Breathing with trees helps us connect with the beauty of nature outside, as well as feeling our own bodies. This is not only calming but helps us feel we belong. We are supported in receiving, and are already giving back to the earth. Great for de-stressing and grounding.

Connecting with trees through breathing brings calmness, grounding and a sense of belonging while also supporting the environment.

Breathing With Trees

Overwhelmed, feeling stuck or in pain? This practice helps us accept and let go of struggling.

Learn to accept and let go of struggling with this practice when feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or in pain.

Breathing In, Breathing Out (11 Min)

Taking a few minutes to stop, soothe and self-care, with mindfulness and self-compassion.

Mindful self-care promotes self-compassion in a few minutes every day.

Self-Care Break

Feel more positively about your body, by letting go of the unrealistic expectations from a society that promotes self-comparison and negative body image. We'll notice our own beauty, appreciate our health, and engage in a more loving and compassionate relationship with our bodies.

Let go of society's unrealistic expectations and embrace self-love for a positive body image - appreciate beauty, health, and compassion towards oneself.

Appreciating Our Bodies

We all have wounded parts of ourselves: unworthiness, self-criticism, perfectionism, and shame. In this session, we'll explore how the compassionate part of ourselves can understand and heal those wounds. 'The Story of The Cracked Pot' shows how our vulnerability can nourish others. We find freedom in revealing the whole of ourselves authentically.

Explore how compassionate self-understanding helps heal wounded parts of ourselves, finding freedom in revealing our vulnerability through 'The Story of The Cracked Pot'.

Embracing Our Wounded Parts

In today's coaching, we'll reflect on how generous Mother Earth is, and how much we benefit from her gifts. In truly appreciating her generosity, we can feel very loved and cared for. We'll explore ways to return that love with thanks, too.

Reflect on Mother Earth's generosity, feel loved and cared for, and explore ways to give thanks in today's coaching session.

Loving The World

We'll explore how to feel good about ourselves by regularly taking a 'sunshine moment'. This allows the body to relax, the mind to settle, and supports us to feel confident, strong, and beautiful.

Take a 'sunshine moment' to relax and boost confidence, suggests a new article on feeling good about oneself.

Feeling Good About Ourselves

Today, we’ll explore the nature of thoughts, and take a look at the mind-stream, at the thoughts that drift along in 'the river of the mind'. We'll ask ourselves, “What's flowing in the river of my mind? How do I let thoughts flow through, without getting stuck in them?" And we'll discover what our minds need, for healthy mental flow.

Examining the nature of thoughts and the mind-stream, exploring ways to maintain healthy mental flow by letting thoughts pass through without getting stuck.

The Nature Of Thoughts

In this talk, we'll explore how self-care is vital for our well-being. Resilient people know how to take breaks and nourish themselves. If we’re continually striving to put others first, we’re likely to burn out. We'll explore two easy ways to produce oxytocin, a hormone that helps us feel loved, safe, and supported.

Learn the importance of self-care for wellbeing and how to produce oxytocin in two simple ways to feel loved, safe, and supported.

Connect With Your Compassionate Self

Our body is made of the earth; the oxygen, water, vitamins, and minerals we take in. Remembering this relationship can help us feel safe and loved, and connected to nature.

Our bodies are connected to the earth through the oxygen, water, vitamins, and minerals we intake, which can help us feel safe, loved, and connected to nature.

The Earth Of The Body

Appreciation has so many benefits. We’ll learn why the brain is wired for problem-seeking, reflect on our addiction to making improvements with the story of King Midas, and bring back balance by rewarding our efforts with warm appreciation.

Appreciating efforts brings balance & numerous benefits. Brain's problem-seeking tendencies explained alongside King Midas' story.

Appreciating Ourselves And Our Life

When we feel lonely and disconnected, we can lose our sense of belonging. This coaching session helps us remember our place in the earth's ecosystems, and create a cozy 'campfire circle' of friends and mentors who care.

Coaching session helps combat loneliness by reminding us of our place in ecosystems and creating a supportive community of friends and mentors.

Remembering We Belong

Our words are powerful, and in this session, we'll explore using encouraging self-talk. In this way, we boost our love and support for ourselves and reduce self-criticism, stress, and isolation.

Learn how to use positive self-talk to increase self-love, reduce stress, and avoid self-criticism in this empowering session.

Words Of Encouragement

Ahhh... Take a deep, luxurious breath out... letting our muscles melt... Breath and bodywork help us relax, stop worrying, and let go of anxiety, stress, and being too busy. We'll also explore the science behind anxiety and links to more practices you can do after this coaching session.

Breath and bodywork help to relax and relieve anxiety; coaching session explores science behind anxiety and provides additional practices.

Let Go of Anxiety and Relax

Learn how to cultivate self-love, confidence and courage. We'll explore self-compassion and reflect on our strengths with the story of 'The Eagle and the Wren'.

Discover self-love, confidence, and courage through self-compassion and reflection with 'The Eagle and the Wren' story.

Self-Compassion And Courage

Humans and trees have a special relationship. Each in-breath is an oxygenated gift from the trees, each out-breath, our gift of carbon dioxide back. Resting in this giving-and-taking can help us feel less alone, more supported, and more connected to nature.

Humans and trees share a symbiotic relationship, exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide, promoting a sense of connection to nature and reducing feelings of isolation.

Connected To Trees

In this session, we'll explore why we feel social anxiety and self-comparison, and learn one key way to reorient our perception, soothe ourselves, and feel safer and more confident around others.

Session explores social anxiety and self-comparison, and provides a way to reorient perception, soothe oneself, and feel safer and confident.

Soothe Social Anxiety & Self-Comparison

Self-care is vital for our health. We'll cover five different aspects of wellbeing, and see which we already doing, and where we need more support, to upgrade our weekly self-care routine and thrive!

Learn how to upgrade your weekly self-care routine and thrive by exploring five different aspects of wellbeing and identifying areas where you need support.

Upgrade Your Self-Care

So much health and happiness come from enjoying a green space like a park, a garden, or a place in nature.

Green spaces like parks and gardens promote health and happiness by providing an opportunity to connect with nature.

Listening Deeply To A Place

Today, we’ll be talking about the emotional landscape. Outer environments are all unique, diverse places with different native flora and fauna. Our inner landscapes are just as diverse: some are wild and full of surprises; some are tidy and carefully maintained. We'll ask, 'What is my emotional landscape?' and 'How can I garden my emotions?'

Exploring emotional landscapes and how to maintain them through gardening.

The Emotional Landscape

The senses are the portal to aliveness in the body. Feeling the grass under our feet, the breeze against our skin, holding another human's hand… In this talk, we'll explore why using the senses helps us feel so alive and how to make the most of the beauty of nature on a walk.

Using our senses helps us feel alive; exploring the beauty of nature on a walk can optimize this experience.

Going On A Nature Walk

What is my calling? Many of us have deep, soul-searching questions we long to have answered. Poets, yogis, and inventors have had major breakthroughs when connecting with nature. How do we do this? How do we open the heart and truly listen to the wisdom of the forest or the ocean? We'll learn from native traditions. from spiritual seekers like Rumi, and we'll be invited to go on our own soul quest in nature.

Discover your calling by connecting with nature through learning from native traditions and spiritual seekers like Rumi, and embarking on your own soul quest.

Nature Speaks To My Soul

This session is the last in a series of nature connection sessions. Together they form an incredible journey, of listening deeply to oneself, to the nature outside, the nature inside.

Nature connection sessions form an incredible journey of listening deeply to oneself and nature in this last session of the series.

My Place In The Web Of Life

It's so wonderful to start the day feeling love. Let's explore how to connect with love, first thing after we wake up. We'll awaken the love inside through soothing touch, enjoying comfortable sensations, and remembering kindness. There's less desire to chase love outside of ourselves when we remember we ARE Love!

Connect with love through touch, sensation, and kindness upon waking up to awaken the love inside and remember that we are love.

Wake Up With Love

Let go of rumination and reactivity, in this meditation with breath, thoughts, and emotions. We'll soften and soothe tension in the body and mind, finding breathing space and balance again. Helpful for when we're depressed, angry, anxious, or stuck in unhelpful patterns of thinking.

Meditation helps release rumination and reactivity by soothing tension, restoring balance, and creating space for breathing, thoughts, and emotions.

Reducing Rumination And Reactivity

Good morning, beautiful! Here's an uplifting meditation to start your day with peace, happiness, confidence, and belief in yourself. Which qualities will you embody today? Background guitar encoded with the healing sound frequencies of 432hz... recording this put me into a blissful state, may that transmit to you too. Artwork: Jeff Thompson, Binary Ink

Start your day with peace, happiness, and confidence with an uplifting meditation inspired by healing sound frequencies and beautiful artwork.

Good Morning Meditation

Rest for a few moments. Surrender physical tension, difficult emotions and stress down into the earth. Allow yourself to be held and supported naturally.

Relax and release tension, stress and emotions into the earth for natural support.

Supported by the Earth

Overwhelmed with emotions? This practice helps us accept and let go of our struggling.

Practice of acceptance and letting go helps in dealing with overwhelming emotions.

Befriending Difficulty

Feeling anxious? A practice to help us soothe our struggle with worry and anxiety.

Learn how to soothe anxiety and worry with a simple practice.

Befriending Anxiety

Cultivating our capacity to be resilient and stable like a mountain, in the face of change.

Develop resilience and stability like a mountain to face change.

Like a Mountain

Resting our attention on the out-breath... Noticing the gap that naturally opens up at the end of each breath... spacious... free...

Focus on out-breath & gap, experience spaciousness & freedom.

Mind the Gap

Sad, lonely, in pain or worried? This practice helps us evoke positive feelings by imagining ourselves in a safe space.

Imagine yourself in a safe space to evoke positive feelings when experiencing sadness, loneliness, pain, or worry.

Safe Space

Take a few minutes to calm your mind and rest your body.

Relax your mind and body for a few minutes.

Calming, Resting

Want to unwind? Refresh yourself? This is an ideal practice for relaxing the mind into spacious, open awareness. A great antidote to screen time.

Practice open awareness meditation for relaxation and to counter screen time.

Simply Being

Anxious? Self-conscious? Feeling down? Practising love for yourself and others can help us feel confident, warm, loved, kind and centred again.

Practicing self-love and love for others can help us feel confident, warm, loved, kind and centered again.

Love for Myself and Others (14 min)

This practice helps us befriend our sadness and let go of the struggle.

Befriending sadness and releasing struggle through a recommended practice.

Befriending Sadness

Unwind for a few minutes, with a narrated walk through a peaceful forest.

Take a calming narrated walk through a serene forest to unwind in just a few minutes.

Forest Meditation

Enjoying a light, spacious connection with the breath can help us pay attention, relax and ease our minds.

Focusing on breath creates relaxation and mental ease.

Enjoying Breathing

This intermediate-level meditation focuses on the breath and letting thoughts and emotions go. Very helpful as a daily meditation practice. Great for soothing anger, anxiety, and sadness. Repeated over time, we'll learn how to interrupt rumination, and become less reactive and more balanced and peaceful.

Intermediate breath-focused meditation practice for daily calming and interrupting rumination, leading to less reactivity and more peace.

Let Go Of Thoughts And Emotions (16min)

This practice helps us befriend our stress, and let go of struggle.

"Befriending stress and letting go of struggle through practice."

Befriending Stress

Looking to unwind? This body scan and breath-awareness

exercise can help reduce stress and promote relaxation.

Body and Breath (12 min)

Feeling down? Tired? Stressed? This visualisation can help us relax in warm sunshine, evoking positive thoughts and emotions.

Visualization in warm sunshine can help relax and evoke positive thoughts and emotions.

Sunshine

Trouble sleeping? This practice will help you let go of the pressure to sleep, allow the body to relax and enjoy resting.

Relaxing before bed helps release the pressure to sleep and improves sleep quality.

Enjoying Resting

Drift gently off to sleep, soothed by ocean waves and the rising and falling of the body breathing.

Sleep peacefully to the sound of ocean waves and rhythmic breathing.

Drifting Off

Calming, open-hearted, friendly feelings often arise when we shift our perspective to "see with the eyes of our heart".

Shifting perspective to "see with the eyes of our heart" can bring about calming, open-hearted, and friendly feelings.

Seeing With The Eyes Of Your Heart

A longer practice of Simply being for those looking to unwind and rest with whatever our experience, in a spacious, open awareness.

"Practice Simply Being for rest and relaxation with open awareness." (51 characters)

Simply Being (12 Min)

Feeling too alert? Too relaxed? Explore how using the breath can help bring mental balance.

Use breath to balance mental state - too alert or too relaxed.

Relaxed and Alert

A short practice to help us centre and calm.

Quick exercise for calming and centering.

Centred and Calm

Drift off to sleep as you stroll through Imbil State Forest, with the gentle call of catbirds and the comforting smell of gum leaves.

Imbil State Forest provides a calming, natural environment for peaceful sleep with the sounds of catbirds and fragrance of gum leaves.

Strolling Through the Forest

Drift off to sleep as you imagine cosy times beside the fire in a treehouse on a drizzly day, and in the garden there.

Imagine cosy times in a treehouse on a drizzly day with garden views to drift off to sleep.

A Cosy Time at the Treehouse

Drift off to sleep as you imagine walking through the rainforest to a beautiful waterfall.

Experience the calm of a rainforest and its waterfall as you sleep.

A Dancing Waterfall

Drift off to sleep as you imagine hiking into the rainforest of Mt Tamborine on a misty day, with waterfalls, koalas, and giant fig trees.

Imagine hiking through the misty rainforest of Mt Tamborine with waterfalls, koalas, and giant fig trees to help you sleep better.

Mist On Tamborine Mountain

Drift off to sleep as you imagine walking along miles of quiet beach with amber skies and the rolling waves of the Pacific Ocean.

Imagine walking along a peaceful beach at sunset to fall asleep.

Along Ocean Shores

Drift off to sleep as you enjoy relaxing on the verandah of a luxurious Thai Villa, surrounded by greenery, on a warm summer's day.

Relax on a Thai villa's verandah amidst greenery for a peaceful slumber on a warm summer's day.

View from the Thai Verandah

Drift off to sleep as you imagine walking along the banks of the Brisbane river, with the twinkling lights of the city at night.

Imagine walking along the banks of the Brisbane river at night while admiring the twinkling city lights and drift off to sleep.

River City at Night

Drift off to sleep after a gentle stroll through the gum trees, with birdsong and afternoon sunshine.

Relaxing walk through the gum trees with birdsong and sunshine leading to a peaceful sleep.

Afternoon Sun in the Forest

Drift off to sleep as you imagine taking a walk around the lush gardens of a forest monastery in Myanmar (Burma), during the rainy season.

Sleep soundly while envisioning a walk through Myanmar's forest monastery gardens in the rainy season.

Monsoon at the Monastery

Drift off to sleep to the sound of the gentle rain and the beautiful, misty gardens of Chenrezig temple.

Sleep to the sound of rain and scenic gardens at Chenrezig temple.

Rain in the Temple Gardens

Drift off to sleep as you imagine walking around a mangrove lake, with koalas and kangaroos.

Visualize exploring a mangrove lake with koalas and kangaroos to fall asleep.

Mangrove with Koalas and Kangaroos

A beautiful traditional Celtic story, celebrating the sacred feminine. Gentle background rain and guitar tuned to 432hz to help your brain into an Alpha state, and support relaxing sleep.

A Celtic story about the sacred feminine with calming rain and 432hz guitar to aid relaxation and sleep.

The Cup Of The Faery Queen

A traditional Celtic tale of how the birds chose their king or queen. It has some really heart-warming messages... how we need each other, how we can work together, and how important it is to share our individual strengths and vulnerabilities. Gentle background music is composed in 432 Hz, with bird sounds, to help you relax and unwind. Art by Jeff Thompson.

Celtic tale of birds choosing their ruler with heart-warming messages of unity, collaboration, and vulnerability, accompanied by relaxing music and art.

The Eagle And The Wren

This traditional Aboriginal story reminds us of how much we love nature, and how beautiful nature is: the trees, the flowers, the rivers, the ocean, the mountains. Drift off to sleep as you journey through this paradise, with the healing sounds of didgeridoo (thanks to Jimmie P. Rogers), a crackling fire, and crickets.

Aboriginal story highlights love for nature, accompanied by didgeridoo, fire crackling and crickets, promoting a peaceful sleep.

Baiame And The Land of Flowers

Drift off to sleep as you imagine walking through gum trees to look out over the majestic Glasshouse Mountains.

Imagine walking through gum trees to admire the Glasshouse Mountains while falling asleep.

Around the Glasshouse Mountains

Drift off to sleep in the lush botanical gardens of Meanjin, Brisbane, filled with palms, water lilies, and sacred fig, with the sound of waves lapping gently on the silty shore of the river Maiwr.

Sleep in Meanjin's botanical gardens with palms, water lilies, and sacred fig, and the sound of gentle waves on the Maiwr river shore.

Lazing in Lush Gardens

Drift off to sleep celebrating the preciousness of water, with these dreaming stories of the Rainbow Serpent, the Water of Life, a creator-being respected by many Aboriginal traditions. Rainbow Serpent teaches us to honor and protect water and look after the land and each other. Art: “Noorn Dreaming” by Noongar artist Michelle “Wilura” Kicket.

Aboriginal dreaming stories of the Rainbow Serpent emphasize the preciousness of water and the need to protect and honor it, as depicted in "Noorn Dreaming" art by Michelle Kicket.

The Legend Of The Rainbow Serpent

A legendary love story from Ancient Egypt... learn how the goddess Isis magically brings her husband Osiris back to life. A wonderful example of an empowered, loving woman. Includes gentle background music recorded at 432hz, to help you relax, unwind and drift off to sleep. This is Part 1 of 2.

Goddess Isis brings her husband Osiris back to life in an empowering love story from Ancient Egypt, with relaxing background music. Part 1 of 2.

The Legend of Isis and Osiris, Part 1

Drift off to sleep as you imagine the sun setting over the quiet suburbs of the city.

Picture the sun setting over peaceful city suburbs to fall asleep.