: dedicated to deepening our human connections, so that we lead more spiritually and emotionally fulfilling lives; by exploring the wisdom and secrets of our ancestors, and unveiling the beauty beyond the veil and within ourselves.

The Wisdom of Folklore, Story + Myth

Riverwalking

Riverwalking

“The word clarity has two meanings, one ancient and the other modern. The Latin word clarus meant clear sounding, ringing out, ‘clear as a bell’; so in the ancient world, ‘clear’ came to mean lustrous, splendid, radiating light. The moon has this kind of clarity when …

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Women’s Rites of Passage

Women’s Rites of Passage

Innocent girl, virgin, maiden, mother, crone, lover, priestess, enchantress, seductress, warrior, healer, mystic, storyteller, queen, wild woman. All of these we carry within us, sometimes simultaneously; and yet life carries us, time comes, and we change naturally like the cycles of the land; we enter into a different phase of our life, one, that should be supported, appreciated, honoured and celebrated…

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The Secret Threads

The Secret Threads

… Until one day we find ourselves before the landscape, which embodies everything that we have been looking for our entire life; the echo that called us for so long now swells into the sound itself. And we know. Here is the thing that I was made for…

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Why Children Need Fairy Tales for Their Well-Being

Why Children Need Fairy Tales for Their Well-Being

Despite the digital world that we live in today, fairy tales are still important as they carry important benefits for children’s well-being. Tales speak a child’s language and allow them to feel their emotions in safe and healthy ways, even when they can’t make sense of them. Tales nurture children’s imagination, while relieving their worries and fears. Tales also allow us, as a family, to cultivate and nurture a loving space of connection and more closeness …

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What Rapunzel Knows

What Rapunzel Knows

All human societies need to love and to be loved, and to connect with one another. This is how we can experience the full fierceness of human emotions, and only then, would we be able to understand the value of the sacred part of our life…

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Weaving Life: Spindle, Shuttle and Needle

Weaving Life: Spindle, Shuttle and Needle

There is abundance of tales, lore and myth across many cultures, connecting spinning and weaving to the divine and to the threads of fate that lead us toward various destinations, and to each other. There is also the famous concept of The Web of Wyrd, which reminds us that it is our own actions every day that weave the yarn for the day after; a web marrying fate with destiny…

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The Dandelion Girl: Love Transcends Time

The Dandelion Girl: Love Transcends Time

“The day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, yesterday a deer, and today, you.” Love humbly begins from chance meetings, maturing into something meaningful when carefully nurtured and properly cultivated. Each day Julie sees something beautiful and substantial yet each following day is a deeper layer unfolding, beyond the veil of her eyes…

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