Intimacy with the Essential

Big Buddhas, the fallow tea trees of Guizhou, grass circles in the garden and so much inbetween. An invitation to adventure, and anchor… both. Laura and Alastair will be back with No Gurus in a few months. Take care until x

The value of 'truth', 'clarity' and separateness AND how systemic and other perspectives bring a softening and alternative movements. The Tarot Queen's can be doorways, so also a short insight into our different places with tarot.

How the fertile soil of difficult family dynamics, and the mess and truth that emerge from that, might actually make good ground and space for life to move and flow…

After riffing, maybe even ranting on social media and the insidious power of algorithms, Laura and Alastair settle into stiller waters, bringing forth deeper searching - what is it that's being craved for? For each of us - for what do we long?

Laura and Alastair on dialogue vs debate, staying in relationship, tenderness, beauty, and never closing the door.

As Alastair walks through a map of 'tension' points in the field of his pressing realities, reflections from Laura reveal the possibilities that might exist on 'the other side of the page' - an invitation to a different movement. Their conversation extends to exploring the often fearsome lifeforce that comes with the instinctual recovery of essence and breathes of new life.

Laura and Alastair share recent experiences from everyday living in their different surroundings and communities and explore how the 'hard' built environment can work with the 'softer' natural and human environment to invite spontaneous connection, healing and supportive interdependence.

Gently regathering after Alastair's holiday, he and Laura explores shift from their everyday, how the small pleasures and interactions of life open doorways and a wider aperture.

Circles, spirals, red lines, ordinariness, the big journey of life, and everything in between. In this episode, Alastair and Laura walk the path together, touching on the art of enough, the energy of rebellion, censorship, overwhelm, what's acute and what's chronic, what's right to feel and do about that, and how good people all walk the line of this complexity every single day. 

In this epispode Laura and Alastair return to the horrific nature of our world right now. Themes touched on before, this time more explicitly and confrontingly. This is not inteneded to be easy listening and they have commited to "be at the table" taking this dialogue further in the next episode.