Gaia: Connect. Grow. Inspire. Empower.
Who has been your greatest teacher?
Shameslaya
Myself...because I'm learning to open up to what you have to teach me...cyberly and molecularly... This happens most potently when i experience being in love...so special mention to lewis, my son and tam my partner....wonderful... More »
When was the last time you really listened to someone?
Shameslaya
I have my ear pressed to a metaphorical glass tumbler pressed in turn against the Kosmic wall and I try oh so hard to hear what is going on on the other side of it.... More »
What have you learned from other animals?
Shameslaya
They inform me with the utmost sincerity that Dr Doolittle is having you all on...the guy doesn't even know any of the gorilla swear words. I used to dislike Tam's first dog Rosie...she was just... More »
What are you learning?
Shameslaya
Right now I am learning that what I need in my life right now is glue rather than solvent.....there is a vast although subtle difference between being free and being loose....Hermes Trismegistus once wrote that... More »
Happy Mother's Day!
Shameslaya
Wishing you mums and your mums a happy day. My mother died in my arms. I tell the story here.
How can we best prepare our children for the future?
Shameslaya
We have to give them internal cohesion for their times alone... interpersonal confidence and clarity for their times with others...physical, pranic, emotional and mental strength, suppleness and dexterity....and an appropriate sense of material and spiritual... More »
What's the fiercest storm you've weathered?
Shameslaya
Divorce, no doubt about it.... I split with Louise two years into crap therapy where I was reduced to an intermittently-manifesting childish babbling mess....Lewis was three...I had just quit my safety-net job as a mental... More »
What did you learn about yourself yesterday?
Shameslaya
I skipped the QAR firsttime in 3 months yesterday so yesterday is today whenever...I learned that I am not addicted to gaia....
When in your life have you felt most out of control?
Shameslaya
well it could be now if I sit and i take a deep breath and i begin to type out the first thing which comes into my head in so doing bypassing the inner critic... More »
What's the most useful class you've ever taken?
Shameslaya
In 1992, I began running a yoga class in a remote Methodist Hall in deepest darkest Essex where the cultural climate is so fundamentalist that even trees and rocks and stuff are sinners...yep, it's Deliverance... More »
QaR
August 2008 