The Creativity Play and Possibilities Retreat is done and I loved every second of it. We gathered in my studio on Butterstone Farm for 2 1/2 days of artful and soulful ceremony. We were dancers, writers, artists, healers, musicians and sacred storytellers. We laughed, loved, learned, let go and leapt into joyful exploration. We…
Author Archives: Ahava
Awesome Salt Spring Women
It was such a joy and honour to be there with all of the inspiring women last night at The Gathering for the first Awesome Salt Spring Women live event. Group founder, Emma-Louise Elsey and I were excited to co-create such a fun evening at the new restaurant where Bryan Dubien and partner/ chef…
compassion lives here
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Rumi, The Guest House A walk in the garden, spying on sparrow with its inspiring rhapsody and the robins’ intrepid darting. A melancholy,…
taking care of ourselves with words
Yesterday I wrote a very short story about a girl who was wide-awake. Today I fell into a deep sleep again. And now, with these words, the light turns on. I am flowing. Sometimes I can’t believe how much this body experiences. Stress, the way it hovers in the chest, a heart-burning for some relief…
Sing I Must
Learning to love a landscape, like learning to love anything, means learning its details and noticing the way in which one’s involvement with those details is interesting and influential. Davis, Luce-Kapler & Sumara I awoke from a dream in which the world outside was in the midst of an intense storm whose high winds sounded like…
author author
My dear friend Ariana Salvo tagged me as one of her favourite writers, to be part of ‘The Next Big Thing”. It works like this: an author answers the ten questions below on his/her blog and then tags up to 5 other writers to do the same the following Wednesday.You’ll find the links to my favourites below,…
we need each other to flourish
We live in a world that is as complex as it is dynamic. Our interdependence with others and the world beyond ourselves is a fact, not an option. We are surrounded by other people and countless nonhuman species, by made and natural objects of the most extraordinary variety, by every imaginable kind of sensual and…
one lovely blog deserves another
Last Sunday the playful and compassionate writer, Tess Wlxted nominated me for a One Lovely Blog Award. Read all about it at her blog. What a gift to open my emails and find someone writing to me, saying, in essence, ‘I like what you have to say, and I like how how you say it!’ So this…
what a difference a choice makes
Today is a child full of wonder radiating light colour it reaches out to you with love asks for your hand a kiss on its forehead clings to the hem of your heart and expects you will be there over and over despite the hours you already played read, danced in the garden…
it’s my pleasure
“It’s my pleasure!” I find myself saying this a lot in my life when someone thanks me for giving them something, whether it’s a mentoring session, help with their bags, a ride to town or a compliment about their outfit. “It’s my pleasure!” are the first words out of my mouth after they thank me. And…
Sign up here and receive your
Free Gate of Play,
an introduction to Loving Inquiry!
-
I am a writer, speaker, author, teacher and founder of the Centre for Loving Inquiry, where I help artists, healers, creative women and "heart"repreneurs truly love themselves by valuing their authentic expression and feeling confident to share their unique gifts with the world.
I look forward to helping you start your journey of Loving Inquiry...
-
