Actively Seeking Inspiration

Posted by on Jan 4, 2014 in Uncategorized | No Comments

One of my 2014 intentions is to be inspired.  As I set this in motion, I realize how the energizing force of inspiration can be something we passively wait for.  If I hang out long enough  something or someone will get me charged up. But I am curious about evoking the fire and creative juices ...

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Transitions: Between Zones

Posted by on Jan 4, 2014 in Uncategorized | No Comments

I recently had an interesting experience taking a Butoh movement/dance class.   My novice reporting of the class is this: it was made up of exercises that focused on energy currents moving through the body and the embodiment of various states.  I found the whole process revealing as it asked me to be present in the discomfort of ...

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Reveal the Impossible

Posted by on Oct 4, 2013 in Uncategorized | No Comments

In a recent yoga class I secured myself in a stable tree pose; standing on one foot with the other leg bent and the bottom of my lifted foot on the inside of the standing leg.  I love tree pose, it makes me feel so strong and balanced in my rooted single foot.  That is ...

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Protect your Ducklings

Posted by on Jun 4, 2013 in Uncategorized | No Comments

A mama duck and her eight little ducklings spend their days on an aceqia ditch close to my house. When I stop to watch them, I notice how nervous and aware the mother is, swimming around her babies and keeping a close eye on them. If I move toward her, she gathers them together and ...

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Acceptance

Posted by on Jun 4, 2013 in Uncategorized | No Comments

As this year seems to moving at an extraordinary pace, I am pondering the notion of acceptance. What I find interesting about the idea is the challenge to really just be with my experience, regardless of the emotional charge. It does not mean I have to like it or agree with it, but it is ...

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Meet the Ferals

Posted by on Feb 4, 2013 in Uncategorized | No Comments

On this in-progress property I call home, a posse of four feral cats hang out at the top of the chicken coop. One chills out in the shed. The initial four were part of the buyers’ contract; we got an unsafe electric stove, an as-is fixer-upper house and anything that moved in the backyard.  The ...

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Darkness: The heart of Solstice Reflection

Posted by on Dec 4, 2012 in Uncategorized | No Comments

As the finale push of 2012 approaches, we are moving toward the solstice the longest and darkest day of the year.  It feels appropriate to go inward and take some time for reflection.  Why not open to darkness and feel into what it might hold?  Darkness is literally absence of light, a space where most ...

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Softening Your Gaze

Posted by on Oct 4, 2012 in Uncategorized | No Comments

Studying visual art as an undergraduate, I found myself really wanting to be proficient at drawing and having no talent for it. Yes, of course you can learn to draw after hours of sitting in front of still-life arrangements configured of things like bicycle wheels, wigs and faded plastic fruit. And the challenge was not ...

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Leaning into the Turns

Posted by on Aug 4, 2012 in Uncategorized | No Comments

I find that living intuitively can be filled with magical coincidences that continues to open me to healing. In these moments, I am able to align to life as a joyous experience.  I am able to find center easier, trust the path and my choices.  Connecting to infinite wisdom feels incredibly freeing that helps me ...

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