MEDITATIONS

"If the average person’s brain takes in 100 pieces of information, the sensitive person’s brain takes in 1,000." - Melody Wilding, Sensitivity Can Be A Superpower   Some people are...

What does energy, endorphins and empathy all have in common? Exercise. According to evolutionary anthropologist and metabolism expert, Herman Pontzer, we evolved to exercise. As we have evolved from ancestors...

Eudaemonia is a Greek noun for the highest human good, derived from the words eû (good, well) and daímōn (spirit or deity). We use this word today to describe a life...

From our biophilic perspective it may seem that we are attributing human characteristics onto plants, and in a way, that is exactly what we are doing! Now, before you brush...

How many times in your life have you stunted your growth, thwarted your goals or denied your desires because you didn’t feel good enough, capable or worthy of living a...

My mum always told me to wear sunscreen and that I’d regret sunbathing once I got to my 30’s. She was right. But I like to live by Billie Holidays...

August used to be my least favourite month of the year, the tail end of winter was just so miserable. I did not yet have the perspective of this ending...

Weathering the wild storms in our lives requires shelter and insulation from the cold both literal and metaphorical, that insulation is made up of self-compassion and yes, self-care.   “Self-care...

Matariki falls on June 28th this year, so let’s take this month to cultivate a deeper understanding of our Māori new year and why it is an important ritual for...

My work, my love, my time, my face Gathered into one intense Gesture of growing like a plant. As slowly as the ripening fruit Fertile, detached, and always spent, Falls...

Oikos (Greek) – habitat, environment, home.   We don’t often consider how intertwined we are with nature because we have grown up to believe that we are separate from it....

Participant Observation as a Way of Life.   For our March Meditation month I want to highlight an anthropological tool that is used in the field when learning about other...