Some days, I just need to turn my back on the world, and all those close to me. Do you know that feeling too? I just needed time to clear my head. Hear my own thoughts and focus on MY BREATH and not everyone else’s. It’s not that I don’t love those around me, my …
Phew! It’s been quite a ride these past couple of months hasn’t it! Not just because I’ve turned 60, but everything in the world is calling us to see things differently. So many of the students I work with one to one have been experiencing extra life challenges. I have too which explains why I’ve …
How to be somebody in a world where everyone appears to be striving to be the same. This title rang in my head as I thought of us older generations living in this new world. Life for us was so different compared to the fast paced life that the younger ones live today. Everyone is …
Oh my goodness! I woke up this morning realizing this week and specifically today is the last stretch of my 50’s ! I turn 59 today. Whoever said age was just a number didn’t consider the cycles of life ! The 50’s were definitely different to my 40’s. I found I had to draw on …
The tension of living beyond the veil held the room together that night as we sat listening to the ticking of the clock. I did not know what I was feeling, I just knew I was emotionally broken from the exhaustion of not knowing what was to come. Sitting by the bedside of my mother, …
Sitting drying my hair this morning, I had this deep emotion come over me. Minutes before I had heard that someone I had known for years had died suddenly. The friend was young and it was unexpected. This got me thinking how we undervalue life, our own personal lives included. We have been taught to …
There comes a time in all our lives when change takes place. Nature teaches us that CHANGE is a natural cycle of life. Somehow we miss this and allow our ego and our personalities to want things to stay the same. I too have been undergoing a massive and gradual change over the past 4 years. …
My feet sank softly into the cool, soft sand. I could feel the mist on my early morning skin as the stress just rolled off of me. My week had been so stressful, just no quiet time for myself. I had made the decision to come to the sea this morning and take a dip. …
It’s been some time since I have been able to look in the mirror and see my reflection smiling back at me. I noticed a twinkle in her eyes a level of contentment, that I had not seen in awhile. Before my trip to the Namibian desert I had felt such exhaustion, a feeling of …
“We often meet our life teachers in unexpected ways. So it was for me when I met Marlene Neumann, Master Fine Art Photographer, spiritual teacher and the author of A Dance with Life at her Centre for Photography & Light, which happens to be next door to where my brother lives in the suburb of …