Movement is medicine. Motion is lotion. we’ve all heard these phrases before, but what does it really mean?

I was anxious, rightly so, aware of the power of the plant and regarding her with the highest respect. 1 cup goes down, I sit to meditate, and quietly wait for the show to begin. Here I am Mama Aya, what have you got for me?

We all know what it’s like to feel stressed. Some of us, perhaps too well. I wanted to write a little about stress, its effect on our health, our body and thus our experience of life. However, the thing about talking about stress and its long term effects is that it becomes, well… stressful.

The term ‘self care’ originated as a concept in the medical world. Doctors used it in consultation with patients to encourage better treatment of themselves by eating well, exercising and sleeping enough.

Just in my parents life time, people of colour have gone from being second class citizens, to being able to sit next to a white person on the bus, and being homosexual has become legally acceptable, in most of the world, no longer a criminal offence.