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Listen to your own heartbeat ... naturally

This week, we are diving beneath the surface.

Those of you who've been with us for a while are familiar with the community calendar. It all started in 2001 when I started meeting really interesting people at local events. To support our tiny community, I put my media skills to use and started an email list mostly because I wanted to stay in touch with my people seeking wholeness and getting grounded in our wild financial jungle.

I imagined there might be others like me out there looking for an opportunity to connect a little more deeply and it turns out I was right. Those few living room meditations, private club yoga classes, impossibly small wellness centers and natural shops seeded the ground for a wide range of businesses operating today.

The calendar is updated regularly so we can continue to explore what's brewing below the waves of this infodemic we find ourselves navigating together. Some of the current events are online and small gatherings (like those in our early days) are beginning to take place again in real life. Maintaining the calendar turned into a full time job so I cut back on the listings until technology finally caught up and made it easier -- I thought it might be time to remind you to take a peek and enjoy the variety.

Personally, seeing what's happening in our community keeps me excited about what's going on all around us.

We can try our best to get back to normal or we can dig deep and begin to normalize extraordinary change.

It's time to eat real food and get real rest and take really good care of our hearts and our immune systems.

Our little blue planet is on a health kick of her own with this downturn in travel and industry.

New ways of doing things that recently seemed impossible are now simply matter of fact.

The old excuses no longer stand once we have witnessed the clean water and blue skies.

Mainstream news stories are urging our return to the life of conspicuous consumption.

At first glance, it would seem this is the only way to restore needed economic growth.

A creative, thoughtful approach might reveal the dark truth of our past addictions.

The old buried pains ready to be healed are very often not particularly deep.

Are you ready to scratch the surface?

Naturally,

Founder
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Calendar

Tuesday 23 March (9-10pm) Introduction to intersectionality

Wednesday 24 March (7:30-10:30pm) Ravens n Wolves Weekday Runes Course

Thursday 25 March (6:30-8:30pm) Mindfulness for Children Teacher Training Intro

Friday-Saturday 26 March) #SupportLocal Spring Market

Friday 26 March (9:30am-5:30pm) Holistic retreat

Friday 26 March (3-4:30pm) Pizza learning class

Friday 26 March (7-9pm) TCM Health Food Therapy Course: Theory

Friday 26 March (8-9pm) Duality

Saturday 27 March (11:45am-3pm) Metropolis

Saturday 27 March (12:30-4:30pm) March 2021 Critical Mass ride

Saturday 27 March (8:30-11pm) Earth Hour 2021 - Speak up for nature

Sunday 28 March (11am-6pm) Discovery Bay Sunday Market

Sunday 28 March (12-6pm) Treasure Island Sunday Market

Sunday 28 March (5-6:30pm) Full Moon Heart Opening Flow at Tamar Park

Monday 29 March (7:30-10:30pm) Ravens n Wolves Weekday Runes Course

Tuesday 30 March (9pm-12am) From eco-anxiety to climate communication

Wednesday 31 March (4-7pm) Virtual Conference: The New Age of Hybrid Work

Wednesday 31 March (6-8pm) Mindful Watercolours

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In the news

Still Trading in Extinction: The Dark Side of Hong Kong’s Wildlife Trade (ADM)

Space debris removal demonstration launches (BBC)

Slow population growth could stunt the rich world’s prosperity (MINT)

Hong Kong Restaurants Go Dark For Earth Hour (Tatler)

Long dormant volcano comes to life in southwestern Iceland (AP)

The Home Nobody Knows: Vivienne Chow Explores the Soko Islands (zolimacitymag)

Google might ask questions about AI ethics, but it doesn't want answers (The Guardian)

Flights canceled during China's worst sandstorm in a decade (AP)

China's land greening in 2020 (Ecns)

NFTs can do what Picasso's genius could not: generate profits for the artist. (NBC)

Reclusive Chinese Water Tycoon Zhong Shanshan Is Now Asia's Richest Person (NDTV)

Fundraise for Refugee Union's new centre (SparkRaise)

Unilever to remove ‘normal’ from its beauty, personal care goods (Al Jazeera)

Watchdog to scrutinise Hong Kong aviation authority’s oversight of paragliding (SCMP)

Hong Kong’s Wild Animals, Part V: The Asian Koel, A Sign of Spring (zolimacitymag)

Hong Kong emigration wave takes heavy toll on its least political residents - its pets (The Standard)

Bitcoin uses more energy than American Airlines (Business Insider)

Pandemic Plastic Is Flooding the Oceans (Discover Magazine)

'Just spend' and 'just borrow,' Jack Ma told China's youth. Then came the bill. (Los Angeles Times)

In Hong Kong, Foreign Tourists Are Replaced by a Local Variety (NY Times)

Bitcoin could prevent society from functioning (Market Watch)

Why Are Carriers Telling Us to Turn Off 5G? (PC Mag)

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