Haunted by a long-held dream – no matter what excuse you throw at it? What is your boldest song, your brightest vision longing to express in this life? Unique course to champion your creativity…

Befriending Your Inner Critic will empower your unique voice and vision. This workshop is for all those who KNOW they have more to say and contribute in this critical time of world challenge.

Women’s Gathering for International Day of Peace & Autumn Equinox   Facilitated by Clare Russell in White Lion Space, central Bristol BS6 http://sacreddestinations.org/womens-gathering-calling-great-peace.html We call in the Great Peace for ourselves, our families and friends We call in the Great Peace for our community and our communities community We call in the Great Peace for […]

Have you noticed how your desire to create – to put your dreams into action – can inspire a raft of excuses, doubts, distractions and competing priorities?  Not enough time, space, quiet or money. Being needed elsewhere. Looking after other people. There’s always tomorrow, next week, month or end of the school holidays. Right? With […]

Practise THREE simple breathing techniques – and explore their impact on your state of mind, your inner being and physicality: * 4-4-4 breath * Kundalini breath or ‘breath of fire’ * Accelerated breathing – or “conscious breathwork”   Conscious breathing will empower you to: * manage anxiety * energise a dream, intention or goal * […]

It was a simple instruction, fraught with tension: take the Jubilee Line three stops and alight at Westminster. Navigating escalators, long pedestrian tunnels, herded into carriages assault the senses at the best of times. Factor in an all-American group of 33 teenagers, 16 adults, most of whom had never set foot on the tube, and […]

The nature of adventure: embracing risk. Mags MacKean (c) Many dream of the thrill of stripping life – and all its pressures – to the basics: heading off on a long distance hike. The rewards are in its promise: relying on strength, stamina and the vision to see a route through – to complete a […]

When The Door Jams. Short story by Mags MacKean Weariness makes her confused – at least that’s how she explains boarding the wrong train.  She is too surprised to feel anything like annoyance. That comes later. For now, she is washed out, spat out, gazing at an unremarkable platform without the promise of anything to […]

I felt the tug of curiosity as soon as my friend told me: the largest Yew forest in the UK. “Perhaps in Europe”, Daniel added. “A grove with some of the oldest trees in the land – so wide you can’t begin to hug them.” Daniel was also a ‘local boy’ – which accounted for […]

Mexico, Building Works & the Serpent of Light When theme plays out in every area of life….   Closing my eyes to really settle, mind still, the roar of breaking waves rises first as memory. At once, I’m in Mexico, on the beach in Tulum facing east towards the Caribbean Sea. It’s windy season and […]