The itch I’ll never forget the first time I learned the true meaning of ‘learning to stay’. A couple of years ago I was on my way to teach a class in South Sydney. I felt desperate. Like I couldn’t breath. Like there was no space. I felt completely STUCK. Stuck in traffic. Stuck in […]

Lunar Eclipse in Aquarius (inspired by Chani Nichols) This weekend marks an extra-long blood moon Lunar Eclipse. Optimal viewing will be from Australia, around 3am – 5am on Saturday 28 July. This is an extremely important astrological event which marks big changes in our lives that may set the tone for years to come. Eclipses […]

‘The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop being curious. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden […]

Yesterday I met a beautiful man called Nev. We shared a yoga class, coffee and life stories for hours in sleepy Batemans Bay. Nev has just turned 80 years old. He’s been practicing yoga (predominately asana) for over 30 years and told me he has no interest in the ‘spiritual stuff’, just the limber muscles […]

‘Stochasticity’ – lacking any predictable plan or order. Irregularity. My wonderful friend Anna just introduced me to a RadioLab episode exploring how Stochasticity (a ridiculous, wonderful word for randomness) is at the very foundation of our lives. Scientists recently worked out how to watch this fundamental process of genes making proteins in ecoli cells. They […]

Flesh eating spiders are real and I have no idea how to treat their bite. I’ve endured several First Aid courses and the only thing I remember is a man with dead eyes warning me not to help a hypothetical boy who’d fallen off his hypothetical skateboard because he was bound to hypothetically sue me. […]