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Resilience is often described as the ability to bounce back after difficulty . Nature has a way of managing this over and over again. But how can we learn to bounce back when we are swept away by the tidal surge of modern life? We cannot return to ourselves if we are exhausted. We cannot stay open to life if we are constantly stretched thin. Rest is not the opposite of resilience; it is the very foundation of it. Recovery is not something we save for when we reach breaking

We live in a world where there is so much noise. I don’t necessarily mean city sounds or agricultural machinery, but the constant demands on our attention through technology. For me, this results in fragmented internal chatter and a feeling of nervousness. As we are bombarded more and more by external noise, we begin to lose the quiet connection to ourselves — the spaciousness needed to hear the inner wisdom and guidance we all have, but whose voice is being drowned out by th

Trust is earned.  In today’s world more than ever, it can feel hard to know what or who we can trust. For me, I need transparency — no...

Years ago, when I was learning the finer details of carving letters into stone, we were given an assignment: to carve a word onto a...

For as long as human beings have gathered, we have sat in circles. Around fires, under trees, in homes, temples, and sacred places —...

Every day I walk my dog along the River Dart, a place of great beauty and a source of deep nourishment for me. This river runs through an...