pregnant and prepared

Today Mardi (my MIL) and I facilitated our first “pregnant and prepared” couples workshop at the studio. It was such an honour to teach and gently guide six beautiful pregnant couples [...]

sweet success

I just spent some time in the garden. The sun is hot and the earth is abundant with worms and bugs – good bugs. A sign that our garden is thriving. I dug out a whole bowl of potatoes, [...]

chanting in the new year

When you live in an ashram you live simply. You rise with the sun to practice yoga, you eat delicious vegetarian meals that are prepared with time and love (you can taste it) and you spend your [...]

monday summer pics

Trying to get a ‘good’ family Christmas photo. But did you know that toddlers wriggle? Alot. Then the batteries died. And so this is the best outtake. Which is the only appropriate [...]

the boy

since the haircut i can see a little boy. no more baby. and i have a much better idea of what he will look like when he gets older. aren’t little boys just the most adorable little things. [...]

fliss-inspired tree

So I’ve ditched the bah-humbug attitude and found myself a tree. I read fliss’ blog last night (how cute is her little art?!), looked out the window, spotted a lovely, rather dead [...]

monday summer pics

crinkled summer dresses and a grey day outside. perhaps a little how i feel. trying not to get overwhelmed by the Christmas frenzy. trying to stay grounded and calm and be grateful for what we [...]

soul work

The past four days have been so immensely nourishing that I feel, in a way, renewed. It was strange to pack my bag and leave my boys but I did so knowing that it was good for me and good for [...]

summer pics

After days of sticky heat I’m relishing the grey and the wet – the beautiful fresh smell of rain is breezing through the window. A different kind of wet on the weekend though – [...]