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Every time I hear Jon Alexander speak, my hope and optimism grow exponentially.

So I’m excited to invite you to a small but big-hearted event on Thurs August 29th for an inspiring and uplifting evening in conversation with Jon Alexander!

I anticipate the night will be as uplifting and hope-inducing as it has been to create this event collaboratively with truly epic humans Emilie Fetscher Jade Tang-Taylor and Jim Scully ✨⚡️

https://events.humanitix.com/jonalexander-citizens

Exploring the New: An evening with Jon Alexander, author of Citizens - Hosted by Goodlife Collective & ThinkPlace supported by Voice of Aroha | Humanitix Exploring the New: An evening in conversation with author Jon Alexander, A ThinkPlace + Goodlife Collective Collab!

Your weekly yoga pick me up iif you’re near Cuba st! 💛

Hope to see you on the mat this Thursday !
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When was the last time you intentionally carved out a calm, healing space to recharge your batteries? This beautiful weekend is for you xx

Join us on (either or both) Sat 10 & Sun 11 August for a restorative & rejuvenating yoga and somatic workshop, with Dr Luke Sniewksi, Scenic Saunas hosted on Saturday at beautiful Pause Yoga in Days Bay!

More info and sign up here: https://events.humanitix.com/somatic-healing-weekend
and with love - use SOMA15 at checkout to get 15% off xx

Would you like to learn ways to increase your capacity for calm, peacefulness and joy? This Somatic Healing Weekend workshop (join for 1 or 2 days!) is designed to reconnect you to your body's own capacity for healing, calm and stillness.

Your body is an amazing source of innate wisdom - join us to learn and practice tools and techniques to unlock that wisdom and potential.

Saturday & Sunday, 10 & 11 August in Wellington:
https://events.humanitix.com/somatic-healing-weekend

Hey beauties, welcome to your weekend!
Speaking of weekends, I've helped pull together a lovely weekend of Somatic Healing & Yoga, with Dr Luke Sniewski, Sat-Sun, 10+11 August, Wellington 🧡 https://events.humanitix.com/somatic-healing-weekend

The weekend includes guided meditation, yin yoga, breathwork, talks, group discussion, hot/cold immersion (ocean and sauna), connecting with people, and more - see below.

This is an amazing opportunity to learn from Wellbeing Coach & Somatic Therapist Dr Luke Sniewksi. Luke is a certified Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner - a therapeutic approach developed by Dr Gabor Maté. Luke's book Somawise is a guide to unlocking your innate wisdom, strength and healing capacity. Find Luke at: www.somawisehealinglab.com.

Huge thanks to Pause Yoga Studio in Days Bay, and Scenic Saunas!
Feel free to forward this on xx
https://events.humanitix.com/somatic-healing-weekend

Weekend with Dr Luke Sniewski: Creating Authentic Change (Day 1) | Healing Trauma through Stillness (Day 2) | Humanitix Yoga & Healing Workshop - Dr Luke Sniewski & Freda Wells

“Culture of progress versus culture of comparison”
~ Dean Graziosi

The only person to compare ourselves to, is our past self 💛🧡💛

I'm excited to share this beautiful event coming up in Wellington - A Somatic Healing Weekend with Dr Luke Sniewski, Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 August.
Connect with your inner capacity for integrating healing, enjoy inspirational and informative talks from Luke, and breathwork and yin yoga from me :)

Earlybird pricing until 30 of June - only 20 spaces for Sat and 30 for Sunday!

Weekend with Dr Luke Sniewski: Creating Authentic Change (Day 1) | Healing Trauma through Stillness (Day 2) | Humanitix Yoga & Healing Workshop - Dr Luke Sniewski & Freda Wells

Excited to share a favourite, 40min slow yoga flow - to release spine, neck and shoulders, good for anytime of day. Enjoy xoxo

40 minute grounding flow Freda Wells This beautiful gentle grounding flow eases into and releases tightness around your neck and hips. Flow through gentle standing asanas, open up hips, warm up ...

Brene Brown says it so well... always...

“We are complex beings who wake up every day and fight against being labeled and diminished with stereotypes and characterizations that don’t reflect our fullness. Yet when we don’t risk standing on our own and speaking out, when the options laid before us force us into the very categories we resist, we perpetuate our own disconnection and loneliness. When we are willing to risk venturing into the wilderness, and even becoming our own wilderness, we feel the deepest connection to our true self and to what matters the most.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

Heal heal heal…

What a beautiful conversation that I think is a must-listen!

Learning about attachment styles, about the immensely important role of making the repair -
This.is.a.must.listen… to look beneath the surface of why we react to what we do, why we “always end up with that type”
Etc - enjoy!

‎We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle: 237. Why We Love the Way We Love: Attachment Styles with Dr. Becky Kennedy on Apple Podcasts ‎Show We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle, Ep 237. Why We Love the Way We Love: Attachment Styles with Dr. Becky Kennedy - 16 Aug 2023

Dreamy start to this stunning autumn day

Excited about this event next Thursday 25th, find out more and grab a ticket at the link below and join us!

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=210535688427022&id=100084117776259&mibextid=qC1gEa

In conversation with Dr Thomas Legrand: The Politics of Being. Wisdom & Science for a New Development Paradigm, Wellington, Thu 25th May 2023, 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm NZST | Humanitix Goodlife Collective presents: INSPIRATION SESSIONS - An evening with: Dr Thomas LegrandThe Politics of Being - Wisdom and Science for a New Development Paradigm with Dr Thomas Legrand. For the Goodlife Collective's inaugural inspiration session, we are honoured to bring you internationally-acclaimed...

Super excited to be hosting a 90min, intro to essential oils workshop! Saturday 6 May, 12-1:30pm 💛🌱🤸‍♂️
Come join us and learn more about easy ways to detox and upshift your energy and health!

https://momence.com/Freda-Wells/OPEN-DAY-%2F-Essential-Oil-workshop/85989428

Happy Earth Day! 🌍️

Today on the Root Calendar we have Yoga For Grounding. Yoga to assist you in creating harmony and balance. 🙏

Connect to the Earth! Find peace from within. Ground and stabilize your energy! Find What Feels Good. ❤️

Tap the link below to try this practice in honor of Earth Day!
https://youtu.be/FQ74ZykbFFE

“Anything that annoys you is teaching you patience.
Anyone who abandons you is teaching you how to stand up on your own feet.
Anything that has power over you, is teaching you how to take your power back.
Anything that you hate is teaching you unconditional love.
Anything that you fear is teaching you courage to overcome it.
Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.”
By Jackson Kiddard

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Beautiful inspirational article on what yoga philosophy and te ao maori, can offer us to address climate change...

Yoga, te ao Māori and climate change action — The Kiwi Diary Climate Change Consultant and yoga teacher Michaela Aspell, explores the connection between te ao Maori values, and yoga philosophy, and how their similar approaches, offer valuable insights into the thinking required for us to achieve effective action on climate change.

Indulge in this insightful conversation between two beautiful and wise minds

Fritjof Capra’s Systems View of Life A Conversation between Fritjof Capra and Daniel Wahl (Transcript Part I)

A gift to your mind soul and spirit - I can’t recommend this book enough:

A beautiful poem from Donna Farhi’s page 💛🧡❤️

“I am making a home inside myself.
A shelter of kindness where everything is forgiven, everything allowed—a quiet patch of sunlight to stretch out without hurry,
where all that has been banished
and buried is welcomed, spoken, listened to—released.

A fiercely friendly place I can claim as my very own.
I am throwing arms open
to the whole of myself—especially the fearful,
fault-finding, falling apart, unfinished parts, knowing
every seed and w**d, every drop of rain, has made the soil richer.

I will light a candle, pour a hot cup of tea, gather
around the warmth of my own blazing fire. I will howl
if I want to, knowing this flame can burn through
any perceived problem, any prescribed perfectionism,
any lying limitation, every heavy thing.

I am making a home inside myself
where grace blooms in grand and glorious
abundance, a shelter of kindness that grows
all the truest things.”

— Julia Fehrenbacher

Note to self!

How do you like your cauliflower? Try it with some bangbang, you won't go back!
https://www.esho.life/recipes/bangbangcauliflower

Bang bang cauliflower with satay lime tahini sauce — esholife Cauliflower doesn’t get much better than this… nutritious and delicious - with the mouth-watering lime ginger zing!

Some of my favourite oils…
this is an “oilssome” 😬 deal if you’d like to know more!

Adaptiv is a KEY oil for emotional balancing and calming, thanks to Melissa oil amongst others
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“Because we often think of vulnerability as a negative trait which leaves us exposed to harm, I thought we could do with a new word which acknowledges its power: vulnerabravery. Instead of putting up our defences when we meet with conflict, vulnerabravery is the conscious choice to keep our heart open so that we might discover what’s hidden within it. It is a great paradox that when we let ourselves be undefended we find our true strength.”

Excerpt from “Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home” by Toko-pa Turner (belongingbook.com)

Photograph of a reader from Sweden, who is showing off her left arm where she’s tattooed the word vulnerabravery.

open your 💛
Feel your truth
Draw earth energy up
Root to rise
Let go to fly
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If I could go back I would tell her...
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That one day she’ll look back once the fog has cleared and realise those days were filled with magic. The type of magic you only see long after the trick. The beauty and then the bittersweet.

I’d tell her that the memories she’ll lose herself in won’t just be the milestones, but those long nights. She’ll never forget the pain of fatigue, but nostalgia will colour her memory and she’ll find herself aching to breathe in those cuddles again.

I’d tell her about the tears, that with each cry she is learning.
I’d tell her I’m not just talking about her baby.

I’d tell her she’ll have alone time again, but it will feel like two hearts wandering in different directions. She’ll ask if it’ll always feel like that. I’ll tell her I don’t know yet.

I’d tell her that her eyes will close, the sun will rise, but in between those moments she’ll feel so alone in the company of the stars. I’ll tell her each of those stars is another mother feeling exactly the same way, that she is never alone.

I’d tell her she doesn’t need to be the perfect mother and the moment she believes there’s such a thing is the moment she believes she is failing.

I’d tell her that she is moving mountains, even when she loses her footing.
Especially when she loses her footing.

I’d tell her in some ways it gets easier, but for every first, there is a last. The hardest part is not realizing till later that a chapter has closed and you’re turning back the pages trying to pinpoint when you forgot to say goodbye to that mispronounced word.

I’d tell her it isn’t a typical love story. Motherhood is the raw unedited version with all the outtakes, which is what makes it the most beautiful story of all.

I’d try to describe the power of the infinite love she’ll feel, how it will consume her, scare her, comfort her.
That a love like this is a silent language that speaks in volumes.

But I won’t tell her these things, because she’ll forget like we all do so we can discover them for ourselves, as we’re meant to.

So instead I’d simply tell her that she is seen, she is amazing, and she is enough.
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Jess Urlichs, Writer


Happy Mother’s Day💞
-L.R.

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Fighting a rare, incurable cancer, but I'm still here!💞 L.R.

Healthy reminder xx