Life Elevated

14/02/2025

Maitri means loving-kindness or unconditional friendliness. It is the first of 'the four immeasurables' (the Brahmaviharas) in the Yoga Sutras, which include loving-kindness (maitri), compassion (karuna), empathetic joy (mudita) and equanimity (upeksha).

Loving-kindness meditations often include affirmations such as "may I be happy," "may I be healthy" or "may I be at ease." These affirmations can be directed inwardly toward oneself, as well as outwardly toward people in your life, including loved ones, as well as those in your life who you may be having a difficult time with.

We can often be our own toughest critics. The practice of Maitri teaches us to treat ourselves in the same loving and compassionate way that we treat our best friends.

By cultivating an attitude of loving kindness toward everyone ~ including ourselves we begin to dissolve any sense of a separate self as a means of connecting to the divine within.

It’s a powerful practice. Give it a try 🙏🏼🪷

01/11/2024

Prepping the gift bags first tomorrow’s Diwali retreat gathering 💝

So happy with the hand painted traditional clay dyas I’ll be gifting ~ they are so lovely 🪔

Looking forward to gathering for an uplifting afternoon of nourishing practices and guiding the Lakshmi puja to honour goddess Lakshmi and invoke her blessings for the year ahead 🙏🏼🕉️

Feel called to join us? Please DM to reserve your place.

29/10/2024

Dhanteras is the first day of Diwali, dedicated to honouring the birth of Lord Dhanvantari, the god of Ayurveda and symbol of health, well-being and longevity.

Today, Goddess Lakshmi is honoured and the Lakshmi puja is performed to invoke success, prosperity and happiness.

Traditionally, diyas are lit to ward off evil spirits, and rice flour is used to make small footprints that signify the arrival of Lakshmi.

Dhanteras this year also falls on my birthday ✨🪔✨

During Lakshmi puja this evening, I asked for all beings to live in freedom, abundance and peace.

May it be so for me
May it be so for you
May it be so for us all 🙏🏼🌎🕊️

16/08/2024

Looking forward to gathering together to welcome in the autumn equinox 🍂

Join me for an afternoon of deeply nourishing, restorative practices that will support you in bringing your nervous system back into balance and uplift and renew you ~ in body, mind and spirit.

Optional guided waterfall walk at Pontneddfechan waterfalls and wild swimming for those who feel called.

Please DM to reserve your place 🙏🏼

22/04/2024

Today we celebrate Earth Day 🌎

Every day I take time to reflect in gratitude on the abundant blessings bestowed upon us by Mother Earth.

Sharing this blessing from the Apache tradition 🙏🏼

May the Sun bring you new energy by day ☀️

May the moon softly restore vou by night 🌚

May the rain wash away your worries 🌧️

May the breeze blow new strength into your being
🌬️

May you gently walk through the world ⚖️

And know its beauty all the days of your life ❤️‍🩹

📸 With my favourite giant cherry tree 🌸🌳🌸

14/04/2024

“Sometimes we don’t realise the weight of what we’ve been carrying until we feel the weight of it’s release”

I remember reading that for the first time a few years ago and it really resonated with me.

I got a firsthand lesson of this recently during a week long trip walking the Gower coastline. We wanted a stripped back experience and so we took only what we could carry in our backpacks 🎒

After Day 1, my body was already telling me I was carrying too much 😩

Day 2 was our longest day mileage wise and when I took off my backpack when we stopped for lunch, I REALLY felt resistance to putting it back on again!!

When we reached our digs early evening and I could take it off finally it was such a huge relief.

After having a rest day I wasn’t really excited at the prospect of carrying my rucksack again as we prepared to set off on the next leg of our journey.

Much to my surprise, even after a couple of miles, I didn’t feel any discomfort. Nothing.

I guess my body had adjusted to carrying the weight in just a couple of days.

On our last day of walking, we sat on a bench overlooking the sea while we ate our sandwiches.

As I looked at my backpack, the realisation dawned that it is a pretty good metaphor for this human earth school experience.

We are all holding SO much.

It matters not our race, colour, gender or religion.

We are ALL united in navigating our way through this world with a whole lot of baggage that causes us suffering. Often caused by people, who themselves, were/are holding a lot of stuff that causes them suffering.

I wholeheartedly believe that the fundamental purpose of this human experience is about bringing awareness to what we are carrying and then having the courage to discard all the crap that isn’t serving us.

And yes, next time I’ll definitely pack less stuff ☺️

Here’s to travelling light 🎈🙏🏼🎈

31/03/2024

As the gen 0 cide in Gaza continues, we feel the ancestors watching us and calling us forth into sacred activism.

The sacredness of this activism has the power to light a fire in our hearts, initiating us as the warriors of light we came here to be during these dark times.

This is not the time to fall into hopelessness and despair.

We have the power to choose how we show up at this moment.

Through Radical Love and aligned action, we honour our ancestors who walked this path before us.

We become a living prayer for our lineage and for global liberation.

Don't you see. Love is an action word.

We must be the change we want to see in the world.

The change starts with US.

The revolution is here, and you are needed.

Be the Revolution ❤️‍🔥

Thanks to 🙏🏼

27/03/2024

Repost from Dr Rosales Meza 🙏🏼

Everything has changed.

Nothing is the same.

We are being called to integrity, to show up differently, so that we can show up for those suffering, for those facing G€NOCID€.

Every voice matters. Every action matters.

We can call others in, and then they have a choice, and then you have a choice.

We call others in to integrity, and their answer tells us about their values and the vision for our world.

We call others to COURAGE, because that is what we need, what Pal£stinians need from us....what we need for our collective healing & liberation. This is how we EMBODY love....

We don't force, or act with the colonizer's energy, we remind people of their SACRED RESPONSIBILITY.

We leave people to their fate and we move with those who are here to dismantle and birth new worlds 🦅

THERE ARE ENOUGH OF US.

WE WERE BORN FOR THESE TIMES.

Our ancestors didn't pray for us to survive the same colonial paradigm, they dreamed us in to finally put an END to it 🌬️.

Do you REMEMBER?

Do you BELIEVE?

May we dismantle the colonial empire & birth a new paradigm 🦅

This is our COLLECTIVE spiritual assignment.

Do you SEE?

24/03/2024

Little by little, our vision to create a woodland sanctuary to enable health and wellbeing through nature connection is taking shape 🌳🫶🏽🌳

Finishing the yurt foundations ready to start laying the floor 🛖

Looking forward to sharing this beautiful space before too long 🙏🏼

23/03/2024

Toxic positivity is so harmful.

When we cannot (or do not) allow ourselves to express our emotions and feelings, they become internalised and embodied.

Pushed down it becomes illness, anxiety, depression or addiction. Projected outward, it shows up as hostility, aggression, prejudice and fear.

Honouring how we are feeling and recognising that ALL emotions have value and bring insight is crucial to our health and wellbeing.

17/03/2024

Namaste friends 🙏🏼

Sharing the version of Lokah Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu I played this afternoon as many of you commented how beautiful it is.

I quite agree.

Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu is a Sanskrit mantra which means:

"May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words, and actions of my own life contribute to that happiness and to that
freedom for all."

By chanting this mantra, we move from centring our selves to radiate a prayer of love, compassion and empathy to the world.

This mantra helps us to free ourselves of illusions of separation.

It helps us to come back to the knowing we are all one. From there, we can move into sincere compassion ~ for ourselves and others.

The mantra brings us into back our hearts.

This was the first mantra I really connected with. I have it tattooed on my body.

A salve for our tender hearts and tired souls in these times of unspeakable inhumanity 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

It’s heart medicine for me. I hope it brings you comfort too ❤️‍🩹

10 track album

17/03/2024

So looking forward to gathering and nourishing ourselves with the restorative medicine of yoga, yoga Nidra and a sound bath 🧘‍♀️🕉️🎶

And, of course, some homemade vegan carrot cake to nourish our bellies 😋