Welcome to Winter and the Medicine of Restoration!

As we journey through the cycles of the seasons and the varying expressions of our outer world ecologies we experience our health and wellbeing in very different, varying and at times complex ways.

Living in the Southern states of Australia, in Melbourne, Victoria, we have the benefit of experiencing the full expression of the 4 seasons with clear natural seasonal phenomenon.

What effect then does this constant and yet predicable cycle of change in nature have on our states of wellbeing? How is this winter both our muse and adversary in health and being well.

The Season of Restoration.

The medicine of Winter is to restore, to convalesce, to rest, to conserve, to retract, to turn in, to introspect.

To allow ourselves the opportunity to turn down, to furl in, to be quiet and to actively and yet passively reserve. This however is often one of the most difficult things to do in the face of this frenetic existence we have created. Life continues to move forward with the same expectations of the last season, the same energy, the same requests, the same momentum, the same pace. This however comes at a great cost. One that will inevitably costs us in our health and our well of being. The greatest cost of all. When we push past and against the laws of nature we will inevitably succumb.

Autumn has come and gone, beckoned us to slow down and take a moment to acknowledge the transition of the seasons. Of the sun, of the light. contracting and edging away. Each and every day, becoming shorter and shorter, our dreamy, deep nights getting longer and longer. The blush and fall from the trees in its final letting go.

There is much opportunity to rest and restore to come in the months ahead.

The season of Winter offers you a gateway into a natural retreat, a place in time, in your life when you draw your energies within. To create space and opportunity to rest, to fortify and to ultimately restore.

Restoring Your Needs During the Season of Winter.

What we fundamentally need as humans is to feel self-worth, loveable, and that we are enough.

The season of Winter offers us a gateway into a natural retreat, a place in time, in our lives when we draw our energies within. A time to consider and feel how these three needs, the need of self worth, to be loved and to be enough are being met or are simply leaving you deeply unfulfilled.

When these three vital needs are met, we feel a great depth of contentment. The peace to accept the vulnerable sanctum of restoration.

Activating and balancing your root chakra, restoring the place within you that knows a deep sense of inner sanctum, security, safety, worth, love is a gentle and yet potent resource in your wellbeing tool kit for Winter, for any season. Please enjoy this guided meditation supporting you to connect with your energetic bodies and to process meeting your needs in this enigmatic and creatively conscious way.

Gift yourself an immersive remembering of nature, her medicine, of who you truely are and what it is that you need most in this season of Winter.

Restore your needs and retreat with us up in the Dandenong Ranges for a day of self discovery and being well.

Shine Into Winter Seasonal Day Retreat: Kalorama: June 17th, 2023 - SOLD OUT

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Restore

Winter Energy Spray

In the season of Winter, with restoration and repair the medicine of our ecologies, we are gifted an opportunity to find peace with ourselves, with others and with our natural world. This is at the heart of winter and her season.

Use this spray to settle into your winter space be it in mind body or spirit.