Warming up, gentle music carrying me…in…into my body, into the space, into the dance. I get curious, checking in with this body today. Following nurturing breath and beat into joints, muscles, aches and pains, stiff and crunchy places… into the question…what is here now? My heart swells, full of how deeply the dance is my…
Consider the transformation of the caterpillar into the butterfly. Butterflies are made from Imaginal Cells, which lie quietly inside the caterpillar, completely unknown within the furry, chubby host. I love that there are such things as ‘Imaginal Cells’ and that they show up in the single most amazing physical transformation of any living being in…
Speaking from “I” – what does that mean exactly? First person, owning my perception, my experience, my value, my opinion. I have thought a lot about speaking from ‘I’ and why this matters. Socially we only use I in the most intimate conversations – “I wanted to tell you how I feel” or in surface exchanges…
Through the years of doing my personal work and then my professional work, I have come to view our body as our most intimate partner…always with us…willing to hold things we aren’t ready to see and willing to reveal things to us when we are ready…like the most compassionate of lovers. The beauty of this…
Mid Winter…Solstice, also known as hiberna solstice, I love that,…the darkest day, the longest night and natures gift to slow down. Hibernate. Get quiet. Rest. Restore. This year, my body nature has deeply invited me into this quiet resting place. Recovering from a recent stem cell procedure to rejuvenate my highly used body has placed…
Bones. I have been thinking about, imagining into and being with the power of bones lately. The actual bones that provide skeletal structure to this body and the symbolic bones that we all must gather as we piece together a deeper narrative in the process of our own soulful becoming. As usually seems…