Category Archives: The Essences

This is the Year of the Goddess

NEWS UPDATE Please note the new workshop dates. Due to the acceleration of activites at Spirit of Woman (consistent with 2012) we have had to reschedule some dates. We trust that the new dates will fit in with your timetable and hope to see you there. 2012 has been hailed as the year of the ‘end’ of [...]

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Transiting the teen years

  As so many of us will remember, the teen years were a time fraught with angst, as the hormones of puberty surged through the body, bringing abrupt and sometimes unwelcome changes, along with challenging emotional shifts that often wreaked havoc within our family circle. It can difficult to watch our teens transit those years, [...]

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Wings or Weights? You Choose……

It seems to many of us that our known world is spinning out of control as we experience a sense of accelerated change both globally and in our own backyard. There is much talk in the media, in social circles and around the family table about disastrous and calamitous happenings linked with the economy, weather patterns [...]

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Welcome Wise Woman

  It seems that the folklore surrounding the Elder Statesperson or Wise Woman as  the ‘keeper of the wisdom’ has finally been validated by recent research undertaken by Dr. Oury Monchi and Dr. Ruben Martins of the University of Montreal’s University Geriatrics Institute. (click here to read an article describing the research) Their finding, that the [...]

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The Chakras – Signposts to your Wholistic Wellbeing – Part 6

Chakra 6 – the Third Eye Chakra 6 activates between the ages of 8.5 to 14 years and then every seven years starting at 19. At this age again we have the opportunity to revisit this chakra and the issues involved with it through the lens of progressive maturity. Chakra Six continues the journey into [...]

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The Chakras – Signposts to your Wholistic Wellbeing – Part 5

Chakra 5 – The Throat Chakra 5 activates between the ages of 6.5 to 8.5 in the first instance and then again every seven years as described earlier to revisit the issues that are addressed by this chakra as we mature, revising and renewing old programming that no longer applies in our life. The Sanskrit [...]

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The Chakras – Signposts to your Wholistic Wellbeing – Part 4

Chakra Four – The Heart Chakra Four activates between the ages of 4.5 to 6.5 years and again as with the earlier chakras, re-activates in seven-year cycles to allow us remake decisions made in our first cycle that no longer work for us. As an example, we would re-face heart issues at age 17, again [...]

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The Chakras – Signposts to your Wholistic Wellbeing – Part 3

Chakra Three – The Solar Plexus Chakra Three activates between the ages of 2.5 to 4.5 years and then re-activates in seven year cycles to enable us to remake decisions made in our first cycle before we had developed the wisdom of maturity that is sequentially programmed into our energetic template to guide our physical, [...]

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The Chakras – Signposts to your Wholistic Wellbeing- Part 2

The chakras are fully developed by the time an infant is born, but they activate at different times during our lives, depending on the developmental milestones we are experiencing as we grow. In fact the sequential activation of the chakras can be likened to the developmental template programmed to guide our growth potential and to [...]

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The Importance of the Chakras – Signposts to your Wholistic Wellbeing – Part 1

The human being is made up of both a physical and a subtle energy component. To understand about the functioning of the physical body we need a thorough knowledge of the physical anatomy. Similiarly, to understand about how the subtle energy systems work, including the emotions and the psychology, we need a complete knowledge of the [...]

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