Spending time with people you like — and animals — is a crucial way of supporting your health and wellbeing. Watch video
Community as a self-care strategy with William Bloom
INNER SMILE Self-Care Strategy with William Bloom
The Inner Smile is a wonderful exercise for supporting your health and wellness, sending messages of care and reassurance directly through your nervous system. This video also explains some of the science behind how the Inner Smile works. Watch video
Self-Care and Spiritual Practice: How the Inner Smile Supports Your Health
For those of us who are passionate, dedicated, full on change makers, self-care can sometimes go amiss. Dr William Bloom, Findhorn Fellow and pioneer of the first fully accredited qualification course of its kind on the Ofqual register, The Diploma in Practical Spirituality and Wellness, reminds us of the importance of investing a little care and attention in our own good health.... "Self-care as preventative medicine is not new. In classical Chinese medicine the art of being in a friendly … Continue reading
What is the Opposite of Fear?
"Paleontologist and Futurist, Michael Garfield, offers a way for us to learn from the past, and face our fears about the future." Watch video
Esalen Institute in Big Sur Reaches Out
Findhorn's sister community, Esalen Institute, reaches out in the face of Big Sur floods, mudslides and storms. Please join us in our heartfelt prayers and in offering practical support in any way you are able during this challenging time. Financial gifts can be made to the Emergency Closure Relief Fund.... "A week ago our dear friend Cheryl Fraenzl, Program Director at Esalen, Big Sur, California shared news and photos via her facebook page. “Esalen is experiencing an unprecedented situation. … Continue reading
The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you
Being With My Grief For The World
"Don’t apologise for the sorrow, grief and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal." ~ Joanna Macy "I can’t recommend Joanna Macy’s work enough. In times such as we are in I don’t see any other way forward but to find ways to reconnect – to ourselves, to the pain of the world and to each other. My sense is that it’s through embracing our very disconnected state … Continue reading
“We beg for your forgiveness”: Veterans join Native elders in celebration ceremony
Wes Clark Jr. was among the veterans celebrating the #DAPL news and asking forgiveness. Clark got into formation by rank, with his veterans, and knelt before the elders asking for their forgiveness for the long brutal history between the United States and Native Americans: “Many of us, me particularly, are from the units that have hurt you over the many years. We came. We fought you. We took your land. We signed treaties that we broke. We stole minerals from your sacred hills. We blasted the … Watch video
Healing Our Collective Trauma | Dieter Duhm
Much needed healing insight from our community friends at Tamera Research Centre in Portugal. Dr. Dieter Duhm, psychoanalyst, sociologist and author, is a pioneering thinker who has dedicated his life to healing love, building communities of trust and supporting planetary transformation. Behind the crisis of our time hides the core crisis of human relationships "Behind the atrocious massacres, which have been happening around the world, hides a collective soul pattern, which seems to be … Continue reading
Healing Ourselves and the Earth with Ecopsychology
"In the early 1990s psychologist and deep ecology practitioner Theodore Roszak realized that there was a connection between an individual’s emotional problems, the ills of Western society, and the exploitation of the natural world. This led him to search for a new kind of psychology that addressed the sources of our cultural madness and the psychic harm that occurs from being disconnected from nature. "Roszak coined the phrase ecopsychology to describe this new field of study. Ecopsychology … Continue reading