Own Your Breath - nurturing wellness & mindfulness one breath at a time

12/02/2026

Walk slowly along the woodland trails.
Take time to immerse your senses.
Pause.
Breathe.
Connect.

11/02/2026

Misty, damp days are ideal for finding treasure in the woods 🌿💚🤎

11/02/2026

Take your time.
Slow down.
There is so much to hear, to see, to feel.
Nature's treasure surrounds us.
Beware of racing past and missing astonishing gifts.
🙏🏼🌿💚

03/02/2026

A cloudy morning, damp and chilly.
A solitary kite shrieks and soars overhead.
Each step across through the meadow sinks into a boggy footprint.
Beneath a blanket of moss
Broken boughs of ageless oaks sleep deep and undisturbed.
Alongside golden winter aconites,
Perfect snowdrops populate a shady glade:
Hidden treasure for those
Who choose the path
Less travelled.

DS🙏🏻

26/01/2026

Have you been following?
Words are not the only form of communication.
How can we restore and preserve peace?
How can we promote compassion and understanding?
In this test of determination and resilience, the monks somehow demonstrate that resilience and selflessness, patience and humility persevere - quietly, gently, despite physical and spiritual challenges.
Love endures.
Love finds a way.
🙏🏻

26/12/2025

15/12/2025

Amazing images from the mossranger remind us how many more wonders there are to discover when we learn to slow down and look closely at the world around us.

Without a powerful lens and equipment, we can still enjoy the vibrant vitality of moss and lichen - these incredible photos reveal hidden details that are astonishing!

We are truly part of a breathtaking universe.
🙏🏼

02/12/2025

Thoreau tells us:
'Live in each season as it passes;
breathe the air, drink the drink,
taste the fruit, and resign yourself
to the influence of the earth.'
Yesterday's howling wind whipped the treetops into a frenzied dance.
Rain lashed the land, forming gushing muddy puddles alongside winding country lanes.
Wildlife huddled in dark burrows or snuggled on blankets of pine needles beneath towering trees.
Embrace the energy.
Yet today -
Today the vast blue sky stretches overhead.
Today wispy clouds drift gently.
Today there is no breeze to disrupt the water's stillness.
Embrace the calm.

23/11/2025

Immerse yourself in the forest.
No matter the season, make time to pause: listen; watch; breathe.
Connect.
From your feet to the tips of your fingers, feel part of the universe.
🙏🏼🌳🌿

There’s a strange thing that happens when you slow down in the woods. Not just walking for the sake of getting somewhere, but actually being there, letting your footsteps soften, letting your breath match the pace of the trees as you pass.

Most of the time, the world is loud. Our heads are sometimes louder. But out here, if you give it a moment, the woods begin to speak in their own way.
Not with words, it's something different, the shift of leaves, the creak of old roots settling, the calm that falls when you finally stop rushing.

It’s in those quiet stretches that you realise nature doesn’t need to shout. It just waits for you to listen.

-Woodlarking

22/11/2025

Simply beautiful 🍂🍁🧡

Artist - Gustav Klimt
The body is like a November birch facing the full moon...reaching into the cold heavens. In these trees there is no ambition, no sodden body, no leaves,
Nothing but bare trunks climbing like cold fire...
It is a joy to walk in the bare woods...The moonlight is not broken by the heavy leaves.
The leaves are down, and touching the soaked earth,
Giving off the odors that partridges love. - Robert Bly