There are years that ask questions, and years that answer ~ Zora Neale Hurston
June 11, 2018
The tall tale of how I had open abdominal surgery and later cremated the tumour that was removed in the process.
Tawai – A voice from the forest.
September 21, 2017
A review of Bruce Parry's latest film, and a call to each of us to heed its critical warnings.
The earth has music for those who listen ~ William Shakespeare
May 21, 2017
In December 2016 I spent five weeks in isolation in the Amazon in an attempt to heal my body using plant medicine alone. This is an account of that precious, enlightening experience.
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
June 6, 2016
The story of the first three magnificent months that I spent working in a traditional Amazonian plant medicine centre.
You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens ~ Rumi
February 2, 2016
Lessons learned from offering yoga, meditation and massage therapy at a hospice.
Yoga, imperfection and pink high heels.
June 29, 2015
A guest post written for a friend's website outlining the potentials, the promises and the pitfalls of a spiritual path.
To have faith is to have wings ~ J.M. Barrie
May 21, 2015
What is yoga, truly? Here I give you an illustration of the path of yoga as I see it and live it and breathe it.
It is not the perfect but the imperfect that is in need of our love ~ Oscar Wilde
March 23, 2015
A little look at self sabotage, and the ways in which we so effectively hinder our own progress.
(No longer) dazed and confused.
February 8, 2015
An update from India, and a bewildered attempt to make sense of its teachings.
Metta Surya
December 28, 2014
The first entry from India, with a note on the dangers of expectations.