https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings daily 0.75 2022-09-10 https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/halloween-and-the-five-spirits-of-tcm monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631982525033-UJGLFR5F2J8JZUFXKE9K/3.png Musings - Halloween and the Five Spirits of Traditional Chinese Medicine - How often are we struck with a lightning bolt of revelation, as to how we can better approach the difficulties in our lives, and yet, when these challenges catch us off guard, our instinctual selves swell to overwhelm our higher knowing? We react, shut-down, disassociate or mask our truth behind polite banter. We all do this. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/dance-of-boundaries monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631982311463-E8351PT69AZEAH7FMBO1/2.png Musings - How comfortable are You within the everyday Dance of Boundaries? - I live in an area renown for independent and free thought. As our journey with COVID19 has evolved, my social media feeds have become a cacophony of opinion. From thoughtful reflections to fevered pitches, people are sharing thoughts and information across a vast terrain of subjects - personal health choices, the governmental response, and even the broader socio-political agenda. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/saturn-karma-and-mastery monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631980411169-NLV3ROH9IHDVEIGUK41X/IMG_3719.jpeg Musings - Saturn, Karma & Mastery - I associate the elemental medicine of Metal with the archetype of Saturn. In Astrology, Saturn tends to get a bad rap. His energy can feel heavy and foreboding. Saturn is the energy of Justice. He’s the Great Karmic Leveller. I often hear karma equated to an almost punitive force, that punishes us for our misdeeds – an interpretation that feels closer to the more moralistic lens of Christianity. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/wintersolstice2020 monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631979046642-V3OSGSOXM703B0YD75O3/Solstice.png Musings - Winter Solstice The season of Autumn has demanded a process of shedding; Of cloaks worn ragged by life’s relentlessness. Cloaks that we have clutched desperately to our skin, To avoid seeing all of who we are. The tender parts that we cradle in the safety of the shadows. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/newmooncancer2020 monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631978784201-DTGHTFPX5LWCUCVFJVA9/IMG_2157+copy.jpg Musings - New Moon in Cancer Today marks the beginning of a New Lunar Cycle. Yesterday we experienced what is known as a Black Moon – a second New Moon occurring within a single month. This is an event that only happens once every 2.5 – 3 years. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/aquarius-vesta monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631978587260-TDPLUIV5ICF9D976VVLB/IMG_0634.jpg Musings - Aquarius & Vesta - Today the cosmos is taking our hand, and leading us deeper. Astrologically, this entire week has provided us with fertile ground for self-insight through the upsurging of buried reservoirs of truth. This is supporting us to move further into our process through Winter - the season of Kidney energy and the element of Water. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/saturn-square-mars monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631978386650-PZVO2DN46H635XQGJWJ7/LOVEHERWILD021.jpg Musings - Saturn Square Mars Mars - the planet of will and self-expression is currently squaring Saturn – the planet of karma and limitations. This is an incredibly challenging transit that we usually only experience briefly, once a year. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/full-moon-aries-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631977838163-72QS38HANW6TYHTRY0IU/IMG_1875.JPG Musings - Full Moon in Aries - There is a fiery, undeniable truth to this moon. She seeks to illuminate that which we need to reclaim, In order to reconnect with our essential aliveness. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/virgo-newmoon2020 monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631978203558-TX8QZPVHQWCD1MUVL3CO/IMG_1566.JPG Musings - Virgo New Moon Today is gifting us with a profound opportunity to reflect on our everyday. How we are called to weave the convergence of life’s disparate threads; https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/spring-equinox-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631977987354-SWLC44W7QU7KYP82TKVW/Spring+Equinox.png Musings - Spring Equinox Yesterday completed our Winter’s passage through the underworld, As we emerge through the Gateway of Spring Equinox, We are beginning a season of renewed selfhood. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/wood-season-checkin monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631977691230-P6YYKOFHMNHQZWYG1EZS/dark+moon.jpg Musings - Wood Season Check-in - We are well on our way through the season of Wood. Having emerged from our Winter’s passage, This is the season where we are supported to discern our path forward through the tangled undergrowth of old ways, towards a more sunlit expression of our conscious desires. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/beltane monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631971312094-AY7LDM7YH5ZBYEL3LD9Y/IMG_3355+5.JPG Musings - Beltane - Last night the Moon reached her fullness in the sign of Taurus on the eve of Beltane https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/full-moon-gemini2020 monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631976778742-088NHQ1IJKDVSPDYZAE0/IMG_4338.JPG Musings - Full Moon in Gemini - We’re currently in the integration window of yesterday’s Full Moon. It’s a lunation that punctuates the closing of a chapter, that we have each traversed these past 3 years. As the collective storyline has heightened through the last 12 months, We have each felt a compounding of personal experience, Leading up to this very moment. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/summer-solstice2020 monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631976624034-ZIWVG4RSBMKUWDGVJN52/IMG_1910.JPG Musings - Summer Solstice - This year’s solstice is an incredibly powerful event, coinciding with the planetary meeting of Saturn and Jupiter. Here in the Southern Hemisphere, Solstice marks the beginning of our Summer The season of Fire. We are entering the most Yang time in our elemental journey https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/the-fifth-season monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631976158400-RK5JJWT30Q8J8V67KNH7/IMG_3817+2.JPG Musings - The Fifth Season Late Summer is considered the Fifth Season - Season of the Earth. The Earth element harvests the light of Fire, And like photosynthesis, Transforms it into nourishment. Insight and inspiration coagulate into offerings from the heart, set like swollen fruits upon outstretched limbs. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/my-leo-moon-child monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631976303198-SEPC6KI23SVL5JA3RW6A/IMG_1531.JPG Musings - My Leo Moon Child - As I type this quietly whilst my littlest one sleeps alongside, She bursts urgently into my room with gifts of fossicked treasures and freshly created collages of bright coloured paper; Frenzied whispers explaining all the tiny details contained within her handfuls of heart offerings. A radiant smile when I offer her my gaze and heart in return. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/autumn-equinox monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631976027028-DBT692MUMQJNLRFQXIFU/Equinox.JPG Musings - Autumn Equinox - Once again, we hear the call of the unknown. As the equinox gateway opens before us, And the darkened path beckons. The wheel has turned, And again, we prepare to descend into the deeper reaches of self. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/libra-fullmoon-2020 monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631975908679-SZNKGCSQ5NSY5BNDX8O2/IMG_0155_jpg.JPG Musings - Full Moon in Libra - Today’s Moon supports us to return to what we value most. By its illumination, we feel deeply the voids that are crying out to be filled. And the resolve that pulls us towards them. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/easter monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631975771855-0YLHRH7PFKOC7YTA6HWL/IMG_4474.JPG Musings - A touch of Spring amidst our Autumn Journey - Prior to it's associations with Christ's resurrection, Easter had its roots in ancient Pagan Spring Equinox celebrations The rabbits and eggs both symbolic of Spring’s fecundity and the re-emergence of life. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/darkmoon-aries monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631973030754-LR4PR5U9LT3M576O3RSD/IMG_4643.JPG Musings - Dark Moon in Aries - Today brought first New Moon of the Astrological year. And with it, We take that auspicious first step. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/scorpio-moon2021 monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631972697005-AA2NL28GZ0UPSCKNE1R2/Scorpio.png Musings - Scorpio Moon - Tonight’s Scorpio Moon is our invitation into the Underworld Its luminescence converging with Friday’s Samhain, where the stone gates groan open and usher us into the earth. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/newmoon-taurus-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631972496822-CRB2INYWTTF6A1C7L5IT/tempImagebgB5rb.gif Musings - New Moon in Taurus - If the Scorpio Full Moon wrought our exhalation Herein lies the inhale. The depth of intake equal to the amount which we are willing to let go https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/eclipse-portal2020 monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631972403287-5JZEWQTHQ14B9KK33QYG/tempImagewejX7e.gif Musings - Eclipse Portal Last night the earth stepped between the reflective dance of the sun and moon bringing us a total lunar eclipse. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/solar-eclipse2021 monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631972056835-NFG3Y1FJTJX4F6NMORG1/eclipse.jpg Musings - Solar Eclipse - As we pass through this solar eclipse Fate hangs heavy in the air suspended amongst time lines; Some tangible, others evanescent. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/https/wwwinterwovenwellnesscomau/t-1 monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631981527982-9FBCVGQJ48HYQKFQ3ZKY/IMG_3767-6.jpeg Musings - Lungs and The Father - “The quiet constancy of your gentleness Drew no attention to itself, Yet filled our home With a climate of kindness Where each mind felt free To seek its own direction” John O’Donohue https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/persephone-and-aquarius monthly 0.5 2021-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1632018951271-3UNXPI9W5850ZR3T7IXH/IMG_3830.JPG Musings - Persephone and two Aquarian Moons - Today the moon weaves Asteroid Persephone into the deeper conversation, As she continues her journey back to Aquarius, where she’ll be crowned for the second time. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/winter-solstice2021 monthly 0.5 2021-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1632017907940-IL1QI75D3VGTW8NKVO0K/IMG_3433.jpg Musings - Winter Solstice - Winter Solstice has ushered us into the season of extreme Yin Water Season is our time to move further inwards To slow our external momentum So that it may be informed by something deeper https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/uranian-insights monthly 0.5 2021-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1632019512973-X1ZUD2RU16E1B6W300U3/IMG_6703.JPG Musings - Uranian Insights At present the cosmos is supporting the illumination of our deepest wounds There is a Neptunian pull towards disassociation But beside it lies an equal invitation into embodiment https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/virgo-reflections monthly 0.5 2021-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1632020171224-MCYFP8P9CJ2M4S32EHOE/IMG_6649.JPG Musings - “God is in the details” ~ Virgo refections - Virgo energy invites us to attend the minutiae of our day Not with contracted analysis, But with reverence in the knowing that it’s the details that shape the greater vision of our lives. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/taking-up-the-aegis monthly 0.5 2021-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/f16a5ab8-cfb8-4930-b983-c071becc00a5/IMG_4834.JPG Musings - Taking up the Aegis - The archetypal echoes of Medusa’s plight have been stirring these past weeks, alongside those of Pallas Athena Having each played a significant role in the eclipses, their asteroids are currently forming a trine to one other. Two women woven together long ago through their shared mythology https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/venus-conjunct-pluto monthly 0.5 2021-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/314f8fa1-2934-4ed7-b4ea-3ec6a20744c8/IMG_2616.jpg Musings - Venus Conjunct Pluto This morning as I was consumed with getting ready to leave the house, my eldest sat on my bed - seemingly impervious to my haste - playing me various key-stroke audio samples from Youtube “do you like this sound best, or this one? …. what about this one?” https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/https/wwwinterwovenwellnesscomau/t monthly 0.5 2021-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/da6884f1-32db-4e6b-a895-a399cd0676eb/Twin.png Musings - The Axis of Truth This Gemini full moon is like a crescendo in the closing act of a season we’ve spent 18 months traversing. The last moon to illuminate the axis of Gemini - Sagittarius before the lunar nodes depart these signs https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/musings/finding-surrender monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1631982657722-Y8RXGANGYMPNJA732ISI/1.png Musings - Navigating the era of COVID19 with Traditional Chinese Medicine - Perhaps isolating at home during this time, isn’t just an act of grace for our collective health and for the more vulnerable among us. 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I am a student of life, in all its seasons. A disciple of the way that it demands our surrender and the unravelling of everything we once thought we were, So that we are forced to learn ourselves anew. Through the years I’ve explored many different paths, informed by Yoga, Chinese Medicine, Astrology, Psychology. But I’ve learnt most by walking alongside others, Reflecting on the shared humanity of our pain and longing. Undoubtedly my greatest teacher has been Motherhood. The way it brings humility and constant, unrelenting growth. The way that it calls upon my most hidden selves - Light and Dark. So that I may embrace all of what it means to love Myself, alongside my children https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/connect daily 0.75 2021-10-13 https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/f2fsessions daily 0.75 2020-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1586948347069-2B6HMJE590778ZMW4DSN/zodiac.jpg Face to Face https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1586948319393-XW6Z11IAE921DPL0LOLV/tao.jpg Face to Face https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1586952218327-3HZ1N94COYHPRSEOV5NW/Mothering.jpg Face to Face https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/astrology daily 0.75 2022-06-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1586936513641-W7C7IH0PP2L5EPSDTOWG/sky.jpg Astrology For me, astrology is not a crystal ball It does not reveal the etchings of fate Nor does it categorise us Or define static attributes that we do or don’t possess. But it can provide a beautiful illustration of the archetypal dance within our psyche. Each of the planets and asteroids are representative of a different archetype Each imbued with specific qualities, gifts and challenges And their placement in our birth chart can denote our relationship to that archetype Is it one that we express fluidly? Is it one that we seek to find through others? Is it one that we may gravitate towards to find safety? Or is it an archetype that we dissociate from in self-preservation? Despite what the more reductionistic typecasting of pop-astrology would have you believe, We are dynamic, whole-beings We each have the ability to cultivate a supportive, embodied relationship to all archetypes And, when integrated in this way, they can become guides and allies in our own personal mythology. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/online daily 0.75 2020-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1586948319393-XW6Z11IAE921DPL0LOLV/tao.jpg Online Sessions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1586952218327-3HZ1N94COYHPRSEOV5NW/Mothering.jpg Online Sessions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1586948347069-2B6HMJE590778ZMW4DSN/zodiac.jpg Online Sessions https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/tcm daily 0.75 2020-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1586952751295-TROMUENG32PH6D9CGLXI/kun+lun.jpg Traditional Chinese Medicine - Traditional Chinese Medicine The concept of Qi, or life-force, is integral to the practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It flows through our body in a complex system of rivers and rivulets – the most superficial of which are known as meridians. The practice of Acupuncture involves inserting needles into specific points along these meridians, to influence the movement and quality of Qi. As a Shiatsu practitioner I seek to do the same with my hands. I also invite you to bring presence and imagery to these points, so that you can bring about your own transformation and healing. Qi is perpetually shifting and changing form, moving beyond its bodily orbit to traverse all states of our being – our spirit, mind and emotional body. There is no distinction. When this flow is impeded, it manifests as a disharmony – illness, pain, distress, longing. In our society, we largely inhabit the realm of the rational mind. We revere its power and allow it to reign superior over our body’s own innate wisdom and the vital insight that our emotions yield. Few of us cultivate a relationship to the realm of spirit, or our sense of higher knowing. Through the lens of TCM, this is considered a split between our Yin and Yang aspects of self; Yang (ephemeral energies of spirit, imagination, intuition and intellect) and Yin (the physical body and its somatic and instinctual wisdom). I believe that healing and integration requires the unification of these polarities, so that our rational insights and lightning bolts of inspiration, can be woven into the integrated responses of our body and nervous system. This concept of treating invites what Lorie Eve Dechar describes as an “Alchemical Process”. “The Alchemical Process reunites yang and yin, spirit and matter, mind and body and reorganizes these split parts to form a new, more complex and efficient whole.” Alchemy is the act of transforming raw, unrefined matter into something of great value. Alchemy as a psycho-spiritual practice, involves a reclamation of the disenfranchised parts of ourselves, weaving them into a new and more integrated way of being. It transcends the pathologising notion that we are broken and disordered, in need of fixing. And instead proposes that, even when we feel completely bereft and directionless, profound tools of insight and revelation lie hidden within that which we feel burdened by, or isolated from. What does this look like in a treatment setting? In addition to the TCM methods of diagnosis and looking at any physical symptoms you are experiencing, I invite you to explore your inner landscape. We reflect on the themes that are surfacing both here, and in your outer life – in the areas of relationships, family, career and creativity. Together, we form a holistic map of You. (If you know your exact time and location of birth, this process can be greatly supported and streamlined by looking at your natal chart.) From here we can follow the loose threads of difficulty, pain, or conflict, into a deepened enquiry. We move into the physical body and its language of touch, sensation, symbolism and imagery. We invite your own wisdom to surface. From this place we can work closely with just one or two meridian points. Often they will call to us, or we can evoke them consciously, to support your journey. “By using the spirits of the acupuncture points, we can both balance a person’s energy as well as help them along their path. Each acupuncture point contains a rich source of vital energy as well as an opportunity to open a person’s life, allowing it to blossom forth with richness. It’s not about matching a point to a symptom. It is about helping someone to become full of balance and harmony in their energy so that they can then stride forward and realise their dreams.” Debra Kaatz, from Charactors of Wisdom – Taoist tales of the acupuncture points For further enquires, or to book a session with me, please get in touch via the link below. https://www.interwovenwellness.com.au/mothering daily 0.75 2020-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d5fd9f798e479000151df0f/1586954924655-L3SWLLFB9L2XJH93IUGS/IMG_8378.jpg Mothering - Motherhood as a Spiritual Practice As a sole parent to three children, I feel a strong affinity with Mothers. I’m passionate about supporting women to find more of themselves and their own inner resources within the journey of Motherhood. I believe Motherhood to be a profoundly transformational experience, which has the capacity to inform and enrich all aspects of our life, including how we are able to show up as individuals in the world. 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