Karen

Choose To Retreat

“As the ancient sages all confirm, everything softens in time. If we want to soften while still alive, we have to bring our hurt places into the light.” ~ Mark Nepo I hope that as the days become colder here in the southern hemisphere, you practice becoming kinder to yourself. Due to a personal accident

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No One Feeling Is Final

“Let everything happen, beauty and terror. No one feeling is final. Keep going.”  Winter is a time to go within. It’s a time for rest and reflection – a time to build our reserves, to reconnect with our internal world. Nowadays we don’t take this time for ourselves – many of us generally assess that

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HOPE IS ACTIVE

Inhale, lengthening your spine up towards the sky. Exhale, softening your chest. Allow your arms to fall gently to your sides and visualise champagne bubbles flowing through your arms. Imagine the lightness. Think of something or someone that makes you smile – and smile. What if there was a little more ease in your body

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A YEAR OF HOPE

I hope that this week has unfolded with relative ease for you. I’ve heard a lot of people in my environment using the phrase “it’s a busy time” — and all the more reason to pause and drink the glass of water slowly… According to Chinese astrology, this is the year of hope and so

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NEW POSSIBILITIES

Welcome to a year of curiosity, wonder and possibility. May you connect with spaciousness and that which is already beautiful in you. There is an opportunity to begin the year with a deep sense of calm and wellbeing on our first retreat of the year. You will be guided and supported through reflection, embodied practices,

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