Aliveness

We are children of nature.
A journal about remembering
how to feel fully alive.

Bare feet on warm earth.
Fingers trailing through cool water.
Lying on the grass, staring at the clouds.

This is what it means to feel fully alive.

We need to fully inhabit ourselves - stretch into our aliveness, feel it all.
And perhaps, then, we'll remember that the sacred is here too - in the ordinary, the sensory, in the fully felt moment.

Joy is not naivety. It is divine defiance.

Kisses In Sunbeams
Nicola Roberton Nicola Roberton

Kisses In Sunbeams

We carry an image of spiritual maturity as serene, unruffled, above the mess of ordinary life. This essay asks what genuine encounter with the sacred actually produces. Not detachment. Not managed emotions. A heart loved open. One through which life can actually move.

Read More
Real Love Asks Something of You
Nicola Roberton Nicola Roberton

Real Love Asks Something of You

On the difference between love that holds you comfortable and love that transforms you. Why real growth requires something the wellness industry rarely offers.

Read More
Her Fingerprints Everywhere
Nicola Roberton Nicola Roberton

Her Fingerprints Everywhere

Why beauty isn't frivolous - it's sacred. Exploring the Bhagavad Gita, the Sakhi Bhaav tradition, and what it means to feel your own beauty as a remembering of your intrinsic worth.

Read More
The Milk of Dawn
Nicola Roberton Nicola Roberton

The Milk of Dawn

If you have ever woken early and lain in the dark, you may have felt it - that particular quality of the early morning air. Charged, somehow. Expectant. As if the world is holding its breath before it begins again…

Read More
What If You Pushed Through?
Nicola Roberton Nicola Roberton

What If You Pushed Through?

On quantum physics, mystics, and the luminous ground beneath everything. What David Bohm's ocean of light has in common with the Vedic understanding of Shakti…

Read More
Not Upward. Inward.
Nicola Roberton Nicola Roberton

Not Upward. Inward.

The feminine doesn't awaken by rising above herself. She awakens by coming home to herself - fully, honestly, into her own body, her own life, her own depths…

Read More
Be An Animal Again
Nicola Roberton Nicola Roberton

Be An Animal Again

We moved so far from nature that we forgot what we were made of. And then, when the forgetting made us unwell we invented technologies to replicate what nature was offering all along…

Read More
You Are The Temple
Nicola Roberton Nicola Roberton

You Are The Temple

You don’t need a temple. You need a body. And everyone already has one. “The body is the temple;
the indwelling Self is the eternal presence.”….

Read More
Where Pleasure Becomes Prayer
Nicola Roberton Nicola Roberton

Where Pleasure Becomes Prayer

There’s a kind of holiness in the way sunlight touches skin, the way ripe fruit yields when you bite into it, the way silk feels against the body. Svadisthana - the sacral chakra - is where this holiness lives. It’s the sweetness of being alive.....

Read More
The dance of Lila - trusting your unfolding life
Nicola Roberton Nicola Roberton

The dance of Lila - trusting your unfolding life

Sometimes it feels like dismantling. Other times, like perfect flow. But perhaps it’s all choreography - the same intelligence that shapes a rose or spins a galaxy, is moving quietly through our lives too....

Read More