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My passion is reclaiming the best of the past, old wisdoms, and marrying them with today's best of ideas for a better tomorrow - finding powerful ways to make the heart dance, the soul sing.

We know when we need sacred space. We feel the ache of it deep in our soul. It often manifests as a profound restlessness. A need to break out or move on from the where we’re at right at this moment. We yearn for renewal. For a vision that will make every part of us soar. To feel ‘cleaner’ inside. To travel lighter and with more direction. More purpose. We need to be some place else.

Sacred places are holy places. Places that have the capacity to make us whole. Locations which lift us out of the everyday. Stretch our vision. Give us a new sense of ourselves and our world.

The ancients understood the importance of spending time in places which uplift the spirit. Places which heal. Give us clarity and the strength to continue on. Nothing has changed. Each of us needs to recharge, recalibrate, take time to expand our potential, to grow.

One of the most exciting books in recent times is the remarkably readable research by Nobel prize-winning Elizabeth Blackburn PhD and heath psychologist Elissa Epel PhD, who zero in on telomeres, the part of our chromosomes that impacts our health and longevity.

Some days it’s hard to know if anything we do is significant, to allow our moments of doubt to bring us down. It helps to learn from those who know what it’s like to dare to present a new vision for the world.

It’s only now we’re beginning to recapture ancient understandings around the wisdom and healing of trees. ‘I was led into the yew mystery almost 25 years ago by a solitary and ancient female yew tree in Scotland that renewed my dying body, and gave me the living template of a spiritual teaching I have named as the Yew Mysteries,’ tells Scottish shaman Michael Dunning.

‘The yew reunites us with the consciousness and sensory language of our origin in Spirit where we can be ‘touched by eternity’ and through that realize unlimited possibilities for transformation and healing.’

When we ache to see fairies we’re aching for the numinous. Aching to move out of our sense of separation. To come home. To feel peaceful and expansive. To be at one with all living things. So how to make a conscious connection with fairies, or have you made it already without even realising it? Have you inadvertently tiptoed around the fringes of the healing world of fairies?

As we delve deeper into the world of fairies, we come to appreciate what fairies and their over-lighting devas have always known – how astonishingly intricate our world is, that in essence we’re living in a sea or miracles. Some time ago I met druid Ivan McBeth, who until he passed away last month, devoted his time to building standing stones, some of which are up to twenty tonnes in weight. Ivan describes standing stones as ancient technology, designed to create a profoundly sacred space.

As the fairy kingdom is a realm of all possibilities, what can we learn from this world of enchantments? How do our encounters with fairies help us experience life in new ways? What do these encounters teach us about time and space? Should you or I be blessed to meet a fairy, why would we not share this moment with others of like mind, with our precious children? Why wouldn’t we infuse their lives with delight? Who would have thought that an Uncle relating his fairy experiences would awaken a world of undreamt-of possibilities in his great-neice, as Canadian deb svanefelt tells.

Wherever mushrooms are, fairies aren’t far away, playing and dancing and weaving their own special kind of magic. But why are our tiny caretakers of creation drawn to work with mushrooms? What are they working with here?

Mushrooms are the fruits of mycelium an astonishing mass of cells, which are essential to the health and healing of the planet. It’s no surprise that scientists now suggest mushrooms hold powerful answers to some of humankind’s most acute environmental problems.

Iceland’s Hellisgerði Park, known to locals as elf city, has many different fairy beings.
 Centuries old lore tells of whole clans of fairy beings residing in the astonishing lava rocks in the middle of the town of Hafnarfjördur. Visible to those with second sight, the elves are respected by many Icelanders, who have witnessed strange happenings when the balance with Nature has been disturbed by road works and other projects.