2020 was the year my Instagram friend Lee and I hoped to meet each other in person, yet who knows when we’ll all be free to travel once more. The other day she mentioned she was going to spend time with her trees and in popped inspiration we both thrilled to: Could she please whisper my name to her trees and I would do the same with her name to the trees in my neck Read more…
Yesterday I wrote about the idea of simply showing up to life as a way of escaping the survive/thrive duality. Today I want to get very concrete about how to ground or integrate this energy in your life. Obviously, if you are truly in a survival situation—and I mean one that isn’t merely interpreted as such by your physical mind—or you are doing essential, front-line work in these times, this is not for you. This Read more…
Looking back on so many of the strange and surprising lessons of last year—learning I had not consciously called in but which came to me loud and clear anyway—I see how few of my external 2019 “goals” turned out because my energy took a sharp turn inward at the start of summer. Just when the northern hemisphere was entering into peak activity, I became a hermit—again, feeling out of step and out of time with Read more…
Last week I had been trying to dismiss the sadness I felt around some of my seedlings wilting. I was especially bummed when I saw that none of my anise hyssop survived, since I was really hoping to have a more pollinator-friendly, flower-filled garden this season. “Perspective,” I kept telling myself. What are a few sprouts wilting when there are actual human lives being lost right now? And yet my inability to take every seed Read more…
I shared this tool yesterday with a group of people who seemed happy to receive it, and I realize that I missed writing about it when it originally came up for me. A few months ago I got into a weird situation where I felt an energetic imbalance arise with another person. It isn’t worth the detail, but suffice to say it wasn’t an argument or other form of conflict. I felt the need to Read more…
Last year the infinity symbol started coming into my meditations and with it a surprising thread of learning on paradox and polarity. It was another one of those situations where I had no real context for the lesson—I hadn’t consciously called it in—but it was interesting and enjoyable nonetheless. Early this year during a client session the Akashic Records brought in the infinity symbol and tied it explicitly to the concept of balance, showing that Read more…
At the start of the year I set an intention for heart expansion, and yet what kept coming in as my deepest paths of learning were breath and balance. It wasn’t totally out of left field because breath and balance are foundational to my work and personal practice, but these past few months they have been front and center. Last weekend in NYC part of the reason for this crystallized, as I had to rely Read more…
It’s funny to witness so many people at a loss as to “what to do with themselves” these days because it’s like, welcome to my life. Yes, there is a pandemic, but this is pretty much life as usual for me. Brian and I both work from home, unless he is abroad, in which case I spend two weeks at a time truly being a hermit with two cats for company. People wonder what I Read more…
[I wrote this IG post last Sunday, while still in NYC, though I didn’t have the energy to post it on this blog, with minor edits, till now.] That experience I had last Monday on my yoga mat was contextualized this weekend. It had been practice for me to recognize when my body was in constriction and to be able to breathe it open. At the time, I had attributed my inability to breathe well Read more…
[I wrote this IG post on the train ride down this past Friday, but didn’t have a convenient means to post on this blog till now.] After months of being kind of hermit-y and not going into NYC to work and visit friends and family, I am right now on a train headed toward Penn Station. It’s funny because my normal state of being tends easily toward self-isolation. I can and I have spent two Read more…