The 9th of April marks the start of the Vedic New Year, also called Chaitra Navratri (one of two Navratri's during the year, the other happening alongside the next equinox period in September - October).

as meditators, it's the things that are toughest to express to a non-meditator, (such as losing the idea we are separate from the universe and all it contains), that are the real reasons we meditate.

What is in YOUR way? What are you waking up to every day that stops you from achieving the things you want to?

Is it something external to you, or is it actually, yourself?

When you choose to walk the path of 'becoming',

you quickly realise it's more about 'unbecoming'.

It becomes about 'unlearning' rather than 'learning'.

Unbecoming the lie can be tedious, agitating, and frustrating.

I think of it like a chain necklace having become tangled.

A lovely student who completed my online Learn to Meditate course this week asked the question, "what do you think 'consciousness' is in terms of the practice you've been teaching?".

Kindness is free. Kindness doesn't stop with the person you gift it to. Kindness is an exchange of positively charged energy…

Fear, while being a natural and widely felt emotion, is not our nature. It’s a feeling meant for certain moments, to save us from real danger. In these current times, fear has become almost like an underlying constant...rather than an occasional variable.

It's our responsibility to put an end to the trauma, grief, shame and self-hatred that we might be carrying. Until you heal your heart, there will be work to be done. Your heart's work, is the real work.

As I blew out the candles on top of my 35th birthday cake last night, I vowed to start a new tradition.