Knowing that Christmas would be infused with bittersweet feelings of love and loss, I decided early in November to book a place on the new year ‘Good in the Beginning’ retreat at Dzogchen Beara.  I needed and wanted a wholesome, purposeful turning towards 2026. What an insightful few days it […]

Mindfulness helps us become aware of our habits and where our minds are inclined to habitually visit.  We might be inclined to focus very much on the past or maybe we are more future-focused, but rarely are we simply here, now, living in this moment. Mindfulness skills help build our […]

I dug deep recently and found the courage, motivation and energy inside of me to move to beautiful Beara. Having followed an intuitive thread, invisible yet insistent, the change of scene has done me the power of good, and even my little dog Pudsy, despite her disability, seems to have been […]

As children and young people, some of us are very attuned to our surroundings, to gut feelings and hunches, dreams, and so on. But over time, life takes over and this intuitive aspect to us can be dampened down, either by ourselves or others, and is often not encouraged in […]

“You can’t make it perfect. Life has a habit of popping up to remind you of impermanence. Be graceful in letting go, in releasing that perfect dream. Let yourself come gently down to reality, to how it really is and to the constant change that happens whatever we do…”  The phrase […]

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