THE JOURNAL

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Love Taught me how …

Love Taught Me How: A Journey of Devotion and Healing

In this reflective piece, I explore all the women within—those who have shaped me, challenged me, and guided me on a path of healing and transformation.

Inspired by Emory Hall's poignant words, I share how honouring these parts of myself through rituals of love, devotion, and forgiveness has deepened my connection to the divine.

Through offerings of flowers, honey, and sacred mantras, I discovered the rivers of wisdom flowing within, leading me to Shakti, the embodiment of divine energy. This is a story of love as a teacher, devotion as a practice, and life as a sacred journey.

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I Remember A Time.

I Remember a Time: A Reflection on Grief and Beauty
What happens when beauty and sorrow meet?

In this deeply personal reflection, I share a time in my life when grief felt insurmountable—a heaviness that even my cherished spiritual practices couldn’t seem to touch.

And yet, through small, fleeting moments of light—walking my greyhound, lighting a candle, offering flowers—I began to rediscover beauty amidst the sorrow.

This piece is an invitation to explore how light and darkness, joy and grief, coexist as doorways to the divine. It’s a reminder that even in our darkest moments, beauty is still here, waiting to meet us.

If this reflection resonates with you, I’d love for you to join me on a new journey. I’ve created a sacred space on Substack to share devotional writing, reflections, and practices that connect us to the light within. Click here

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Inner Awareness, For Outer Radiance: Connecting as Spiritual Women 🌸

What does it mean to truly connect—with ourselves, with each other, and with the divine?

This month, we explore the power of connection as spiritual women. Through the practices of meditation, mantra, yoga, and Ayurveda, we come home to ourselves and awaken the light within us. Together, we create a sacred container for transformation, reflection, and community—a space to nurture the Shakti that flows through us all.

Join me as I reflect on how inner awareness shapes outer radiance and how, when we connect, we amplify each other’s light.

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SACRED FEMINISM

What is true feminine power? Many people say that yoga is a man’s world. But that’s not what the tantrics, rishi’s, saints, Ma’s and sages say.

To be a sacred feminist is to be a lover of the feminine face of God, the divine, the Shakti.

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SHAKTI

“Shakti is the divine power that dwells within each person. She is the power of Consciousness that creates, sustains, and ultimately dissolves everything. When this Shakti awakens, it floods the mind with light and allows one to experience the Self in its full splendor.”

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How to make Rose oil and Rose water

It’s that time of year here in the Southern Hemisphere where the roses are blooming, which means we can start saving petals to make our own rose water for summer!

It’s truly, so simple!

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Am I missing something?

When I come across teachings like this I realised that there is another aspect to meditation, that I missed for years.

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Navigating Relationships as spiritual people or yogi’s.

Today I’m contemplating my relationships and drawing upon the teachings of the Sufi mystic G.I Gurdjieff who’s teaching you may be familiar with - does The Fourth Way ring any bells?

How do we navigate relationships spiritually?

Do the mystics and have any wisdom to help support us?

What role does devotion play in our daily exchanges?

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Have you discovered how rituals are Loves way of calling us home?

"Ritual is our love song to the universe. We anoint our bodies in warm oils not just for beauty, but to touch our skin with the tenderness of the Divine. We sip warm tea as if we are sipping the nectar of life itself, and in the quiet pause, we hear the hum of our own soul. It is in these moments, the seemingly small and routine, that we find the vastness of spirit." 

Katie Silcox - Ayurveda Teacher and Author. 

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Do you have unhelpful thoughts?

Do you sometimes experience unhelpful thoughts? In this journal post we look at what some of the great sages of Yoga and Ayurveda offer us Western folks to help us ease the burden of a busy sometimes harsh mind.

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What is Introjection

Introjection is a powerful yogic technique we can utilise to help us shift from blocked states to states filled with creativity, energy and clarity.

It's a great meditative or yogic device to use when you're under the sway of negative emotions or for when a situation is charged with a lot of energy leaving you feeling unclear or overwhelmed.

Have a read to learn more.

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SPRING LOVE NOTES FOR MYSTICS

Spring Love Notes for the Mystics, is a seasonal newsletter jammed packed with practical and creative ways to bring to life your Yogic and Ayurvedic sadhana.

In the Mukti Projects journal, you get a taste of the sadhana that is inspiring us at the moment. And there is always an opportunity for you to sign up for the newsletters or you can just pop by when you feel inspired.

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What is The Mukti Self-Inquiry Process?

Inspired by Bob Dylan’s song Most of the Time, I explore Self-Inquiry as a method and practice and talk about why Self-Inquiry is so important for contemporary women.

In this blog, I unpack the mysterious Mukti Self-Inquiry process. The blog post offers tips and hopefully a deep insight into the process.

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Confessions of a Multitasker

In this blog post, I share the story of a friend who is so busy, with family and her business - multitasking depletes her deeply but she’s not aware of another way.

Then I share some tips and practices. My goal is to engage with life from my centre out to the edge, as I choose and back to the centre. What I’ve noticed about myself and others I know is that we’ve been playing to the edge for quite a while now and there are cracks appearing.

This blog post is for you if you’re feeling overwhelmed, underwhelmed, lonely, or isolated, misunderstood. Or if you’re looking for some ways to explore those deeper questions like Who Am I? What’s my purpose? What is the meaning of it all?

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My Teachers

Baba Muktananda said, ‘the true meaning of Satsang is to live with a saint and to transform yourself completely. We should know how to live in the company of great saints and be aware of the state in which as saint is established, the mission of their life.’

In this journal post, I share my spiritual lineage and my yoga and Ayurveda lineage with full bodied, heartfelt devotion to all of my teachers but especially my Guruji.

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