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05/03/2025

Walking on crystallised sunshine!!

07/01/2025

🍃 A Love Letter To Your Feet 🍃

Have you ever paused to think about the stories your feet tell? ✨👣 These amazing foundations not only carry you through life but also mirror your innermost self. Let’s explore their deeper wisdom:

🌟The Left Foot: A map of the past, holding memories and experiences.
🌟The Right Foot: Your present path, guiding you toward the future.

Each toe has its own tale and significance, representing aspects of your brain and life.

👣Big Toe: The Head - how you think and process the world.
👣 Second Toe: Creative Vision - your dreams and imagination.
👣Middle Toe: Communication - how you express and connect.
👣Fourth Toe: Relationships - the bonds you nurture.
👣Little Toe: Family - the roots that ground you.

Wearing toe rings? 💍 They’re not just decorative! In ancient practices, they stimulate acupressure points connected to major glands and vital reproductive functions in the body.

How we treat our feet reflects how we treat ourselves. Do you embrace them with care and kindness? Or don’t overlook their importance?

✨💫A Gentle Reminder: Stretch your ankles, balance on toes, shake out the heels, wriggle out the toes, and show your feet some love, bathe them in a hot tub with sea salts. Massage with healing, fragrant oils!

Let’s honour our feet as gateways to self-awareness and self-love. 🌺

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17/10/2024

It's happening, a dream since I was a child to write a book and here's my first one!!! It's been long in the making but Covid helped getting it down. Thanks to Goldie Tucker, I've been blessed to work with Suhail Mathur who guided the steps to finding several publishers that wanted to publish it!!! I decided to go with Locksley Hall Publishing! Here's the cover that was created this year, with the help of Supriya Kamoji. It wasn't an easy task, as I'm no good at drawing but she was amazingly patient, as I talked the vision I had in my mind. The story is my first time in India, 1992 where the unexpected occurs and magic reveals. The release is 29th Oct and can be found on Amazon! (For now!!)

17/09/2024

might look easy but this has been one of the most challenging poses for me to conquer. My issue is stiff hips, caused from sexual abuse when I was a child.

Sexual abuse happens more often than we like to admit. It happened when I was three, before I knew the words to call it out but I have known all this time. My body also, never lies.

The problems, run deep.

I wanted to ‘fit in,’ be like everyone else, pretend it never happened. I didn’t want to be a ‘victim,’ or be ‘shamed.’ There was no one to go to and feel safe.

At such a young age the unconscious patterns form and scars remain embedded. I could never understand why so many times in my life I experienced different forms of ‘betrayal,’ how it seemed I let people take advantage of me. Take whatever I had and run with it.

The truth is, I AM NOT that, but I also understand that to fully let go of the false patterns in the mind, they have to be fully accepted first. There is no other way.

It’s a painful process and it’s taken me a long time to digest, but I have also come to understand the depths of psychology, people, sexuality and spirituality, love and forgiveness along the way. Maybe now, I can also help others toward their healing.

13/07/2024

The pineal gland is crucial to well-being, it regulates sleep patterns, influencing mood and sleep but is easily attacked by pollution, too much acid in the diet and exposure to WIFI - here are a few plants, herbs and spices that counter and re-balance the pineal gland.

10/06/2024

Pilgrimage and visiting sacred sites has always appealed to me. Whether it be India, England, Egypt, Tibet, Australia, the earth has certain power spots, which can shift consciousness, heal past wounds and connect to higher spiritual truths.

The Tor in Glastonbury, Somerset is an ancient sacred site, which predates Christianity and believed to be Earth’s heart chakra.

The Tor, is associated with St Micheal and the mythical lands of Avalon, where according to legend, King Arthur came for healing after his final battle. It’s also believed that Joseph of Arimathea visited, The Tor, with the
Holy Grail.

There are significant Ley lines, that intersect and amplify the energy, connecting like the Internet, to a wider network of earth energies.

The land used to sit in swamps, surrounded by mists until the summer months, hence the name of the area is called, Somerset. Mythically, the area is also known as ‘The Head of the Dragon,’ allegedly, the tail exists in Bali.

Visiting feels like stepping into a timeless zone, far from city life, mayhem and chaos. It’s a place of purification and peace, where the body/mind rests and recharges.

Here, the soul feels free.

16/04/2024

The gift of life is, it keeps giving but the motion, despite emotions, is forgiving.

**ra

14/04/2024

Look up to the sky, see past and beyond yourself.
Like a foreign witness, listen to the range of sounds, they will lead you to silence.

“Great truth has great silence.’

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05/04/2024

Traditionally, yoga is an umbrella of many aspects, such as going on a pilgrimage and visiting ancient, sacred sites. The benefits are lifelong, possibly everlasting!

There are many sites in the world that are aesthetically beautiful and uplifting but going on a pilgrimage is about shifting consciousness within.

This picture is taken on the way to Mt Kailash, in Tibet, a pilgrimage I have done a few times and is an incredible experience.

The first venture, I collaborated with a production company from London, to make a documentary, called ‘The Pilgrim.’

The film, seen through the eyes of a sceptic, was made to inspire others and share the knowledge, which is universal. ‘The Pilgrim,’ was sold to US.

Here are my top five reasons, for participating on a pilgrimage:

1. Purifies the mind
2. Elevates energy
3. Shifts perspectives/ inner transformation
4. Inspires practice
5. Deepens knowledge

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29/03/2024

The Himalayas, where even the atmosphere feels different, as though it’s the breath of Gods.

I remember one time, whilst walking, I met a young Brahmacharia (monk,) the sun beamed brightly, lighting up the top peaks of snow. The river Ganga, below was hurriedly moving, as though chasing after time. We stopped and started talking. I shared my enthusiasm for yoga. He said:

“Your personality changes, like the river that swiftly moves to the sea. Your soul, the Atman, your true nature is like the mountains, it remains changeless.”

“You see, everything in this life is made of these two qualities, Shiva & Shakti. The mountains are like, Lord Shiva, and the river is Shakti. In this life, we see, one thing cannot exist without the other, this is why, in yoga, we say, ‘Non-Dual reality,’ as the path of enquiry is neither.”

He continued:

“Yoga is this knowledge. You are Satchitananda, but believe and identify as someone else. This is the journey of self-realisation, that you are not that.”

- transcendence, stillness, meditation.
- energy, life force, maya, illusion.
- absolute truth, bliss, light.

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18/03/2024

Talking about the body in the ways of healing, enables a deeper practice, it helps expand awareness, which activates more attention to the breath and action.

Here, I am sharing information on the lymphatic system and its importance to health and the immune system.

We don’t often think of the knees until something goes wrong but regulating the lymphatic system and assisting the body to detox & digest, which also helps ground and elevate energy, is found simply by tapping behind the knees.

Try it, for a couple of minutes!! Doesn’t matter if knees are covered. Nothing to lose, only goodness gained!!

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20/02/2024

When land takes the breath away,
It’s a benediction.

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