Rainbow Vibrations

21/11/2025

What a beautiful evening we had last night.

We gathered together in a circle where grief wasn’t something to hide or apologise for, but something to honour, witness and release.

We cried, we laughed, we shared stories that cracked us open, we burnt stuff! 😁

Menopause asks us to let go of so many things, from old identities and roles we’ve outgrown to the expectations we’ve carried for too long. It is a threshold that brings a kind of grief that isn’t always spoken about and even acknowledged, but last night, it was given space.

We wrote our releases onto magic paper, held them with intention and watched them transform into light. A gentle reminder that what leaves us can free us.

And then we shaped clay into small offerings of becoming. Symbols of what we are stepping into, what we are ready to grow and who we are becoming next.

There is something incredibly powerful about women sitting together, laughing through tears, holding each other’s stories with compassion.

This is what the Moon-a-pause journey is about: being witnessed, being held and remembering that this transition can be sacred too, even with all the messiness that it brings.

Thank you to everyone who joined, who shared, who released, who became.

With blessings
Monika 💜

11/11/2025

🌑 Moon-a-pause Workshop: Grief & Letting Go

✨ Next week - limited spaces ✨

As we move through perimenopause and menopause, we don’t only shed hormones; we also shed identities, roles, expectations and old versions of ourselves. Very often all this happens without a safe place to talk about it.

Our next Moon-a-pause workshop is an invitation to pause, breathe and honour everything you are releasing in this powerful transition. We’ll explore why feelings of grief, overwhelm or emotional waves are normal during this stage (and why they are actually signs of deep inner change).

✨ We’ll share stories in a supportive, confidential space.
✨ We’ll take part in a sacred release ritual.
✨ We’ll also do some crafting to anchor what is ready to grow in the space you’ve cleared.

This isn’t about sadness but about making space for your becoming. It’s about releasing with tenderness, so the next phase of your life has room to unfold.

If you’re feeling the weight of old stories, if something in you knows it’s time to let go, if you want to feel understood, supported, and witnessed, then come and sit with us. You don’t have to do this alone.

Free to attend — booking essential (kindly funded by the UK Government) - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grief-release-and-renewal-through-menopause-tickets-1964074585958

With blessings
Monika 💜

Come along in a safe space of like minded people to relax, unwind and share stories.

30/10/2025

We stand on the eve of Samhain (in Irish)​, or Nos Calan Gaeaf (in Welsh)​, the great turning into the deepest, darkest part of the year.

This is the true beginning of winter.​ Even though the air still feels mild, the shift is clear​, the light fades earlier, the nights ​a​re getting long​er and nature begins her descent into stillness.

Samhain marks the third and final harvest​ with the gathering of roots, nuts and berries. The plants have scattered their seeds into the dark earth, where they’ll rest until the sun’s return.

It’s a time to celebrate what we’ve harvested and to release what no longer serves us, just as the trees let go of their lifeless leaves. Nature is drawing her energy underground, and we are invited to do the same​ - to turn inward, rest and tend to the soil of our own inner landscape.

The older I get, the more I welcome this descent ​with the long nights, the stillness, the deep dreaming of winter.

In the coming weeks, may you find moments to pause and breathe.​ To honour what has been​ and to envision what is yet to come.

🌀 What are you releasing as the old year completes?
🌀 What dreams are stirring in the dark?
🌀 What new seeds lie waiting to germinate in your soul’s fertile soil?

The darkness is not empty; it is alive with potential, holding every possibility that will rise again with the returning light.

Blessed Samhain 💀🎃

Witch blessings
Monika 🧙🖤

30/10/2025

As we come to that time of year when witches suddenly become popular and witchcraft fills our feeds, I wanted to share a few thoughts on what being a practising witch really means to me.

I’ll begin with the words of Terry Pratchett, which I read recently and which capture my feelings perfectly:

“Certainly witchcraft... has very little to do with magic as people generally understand it. It has an awful lot to do with taking responsibility for yourself and taking responsibility also for less able people and, up to a certain point, guarding society. This is based on how witchcraft really was, I suspect. The witch was the village herbalist, the midwife, the person who knew things. She would sit up with the dying, lay out the corpses, deliver the newborn. Witches tended to be needed when human beings were meeting the dangerous edges of their lives, the places where there is no map. They don't mess around with tinkly spells: they get their hands dirty.”

That, for me, is witchcraft.

These days, the most visible forms of witchcraft on Instagram and TikTok are all pretty candles, feathers and “how to manifest love and abundance” videos. There’s nothing wrong with beauty, ritual or manifestation. I also love my feathers, candles, bones (as you can see in the photo below) and stones. I have a large collection of cauldrons too! But they’re just tools and tools are only as powerful as the hands and hearts that use them.

Historically, the word 'witch' might not even have been used. Every community had someone who did what Pratchett describes: the one who knew, who tended, who witnessed, who served.

I believe witchcraft is rising again now because we live in a time when so many rights are being stripped away and so many voices are being silenced. Look at the state of the world and what is happening! The witch has always been a rebel, a guardian at the edges, an activist in her own way, a protector of the vulnerable and a guide who helps others find the strength to stand for themselves.

A witch is in service to her community, to the earth, to the unseen.

Yes, spells matter. They shift things on an energetic level. But witchcraft isn’t just about casting spells for personal love or abundance. True magic is also in standing up, speaking out and weaving energy for the greater good for those who have been repressed, forgotten or cast aside.

That’s the witch I aspire to be. The one who tends, witnesses and dares. The one who gets her hands dirty.

What does being a witch mean to you?

Witch blessings
Monika 🧙🖤

24/10/2025

✨ Boundaries - the Sacred Yes and No ✨

Last night’s Moon-a-pause workshop was all about Boundaries ​and learning to listen to the wisdom of our bodies, to know when to open and when to close, to honour our sacred yes and sacred no through this powerful midlife transition.

As women journey through peri- and post-menopause, our energy shifts. What we once tolerated now feels heavy, what we once gave freely now asks to be offered with intention. This is not ​us being selfish​, but it’s a call from within to protect our time,​ our health, our energy and our nervous system.

We shared stories, laughter and moments of deep recognition​, discovering that boundaries are not walls, but pathways back to ourselves.

These Moon-a-pause workshops continue to be a space of learning, reflection​, support and sisterhood​, where we explor​e the physical, emotional and spiritual wisdom of menopause in community.

​The next Moon-a-pause workshop will be on the theme of grief and letting go on the 20th November at Kenny’s Vinyl Vault. These are free UK government funded workshops.

With blessings
Monika 💜

20/10/2025

🌕 Reflections on the Turning of the Seasons

As I continue to work more closely with the seasonal changes and the Wheel of the Year, I’m feeling deeply supported by the rhythm of nature — and by the beautiful energy that Monika brings to our sound events.

Last night we held our Samhain Floating Gong Bath, and as always, it was a truly beautiful experience.

Sometimes after a gong bath, I drift into the deepest, most peaceful sleep. Other times, I wake up buzzing with creative energy — and last night was one of those times. I fell into deep rest early on, but woke around 4am, wide awake and full of ideas. So I decided not to fight it, but to ride that wave of energy and create instead.

I never quite know how it’s going to go — and that’s something Monika often reminds us of. Every session is different, because we’re different every time we come to the practice.

One of the takeaways that really stayed with me last night was her reflection on this point in the year — as we move towards the darkest days, having gathered the final harvest of autumn.

She invited us to find something we love about the season, especially if we struggle with the darker, colder months. Maybe it’s the ritual of lighting your home with candles, soaking in a warm bath, or simply slowing down with a hot cup of tea. Whatever it is, let it become your small act of love for this season.

Because it’s only around six weeks until the Winter Solstice, and from there, the light begins to return.

Monika’s guidance through the cycles of nature is such a balm — especially if you find the darker time of year difficult.

✨ Our next Floating Gong will be on Sunday 14th December, with sessions at 4pm and 6pm.
Spaces are already booking, so if you’d like your Christmas Floating Gong Bath, now’s the time to book in and bathe in that magical sound energy before the year ends.

04/10/2025

The Pop-up Goddess Temple is open 11-1. Join us in the quiet space for meditation, smoke blessings or sacred listening.

We are upstairs at Kenny’s Vinyl Vault in the Goddess Room.

With blessings
Monika 💜

03/10/2025

Step into a sanctuary devoted to the Divine Feminine at our Pop-up Goddess Temple. Here you can receive smoke cleansing, a blessing or simply rest in quiet meditation to calming music. Write a prayer to be offered at the next Full Moon and allow yourself to be held in a gentle space of beauty, presence and sacred listening.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1051490067131534

25/09/2025

Today is the true equal day and equal night, called equilux and happens a few days after the Autumn Equinox (or a few days before Spring Equinox).

The sunrise in Ebbw Vale was at 7.04 and the sunset will be at 19.04. On Monday (Autumn Equinox), sunrise was at 6.58 and sunset at 19.05.

Tonight is a great opportunity to reflect on various aspects of your life and assess their balance. Is anything out of equilibrium? Let us think about these parts of ourselves:

🍂 the active and the passive
🍂 the seen and the unseen
🍂 the outer journey and the inner journey
🍂 the logical and the intuitive
🍂 the conscious and the unconscious
🍂 the known and the unknown

Tomorrow, we are truly stepping into the darker part of the year as the night starts to increase. This is the start of our own descent inwards to our own inner landscape, the time to face our shadow, to dream and vision, to rest and be still, to incubate the seeds for the next year's growth.

In the stillness and darkness, we can discover our own bright spark, so let us welcome the archetype of the Dark Mother.

With blessings
Monika 💜

21/09/2025

With the Autumn Equinox arriving, we welcome the turning of the seasons and step gently into the darker part of the year. Just as the sap of the trees returns to their roots, so too our energy begins to turn inward.

Autumn is a time of duality, when we celebrate the abundance of harvest while also witnessing nature slowly fade.

This is our invitation to honour our own harvest: to reflect on what we’ve achieved during the active part of the year and to notice what may need shifting in order to support next year’s growth.

Like the trees releasing their leaves, we are called to release what no longer nourishes us. What has served its purpose? What holds you back from your path? Release it with gentleness. And remember, release often carries endings and endings are often the opening to a rebirth.

Every leaf released becomes compost for the future, fertilising the seeds of new ideas and projects to come.

Equinox carries the message of balance and it invites us to reflect on all parts of ourselves:

🍁 the active and the passive
🍁 the seen and the unseen
🍁 the outer journey and the inner journey
🍁 the logical and the intuitive
🍁 the conscious and the unconscious
🍁 the known and the unknown

After six months of the outer journey, of doing and striving, we now begin the inner journey, which is a softer, more receptive way of being.

A little note: the equinox is the moment when day and night are almost equal. But the true balance of light and dark happens a few days later, known as the Equilux. This year, the Equilux in the UK falls on 25th September and this is the actual day when daylight and night hours are balanced. A perfect reminder that nature’s rhythms are subtle, not fixed to our calendar.

How will you welcome this change of season and prepare yourself for the deep rest and wisdom of the darker half of the year?

With blessings
Monika 💜

31/07/2025

🌀 Sound Ceremony Magic 🌀

Last week I had the honour of attending a deeply transformative Sound Ceremony course that stirred something deep in my soul and bones.

To be in the presence of other sound healers again after many years, sharing space, learning from one another, listening and weaving sound ceremonies together, was medicine in its purest form. There is something profoundly humbling and powerful about being held in a field of sound resonance created by others who walk a similar path. For me, it felt like a return to the pure joy of sharing sound with others.

We were immersed in many sound ceremonies, from drum journeys, a nine-hour toning ceremony, Om healing, singing bowls, and Peruvian vessels to gong puja and more. Each practice offered a different doorway into stillness, power, presence and dropping even deeper into my own being.

After years of connection through the digital realm, it was such a delight to finally meet Sarah of REIKI DRUM & Sacred Sound Inspirations in person. We've known each other online for years after meeting briefly outside a church in London for a gong concert. And after I originally signed up for this course in 2020, which then didn't happen thanks to Covid, this felt like a long-awaited moment of divine timing.

Gratitude overflowing for this sacred gathering, the teachings shared, and the deep soundscape that continues to ripple through my being.

With sonic blessings
Monika 💜

30/07/2025

The first harvest season has arrived earlier than usual this year. A long, dry spring followed by warm weather meant that many crops ripened ahead of time. So while the calendar may tell us Lammas, or Lughnasadh, is yet to arrive, Nature herself has already shifted. And when we live in tune with her rhythms, we begin to feel it too.

There is no fixed date when it comes to the turning of the seasons. The Wheel moves when the land does. Our ancestors didn’t consult calendars; they watched the fields and only once the harvest was safely gathered would they pause to honour and celebrate.

I’ve felt this shift stirring for a couple of weeks now. The quality of the light is softening, the evenings creeping in just a little earlier each day. And while we’re still deep in the richness of the summer, the path ahead is already gently curving toward the dark.

Lughnasadh often slips by unnoticed, perhaps because of the summer holidays. But when we overlook this threshold, autumn can feel like it arrives suddenly, leaving us scrambling to adjust.

Since aligning my life with the rhythm of the seasons, each one has become my favourite with its own medicine. Just as night brings rest, so winter brings reflection. And every harvest, be it literal or metaphorical, offers a moment to pause, to give thanks and to tend the soil and seeds for the next cycle of growth.

Right now, I’m in a space of gentle reflection. I am grateful for what has grown and honest about what hasn’t. Wondering about what I might do differently next year.

So I ask myself:
🌾Are my dreams and intentions from earlier in the year coming to fruition?
🌾 Is the harvest as bountiful as I’d hoped?
🌾 If not, what needs to change in my planting or tending?
🌾 What seeds would I like to save for next year?
🌾 What parts of my harvest can be discarded and what do I need to let go of to create rich soil for next year's growth?
🌾 And, most importantly, what am I deeply grateful for this year?

Summer holidays can be more than a break from routine. They can become a time to honour your harvest while you gather with family and friends, celebrate your growth, and take stock of the journey so far.

With harvest blessings
Monika 💜