Welcome to my Soul Gardening website.
Soul Gardening is about 'feeling' from a soul's perspective.It relates and resonates with our soul.(essence, or spirit).Gardening is a way of being aware of your soul, and where you are on your path to your soul. To relate to the soul involves using an inner sense of feeling.A feeling that resonates with the same vibration as plants and earth.With the universal 'web of life'.
Wisdom for the soul; The interconnectedness between people plants and places is felt on soul level in a direct, literal way.
How do we get to the soul? Through our own understanding, through experiences of our feelings from our senses, emotions, thoughts, and words .To help you understand this different perspective, I thought I would share my spiritual journey through my gardens. The way I see gardens is like a mirror to our souls. Our internal gardens. Whatever you are doing in the garden, or where ever you are gardening is a direct reflection of what you a resonating or doing within in your soul. My first gardens, were gardening for someone else, my parents, work, or clients as a landscape designer. It was here I discovered there was much more to gardening than what was in the books or on the computer. It is a feeling, that resonates with thoughts. As an example, a group could be focused on a specific area of thought, be it personal, religious, scientific,educational etc. The thought would have to have a feeling, because that is my mode of relating, as are the plants and earth. Other thoughts I would term a' floaty', I couldn't feel them. When plants and earth are included in the discussion,I discovered they magnify the soul intent of the group, very literally.
In the beginning my soul's journey,( I was not aware this is what I was on at the time) I discovered through my desire to create a garden that would speak to the clients, it was very literal.That the plants I felt to work with in a design directly amplified the collective thought of the group.
Now we have a garden for us and other people, called it Yewstone Gardens. Which is ever evolving.This one we started 2 years ago, and after decluttering and making it our own we can finally start creating new ideas.We wanted it to be a haven for trees and birds and people.We have included a yew and stone labyrinth to assist people to find and maintain that relationship with their soul, and support a healing soul journey. Yewstone Gardens has been going through a transformation in the last 2 years.It is through gardening and those seeming to come are also wanting to go through the transformation process. With the plants and earth it is a gentle way to grow from within, and express yourself with compassion as well as passion. 
Wisdom for the soul: Try looking at your garden from the plants perspective.
Even though we care about other people, our words and actions can often seem cold and heartless to others, because we have an intense focus on what we want to achieve, and forget that the journey is just as important. Ask yourself how do I garden? Do you think or see where a plant should go to look nice, or do you think or feel where would the plant like to go? One way is visual and focused on an outcome, and may only benefit the one,and the other way is felt, and you receive the visual later. It benefits all. One way is through feeling and visual that is more than the origional thought.
Wisdom for the soul; Feel with your body where to plant.
Your body is an expression of where you are on your soul's path. There are no judgements,rights or wrongs, and the plants and earth are very forgiving. Feel whether it is your thought, or the thoughts of others that your actions are expressed. Are they actions or reactions? Do you feel or have the thoughts come from within, or do you look for guidance outside for your garden? I feel where each of the plants and trees want to grow. By asking within where the plant will grow to it's potential, and be in harmony with all. It's like we are partners creating a sanctuary together.Its like the God has a plan, and we am just carrying it out. It's quite exciting watching it unfold. An interesting thing I found is that often there is a tree or plant that is the 'king' or 'queen' of your garden. This is a start point. Then I generally look for the worst area. In our case we had over 7 acreas of it.This is an example of one of the areas we tackled in the beginning.
I felt called to place my angel here. I call her my'earth angel. People feel at peace in this part of the garden. Many have felt a healing energy. The plants help us to relax and receive the energies, and this helps people to heal within, as they walk. It is like a garden spa, or 'garden bathing'.
Wisdom for the Soul: Are you creating affirmations that you want with your mind, or seeing what your soul is wanting you to see?
One of the first gardens that I tackled. had weed mat placed over weeds, then good soil put on top of the weed mat then more weed mat and then more soil. Consequently it was a huge mas of weeds on mats.It took ages to clear. To me this is like clearing away beliefs and thoughts that had been on the surface blocking the natural flow of natures water and nutrients. Blocking the way for the worms to do their part in the universal plan.
Wisdom for the soul; Nature directly reflects for us where we are at in our soul's growth.
Imagine a neighbour who is really very friendly and helpful. Water is flowing onto his property, What is this situation showing you. If you look at it in soul language, water is like emotions. They do not go away, they find their own path. You have a choice, what may have worked before when you were in control might not work anymore as we become more spiritually aware. Now with a huge amount of water flowing in the direction of the neighbours place, do you dam or guide the water flow? In other words do you dam the emotions and keep them away, or accept them and allow them to flow naturally? What would you do?This could be an opportunity for your soul's growth. Love being an emotion what do you do with it? Eventually mother nature will breakthrough those walls and it will seep out everywhere. Perhaps by helping guide the flow you become part of the natural flow, instead of controlling it.This is how working with nature through soul gardening gives you different perspectives hat you can apply to your everyday life.
Wisdom for the soul; The plants can help you discern which relate to you and which relates to others.
Plants amplfy the path of the soul.The love flow. In the beginning you are gardening for your soul, but probably not aware. The plants and earth can help you on your journey, as you meander your way through emotions and beliefs.You can only change you. How do they help? Remember plants are a direct reflection for the soul. They resonate on the same vibration as your soul. A pure love vibration that helps you discern whether a thought is a truth for your soul or more of a surface emotion or thought. Therefore if you can't feel anything in the beginning, ask why?
Wisdom for the soul: Living and maintaining a relationship with your soul is an ever evolving journey.
When you have an awareness of a wisdom within, it needs strengthening outside. This is how you live it. How you relate with others is part of your soul's journey here on earth, and it includes the other inhabitants on earth at this time. 'At that time' means only in relation to the soul at that time. It may change with more wisdom. The interconnectedness with others is harder to mainatain because you have to hold your own perspective and receive others. This is where the plants can act as buffers and work with you as friends.
Wisdom for your soul: Harmonious relationships include all three, respect, responsibility and relaxation.
In our busy lifestyles of today it is easy to forget our social relationships. Especially with our new technologies. If we are to maintain compassion, plants and earth can reflect when we have shut down our hearts or not. When we mainatin a relationship with them our relationships with other people is more harmonious. If there is no time space or money. Check out you relationship with the plants to see where there is an imbalance. The more there is balance in the interconnectedness with plants and places, the more everything in your physical world is balanced.
With 'Gardening for the Soul' you become more aware of your senses, emotions, thoughts and words, by being aware of the vibrations of the subtle energies. Using colour, rhythm, and your senses enables you to easily discern what subtle energies of emotion and thoughts that are yours, and anything not yours, just disappears. This is where the like attract like of the love vibration works. Nature being created of the love, helps to amplify this for you.
Wisdom for your soul: By maintaining balance and harmony with your soul, you avoid being caught in the webs of thoughts and emotions that are ungrounded.
The relationship with the plants amplifies a direct connection with the love vibration. You help transform the energies through being yourself, loving being here on earth. For example the gatherings that are in conflict. You seem to keep going in circles. By adding a plants perspective( ie how would a plant feel in this situation? Remembering they are literal, and a direct reflection,) to a problem can often take you out of the box and provide an anwser that benefits all.
'Soul Gardening' helps you develop new ways of relaxing that enable you to be relaxed and alert. You find new ways of doing things that save you time, save you money, and give you the space you need that is appropiate for what ever your soul is here to do.
You become more relaxed and at peace within, even in the chaos. Gradually you radiate that peace within and it affects those around you ( your family)first, then your friends, then your community and further.
If you come to Yewstone Gardens,you will experience a new way of appreciating plants, and how they can assist you as you walk through the 'Sanctuary' and the' Labyrinth'. The garden path is what I call the ' love path for harmony'.
I have sessions which involve walking through the garden to assist you to experience a deeper relaxed relationship with the spirit of the plants and earth, so that you can begin to listen to your own wisdom. You take away a new sense of feeling with in yourself, and a new sense of direction.
Soul Gardening is a way of living that embraces respect, responsibily and relaxation for more harmonious relationships with others, and you learn how to balance and maintain your relationships with others through a relationship with plants and earth. A sense of reverence and joy as you enbark on this new journey of love and beauty.
Suzanne offers her abilities to assist you to remember and relax and listen to your soul's wisdom, as well as the wisdom of the plants and earth.
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