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Vedic Meditation Teacher 🌟Aromatherapist 🌟 Yoga Teacher 🌟 ‘Food Matters’ ™️ Nutrition Plants are Medicine.

12/02/2026

Why mandalas are made 🌸

A mandala is not decoration. It is an offering.

The word mandala comes from Sanskrit, meaning circle — a symbol of wholeness and the eternal rhythms of nature: creation, preservation, and dissolution. Its symmetry reflects the harmony of the cosmos, reminding us that what we create externally mirrors our inner state.

Mandalas are traditionally made to:
• honour sacred space
• quiet the mind through repetition and attention
• express reverence for life and nature’s intelligence

Flowers are often used because they are alive, impermanent, and freely given. The marigold in particular carries symbolism of purity, radiance, and golden light. Each petal placed with care becomes a meditative act — devotion made physical.

There is no goal of permanence here. The beauty lies in the making, not the keeping.

When we slow down enough to create — or even witness — beauty with awareness, devotion becomes embodied.
Sometimes the practice is the offering.

📍 Dausa–Bandikui

09/02/2026

Most of us garden for an outcome. And when you garden for an outcome, it can be overwhelming. Yes, it can be rewarding when harvesting vegetables and flowers, but when things don’t come to fruition, it’s not so great. It can feel like you’ve invested so much time, effort, and money into something, only to be disappointed. That’s how I’ve felt over the last few months.

I rely on Mother Nature for my garden to flourish. Yes, I have a watering system in place, but I can only water enough to prevent the plants from dying — otherwise I’ll empty the tank I’m using. I need rain every so often.

With summer’s back-to-back 40-degree days and no rain, things just were not going well. My tomatoes and zucchinis didn’t grow. Only one of the many cucumber plants grew, and they got eaten by something. Silverbeet and kale did just as poorly. All I was harvesting was citrus fruit. It could be the soil too — who knows. I couldn’t even be bothered checking the soil because it was so discouraging.

People on Instagram have been posting their dahlias for ages. This is my first batch. Hooray for the rain.

Turns out growth listens to conditions — not expectations. And plants grow when they’re ready, not when I decide they should. 🌱

03/02/2026

Awakening

There is a strange grief in waking up.
Not for what was lost,
but for what now seemed possible.

Pulling away from chaos
is not abandonment —
it is self-preservation.

There comes a moment
when apologies fall silent,
when guilt is recognised
as something you were taught to carry.

Peace does not always arrive loudly.
Sometimes it comes
from not being there.

Not asleep —
but seeing clearly.

Some never look in the mirror.
Others spend a lifetime
being blamed for the reflection.

📸

31/01/2026

Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946.

From a young age, he was wrestling with meaning, identity, and the inner life, and rebelled against anything that felt imposed or dogmatic.

Brilliant but sensitive, Hesse struggled with formal education and religious rigidity. As a teenager at the Maulbronn seminary, he had a psychological crisis and ran away, later saying, “I wanted to become a poet or nothing at all.” That strain between expectation and inner truth, was the foundation of his work.

Long before Eastern philosophy became fashionable in the West, Hesse was reading the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, and Buddhist texts. He travelled through India and South-East Asia while asking the questions that echo through all his writing: Who am I beneath my roles? What remains when everything changes? Where does peace actually come from?

His novel “Siddhartha” made his search visible. It’s about a young Brahmin’s spiritual journey in ancient India to achieve self-realisation.

In the 1960s, the book found new life among counterculture readers drawn to its message of inner freedom and self-discovery.

In a world full of noise, his work continues to remind us to move beyond it and return to what’s already within us.

21/01/2026

Do you include Ginger in your diet?
Ginger is the root or rhizome, of the Zingiber officinale plant, which is native to southeastern Asia.

Science-backed benefits of adding ginger to your diet:
• Helps reduce inflammation
• Supports digestion + eases nausea
• Can help stabilise blood sugar
• Naturally boosts circulation and immune function

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, ginger is used to “warm” the body — supporting digestion (Spleen/Stomach), moving stagnant Qi, and helping the body handle cold, damp conditions. In other words: it gets things moving again.

How I use it:
• I add it to my juicing and it gives a spicy kick.
• Boil slices on the stove top for a simple ginger tea with immediate benefits.

Small root. Big benefits. 🌿✨

18/01/2026

Big congratulations to these beautiful women who’ve just completed their Vedic Meditation course 💛 Freshly initiated. Nervous systems settling. Awareness expanding.🙏

Welcome to a life lived with more clarity, resilience, intuition — and yes, higher states of consciousness.🪐
(If you’re not doing this… you are missing out 😉)

Much love and gratitude to Karl at One Big Heart Yoga for opening your studio to bring this to the community. And thank you to Rae for helping bring it all together. ❤️

Congratulations and Gemma 👏

Jai Guru Deva 🙏

16/01/2026

How do you usually respond when you’re faced with a difficult decision?

Do you move from urgency — just to get it done, to relieve the pressure?

The Bhagavad Gita offers a different sequence.

“Established in yoga, perform action.”
— Bhagavad Gita 2.48

Yoga here doesn’t mean a posture. It means being established in Being — a settled inner state, beneath the agitation of the mind.

In the Vedic worldview, creation, maintenance, and dissolution are the fundamental laws by which nature operates. Nothing exists outside this cycle — not galaxies, not ecosystems, not even thoughts.

The three gunas are how that same cycle expresses itself within human experience.
• Rajas is creation — movement, initiation, drive
• Sattva is maintenance — balance, clarity, harmony
• Tamas is dissolution — rest, completion, letting go

Most decisions are made inside one of these forces — rushing, clinging, or avoiding — rather than from clarity.

The Gita doesn’t ask us to manage the gunas better.
It asks us to go beyond them.

And that isn’t done through thinking or effort.
It’s done experientially — by regularly allowing the nervous system to settle into stillness.

From that still point, intuition is freed, everything becomes clearer and action feels frictionless and charming.

Stillness first.
Then decision.
Then action.

That’s the order the Gita points to.

And when we live in that order, life starts working with us — not against us.

13/01/2026

Aromatherapy is a natural therapy that works by understanding how plant compounds interact with the body. When used correctly, with 100% pure oils, essential oils can support all body systems — not by masking symptoms, but by assisting the body’s own repair processes.

As a trained aromatherapist, I’m very intentional about oil selection, dilution, and application. This isn’t about nice smells or guesswork — it’s about using specific plant chemistry in a targeted and effective way, especially for everyday issues like sore, tight, strained, or overworked muscles.

Here I’m blending oils, topped up with fractionated coconut oil — a carrier oil that plays an important role.
It does two things:
• It helps keep the essential oils concentrated on the area you want them to work on (rather than being absorbed too quickly into the bloodstream)
• It reduces the risk of skin irritation, making topical use safer and more effective

These oils were intentionally chosen to support sore and strained intercostal muscles. Having targeted blends ready to go means you can respond early, instead of waiting until it escalates.

This is where aromatherapy really shines ✨Small, precise interventions.
Well-researched plant compounds.
And practical tools you can reach for straight away — nipping issues in the bud before they become bigger problems.

10/01/2026

Devotion isn’t something we really grow up with in the West. In the East, it’s woven into daily life.

Visiting Tat Wale Baba’s Cave in Pauri Garhwal, I felt that difference straight away. In the Himalayas, there’s no chasing, no proving, no background hum of competition. Just a quiet commitment to something larger than the individual self.

Back home, we’re conditioned to strive — to accumulate, to measure success, to build identity through achievement and things. In India, there are rich belief systems and rituals everywhere you look, but devotion goes deeper than that. It’s a lived reverence — expressed through simplicity, relationship with nature, community, and an attunement to life’s rhythm.

Where the West often tries to possess, the East tends to honour.
Where the West pushes to be noticed, the East rests more easily in being.

And in that stillness, something becomes clear — happiness doesn’t come from adding more, but from reconnecting with what’s already here.

07/01/2026

"Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life." – Buddha

Born as a prince, Siddhartha Gautama left behind a life of luxury in search of truth. Through his journey, he discovered enlightenment and became the Buddha. His words call us back to presence — the doorway to peace.

03/01/2026

A student once asked his teacher why meditation was needed if the mind was already “pure consciousness.”

The teacher pointed to a still pond.
“Look,” he said. “When the pond is undisturbed, the water is clear. You can see the bottom. This is like the nature of the mind — clear, settled, reflective of truth.”

Then he picked up a stick and stirred the water. The mud rose, the water clouded, and nothing could be seen beneath the surface.
“This,” he said, “is the mind when it is stirred by activity, stress, and constant thinking. The clarity is still there, but it is hidden by the agitation.”

Then he stopped stirring. Slowly, the mud began to sink on its own.
“When the mind becomes quiet,” the teacher continued, “the impurities naturally settle. You do not force them to settle, you simply stop disturbing the water. Meditation allows the mind to settle into its own calm, clear state. When the mud drops, clarity returns.”

31/12/2025

January 1. A new calendar year. New Year’s resolutions. Changes.

How do you meet change?

For some, this day feels energising — new goals, new habits, a new you. For others, it brings pressure or stress, to be doing something differently, better or keeping up with others.

But the Vedas remind us of something grounding. Change isn’t a New Year’s resolution, it’s the constant rhythm of nature itself. And change will come when it needs to. You don’t force it.

In Vedic philosophy, life moves through an eternal cycle: creation, preservation, and dissolution. Siva — the great transformer — represents dissolution. Not destruction as punishment, but dissolution as liberation. Clearing stagnation and what no longer serves, so something wiser can arise.

When we resist this movement, stress arises.

Decades ago, after a conference on stress, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi asked one of his followers, “What is this thing ‘stress’ they keep referring to?” After it was explained, he paused and replied: “Oh… you mean it’s resistance to existence.”

That one line says everything.

Stress is resistance to change. Peace comes when we move with nature’s rhythm.

Vedic Meditation helps us live without friction. Twice a day, the body settles into deep rest and the mind releases its grip. When we regularly access this stillness we are more intuitive and can access our fine level of feeling to move with the flow of nature, rather than against it. When this happens change isn’t an effort, but frictionless.

✨ New year. Same laws of nature.
✨ Change is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

🧘‍♀️ Ancient wisdom. Modern calm.
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