Two winter offerings for you.

Two invitations to step into the dark.

I am not ready to get back to it - whatever it is.

But just beginning to find some slowness and stillness in my body.

After crawling through the portal of the Winter Solstice and into the festiveness of things.

The last two days actually feel like winter here.

The ground is frozen.

The stars shine extraordinary at night.

I can feel a gentle connection in my body with the land around me.

A slow synching.

I’m just starting to feel an interest in reflecting on what was and what might be.

The year gone by and the one beginning.

Just a stirring of curiosity.

Over the last few years I’ve given up setting new year intentions and goals and in and out lists for the start of January.

It just doesn’t feel true to me.

I’m suspicious of the rush to get going.

It smells colonial.

I am always still full.

Of the year that has been

All the contradictions, confusion, joy, grief and possibility,

They’re still there

Quieter and calmer but not yet examined

And given perspective.

And so needing to create space

For reflecting and composting.

What threads to trust, follow and hang onto this year?

What to let go of ?

Preparing the ground for new emergings.

And that can’t happen fast.

With integrity

It needs time.

As winter does.

I struggle with goals in the dark.

And this is dark time.

So I have two winter offerings for you.

Two invitations to step into the dark

The first is this new Earth Sessions mix:

Into the Dark - a deep, slow, wintery, sonic meander, through ambient electronic melancholy into deep house.

Sounds and tracks that I’m finding connection and curiosity with in these darker, colder times of breakdown, reflection, exploration and dreaming towards the light

Tracklist on website

If you walk with it, run with it, sit with it, drive with it, cook with it.

Dance with it.

I hope you enjoy it

The second offering is an invitation to join our next practice community learning adventure which begins 23rd January

Into the Dark

( notice the theme)

This is the third year we’re hosting this journey and it really is a magical adventure.

Personally this has now become the only way to prepare the ground and surface my intentions for the year ahead.

Info and register

Wherever you are I hope you find some peace in these darker times

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