Mandala Holistics

Mandala Holistics IPHM training provider, holistic therapist, Reiki Master, teacher, clinical hypnotherapist & author
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Christmas rainbow on its way 🌈
11/12/2025

Christmas rainbow on its way 🌈

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11/12/2025

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Busy weekend coming up. If you’d like to join our wheel of the year group or our drumming circle please message. (The ne...
10/12/2025

Busy weekend coming up. If you’d like to join our wheel of the year group or our drumming circle please message. (The next intake for the chakra classes is April)

💪🏻❤️(If it resonates, it’s for you)
10/12/2025

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(If it resonates, it’s for you)

Please message if you’d like to give them the gift of a few hours in the zen den.Vouchers can be emailed or picked up fr...
09/12/2025

Please message if you’d like to give them the gift of a few hours in the zen den.

Vouchers can be emailed or picked up from the Zen Den. 🎁🎄🎅🏻

Our drumming circle takes place on Sunday. Please message if you’d like to join us.
09/12/2025

Our drumming circle takes place on Sunday. Please message if you’d like to join us.

08/12/2025

Long before Christmas, long before calendars mapped the year into neat months and weeks, people across Northern Europe marked the turning of the year with Yule, the festival of the midwinter sun. It was a time when the nights were longest, the earth deepest in sleep, and the promise of returning light shimmered just beyond the horizon.

Yule was not a single day but a season—a sacred pause. Fires were lit, evergreen boughs were hung, and feasts were shared, honoring the sun’s slow return and the cycles of life and death that governed the land. It was a time of reflection, protection, and renewal, when households cleared out old energies and called blessings into their homes for the coming year.

The ancient Norse and Germanic peoples celebrated with ritual and revelry. In some tales, Odin himself rode across the skies during Yule, leading the Wild Hunt, a procession of spirits and ancestors that reminded people of the thin veil between worlds. In Celtic and Druidic traditions, Yule honored the rebirth of the sun, with symbols of light—candles, torches, and golden fruits—offered to guide the returning warmth.

Evergreen trees, now so entwined with modern winter celebrations, were originally symbols of eternal life, standing green against the decay of winter. Holly, ivy, mistletoe—plants that survive frost—were hung in homes to invite protection and resilience. Feasting, storytelling, and song filled the long nights, binding communities together against the darkness.

In modern practice, Yule invites us to pause, reflect, and honor the rhythms of nature rather than the calendar alone. It is a time to light candles, decorate with symbols of endurance and abundance, and mark the turning of the sun with small rituals of gratitude, intention, and connection.

Reflection Questions for Yule:
~What are you ready to release as the year turns?
~Where can you invite light, warmth, or growth into your life during the longest nights?
~Which traditions—old or new—help you feel connected to the cycles of the year?

Yule reminds us that even in darkness, light is returning. The season is a time between endings and beginnings, a pause to honor the past, and a call to step into the year ahead with awareness, intention, and reverence.

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08/12/2025

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(If it resonates, it’s for you)

07/12/2025

As winter deepens and the Wheel of the Year turns, the Oak King and Holly King take their places in the eternal cycle of light and shadow. These twin spirits of Celtic lore embody the rhythms of the seasons — one ruler of the waning year, one of the returning sun. Their myth is not of conquest but of balance, a sacred dance played out across the forests, hills, and hidden groves of the land.

The Oak King, lord of the light half of the year, is young, vigorous, and radiant. He rises with the sun, bringing warmth, growth, and promise to the land. The Holly King, guardian of the dark half, is patient, resilient, and protective. He tends the winter fields, shrouds the earth in frost, and whispers secrets through the bare branches and evergreens.

In legend, their annual duel is not violence but a ritual of passage, the turning of the year itself. With each swing of sword or staff, one retreats and the other ascends, marking the slow, inexorable shift from light to dark, and dark to light again. The forests hold witness: oak groves shimmer with frost, holly berries glow against the shadowed trees, and the wind carries the echoes of their dance across hills and valleys.

This myth is a mirror for the rhythms of our own lives. Just as the kings embody the passage of the seasons, we too move through cycles of growth and rest, visibility and quiet, expansion and introspection. The dark months are not empty, they are the stewardship of the Holly King, who holds space for reflection, resilience, and the gathering of strength. The light months are the Oak King’s gift, a time of emergence, creativity, and flourishing.

As you move through these days of early December, imagine the kings’ dance unfolding in the natural world around you. Notice the subtle shifts in light, the crisp air of morning, the quiet of snow-dusted branches. Feel how your own inner rhythms echo the turning of the wheel, honoring endings and preparing for new beginnings.

In their dance, we learn that dark and light are never separate. One flows into the other. One cannot exist without the other. And in their balance, the world — and we — are held, transformed, and renewed.

Yes I mean you! 🫶🏻😘
07/12/2025

Yes I mean you! 🫶🏻😘

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