HEALING | EMBODIMENT | RELATIONSHIPS | ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The Courage to Be Yourself
Out of all the emotions anger is perhaps the most difficult for many of us. And, when skillfully guided, it can be the one that liberates us the most from what holds us back.
When loving presence is there holding the space, and there is trust on both sides of the relationship, your anger is the catalyst and your grief a portal - back to the SELF your soul had you searching for in the first place.
Aligning With What Is Essential
Change happens in relationship, on a global scale or an individual level, and breakdown moments inevitably signal a chance to breakthrough.
Winter Solstice Blessings
It is a time for deep remembrance of the soul level in life. The soul level in life guides us when we make time for listening and receiving that inner warmth of the heart.
Becoming a Healer.
Being a healer is not just about what you do - its about who you are becoming.
Staying Open
When you have support - real support - it creates safety in relationship. It is nourishing and guiding.
This is work is not about affirmations or trying to put on a happy face on when the appropriate response is anger or grief.
Practice Over Perfection
For me a spiritual practice is not about leaving the world or my body behind, it is about learning what needs to be let go of so that I can show up more fully as I am here and now each day with meaning and purpose in my heart. It takes practice. It is not a given.
Let Your Life Be Your Prayer
When I first heard these words I remember feeling bewildered by them. It was as though I heard something very important but did not yet know its meaning for me.
All I knew was something deeper inside myself resonated.
The Quiet Revolt of the Soul
Beauty has a power to transform and heal. To touch our lives in more diverse and radical ways. It has the power to help wake the senses to what is life affirming and benevolent. So choosing beauty in the face of everything else becomes the quiet revolt of the soul.
Holding Your Own
Self-preservation is a radical act.
When there is pressure it’s hard to slow down. When there is overwhelm, it can be hard to feel.
And yet there is a way to come back to yourself gracefully.
Knowingly.
In times of great change and uncertainty, this becomes the practice.
Seeing Beyond What Is Shown
Part of our work here, as creators, educators, facilitators, and guides, is helping to open perspective. And to do this we need to continually sharpen our own capacity for self-awareness and the ability to perceive without agenda. To feel what is deeper, palpable, and more true.To live from more curiosity and have the audacity to think differently. To reach for better.
Healing the Chasm of Self Worth
Love, our most basic and fundamental form of nourishment and exchange. And yet, when it was once so painful, we have this uncanny ability to build bold and swift defenses against it. Healing self worth through our realtionships.
The Gift of Obstacles
When I left the yoga world I was in a state of shock and disbelief.
Losing both a strong sense of purpose and community, I felt heartbroken.
Everything in my career I was actively working towards pretty much dissolved overnight due to circumstances out of my control.
Dare to Expand Your Comfort Zone
So, how do we expand our level of success beyond where we’ve been? How do we get past our own upper limit? How do we begin to hold more (success, clients, complexity) with greater ease when we are already so very busy?
Here are some of my thoughts on this…
Raw Tender Self
There is such power in our ability to slow ourselves down and become mindful of what’s really going on underneath the surface of “being busy” all the time.
From this present moment awareness a whole set of new choices become available.
You Are My Safe Space
When I got better at being more present with myself boundaries with others improved. Having healthy boundary in relationship meant I felt safe with me first, allowing permission to be myself and respect my inner knowing, no matter what another person’s needs, expectations, demands or judgments of me might be.
Remembering Stillness
In times of great turmoil one of my most important practices is remembering to replenish with stillness.
Not just for my mind, but for my whole body.
The Quiet Revolt
Where there is madness, may we remember that we are not the madness.
In moments of great challenge, when you feel you have lost access to choice, may you remember the practice of stillness within as a path that will lead you back to your own personal agency.
May you touch deeper down, within yourself, to find your nature is completely powerful, free, boundless, and uninhibited.
May you remember this place of deep inner resourcefulness that is never ending. May you learn to trust it unconditionally.
May you know, without a shadow of a doubt, that no one else has access to but you.
Woven With Spirit
Partnering with spirit in life is a practice. It is not one you can think your way through. It is one by which you learn a radical form of acceptance.
When we slow down to look at the gaps between our creative vision and practical reality, we find something deeper needs healing, needs attention, needs a shift in perspective.
Dear 2024
You took us on a wild ride.
…to all of you here who continue to stay in touch, reply, comment on, and share my work thank you for your support and your presence.
May this next new year bring you health, happiness, and peace. May you and your loved ones be safe, cared for, and blessed. May you receive all that you truly long for.
Solstice Blessing
Winter solstice is a time for reflection, quietude, and repose. A time for completion. A time for connection.
The busyness of the holidays certainly competes with our collective need for inner stillness. Though the holidays urge us to bustle with celebratory energy and togetherness, it is also filled with opportune moments for intimacy and self-reflection.