by Danu Forest Fitting time for the sacred, for the spiritual into our everyday lives can be tricky if it’s something new to us, or if our schedules are so busy we have little time at home for more than our practical needs. It’s easy to let the days roll...
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Magical Spring Cleansing
by Danu Forest Springtime is the perfect opportunity to clear your energy field and refresh your body and soul. Traditional spring tonics, such as birch sap and nettle tea have been used for centuries to give our bodies a quick boost clearing our livers and topping up our vitamins after...
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The Dawn Of the Year
by Danu Forest This article first appeared on Watkins Publishing website. Scroll down to hear the audio file on Imbolc. January and February can often feel like a strange bleak time, the weather and long hours indoors can depress the spirits and make one feel like life is on hold...
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Honouring the Winter Sun
by Danu Forest Winter is here, and with it the sun sinks to its lowest arc upon the horizon upon the winter solstice. This year the winter solstice falls on the 21st of December. Solstice means ‘solar standstill’ and this is when the sun appears to rise and set in...
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Reaping and Sowing at the Autumn Equinox
by Danu Forest This article first appeared on Watkins Publishing. Autumn is here. The first of the leaves are turning, and the hedgerows swell with berries. In Somerset, my tiny village in the midst of the Avalon marshes is filled with the scent of wood smoke and apples ripening gently...
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Celtic festival of Lughnasadh – The Goddess of Harvest
Danu Forest on the traditional Celtic festival of Lughnasadh that is marked on August 1st. As July turns to August, summer takes on a lazier, richer air, as natures abundance overflows along the hedgerows and in the fields, the gardens and the farms. The first berries, strawberries raspberries and blackcurrants...
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CHANGE YOUR STORY, CHANGE YOUR LIFE: With Carl Greer, PhD, PsyD.
In this FREE podcast listen to author Carl Greer speak on his book CHANGE YOUR STORY, CHANGE YOUR LIFE CHANGE YOUR STORY, CHANGE YOUR LIFE – What if you could be the storyteller of your life, not just an actor playing a role written by someone else but the writer,...
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Dreaming the Soul Back Home: With Robert Moss
In this FREE podcast listen to author and shaman-dreamer Robert Moss speak about his latest book, Dreaming the Soul back Home. Dreaming the Soul Back Home. In this extraordinary book, shamanic dream teacher Robert Moss shows us how to become shamans of our own souls and healers of our own lives....
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This book is essentially about healing, but healing of a very different kind to that which we may ordinarily understand. The conception of illness and medicine that we have in the West – what we call the ‘medical model’ – goes back to the ancient Greeks and the philosophy of...
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