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✨ a cosy creative circle, lovingly hosted by weiyu, psychotherapist, making Congruence, Wholeness & Beautiful Connections, everyday, together with all bodies, in pure delight ✨

10/10/2026

🌿 TŪĪ ✨

E koekoe te tūī, e ketekete te kākā, e kūkū te kererū.

(The tūī chatters, the kākā cackles, the kererū coos.)

~ Māori whakataukī

At first I found images of the Tūī online and was instantly impressed by their beautiful plumage and dignified manner. Later my warmth towards the Tūī grew as I learned that they’re revered in Māori culture as a guardian of travellers and a messenger connecting the natural world with spiritual realms. Finally on Tiritiri Matangi Island, a wonderful haven for endemic birdlife, I got to meet the Tūī up close and personal. To my surprise, their calls and songs were incredibly varied and complex, their flights loud and powered, and their fights for territory frequent, rapid and aggressive. Letting go of my sweet imagination, I think of the Tūī not less but more, and begin to see them as a guardian of different voices.

The meaning behind the Māori proverb quoted above is simple: everybody has a voice which should be respected.

In the pursuit of harmony, may the Tūī bring vitality and protection to each of our voices.

🌊🌙🔥

27/09/2026

🌱HARAKEKE🪺

Hutia te rito
o te harakeke
Kei whea, te kōmako e kō?
Kī mai ki ahau
He aha te mea nui
o tēnei ao?
Māku e kī atu
He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.

If you pluck out the heart
of the harakeke
Where will the bellbird sing?
If you ask me
What is the most important thing
in the world?
I will answer
It is people, it is people, it is people.

~ Wāhine rangatira Meri Ngaroto

Don’t let the harakeke manipulate you. You manipulate the harakeke.

~ Kairaranga Shelley Bell

At first glance by the modern eye, the quotes above are plainly human centric: hey people, see the power in your actions, you do spare and take care of the child and parent leaves aka the heart of the harakeke family when you harvest it, so it can continue to live and grow, so the bellbird retains its food source and singing perch, and when it comes to weaving with the harakeke, don’t be fooled by its sharp and stiff blades, for you are the weaver not the other way around.

But to the Māori eye, the immediate mana and tapu of humans (power, authority and sacred restriction) are only part of the picture. As the chief’s daughter, Meri Ngaroto famously said those poetic lines quoted above to stop her own tribe from murdering their unwanted guests. She was pointing to the vast and vital interconnectedness beneath the limit of what’s visible before us, be it a single harakeke family unit, or a people that “we” have classified as “the other”.

And I hear the equal weights across Meri Ngaroto’s repetition of “it is people, it is people, it is people”, as much as I recall the equal attentiveness and fondness that expert weaver Shelley@whenu_ataahua paid to the harakeke and each of us beginner weavers in her lovely raranga class half a moon ago. Suddenly, the often loaded word “manipulate” comes clean and clear again, even loving and joyful.

I suppose that’s the power of remembering that we are equal. The weaver, the harakeke and the bellbird, me and you, us and them, strong Aries and sweet Libra, everyone and everything, sovereign and connected.

Power through you, everywhere, everywhen 🌱✨🧡

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11/09/2026

☀️PRACTICE💫

Freedom is what we practice every day. When you eat, eat as a free person. When you walk, walk as a free person. When you breathe, breathe as a free person.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Does this sound to you like a demand, a word of wisdom, or a compassionate reminder?

Moons after moons, I have heard and do still hear all three different voices in these same words. What seems new to me is a diminished doubt and a growing trust in the practice. I also notice the long winding paths behind me: I never thought to get here, but here I am, surrounded by the quiet yet apparent everyday tidal waves, listening to the subtle yes in my breathing, sensing and moving, and appearing to be touching the edge of this “practice of freedom”. I wonder if this is what others mean by surrendering, and to my pleasant surprise it feels very much like resourcing and owning, trusting a little more, and finally, willing to practice.

May our trust grow and may our practice be sustained by trust 🌱✨🧡

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29/08/2026

🍎EPLESLANG🇳🇴

Have you tried Mindfulness, or Epleslang?

~ a most delightful and masterful mindfulness teaching team of Pisces and Virgo North Nodes

Imagine you’re feeling down because someone has wronged you, and your friend says, let’s go for a wander and pick some apples from our neighbours gardens.

The angry toddler in you goes, YES! I shall devour all the apples in the world!

The rebellious adolescent in you goes, YES! I shall feed on the thrill of stealing!

The exhausted grownup in you goes, YES! I shall pay some care to this poor set of skeleton with a gentle walk, some free apples, and time with my friend.

And, you and your friend are in Norway, where summer is turning into autumn, and the abundance of apple trees in the streets are all heavy with ripe, colourful fruits. And where apple picking from your neighbours trees is completely legal, because of the national recognition that the land isn’t owned by anyone but belongs to all people. Norwegians cherish the activity so much that they even have a name for it, Epleslang.

I learned this thanks to lovely friend and co-facilitator Selma in our brilliant 8-week mindfulness group, as we ✨playfully and creatively✨ consider what brings pleasure and mastery in our daily life.

And I thought, isn’t epleslang another manifestation of mindfulness? Under the vast sky, supported by the earth and the people, you and your friend, wandering through many gardens, soaking in the crisp, fragrant air, freely picking and tasting different apples, quietly transmuting sadness, anger, frustration and exhaustion into pleasure, nourishment and mastery - not because we have managed or ever needed to fix ourselves or others through some clever or effortful hacks, but because we are finally learning to let in the deep friendship towards ourselves.

And back over here in this part of the world, spring is in the air. May the seed of Epleslang and Loving Mindfulness grow and flourish in our precious silly human life 🌱✨

🌊🌝🔥

15/08/2026

🦁EGO🌿

By turning the ego into an object of awareness, a higher self emerges automatically. That’s the real engine of human development.

~ Ken Wilber

The prajna wisdom of enlightenment is something everyone already possesses. But you need to find a truly good friend to show you how to see your nature.

~ Zen Master Huineng

I’ve lived life mostly either cramped tight or spaced-out and unable to get a hold of “a sense of self”. I’ve sat in therapists and spiritual circles hearing zealous talks of “ego death” or “dissolution” and thought indifferently. I’ve clowned behind a red nose or a theatrical mask among aspiring and professional actors and felt utterly emboldened, genuinely admiring that as the ego disliked by many but lacking in this elusive “me”. I’ve identified as multiple and at times craved to be singular, all the while being carried along by the inevitable archetypal currents of this human realm and painfully unawares.

All this to say, through my insanity I’m starting to see the purpose and the path and the necessity of a reliable, life-long practice: arts making, sitting meditation, professional counselling, psychotherapy and supervision, and the daily “waking up, growing up and cleaning up”. And above it all, I see the centrality of “a truly good friend” that is BOTH hard to find AND ever-present.

May the Ego strengthen, soften, open, and continue to gently evolve in the company of a Truly Good Friend.

🌊🌛🔥

09/08/2026

Meet Delph, she who stands on her solid wood-body, and waves her supple vine-arms and cypress-hands, “announcing your place in the family of things”.

Under the glorious Leo Sun and the gorgeous Pisces Moon, Delph was born upon the kitchen table surrounded by the courageous hearts, appreciative eyes, kind words, and creative hands of a Delightful Fool and the Selkie Sisters, who playfully and tenderly blessed her baby head, hands and heart with the lovely divine drops of Blue Lotus and Frankincense.

An offspring of the High Priestess and the Hierophant, Delph holds a universe of riches, to name a few: Icelandic Moss, Mugwort, Hawthorn Spine, Rose, Bay, Cotton, Wool, and sparkly pieces of Sun, Moon and Star.

Grown up following the footsteps of earth-wide Elders in the spiral lineage of Compassionate Evolution, she is devoted to listening, nurturing, teaching, and co-creating.

Uninterested in “altered states” or in getting high, Delph offers her precious self to traditional practices that are the most fundamental, ordinary, and reliable. Her mantra is FAME:
Feel
Accept
Move with
Equanimity ✨

This Fool is learning from Delph!

With special thanks to Midwife Selkies Nadia Turner Fi Reid - Way of the Fae

30/07/2026

🌊MOON🔥

Admit something:
Everyone you see, you say to them, ‘Love me’.

Of course you do not do this out loud; otherwise someone would call the cops.

Still, though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect.

Why not become the one who lives with a full moon in each eye that is always saying, with that sweet moon language, what every other eye in this world is dying to hear?

~ Hafiz (adventurously translated by Daniel Ladinsky)

The Moon takes in all the light she could from the Sun, simultaneously reflects it all and shines ever so gently upon us busy chatty earthlings. At times the weather might obstruct our views to her most gorgeous art of give and take, but deep down we all know that she’s there, quietly contributing to the flow of light, simply by being who she is, always.

May we all learn and remember to speak the sweet moon language, especially under this combusting sky of Aquarius Moon, Leo Sun and Jupiter cazimi.

🌊🌝🔥

28/07/2026

Wildman Creates and Many Arts Studio present

🐎 Art Therapy: Horses of Power 🐎

Sponsored by Boroondara Youth
(Thank you Kat!)

A 4-week program for young folks aged 16 to 25, exploring the Spirit of the Horse and the four Elements of Air, Water, Earth, and Fire.

Magical circles are cast, mythical stories are told, inspirations are drawn, intuitions are followed, and our own horse talismans are created as we discover how to tend to our thoughts, care for our emotions, nurture our bodies, and celebrate our hearts.

A gentle, creative space for a lovely empowering process to unfold and affirm our most beautiful sense of self ✨💎✨

🙏 Share this with someone you think will be interested; for more information or to register, visit: https://www.boroondara.vic.gov.au/community/young-people/join-youth-program

Neighs of excitement from Team Horses of Power,
Rachael Rachael Wildman , Guadeloupe the dreamy horse, Fortune Cookie the firecracker horse, and yours truly

14/07/2026

🌊HOME🌙

What I wanted to do was not rule over the land or the fish in the water and birds in the sky, or the wild creatures. I wanted to defend and protect this pond, this land, and all the animals that lived on it. I felt within me the same ferocity of territorialism that any bird or animal in the wild did. This was my home.

~ Mary Alice Monroe (a writer speaking to the Cancer Rising)

Following some miraculous common threads in the vast Kosmos, a small group of beautiful humans from across lands and waters are joining me and Selma to embark on a very exciting, challenging, and nurturing 8-week journey of mindfulness practice under this year’s double Cancer sky.

Perhaps it is ultimately a Home that we all seek through the group and the practice. And as co-facilitator, I’m keeping at heart both the “ferocity of territorialism” as quoted above, as well as the wisdom of the very cute hermit crabs, who find homes in discarded shells, and as they grow, keep on finding bigger ones, while shyly thriving on companionship and on brilliant home swapping (look up “vacancy chain”💫).

May our mindfulness practice be guided by the ferocity for Home AND the collective wisdom to home and re-home!

Your delightful fool in mbct
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Curious to practice with us?
Get in touch at [email protected]

30/06/2026

🌊MATURITY🔥

Perhaps maturity is not measured by how many people agree with us.

Perhaps it is measured by how many people we can remain in relationship with while honoring what is true for each of us.

As difficult as it can be, I continue to return to the same insight:

I cannot become fully myself without others.

And none of us become whole alone.

- Diane Musho Hamilton, excellent teacher in Zen and Integral Theory & Life Practice for the Capricorn High Road

If like me, at times you find yourself in the wake of a betrayal, a fallout, or a loss, and falling into a strong pull of solitude, grief, or shame, may you remember that, relationship, still, is all there is.

What is your relationship with your solitude, your grief, and your shame?

Kindly send them your precious breaths, feel how they touch your body-mind, let them move you, and move with them, as difficult and as beautiful as we all can be!

Cheers to the lifelong practice of maturing and becoming whole with each other ✨🪩✨

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