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Have you ever noticed how hard we can become? Hard in our bodies. Hard in our words. Hard in our opinions. Hard in our behaviour. Hard in the invisible walls we build around our hearts.
10 years ago, when my 17 year relationship and marriage ended...it felt like I had lost a limb. Along my journey to heal and somehow return to wholeness from what felt broken and shattered inside of me, I made a commitment to love harder than any other emotion.
There are times in life when we find ourselves stuck. Stuck in our bodies. Stuck in old emotions. Stuck in patterns that keep repeating. Stuck in relationships, in fear, in people-pleasing, in overwhelm, in anxiety, in pain, in shutdown, in habits we cannot seem to break.
A Sufi Full Moon Ritual: Returning Creation Back to the Creator On this powerful full moon…I sit tonight in retreat and return to the One who is the Creator of the moon, the stars, all that exists in this world and beyond. Full moons have always invited me into moments of illumination, reflection and opening…and this one feels particularly potent.
Creating spaces of belonging for young adults struggling in a disconnected world
On flowering, fruiting and tending what was once only a seed Ive been reflecting on the life cycle of plants as I recently noticed some plants already flowering and those flowers then become more seeds. It never ceases to amaze me how nature continually mirrors where I am in life. Things I have observed many times before suddenly land in me differently when I am finally ready to truly see them.
How one retreat quietly changed the course of my life.
I recently went to participate in an Inipi sweat lodge from the traditions of the Lakota Tribe in North America. The native American ways and traditions were a path that I was walking for a while in my past through Forrest Yoga. The ceremonies, the prayers, the medicine songs were a huge part of my healing and bringing me back into my body, healing layers of trauma and unblocking my voice and the music of my heart and soul to be expressed in the world.
Hawa is a Sufi healing practitioner, spiritual guide and mother whose work is rooted in lived experience, devotion and deep personal transformation. Drawing from Sufi Spiritual Healing, breath and bodywork, sacred sound and Holy Hijama Therapy, she offers compassionate spaces for healing, remembrance and reconnection to the Divine. Based at Home House Homestead in the Norfolk countryside, her path is one of surrender, simplicity and the unfolding journey of the heart.