Being human
and life's little mysteries

The nature of everything is illusory and ephemeral, Those with dualistic perception regard suffering as happiness, Like they who lick the...

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. – Marianne Williamson Observing the events...

Comon'. We've all done it. Ok, maybe not literally, but we've all had a moment when things didn't quite go to plan. Blindsided. Knocked...

I've always had great reverence for roots. Of trees, plants and fungi alike, there is so much to learn about what lies below based on...

March, 2020. By the time Covid broke out, I had stopped commuting into London on a weekly basis for work. After four months, it had...

So, this morning while taking my son to school I had a sort of unbelievable realisation. I’m half Lithuanian! Growing up as American, my...

Gurur Brahmā Gurur Viṣṇur Gurur devo Maheśvaraḥ Guruḥ sākṣāt paraṁ Brahma tasmai śrī gurave namaḥ Our creation is that guru (Brahma-the...

Not long after my son’s birth, I left the studio that had been both my ‘spiritual home’ and a place of toxicity and dysfunction. I began...

Think of a tree or any plant or animal. The soft spot is where the growth happens. In nature, growth always happens at the soft spot. A...

Many of you know me to be a practitioner of yoga and veganism, which I have subscribed to at two distinct points of my life: as a late...

So many metaphors about life. A landscaped journey; making lemonade from lemons; cyclical like the seasons; a recipe for disaster; like a...

It’s been said that the health of the spine reveals the health of a whole system. Afterall, the spine is a superhighway to the life force...

As we enter the month of February, the transition from one state into another unfolds before our very eyes. Even as snow falls in some...

As 2021 approaches, we have yet another moment of looking through a portal – a point between A and B that feels, sometimes, like no man’s...

Morning view from kitchen. As The leaves have fallen off this statuesque beech tree, so too I’ve been going through my own state of...

Back to the Future I recently was in Dartmoor, the home to several Bronze Age ruins. Grimspound is the best preserved stone circular...

Sometimes life feels but a series of transitions. From one day to the next, from one season to another. What we often don’t see until we...

Lessons learned from the Coastal Path : a summer update Hiking, or rambling as they call it here in England, has always been a favourite...

When we’re born, we don’t realise that we are setting out on what will be an unknown, epic journey.  A life unfolds over a long time, and...

Hello Friends, We are living through extra-ordinary times. Unprecedented times. Times that maybe even will give rise to social...