How my work evolves..

I am not a business plan kind of person! When people used to talk about making a 5 year plan (before it became clear around 2020 that thinking that far ahead really wasn’t going to be a thing any more), I would find myself recoiling in horror.

While I definitely have to put in the practical elements to get my work out into the world, I have discovered that most of my best ideas evolve and emerge. One of my most fruitful uses of time is to block out a day once in a while to go on a really long walk. The movement, the open space, the natural world around me is the perfect canvas for new ideas and inspiration. I record voicenotes as I go, pulling in the feelings, the threads, the ideas and keeping them safe to be teased into reality.

This is how the Temple of Light came into being.

I felt a sort of energetic nudge around midsummer, a colour more than anything else. It was an amazing golden-orange like a really good egg yolk. I remember noticing it and storing it away somewhere in my mind, wondering what it might become.

I had run online group journeys that I called Soul Circles for over two years, but my life got very complicated as I tried to move house, and I needed the considerable energy that I used to create these events elsewhere. But I missed the sacredness, the monthly drawing together of a group who wanted to go within, regularly, to explore how they could heal, grow and thrive.

And so, this golden orange expanded and I realised that it was time to bring something like the Soul Circles back, but in a different way, a more considered way, a more committed way. By joining in a group through the darkest months of the year, we would create a kind of sacred space, could I even call it an energetic portal? We would see that as a base where we could return again and again, month by month, all on our own unique paths, but also as individuals coming together. It felt exciting and important.

I balked at first as the name ‘Temple of Light’ came to me. Many of the people who work with me have never done any inner work and don’t consider themselves particularly spiritual. Would this be too much? Would it put people off that had felt more comfortable with the Soul Circles? Well, I am not sure is the honest answer. But the name just kept pushing back into my mind, so I did what I have done many times before when I’ve REALLY not felt sure. I just trusted and got on with it!

And so, the time is now and I am so looking forward to opening the doors to this Temple and seeing what lies within..