As the long sunny days and joyful seasons pass, some of us may find that we begin to feel melancholy, unmotivated and have difficulties sleeping in our usual pattern. Seasonal affective disorder or S.A.D. is mostly due to a decreased amount of sunshine and light that occurs during autumn and winter. However, you may find aromatherapy, yoga and mixing things up a bit can help to uplift your spirits, and pull you out of a slump. Feeling a little dreary and ready for winter to e

I love it when my neighbours and yoga students give me fresh fruit from their trees and veggies from their gardens. This week, I received the most divine smelling fresh zesty lemons, I love lemons!! When life gives you lemons, make lemon butter So I decided to make a zesty lemon butter, its amazing to eat straight out of the jar... or spread on your croissants, this batch tastes just like a lemon tart. Super easy to make, especially if you have a Thermomix. I like mine to be

As we come to the end of this meditation experience, today is a BONUS day that is intended to tie up the message that hope is the future. I hope you have enjoyed joining me on this journey and I hope to bring you many more enriching experiences through this evolving blog. “Hope is not dead, it is just larger than our imaginations: its purpose extending far beyond our comprehension.”– Kathy Hobaugh MESSAGE OF THE DAY Even though the world will always be unpredictable and fille

“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.” – Lao Tzu MESSAGE OF THE DAY The idea of enlightenment is generally understood as a remote, hard to attain state of knowledge and peace. And it is true that the fully matured state of spiritual awakening is far removed from the typical everyday existence for most people. However, the secret of enlightenment is that the seed of enlightenment is always with us and has always been a part of every moment in our life.

“Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.” – Samuel Smiles MESSAGE OF THE DAY In today’s meditation, we explore the role of hope in the healing process of forgiveness. We learn that blame, judgement and resentment are based on false perceptions of our ego and do not come from our true self. When we begin to see things from the place of present awareness, we dispel the illusion that our core being could ever be hurt, disre

“Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.” – Victor Hugo MESSAGE OF THE DAY Today’s mediation is about recognising the simplicity at the core of life, and then learning to live from that place of calm simplicity to smoothly orchestrate the disparate demands and forces in our everyday existence. The simple unifying quality of awareness is related to the power of hope. When we feel the connection to our simplicity of being, we have hope as well. CENTERIN

“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.” – Vaclav Havel MESSAGE OF THE DAY Tody’s meditation is about helping to make real hope for others. Of course, fundamentally each person must create hope from within themselves, but we can also play an instrumental role in supporting that hope building process. The way we do this is to lea

“Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.” – Maya MESSAGE OF THE DAY We all understand how we can be an agent of change for the people we personally interact with, but we can also affect those around us with whom we don’t have direct contact through the connection of our shared collective consciousness. When we learn to consciously live and act from a deep place of hope, love and kindness, we are stimulating and connecting to the same l

“Each time someone stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others… he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.” – Robert Kennedy MESSAGE OF THE DAY Today’s meditation is about how we can become a beacon of hope for others by offering love and support without expecting anything in return from them. You can reawaken their hope by living that example of hope in your own life. When we can accept and love another person without judgement, we are connecting out true self wit

We have arrived at week three of this meditation journey. This week we will take hope and inspire others to hope. Today we will focus on our inner child and search for that childhood innocence that is so easily hopeful. “Hope is the thing with feathers, / That perches in the soul, / And sings the tune without the words / And never stops at all…” – Emily Dickinson MESSAGE OF THE DAY Even as adults, we all still retain that part of our personality we had when we were children.