Taking stock before the stork: using permaculture to plan with pregnancy

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Permaculture Womens Guild

Permaculture approaches to landing during pregnancy. By Priya Logan As a birth doula and mother of fifteen years and counting I often see and distincly remember how it is to view your pregnancy and impending parenthood, or expanded family, through a lens of duty to your responsibilities and often a profound narrowing of resources and energy. For most of us it can feel overwhelming to be faced with an archetypal expectation of what a parent should be or how they should feel even if we know that those ideals are narrow or there are many ways to approach anything. When…

Buddhist Meditation and Regenerative Culture

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Permaculture Womens Guild

By Dido Dunlop Our hearts and outer world grow hearty together To restore Mother Nature, and grow tomatoes in our cities, we must redesign our inner gardens. New ways will only hold strong if we regenerate our inner culture too. What are our inner tomatoes? In meditation we cultivate all sorts of interesting plants in mind and heart. Kindness, love for life, resilience, humour, steadiness through trouble. Mother Nature’s Elements I’m a meditation teacher and climate activist. I grew up in the New Zealand bush. I began meditating to find the ‘bush’ feeling in the city. My first teacher taught us to…

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