There are new emerging understandings about human functioning that acknowledges we are an interconnected system with little separation between mind, body and spirit: our emotion...

There has been an emerging realization that the sense of smell is more important to human well-being than has been acknowledged by science over the last hundred years (McGann, 2...

This philosophical approach to health and wellbeing has been around for centuries across the world. For instance, Cyrus the Great of Persia built lush green gardens in the crowd...

Plant based aromas and scents have featured for millennia in many if not all religious practices and ceremonies. The concentrated scent of incense, with calming and sedative pro...

The use of smells helps mitigate the effects of neurological disorders, such as in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. It has been found, for instance, that there is a positive c...

To Be Human It is well known that modern humanity is deeply alienated from nature in its many forms. Indeed for the first time in human history, the majority of people on the pl...

Growing up in a little farming village in The Fens has made me realise that I am naturally better in quiet places with less people, and surrounded by trees. I didn't really thi...

If you take a deep breath in now, what do you feel? Can you smell...

Witchcraft is, I believe, the practice of entering into relation with the world, of exerting...

The choice, after all, is ours to make. If, having endured much, we have at last asserted our “right to know,” and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to t...

So now, as the Maiden form of the Goddess whispers to us of hope and new beginnings at the festival of Imbolc, it is on a cold February morning that you are invited to step o...

Its berries are red as a maiden's lip, Its leaves are of changeless green; And any thing changeless now, I wis, Is somewhat rare to be seen. The holly, which fall and frost h...

  “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness” — John Steinbeck     With winter no longer a distant prospect, I have pul...

As the leaves begin to lose their grip and fall away, the autumn fruits of the hedgerows ripen and are ready to be found and foraged. Rowan, Blackthorn, Hawthorn, Elderberri...

Indoors, we tend to use only two senses, our eyes and our ears. Outside is where we can smell the flowers, taste the fresh air, look at the changing colours of the trees, hea...

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. John Muir, 1911   etting out for a sliver of the John Muir Way last...

Take a course of good water and air, and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you... John Muir When I began...

On my first trip to New Zealand I had the pleasure of taking a dip in the warm waters of the Waiotapu hot springs (literally “sacred waters” in the Māori language). It was t...