Tanya Meeson

The great out there

Sometimes looking outwards really is the only way to find some space within, says Tanya Meeson Woman&Home SA, November 2021 It is early morning, and I am sitting on the polished wooden floors of a hip, inner-city yoga studio. I am sitting cross-legged and straight-backed, eyes closed, hands resting on knees, breathing deeply. I amContinueContinue reading “The great out there”

We are Groot

Thriving isn’t a goal but a state of being, says Tanya Meeson Woman&Home SA, October 2021 The thing I love about plants is what interesting people they are. Resilient, defiant, always pushing up and out no matter where they find themselves and no matter what shape they take. Call them ‘flower’ or ‘weed’ and they’llContinueContinue reading “We are Groot”

The readiness is all

‘Listen, and do not forget, and I will show you a mystery. It is not the sacrifice, whether it comes in youth or age, or the god remits it; is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting, Theseus. The readiness is all. It washes heart and mind from things of noContinueContinue reading “The readiness is all”

In the beginning was the word

You don’t need to paint to call yourself creative I was once Mother Goddess. Or, at the very least, I was channelling her. It was a one-person, one-night-only performance and I was an electric vessel in a state of afflatus, a powerful force of devastating wonder. Pity then that I was on a stage inContinueContinue reading “In the beginning was the word”

A step into the unknown

There’s big magic in everyday bravery Woman&Home SA, August 2021 Deep in the forested mountains of northern Taiwan is a small natural pool called Celestial Lake. It’s a swimming hole for the rocky campsite that runs adjacent to it and a minor attraction for those who like jumping off cliffs into pits of icy coldContinueContinue reading “A step into the unknown”