Kernow Healing Sanctuary

Journal

Letters from the sanctuary

Seasonal writing on nature, wellbeing and the practice of choosing.

Recent

Reading for slow mornings

Nature

The morning the bluebells arrived

A woodland floor changes colour overnight, and so does everyone who walks through it.

Mindfulness

Five minutes of doing nothing

The smallest practice we teach, and the hardest one to keep.

Wellbeing

Why cold water works on a grey Tuesday

Notes from a winter of sea swimming in a Cornish cove.

The I Choose Philosophy

Choosing forgiveness before breakfast

On the page most readers return to, and why it is the heaviest one.

Healing Gardens

A healing garden is mostly patience

Three years of soil, failure and quiet improvement.

Walking

Walking the coast path in silence

What happens in the second hour, once the talking runs out.

Recipes

Nettle soup and the first green week

Spring's first harvest, straight from the hedgerow.

Community

Standing still with a horse

Twenty minutes that taught a whole group how to breathe.

Wildflowers

The wildflowers we stopped mowing

How one uncut meadow brought back the skylarks.