My Year with Gaia: syncing with the Rhythm of Nature

Turns out, a whole new world opens up to you when you follow her flow

Last year started off with a bang. On New Year’s Eve, we came to the cottage I’m now writing this from, newly “homeless”, as my dad joked. Or maybe he was serious. Because the tension and anxiety that came with this label certainly rubbed off on me… But that’s a different story.

The move was abrupt; it all unfolded much faster than any of us imagined when we decided to tentatively put that old house on the market and see what happens. The house that I renovated my own hands, the one that saw me through all of the happiest moments of my life. But it wasn’t really our house, and it had been wanting to move for years. To escape he noise, the pollution, the crazy, artificial tempo of city life.

Turns out, it wasn’t just a move; it was a stripping away. A return. A reckoning. Gaia had big plans for me.

My maternal grandfather built this cottage. It’s perched on a hilltop “in the middle of nowhere”, facing South. This time of year, I can still watch both, the sunrise and the sunset, from our wooden terrace. This will not be the case again until early Fall, so I relish it.

The night sky is full of stars here. I rarely still need my app to know where all the planets are when I look up. They’re not just stars anymore; they’re aspects of me. And the Moon… I watched her wax and wane, feeling my own body syncing to her dance.

There’s a forest behind the cottage. I roam this forest every day. I know all the all the flowers, all the trees, all the water springs along my beaten paths. I’ve been roaming these paths since I could barely walk, and I still manage to find some I’ve never taken before.

I notice every little change. Every budding attempt of a rebirth, every flower awakening, every branch giving in under the weight of the snow. Not that we’ve had much of that, even though we’re quite high up. Winters aren’t what they used to be.

The reason I’m telling you all this is so that you can get a feel for what my life has been like in this past year. Most of it, at least. Because right after the Summer Solstice, we bought that motorhome we’d been dreaming of for so long, and in total, we spent at least four months living like nomads—taking none of the modern life comforts for granted, and so aware of Nature’s Rhythms.

That’s what I want to write about today.

Gaia’s Cycles.

There’s a reason I yearned to move closer to Nature when we were living in the city.

It’s not the first time, either; back when I was living in Barcelona, instinctively running back to Nature healed me and saved my life. Had it not been for those impromptu grounding sessions in a small local park that smelled of dog excrements, I don’t think I ever would have found my way back home—literally and figuratively.

So this time, I recognized the call, even though the symptoms weren’t as acute. And I couldn’t ignore it, despite having no idea what it meant.

Looking back at this past year, I finally get it: I needed to be in an environment that allowed me to become acutely aware of the Natural Cycles.

So that I could recognize that all of these Cycles aren’t just all of the things I can observe and admire from here I am now; they live within me.

So that I could have an embodied experience of the fact that I am, indeed, Nature. As are you. And all of us.

I needed to be in a place where I could eat her offerings straight from her soil.
I needed to drink the living water from her springs.
I needed to become addicted to the light of a sunrise.
I needed to be able to sunbathe naked at noon to recharge my batteries.
I needed to follow the Moon in the sky to find her in my womb.
I needed to stare at the stars to remember who I am.

For me, this lived experience made all that I’ve studies and researched for so long fall into place.
It all makes embodied sense now.

And it confirmed what I’ve been saying for a long time now:

Whatever the problem, Nature already has the solution.
Whatever the dilemma, Nature has the answer.

Be it your health or global warming; us humans were designed to thrive when we live in harmony and alignment with Gaia and her Rhythms.

Whatever it is that feels off in your life right now, whatever has been worrying you, or bringing you down; Nature has the cure that you’re after. It may not be immediately obvious, but when you really let her in, she finds a way to heal you.

Do you have to turn into a cottage witch slash van hippie to find the answers? Probably not—but only you know what works for you.

What I know is this:

Nature isn’t outside of you. It is you. You are Her.

Either way, you weren’t designed to wrestle with Life, to push and pull and force. You’re meant to flow—to blossom Spring, shine in Summer, release in Autumn, and res(e)t in Winter. When you follow Her Rhythm, all of Life opens up to you. Health restores. Answers come.

The modern world has forgotten this. But if you’re reading this, maybe something in you remembers. Maybe something in you aches for this Rhythm, this Truth of your Nature.

If so, I’d like to invite into a living, breathing experience of Gaia’s Wisdom. A journey of syncing with her cycles, aligning your body and Soul with the natural flow of Life itself.

This isn’t a course or a program. It’s not another thing to learn. It’s an awakening to the Wisdom of your body, an initiation into a whole new way of being—which is actually an old, Natural way. Gaia’s Way.

If it calls you—even if it’s just a gentle whisper—I’d love to walk this path with you.

Message me. Let’s remember together.