Juno

Three simple practices to reconnect with the living world this May The May is officially out! And if you can do nothing else right now, whether it’s raining or shining, make sure you take a big, happy, thankful breath of this May air! Enjoy your connection with every other breathing, respiring, transpiring, photosynthesising life-form out there - it’s all truly miraculous and you are an essential knot in that glorious net. Threshold time! Across the world, the annual flow into spring has...

At times when every unthinkable news story seems to top the last, we can get the increasing sense that collectively our breath is catching in our upper chest, as though we’re heading for a panic attack. We need to breathe. An in-breath activates our fight-or-flight mechanism - our autonomic nervous system. The out-breath then activates our parasympathetic nervous system - release, rest and digest. In the normal way of things we’d be in perfect balance: flex and release, tighten and relax,...

It’s 29th September - Michaelmas - and an absolutely beautiful morning: misty, sunlight easing through the mists and lighting up the...