Journal

What is Pranayama?

What is Pranayama?

One of my favourite things about Seek Solitude is learning about concepts that I may have never come across or considered in much depth. Like Prana...

The Best Mornington Peninsula Yoga Studios

One of the things I really missed about Melbourne when we first moved to the Peninsula were the yoga studios. As is inherent to life in the city, y...

Creating a meditation and yoga space for mental health in lockdown

Creating your own calm space in lockdown

The challenges of lockdowns manifest differently for each of us - a result of our living, working and personal circumstances. Living alone versus a...

What are yoga props and when should we use them?

If you’ve been to a yoga studio it’s likely you’ve tried (or at least seen) a selection of yoga props. In my own experience the props used vary a l...

Overcoming lockdown fatigue with mindfulness and meditation

4 ways to Overcome Lockdown Fatigue

Last week Melbourne went into its sixth lockdown. It happened to be on my birthday, meaning dinner that evening was cancelled as was the camping tr...

How to build immunity in Autumn and Winter

Building immunity in Autumn and Winter

This week Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula experienced an onslaught of rain and wind, accompanied by a deep dive in temperatures. As we’d bot...

Medicinal Mushroom Powders for Immunity and Cognitive Function

Medicinal Mushrooms and their Powerful Health Benefits

Mushrooms have been sought for millennia as a source of both food and medicine. For over 3,000 years Traditional Chinese Medicine has revered certa...

Self-care, Nourishment and Rest for Autumn

After a scant summer, autumn is beginning to show on the Mornington Peninsula with brisk mornings, light rain and the smell of fireplaces tinting t...

Wooden Spoon Herbs plant medicine at Seek Solitude

Behind the Brand: Wooden Spoon Herbs

For a long time we’ve coveted Wooden Spoon Herbs, completely infatuated by their 70s sensibilities and deep understanding of wild plants and their ...

Building Facade in India sharing Hindu Cultural Rituals

From Routine to Ritual

Our society has a relentless appetite for self-optimisation that is explained by psychologist Svend Brinkmann as ‘in an accelerating culture, we ar...

How to make meditation a habitual part of daily life

Just as we always have tended to the physical body through food and movement in its various forms, in recent decades increased consideration has al...

Self-Care and the Eight Pillars of Wellness

2020’s been a big year. We got married, moved to the Mornington Peninsula, got a dog (Lazlo), a warehouse space, phased out of our old work, and st...