Embracing Peace

13/04/2026

💫 Embracing Light – April Gathering 🌿

🌿 As Spring continues to unfold, the energy begins to gather momentum.

✨ There is a sense of movement, direction and possibility - a natural impulse to reach outward, to grow, and to take gentle steps forward.

🌱 In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Wood element is associated with vision, direction and the ability to move with purpose. It supports growth, creativity and forward flow, helping us to sense where we are heading and how to move in alignment with that.

🌿 In this month’s gathering, we’ll be working with the qualities of the Wood element - supporting clarity, direction and a steady, grounded sense of momentum.

💫 Through gentle embodied practice, guided reflection and intuitive writing, we create space to connect with what is moving within you, and to explore how it might begin to take shape. 🌱✨

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Practical Details:

📅 Saturday 25 April
🕥 10:30am – 1:30pm
📍 Greyfriars Community Centre, Ringwood

🌿 Sign up to the newsletter to receive a £7.50 discount on your first session.

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✨ Your hosts:

Maja McEwan – Embracing Peace
https://www.embracingpeace.org/

Yolanda G Brooks – Letting the Light In
https://www.lettingthelight.in/

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👉 More info & booking:
https://www.embracingpeace.org/event-details/embracing-light-a-monthly-nature-retreat-2026-04-25-10-30-1

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12/04/2026

🌿✨ Forest Bathing – Connecting into the Great Cycle ✨🌿

We don’t often talk about death… but nature does, all the time.

As part of Salisbury Hospice Charity's aDying Matters Awareness Week, we’re offering a space to step out of the busyness of everyday life and into something slower, quieter… and more real.

On Tuesday 5 May, join us at Hazel Hill Wood for a guided forest bathing experience - an invitation to slow down, connect with nature, and gently explore the cycles of life, decay and renewal.

In the woods, these cycles are visible everywhere.
Nothing is separate from them - and we are no exception.

🌿 The session will include a guided forest bathing experience with simple, nature-based invitations
🌿 Followed by time for reflection and shared conversation, opening into themes around death, dying, renewal and the wider cycle of life - held in a grounded, accessible way

No pressure, no expectations - just space to notice, feel, and reflect.

💫 No prior experience needed

Held by:
🌿 Maja McEwan - Embracing Peace
🌿 Tara Reeves - Enerchi
🌿 Monica Wilson - Celebrating Nature

🕙 10am – 12pm (arrive from 9:45)
📍 Hazel Hill Wood, Salisbury
☕ Includes tea & light snacks

💫 Book your tickets here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/forest-bathing-connecting-into-the-great-cycle-tickets-1986896188987?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&_gl=1*1x1sgyc*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTExMDE4Nzc4NS4xNzc1OTQwOTcy*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3NzU5NDA5NzIkbzEkZzAkdDE3NzU5NDA5NzIkajYwJGwwJGgw

All ticket sales cover costs and include a donation to the Hospice.

💚 If cost feels like a barrier, please do get in touch — we’d love this to be accessible to anyone who feels called to attend.

📩 majamcewan@gmail.com

🔗 More about Salisbury Hospice’s Dying Matters Awareness Week

🌿 Hosted by the Positive End of Life Networking Group

more about your hosts:
Maja McEwan - https://www.embracingpeace.org
Tara Reeves - https://www.enerchiwithtara.com
Monica Wilson - https://www.monica-wilson.co.uk/forest-bathing

12/04/2026

🧵✨ Threads of Life
Weaving together memories, stories and legacy ✨🧵

As part of Salisbury Hospice Charity’s Dying Matters Awareness Week, this gentle, creative session offers space to explore the threads that make up a life.

Through simple craft and writing practices, we’ll begin to piece together and weave memories, experiences and reflections - noticing what we carry, what has shaped us, and what we might leave behind.

Alongside the making, there will be space for quiet reflection, opening into themes around life, death, dying, and the cycles that hold it all - approached in a grounded and accessible way.

This isn’t about being “creative” or finding the right words -
just a willingness to explore, in your own way.

🧵 The session includes:
• Simple, guided craft and writing practices
• Time for reflection and gentle conversation
• Tea, biscuits, and all materials provided

💫 No experience needed
You’re welcome to bring your own journal if you wish.

Held by:
🌿 Maja McEwan - Embracing Peace
🌿 Yolanda Brooks - Letting The Light In

🕰 Thursday 7 May | 11:30am – 1:30pm
📍 Salisbury Quakers Meeting House, 51 Wilton Rd

Book your place here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/threads-of-life-journaling-workshop-tickets-1986900447725?aff=erellivmlt

🚗 Parking available round the back (via Fountain Way)

Spaces are limited to keep the group small and supportive.

💚 If cost feels like a barrier, please do get in touch - we’d love this to be accessible to anyone who feels called to attend.�
📩 majamcewan@gmail.com

More about:

🔗 Maja McEwan - Embracing Peace
https://www.embracingpeace.org

🔗 Yolanda Brooks
https://www.lettingthelight.in

🔗 Salisbury Hospice Charity - Dying Matters Awareness Week� 2026

🔗 Hosted by the Positive End of Life Networking Group

18/01/2026

💫Embracing the Light 💫 A Monthly Retreat into Nature💫

Rooted in the Earth, held by the Sky 🌙☀️

In the quiet folds of winter — where rest becomes renewal and darkness is not absence, but a fertile beginning — my friend and collaborator Yolanda G Brooks and I have been planting the seeds of a beautiful new offering.

Embracing the Light is a monthly in-person retreat — a space for presence, connection and quiet depth. A soft pause from the rush and a return to what steadies and softens.

We’ll gather with the seasons, weaving together yoga, breath, meditation, somatic writing and shared presence — a rhythm of reconnection shaped by the cycles of nature and the gentle unfolding of what’s already within.

🌀 We’re currently inviting expressions of interest as the venues and dates take shape. The gatherings will be held in the Coastal New Forest / Hampshire / Dorset area.

If this speaks to you, follow the link below to stay in the loop:
👉 https://fb.me/e/8eOibV4mp

11/07/2025

Waking up this morning I was filled with Enthusiasm and all the joys of life💫✨🔥🌈 I have been tapping into a deep well of creativity in all areas of my life lately and so I decided to try my hand at putting down in words what this energy of enthusiasm feels like to me.

I hope it resonates with you, and maybe sparks a feeling of enthusiasm in you!

✨To see another of my recent creative endeavours take a look at my completely revamped website: www.embracingpeace.org

💫I am taking on new mentoring clients at the moment, so if you feel you could do with some support, you can take a look at my conscious coaching web page and get in touch here: https://www.embracingpeace.org/conscious-coaching

03/12/2023

Freedom is radical allowance of authentic expression.
True freedom is unconditional in it’s acceptance.
True freedom has no rules.

Are you giving yourself the freedom to truly express and be who you are?
Are you giving yourself Unconditional Freedom,
regardless of what that may look like at any given moment?

True freedom does not make demands or judgements.
True freedom knows nothing of possessiveness and jealousy.
True freedom does not try to control.

Do you give yourself the freedom to feel jealous, possessive, controlling?
And do you then,
despite these feelings,
choose to give unconditional freedom to others?

This is the mark of someone standing strong in the sovereign freedom of their most authentic self. Holding the capacity to see and feel the undesirable in our selves, in others and in the world, all the while remaining heart entered and instead choosing random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. Actions and responses become independent from emotional, instinctual or habitual drives.

In the intensity of relationships this can be challenging.

Is your commitment to true freedom strong enough to prevail?
Do you choose to be uncompromising in choosing true, unconditional freedom?

Do you give yourself the freedom to be something other than you have been before?

Are you giving yourself the freedom to be your most authentic self?

At www.embracingpeace.net I support people in coming to a place of sovereign freedom within themselves.


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I offer energy therapy such as clearing, balancing & activations by holding sacred space and inviting your guides and family of light for assistance with any challenges you may be experiencing. Find out more at www.embracingpeace.net

29/11/2023

We are energetic beings. Our physical bodies are energy. Our thought and emotions are energy.
In fact everything we are and everything we experience is energy.

Science has shown us that thoughts are electrical impulses that create the magnetic waves of our emotions, making us electromagnetic energy beings. And each of us holds a unique vibrational energetic frequency that makes us who we are. It emanates from the core of our being and is the experienced as our most authentic self.

Spiritual traditions have long told us that our thoughts are powerfully creative. Modern psychology also knows it. Positive thoughts create positive emotions and vice versa. This is why the practice of awareness or mindfulness is so important. Our consciousness is our most powerful tool with which we create the world we live within, mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually.

Once we become aware of our thoughts, we become empowered to decide exactly how we want to shape and colour our lives by directing our thoughts. We can choose to watch the news, horror movies, listen to gossip or conspiracy theories and the like, tuning into and creating fear, anxiety, worry, despair - and more - for ourselves. Or we can choose to follow the wisdom of our heart and choose to tune into the energies of love, peace, compassion.

The choice is ours. In every moment we can choose one or the other. And even when we decide not to choose - and simply continue as before, that is also a choice. The choice to leave things as they have been.

Of course the choice, one way or the other, is not always an easy or straight forward one. Negative emotions are often very powerful and can hold us firmly in their grip - old habits are hard to break. Or we may be in situations where there doesn’t appear to be a good choice either way. �
And yet, we live in times where the cosmic energies all around us are hugely supportive in moving us out of fear into love, helping us to release the contraction of anxiety, worry, fear etc and supporting us in expanding into frequencies of love, compassion, peace, creative, joy. These high vibrational energies encourage curiosity, transformation and emergence into new potentials and possibilities of our most authentic self.
�For as long as we live in a world of polarity, we will always have a choice. The question is which one do you want to make? Which vibrational frequency do you want to hold? What resonates most truly with you? Will you decide to step into your sovereignty? Are you ready to take responsibility for your the experience that is your life? Do you wish to release old limiting belief patterns, to make healthier choices for yourself and step into your fullest potential?

When we start to make conscious choices, we step into our sovereignty, we choose to empower ourselves and we start to consciously shape our lives. It’s your choice.

I hold space for people who wish to be supported in this beautiful - yet challenging - process. Do get in touch if you are ready to embark on a journey of radical self love and authenticity to tune into and choose the unique vibrational frequency of your essential, most divine nature. My 1:1 sessions will support you in this journey with energetic clearings, activations, attunements and healing.

For more information visit my website at www.embracingpeace.net


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27/11/2023

Self Love can take many forms. For me the most powerfully transformative and healing aspect of Self Love is it’s emotional component. As we learn how to heal old wounds & traumas we empower ourselves to release old limiting beliefs & habits, and free ourselves to step into our fullest potential and brightest future.

Negative emotions can have a powerful hold over us, but there is a way out.

To find out more and book a session, visit https://www.embracingpeace.net



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27/11/2023

You are the only one capable of always being there for yourself.
You are the only one capable of always knowing exactly what it is you need in any given moment.
You are the only one capable of committing to yourself 100%

Why would you rely on anyone else?

This is Self Love
This is true intimacy with yourself
This is coming home to yourself

This is healing

It is empowering
It is enriching
It is Liberating

18/11/2023

What are the most treasured feelings & experiences of your childhood? ✨ I'd love to hear yours in the comments below. ✨

Creativity 🌟 Connection ⚡️ Playfulness🤸exuberance 💥 Curiosity💫Joy ☀ Imagination ⭐️ Innocence 🌞carefree

It is your birthright to feel these. Even now as an adult. As we grow up the joy & exuberance of our younger self may well get pushed aside or buried, but it is possible to re-claim these for yourself.

As adults, we can bring the necessary safety, love and healing to our inner child to allow it to blossom into the fullness of its most beautiful expression - releasing joy, vitality and curiosity back into our life.
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If you feel inspired to give it a go, I specialise in Energy Therapy, which adds the powerful element of energetic work to traditional inner child therapy to bring about deep healing & transformation.
👉 Find out more at www.embracingpeace.net