HAPPY SOLSTICE! The shortest day of the year…the longest night. A beautiful time to come together with friends and loved ones, mark the end of Fall and the true beginning of the Winter season. Gather around the fire, sing, dance & tell stories…share food & drink. Rituals of turning inward…listening to the quiet…
YES and NO…such powerful words, simple really…straight forward…right? Ha! How often do you say ‘YES’ when you really mean ‘NO’? Or perhaps you say ‘NO’ but wish you were saying ‘YES’. It can all be so complicated! This is precisely why I love exploring yes and no through the body…through movement and through the powerful…
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…
NOTE TO SELF…when I create beautiful Inspired Self Care offers for you it means I NEED SELF CARE! So funny! Dahh! I didn’t realize the depth of this need until I was in full retreat mode this weekend at Esalen. What a beautiful, alive place. I found peace and homecoming hearing the Pacific Ocean pounding the…
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…