We are immersed in slowed down time. How do you feel it? Is everything you are with, slowed so that you can either see, sense, smell, taste, or hear everything in front of you, the essence of the senses magnified? I know this is what I am experiencing. I feel the both/and of everything. Some […]
Do you remember creating tunnels and roadways from sand, then running your toy cars through the sand when you were little? I was lucky enough to have an area of sand in my backyard for a little while, as my dad was building a deck. My brother and I played for hours in the sand, […]
We each live in an invisible box. For the most part, we are unconscious of it regarding its walls as just how life is. It was created throughout our lifetime from all the beliefs that we learned from our families, our religions, our schools, our governments and from all our experiences. It appears as how […]
“You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.” Mary Oliver The ether element operates on the principle of vibration; so ether pervades all matter. When we consider ether as the principle of vibration – that includes sound, rhythm, harmony, connection, purification and last […]
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Martin Luther King is not the only person to have a dream. We all have dreams for a better or different life. Sometimes our dreams are not just for us individually but also for a gender/race/religion/society that we part of. We have all seen these group dreams of creating a better society for everyone as […]
Have you ever looked at the Fibonacci Spiral, and at its number sequence? There are small boxes in the middle and a spiral that starts at the very smallest boxes. Then the size of the boxes expand as the spiral expands. This spiral is also called the Golden Mean and is the basic structure of […]
The events of the past week have been weighing heavy upon my heart. I feel/sense the pressure on my sternum physically and notice difficulty in the taking in of a deep breath. Rising thoughts of staying in isolation longer is tugging on my heart, calling in deeper heaviness upon my thoughts. As I have been […]
I wasn’t sure how to present our Air Element for this month’s blog. How does one language the unseen without reverting to objectifying its living essence? Collaborating with this living sentient intelligence through direct experience speaks into what we are going to explore together. Having said this, I’ll invite you to relax, and come on […]
In 2020, we all have experienced changes in our lives that were dramatically different than in previous years. Sometimes these changes brought different commitments to the use of our time or how we relate with others. Many of these changes were forced on us such as staying away from family and friends, monitoring our children’s […]
In this Solstice season, I have been aware of more than usual body heaviness, fatigue of muscles and mental drain. While I may not know the origins of these bodymind sensations, I do have the opportunity to observe and crave how to move with and beyond the sensations to build sustaining registers for strength, stamina and […]