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Coming Home to the Wild: Stacey Eastwood’s Story

Stacey Eastwood, Yoga Retreat

I Was Staring Into The Eyes of a Lioness. Not for a second. For a long time. Long enough to see her vulnerability, her presence, her own aliveness looking back at me. In yoga we call this dharana… deep, unbroken concentration, the kind of focus that dissolves the boundary between observer and observed. I wasn’t … Read more

Somatic Healing: What Nature Teaches Us About Stress, Tension and Release

There are certain places in the body where stress likes to settle. The jaw, shoulders, chest, and hips. We carry tension without always realising how much of it has built up, until a headache arrives, we struggle to get comfortable, or a stretch never quite releases the pressure. Often, we think of stress as something … Read more