About this episode
This episode explores the Five Elements through seasonal reflections and creative writing prompts.
𓇸 This is a beauty & bone long read article. If you’d like to subscribe to access, plus join us for our early morning writing sessions, and upcoming MULCH meeting in which we’ll start to feel into what the landscape of 2026 might look like for each of us, you can upgrade to paid here: Ok, let’s begin ! Hello friends, Welcome back to the ELEMENT SESSIONS. For those of you new here, the Element Sessions are series of slow, seasonal check-ins throughout the year, using as a framework the Five Elements as described in Taoist practices and Chinese Medicine. The Five Elements (Water, Fire, Metal, Wood & Earth) are all energetic expressions of pure life force. We have all of these five elements within us, and they also vibrate throughout the natural world, they are what makes up life. Each element is at its strongest at a particular time of the year - Earth in Late Summer, Metal in Autumn, Water in Winter, Wood in Spring and Fire in the Summer. When I’m not writing or mothering I work as a Five Element acupuncturist, and so it felt like a simple natural step to create a series of slow, seasonal explorations of each of these elements, weaving in some creative writing prompts. There is…
People in this episode
Host: Layla O'Mara
Topics covered
- seasonal check-ins
- Taoist practices
- Five Elements
- creative writing prompts
- acupuncture
Keywords
- Five Elements
- Taoist practices
- Chinese Medicine
- seasonal check-ins
- acupuncture
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: ELEMENT SESSIONS, Five Elements, Chinese Medicine, MULCH meeting
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