Support for recovery from disordered eating
Our connection with food is both primal and emotional. It’s primal because, like the breath, we depend on food for this embodied life. It’s emotional because of how deeply food is connected with our experience of bonding, connection and belonging. This powerful nexus of love and survival can become connected with experiences of distress. Many […]
Being a salmon
Sometimes life needs us to be a little different. When everyone else is “going with the flow”, sometimes you need to swim upstream. When everyone else is taking it easy, sometimes you need to be putting in the effort. Even if it means you miss out on the fun. When other people are believing […]
Your fertility story – where did you come from, and where are you going?
Where did you come from? According to that “facts of life book”, you came from your parents! But where did each one of your parents come from? From their parents, of course. And where did they come from? From their parents, and their parents, and their parents… At some point you may lose track of […]
Fertility | Meditation and support program
Circle + Bloom is a meditation program to help your fertility: Natural fertility IVF and other assisted reproduction Pregnancy and birthing Other women’s health and general health issues like PCOS, sleep and energy The programs help you enter into a relaxed state and contain helpful information and visualisations to help you connect […]
The deep practice of parenting
Several hundred years ago, Liu Yuan taught “first cultivate oneself, then go about cultivating others.” In his teaching for the everyday person, Customary Words, he explains why this is the only way it works. According to the teaching of Sydney Banks, we experience our life from the “inside out”, so our state of mind […]
Finding the extraordinary within the ordinary
See article “in-shine” for introduction to Liu Yuan Dr Seidman, founder of Hunyuan Research Institute, has released the first in a series of translations of Liu Yuan’s teachings on the heart method and heaven nature. Su Yan (Customary Words) is a teaching for the everyday person. Liu Yuan teaches through examples that are […]
The new year – Southern hemisphere style
The Northern hemisphere new year is in the middle of darkness, stillness and cold – candles are lit, warm food and drinks are taken, and from this introspective setting, people can imagine the emerging of new beginnings in spring. In Australia? Long warm days, markets bursting with seasonal fruit, social gatherings that linger into […]
in-shine
We are taught to always aim to out-shine others – rated and ranked and praised and awarded throughout childhood and schooling, and into the workplace – getting ahead and rising to the top, keeping up with the Joneses and all the rest. And if we can’t outshine then we are left in the […]
