Explainers, how-tos and reference pieces on nervous-system health, patterns to recognise, and spiritual practice — as distinct from the personal essay archive. Looking for the essays instead? Browse those here.
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The Nerve Nobody Talks About
What the vagus nerve actually does, and simple ways to stimulate it when your body won’t settle.
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Healing Is a Daily Practice
Modern life encourages us to override our bodies. Healing asks us to listen to them.
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A Space To Pray
The importance of having a consecrated space to undertake sādhana is something to consider — something tangible that connects you to God.
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Stop Lying To Your Soul
The opening aphorism of the Shiva Sūtras points to the heart of self-realisation: our true nature is pure consciousness. In everyday language, you could say: the more we become aware and refine our energy, the more fully we recognise who we really are.
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Turmeric for Mind and Soul
My daily use of Turmeric as part of a Vedic remedy, a traditional healing practice rooted in ancient Indian scriptures, has been nothing short of transformative.
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What Autumn Is Actually Asking of You
Seasonal wellness without the toxic positivity — spiritual and mental practices for the transition into autumn.
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Why Good People Stay
How coercion actually works, why it leaves a lasting mark, and how to recognise — and break — its hold.
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Idealise, Devalue, Discard
Recognising the narcissistic abuse cycle — and how to rewrite the script once you’re out of it.
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Chocolate for Pain Relief
I had my chocolate last night. I opted for a 70% dark chocolate with vanilla and cashew butter centre. It was a bit pricy but worth it! This is why…
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Emotional Intelligence, Not Perfection
A helpful reminder about the importance of emotional intelligence, self-awareness, empathy, and emotional regulation in relationships.
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The Heart of Relationships
Explore the foundations of conscious relationships, including intention, curiosity, acceptance, commitment and the deeper meaning of love beyond Valentine’s Day. Beyond Valentine’s Day Today is Valentine’s Day. For some, it is joyful, bursting with potential, and for others, perhaps a bitter reminder of what once was. Beyond the chocolates, flowers and bedsheets, how do we…
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Kundalini Shakti – Your Special Power
Explore Kundalini Shakti as a force of transformation, healing and spiritual awakening, and how yogic practice can help us release inherited and unconscious patterns. I wonder if any of you can relate to an overwhelming desire for death and rebirth that is present throughout life? The Wish for Death and Rebirth Desperate thoughts of starting…
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The Pinnacle of your Pleasure is Spiritual
An exploration of female pleasure, orgasm and spirituality, examining how intimacy, embodiment and expanded consciousness intersect within Tantra. What on this good earth does an orgasm have to do with spirituality? Isn’t the idea that orgasms can lead to expanded consciousness, healing…
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Tantra Yoga, Chakras – What?
An introduction to Tantra Yoga, chakras and spiritual practice, exploring how the body becomes a tool for healing, transformation and expanded consciousness. Tantra is the weave or technology that connects everything in the universe. Yoga is the science that brings the microcosm (human) in resonance with the macrocosm (universe). Tantra Yoga is thus an accurate…