There are thousands of methods, promises, lotions, potions and schools of thought about how to achieve wellness. What if our body already has everything we needed to heal and maintain optimum health? What if we worked with the elements instead of always trying to protect ourselves against them? What if  that the mind and the breath working together can change our biochemistry so we can withstand cold, hunger, pain and substantially increase our strength, resilience and transform our mental well-being? The documentary charts the course of one man, driven by grief, who did just that and who has pioneered a method that,  can transform our relationship to physical and psychological suffering. He is so confident of his methodology, that he has invited the scientific community to monitor records and throw him challenges such as swimming under a metre of solid ice and climbing Mount Everest in his shorts. 

 Sister, mother, daughter, lover, child
Your light needs to shine
There is a darkness when you are absent
When you don’t speak your truth
When you don’t dance with joy
When you don’t spread your magic on our land
You are every woman
As women, must journey beyond blame, shame, fear and guilt
Then we find our true power
And with it we transform the darkness into light
We find the truth, the inner beauty and the power to free us all
This resides within each and every one of us
Tell your daughters, your mother, sister and friend
There is something we need to be
It is time to awaken and to be One
Our brothers are waiting for us to change; for they don’t know how
We pray that we find the love, wisdom and courage to be all that we can be
As women;
We gain strength from you Mother Earth
We feel it in our bodies, We hear it in our voices
You can feel it in our touch
We are here to reclaim all that has been lost 
It is time for us to re-unite with love, peace and gratitude 
So that we can all lead empowered lives.

 Transcripts from my session with Lorraine Flaherty, Regression Therapist

The trees are coming into leaf 
Like something almost being said; 
The recent buds relax and spread, 
Their greenness is a kind of grief. 

Is it that they are born again 
And we grow old? No, they die too, 
Their yearly trick of looking new 
Is written down in rings of grain. 

Yet still the unresting castles thresh 
In fullgrown thickness every May. 
Last year is dead, they seem to say, 
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.

Philip Larkin.

This remains to be one all time favourite poems. It affirms and acknowledges the cycle of life in such a wonderful way. Thank you Philip Larkin and welcome to Spring 2018.