Wise Woman Alembic

17/01/2023

08/04/2022

Post Covid Yoga for people who maybe do yoga once in a while. 20 minutes. No equipment required.

Post Covid Yoga for People Who maybe do yoga once in a while.

08/04/2022

Post Covid Yoga.
Easy soft movements.
Ten minutes of yoga for people who don't do yoga, aimed at helping you recover from Covid.
No equipment required.

Yoga to help support recovery from Covid.No equipment or experience needed.

02/04/2022

Grab the tiger by the tail. See where it takes you x

🌙 With a small sliver of a New Aries Moon we say 'Happy New Year' to friends in India, heralding the start of 'Chaitra Navratri' and nine days to honour the Universal Mother Goddess.

The Aries lunation presents a greater emphasis on 'NOW' i.e., this very moment is the perfect time to act with enthusiasm and joy, care and compassion. And for the Spiritual Warrior to honour the Sacred Feminine.

Jai ma Durga!
💗🙏🌺🌙🔥
May the Goddess bless you always,
with Love & Light,

& best wishes also for the start of holy month of Ramadan to our Muslim friends.

from Laura
https://astrodakini.co.uk/astro-dakini
Thanks also to unknown artist for image 💗🙏🌺🌙🔥

12/02/2022

LOVE

There is a lovely idea in the Celtic tradition that if you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition, there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

22/01/2022

When the mind is festering with trouble or the heart torn, we can find healing among the silence of mountains or fields, or listen to the simple, steadying rhythm of waves. The slowness and stillness gradually takes us over. Our breathing deepens and our hearts calm and our hungers relent. When serenity is restored, new perspectives open to us and difficulty can begin to seem like an invitation to new growth.

This invitation to friendship with nature does of course entail a willingness to be alone out there. Yet this aloneness is anything but lonely. Solitude gradually clarifies the heart until a true tranquility is reached. The irony is that at the heart of that aloneness you feel intimately connected with the world. Indeed, the beauty of nature is often the wisest balm for it gently relieves and releases the caged mind.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

31/12/2021

Every New Year's Eve, I sit and create. No expectations or plans, just old fashioned 'cut and paste' - discovering what wishes to be revealed.
I love the simplicity of this one. It is all about bringing Heaven to Earth - Paradisus Terrestrius. The Triple Goddess returns, bringing Heaven to Earth, restoring order, encouraging the flowering of wisdom and awakening us to the truth of the paradise that has been here all along.
Ascension? no thanks, I'm good here. Rapture? no thanks. Keep that death cult to yourself.
May all beings be free and happy in 2022 xx

29/12/2021

AT THE END OF THE YEAR

As this year draws to its end,
We give thanks for the gifts it brought
And how they became inlaid within
Where neither time nor tide can touch them...

Days when beloved faces shone brighter
With light from beyond themselves;
And from the granite of some secret sorrow
A stream of buried tears loosened.

We bless this year for all we learned,
For all we loved and lost
And for the quiet way it brought us
Nearer to our invisible destination.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

21/12/2021

Maruaroa Raumati harikoa e te whānau!
Happy Summer Solstice
The longest day, shortest night of the year.

What will you do with all this light?!
This is the reason for the season
Bright blessings and peace be to the world on this day of light.

Mauri ora

16/12/2021

As the calendars year end approaches
Go softly, softly into the world.
Before you feel that
Rush of heat
Stain your cheeks,
Busyness flustering
Your heart
Your mind pulled
In one hundred directions
Scattering your calm
Like leaves in the wind.
Take a moment
Take a breath
Hold your own
Hands very tightly
For a moment
Then let them fall
Into you lap
And soften
All tension
Falling away.
Softly, softly ask yourself,
What is important
For today?
How resilient
Is my heart?
How much “must” be done
And how much can wait?
Do this to ensure
You have the reserves you require
To navigate these precarious times.

10/12/2021

“An ancient philosopher once said
that the bee extracts honey
from the pollen of the flower,
while from the same source
the spider extracts poison.
The problem which then confronts us is:
are we bees or spiders?

Do we transform the experiences of life
into honey, or do we change them into poison? Do they lift us,
or do we eternally rebel against the pricks? Many people become soured by experience, but the wise one takes the honey
and builds it into the beehive
of his own spiritual nature.”

Manly P Hall