About The Wu Wei

As my instagram says "I am a psychotherapist, yoga teacher, circle holder, dream creator, weaver and spinner of stories, dancer, nature lover, moon gazer, tarot reader and advocate of wuwei living."  But most of all I am a woman who feels deeply, and I feel deeply about many things but most of all about humankind and how we  often, through lack of awareness, create suffering for ourselves and the world  around us.  And my work over the last thirty years has been rooted in  bringing awareness to the inter-connectedness of all things, as intrinsic to our capacity to make sense of ourselves, our lives and the world, to embrace that wholeness and to co-create our best life. 

Now what is the Wuwei?

I first came across the Taoist term Wu-wei in the mid 90's when I attended a workshop with the amazing Jean-Claude and Arlene  Audergon.  As a typical eldest daughter with a serious addiction to perfection from an early age, the concept of "non-action" was seriously revolutionary. The  idea that change does not happen as a consequence of force but rather as a tendency that is innate in all things and situation. That change occurs  naturally, spontaneously and according to one's true nature. By being in harmony, and living in accordance with nature, and trusting our intuition, there is no need to force or push,  just simply align with the Tao, and by not "going against the grain" you will be successful at life.

"By non-action everything is done."

Lao Tzu

AN EXHORTATION TO THE OTHERWORLD

I close my eyes when I see 

the body burning, and the flames.

Words freeze on my tongue.

I don't know what spell

can now unlock this chain of horror.

Everything is known that needs to be known

and everything that needs to be seen

has been seen.

Regardless, the Devourer

unchecked

eats the children

and — eyes open or eyes closed — 

the fire burns on.

My words are too weak;

my prayers are mere fantasy;

I rage against the limits of my power.

Bring me my bow;

Sharpen the spear.

Awaken the army

of the otherworld.

No nation of this Earth

is holding fast against

the Devourer.

Tom Hirons