Last October to December I ran my first plant gatherings in Berlin called Holy Botanica. We met for 5 evenings and explored deeply with one plant at a time – through story, song, inquiry, touch, trance, blind dosing and many other ways of coming into contact and listening and discovering through our own direct experience.I always …
After my last post, a question arose: if we’re not chasing release, then what? Does this mean we should always be still, simply noticing our experience kinda quietly? Does it mean we shouldn’t allow big feelings? Or is there a space—even a need—for bigger expression at times?. Personally I do not agree with the idea …
Are you saying we shouldn’t allow big feelings? Musings on Emotional ‘Release’ part II Read More »
Last year, I had a recurring experience in my session room that really got me thinking. Several clients came to me eager for an intense emotional experience, only to feel disappointed when by a certain point in the session, they hadn’t yet had a ‘big release.’ This got me questioning: • Why does so much …
Emotional ‘Release’? Is it actually an addiction to Big Feelings? Read More »
I’ve got no more energy to reach beyond myself.I’m full of life, but not for that. Not to push through,Not to override myself,Nor try to get somewhere. The taste of this struggle is leaving my lips,The tension of trying has been unwinding from around my bones these last years…And I am shaking myself freeWithin my …
I’ve been searching for some time for oakmoss, a base note for an incense I have been slowly putting together.The other day, after I had been looking for some weeks on the oaks and pines in the forest, this little guy turned up, right at my feet in the back garden, after a windy night.This …
We do a disservice to ourselves and the planet when we romanticise the earth too much.When we get wrapped up in ideas that ‘natural’ means ‘good for humans’, that everything in the natural world is ‘magical’, framing ‘planetary consciousness’ or what the ‘earth wants’ with a predefined agenda.This can take us further away from ourselves …
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