January 2019
Imbolc – The Festival of the Awakening Earth
While the Nature spirits are about to awaken, and the serpent life force is ready to be reborn, the Winter receptivity is giving way to an urge to move forwards into Spring energy. As the days grow…
January 2019
7 Days of Giving
Sunshine House works under the umbrella of a non-profit organization of Metta-Morfosis, transformation through loving-kindness. We took a tarot card from the Tao Oracle before Christmas and it said…
December 2018
Winter Veggie Pouch: Nature’s present of goodness
Midwinter inspires coziness, fireplace, a cup of warm tea and warming food! But also brings the Christmas holidays, lights, presents, big family gatherings, some headache about what to cook for the…
December 2018
Winter Solstice – Yule
The Longest Night of the Year Imagine a wheel... The symbolic wheel of time... When this wheel completes a full circle, there is a tiny little pause before it begins again! This is what happens with…
December 2018
Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms
Autumn is here! The earth is nourished with fresh water after a long time of dry sunny weather, and the plants look very happy under the shower!! Mother earth will give this blessing of water back in…
November 2018
LoveMade Heart(b)eating Chocolate
Theobroma Cacao is a much loved and very powerful food living up to its ancient name as the Food of the Gods.
October 2018
Samhain – Halloween
Once upon a time, people lived so close to the Earth, that they were feeling the changes of seasons and the circles of life from within. They were paying attention to Nature and her rhythms and…
November 2019
The Essence of Touch – Part 2
Part 2 When we offer someone a massage treatment, do we have the subtle idea that we are doing something to someone else to fix them, or are we humble enough to let our hands do the listening without…
October 2018
The Essence of Touch – Part 1
Part 1 Our senses begin to develop already in the womb. As we grow from a seed into a fetus and then into a full-grown baby, ready to be born, our senses are becoming more acute and alert to…
September 2018
Roasted Pumpkin Slices
When the trees are changing colors, the air is starting to blow cooler and the children go back to school, we know that we enter a transitional period with warm days and chilly afternoons, not really…
September 2018
Autumn Equinox – Mabon
“A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer's wave goodbye...” Summer is gone and the Sun is traveling to the South hemisphere taking the hot and big days with him... Fall is coming with the sweet…
September 2018
Raw Fig Dessert
Figs are the highlight of the Sunshine summer fruits and they are always abundant on the branches of our garden fig trees!!! Most of the time, we enjoy eating them directly from the tree, but…