When Something Feels Off . . .
I Press Pause.
Dear Ones,
It’s been present with me for a few days; something feeling off balance. Almost as soon as I opened sanctum for registration, something began to feel not quite right.
I’ve run a lot of Programs over the decades. Some have had a celebratory cohort, some a tiny handful. My work has been available both online and live. In Australia and internationally. Since I was in my late 20’s. Forty years.
This isn’t ‘cold feet’. Or a case of ‘getting the scareds’.
It’s something else, that I can’t quite put my finger on; but it is real.
And it feels to be building, becoming clearer.
As I listen closer, I have chosen to pause sanctum.
For now.
In this form.
I’m aware of several things in the field;
whatever this is, it is real
something is shifting in the field, it may or may not be about me/my work
something else is happening within my own ecosystem/body/life.
All three are true.
I feel observatory about this. Quiet. A little disappointed, but largely, I’m simply being still and noticing what’s swirling around me (even though I can’t quite identify its specificity/granularity).
I apologise to those of you who may have intended to participate in sanctum.
Alongside the neutrality of observing, I’m surprised.
I’d really looked forward to the passage.
I’d really looked forward to the opportunity to participate in the stream of flow that is moving through our entire society in the way that I know best; through my devotion to humanity. To earth. To our reciprocal relationships.
These are phenomenally changeful times.
And I’m right in here. With you.
Here’s what I’m asking each and every one of you who reads this email (assuming you are, and are not a Substack reader who’s simply stumbled upon this particular post) to do for me,
to do with me:
I’m asking you to press ‘reply’ to your email, and let me know what (if anything), you’d like to partake of, in what I hold. Let me know what you’d like to see. Or experience. Or join with. Or simply have available.
Or, you can leave that information for me here via a ‘comment’. I realise that a ‘comment’ can be seen by all of our community here, and maybe that’s a good thing. A bit like sitting around the campfire together.
But I want to hear from you. All of you.
Do it now, while it’s fresh. It doesn’t have to be long. Just real.
And I thank you . . .
Maybe, you simply want to keep reading along on Substack and look at the pictures. That’s fine, and thank you. Just let me know.
Maybe you’d like something more, but you don’t really know what that is and your life’s really full right now. My invitation is that you pause yourself for a moment with that; and look a little deeper for a moment: what might you want with/of me? How does my work contribute to or change you or the field in which you stand?
Maybe you did or do want to do something like sanctum but not for 12 months and not this exact material and not now. Or some version of that. I want to hear about that.
If you don’t communicate with me, I have no way of knowing who you are and what you might be wanting and what I might be available for in loving service; I’m just off on the tideline in my own merry (solo) walk. Which, is also fine . . .
I have no agenda here. I’m not ‘planning’ anything. Another course, another version of sanctum. Another anything. I’m just listening.
To you.
~
All Love,
Narelle



I have only today found you, and am entranced, captivated, drawn in to the beauty, the honesty of the immersion of our humanness back to our beginnings, our natural state, celebrating our natural world. I am drawn to photograph with you, you there in Aus, me here in Scotland. I crave connection with nature, and would love to participate with your photography course.
May your inner journey be fruitful and fulfilling