Medicine Blog

Last year, after three years without a Long Dance, and after more than a decade of dreaming of the Long Dance happening on Dartmoor, 180 hardy souls gathered at the Hillyfield Woodland farm to prepare. Though not...

I remember the very first time I heard the words ‘Road Warrior.’  I was sat in a smoky, high-ceilinged room in a beautiful old country house called Highnam Court near Gloucester. My teacher, Batty Thunder Bear...

These Amazon Blogs (#1 - #13) are arranged as a story in chronological order. They were written in 2023 and are both a compelling intimate story of our experience of being in the Amazonian rainforest,...

We walked into the airport and looked at each other with some alarm. We both had the same feeling that the floor was moving and we’d both come to the same conclusion that there was...

As the tiny plane takes off from the airstrip and soars over the forest, leaving behind the last roads and pipeline, tears spring from my eyes, and there is, simultaneously, a feeling of entering the...

As we come to the end of this challenging year, I've been reflecting on the experiences, the learning, the growth and the gratitude that I can find for 2022. And there is so much. At...

Manari greets us. He talks quietly, gently, slowly and when he speaks I find myself listening in a new way. It's as if he is transmitting on another wavelength which I've unconsciously longed for but...

We were invited to a cultural sharing. Wonderfully unexpectedly, each dance or song they shared with us seemed designed to reduce everyone to hysterical laughter. At one point our whole group were asked to become...

I LOVE this magnificent beech tree which grows out of a wall close to where we live. I was so happy to catch this moment of early sun touching her red tinged branches. I was...

Dear Friends and Colleagues, human beings in bodies, learners and seekers, alchemists and fools, today, we celebrate the 16th Birthday of our School. And in so doing, we honour those whose shoulders we stand on....

I love what Phil Stutz says (in the film Stutz) about seeing each next thing we do, however apparently grand or mundane, as the next pearl on a string of pearls. He suggests that we give equal...

In Sharamentsa we get out of the plane into dazzling sun, the earth under our feet damp and hot. The huge river Pastaza, a sinuous powerful gleaming presence right there. We are in a completely...