Hymn Of Nature

18/12/2025

As the year turns, Hymn of Nature is evolving — from Shouting Men & Women to Sounding Kith - Men & Women, from separation to belonging. 🌿

In today’s newsletter, Hark! The Herald Nature Sings, I share what’s unfolding as we close 2025 and open the way to new circles in January.

If you feel the call to listen more deeply, you may wish to read on. 🦋❤🥰

At this turning of the year, as the nights grow long and the world draws inward, something quieter begins to stir beneath the surface. A listening. A remembering. A soft call home.

28/09/2025

Read all about it! Read all about it!! ❤😀🌷🦋

Hi there how are you doing? Thanks for consenting to be a part of my email list. This is a new look newsletter for me and long overdue.There are songs the Earth sings that only a soul willing to listen, like yours, can hear.

04/11/2024

Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot - Last night, to finish off the weekend nicely I took my 28th sauna of the year, 19 of which have come at The Somewhere Sauna, Mothecombe Beach 🏖️.

This is the one notable activity that I have done throughout 2024 in addition to Men’s circle sharing which I believe has had a significant impact on being able to maintain my emotional wellbeing to a level that feels sustainable.

There is something about the heat working at a penetrable level where it can get in and work with your muscles 💪 in a similar way to how a masseuse would work with you also. You can feel deeply relaxed afterwards and if taken in the early evening it normally means that you are ensured a great night’s sleep afterwards too.

I would heartedly recommend sauna as a weekly or bi-weekly practice to help both brothers and sistars alike in helping combat ongoing mental health issues and just helping you feel good in general it is certainly on my short list for Elemental Interventions for the benefit of New Gentle Men the more this offering to the world gradually comes online. It is a practice that has definitely become one of my for the year. Much love x ❤️🙏😍

03/11/2024

Walk And Talk - Joined yet another Mens mental health charity this morning in the form of Men Walk Talk at their most local of meet ups at Newton Abbot. This was there inaugural event in the South Devon area and by all accounts they had a very good turn out with 9 brothers attending. Just goes to show the ongoing demand for men’s mental health groups.

This one does exactly what it says on the tin, I.e. it’s for men where you meet up once a month for a walk 🚶 and a bit of a talk 🗣️ believing ‘it’s ok not to be ok’. Anyway it was another opportunity to meet fellow brothers that might have been struggling with life at some point in the not too distant past but are gradually managing to put their best foot forward in life. We were out for about an hour and a half, taking in MT Tums on route for a good stretch of the legs and vocal cords. Good to know that this is yet another life raft for South Devon men to connect with who might need to get stuff off their chest.

Andys Man Club Plymouth East, Every Man Matters and Argyle Community Trust are other organisations that support men in a similar way as well as my own New Gentle Men also.

One thing is for sure as men there is plenty of help out there now if we require it to help improve our emotional wellbeing. X ❤️🙏😍

02/11/2024

Set Your Spirit Free - This is a bespoke flower essence that I have put together recently for myself in order to try and combat depression, and to be honest it seems to be working very well at the moment. It is a combination of 9 different flowers 🌺 that I have in my Allies Of Nature range of flower essences. It contains Verbena for leadership, Bluebell for beauty, Red Campion for connection, Montbretia for courage, Clover 🍀 for abundance, Hedge Bedstraw for ascension, Rosebay Willowherb for rage, Cow 🐄 Parsley 🌿 for divine nurture and Honeysuckle for liberation.

Back at the start of August I was going through a particularly tumultuous time with various relationship issues that were going on both personally and professionally. I had even resorted to phoning The Samaritans at one stage I was that grief stricken with life, and I was seemingly being forced towards taking antidepressants by my ‘nearest and dearest’ of which I had huge reservations and resistance towards.

I admit things seemed as if they were pretty desperate at the time. I said to myself that if I was any flower essence practitioner worth his salt 🧂 then I ought to be able to find a solution for himself through the taking of flower 🌷 essences. So I dowsed away to find the solution that I created for myself.

The recovery didn’t happen overnight I hasten to add, these things take time. I started taking it around 06/08/24 and it wasn’t until 3 weeks later that I really felt that I had re-entered the flow of life, I arguably haven’t looked back since. It is not as if I haven’t experienced trouble in the last 2 months or more but I am somehow far better placed to deal with it. I can accept that I am in a storm and indeed know what that storm is all about but not get depressed about it, maybe experience other emotions instead like rage and anger but not necessarily go back into my shell before and internalise those feelings, just let them out more for my own healing and that of others potentially too. Before I just would not be able to get out of bed but that isn’t the case now as I am more ready for the challenge and the fight that I am being faced with. And this I believe I have changed in that sense.

Sure I have now placed a hell of a lot of life rafts in and around my life to keep me a float with the various men’s mental health circles I am a part of now along with taking regular saunas to cleanse my psyche and the odd surfing or sailing trip lined up or sacred ceremony for self love too. I also journal everyday now. But is that where the essence is supporting all of that development or is it a direct result of taking the essence itself? I believe it is a bit of both.

Whatever, I seem to have got on top of my situation and mental health issues whatever life wants to throw at me and believe me it is throwing me a lot at the moment.

I am unbowed however and maybe, just maybe my spirit is beginning to be set free or is about to be set free in any case for the greater good of all beings.

If anyone feels drawn to experience the recipe for themselves please reach out and let me know and you can be one of my guinea pigs 🐹 trialling the recipe for yourself to see if it helps you as much it is seemingly helping me too.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Much love Symon x ❤️🙏😍

31/10/2024

Hedge Woundwort - The latest flower essence from the Allies Of Nature range to be collected is the Hedge Woundwort. I both sat with and then retrieved the essence from this flower 🌺 on 02/10/2024. This date happened to be the same day as the latest New Moon solar eclipse. It was an auspicious day in more ways than one.

I went out into nature, as I have done previously in November and December, late in the year with the knowledge that still flowering plants can be hard to come by and yet there within the hedge row was this unusual plant that I hadn’t otherwise in my life paid attention to. It immediately gave me a sense of hope and that no matter how bleak my life was or my expectations for it, there was always the possibility of a chance encounter and so it proved.

I got the feeling that the revelation of this plant being here still blooming in the hedgerow was seemingly somewhat of a ‘Bolt From The Blue’ and this is its ultimate message for us all.

As I have continued to work with the plant throughout the month of October many bolts from the blue have come to me. Surprise encounters with many synchronicities aligned, like with my connection with the Plitvice Lakes in Croatia 🇭🇷.

Even though I wasn’t able to visit the lakes personally myself in the end, as my excursion was cancelled due to the possibility of heavy rain 🌧️ 2 days prior to going, I have since had at least 3 conversations about them on my return which in turn has led to potential connections with new clients, collaborators and significant others. I had a huge spiritual resonance when being drawn to the possibility of going to see them which then was rekindled every time I came into contact with someone else who had either been there or had thought to go there themselves.

I also in the past week, returning from holiday, have been made aware of an opportunity in foreign climes to join an intentional community the like of which is very close to my dream retreat centre by the sea.

More information on that as and when I have it or a more formal arrangement is confirmed but at the moment it seems like a very exciting opportunity to investigate for up to 3 months in the first instance in any case. Watch this space, for you never know where and when the next ‘Bolt From The Blue’ is going to come from and indeed ‘where there is hope there is life’.

Never give up for you never know when the Universe is going to come knocking at your door to enact significant change within your life. Fingers crossed for more exciting futures for all of us through the help of Hedge Woundwort in the days and weeks to come!! X ❤️🙏😍🌺

29/10/2024

I believe it is time within our society for a new league of extraordinary gentlemen to step up and forward within our society, heralding a new brand of masculinity, less toxic and more divine, leading primarily with the quality of gentleness. This new band of brothers will be called the New Gentle Men and bring with them a totally different epoch connected to chivalry than what we have experienced in the past.

Here as men we will take our own 'Pride and Prejudice' in honouring the feminine as a whole and in particular Mother Earth herself including all of her creatures that exist within her upper, middle and lower worlds for we will know that ultimately we are all one, so if we hurt any creature on the planet we hurt ourselves.

As brothers we will need the support of our Sistars, the star beings of the feminine, in order to be able to chart a new path across the heavens within the night sky that speaks of the myth of Orion Reborn. No longer will we as men r**e and pillage the Earth, no, now we will stand guard and protect it, preserving all that is great in our world and venerating it to its greatest height.

Men. if this resonates deeply with you today as it does me, then reach out and connect with me now.

Women, if you feel this would be of benefit to your father, brother, uncle, nephew, cousin, colleague, friend or son then please send him in my direction too and let's start to turn this good ship Mother Earth around and begin to get it sailing in the right direction again.

please take the time to study my new revamped website more acutely focussed on helping the New Gentle Men come forward in our society and let's talk if you think that this circle could become a very precious held space within your own life where we can be all raising our own vibration together. I look forward to hearing from you in the very near future.

Much love Symon x 🦋❤😀

Allies Of Nature is a flower essence and shamanic practice based in Devon, UK here to help primarily men rediscover their joy, overcoming passive suicidal ideation by finding their life purpose.

28/10/2024

Speaking Your Truth - To speak or not to speak your truth that is the question? I consider myself a proponent of the truth. I advocate authenticity, originality, honesty, integrity and truthfulness.

Recently I put together a social media post exclaiming of the falsehood of such memes as Facebook, Instagram and the like, witnessing everyone’s reels in life and me arguing that this is not a true reflection of the real individual in front of us all or of life itself and is perhaps why we can find social media so depressing.

And in the same way I am initially doing the same here through two pictures of me sailing ⛵️ and waterskiing ⛷️ only a few days ago in Croatia 🇭🇷, where for a brief moment it looks as if I know what I am doing doesn’t it? I do in fact know what I am doing some of the time with both sports but it doesn’t depict the whole story, the whole truth.

For a more accurate depiction of me, myself and I, I ought to be showing you two more pictures of me capitulating off the skis ⛷️ a moment or two later or indeed capsizing later in the week from this laser in the regatta where I didn’t even make the start line. So embarrassed was I due to the increase in wind speed.

So we need to be wary when encountering social media realms that we may not be experiencing the whole person that we are meeting. We most likely are only experiencing there very best side and hence the pressure to perform and succeed at life.

I have got into a fair amount of hot water recently speaking my truth in various Facebook groups I am a part of and indeed through my own feed but I still believe this is the right philosophy in life. I almost have a compelling drive and desire of being truthful as if my life depended on it or if I have an ism of some description.

As always with the truth it is bringing as much derision with it as it is lauding and applauding and I accept it all it only is making me stronger and bringing me closer to the person I am truly meant to be. And this is what I advocate through my circles and a breed of New Gentle Men that I am encouraging to come into existence for the benefit of the planet.

So if my words resonate at all with you then please do reach out and get in contact and we will have a conversation for I will continue to speak my truth come what may regardless of who I upset in the process for it is not my intention to do this. This may happen inadvertently in the process or people may not agree about my principles but I stand by them for finally I am beginning to walk tall and be fully appreciative of who I am in this world and what I am here to do. What my purpose is in fact with not only the New Gentle Men I aim to gather around me but New Gentle Women too.

It is an appeal to all my to take note and join me in riding this wave of truth for a brighter future for one and all.

Let me know your thoughts if this resonates with you at all and let us start to get real with one another and stop all the futile bull 🐂 s**t 💩 that we continue to encounter in life.

Have a great day.

Much love Symon x ❤️😍🙏