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Healing in Community: Belonging as the Antidote to Loneliness and Trauma

We are not meant to heal alone. In the modern West, independence and self-reliance are often presented as the highest virtues. The myth that the “nuclear family” or the isolated individual is the natural endpoint of social evolution has been enormously powerful - and enormously costly. Loneliness and social isolation are now recognized as public-health threats on par with major clinical risks. In response, a quieter, older truth is reasserting itself: community is medicine. Where connection is rebuilt, bodies and systems begin to repair.

Carla Janse Van Rensburg

28.08.2025

community healing, trauma recovery, social connection, Indigenous wisdom, belonging and connection, loneliness epidemic, ancestral healing, environmental kinship, collective wellness, holistic well-being

Retreat Things

Traveling to Bali with Reverence: Entering Softly into Sacred Space

In some cultures, shedding layers is liberation; in others, it may be experienced as disregard. Bali belongs to the latter: a land where every gesture, garment, and footstep carries meaning. Entering softly and consciously is an invitation - not just to respect a place, but to deepen your own spiritual receptivity.

Carla Janse Van Rensburg

26.08.2025

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Retreat Things

Healing the Inner Child: What It Is and Why It Matters

Have you ever reacted strongly to something small - an offhand comment, a moment of rejection, or an unexpected silence - and felt as if something much deeper had been touched? That tender space within you… that vulnerable ache… may not belong to your adult self at all. It may be the voice of your inner child; a sacred aspect of your psyche that holds your earliest emotions, unmet needs, and intuitive innocence.

Carla Janse Van Rensburg

21.08.2025

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Inner Child

Birthing While She Was Dying: Grief as Portal and Prayer

I gave birth while my mother was dying. Two oceans apart, we labored in different dimensions - one life arriving, another preparing to leave. I remember holding my newborn in my arms while trying to reach her over a crackling video call, her eyes distant, her body fading, her breath now a murmur against the tide. There are moments in life that are too vast for the mind to understand. Moments when everything cracks open at once - when life, death, love, memory, and identity converge in a single breath.

Carla Janse Van Rensburg

04.08.2025

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Narratives

The Sacred Art of Performance: A Living Invocation

We are all performers. Not in the sense of falseness, but in the ancient, reverent sense; to perform as a way of becoming. Of remembering. Of embodying something greater than the self. The priestess stepping into trance. The storyteller evoking her ancestors. The child roaring through the body of a lion. Each one is performing, and each one is transmitting.

Carla Janse Van Rensburg

04.08.2025

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Retreat Things

How to Become a Psychic

Have you ever had a hunch that turned out to be true? Or felt something you couldn’t explain—an energy, a message, a moment of knowing? These are whispers from the unseen, signs that your innate psychic senses are stirring, waiting to be remembered. We all have access to the mystic. Psychic ability is not reserved for the gifted few—it is an ancient inheritance waiting to be reclaimed. This journey requires intention, love, and deep devotion. It is not always easy. But for those willing to meet themselves honestly and open their senses to the more-than-visible, the rewards are extraordinary.

Carla Janse Van Rensburg

03.08.2025

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Psychic Things

The Soul Cost of Burnout: What Happens When We Ignore the Call to Rest

There’s a moment - quiet, often dismissed - when your body softens for just a second, and something in you whispers: Stop. Just stop. You feel it between tasks, behind the smile, in the silence after the scroll. But most of us don’t stop. Not for lack of wanting to - but because we don’t feel like we’re allowed.

Carla Janse Van Rensburg

02.08.2025

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Retreat Things

5 Signs You’re Ready for a Retreat (and What to Do About It)

There’s a quiet knowing inside you. It may not be loud or urgent... Yet. But steady - like a hum inside your chest. It says: Something needs to shift. And maybe… it’s time. If you’ve been sensing that pull, here are five soul-deep signs you may be ready for more than just a break. You may be ready for a return.

Carla Janse Van Rensburg

02.08.2025

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Retreat Things

Where Movement Becomes Memory: A Sacred Introduction to Hypno-Yoga

You’ve stretched your body. You’ve sat in stillness. You’ve whispered affirmations like prayer. And still… something feels unmet. Not because you’re doing it wrong - but because the healing you’re yearning for isn’t something to strive for. It’s something to descend into. It opens through softness. Through breath. Through the sacred language that lives just below the conscious mind. This is where Hypno-Yoga begins.

Carla Janse Van Rensburg

30.07.2025

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Yoga

The Ritual Is the Remedy: How Ceremony Heals the Contemporary Woman

There is a weariness that words cannot name. It gathers in the bones. It coils around the breath. It pulses behind the eyes of women who have given too much, too fast, for too long. This is not just stress. It is the ache of a life stripped of ceremony.

Carla Janse Van Rensburg

29.07.2025

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Yoga