Stillness Sanctuary

05/11/2025

As the year gallops to a close, it is a good moment to pause and check in with what you need.

I am offering 4 different
Personal mini retreats 💛
to attend to your special needs

1. REST + RESTORE
Are You feeling exhausted burnt out, lack of vitality, low energy and focus?

2. CLEANSE + DETOX
Are you functioning at half your capacity and dragging yourself along feeling clogged up and congested?

3. BEAUTY + PAMPER
Are you needing some pampering and nourishing Ayurvedic beauty treatments that leave your skin glowing, with a unique non surgical facelift and glossy hair?

4. REPAIR + REBALANCE
Have you been struggling with some niggling health issues that just keep bothering you?

Which one resonates with you the most?

Drop me a message and we can chat about how best to attend to your needs and create something special for your personal mini retreat 💫✨💛

25/10/2025

I am offering Ayurvedic retreats at the wonderful
Buddhist Retreat Centre and at Dharmagiri at the foothills of the Drakensberg.

These retreats are an invitation to integrate Ayurveda into your daily lives in simple ways that have a profound healing effect on your health and well-being. Our days will be filled with simple and ancient rhythms - waking and sleeping, movement and stillness, inhalations and exhalations, self nurturing rituals, nourishing food, stillness and activity.

In Ayurveda the word Dinacharya which comes from the root words 'Dina,' meaning 'day' and 'Charya,' which means 'guidelines' or 'to be founded in.' Thus meaning 'to be founded in the day' or as in Sanscrit defined as "the daily routine". According to Ayurveda one should follow Dinacharya in order to lead a healthy and disease free life. Ayurveda gives more emphasis on prevention of diseases than treating a disease. The wisdom of wellness in daily life in Ayurveda really provides a map for health and longevity. The small habits that we cultivate regularly actually have deep long-term benefits for yourselves and your families.

Our daily retreat rhythm will include gentle somatic and therapeutic yoga practices, pranayama (breathwork), restorative yoga nidra (deep relaxation), walking meditation, visualisations, guidelines, notes and talks around Ayurveda and living an Ayurvedic lifestyle. The retreat will be held in a quiet atmosphere to allow us to deepen our connection with our Prakriti - essential nature. No previous experience is required and this retreat is suitable for all levels and ages.

04/10/2025

18/09/2025

You are invited to the awesome Southern Drakensburg retreat 💚

Through the ages mountains have been beckoning folks to draw themselves closer to the Divine within and connect with the powerful forces of nature.

Dharmagiri and the majestic Drakensberg is one such sacred place.

Join us in supportive sangha and feel the power and mystery of this sacred mountain, whilst seeping ourselves in the elemental nature of Ayurveda.

Walking, sitting on the earth, bathing, cleansing in the clear water rivers, inhaling the vast ocean of pure air.

This is a retreat that explores the elements within and without.

Contact Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat for bookings.

I hope to meet you there 🌿💚

29/08/2025

I have been reflecting on

What our gardens offer us?
So much!

🌿 Daily intimate connection with nature
🌿 Joy and beauty
🌿 Moments of ease and reflection
🌿 Bring us into rhythm with the seasonal cycles
🌿 Nourishment
🌿 Organic food to table
🌿 Health and wellbeing
🌿 Enhances the value of our properties
🌿 Spaces to pause and play
🌿 Personal green spaces for you and our world

Have you been wanting to redo your garden or simply improve and enhance your surrounding green space?

It could be a tiny unused area, a large make over or a creation from scratch.

Each garden is a reflection of
each person and their home
and it is unique and personal.

With Spring around the corner
I am offering 3 free garden consultations 💚

Drop me a message on WhatsApp
083 7902780

🌿💚🌿

18/08/2025

The reason I have been so quiet is simply because I have been living in a field in a tent surrounded by the most exquisitely magical ancient English woodlands.
No electricity, no plumbing ~ seriously unplugged and deeply immersed in these magnificent trees and clear water streams.
Connecting and aligning with the elemental world.
Upon waking cold and stiff in the mornings, the warmth of the sun’s rays thaw my bones and bring light, renewal and new beginnings to each day.
I bathe my eyes and face in the little stream and fetch my hot water from the fire.
Living in sangha, living in dharma 🙏🏼
Unseen forces guide me.
Beyond gratitude 🙏🏼✨💛🌿

10/07/2025

Bowing down in immense gratitude to all my spiritual teachers ✨🙏🏼
Today on this full moon is
Guru Purnima
A day to celebrate and remember our gurus and mentors ✨💫⭐️
The wise, profound and compassionate beings that have kindly offered their guidance and support along this journey of life ✨💫⭐️
I am deeply grateful for their compass, without which my life and the world at large would be much the poorer.

May the light of your gurus always guide you towards wisdom and peace.

May your life be blessed with the grace of fine mentors.

Let us honour our teachers who shaped us.

🙏🏼✨💫⭐️💛