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

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

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

As a society of ‘wakists’ we don’t generally give equal value to sleep, rest or other restful states on the consciousness spectrum. We are t

If women are always shaving, cleaning, tidying, putting on make up and feeling exhausted from dieting and pretending our periods don’t exist

'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

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

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

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 our retreat last week. Settling back into domesticated life with so much love and a lot of growing pains. When women come together in the forest magic happens. When our skin comes in contact with wild forest air we soften and open. We sink into primordial memories of homecoming and begin to feel the masks slipping away, the layers of protecti

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 be solved. The flowers and grasses that grow wild and free, no matter how beautiful, are deemed ‘weeds’ to be tamed and trimmed because they do not fit with the socially acceptable, perfectionist vision of what a garden should be. To let your garden grow wild and free, the way nature intended is regarded as laziness and poor garden manageme

‘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 suppress our true nature, ignore our seasons and cycles, override the calls to rest and plough on with our busy, productive lives but we all know how this story ends and this is the story playing out on earth. Dominion over nature can only work as a strategy for so long before earth gets exhausted and angry and rebels. Just as dominion over

The Earth is suffering and we are suffering too and sometimes the magnitude of the problem can feel overwhelming. When in the depths of any kind of suffering, whether grief or trauma or addiction or whatever it is we have encountered and are experiencing, sometimes the feelings of hopelessness can be all consuming. It can be difficult to see a way through and this is how we can end up feeling about nature and our planet too. We can struggle to see how we might make things bet