Blog on Inspired Living and Healing - Recipes for Life

Have you been to the grocery store and wandered the isles trying to remember that one thing you really needed?

Maybe you’ve been really lost off the trail or in a new city...

Are you lost?

Do you ever get lost? (or is that just me!)

Dedicate January, a naturally quiet, cold, dark month of the year, to finding your direction. Get re-oriented. Maybe you have been feeling lost in life. Maybe 2022 was too much of everything. If you’re like me...

The Gift of Touch this Season This December work miracles: give the gift of touch. I write that tongue in cheek, but the gift of touch is a marvel to the senses. A gentle embrace of the shoulders of a loved one anxiously awaiting test results is a miracle of sorts. A dad scooping up his child, after a fall from his bicycle, is a wondrous miracle indeed. The young child shifts from crying to laughing almost instantly. For you: your friend offering a reassuring squeeze of your hand may be exactly the little miracle of understanding you need. How...

How do you begin your own wellness journey then?

Where do you begin? With whom?

In Trataka, which means 'gaze' in Sanskrit, you look upon a lighted candle with intention. Your gaze is soft and unwavering. As you focus on this small point, your mind slows and quiets.

All Souls Day...light a candle

As we honour our ancestors and create an offering, we put aside moments to dedicate to the past.

We may offer our prayers in the kitchen as we cook extra meals with the over flowing harvest. Maybe you are inspired to bake some 'pan de ánimas',  a spirit bread that is offered as feast and a gratitude of abundance. 

Spirited Evening with Prizes
(and we will be dressed for Ghost Success!)

We will be celebrating the Queen Street West Sidewalk festival with all our lit, stained glass Chili peppers from Reyan - Stained Glass Artist Extraordinaire.