Explore all of the ways to bring the Sacred into your day. Whether its Grounding, Gratitude, Cacao, Yoga, you're invited to read through Carly's own story of connecting to your hearts wisdom & all that you can learn from it. Read how intentions, daily routines & choosing Self, have expanded Carly's life into an aligned life of daily devotion & Sacred Practice. Find inspiration, honesty & love here.
I’ve been working with intentions effectively for a good few years now. Way back in the day when I’d set goals at the beginning of the year, never really think about them again until the December of that year, then wonder why I’d never really moved closer to the goal. It wasn’t until I found Yoga Nidra & learning more about the energy of the Lunar Cycles that I really tapped into the power & energy of setting intentions.
Read MoreAt a time when many of us have been isolated, locked down, working from home, unable to get out into nature. This practice is needed more than ever. And it can be simple and sacred. A time to disconnect from the busy, the static, the thought congestion and the to do lists, the must do’s, the should do’s. Lets make this a time to connect, or reconnect even, back into the deeper system: that of Mother Earth, the wild, the raw, the wonder, the quiet. Where the only sounds are of sweet birdsong, trees talking to each other and the streams flowing.
Read MoreSpring:
Spring is said to be a time of harmony, creativity, new life, new ideas, the equal energies of the the light & dark, although the light is becoming stronger..
It gives us a sense of renewed energy after the rest, the quiet action and the deep learnings from winter. All of those ideas that you’ve had bubbling inside over winter, are wanting to emerge. The seeds are planted and the shoots are searching for the sun, that is beginning to shine brighter & brighter as the days move closer to summer.
Read MoreWelcome to the last/final phase of the Lunar Month. Not a specific phase of the moon, rather a ‘void’. And in some reading, it’s known as the ‘void-of-course’. This is more of an energy felt. It’s the dark time of the moon, when she is almost New again. Sometimes you won’t even see the tiny sliver of light on the moon. This is often 2-3 days before the New Moon.
Read MoreWhere to Start with Oracle Cards
This is one of my favourite practices. And when I’m feeling a bit all over the place or I’m starting something new, sometimes at the beginning of a new month, or when I’d like some guidance on how to show up this month. I go to my oracle deck.
A couple of things with oracle cards. There are so many available for you to choose from, modern, ancient, animals, moons, simple, in depth. I mean so many. I’ll list a couple of my favourite ones below. But just choose a deck that you vibe with. If you like the concept or the pictures, or the meaning, or the author or the designer. You know what you like.
For a good few years now, I’ve followed a different kind of calendar when it comes to setting Intentions, moving through the year and anchoring into the potency of our Seasons. It’s be been really powerful being guided by something more than the calendar and just the moon.
I’ve really loved reading and learning all about The Wheel of the Wiccan Year. Not necessarily seeing myself as a Wiccan or Witch. It’s the seasons and the connection to Mother Earth that I’m drawn too. I love working monthly with my intentions and the Moon Phases. I know there is some great power in that, and the moving through and bringing intentions to life in this way is so special. But aligning myself with the ebbs and flows of the overall year is really cool.
Read MoreFor the last 28 days I committed to digitally detoxing my mornings. Prompted by a card reading I did around the New Moon in Feb.
It was an interesting practice. One which I thoroughly enjoyed, once I moved through the first few days of having to really remind myself to stop looking at my phone, and to put it down. It was incredible how often I would grab for my phone & immediately start scrolling. The muscle memory in my hands: They knew exactly which apps to open first & where they are on my phone, it was super interesting to witness and work on changing that memory.
Read MorePeople often ask me how I got into crystals: I always start my story with my nan. Nan really was my spiritual influencer. I remember she served in the Anglican Church, but also had this ‘woowoo’ side to her too. She was an intuitive, and would often write pages of messages she’d received from her guides for me.
So Nan & crystals. Every full moon we’d line the ledge above the kitchen sink with jugs of water, sitting in the bottom of each jug were a heap of Clear Quartz chunks. I’d ask her what they were, and she’d say they’re special cleansing/purifying stones: they make the water cleaner & better for you. This was when I was young: like 7/8. And now, most full moons, I remember back, being with Nan, making the water clean and charged.
Read MoreOriginally when I thought of writing about this theme, I thought it would be about exploring in the physical sense. Maybe I talk about travel, exploring new places. When I looked up the meaning of the word: I felt into it even further & thought wow, we’ve pretty much all experienced a level of exploration this year, not we’ve not really ‘travelled’ anywhere.
Whether it has been exploring & witnessing what a global pandemic can do to you & your community/family. Exploring what life like is without work, without family, friends around, without financial security. Exploring life when working from home & juggling kids home-schooling and exploring your own expectations of that life. Exploring how it feels when you watch the news and see the panic when people think necessities like toilet paper could run out.. I mean that was nuts.
For almost 10 months we’ve all experienced some level of exploring something unfamiliar.
Read MoreThis started as my November newsletter.. It turned into something else & I thought I’d share it.
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Happy November, Can you believe 2020! I'm not going to re-hash the last 6 months, but just acknowledging that it's coming up to the last 2 months of the year. And wow, haven't we all had lots going on?
I've found my energy has been fluctuating between really high & motivated to really low and questioning every decision I've made the last 5 years.. Not going to lie, it's a bit to work through. Lots of shitty beliefs & crappy behaviours have come to the surface. Old patterns have showed their scary face. Anyone else feeling this?
Read MoreI took some time off, filled myself with as much vitamin C as my system could handle. I found restorative yoga & yoga nidra.. I read a lot of books, I reduced sugar in my diet, I started walking of a morning..
I started to take ownership of my time, MY TIME. My time became really sacred to me. I began putting ‘me’ first. And the practices that I adopted that saved me from all that fatigue: they became my self care practice: before self care was a ‘thing’. This was my turning point. Ohh and learning a new way of working.
Read MoreOne of my intentions for 2020 was around health: “to be happy & healthy”, is my exact intention. Something I repeat in my yoga class, when I’m clearing the energy in my apartment, or when I’m working on may grounding technique.
Some of the things/actions I wanted to work on with this was my meditation practice, working with the Ayurvedic approach to food, improve my sleep, keeping up with my gratitude practice.
My intention this year was to have this reminder around me always. I’d love to share all of my practices, there are quite a lot. So I thought I’d share a few with you.. I wonder if you can find the theme..
How do you feel about creativity, what does your body & mind think when you hear the words ‘creative’?
I know for me, I kinda used to cringe, I would feel embarrassed, and would sort of sink my shoulders and shrug into myself. I didn’t think I was creative. I guess I thought being creative, was a maker, a designer, to be artsy, a visionary, hands on, TO CREATE… to invent?!?
Any of this ringing true for how you feel?
When I look around me, I’m really drawn to creative peeps. Artists, Painters, Graphic Designers, Interior Designers, Performers, Bakers, Visual Merchandisers, Crafty Gals. I felt like all that was way out of reach for me, that although I love nice things, and Instagram, and decorating a pie my sister has made, enjoy getting dressed up for 80’s style aerobics (iso:life).
Read MoreGratitude brings me back to myself. Gratitude connects me back into my heart, which connects me back into what I love about myself & my life & all that I’ve achieved, connecting me back into what I’m grateful for. And if I can tap into those things that I’m grateful for… even if it is 2/3 things.. I begin to start to see my world a little differently, I start to think better of myself, I start to think better of what is around me, I’m more aware, I’m more connected to Source.. which is now heart opening on a whole new level!
Read MorePeople say “you’e so lucky” “you always get what you want, you make it look easy”, “good things always happen to you, not like me”..
Do you want to know what I said to them? Fuck that, do you know how hard I’ve worked to get here? Working with myself to get clarity, identifying all the things that this role would be, how I could bring both aspects of my passions together, talking about it everyday, visualising it.. actually talking to myself about it (sometimes out loud.. I promise I’m not crazy) then having the courage to ask… “Yeh I’m just lucky, shit like this just falls into my lap” Yeh… fricking Nah not that simple.
Read MoreIf you’ve seen my Instagram stories, then you know how much I like to video my feet walking on the sand, or waves splashing around them. I’ve had people say to me, “stop taking video of your feet, we want to see YOU”. I guess what this act means for me, is that I’ve arrived. I’m here.
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