You can trust the growing pains of your transformation
The moon waxes into light as effortlessly as she surrendered to the darkness that came before. She has done this countless times before...
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Carly Slade
- May 21, 2021
- 3 min
Why I do what I do
From addiction to obsession Before I discovered yoga I was in survival mode. I went from work to sleep to work and from addiction to...
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Carly Slade
- Jan 4, 2021
- 5 min
Outgrowing our stories
I used to think January 1st was a funny time to start a year but as I've more closely observed nature I see that it is less arbitrary...
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Carly Slade
- Dec 8, 2020
- 5 min
Your Wild Heart
If my heart and I had a status it would definitely be 'it's complicated' but in recent times I'm starting to feel that we're actually in...
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Carly Slade
- Oct 28, 2020
- 4 min
We deserve to be valued in all our seasons
You can’t have spring without autumn and people with periods deserve to be valued, loved and accepted when we’re 'nice' and ovulatory as...
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Carly Slade
- Aug 28, 2020
- 7 min
The forest has wrapped us in a promise
Nature is at the very heart's core of everything we are and everything we do. In this piece I share some thoughts around the principles of n
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Carly Slade
- Aug 13, 2020
- 4 min
Learning to harvest the crop and settle in for winter
Living close to nature and on a farm keeps me deeply connected to the seasons and cycles of nature, which in turn serves as a daily reminder
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Carly Slade
- May 3, 2020
- 5 min
Yoga and obsession
I started yoga at 17 because I was obsessed with exercise and the Power Yoga VHS I used pushed me hard and kept me out of my body. I exerci
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Carly Slade
- Apr 22, 2020
- 4 min
Rest is Radical a Rhythmical Rebellion
It’s taken a global pandemic to give many people the rest they’ve needed for a lifetime. A recent study even showed that of the participants
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Carly Slade
- Jan 2, 2020
- 2 min
Permission to emerge slowly...
'I don't want new year new me, I just want to eat toast.'
I think I share this every year because it is truly one of the funn
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Carly Slade
- Dec 24, 2019
- 3 min
Remembering the old ways, the wild ways
This weekend we celebrated the longest night of the year at Winter Solstice. An invitation to soak up the healing balms of winter darkness a
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Carly Slade
- Nov 18, 2019
- 6 min
Part 9 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Existential Explorations, Kośas and Bringing It Into Our Everyday
This is the stage that seems to keep people coming back for more week after week. At the beginning of class I often have a check in and open
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Carly Slade
- Oct 14, 2019
- 4 min
Part 8 - The Stages of Yoga Nidra: Joy, bliss and pure awareness
Our human brains are primed to problem solve for our survival but for many of us our survival needs are no longer about life or death and th
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Carly Slade
- May 30, 2019
- 3 min
Lives ruled by time
Recently I was thinking about how time rules almost the entirety of our lives. An alarm to wake up at a particular time, taking waking temps
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Carly Slade
- May 1, 2019
- 5 min
A Wild Woman is not a Girlfriend she is a Relationship with Nature...
The importance of it being hosted by a man is that it made me realise that I must be rebuilding my trust in men to be listening to them as a
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Carly Slade
- Apr 22, 2019
- 4 min
Wildlife & the 'Wild Woman' are both endangered species...
Our expectations of women are closely mirrored in our expectations of earth and for too long we have expected too much of both. We have expe
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Carly Slade
- Jul 19, 2018
- 2 min
When women come together in the forest magic happens
Back from our Women's Nature & Yoga Retreat in Cornwall last week and 4 days later I still don't truly have words for the experience of...
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Carly Slade
- Jun 11, 2018
- 1 min
All things are illuminated in the desert...
Yesterday was a real challenge. I was feeling hardened, cold, stuck, rigid and shut down. Deeply engrained coping strategies that were...
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Carly Slade
- Apr 28, 2018
- 4 min
Wildness as a Problem to be Solved
As a society we are afraid of wildness and the wildness from which we came is now regarded as an obstacle to be overcome and a problem to...
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Carly Slade
- Apr 25, 2018
- 2 min
Mirrored Expectations
‘What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.’ ~ Gandhi We can...
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