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The year began quietly and coldly for many of us, under the glowing light of a Wolf Supermoon. Named for the howling of hungry wolves that once echoed across these lands, the Wolf Moon appeared in Cancer- a watery, emotional invitation to take stock of the year just passed. It offered a moment to comeContinue reading “A Year of Roots & Remedies- Reflecting Back, Growing Forward”

We are super excited to be launching our first ever Movement in Thyme weekend retreat, taking place Summer 2025 at the magical Tir Na Nog Holistic Centre near Loch Lomond in the Trossachs. This is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in a beautiful weekend of natural wellness knowing that what you’ve spent on yourContinue reading “A reTREAT that gives back”

We are now one year into the witnessing of genocide in Palestine and still there seems to be no move by the international community to condemn these acts, let alone stop them. Instead we are seeing the increase in horrific genocidal acts in Northern Gaza with many Israeli settlers waiting to take ‘ownership’ of theContinue reading “Honouring Yousef Abu Rabea”

Our most recent programme at Movement in Thyme is the Solidarity for Justice events.  These events raise awareness of issues around the globe, connect the audience live with people from across the world and raise awareness of the speakers project. This platform provides the speakers with an opportunity to ask the public to take actionContinue reading “Films for Justice: Empowering Women in the DRC”

Community herb gardening is a key pillar of our work at Movement in Thyme. We use herbs a lot in our medicine and remedy making and when we were kindly offered some garden space at Tir Na Nog Holistic Centre near Drymen, we jumped at the chance to be able to grow some of theContinue reading “Building connection and wellbeing through community herb gardening”

Spring has (almost!) sprung, and the winds of March are sweeping across the landscape, with the slow creeping warmth of the sun to freshen the earth once more. With the moveable fast of Easter appearing at the end of the month, we can begin March with the promise of chocolatey goodness and spiced buns toContinue reading “Uncovering Spring”

Do you love yourself unconditionally? Do you speak to yourself in a way you would to your best friend? The concept of self love and compassion feels icky to most of us. We’ve been conditioned to shy away from loving ourselves as an act of ‘big headedness’, the term ‘she loves herself’ seen as aContinue reading “In search of self love”

I am sitting in my warm home with a cup of tea watching the latest news about the Israel-Palestine genocide, the internal war on drug gangs in Quito, Ecuador, and violence in Congo. It breaks my heart to see all these people suffering. In the last decade the number of refugees in the world doubledContinue reading “Solidarity Medicine for Refugees”

Bilal Saleh, a beloved face on the streets of Ramallah, a city in the West Bank, Palestine. He sells herbs on the street; sage, thyme, sumac. He gathers the herbs himself in the hills surrounding where he lives. Sold. Gathered. Lived. Bilal was murdered by an Israeli settler on the 28th October. Shot in theContinue reading “In Memory of a Herb Seller”

It’s a fact. Our urban parks had never been so busy as during the first lockdown of 2020. Suddenly everyone was out there, taking their daily outdoor allowance in their local wildish spaces, when previously, the notion of simply heading out for a wander everyday purely for the sake of getting outside, would never haveContinue reading “Why foraging is good for our health – and the planet”

Nature can inspire us in so many ways but did you know it can also have a huge impact on our wellbeing? There is a LOT going on in the world right now and it can be very easy for us to get overwhelmed and stuck in our heads. As we welcome in a newContinue reading “Grounding in Nature”