Warming Ideas to start and end YOUR day !

Feeling chilly on these grey spring days after being tantalized with a few summer days in March ?  Why not brighten up your day with a warming breakfast, and candlelight bath at the end of it. Take at least 20 minutes for yourself, yes, make than appointment with ‘self’ before others ! A warming breakfast, (both energetic & physical properties) of cooked creamy rice or oat groats, 3 cardamom pods (discard after cooking), 1/4 tsp. of cinnamon, with almond milk will give you a...

Merry Last Minute Christmas Gift Certificates

Are you in need of a last minute gift and not sure what to buy, that is healthy, fat free, nourishing for the body and soul, and soles ! How about getting your loved ones stoned for an hour ?     Its low calorie, non toxic, warm and cuddly, and completely relaxing, and will melt all the holiday stress away. Using hot & cold stone massage incorporates basalt, jade, marble, and agates to work the muscles at a deeper level, and helps to improve circulation and lymphatic...

Holiday Feelings and Flower Essences

Holiday Feelings ….. This time of year with the hustle and bustle of Christmas, whether magical or metaphorical, can tend to stir up feelings, sometimes mixed, sometime grateful, and sometimes of despair.  It may be a fleeting moment or something that hits one out of the blue and felt deeper and longer.   Hopefully it is gleeful, and sparkly  ! Some of those feelings may be as mixed as the decorative colours that twinkle in lights, the gifts, and even the colours of the...

A Walk on the Beach

It’s a soles’ delight to walk on the earth’s soul.   I call that, the beach.   With its broken down crystals, pebbles, rocks, I make footprints in the sand that create memories in the stillness that lasts for but a minute.  The tide washes away the instant gratification, a reminder that the moment in time is what is meant to be felt in the there and then, but that is already gone.    There is nothing more, there is nothing less, the footprint is but a memory. It is a...

TREATS OR TRICKS FOR HALLOWEEN ?

BOO , I MEAN HELLO …… Hallowe’en is right around the corner, the pumpkins will be glowing, and the streets will be filled with delightful costumes and sacs full of candy.  Depending on the neighbourhood and whether one chooses to shell out and share with the ‘boo’ experience, or not, is a personal choice.  At the same time, it is still a multi million dollar industry in which the ones benefitting the most are the companies that process and package the sugar laden treats. ...

BEETS ME, AND NO NEED TO BOIL WATER !

After opening the lid of my enamelware baking dish full to its capacity of freshly baked beets this afternoon, it felt similar to the opening of a kiln after glazing a new batch of earthenware pottery with mixed glazes and experimenting with earthly mineral delights.   Both, are like Christmas, the latter not quite knowing what would turn out and what would not, and the former, a feast for the eyes itself, both gifts from the earth.   No water was even necessary to bake them. Beets, being...

AUTUMN TRANSITIONS

IT has been a rocky summer, and I say that with no pun intended.     After pursuing my love and attraction of stones during the spring and summer, and finding new ways to work with them in massage, as well as winding my way through a rocky kitchen renovation, reminds me that transitions are needed to reach a new ground.  Bridges need to be crossed, and that foundations are also necessary to build upon and reach those new grounds. The rocks have served as a new foundation for me.   I still...