Holistic Wellness with Natasha

Want to intimately know the power of your breath?

Of all the breathwork modalities I’ve experienced over the last 30 years, it is the Biodynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System that has my heart. This spiritual and personal growth process safely releases stress and trauma from the nervous system and creates space and relaxation in the body. It unites Eastern and Western wisdom and techniques, ancient practices, and the cutting-edge science of trauma healing.

In our workshops and trainings, you are invited to feel - really feel - your physical body, heart, mind, spirit, and energy centers. This authentic connection with ourselves allows us to stand more powerfully in the world, release stress and tension, consciously step away from negative patterns, and embrace our fullest potential.

Whether you are an aspiring health practitioner, an experienced breathworker, or coming for your own personal transformation, you will leave our time together empowered to navigate your own healing journey and equipped with tools to facilitate profound shifts for others.

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Feeling the need to nourish your and relax your body?

~ Spaces available for aromatherapy massage. ~

~ Breathwork sessions also available. ~

Biodynamic Breathwork supports your health and well being, mediation practices, self awareness, rediscovering your Inner balance and deeper feelings of clarity, your connection to yourself and others.

We use Sound, touch, meditation, breath, emotional release and movement.
Gently guiding you to breathe and unwind your body, tensions and trauma in a safe environment.
Using pendulation and titration so that your body doesnt become overwhelmed this then allows you to feel, explore, release and return to resource.

Please PM to book now.

I also offer small group breath sessions locally here in Amberley.
Please contact me for further details.

Breakfast will be yummy! 😋
First crops of the season! Lol I couldn’t help it I just had to taste the first courgette 🥹😛

🤩 Nectarines, Lotus, Lemon verbena and gardenia in bloom 🥰

It’s been a LOONG week! But a good one,

We got up to schoolwork, feeding and praying the baby kittens will do well (which I do not recommend bottle feeding kittens if you like to sleep 😅😴) I wouldn’t change it but it IS ALOT of work) gardening and feeling super blessed with the fruits of our labour.
Garlic was pulled up and the last of the veggie garden planted. Mushroom growing, eating and selling.
I had some wonderful conversations about how wonderfully our children are blossoming in every way, in music, schooling, wilderness skills, in being entrepreneurs and having there own to little lucrative business to save for a new violin.
☀️🩷 My heart feels SO full of abundance and so full of pride, it’s brings tears to my eyes to see this wonderful life I imagined unfold - not many see the day to day grind, the mess of the house, of myself with hair deshevled digging in the garden in a new skirt a big smile on my face🤣 I adore the people I’m doing life with and when decided to take the courageous step to love myself and really take responsibility for myself it changed my WHOLE world and it changed my relationship with my husband to something so incredibly amazing and I didn’t even know it was possible and it gave my children opportunity to see things differently and have experiences that maybe otherwise they wouldn’t have had in conventional schooling.
We are wild, we are slightly feral and I wouldn’t change it for the world! 😜

I think sometimes we don’t actually realise how powerful we are as humans to change our lives and empower ourselves and others around us or better yet be brave enough to start making a change….
🐢 it doesn’t have to be grand and others may not see it…

BUT….

If you have ever felt that, keep going, keep exploring it you WILL find your hearts path, do not give up when it gets hard but ask yourself what is it trying to show you? to teach you? How can you surrender to it just a little bit?
Be brave, you’ve got this.
Cry those tears that ask to be shed,
Feel into that anger that boils under your skin,
Release that tension that holds your shoulders tight,
All of it is welcome and all of it is okay to feel
Breathe into it…. surrender
Fall into that peace, let it hold you awhile
That beautiful gratitude
The love of all abundance that is there for you

Life is a wonderful thing and such a blessing to be treasured 🥳☀️🥰💕🐈🐈

Thank you and may the LOVE be with you today,
Natasha xx
☺️🙃🥰

Blends of edible, herbal and floral 💜🩷❤️💚
Scarlet runner beans, lemon verbena, vilarian, feverfew, wild strawberries and peonies plus fish pond and you can’t quiet see the echinacea growing in the medley of green!

I’ve been busy in the garden!
Haha it seems to be the theme here these days…

Harvesting the last winter crops, and getting ready for the summer rotation.
I was really excited about these rainbow carrots! They grew really well, while a couple were a bit over grown I was really glad to see that they grew so well in my latest ‘back to Eden’ style garden!
(I highly recommend watching the documentary)

Haha now my ONIONS are another story!
SO I was under the impression I planted ONION , onions 🧅 🧅
Not SPRING onions…. 🤣 thanks to my friends who got a heap of them off me because what the heck was I gunna do with them all?!
….. red Spanish bunching onions are not regular onions 😂 looks like I may have not read the packet when I planted them! OOPS!!
I made a big pot of onion Chutney…. Mmmm
Last photo is of our pink Oyster Mushrooms! Hubbys new hobby 😋😋 I guess we just can’t stay away from growing MORE food! 😜
It’s never a bad thing, and I’m not complaining!! 🥰🥰 as always feeling so blessed.

If you want to follow the Fb page it’s
Woodsmen Mushrooms 🙂

Words for the week:
Follow your intuition you never know where it may lead you or what you will discover! 💕☀️🌈

Love, blessings and sunshine,
Natasha ☀️💕

I got a little lost in my garden, today was making space for my summer crops.
I LOVE the colour of these golden beets. And p***y the pumpkin the kids carved 😍
What a treasured blessing life is 💜🌻

A BOUNDARY
…is not a punishment!

A boundary
doesn't trap you inside of it,
and it doesn't mean
that you must close your heart.

It's not a NO to someone else’s existence.
It’s a YES to yours…

To your voice. Your delicate heart. Your truth.
Your path, however uncertain you feel.
Your way. Honouring it. What you need, what you feel. What you don't.
What feels right, and what doesn't.

It's not an attack on the other,
(even if it feels that way to them).

You can't control their feelings.
But you can honour your own.
(And you can understand
their disappointment and hurt too).

You can't change their thoughts.
That is certain.
But you can trust and allow your own.

From a place of deep acceptance,
from total alignment with the way things are,
grounded in love,
rooted in the undulating breath,
you find yourself bravely saying…
NO.

And this kind of NO
has the power of life in it,
since it emanates from
a deep YES to existence.
It contains no violence, only truth,
dignity, self-respect, clarity.

You have a right to your NO
and a right to your YES.

True boundaries do not block love,
they protect it,
allow it to flourish, freely, safely…

…in the deeper YES
of unbounded
Presence.

- Jeff Foster

I always feel so blessed when I see the garden growing so well, And I’m so excited to see the garlic coming up! 🧄🧄

Life is such a blessing, enjoy the little things ☀️✨🌿🍃💕

Beautiful Autumn days and a much needed pampering exchange with hubby to ease sore muscles 🥰✨ great way to relax and unwind for the evening. ❤️

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New veggie gardens going up!
What a HUGE process but it’s FEELS so good to be able to grow your own food! (I hope to get lots of garlic and elephant garlic)

Little blessing of the day was to find this basket fungi! 🍄

And when we re seed our back lawn with good carbon crop blend for the chickens plus a few extra greens so we can eat out of it too! 😂

Life is a blessing everyday, in every way ✨❤️

Autumn ❤️
something about the changes of colour and the promise of spring to come xx

💕How deeply this resonates 💕

How I became a warrior~~

Once, I ran from fear
so fear controlled me.
Until I learned to hold fear like a newborn.
Listen to it, but not give in.
Honour it, but not worship it.
Fear could not stop me anymore.
I walked with courage into the storm.
I still have fear,
but it does not have me.

Once, I was ashamed of who I was.
I invited shame into my heart.
I let it burn.
It told me, "I am only trying
to protect your vulnerability".
I thanked shame dearly,
and stepped into life anyway,
unashamed, with shame as a lover.

Once, I had great sadness
buried deep inside.
I invited it to come out and play.
I wept oceans. My tear ducts ran dry.
And I found joy right there.
Right at the core of my sorrow.
It was heartbreak that taught me how to love.

Once, I had anxiety.
A mind that wouldn't stop.
Thoughts that wouldn't be silent.
So I stopped trying to silence them.
And I dropped out of the mind,
and into the Earth.
Into the mud.
Where I was held strong
like a tree, unshakeable, safe.

Once, anger burned in the depths.
I called anger into the light of myself.
I felt its shocking power.
I let my heart pound and my blood boil.
Listened to it, finally.
And it screamed, "Respect yourself fiercely now!".
"Speak your truth with passion!".
"Say no when you mean no!".
"Walk your path with courage!".
"Let no one speak for you!"
Anger became an honest friend.
A truthful guide.
A beautiful wild child.

Once, loneliness cut deep.
I tried to distract and numb myself.
Ran to people and places and things.
Even pretended I was "happy".
But soon I could not run anymore.
And I tumbled into the heart of loneliness.
And I died and was reborn
into an exquisite solitude and stillness.
That connected me to all things.
So I was not lonely, but alone with All Life.
My heart One with all other hearts.

Once, I ran from difficult feelings.
Now, they are my advisors, confidants, friends,
and they all have a home in me,
and they all belong and have dignity.
I am sensitive, soft, fragile,
my arms wrapped around all my inner children.
And in my sensitivity, power.
In my fragility, an unshakeable Presence.

In the depths of my wounds,
in what I had named “darkness”,
I found a blazing Light
that guides me now in battle.

I became a warrior
when I turned towards myself.

And started listening.~

~Jeff Foster

art: Autumn Skye Morrison

Join us this Sunday for a 90 - minute free breather with Dana Piper, expert bodyworker and lead trainer at the BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release Institute® He will be guiding a special session to help tune into your frequency, unwind and release stored tension in the body.

👉🏾 https://www.biodynamicbreath.com/weekend-breather-sessions/

Over the next couple weeks I will be taking bookings for massage and Breathwork for Feb

❤️🌻

A few things that’s been happening around our place lately 😋 🌼🌻

MY FAVOURITE SKIN, HAIR, NAIL & BONE STRENGTHENING HERB.

Horsetail (Equisetum arvense)

This most ancient of herbs can be traced back to the prehistoric period, where it once grew to gigantic proportions. In today's world however, it is a much smaller plant, that is generally not available for sale as a plant in NZ, due to its rather invasive nature.
It is however, available as a much loved dried herb, and is considered to be THE RICHEST SOURCE of SILICA in the plant world. It also contains high amounts of Vit C, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, Folate. Vits E amd K, Iron, Magnesium, Zinc, Copper and other minerals too!

Silica content is considered an ESSENTIAL mineral for forming the structural components of collagen & elastin, and is most significant for both bone and connective tissue health within the body.

In terms of skincare products, these aspects are VITAL - although the form of silica used for your products is best produced by the plant Horsetail, for the body to be able to utilize the silica content correctly, in terms of uptake, solubility amd absorption - especially via the skin. Other forms of silica are not absorbed well, and in some cases - not at all!!

Horsetail has pain relieving amd anti-inflammatory properties, as well as immune stimulating abilities. It assists with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis problems, according to studies conducted in Poland, where it was found to be helpful for bone regeneration and for degenerative joint diseases. It contains natural anti-microbial properties and is also helpful in the healing of wounds and burns. However, its primary abilities are to be found with the Horsetail plant`s amazing actions with strengthening skin, hair, nails and bone, via the synthesis of collagen and elastin.

Horsetail helps to greatly reverse the thinning of hair, nails, bone and skin, which all appear to decline more significantly as we age, or when diet and health is poor to begin with.

Personally, as a Herbalist & Tutor of Natural Skincare for more than 60 years, I consider Horsetail to be an ESSENTIAL ingredient to be added to all skin, hair, nail and healthcare products, usually in the form of either tincture, hydrosol or infused oils, depending on the product being created. It may also be used of course, as a lovely silica rich herbal tea. The tea also works wonders as a Strengthening Nail Soak, or as a Hair rinse, or it may be added to shampoo, used as a compress, as a wash, or used in capsule form.

Horsetail might also be used in an ointment, utilizing many various extracts of this amazing herb.

If you have thinning, tired, worn skin, hair, nails, or bones ---- YOU need Horsetail!

Try it for 12 weeks and see the difference.

Blessings to all,

Donna

A wonderful end to a rough-ish day.
Thank you to Cacao Ambassador for these beautiful cacao beans. Mmmm 🥰😋

The birds are twittering, the sun is shining, nothing beats getting your hands dirty and feasting on fresh greens daily, everything is SO sweet at the moment.
This precious moment right now…. Mmmmm
I’m just sitting on a couple of bricks soaking it all in.
You know where I am if I go missing at my house…. 😄

🥰 Happy Days xx

Where I go when I have a health issue before i see my herbalist! 😅 ……

Hmmm let’s see what we can find…. 🤔😄

let me consult the books…. 🧐🤓📖📚

And then allow me to meditate on it….🌲🧎‍♀️🧘🏼

What can I discover..?

Ends up at ….. should probably go to someone who knows what they’re doing as I do not have enough in depth knowledge on the subject. 😂

Make an appointment.

I Love being a Werido 😁🤭😆