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Claire McLennan is a certified Qigong energy healer, instructor, and Reiki practitioner. She blends her deep knowledge of crystal healing, meditation, and mindful practices to provide a heart-centred, intuitive approach to energy healing and movement. Claire leads Qigong classes, offers personalized energy healing sessions, and facilitates nurturing women’s circles to support emotional and spiritual wellbeing on the Northern Beaches of Sydney and online. Join Claire to reconnect with your body’s wisdom and bloom with vitality. Reach out to learn more or book a session!

What if spring isn’t asking us to reinvent ourselves?Spring naturally brings a sense of movement, growth and possibility...
13/09/2026

What if spring isn’t asking us to reinvent ourselves?

Spring naturally brings a sense of movement, growth and possibility. But I’m not sure growth always means becoming someone new.

Sometimes it may be about allowing more of who we already are to come into the light.

Less striving towards an imagined version of ourselves.
More space to notice what is already emerging.

That feels very connected to what I’ve been experiencing lately — a deeper trust in my own wisdom, in my heart, and in allowing life to unfold without needing to define exactly where it is taking me.

I’ve explored this more deeply in my latest reflection, Spring and the Art of the Possible.

You can read it here: https://www.bloomwithclaire.com.au/post/spring-and-the-art-of-the-possible

What happens when we quieten some of the noise around us — and really begin to notice?Over the past few months, I’ve fou...
12/09/2026

What happens when we quieten some of the noise around us — and really begin to notice?

Over the past few months, I’ve found myself returning again and again to this idea.

So much of our attention is pulled outwards — towards what needs doing, what someone else needs, what comes next.

And yet when I spend time in nature, something changes.

I begin to notice more.

The sound of a bird.
The feeling of the air against my skin.
The texture and colour of the land.
Sometimes things I can’t quite put into words.

And somewhere within all that noticing, there is more space to hear myself.

The Way Back to Self has grown from that.

On Friday 25 September, I’ll be taking a small group into Red Hill for a two-hour immersive morning using nature, the senses, Qigong and reflection.

We’ll meander. Spend time in silence. Practise Qigong in the landscape. Meditate and reflect.

And we’ll also make space to connect — finishing under the trees with tea, something homemade and time together in community.

🌿 The Way Back to Self
Friday 25 September | 9:30–11:30am
Red Hill Reserve, Beacon Hill
$45 | Limited to 12 people

No previous Qigong or meditation experience is needed.

Bookings are now open 🌿 You can find The Way Back to Self through Bloom With Claire website or send me a message. Or link in comments.

Walking home through Amsterdam today, this stopped me.A tall stem of brilliant yellow flowers, growing out of a crack in...
07/09/2026

Walking home through Amsterdam today, this stopped me.

A tall stem of brilliant yellow flowers, growing out of a crack in all that grey stone.

I’ve been thinking a lot since arriving here about juxtaposition.

This city seems full of it.

Movement and stillness.
Noise and quiet.
Old and new.
Beauty and rubbish.
Extraordinary consumption and the simplest expressions of community.

And somehow, amongst all of it, spaciousness.

I’m finding myself curious about that.

About what allows us to feel spacious when what surrounds us isn’t necessarily spacious at all.

And then there was this.

Growing where, by all appearances, there wasn’t much room to grow.

In all its magnificence.

The art of the possible.

This caught my attention in The Guardian last week.A major new review brought together evidence from 1,744 randomised co...
31/08/2026

This caught my attention in The Guardian last week.

A major new review brought together evidence from 1,744 randomised controlled trials looking at traditional Chinese exercises including Qigong and Tai Chi.

The findings are significant — but what really stayed with me was the importance of consistency over time.

Because this is how I experience Qigong, both personally and in teaching it.

It isn’t about pushing harder or achieving more. It’s a practice we return to — movement, breath, awareness — and over time, something accumulates.

I love seeing modern research exploring practices that have been understood and embodied for thousands of years.

The practice may be gentle.
That doesn’t mean its effects are small.

🌿 Qigong with Bloom in Freshwater + online

Source: British Journal of Sports Medicine, reported by The Guardian, 24 August 2026.

I’ve been sitting with this one a lot lately.There have been moments recently when I’ve chosen to speak and say clearly ...
29/08/2026

I’ve been sitting with this one a lot lately.

There have been moments recently when I’ve chosen to speak and say clearly what my experience has been.

And there have been other moments when I’ve chosen not to respond at all.

What I’ve realised is that both can come from the same place: self-trust.

For a long time, being misunderstood created an urge in me to explain. To add more context. To correct someone else’s version of events. To try, somehow, to make them see what I knew to be true.

But I’m learning that I don’t need someone else’s understanding to validate my experience.

That doesn’t mean I stay silent when something needs to be said.

It means I get to listen to myself first.

Sometimes that means speaking clearly, even when it’s uncomfortable.

And sometimes it means recognising that I have nothing to prove, explain or defend.

Someone else may still misunderstand me.

And I can let that be true for them without allowing it to change what I know to be true for me.

I trust myself, even when I’m misunderstood.

I’ve known for years that taking on other people’s emotions isn’t something I’m supposed to do.But recently, my body sho...
25/08/2026

I’ve known for years that taking on other people’s emotions isn’t something I’m supposed to do.

But recently, my body showed me why.

When Remi injured her knee, I took her to the vet. She was frightened and anxious, and instinctively I took that fear into my own body so that she could settle.

It worked. She became calm enough for the vet to properly examine her knee.

But afterwards, I felt sick.

The fear I’d taken into my body was toxic. I could almost taste it.

I was completely exhausted, had a headache and became incredibly sensitive to sound and light. It took me a couple of days to recover.

My sensitivity has reached a point where my body is showing me very clearly what happens when I take on something that isn’t mine.

And the bigger realisation was that I don’t only do this with Remi.

I’ve done it with people I love.

I think this is something many of us do, particularly women. We can learn to equate nurturing with carrying — absorbing someone else’s worry, managing their emotions, holding things together, trying to make things easier for the people we love.

But loving someone doesn’t require me to take their experience into my body.

I can be deeply sensitive to what someone else is feeling without making it mine.

I can perceive without absorbing.
I can nurture without losing myself.
I can love you without carrying you.

“A weekly energy tune-up.”I love the way Wendy has described our Qigong practice.A chance to move, breathe, explore and ...
23/08/2026

“A weekly energy tune-up.”

I love the way Wendy has described our Qigong practice.

A chance to move, breathe, explore and gently reset—not by pushing or striving, but by listening to what the body needs that day.

Thank you, Wendy, for these beautiful words. 🤎

Monday morning Qigong
9.30am in Freshwater, overlooking the beach
Beginners are always welcome.

19/08/2026

I’ve been noticing how quickly the things happening around us can become stories about who we are.

A wobble. A disappointment. Something not quite flowing the way we hoped.

And somewhere, almost imperceptibly, an old pattern whispers: See? This means something about you.

This week I caught one of mine in the act.

Not because it was new, but because I could finally see the thread running through seemingly unrelated things — all leading back to the same place.

Worthiness.

There is a lightness that comes with seeing a pattern clearly.

Not because it disappears.

But because now, perhaps, we can notice when it arrives — and meet ourselves a little more gently when it does.

Field Notes 🌿

13/08/2026

Field Notes — Part Four

For a long time, I looked outside myself for the cues that told me which way to go.

These days, life feels very different.

There’s a language I’ve learnt to recognise — through my body, through nature, through the small moments I might once have missed.

And perhaps that’s part of why I do what I do now.

Not to teach someone else my language, but to help them discover their own.

Because when we give ourselves enough space to notice, there is so much more here than we realise.

🌿

10/08/2026

Before there was Belonging… there was simply a walk through the Australian bush.

I recorded this video back in April after another visit to Red Hill in Beacon Hill.

At the time, I thought I was simply reflecting on why I kept being drawn back there.

Then, while preparing to launch Belonging, I found an old family photograph.

There we were… my mum, my brother and me, sitting together on a rock in the bush, with my dad behind the camera.

It stopped me in my tracks.

I realised the bush hadn’t given me belonging.

It had reminded me of something I had always known.

A place where I felt loved.
Free.
At home.

Sometimes we don’t understand the significance of a moment until much later.

Looking back now, I can see this was one of the first threads that eventually became Belonging.

Not because I set out to create a mist, but because nature quietly helped me remember something that had always been there.

🌿 Belonging is now available through Bloom Apothecary if you’d like to experience the mist that grew from those moments.

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