by Chrissie Astell | Jul 14, 2016 | Blog
Watching children play is such a pleasure. I’m intrigued by their imagination, the crayon images which so clearly make sense in their eyes, and imaginary conversations between inanimate objects (like the salt and pepper pots) which never fails to make me smile....
by Chrissie Astell | Jul 8, 2016 | Blog
All faiths and cultures since the birth of humanity have created sacred spaces. Areas of peaceful prayer and tranquillity, music or chanting, dancing or the beating of drums, they can be as different in language and design as their diverse beginnings. Sacred spaces...
by Chrissie Astell | Jun 30, 2016 | Blog
I wonder how you are feeling as you read this? Super sensitive, exhausted, slightly shaky? We certainly are in strange times, and many of us are picking up all the extra-ordinary energies like the flotsam of a shipwreck floating on the waves of a raging sea. How are...
by Chrissie Astell | Jun 24, 2016 | Blog
In every situation, every day, we have decisions to make. Things that perhaps we need to be mindful of. Some are easy, like whether or not to get out of bed or what time to leave for work, and others are pretty difficult decisions that require a lot of thought, like...
by Chrissie Astell | Jun 16, 2016 | Blog
Every year at the Summer Gathering of our group of New Essenes I’m reminded of the importance of friendship. We all roll up in varying shapes and sizes, with our smiles and warm hugs and as we get older we bring our many aches and pains too. Healing is offered...
