Every heart seeks to receive and to give warmth and love. Yet what is under-stood is often undermined, pushed to the backseat in favour of the more urgent, the more important, the more intelligent, the more seemingly essential things required for sustenance.

Until life brings you to dil ki baatein. But dil ki baatein need ears that can hear.

Such ears are found in the plant kingdom.

The Plant Circle brings you into relationship with the heart — its place within the body, the heart breaks carried within it, and the parts of you that have quietly closed off. From the herb closet come the treasures of the plant kingdom, allies for the many things this little heart, which rules all, must carry.

Through inner-standing, you begin to notice what the heart has been holding and how the body has learnt to hold it. Awareness opens a way into places long closed, into posture, presence and the possibility of feeling safe enough to soften after a season of freeze.

Gentle can also be powerful. And what is powerful breaks barriers. What you break through in one place may open a way through in another.

Ah, the sweet, sweet herbs.