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When I was younger, I thought myths were entertaining stories about gods, goddesses and impossible events that had little relevance to my everyday life. That all changed when I first heard the ancient stories of the Hindu Goddesses. The more I listened, the more I realised these myths weren't asking me to believe the impossible. They were inviting me to recognise something deeply possible within myself. Ancient myths were never simply stories. They were maps of human consciou

Navaratri is an ancient festival celebrating the Goddess and the many forms of feminine power. This presents a rather different perspective from the one many of us encountered growing up in Western culture, where the Divine was usually imagined as masculine and the visible, measurable world was often treated as the only reality that could be trusted. I first visited India when I was 24 years old. I was immediately struck by the contrast between the world in which I had been r

There is something that happens when women gather with intention. Not to perform.Not to compete.Not to fix one another. Simply to meet. To listen.To share.To reflect.To witness. Again and again throughout history, women have gathered around stories, around fires, around kitchen tables, around sacred texts and creative practices. They have come together to make meaning of their lives, to celebrate, to grieve, to learn, and to remember who they are. When this happens regularly,

First of all, let’s clear up some of the misconceptions surrounding the word Guru. Many people — particularly in the West — feel uncomfortable with the concept. But according to my understanding through years of studying Yoga, the true Guru is not outside of you. Ultimately, the Guru points you back to your own divine nature. The word Guru is often translated as “dispeller of darkness” — the darkness of ignorance, forgetfulness and disconnection from our true Self. In the yog

Lately I’ve been noticing how little space many of us truly have in our lives. Space to pause.Space to breathe.Space to feel.Space to hear ourselves clearly. I’m writing this from India — a place I once associated deeply with inner silence, contemplation and spiritual spaciousness. And yet being here again, I’ve been struck by how intensely loud, busy and overstimulating it has become. Constant horns from the steep increase in vehicles. Screens everywhere. Music playing loudl