Great From Our Hearts: lessons my grandma taught me
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“Though a famous person is great, a wealthy person is great, and a powerful person is great, the great people that the world is most in...
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Oct 20, 20222 min read
Tending my Soul's Garden
I'm a gardener, and I'm also a wildcrafting herbalist, which means I have knowledge of most native and introduced plant species. Most...
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Aug 31, 20212 min read
We are WOVEN
From our conception, as an embryo we undergo a sophisticated process of division, interconnection, and enfolding. The emergence of all...
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Jul 14, 20214 min read
The ego often gets a bad rap. I think its superpower is misunderstood.
We Have a Choice
In the second option, it is through the ego that we gain deeper and deeper levels of self understanding.
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Apr 25, 20213 min read
Transition: Letting go of old patterns in order to move on
The sound of raindrops, spattering steady and rhythmic on the roof, woke me at 2 AM. I jumped from bed and ran to the window with a...
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Nov 15, 20202 min read
How to Talk to Plants
Today I had a conversation with Indian Plum (Oemleria cerasiformis). I have been very struck by the gangly shrub this year, how they leaf...
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Sep 22, 20204 min read
The Art of Ease
In my first Chi gong class we learned that chi only flows when you are relaxed. “Though we are moving the body and engaging the muscles with
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Sep 11, 20203 min read
Restorative Yoga and the Art of Being
In restorative yoga we get permission to try on new lenses for looking at the world and at ourselves.
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Aug 30, 20202 min read
Working with Deeply Held Unconscious Beliefs
When we become aware of our unconscious beliefs, they begin to have less power over us. When we stop believing them completely, then...
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Aug 24, 20202 min read
There's More to Yoga than Touching Your Toes
Often when yoga comes up in conversation people tell me, “I can’t do yoga, because I can’t touch my toes,” or “I can’t do yoga, because...
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Apr 8, 20205 min read
Lessons from the Alder
Working with Alder spirit medicine can be very helpful when some piece of our internal landscape has been abandoned or forgotten.
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Mar 20, 20205 min read
Befriending Myself: How Yoga has Changed my Relationship to Fear
When I successfully stay present I affirm to myself, I have choice, I have strength, I don’t have to look away or hide.
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Mar 10, 20203 min read
The Beaked Hazelnut: Harbinger of Spring
If you live in the Pacific Northwest and you pay attention, in late winter you will notice a tree-like shrub covered in plump, yellow...
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Dec 30, 20192 min read
May Your Becoming Last a Lifetime
When we actively develop our potential we recognize there is no end to learning and growing. Becoming last’s a life time, and each moment of
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Nov 19, 20195 min read
Getting it Right: How Yoga Helps us Reclaim our Personal Power
Now is the edge upon which this unfolding happens, and idealized concepts can’t replace or mimic the majesty of present moment expression an
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Oct 10, 20192 min read
Learning to Listen to the Wisdom of the Body
In realizing the value of listening to and then honoring my body's wisdom, I learned that tied up with my effort to feel something and to lo
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Sep 15, 20193 min read
Lead by Intention: the Biology of Influence
Each of us leads by example, because people are designed to resonate with each other. Our animal bodies are constantly tracking and interpre
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Aug 13, 20192 min read
How a Walk in the Woods Can Change Your Mind
Walking in the forest on uneven ground keeps us alive to change, remembers us to the moment, and literally reshapes us.
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Aug 11, 20191 min read
Fall on the Horizon
In the forest The air is made of sun baked leaf shadow and earth perfume Leaves crunch and crackle underfoot And The sky is white hot...
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