What makes you feel alive these days? How do you connect to your life force? What is your life about right now? This season brings with it a gentle reminder that death is woven into the unfoldment of life. It isn’t some far away and out there thing that happens at the end. Death breathes its lessons into the cycles of the earth, into the seasons of our lives, into the change we see and seek in our own [...]
How are you holding together these days? Do you feel fragmented? Do you have your shit together? What’s disintegrating? What’s becoming clear? Where’s the clutter? What pieces no longer fit together? Who are you becoming? Lights are out. Big girl is up in the bunk bed. I hear her toss and turn - the usual hard to settle into a sleepy mode. I’m cuddling with the younger one in the bottom bed. He’s trying to be quiet. Every once [...]
What are you focusing on these days? Where do you find your thoughts taking you on a regular basis? Where does your body spend most of its day? Where does it want to go? What does your heart sing about? Who and what are you showing up to? You’ve probably figured out that I’m not the kind yogini who turns away from the world. I don't promote negating one’s experience, or rising above it. I feel it is our [...]
Happy (or interesting, or deep, or loving, or gentle, or lit up, or peaceful, or fierce, or enlivening, or grounded, or spacious, or evolutionary, or whatever you are calling into your life right now) September! Can you believe it’s September already?! How? I have always had a complicated relationship with this month. As a kid, school started on September 1st. I was building up sadness through all of August in preparation for this horrible day that marked the end [...]
How is your body feeling as the moon wanes, post its blue lunar fullness? How is your heart, as the sun’s power slowly surrenders to shorter days? How is your mind dealing with the spinning of the world through this phase in global pandemic, this wave of humanitarian crisis, this hit of natural disasters? I hope that you give yourself a few gentle pauses throughout the day to check in with yourself, and to check in with loved ones. [...]
How’s your nervous system these days? Are you grounded enough? Are you moving enough? Are you breathing? Whether you’re feeling completely lost at sea in this unfamiliar world right now, or trying to fit into old models of pre-pandemic living, or actually reaching a place where your feet land on soil, the voice of the liminal echoes through the chambers of this time. I shared with you last week some of my thoughts about uncertainty. It is interesting [...]
How are you feeling during this period of opening, and closing, and still opening, and having to weigh the risks, and figure out how to move forward, how to take care of yourself and take care of others, how to live in this current world, and maybe how to reinvent it? What are you present to on this August day, having passed the point of Mid-Summer, with the sun still strong, and with the leaves of the Sycamore trees [...]
Maybe you're on a roll right now. Woohoo! Some of us feel like things are starting to move, to open, and to flow more smoothly. Some of us are finding new grooves to dance to. And still, some of us feel more stuck than we did last year. If this is you - you are not alone! We are living in a world that many find it challenging to navigate. And there are those of us who feel a combination [...]
Andrew, the kids, and I took a road trip through Northern California to Southern Oregon - up close to the coast and then down through the Cascade Range and the Eastern Sierras. We reunited with a best friend, played in the river, talked to the Redwoods, had breakfast in San Francisco, stood in the presence of volcanic power, washed our eyes and feet in bejeweled alpine lakes, soaked in massive beauty, saw places we’ve always wanted to see, experienced some [...]
Hey love, Happy New Moon! This new Lunar Cycle begins today in the sign of Taurus - the archetype of mid-Spring, embodying the sensual, flourishing, fertile vibes of the season. It calls us into pleasure. “Stop working so damn hard!” she says as she runs barefoot into the meadow, where a carpet of colorful blossoms meet her skin tenderly, and wash over her eyes, as the scent fills her nose with the promise of good things. [...]
