No Gurus in this Temple

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.

The frames we take, the entanglements we break, the meaning we make... In this episode, Laura and Alastair make some wandering wonderings about language - and how the choices we make, or those that are made for us, shape our identity and so our experience of life too.     Do we have any sessions left from what we've paid for so far? Please invoice us for another batch.

A tipping point, a great turning, a defining moment in time. Here we stand, as neighbours, at yet another juncture in our human evolution - in the midst of power struggles, domination, deep sorrow, kindness, greed. So many promises broken and so many not yet made, but ready, too. It's beyond time, now, for us to start properly paying attention.  And despite not having any real idea, keep asking ou...

The ones who present themselves, the ones we seek for safety.   The ones offered in slogans and false deities of sacred institutions.   No worshipping at the gate here, rather step into the experience of yourself, and notice the disruption to your familiar patterns.

Borders, centres, and the places in inbetween...   Our capacities to pull apart, our innate desire for weaving together...   What does it all mean to us, as animals with primal urge and as modern day humans with consciousness and choices too?   How do we stand in the places that enable life to flow - and what will we do with the many gifts we have been given?

Passing year, new year traditions and transitions. Not always joyful, not necessarily easy. We begin again refreshed and renewing.

Tuning in, attuning, digesting, enabling - information, relationships, food and drink, stuff.    Here, Alastair and Laura explore the energetic realms, and begin to scratch the surface on the question 'how much is too much?' and ultimately 'in all of these aspects of our lives, what can we each, and all, do to manage the load?'

The safe yet possibly terrifying normality of emerging baselines, contrasted with thresholds of consciousness - opening doorways to new possibility and new centres of gravity.

When the system shifts, or changes state or shape, what might be revealed or made real? A brief jaunt through broken broadband, to the meaning of life and beyond!

Fizzed by the seemingly incidental and every day, Laura and Alastair deepen into experiences of language, land and heart. Our voice and our expression resonate as non-literal reflections of identity and ancestral inheritances.

The silence, the pause, the gap, thespace between…   What if in absence of noise is where we actually get up 'hear' the most? 'No meditation better clears the mind than to listen to the shape of the silence that surrounds us. It focuses us on the thin line between what is there and what is not there. It opens our heart to the unseen, and reminds us that the world is larger than the events that fil...

Torn, ranting, searching, in this 10th episode with Laura and Alastair their conversation travels through the contractions of the world, and opens to the need for expansiveness: ordinariness, and the magical nature of what is right in front of us, underneath our feet and in the air around and above. … Maybe the only move needed is for every one of us to simply kneel and kiss the ground. Maybe the...

As the cards reveal themselves, the territory is laid out before us... so the Magician drops in, and the spell is cast.   A wild ride today through 'fate' - what life gives us, 'destiny' - what we do with it, and how we might embody our magic to claim our place in the order of things - co-creating our shared future as we go.    

Fizz, performance anxiety, play - being more here in the moment, standing in the centre of our existence, and gathering good strength inside the Dragon's cave.

  An expansive painting of a conversation featuring in the moment noticing's and synchronicities. In this episode Alastair and Laura explore the richness that comes from listening more widely, including and giving a place to everything, expanding and honouring the sense of whole. Then experiencing the delicious emptiness from releasing it all: "once we can be truly empty, we can make anything poss...

What drives the human need to always 'fill the gap?'   And what can spring forth, instead, by staying with it?   Another poetic musing from Laura and Alastair  - this time about the essential, fertile, abundant nature of the space-between - the place where intimacy is born, and the ground from which life can then blossom.