 | Main, Nature, Seasons
Lammas comes midway between the Summer solstice and the Autumn equinox, falling at the end of July and the beginning of August. It is a celebration of summer and the start of gathering in the grain harvests as we very slowly make our way towards the Autumn equinox. ...
