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Here I am on a train again. Saturday morning, pink skies and a day in Edinburgh catching up on the Gobhar colour grade and sound edit with Ryan and Gaby and editing the film for PAMIS. The week has been full. A filming day with my shoulder rig, a day with PhD meetings, new courses launching, the first of the Shamanic Power Retrieval modules completing and many individual sessions and supervisions with people I work with. I am seeing such a colourful and deeply centred and car

Gosh, it's only the beginning of December and my heart is already full of festive joy. Festive as in that sense of wonder that we know well as being the spirit of Yule. I am talking here also though about the sense of wonder that comes with the magic of holding spaces for deep connective work with people and the planet that I find in my daily work. The people I work with bring a depth, vision and reality to my life that is hard to find in many places. I have been holding cou

It's November, the celebrated Day of the Dead in parts of the world and the veils certainly feel open today. I always wonder at the piercing quality of the elements when November arrives. It is like the stone is really stone and the water is so water, the air so apparent and the heat of fire so inviting. Life and death, well they are such an elemental process. I think it is the elements that birth the soul into living form and the elements are exit openers as the soul moves b

I have been thinking a lot recently about the opening opportunities within life. I mean those portals to great peace and connection; those moments of knowing without any doubt that we are a part of a much bigger continuum. Listening to what is has become my mantra for pausing in the moment and gathering myself together to be in a place of trust. Whenever I do this, whether it be on a busy train, in a filming moment when I am juggling mics and cameras, in a workshop holding

I am in one of my cafe haunts on Byres Road writing the intro material for Wheel 2 and the next bits of literature for Cave and Drum. I...

The first set of the 2 year training for Earth Ensemble Constellation practitioners graduated with me last month. They are now stepping...

As I have been sifting through research on divergency and creative possibilities for my PhD research in filmmaking, (I am studying how to...

Stones. When did you begin and when did I end? My memories of standing stones and leylines go back to my dad and my mum. We have got some...

Artist Shaman Human Lawyer - the truth about these titles

The unbearable mirror of seeing is being refracted back to me as a theme so much. Constellation work reveals the fields at work in our...

In Scotland the aurora borealis are sometimes called the mirrie dancers, subjects of an epic battle raging in the sky. In many cultures...

Today I am filling in an application for a PhD for which I have been gifted a small award and that I think I will probably do. I am...

It's a special day today. Today is 17 March as I write and it is the birthing day of my daughter, Tsen. She is 23 years on this planet!...

Sitting in my Sunday cafe writing my heart out for the first month of the Year with the Archetypes course. Pluto and Persephone are at...

I am a Story Rumbler. The fact is that story is a powerful thing. If you even begin to think about the word you can see that it links...

Today I am hanging out in town, waiting on my car being valeted. I am in between cars. It feels like a shift in focus as the new car is...

These last few weeks I have been feeling myself as a cog inside the machine of time. I don't think it has ever felt as strong as this,...

Time has been something else recently. Like I haven't really been living in time. I have been existing in a place beyond it. I have...

Today was one of those days when I chose to rewind from the trajectory of my life and take refuge in rest and gentle company. Do you...